Large diesel truck backlog and EV production is ramping up.
Supply chain problems resulting in a silver lining for the climate: fewer parts to source on EVs means orders are fulfilled faster:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/class-8-truck-orders-remain-under-pressure-entering-2022

Welp, the GOP lost Vader^H^H^H Dick Cheney.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-capitol-insurrection-anniversary/h_70f9c3ae3b478fa7b2115bfc9f89f22b

@Thumprhare Extra reasons* for using envomask or similar:

https://intjem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12245-020-00296-8

https://www.facs.org/media/press-releases/2020/reusable-masks-061220

*not new; I am programmed to provide citations.

>blink<
"Hyundai Motor shut down the engine development division this month after about 40 years to enhance its EV development division."

We have arrived at a Moment. ICE is truly dead motor walking in personal vehicles.

GM has fumbled this ball (at least) twice -- all their latest effort is under recall. For exploding.
Ford is trying sorta, with trucks.

Gotta say, the Hyundai Ionic 5 looks nice.

https://www.kedglobal.com/newsView/ked202112230013

If you are or know parents of wee ones, this article is for you and I think has some reasons for hope, re: covid severity and vaccines:
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/02/1069502087/omicron-kids-under-five-when-vaccine-available-pfizer

Good. Alright now let's see how many more Proud Boys try to plead out, and what and who they know.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21170582-211228-kelly-deny-motion-to-dismiss

and

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.230237/gov.uscourts.dcd.230237.87.0.pdf

Know what the problem is?

Not enough pictures of fox faces.

https://mymodernmet.com/roeselien-raimond-fox-faces/

"The Amazon Web Services (AWS) failure was reportedly tied to a data center failure in West Virginia. "

Thanks, WV, go sit down. You've done enough.

https://gothamist.com/news/amazon-outage-took-citi-bike-offline-height-rush-hour

SpaceX has grabbed the lead for highest number of workplace covid cases in LA county. Put that trophy next to the sexual and ethnic harassment trophies it's a trifecta.

Great management makes for great accomplishments.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/20/1066135790/spacex-reports-la-countys-highest-number-of-workplace-covid-19-cases

straightaway flagged Slack for using Bugsnag.

Not sure I care about bugsnag, just a QA/QC tool? Guess I'll be reviewing their github repo.

Got the Duckduckgo App Tracking (VPN) beta installed on ye olde mobile device.

I spy with my little eye, something snoopware-y.

Not yet but let's see...

Open letter to Zuckerberg from the British Medical Journal

"Rather than investing a proportion of Meta’s substantial profits to help ensure the accuracy of medical information shared through social media, you have apparently delegated responsibility to people incompetent in carrying out this crucial task"

While I agree with the editors, I think the actual problem is readers trying to use FB for sharing information of any importance.

https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635/rr-80

"...perfection isn’t necessary for beauty and that  “making do” can be tremendously satisfying."

Words to live by.

Kintsugi – Art of Repair
https://traditionalkyoto.com/culture/kintsugi/

Thank you sincerely Argo AI for pushing a standard for NOT KILLING PEOPLE. That it's only now being enumerated is
(to be fair Argo has been on it for a while. Glares at other AV companies, Tesla in particular).

I truly did not enjoy being hit by a car.

One quibble: they're people, not cyclists. I drive, walk, ride a bike, skateboard, whatever. The key issue is don't drive cars into humans, however they present.

https://robotics-world.com/robot-types/self-driving-vehicles-automotive/6358-argo-ai,-bicyclists-group-establish-safe-guidelines-for-av-interactions

Justice Sotomayor explained in small words why the Texas abortion garbage^h^h law would set precedents its authors would not like. California will now demonstrate.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256524466.html

Fugue by Amanda Gorman

...This is edgeless doubt:
Every cough seemed catastrophe,
Every proximate person a potential peril.
We mapped each sneeze & sniffle,
Certain the virus we had run away from
Was now running through us.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/poet-amanda-gorman-reads-fugue-an-emotional-look-at-covids-impact/#x

Adding a life skill. I hope.

https://www.workman.com/products/how-to-forage-for-mushrooms-without-dying/paperback

Qualcomm and Meta insist headgear to plug you into the metaverse will 'supersede mobile'

Oh they are _funny_.

Thoughts:
1. Wrong. Humans don't like it when other humans wear surveillance gear on their face. Stephenson nailed this in Zuck's playbook, "Snow Crash" with "troglodytes". Zuck doesn't seem to understand what words mean or how emotions work.

2. No need. I've had AR on my mobiles for years. It's awesome. Nothing to fix. Don't want VR when I'm IRL.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/02/meta_qualcomm_metaverse_hardware/