SAD. THE SAN JOSE LOCATION USED TO BE MY DISNEYLAND: Fry’s Is Gone, and Another Old Friend Passes Into the Night.

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: YouTube New ‘Supervised’ Mode Will Let Parents Restrict Older Kids’ Video Viewing.

Nice, but it would probably be better to get your kids off YouTube, which is one of Google’s most powerful data-harvesting tools.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden’s Creepy Mask Fetish Isn’t a Real Plan To Manage COVID. “Thus far, Biden’s SUPER BIG PLAN to deal with the bat flu has involved lying about Trump’s vaccine plan, plagiarizing Trump’s vaccine plan, then hamstringing Trump’s vaccine plan with woke union politics, and finally, talking about masks a lot.”

DOING THE STATE’S BIDDING THIS WAY IS CENSORSHIP: Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business.

WE’RE GOVERNED BY PETTY, PETULANT, DIVISIVE IDIOTS: School Board Member Compares School Reopening to Slavery, ‘White Supremacist Ideology.’

TWO REASONS: CORRUPTION AND GRAFT. Why Is the Government Wasting $83M Distributing Masks That Are Already Widely Available?

Also, it will play well in next year’s campaign spots.

THANK HEAVEN FOR LITTLE GIRLS STATE-SANCTIONED AMORPHOUS BLOBS: California Bill Would Fine Stores $1,000 for Having Separate Boys and Girls Sections.

MATT MARGOLIS: ‘Fire Fauci’ Trends on Twitter as His Mixed Messages and Inconsistencies Finally Get Called Out.

SPACE RACE II: China officially plans to move ahead with super-heavy Long March 9 rocket. “ The target date of 2030 for CZ-9 might seem distant for rocket development, but it would be relatively speedy compared to NASA’s design and construction of the Space Launch System rocket, which began a decade ago.”

IS THIS PART OF SKYNET OR PART OF THE THING WE’LL NEED TO FIGHT SKYNET? Army AI Gets Live Fire Test Next Week. “In an unusual bottom-up initiative, the 18th Airborne Corps is developing its own AI targeting system – and the corps’ fire support coordinator says he wouldn’t go to war without it.”

INCLUDING THE BRANDINGS? NXIVM Sex Cult Slaves Speak Out: ‘It Was New, It Was Edgy, and It Was Good.’

LATE AND SLOWLY: How Boris Johnson Will Ease And End Coronavirus Rules.

AT THIS POINT, LETTING THE DEMS SPEED UP OUR IMPENDING FINANCIAL COLLAPSE MIGHT BE THE LEAST-BAD OPTION: Democrats Ready Another Multi-Trillion-Dollar ‘Stimulus Bill’ on Infrastructure.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Will Woody Allen Movies Be Canceled Next? “A new documentary on the filmmaker’s alleged assault could make his films vanish.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Massive Increase in Carjackings Forces Chicago to… Ban a Videogame?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: If it’s malpractice to treat the symptom instead of the disease, what’s it called when you mistreat something that isn’t even a symptom?

Answer: Democratic governance in action.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Porkulus II: Spending Boogaloo
• Ta-Nehisi Coates explains what is and isn’t offensive and got it right –a decade ago.
• We’re killing ourselves staying safe from COVID-19

Bonus Sanity: College kids understand that free college isn’t.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. ‘Never Before Has The Leader Of The Free World Been So Cognitively Compromised.’

BY ANY MEANS FAIR OR FOUL: California Democrats Plan to Use Political Tricknology to Save Governor Gavin Newsom From Recall.

WOW: North Korea Defector Swims To South, Evading Border Guards For 6 Hours.

The Feb. 16 incident marks a second embarrassing breach in recent months of the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone, after another North Korean man claiming to be a former gymnast jumped over a fence in the DMZ and went undetected by South Korean guards for 14 hours in November.

On Tuesday, military officials in Seoul detailed the latest crossing, acknowledging that the unidentified man was captured on video 10 times before he was finally noticed by guards and apprehended.

Wearing a diving suit and flippers, the man swam at night in the East Sea — also known as the Sea of Japan — coming ashore at 1:05 a.m. about 3.2 kilometers (2 miles) inside South Korean territory, said the report, released by the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to Yonhap news agency.

He then hid his suit and fins and, unnoticed by guards at a border observation post, entered a drainage conduit that went under barbed wire lining the beach, the report said.

“He presumably had swum for about six hours, wearing a padded jacket inside a diving suit and fins. His clothing appeared to have kept him warm and allowed him to stay afloat,” an unnamed JCS officer told Yonhap. “The tidal current at that time also helped him come south.”

Welcome to freedom.

SICK: Biden HHS Nominee Defended Subjecting Kids to Chemical Castration.

MOORE’S GONNA NEED A BIGGER LAW: A quantum computer just solved a decades-old problem three million times faster than a classical computer.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This is bad news for encryption that depends on brute-force calculations being prohibitively difficult.

OUCH: AP Reporter Destroys Biden Spox for Trying to Take Credit for Trump Policy.

WITH APLOMB: How Starlink Is About To Disrupt The Telecommunications Sector.

Starlink’s evolution very interesting: on the one hand, it is leveraging SpaceX’s rocket launch missions, a company that has managed to systematically lower the cost and entry barriers for putting satellites into orbit (it can launch up to 60 satellites at a time, or even use them to fill idle capacity on other missions). At the same time, it has created its own satellite technology, making them much cheaper, more efficient, and with a very low failure rate. But above all, it aims to create an infrastructure that can be used anywhere in the world, simply by offering it through a web page, without the need for too much development of corporate infrastructure in each market: the antennas can be installed independently, and the service can be provided with almost no need to deploy teams of people to provide backup.

Musk is also learning how to operate the satellite constellation he’ll need for communications on his eventual Mars colonies.

NO CHANCE THE DEMS GO FOR THIS: Republican plan would raise minimum wage to $10 but only if businesses are required to ensure worker legality.

THE BUREAUCRATIC MENTALITY IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN THE UNIVERSE: Pharmacists Wonder: When Are We Going To Stop Throwing Out All These Vaccine Doses?

Ever since the vaccines began rolling out, we’ve heard far too many stories of large numbers of doses being discarded. Some cases have been from intentional spoilage by bad actors and conspiracy theory junkies. Others have been caused by refrigeration equipment failures or just simple human error. But it turns out that an even larger number of doses are going into the waste bin every week without any of those things happening. NBC News has a distressing report out this week revealing that healthcare workers are increasingly dismayed by the high number of doses that wind up being discarded while people are still waiting on line for a jab. The reason is that when they get down near the end of a vial, they are not allowed to use a process known as “pooling” to avoid wasting the precious liquid. The result is that for every shipment of 80 vials, forty full doses of the vaccine wind up in the trash. And they’re blaming the FDA.

“Get the hell out of my way!” the wise man once said.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Thank God Merrick Garland Isn’t on the Supreme Court. “When looking at Joe Biden’s various appointments and nominations here in the first month of the Grandpa Gropes Traveling Sham Presidency Circus, one can get the feeling that former President Barack Obama is running a staffing agency these days. Or a recycling center. Team Biden-Harris has been stocking up on Obama administration retreads. Perhaps Ol’ Joe doesn’t remember most of these people and his empty head thinks they’re all fresh blood.”