Links January 2022
Jan 31 2022
Supply of homes for sale in U.S. hits lowest level in more than two decades: latimes.com 📰
COVID-19: The coronavirus pandemic is far from over: Deutsche Welle via msn.com
"They decided that the project should be sited and built at the United States Postal Service, which not only had the national database of valid addresses, but would ultimately deliver the packages." wired.com
"Some studies have shown that GI symptoms can manifest before the onset of typical respiratory symptoms [2,59]. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the US presented with a two-day history of nausea without respiratory complaint." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"By his count, there are 600 FBI agents who are certified as UCEs (undercover employees). But some of them do the work of 'backstopping' agents: creating false credentials and social media profiles for UCEs working in the field." rollingstone.com 🐤
"Due to a recent increase in cases, CDPH has mandated that everyone in California wear a mask in indoor public spaces and workplaces. The order is in effect December 15, 2021 to February 15, 2022." covid19.ca.gov
"Kryst, who was crowned Miss USA in 2019, died after jumping from a building in Manhattan, according to New York City Police Department." CNN via msn.com
Gunfire blamed as thousands in Oakland lose Comcast connection, can’t watch 49ers game: sfchronicle.com 📰
Rents in this Bay Area city rose nearly 18% in the pandemic, as other areas saw double-digit declines sfchronicle.com 📰
"ADDIE LANIER: It was the first time people asked her to think." ruthasawa.com
"Authorities are investigating after an upstate New York college student died after spending hours off-campus in subzero temperatures, police said." ABC News via msn.com
Here is the Spotify COVID content policy that lets Joe Rogan slide | 157 Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’ theverge.com
Jan 29 2022
Is Old Music Killing New Music? | Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.: theatlantic.com
Jan 21 2022
"'I think this is one of the single most important congressional investigations in history,' Cheney said. That label certainly applies to the Teapot Dome probe." washingtonpost.com
"A sophisticated cyber security attack against computer servers hosting information held by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was detected this week." icrc.org
"Four people, including a baby and a teenager, froze to death just feet from the US-Canada border. A Florida man has been charged with human smuggling." msn.com
"We humans tend to think over-much of our logical reasoning, when I would argue that one of our most important cognitive capacities is pattern recognition. The problem with giving that undue weight is that it is very prone to sample bias; witness, for instance, how many gravitate towards relationships that resemble the bad ones they grew up with." nakedcapitalism.com
Climate change denial on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok is ‘as bad as ever’: usatoday.com
Jan 19 2022
"If you’re getting health care in the U.S., chances are your providers are now trying to give you a better patient experience through a website called MyChart. This is supposed to be yours, as the first person singular pronoun My implies. Problem is, it’s TheirChart." blogs.harvard.edu
C.E.O.s Were Our Heroes, at Least According to Them They stepped up in the pandemic “to save the world,” says Marc Benioff of Salesforce. Even as their tax practices and perches kept them above its troubles. nytimes.com
"More than 200 trees arrived at the park in total, dug out of the soil in the impoverished villages and thick forests of Georgia, a small nation in the Caucasus. Mr. Ivanishvili personally vetted most of the choices." nytimes.com
Jan 16 2022
"John Adams, a minister-turned-journalist who expanded The Times’ digital footprint by exploring new forms of storytelling and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 46." latimes.com 📰
"And State Sen. Bob Wieckowski of Fremont suggested that California’s landmark climate strategy — which allows companies to buy and sell pollution credits to meet an annual cap on greenhouse gas emissions — could learn a thing or two from a 'better program' in Washington state that requires companies 'to make actual reductions' in emissions rather than 'allowing people to continue to pollute.'" calmatters.org
"Their paper, published in 2005, was summarily rejected by the journals Nature and Science, Dr. Weissman said. The study was eventually accepted by a niche publication called Immunity." nytimes.com 🐤
"'When you make the decision to stop directly funding housing for the poor, and you decide to involve private entities to do it for you, then you introduce market forces into the process of providing affordable housing,' says Henríquez. 'And those market forces have created an incentive on many of the landlords to neglect their properties for many decades, to where we see things like the tragedy at Twin Parks.'" theguardian.com
Jan 12 2022
"But eventually the Omicron wave would come to an end, and the sheer contagiousness of the past two waves, combined with the vaccination campaign, would leave a broad protective “immunological memory,” as Fauci put it, throughout the population. 'Then you start to think about what being infected means regarding closing down indoor events, impact on the economy, impact on travel, impact on schools.'" newyorker.com
Renting can have many benefits – these millennials are rejecting home ownership and mortgages: inews.co.uk 🐤
"Employees in Washington state currently have a right to their personnel records, but the existing law doesn’t clearly specify what needs to be disclosed, and there are no consequences for ignoring requests." latimes.com 📰
Jan 10 2022
Jan 2021: A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint. propublica.org
Investors Help Crowd Out Everyday Homebuyers as U.S. Prices Soar: bloomberg.com
Jan 5 2022
USDA Secretary Vilsack’s Son Now Works for a Controversial Ethanol Pipeline Project The “Midwest Carbon Express” will rely heavily on policies that Vilsack has been pushing for his entire career.: motherjones.com
"Similarly, the Safe Tech Act, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Mark Warner (Va.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), would remove Section 230 protection for social media companies that fail to police cyberstalking, harassment and violations of civil rights by its users. The Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act by Democratic Reps. Tom Malinowski (N.J.) and Anna /G./ Eshoo (Calif.) would remove Section 230 protections for international terrorism and civil rights violations." washingtonpost.com 🐤
Jan 4 2022
Opinion: Fewer kids read for fun anymore. They’re losing out on more than great stories: latimes.com
The Bunk of Generational Talk It’s time to drop the silly stereotypes about Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z and discuss the real issues faced by each age group: wsj.com
Mar 2020 The Peace Corps Breaks Ties with China The agency has always been viewed as removed from political spats. But the timing of the U.S.’s decision seems suspicious. newyorker.com
Jan 3 2022
Video: San Ramon cops released dog to badly maul Uber driver who’d missed rental payment: sfchronicle.com
Jump in deforestation of world's most biodiverse savanna alarms Brazilian scientists: nasdaq.com 🐤
When the Snow Falls...and the Power Goes Out | Shivering through my musings about the urban-rural divide and how to fix it: nickkristof.substack.com
"As the days of 2021 dwindled, so did any remaining traces of democracy in Hong Kong." latimes.com 📰
"On Wednesday, a vocal pro-democracy media outlet — one of the last openly critical voices in the city — closed after a police raid. Earlier in December, the opposition was shut out from elections under a new law that puts all candidates to a loyalty test. And monuments commemorating the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were taken down." latimes.com 📰
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