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Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

How reality TV is running into the harsh realities of the fast-changing TV business; Luminate says US unscripted and reality premieres fell by ~33% since 2022 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/business/media/reality-tv-era-ending.htm…

Reality TV Confronts a Harsh TV Reality
The number of unscripted series has plummeted by a third since 2022. As the industry rapidly changes, an era is quietly vanishing.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 26.03.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 35. Atombombe "Cup". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Geschworene stellen bei Twitter-Übernahme Kursmanipulation fest

Hey America, your President just spent $1 billion of your money in order to NOT get more energy from offshore wind.
TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US 😠 https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administra…

Trump administration plans $1B buyout for offshore wind leases: NYT
TotalEnergies purchased the Carolina Long Bay and Attentive Energy leases for a total of $955 million in 2022. The Trump administration wants to offer the company $928 million to give them up.

This's so, so good live.
▶️ Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Live) 2022
#tearsforfears

In drei Tagen Krieg gegen den Iran hätten die USA mehr Patriot-Raketen abgefeuert, als die Ukraine seit 2022 erhalten habe, sagt Wolodymyr Selenskyj.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ukraine-bietet-usa-guenstige-drohnenabwehr-gegen-iran-an-395593535168

Reverse drafting club!
"Reverse drafting is the process of unraveling fabric swatches and diagramming their construction using weave draft notation. It’s really fun! So fun that we started a Reverse Drafting Club to work remotely on this practice with friends near and far. In 2022, we had nearly 400 members in this exclusive club, scattered across the globe.* You don’t have to be a weaver to get in on this. If you like puzzles of any kind, we think you’ll enjoy it."

Commissioner Dan JŸrgensen: The EU is in a better position than in 2022, but the scale of the current shock to global oil and gas supplies is greater. Warns against lowering taxes on oil and gas, since that risks keeping demand high, putting pressure on supplies. https://www.…

‘Even the best-case scenario is bad’: EU chief warns of higher gas prices ‘for years’
Supplies of diesel and jet fuel may come under pressure if Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, European energy commissioner fears

I'm exploring Irish census data to try to understand more about one-off "rural" housing, and have accidentally discovered that the most densely-populated small-area in Ireland is in Limerick's Dock Rd, where 255 people live in apartments with a ground area of 2,500m2.
One-off houses in the country are typically on "half-acre" plots, i.e., 2,000m2.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Are there other countries in the world, apart from the US, where legislative disputes actually shut down public functions and hold pay hostage, not just theoretically?
(They changed the law in the UK in September 2011 that would make a shudown possible, but repealed it in March 2022.)

Me, 2021, on Max Verstappen: Pfft. Crashstappen is a valid name.
Me, 2022-2024, on Max: He’s good, but… he knows people are scared
Me, 2025, on Max: A Goat. He’s on another level
Me, 2026, on Max: can he be in every racing series? dudes got skills.

🧸 Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
#bears

Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
By the time Kim Ring arrived at her neighbors' yard that spring afternoon in 2022, their chicken coop was a flattened pile of lumber surrounded by feathers. The poultry had been raided by a bear. At the neighbor's request, Ring and her husband headed into the woods abutting their home in the rural Massachusetts town of Ware, in the hopes of finding any fluffy survivors. What they encountered instead was a bear with her two cubs in a tree—the mother bear downing one of their neighbor's chicken…

How A24, which racked up seven Oscars in 2022, fell flat with Marty Supreme, which had nine nominations but won none despite Timothée Chalamet's viral campaign (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/movies/a24-marty-supreme-ch…

How ‘Marty Supreme’ and Timothée Chalamet Went Home With No Oscars
A few years ago, the indie studio A24 was luxuriating in Academy Awards. On Sunday it was shut out entirely.

"Killers of Roe" is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield
on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United States.
The book is framed as a murder mystery, examining a
“twisted alliance of believers and opportunists” in the years and decades before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
“It started out as a murder mystery because it was a way to entice myself to tell a really difficult story about wom…

“Killers of Roe”: Amy Littlefield Investigates the “Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights” in U.S.
Killers of Roe is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United States. The book is framed as a murder mystery, examining a “twisted alliance of believers and opportunists” in the years and decades before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. “It started out as a murder mystery because it was a way to entice myself to tell a really difficult story about women dying preventable deaths as a re…

Past/Present: Former Cowboys WR T.Y. Hilton announces retirement https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-wr-t-y-hilton-announces-retirement

More Patriot missiles used in Middle East in 3 days than in Ukraine since 2022, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/more-patriot-missiles-used-in.html

Raiders sign LB Segun Olubi https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-linebacker-segun-olubi-nfl-2026-free-agency-transactions

Neue Filme und Serien bei Netflix, Disney und Amazon Prime im März 2026
Im März zeigt Netflix "War Machine" (2026). Bei Amazon Prime läuft "The Menu" (2022) und bei Disney startet die (neue) 1. Staffel von "Scrubs".

It's probably a lost cause and also too short notice, but I'm still thinking about #AlgoApril, which I proposed back in 2022, but it's an incomplete list of prompts and sadly never took off...
https://github.com/alg…

AWS plans to invest an additional €18B in Aragon, Spain, taking its total investment to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 23.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 40. Atombombe "Muscovy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

aus der reihe "über tippfehler in der DOI zufällig gefundene artikel" heute: was mit eichhörnchen, zumindest im titel. :)
"Birds, Groundhogs, and Squirrels" https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1239

Warum die Tumblr-Ankündigung, über #ActivityPub mit #Mastodon und dem #Fediverse zu integrieren, so relevant sein könnte

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

Ik heb in 2022 een backup gemaakt van twitter. Ik kwam het weer tegen, maar alle links die daarin gebruikt zijn liepen via t.co en zijn nu vrijwel onbruikbaar :-(

An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago
was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun,
findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday.
It’s the first time that a celestial body’s orbit around the sun was deliberately changed.
The asteroid that NASA’s #Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Ea…

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun. It's the first time that a celestial body's solar orbit was deliberately changed. Scientists reported Friday that the 2022 impact by the Dart spacecraft not only trimmed the asteroid's orbit around its bigger space rock companion, but also around the sun. Researchers say their findings could help divert an incoming killer space rock given enough advance…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1244930 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Jets Sign G Dylan Parham https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/jets-sign-guard-dylan-parham-free-agency-03-13-2026

Liebe @….
Warum macht ihr es euren Kritiker:innen so einfach?

Die neue 51 Meter lange BVG-Tram „Urbanliner“ darf vorerst in #Berlin nicht starten.
Die Aufsichtsbehörde verweigert die Zulassung, weil noch Prüfungen und Nachberechnungen fehlen. Offenbar geht es auch um Bremswege. Dabei sollten die Züge alte Bahnen ersetzen und für mehr Platz sorgen. Seit 2022 verzögert sich das Projekt immer weiter. Für Fahrgäste heißt das: weiter warten auf Entlastung …

Länger Warten auf die extralange Tram
Lang, länger, Urbanliner. Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Dimension der fast 51 Meter langen Straßenbahnwagen. Sondern auch auf den Liefer- und Zulassungsprozess.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Warpaint:
🎵 Champion (6 Music Session, 4 May 2022)
#Warpaint
https://warpaint.bandcamp.com/track/champion
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PCOZeCLR4p8cvVBuGgfhm

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Raiders sign C Tyler Linderbaum https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-center-tyler-linderbaum-nfl-2026-free-agency-transactions

Los Raiders firman al Centro Tyler Linderbaum https://www.raiders.com/news/los-raiders-firman-al-centro-tyler-linderbaum

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …