Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

"Fuck beaches.

They're just mountains well past their prime."

Association between School Mask Mandates and SARS-CoV-2 Student Infections: Evidence from a Natural Experiment of Neighboring K-12 Districts in North Dakota | Research Square
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1773983/v1

“Our findings contribute to a growing body of literature which suggests school-based mask mandates have limited to no impact on the case rates of COVID-19 among K-12 students.”

"Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris"
https://youtu.be/hWTFG3J1CP8

My 40-liter backpack travel guide
https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/06/20/backpack.html

“...and covid defense gear: a CO2 meter (CO2 concentration minus 420 roughly gives you how much human-breathed-out air you're breathing in, so it's a good proxy for virus risk), masks, antigen tests and fluvoxamine.”

I am so unsurprised that Vitalik keeps a bunch of covid paranoia in his travel backpack.

Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-takeover

“One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.”

This article is from 2009; even back then hotels were checking ID pretty much every time. How exactly were FDIC employees bypassing that? Or did the journalist just make that up?

Kraken Announces Global Hiring Push and Commitment to Crypto-First Culture - Kraken Blog
https://blog.kraken.com/post/14372/kraken-announces-global-hiring-push-and-commitment-to-crypto-first-culture/

Looks like a good place to work.

"Process of Turning Old Washing Machine into New One. Korean Appliance Cleaning Technician"
https://youtu.be/c5JfVO2uMik

I'm amazed there's a big enough market for this to be economical. That's not even a front loader.

https://youtu.be/4rVTWsQ23Pk

...but don't worry, we banned plastic straws!

The left hates it when people protect themselves from violence with weapons. Both at the individual level, and at the level of entire countries.

Disgusting and evil.

When White People Lose Their Minds - by Terry Glavin
https://therealstory.substack.com/p/when-white-people-lose-their-minds

“On the anniversary of the "mass grave" that wasn't: This was not a story about Indigenous people grifting the government. If anything, it was the other way around.”

“Under the current policy, the men do not need to undergo any surgery, and Diggs asserts that most of the men are not on hormone replacement therapy”

”Diggs described her anxiety at having to share a shower with one of the male transfers”

https://reduxx.info/this-is-a-nightmare-female-inmate-speaks-out-against-trans-identifying-male-transfers/

OH: "black holes: matter"

"...camp as in mosquitos? Or camp as in musical theatre?"

Horowitz: The more you vax, the more you … ? - Conservative Review
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-the-more-you-vax-2657360070.html

URGENT: The most powerful evidence yet that mRNA vaccines hurt long-term immunity to Covid after infection
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-most-powerful-evidence

Meanwhile they're pushing booster shots for five year olds.