The Return Of The King was the last hurrah for weird blockbusters.
January 23, 2021
Forget the ‘beginning of the end’, Covid is a permawar. Despite the crop of vaccines, the healthcare industry expects to fight coronavirus for years. Agreed. We let it get away from us, and now it’ll be with us forever.
January 22, 2021
January 21, 2021
After Alarmism. The war on climate denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news. Don’t completely agree, but those dipshits are certainly less prominent now.
Trump couldn’t have incited sedition without the help of Fox News. In most countries, and rightly so, Fox News would not be allowed on the air.
January 20, 2021
Closure of an iconic Paris bookshop alarms French bibliophiles. Lockdowns proceeding as expected.
January 19, 2021
January 18, 2021
When Are We Back To Normal? This is assuming most of the plutes want things back to normal, which they do not.
January 16, 2021
Because social murder is passively—as opposed to actively, such as herding people into labor camps—carried out under market capitalism, we are fooled into thinking that it doesn’t exist. We already have death panels and have for a long time.
The NSA warns enterprises to beware of third-party DNS resolvers. Yes, plaintext DNS is insane, but encrypting it has its own tradeoffs. Plaintext DNS is “insane” only if you are an assclown.
January 15, 2021
US police three times as likely to use force against leftwing protesters, data finds. Shocking absolutely no one.
Recovering from Covid gives similar level of protection to vaccine. PHE found immunity from earlier infection provided 83% protection against reinfection for at least 20 weeks. Note that “at least.” If you don’t understand what that means, do better.
L’éducation idéologique. (Article is in English.)
January 14, 2021