herid @herid@qoto.org

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

#BBC just ran an interview with someone modeling #China #Covid in the next few months, and it is pretty ugly. 1.7MM dead by Summer. 200MM+ cases.

Female students have now lost their access to universities in #Afghanistan until further notice, announces the #Taliban-run education ministry.

@marcoarment @georgetakei

exactly. if Musk remains the owner and gets someone competent to do his bidding twitter will just be competently evil as opposed to incompetently evil as it is right now.

"The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz

https://youtu.be/c5QfXjsoNe4

#FavoriteMusic 36/

1/ A Ukrainian mobilised into the Russian army has spoken of the extraordinarily high number of casualties among Wagner's mobilised convicts in eastern Ukraine. He says they are suffering three times as many dead as wounded. Many are infected with HIV and heptatitis. ⬇️

@donieosullivan We've gone all-in with Mastodon at @macstories by running our own server. My email is in bio if you have questions.

https://www.macstories.net/news/macstories-is-on-mastodon-with-its-own-server/

Made this for all the people who pay Elon Musk $8/mo to feel important:

Tucker Carlson, Useful Idiot.
Today's NY Times piece below further confirms my scoop from March: The Russian government instructed pro-Putin media to feature Tucker Carlson in their reporting on the Ukraine war.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/exclusive-kremlin-putin-russia-ukraine-war-memo-tucker-carlson-fox/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/russia-state-tv-ukraine-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

You’ll be unsurprised to learn that the incident with the supposed Musk stalker appears to have nothing to do with the jet tracking account. It occurred 26 miles from the airport, and a full day after ElonJet placed the plane in Los Angeles. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/

Morning #COVID numbers from #China:

🦠10: % of world’s population effected.
🦠16: R value now (High to date 10-11.)
🦠90: % of the population >18 yo who are vaxxed (50% of elders boosted)
🦠800 million: new cases in next 90 days
🦠500,000 to 1 milllion: likely deaths in 90 days.
🦠Doubling time: hours. (Worst here was 3 days.)
🦠New COVID mutations: 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/12/15/1143002538/china-appears-to-be-facing-what-could-be-the-world-s-largest-coronavirus-outbrea