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* https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1481082326318989312 - sketchy COVID testing site in Bellevue WA seems to be owned by Nazis | * https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1481082326318989312 - sketchy COVID testing site in Bellevue WA seems to be owned by Nazis | ||
* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/07/center-covid-control-testing-americans-describe-long-waits/9133310002/ - another sketchy testing outfit | * https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/07/center-covid-control-testing-americans-describe-long-waits/9133310002/ - another sketchy testing outfit | ||
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January
1/1 Sat
- https://www.theverge.com/22858437/2021-mining-critical-minerals-clean-energy-renewables-climate-change
- https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-future-encyclopedia-of-luddism - luddism
- inflation under Biden:
1/2 Sun
- https://www.quora.com/What-assumptions-do-Conservatives-tend-to-make-about-the-world-which-Liberals-are-less-likely-to-make/answer/Jon-Davis-10
- https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1477420461122375683 «During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina. / Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.» Someone needs to figure out how much energy those transactions would have used if done via traditional banking, though.
1/3 Mon
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/31/2072091/-Man-with-plan-to-assassinate-former-Dem-presidents-detained-in-IA-swore-to-resume-plan-if-released
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/31/2072067/-Pro-COVID-Pervert-Jim-Jordan-and-His-GOP-Judiciary-Jackasses-Throw-Toxic-Twitter-Tantrum
1/4 Tue
The Center for Economic Accountability, a 3-year-old nonprofit based in Michigan that says it approaches topics 'from a free-market, limited-government "classical liberal" perspective,' called out the incentives package as going 'further than any other ... to exemplify the massive wastefulness and ineffectiveness of state government subsidy programs.'
North Carolina officials from multiple agencies had engaged with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) for years about a site in RTP. Talks resumed this past spring$ and in April the project – code named "Project Bear" – was announced as a huge win$ for the Triangle and the state.
Apple committed to developing a 3,000-job campus on 281 acres the company controls.
The campus and engineering hub will focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence and software engineering. The high-paying jobs – with average annual salaries of at least $187,000, according to Apple – come at a cost, however. To ensure a win over Ohio, North Carolina put forward its biggest-ever incentives package.
[...]
Earlier this year Michael Farren, an economist with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, also called the sum exorbitant.
Farren said subsidies – even those in the form of reimbursements – are not free money, and that the majority of incentives are unnecessary, pointing to research that estimates just one out of every eight subsidies is actually responsible for changing a company's decision on where to locate.
'And in situations where it does cause a company to change where it locates, it causes the company to choose a less efficient spot for production,' Farren said.
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/3/2072448/-Devin-Nunes-Resigns-from-Congress
- Courtney Geels
- https://courtneygeelsforcongress.com/
- https://twitter.com/courtneygeels
- https://ballotpedia.org/Courtney_Geels
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-geels-7b062b194/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCar77GPKNbAy0BTU2kQ6NjA
- https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article255769591.html (list of who is running; includes Geels)
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/04/the-kent-hovind-challenge/
1/5 Wed
- https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/05/elizabeth-holmes-goes-down-but-not-as-hard-as-she-deserves/ «she was found guilty of crimes against investors, but not crimes against all the people who were misled by Theranos’s claims. It was all those gullible Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were hurt, not all the people who went into Walgreen’s and got misleading, false test results.»
- https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/588148-republicans-lose-edge-on-generic-congressional-ballot-poll
- https://magazine.atavist.com/we-wish-to-be-able-to-sing-easter-island-chile-revolution/ - history: Rapa Nui
- https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/587388-democrats-should-make-social-security-a-top-issue-in-the - conservoids have been taught that SS is a pyramid scheme and costs taxpayers money, so of course they'll oppose this
- DeSantis assholery:
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-vows-no-lockdowns-or-mandates-over-reports-of-omicron-in-state
- https://www.foxnews.com/us/ron-desantis-legislation-florida-companies-vaccine-mandate-rescind-termination
- https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/579886-desantis-floats-formation-of-police-force-to-crack-down-on-election
- https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/01/04/no-icu-beds-left-massachusetts-hospitals-are-maxed-out-as-covid-continues-to-surge
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/6/2067897/-The-Trump-Cult-Has-Much-Higher-COVID-Death-Rates-and-FOX-News-Isn-t-Telling-Them
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/1/2066883/-Manchin-rewarded-by-Republican-group-with-ads-thanking-him-for-betraying-Biden-Democrats
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220105202004/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/jan-6-jimmy-carter.html - Jimmy Carter on voting rights
1/6 Thu
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220106011536/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/05/hbcu-bomb-threats-howard-university/
- https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/107572209147454125 - discussion: media industry BS claims of "theft" due to "piracy"
- 2022 Kazakh protests
- Stand News raids and arrests: anti-democracy in Hong Kong
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/internet-shut-down-in-kazakhstan-amid-unrest/
- https://mastodon.technology/@rysiek/107575554147374363 «France fines Google and Facebook €210m over user tracking»
- https://apnews.com/article/health-fires-tennessee-knoxville-planned-parenthood-524edc1a8bd12e46774c1fcdf37c6c72
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/4/2072597/-Schumer-to-force-Sinema-Manchin-to-take-a-stand-for-democracy-in-coming-weeks
- https://therealnews.com/corporations-are-making-millions-of-dollars-from-us-prison-labor
- https://therealnews.com/why-us-prisons-dont-want-prisoners-to-read
- https://therealnews.com/robin-dg-kelley-on-fighting-for-freedom-in-the-darkness-of-capitalist-dystopia - long read/interview
- https://www.quora.com/As-a-liberal-have-you-ever-thought-that-conservatives-have-a-point/answer/Siddharth-Paratkar - soft conservoid misrepresentation of "liberal" views
- https://www.quora.com/Libertarians-why-are-you-not-a-Republican/answer/Alex-Mann-32
- https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-tragic-moment-ever-caught-on-film/answer/Ella-Harlow-3 - Holocaust photos and videos, in case it's important
- https://blacksocialists.us/resource-guide - key socialist literature
1/7 Fri
- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/05/mcconnell-electoral-count-act-reform-526542
- https://apnews.com/article/business-europe-russia-moscow-kazakhstan-3349e68089ccdbcd08e76a5e8fd4a909
- https://jezebel.com/lawyers-challenging-bidens-covid-vaccine-rules-both-hav-1848322407
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-loses-sonos-patent-case-starts-stripping-functionality-from-speakers/ - Even with as much as I'm glad to see Google losing to a smaller company, this is kind of sounding like ideas which have no business being patentable.
- https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/
1/8 Sat
- MTG "national divorce" thing:
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-divorce-scenario-marjorie-taylor-greene-floats-tax-and-voting-penalties-for-those-fleeing-blue-states - conservoid paper
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce-states-b1984460.html
- https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce-civil-war-days-before-twitter-ban/
- https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/rep-greene-suggests-a-national-divorce-between-red-and-blue-states/
- https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Rep.-MTG-Proposes-National-Divorce-of-Blue-and-Red-States-20211230-0016.html
1/9 Sun
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/5/2072817/-Four-National-Guard-sent-to-border-as-part-of-Greg-Abbott-s-racist-scheme-die-by-apparent-suicide
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/3/2062637/-Anti-vaxxer-yells-sieg-heil-repeatedly-at-West-Hollywood-restaurant
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/4/2072495/-Texas-Gov-Greg-Abbott-asks-for-federal-bailout-for-COVID-surge-he-helped-foster
- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/08/cyprus-reportedly-discovers-a-covid-variant-that-combines-omicron-and-delta.html
- debunking:
- https://qz.com/2110931/deltacron-variant-is-probably-a-lab-mistake-not-a-new-variant/
- https://myfox8.com/news/coronavirus/reported-deltacron-variant-likely-error-caused-by-cross-contamination-virologist-says/ -- Even Fox agrees -- but I guess it plays into the "libs are getting hysterical about COVID but it's actually harmless" narrative.
- debunking:
- List of nicknames used by Donald Trump
- Omicron explosion spurs nationwide breakdown of services
- https://www.mediamatters.org/joe-rogan-experience/joe-rogan-wrapped-year-covid-19-misinformation-right-wing-myths-and-anti-trans
- https://boingboing.net/2022/01/08/forced-by-shortages-to-sell-chipless-cartridges-canon-tells-customers-how-to-bypass-drm-warnings.html
- https://hackers.town/@Anarkat/107594023044874250 - hypernormalization (Is this actually a problem here? Agreed about society being broken, but complacency doesn't seem like the issue.)
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069590/-Republicanism-claims-more-victims-Pandemic-deaths-among-pregnant-Americans-are-now-surging
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/6/2073039/-Republicans-propose-new-compromise-Three-fifths-the-vote-will-count-Sound-familiar
- https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1479941108939608067?s=21 - recent history of racial voting restriction
- https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10158464629673807 - a Republican calls the January 6 insurrection shameful, which causes an uproar
1/10 Mon
- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-confirms-many-1-million-covid-tests-expired-state-stockpile-n1287174
- https://www.axios.com/jim-jordan-jan-6-panel-capitol-riot-ad422f5b-033f-40c1-b0b3-22fd5b275592.html
- https://news.yahoo.com/lawmaker-indiana-walked-back-comments-055635516.html
- https://911events.quora.com/Inside-The-Towers - eyewitness photos and accounts from inside the towers
- https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-with-a-cryptominer/
1/11 Tue
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/11/madison-cawthorn-trump-republican-north-carolina-voters
- https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/01/10/conservative-groups-target-state-local-voter-registration-rolls-with-multiple-lawsuits/
I keep finding myself kind of in agreement, at least on an emotional level, with MTG's "national divorce" idea. It would be a huge mess even if it was done right, and they probably won't want to do it in any way that's even remotely fair, and then when it's done they'll blame us for the whole thing and especially the negative consequences, but still -- I can see the appeal.
We just want very different things. They want a deeply hierarchical society with winners and losers and little value placed on individuals for their own sake -- basically an authoritarian / r-selection society -- where as we want, like, the exact opposite...
...and I do like the idea of allowing people to choose which type of society they'd prefer to live in -- see https://instagov.com/wiki/Opt-in_market_socialism -- but there are huge logistical issues to work out in doing this... and I don't think the kindergartners whose views I'm trying to accommodate have the first clue about any of that.
As I've said many times, they're kind of proving that democratic republicanism doesn't work in the information age. We need a better system if we want to keep moving towards an egalitarian/horizontalist society.
- https://grist.org/energy/coal-use-was-dying-then-2021-happened-carbon-emissions-rise/
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/30/1043133/afghanistan-coding-bootcamp/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cyber-ninjas-says-farewell/ar-AASCIT6
1/12 Wed
- https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072204478/donald-trump-npr-interview-presidential-election-lies-vaccines
- https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/qvc-to-lay-off-1900-following-fire-that-destroyed-rocky-mount-distribution-center/ - The Right always loves to talk about "job creators", forgetting that the same companies are often job destroyers.
- https://www.times-standard.com/2022/01/10/gavin-newsom-unveils-286-4-billion-budget-plan/ - state plans to produce its own insulin, among other things
- https://twitter.com/jemmaisOKeh/status/1480799080401932289 «The trans district was initiated by real estate developers who created a nonprofit to Trojan horse in their redevelopment of this poor immigrant queer/trans neighborhood. Activists fought against the increased policing & luxury condo development the district has openly encouraged»
- https://thehill.com/homenews/house/589011-north-carolina-voters-file-suit-to-disqualify-cawthorn-from-running-for - yes please
- https://time.com/6138552/charities-funded-anti-muslim-groups-report/
- https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072462477/grocery-shortage-shelves-reasons - supply-chain issues Vol. 2
- https://meduza.io/news/2022/01/12/na-yurista-ekaterinburgskogo-lgbt-tsentra-sostavili-dva-protokola-o-gey-propagande-sredi-detey
A lawyer of the Yekaterinburg LGBT Center was reported on gay propaganda because of the mention of "hospitable administrators, free tea and snacks"
In Yekaterinburg, two protocols were drawn up against the lawyer of the Resource Center for LGBT people, Anna Plyusnina, on the promotion of non-traditional sexual relations among minors (part 2 of article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Plyusnina told about this on Facebook.
The protocols for the lawyer were drawn up on December 29, 2021. According to a copy of one of them, Plyusnina was accused of creating a website for the Queer Line of Yekaterinburg, available "for viewing by an indefinite circle of people, including those who have not reached the age of majority," and published information on events for people of "non-traditional sexual orientation" ... Thus, according to the police, the lawyer "carried out" gay propaganda.
1/13 Thu
- https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/mitch-mcconnell-biden-speech-reaction/index.html - building the anti-Biden narrative
- Trump Calls Out 'Gutless' Politician Who Is Definitely Not Ron DeSantis
- https://www.theroot.com/sen-mitch-mcconnell-has-convenient-short-term-memory-a-1848351619
- https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal
- https://octodon.social/@spacekookie/107615123016147748 - some discussion
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/12/1609128/-Unvaxxed-father-of-11-dies-of-COVID-You-can-t-make-up-what-happened-next - antivax wingnuttery
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/11/2074054/--A-great-triumph-for-us-California-law-giving-farmworkers-overtime-time-pay-fully-kicks-in - more good governance in CA
- https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1481082326318989312 - sketchy COVID testing site in Bellevue WA seems to be owned by Nazis
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/07/center-covid-control-testing-americans-describe-long-waits/9133310002/ - another sketchy testing outfit
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/qanon-2pac-jfk-rally-b1991777.html