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What Ultimate Frisbee can teach us about Jon Ossoff.

At every level, from elementary school to professional, ultimate is almost entirely self-officiated. Players point out violations that they see, experience or even cause, and both sides have to agree the violation occurred for it to fully count. If they don’t, play resorts to a sort of half-penalty. The disagreement is incorporated into the game, not punted to arbiters on the sidelines. “The grace that allows us to exhibit, if we buy in, is transformative,” Baccarini said.

If you don’t take the responsibility of self-officiation seriously — if you’re inclined to lie, fight, or act the victim — people notice, and stop giving you chances to show off those instincts. It doesn’t matter what other skills you bring: Violate that cardinal value, and you’re on the sidelines. In ultimate, you’re either successful at owning your mistakes, or you’re genuinely bad at the game.

I do not understand why this isn't just the default. RT Steph Hippo @stephhippo

FYI: chrome://settings/content/notifications

"Sites can ask to send notifications" -> off

American Psychiatric Association: Deaths by Suicide Drop in 2020 While Overall Deaths Soared During Pandemic

Deaths by suicide declined by almost 6% from 2019 to 2020, according to a report in JAMA based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The decline is one hopeful finding in an otherwise grim report that revealed a 17.7% increase in overall deaths in 2020, with most of those directly attributable to COVID-19.

Former Louisville detective who helped incarcerate innocent men agrees to plead guilty, go to prison

Handy had previously agreed to a plea deal on a charge of felony perjury related to a 1995 case that put Edwin Chandler in prison nearly a decade for a murder he didn't commit. But the tampering with physical evidence charge in another case had been dismissed.

So his lies took a combined 52 years of freedom from his victims, and he gets a year. Seems... uh...

It's starting to take shape. I might take a day off this week and see if I can knock the rest of it out. Also, that astoundingly expensive Festool drill/driver combo set paid for itself today.

And the rain is chasing me inside

This morning's productivity on the backyard deck was brought to me by two episodes of Tristan Taormino's podcast "Sex Out Loud". The first was Dr. Ina Park talking about her book "Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs". I'm gonna put that one on the reading queue, it sounds fascinating. The episode is at https://sexoutloud.libsyn.com/...cience-history-and-state-of-stds

The second was Dr. Heather Berg on Porn as Work, and that too was fascinating. I used to be a... well... in the words of my father, raging right wing asshole, an Objectivist Libertarian, and even fairly recently I've rejected the work of some Marxist economics with the "how does that even work?", but as I get deeper into the violence that seems to be necessary to extract value from labor, I start to become more aware of the places that violence is used for that purpose.

And how things like FOSTA/SESTA and anti-porn and "protect the childruuunnnn" legislative ventures are often just more deeply entrenching that extractive violence in society.

This was a really cool discussion that delved deep into some of that, made even better by Tristan Taormino's experience with roles as producer, director, and performer. https://sexoutloud.libsyn.com/dr-heather-berg-on-prn-as-work

Gotta call up Copperfield's and have 'em order this one: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250206657

46 hours since my second Pfizer dose. Arm hurt a lot on the first night, but any other ill effects so far have been well within the usual range of having a body.

It doesn't look like much, but the ones that are dug in are within about 1/16" of each other. Hoping tonight's rain makes tomorrow's digging easier.

I mean, really.

How am I gonna make any progress if these things keep getting in my way?

I was actually gonna be happy if I managed to clear the driveway by the end of tomorrow, but we knocked off work early this afternoon and I got a second workout. Now to dig the piers in.

This morning, as we were driving to our second appointment, I got a text message from MyTurn.ca.gov telling me that "We're working around the clock to get more vaccines and appointments to Californians. Please keep checking..."

About a quarter of California vaccine appointments are booked through the official site. I hope that we can get a legislator to hold someone's feet to the fire for giving this contract to Accenture rather than someone competent, like a high school nerd slinging PHP.

Cal Matters: State’s ‘MyTurn’ website bypassed for most vaccine appointments

State officials told CalMatters that they spent $50 million building the site. A contract obtained by CalMatters shows up to $18 million will be paid to multinational consulting giant Accenture. Of that, $6.9 million was spent on development, but there’s another $5.7 million management cost in the first year and another roughly $6 million a year for two more years. Accenture used technology from Salesforce, a San Francisco-based software company, and was assisted by a workforce management consulting company called Skedulo.

Looks like we're seeing a resurgence in exploring psychedelics: Two separate independent resources launching:

Psychable, the Online Platform for Psychedelic Healthcare, is Live – the Comprehensive Resource Connects Those Seeking Information on Legal Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Treatment Options With Practitioners in Their Area

Psychable Includes Thousands of Psychedelic Practitioners Listings as Interest in Uses of Psychedelics as Medicine Grows

Psychedelic Experience launches new website to help navigate the world of psychedelics

<span class="xn-location">NEW YORK</span>, <span class="xn-chron">April 22, 2021</span> /PRNewswire/ -- Saturday <span class="xn-chron">24th April 2021</span>, Psychedelic Experience will be launching a new website to help aspiring and experienced psychonauts traverse the ever-changing landscape of psychedelics.

>Inspired by the psychedelic renaissance and the rapid developments in legalization around the world, Psychedelic Experience, or PEx, has recently overhauled its web services. PEx will offer users an engaging, community-fueled resource to help them better understand psychedelics and to discover theia wide variety of safe and peer-reviewed organizations, retreat centers, guides, shamans, and much more.

(Both pointed out to me by the amazing Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz, who is doing some amazing things with Google Spreadsheets and data amalgamation and you should go throw her Patreon a few bucks.)

Stack Overflow Blog: How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

One out of every four users who visits a Stack Overflow question copies something within five minutes of hitting the page. That adds up to 40,623,987 copies across 7,305,042 posts and comments between March 26th and April 9th. People copy from answers about ten times as often as they do from questions and about 35 times as often as they do from comments. People copy from code blocks more than ten times as often as they do from the surrounding text, and surprisingly, we see more copies being made on questions without accepted answers than we do on questions which are accepted.

Well, duh: The person who asked the question, and who'd therefore mark it answered, is usually not the right person to actually determine what the correct answer is. If they were, they wouldn't have asked the question.

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This is awesome: Signal discovers that the Cellebrite iPhone (and Android) hacking device contains vulnerabilities

In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

Vice: Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By Cops

Remote code execution vulnerabilities uncovered in smart air fryer

On Monday, researchers from Cisco Talos revealed the discovery of two RCEs in the Cosori Smart Air Fryer, a Wi-Fi-connected kitchen product that leverages the internet to give users remote control over cooking temperature, times, and settings.

The device in question is the Cosori Smart 5.8-Quart Air Fryer CS158-AF (v.1.1.0). CVE-2020-28592 and CVE-2020-28593.

Charlene suggests that "shitload" is the wrong word to describe a large quantity of laundry.

Thinking about how the Minneapolis Police somehow thought that the idea that they were driving cars emitting so much CO that bystanders could die was somehow a better option than intentional murder.

Need to get out in the morning light more

Starting to get into the spring bloom

Took the tandem up to Spring Lake and rode into Annadel

As a host of a Zoom meeting, I want to have to log-in to the Zoom web page every time I go there, even if the last time was 20 minutes ago, from the computer that I'm hosting my Zoom meetings for, because security or something. Sigh.

Samantha Cole: The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed

For years, anti-trafficking organizations have pushed agendas that toe the line of vigilantism. They shouldn't be surprised when someone takes their version of "justice" into their own hands.