Flutterby™! From 2017-05-01 to 2017-05-31

Freshly Remembered: Kirk drift. On Star Trek's Captain Kirk as a womanizer, or not, and why we might remember him one way or the other.

[ related topics: Star Trek Space & Astronomy Aviation - Helicopters ]

This looks like a strong step forward: Alzheimer's Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes–Evidence Reviewed

... Altogether, the data provide strong evidence that AD is intrinsically a neuroendocrine disease caused by selective impairments in insulin and IGF signaling mechanisms, including deficiencies in local insulin and IGF production. At the same time, it is essential to recognize that T2DM and T3DM are not solely the end results of insulin/IGF resistance and/or deficiency, because these syndromes are unequivocally accompanied by significant activation of inflammatory mediators, oxidative stress, DNA damage, and mitochondrial dysfunction, which contribute to the degenerative cascade by exacerbating insulin/ IGF resistance. Referring to AD as T3DM is justified, because the fundamental molecular and biochemical abnormalities overlap with T1DM and T2DM rather than mimic the effects of either one. ...

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RT Nat Baimel:

If your penis stops working try taking the butt plug out then plugging it back in

RT Fran Wilde:

Women, in ponds, keeping the swords for themselves.

RT ToddInTheShadows‏ @ShadowTodd

Today's train of thought: The difference in connotation between "dick" and "asshole" as an insult



[ related topics: Interactive Drama Sexual Culture Work, productivity and environment Machinery Trains ]

Nancy Pelosi: Democratic candidates should not be forced to toe party line on abortion.

Because the Democrats weren't doing a good enough job of self-destructing thus far.

[ related topics: Politics Sexual Culture Heinlein ]

Some video for Charlene: Wakeboarding with dolphins (YouTube), in which waterskiing woman finds herself surrounded by a pod of leaping dolphins.

I've only done the wakeboard thing once, and it's been decades since I've been on a water ski, but I'm surprised at how well she's dealing with the waves. On a waterski at speed that'd pound me to shreds. It looks like their boat can handle running slower, rather than having to get all the way up on the plane.

[ related topics: Movies Sports Boats Machinery Video Woodworking ]

Why body cam evidence isn't the end-all: Pueblo police officer accused of reenacting car search for body camera

Following that hearing, text messages were exchanged between Jensen and Anne Mayer, a deputy district attorney, in which Jensen allegedly revealed that the body camera footage of the execution of the search warrant on Cajar’s car was not a real-time documentation of the search, but rather a recreation which he staged after the actual search of the vehicle, according to Joe Koncilja, the attorney who represented Cajar.

In the text messages, which were obtained by The Pueblo Chieftain, Mayer writes, “You’ll have to watch your body cam before the motions to make sure the report and camera are the same.”

[ related topics: Cameron Barrett Photography Privacy Movies Law Current Events Law Enforcement Automobiles ]

On a gay sex club, a generally tolerant city, and one man's quest to shut it down: An underground sex club is raided, and Minneapolis is forced to face the times.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture tolkien Current Events ]

Autostraddle: 55 Lesbians Having A Bad Time In BDSM Stock Photos. Never too many spikes.

[ related topics: Photography Sexual Culture Economics ]

Just saw a YouTube ad for the Toyota Mirai which claimed a 312 mile range. Hydrogen at 700bar has an energy density of about 5.6 mega Joules per liter, gasoline 34.2 MJ/L.

That suggests that a 12 gallon gasoline equivalent tank takes about 10 cubic feet of hydrogen, plus extra material necessary to hold the pressure. So where the heck are they putting the tank? Does this vehicle not have a trunk? (I think the last time I asked myself this question I concluded they'd also have to give up the back seat.)

And the refueling process in the video looked a lot like a normal gas station, but given the pressures involved, that can't be right either, can it?

[ related topics: Video Woodworking ]

Dropbox: Creating a modern OCR pipeline using computer vision and deep learning

[ related topics: Education ]

Understanding structural inequality: buying beige size 6 women's "hipster" style underwear. Men would get violent at this merchandising.

[ related topics: Clothing ]

Re the Yates hearing: When do the Republicans realize that grilling a woman just creates a new hero (eg: Warren)

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Shadow sent along Security.Stackexchange: How can this executable have an AVI extension?

Answer: Using Unicode and directional embedding and overrides to make the .exe appear to be in the middle of the name when it's really at the end.

How news is made: The secret deal the Associated Press made with the Nazis during WWII:

Daniszewski, the AP vice president, said that given the time period — a war, with censors on both sides — readers would have known that Nazis had taken the photos, even if those origins weren’t specifically described.

Even though the AP used different photo credits from what the German papers running those same photos used.

So think about modern news and what you might be assumed to know about the origins of that news...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography History Current Events Sports ]

Larry Burton: With apologies to Warren Zevon:

The FBI Director

Got into a little stew.

How was he to know

The Russians would get him too.

Whitehouse spokesperson Sean Spicer literally hid in the bushes to dodge reporter questions.

The "calm down everyone, he had it coming" take: Hugh Hewitt: Comey’s firing isn’t like the ‘Saturday Night Massacre.’ It’s pretty straightforward.

[ related topics: Politics Weblogs Current Events Law Enforcement Furniture ]

Walking is still faster than SF Muni, but OMG San Francisco sidewalks are not wide enough for the pedestrian traffic they carry.

[ related topics: Bay Area California Culture Public Transportation ]

Walter O’Brien: The Man Who Never Returned:

Most Americans know the song “MTA,” popularized by the Kingston Trio in 1959. It’s the one about a “man named Charlie” doomed to “ride forever ’neath the streets of Boston . . . the man who never returned.” What’s forgotten, however, is that the song was originally made for a left-wing political campaign.

A good look at folk music in the era of the red scare, the politics of subways, private profit from public subsidy...

[ related topics: Politics Music moron Civil Liberties Public Transportation ]

MasterPrint: Exploring the Vulnerability of Partial Fingerprint-based Authentication Systems (IEEE Paywall). It's paywalled, and I haven't read it, but if I'm understanding the German article that led me to it, Zwei Drittel aller Fingerabdrucksensoren lassen sich mit einem (1) Abdruck überlisten", it's about building a fingerprint "master key" that opens about 2/3rds of smartphones locked with fingerprints.

Yet another reason to avoid relying on biometrics.

Oh here we go, the NYU press release: So You Think You Can Secure Your Mobile Phone With a Fingerprint? NYU Tandon and Michigan State University Researchers Find That Similarities in Partial Fingerprints May be Sufficient to Trick Biometric Security Systems on Smartphones.

Looks like they're working in a simulated environment, but still some interesting implications.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Nature and environment Current Events Work, productivity and environment Education ]

Am exploring Scuttlebutt and while most of the chatter is about scuttlebutt, bugs, code etc.. I have seen some interesting intelligent conversations and signs of life. Am thinking about setting up a 'pub' (kinda like a BBS in some ways) partially as a possible client/server for adhoc network working groups.

Anyone else playing? I found it because Dan mentioned it.

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

[ related topics: broadband Work, productivity and environment ]

Welp. This is everywhere now. Might as well mark it here, too: WaPo: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador.

One day after dismissing Comey, Trump welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — a key figure in earlier Russia controversies — into the Oval Office. It was during that meeting, officials said, that Trump went off script and began describing details of an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Aviation Gambling ]

WaPo: When President Trump’s bodyguard revealed Jim Mattis’s private cellphone number:

This of course sounds impossible. Way more care than that is taken around the president, right? The Secret Service is good at secrecy, generally. So I thanked the guy for the call and dubiously pulled up the photo in question. With the monitor turned 90 degrees and the photo blown up, indeed, I could make out a number and what might be “Jim, Mad Dog, Mattis,” if you have better eyesight than mine even when I squint.

I called. I got the voice mail. It was him.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Dogs ]

Holy crap is this a tear-jerker: The Atlantic: A Story of Slavery in Modern America:

My Family’s Slave

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.

When we talk about "trafficking", this...

[ related topics: Sociology ]

Listening about Indian farmers working half acre plots, thinking about suburban homesteading... http://www.npr.org/sections/mo...indias-cash-disappeared-part-two

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Currency ]

Woman in front of me at grocery store almost left two items: "The best part." Didn't ask if she meant the wine, or the batteries...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Wines and Spirits ]

Woman in front of me at grocery store almost left two items: "The best part." Didn't ask if she meant the wine, or the batteries...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Wines and Spirits ]

Comey kept a paper trail... NYT: Trump asked Comey to end the Flynn & Russia investigation.

After the meeting, Mr. Comey’s associates did not believe there was any way to corroborate Mr. Trump’s statements. But Mr. Trump’s suggestion last week that he was keeping tapes has made them wonder whether there are tapes that back up Mr. Comey’s account.

WaPo: Notes made by former FBI Director Comey say Trump pressured him to end Flynn probe.

[ related topics: Politics ]

House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump:

When initially asked to comment on the exchange, Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Ryan, said: “That never happened,” and Matt Sparks, a spokesman for McCarthy, said: “The idea that McCarthy would assert this is absurd and false.”

After being told that The Post would cite a recording of the exchange, Buck, speaking for the GOP House leadership, said: “This entire year-old exchange was clearly an attempt at humor. No one believed the majority leader was seriously asserting that Donald Trump or any of our members were being paid by the Russians. What’s more, the speaker and leadership team have repeatedly spoken out against Russia’s interference in our election, and the House continues to investigate that activity.”

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Awesome clip of Holly Maniatty, ASL interpreter for a Snoop Dogg performance.

Interview with Holly Maniatty, sign language interpreter for Wu Tang Clan

YouTube video of Holly Maniatty interpeting for Wu Tang Clan.

A few more of these and I'll be able to sign "mother fucker" really quickly....

[ related topics: Movies Theater & Plays Video ]

Just got told I'd make a fabulous gay man if I wasn't a lesbian...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Sexual Culture ]

One from Shadow: http://i.imgur.com/Kdkqn6Z.gifv

Why locking your bike on your rack when it's on a car is a good idea (has a happy ending, though).

[ related topics: Automobiles Bicycling ]

Why the majority is always wrong | Paul Rulkens | TEDxMaastricht (YouTube). Nothing you didn't already know, but it's a good reminder...

[ related topics: Movies ]

Not sure if related or not:

* Japan's sex problem is so bad that people are quitting dating and marrying their friends:

The country has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, with just 8.4 children being born per 1,000 inhabitants over the past five years.

Its population of 127 million people is predicted to decrease to 87 million by 2060.

* This Penguin Was Dumped By His Girlfriend And Is Now In Love With An Anime Cutout

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design History Current Events Marriage ]

Transcript of New Orleans Mayor Landrieu’s address on Confederate monuments.

The YouTube video of Mayor Landrieu's address, with transcript in the comments there.

Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?

Can you look into that young girl’s eyes and convince her that Robert E. Lee is there to encourage her? Do you think she will feel inspired and hopeful by that story? Do these monuments help her see a future with limitless potential? Have you ever thought that if her potential is limited, yours and mine are too?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies Invention and Design Race Video Hurricane Katrina ]

In heyday of LSD, secret Windsor lab produced millions of Orange Sunshine pills. A little bit on the history of LSD manufacturing in Sonoma County...

Scully figured they needed to produce 440 pounds — about 720 million doses of LSD — roughly enough to provide a single dose for everyone in the world willing to try it.

[ related topics: Drugs Current Events ]

The SD card in my phone died yesterday, which meant that I lost a pic of the best vanity plate ever: "KEGELIT"

[ related topics: Hardware Hackery Robotics Embedded Devices ]

Occasionally I hang out with transportation geeks, and a topic that comes up regularly is "what about flying cars?" I mean, yeah, it's a bit fanciful, but in the 50 year timespan it's something people think meaningfully about.

The truth is: Flying cars are already here. The future just isn't evenly distributed. And when you try to bring them into a neighborhood, people get pissed off.

Proposed Palmaz helicopter pad inflames Napa Valley's winery wars

[ related topics: Aviation Aviation - Helicopters ]

Tibetan nun becomes fetish queen after Indian massage 'reawakened her sexuality': After quitting her Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France Damcho Dyson, 45, spends her weekends cavorting in latex at fetish clubs.

[ related topics: Religion Current Events ]

CAM GIRLZ (Full feature length documentary on Vimeo Video), a video about webcam "girls" (women), and their performance.

(And unlike some other exploitation stuff recently, this was shot with the consent and cooperation of the subjects.)

[ related topics: Theater & Plays Video ]

A Nude Photo Series Imagines a World Without Clothes, a look at the photographic work of Sophia Vogel and her With and Without series.

Photographer Reveals What Hides Under Tattooed People’s Everyday Clothes, on Alan Powdrill

[ related topics: Photography Erotic Sexual Culture Nudity Work, productivity and environment Clothing ]

US admits DEA lied about Honduras 'massacre' that killed four villagers: Bipartisan investigation finds drug agents misled Congress after river shooting left four dead, including two pregnant women and a schoolboy

[ related topics: Politics Health ]

No Pardon at The Back Room. Love this band, the venue is amazing!

Journal of Social Psychology: Sexual willingness with same- and other-sex prospective partners: Experimental evidence from the bar scene

...Using moderated regression analysis, we found that alcohol intake predicted sexual willingness with the male target for both men and women, but not with the female target. The attractiveness of same-sex partners was related to sexual willingness. Sexual willingness was only influenced by alcohol intake and perceived attractiveness of a same-sex prospective partner. Most notably, alcohol intake was related to increased sexual willingness of men with a same-sex partner, suggesting a potential shift in normative casual sexual behavior among heterosexual men.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Model Building ]