Friday Links - 11 November

A slightly abbreviated Links post, as I got tired of reading reactions to the election.

Emperor Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler is up first with Götterdämmerung Isn’t Really What You Should Be Aiming For Here, Volodymyr

We know, it’s never polite or popular to point out facts, particularly when they don’t support what you’d like to see, so please tell us how wrong we are

The Other McCain - A Cliché of a Stereotype: Kathy Griffin and the Pathetic Fate of Liberal Cat Ladies

Which comes first, the liberal politics or the envious bitterness?

It’s one of those chicken-or-the-egg questions of causality that psychologists should spend more time researching. It’s not that all liberal women are doomed to be lonely and unpopular spinsters, nor even that every cat lady is a Democratic voter. Yet there is an observable correlation of traits that cannot be dismissed as a random coincidence.

Small Dead Animals - WTFTX? (Coinbase, FTX, and Crypto explained.)

As my grasp of crypto could perform the Nutcracker on the head of a pin, I reached out to old friend Melinda Romanoff for a summary (via email).

Again from The Other McCain - Seeking Light Amid the Gloom: Thoughts on the Brain-Damaged Election Results

What kind of people would elect John Fetterman? Short answer: The kind of people who live in Philadelphia, a city that has become America’s Mos Eisley, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

Jo Nova - Savior Al Gore wields windmills to stop the storms and end the Culture of Death

Somehow drilling gas in Africa for Europe is “colonisation” but using African children to mine cobalt for our batteries is the work of saints.

The College Fix - Embattled Stanford Professor of Medicine Jay Bhattacharya: ‘Academic freedom is dead’

Bhattacharya is a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert with a focus on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

He said the harassment and censorship he faced began largely after he helped write in October 2020 the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued there is a tremendous harm to the poor, the vulnerable and the working class from lockdown-focused policies, and also called for focused protection for older people.