Linkage

• 'Free speech' is whatever the rich say it is (Real News Network) Musings on Musk and Twitter, and the rest of the rich pigs.
• Dave Barry’s 2022 Year in Review (Washington Post) Dave Barry's comedic take on the year.
• The Case for Wearing Masks Forever (The New Yorker) A truly hack journalist who is involved in a dispute at her synagogue over masking at choir practice does a hack job on people who support actual public health measures.
• Retraction: The turnaway study: A case of self-correction in science upended by political motivation and unvetted findings (Frontiers Magazine) An anti-abortion academic put a paper through phony peer review (all reviewers were directly connected to the anti-abortion movement).  These are people who never act in good faith.
• Are U.S. Healthcare Workers Better Off Unionized? (MedPage Today) Yes.  So are their patients, who are not being treated by overworked and abused people.
• You Know Who Had Sam Bankman-Fried’s Number? Charles Dickens (The New Republic) Noting how Charles Dickens took down the eccentricities of utilitarianism.  BTW, when did TNR stop being an apologist for the worst of us?  (Rhetorical question, it was when bigot and mental pygmy, Marty Peretz sold and left the magazine.)
• How NYU’s Emergency Room Favors the Rich (New York Times) As an FYI, New York is a 1-party consent state, so these ER docs should start recording their phone calls from administrators.
• What’s the best design for splash-free urinal? Physics now has the answer (Ars Technica) News you can use.
  

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