Last week, chess even surpassed League of Legends, Fortnite and Valorant as the most-watched gaming category.

“It’s shocking and shameful…. Navalny is deemed no longer to be a ‘prisoner of conscience’ because his views are now deemed ‘hate speech’? I forgot that only woke pacifists can experience persecution,”

I helped build ByteDance’s censorship machine

Inflation: The Next Problem for the U.S. Economy?

US President Joe Biden on Thursday directed US military airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militia, in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq.

Another Media Blackout? TV Networks Ignore Andrew Cuomo’s #MeToo Scandal

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Is Doomed Before It Gets Out Of The Gate I suspect this is related in spirit to what is on Amazon’s mind.

Book Warning Against Transgenderism Disappears From Amazon as Democrats Push Equality Act

California Bill Would Fine Stores $1,000 for Having Separate Boys and Girls Sections

Disney has gone stark, raving mad:

Two Congressional Democrats sent letters of demand to thirteen prominent cable and streaming services, including Amazon, Roku, Hulu and Apple streaming services attempting to shred what is left of free speech.

Why the Shipping Industry Is Betting Big on Ammonia

I don’t know why the conclusion from the article is what it is. From what I know, the New England example is also the primary driver of the problems in Texas. An Insider Explains Why Texans Lost Their Power

Star Craft and World War II.

The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All

Court Docs Show Facebook Played Much Bigger Part In Capitol Riot Than Parler, Yet No Consequences

Sewage study shows US, Netherlands and Australia like to party hard

COVID19 update, February 21-22, 2021: Israel approaching herd immunity one year after the beginning?

Statement on Amazon and the Delisting of “When Harry Became Sally”

The progress of the COVID-19 epidemic in Sweden: an update

The Texas Power Grid Failure is More Complicated than Green v. Carbon

S. Korea’s total fertility rate falls to new low at 0.92 in 2019

New York Lawmakers ‘Inching’ Toward A Bipartisan Impeachment Probe Against Andrew Cuomo

‘Inexplicable’: Alito and Thomas Dissent as Supreme Court Strikes Down Pennsylvania Election Lawsuit

30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

If you go by the superstition that the greater the hype, the harder the fall, Italy is doomed within the next year or two. Can Mario Draghi Turn Italy Around?

Japan’s Incredibly Shrinking Population Is a Big Problem

Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texas

“What social media users are calling the Texas freeze wreaked havoc on the Texas grid and its energy industry as wellheads and production pads have not been insulated against freezing temperatures. As a result, natural gas production has slumped, which led to price spikes topping the ceiling of $9,000 per MWh imposed by the energy regulator of the state.”

Algeria: Running on fumes

Coronavirus Mutants Are Spreading Fast

Amazon documents reveal company’s secret strategy to dodge India’s regulators

Cuomo Didn’t Do Anything a Bunch of Democrat Governors Didn’t Do

Facebook will soon add labels, links to posts about climate change

This is mostly noteworthy because of the source. Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal

Snow covers parts of the Middle East as winter storm rages on

FBI, U.S. attorney in Brooklyn probing Cuomo administration on nursing homes

How Colombia’s drug cartels almost bought a Soviet submarine

Renewable Energy Is Not the Chief Cause of Texas’ Power Outages

Edit: Better information then the above can be found here.

The Indispensable Man. Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot

CDC Admits It Based School Guidelines on Teacher Input and Stakeholders

Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die

COVID-19 death risk 3.5 times that of the flu, study says

The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story

The Capitol riot’s ‘zip-tie guy’ appeared to take the plastic handcuffs from Capitol police, prosecutors say

Why Writers (and Think Tankers) Feud So Viciously

A very profane fisking but I can’t believe that Washington Post was so tone deaf that the wrote something likes this. I always thought Bond Villains were unrealistic but I guess I have to take that back. Fisking the WaPo Editor Who Is Sad He Doesn’t Get To Act Like The Mafia Anymore

The Doom Of The Modern World.

A progressive parent’s rant about the politics surrounding school reopening

Orwell’s Cookbook

Slate Star Codex vs NYT is a battle within the same faith

Even if we do discover that vaccinated individuals cannot spread Covid-19, there are strong moral arguments against unfettered liberty.

Texas frozen wind power – outages ensue, electricity now at unheard of $9000 per megawatt-hour