small consolation to people holed up in subways, but this is now the inevitable outcome:
"...all of NATO and the European Union on the same page. ...Putin thought he could do was split NATO, creating a great aperture for him to be able to walk through. And that hasn't happened," Biden told Brian Tyler Cohen.

Biden also predicted that Russia would pay a heavy price in both the long and short term for its invasion of Ukraine, adding that the conflict is bringing Europe and NATO closer together.

@Museek I hear you like glass. But... too soon?

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/02/luke-jerram-glass-mircobiology/

Feel like planting a spring garden with massive good karma
https://www.rareseeds.com/ukraine

Today is an especially great day to remember not to click links in email messages.

Thread update to note that the Market is actually still somewhat rational*.

Tesla fell seven points to the 23rd spot among the 32 carmakers in the Consumer Reports’ rankings of the best automakers.

* Irrational Exuberance is expected at the start of the Hype Cycle. On reflection it makes sense to me it lasted so long with automobiles since the followers' (e.g. Ford) R&D period is lengthy. I expect to see Tesla fall further down in perception and sales now. Stock price will do whatever.

What fascinates me about this situation is that Tesla doesn't have any press relations staff responding to these calamities. The cars more than meet the kind of 'unsafe at any speed' qualifications that ended Corvair.

And Elon "Retweet Nazi memes" Musk doesn't have Steve Jobs' or Ronald Reagan's charisma force field.

So...is Tesla dead company walk/drive/STOPping?

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-13dcbfd79de79cb1f4358c3f716e64ae

...cryptocurrencies suffer pump-and-dump schemes, wash trading, enable a $5.2B/year ransomware industry, have disrupted supply chains for GPUs, hard disks, SSDs and other chips, have made it impossible for web services to offer free tiers, and are responsible for a massive crime wave including fraud, theft, tax evasion, funding of rogue states such as North Korea, drug smuggling, and even armed robbery, kidnapping, torture and murder.

Well when you put it that way...
https://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html

Let me see here...
Ambassador Bridge is owned by the Morouns family who are in court to stop any more bridges, so using lobbying group Black Diamond Strategies, which has principal Doug Davenport, an adviser for the Trump campaign brought in by Paul Manafort.

Knew that reek smelt familiar.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/20/moroun-trump-gordie-howe-bridge/717408002/

P.S. wear a mask. Protect the people around you who may not be protected by vaccination because they can't or it doesn't work well for them.
You'll just have to accept that you're also protecting the boneheads who _won't_.

Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 published by the VA in Nature:
includes data from 11 million US Veterans.

tl/dr: ...health systems around the world should be prepared to deal with a significant rise in cardiovascular diseases
E.g.;
72% higher risk of heart failure in the 12 months following infection

52% higher risk of having a stroke, a 63% higher risk of a heart attack, and ~three times the risk of pulmonary embolism
(compared to uninfected)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

A supporter of former President Donald Trump who said authorities should root out voter fraud is among five people who were charged Thursday with election fraud by a Republican district attorney.

Wish granted! Enjoy your felony conviction and never worry about voting again, you will lose that right.

What is with the projection with this crowd? Is this a disinfo tatctic?

https://apnews.com/article/business-donald-trump-wisconsin-presidential-elections-elections-f7e490e5a73b54110e077c824c4e3bb3

Hey these are great posters
https://womeninstem.ingeniumcanada.org/posters/

Well dressed white lady still alive after kicking a cop (and commiting some light sedition).

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/police-arrest-mesa-county-clerk-who-promoted-trumps-false-election-claims/

"an emoji researcher at Google"

with a PhD

ooookay.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1078977416/race-chat-emoji-skin-tone-colors

What writing?
DOJ investigating 8 TFG associates. They've worked up the chain (750+ charged!) to arrive at the top hands:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/08/the-eight-trump-associates-whom-doj-is-investigating/

I think McConnell sees the writing on the wall. He's not saying this because he's patriotic or has any particular principles. Too little too late.

McConnell rebukes RNC, calls Jan. 6 ‘violent insurrection’
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-2b0ae5c3e5f3445d11b67d45df6195f7

An Ottawa judge will order a ten-day injunction against the use of air horns at protests.

The request for an injunction came out of a proposed class-action lawsuit filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Friday by lawyer Paul Champ on behalf of his client (who has of course now been subject to doxxing and online abuse)

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/1860439/court-grants-injunction-to-silence-honking-in-downtown-ottawa-for-10-days

attn @voltronic
Fantastic article. Japanese music student indirectly responsible for ~450 reggae songs, Casio's keyboard sales to South/Central America, and read through to the video about Tapestry, her latest project.

https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02027/

"Free Speech for People, an organization that's funding the challenge to Cawthorn's candidacy..."

is about to get a check.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/05/1078416631/saying-hes-an-insurrectionist-challengers-aim-to-keep-rep-cawthorn-off-the-ballo