Outside the vortex

The world continues to turn outside the Chicago icebox:

• Julia Ioffe sees an interesting power play between the US and China taking shape in Africa.
• Ed Zitron experiences unbridled Schadenfreude as three billionaires experience the Dunning-Krueger effect up close and personal.
• David Frum says we should thank Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for reminding us of our own history.
• 538 created an interactive map where you can see for yourself that moving time zone boundaries will probably make more people happy than year-round daylight saving or standard time would.
• A couple of crooks in Queens, with a little help from Russian hackers, scammed the Kennedy Airport taxi dispatch system for a year.
• Julia Alexander looks back at 2022's effects on streaming media. (Aside: what do you mean there won't be a final season of Warrior Nun?! Dammit!)
• From January, Jesse Baron digs into the bitter dispute between Tinder co-founder Sean Rad and his financier, Barry Diller.

Finally, dog biologist (?) Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs tell time with their noses.