Friday Links - 17 February

HeyJackass! starts things off with The Original Chicago Mass Shooting

94 years ago [14 February] seven members and associates of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang were gunned down in a garage at 2122 N. Clark St. in Lincoln Park.

The Other McCain is up next with What’s Up in Ukraine Lately?

It’s been more than four months since I devoted any attention to the war in Ukraine, mainly because it settled down into a bloody stalemate, with relatively little movement of the front lines. Once the Russians evacuated Kherson and retreated to the south (or east) bank of the Dnieper River, that front stabilized, as the Ukrainians apparently are unwilling and/or unable to mount an offensive across the river.

Mike Rowe on The Way I Heard It - Phil Keoghan is Fairly Interesting (Ep. 300)

Phil Keoghan is one of those guys I can’t believe I’ve never met. He started hosting The Amazing Race around the same time I was trying to sell Dirty Jobs, over 20 years ago. We’ve worked in the same industry for decades. ...

Phys-dot-org - New report exposes steep declines in data science skills among fourth- and eighth-graders across America. Thank a teacher, and the pandemic lockdown fanatics.

A new report from the Data Science 4 Everyone coalition reveals that data literacy skills among fourth and eighth-grade students have declined significantly over the last decade even as these skills have become increasingly essential in our modern, data-driven society.

Tom's Hardware - Bing's AI-Powered Chatbot Sounds Like It Needs Human-Powered Therapy

Microsoft has been rolling out its ChatGPT-powered Bing chatbot — internally nicknamed 'Sydney' — to Edge users over the past week, and things are starting to look... interesting. And by "interesting" we mean "off the rails."

Jews Can Shoot - UN criticizes Israeli plan to ease gun ownership requirements after terror attacks. Who cares what the Useless Nitwits think?

“Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion… I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of escalation that has only ended in dead bodies, shattered lives and utter despair,” Turk said in a statement.

Again from The Other McCain - Report: Jake Tapper’s Executive Producer Fired in Latest CNN Sex Scandal

Nobody watches CNN anymore. The network is now permanently mired in third place in cable news ratings, but instead of trying to produce better programming, it seems everybody at CNN is too busy trying to get into the pants of their co-workers, which may be part of the reason why their ratings are so bad.

Senator Rand Paul at Townhall - Gain of Function Research: A Death Wish for the World

Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to repeat the talking points of the Chinese Communist Party and insists that SARS-CoV-2 spread from bats to an intermediate host animal, then to humans. A wet market in Wuhan, China, is allegedly where this “spillover” occurred.

Yet according to Chinese officials—who have a big incentive to disprove a laboratory accident—none of the animals at that market when it closed, and none of the animals in its supply chain were infected with SARS-CoV-2. In fact, in roughly three years since the pandemic began, not one animal has been identified that was infected with the virus before it infected humans.

Pirate's Cove - Climate Doom Means People Can’t Fall In Love Or Something

This is a new one. Who says cults are moribund and can’t come up with new stuff. The sad part is that major news outlets, in this case, the LA Times, publish this cult crap