Favorites January 7th 2022

Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC

One of the attorneys asking the Supreme Court to block Biden's vaccine mandates is arguing remotely today because ... he has COVID.

Kimberly Robinson @KimberlyRobinsn

Ohio Attorney General's Office confirmed that SG Flowers is appearing remotely because he tested positive for covid, making it the first time an attorney has had to argue remotely since Court returned to in-person arguments.

Feels poetic. During oral arguments Gorsuch made some major misstatements of fact about the normal flu.

Evan Washington @evanewashington

some say the MCU isn’t realistic but what about in Black Panther when Killmonger wanted the richest, most advanced country in the world to aid and empower oppressed people worldwide and T’Challa honored his wishes by building one (1) youth center in Oakland

Worse, if it was truly realistic, they wouldn't have even been able to build it because it'd get tied up in CEQA lawsuits from NIMBYs.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The dream

The New York Times @nytimes

An 85-year-old retired postman in India says he has gotten 12 Covid vaccine shots, and still wants more. He believes the doses healed many of his ailments. “My backache has improved, my general weakness improved, and my appetite improved,” he said. https://t.co/lvG57XFGkZ

He probably overpowered the doctors to get those last few.

Nils Adermann @naderman

😂 Semiconductor shortage leads to Canon selling toner cartridges without chips which usually identify them as genuine, so Canon now instructs customers on how to override the warnings for using "counterfeit" cartridges

Mario W. @mariowitte

Verkehrte Welt: dank Halbleitermangel produziert Canon jetzt offenbar Tonerkartuschen ohne "Kopierschutz" und verschickt Rundmails an Kunden mit Hinweisen wie man die Fehlermeldungen zu gefälschten Kartuschen umgeht.

They're lucky that they left in a way to bypass the warnings.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Looks like drones were decisive in yet another war.

aljazeera.comHow armed drones may have helped turn the tide in Ethiopia’s warCheap and efficient drones are increasingly becoming decisive weapons in modern conflicts.

The other one where drones made a huge difference was the Armenia/Azerbaijan war. We've also probably had the first fully autonomous battle death probably happened in Libya in 2019. Basically a drone with a grenade that's programmed to fly towards any person it sees. If we ever have another big conflict, it's going to be very strange.

December 2021