Flutterby™! From 2017-12-01 to 2017-12-31

Leaked government memo claims DJI is spying on the US for China. DJI is the maker of the popular quadcopter drone the Phantom:

The claims aren't a certainty, according to ICE, which says in the memo that Special Agent in Charge Intelligence Program (SIP) Los Angeles has "moderate confidence" that DJI is providing law enforcement and critical infrastructure data to China. However, the memo claims that SIP LA has "high confidence" that DJI is "selectively targeting government and privately owned entities within these sectors to expand its ability to collect and exploit sensitive U.S. data."

SIP Los Angeles makes some alarming claims about the DJI GO and SkyPixel mobile apps, saying in part that they grab facial recognition data even if the feature is disabled. The collected data, which is said to include sensitive personal info like full names, images and videos, phone numbers, and computer credentials, are automatically uploaded to unspecified "cloud storage systems" in Hong Kong and Taiwan "to which the Chinese government most likely has access."

DJI's statement on the ICE bulletin

Previously: Man gets threats—not bug bounty—after finding DJI customer data in public view:

DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures the popular Phantom brand of consumer quadcopter drones, was informed in September that developers had left the private keys for both the "wildcard" certificate for all the company's Web domains and the keys to cloud storage accounts on Amazon Web Services exposed publicly in code posted to GitHub. Using the data, researcher Kevin Finisterre was able to access flight log data and images uploaded by DJI customers, including photos of government IDs, drivers licenses, and passports. Some of the data included flight logs from accounts associated with government and military domains.

US Army calls for units to discontinue use of DJI equipment

Remember, kids, "the cloud" is just a fancy word for "other people's computers".

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I'm a little reluctant to pass this along because I have a basic understanding about how news gets made, and I got this link via a promoted tweet (which I've since lost), but... Reuters: In glyphosate review, WHO cancer agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings

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$99/month is a steal for CloudApp for iMobile, on an iPhone app that made it past the Apple review guidelines that forced users to give a 5 star rating in order to continue, and sets up a $99/month iTunes subscription.

Good thing Apple's protecting us from the porn and sexually explicit apps, though.

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London’s Protected Bike Lanes Move People 5 Times More Efficiently Than Car Lanes. Per square meter of asphalt, bike lanes move way more people with way less congestion...

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Our World In Data: Not all deaths are equal: How many deaths make a natural disaster newsworthy?

Food shortage? Almost 40k people need to die. Volcano? 1. Earthquake? 2.

Via Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.

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Due Process Is Needed For Sexual Harassment Accusations — But For Whom?

Ijeoma Oluo was asked by USA Today to write an editorial taking a specific stance. This is half a rant about a more nuanced version than they'd published, but more interestingly it's a good look at how news gets made, and why that's a bad thing.

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Privacy stripped away, one email at a time. Or: why you should assume that your email is being read by state actors and hackers, even if you think STARTTLS made server to server encryption the norm.

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This is interesting: David Dayen op ed in the LA Times: The GOP tax plan could be the death of Prop. 13

Under the compromise, Americans will be able to deduct property taxes of up to $10,000, but not income taxes. That's rough if your state happens to have the nation's highest income tax and one of the country's lowest property tax rates. That is, if your state is California.

The natural response to this turn of events would be to rebalance the revenue mix. California Democrats could offer a bargain: Lower personal income tax rates combined with a property tax rate more in line with the rest of the country. Of course, that would require voters to first repeal Proposition 13, which since 1978 has severely limited property taxes.

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Markovify: A simple, extensible Markov chain generator for Python.

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Markovify: A simple, extensible Markov chain generator for Python.

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A link from a conversation this morning at North Bay Python: The Second Page podcast, personal stories by non-professionals.

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George London on writing merge sort using Python import statements. Just saw his presentation, it was a good intro on how imports work, some good cautionary tales, and funny as heck.

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TEXTOR - TS700-UB high-speed slicer for bulk pepperoni and bulk bacon slicing (YouTube video)

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Wow: Got a human on one of those incessant credit card scammer calls. Asked who I had to kill to make the calls stop. Guy answered "yourself". At least he's honest.

Jurassic World, Jurassic Values (YouTube video).

I dislike Jurassic World. Here's one of the many reasons why.

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11% of Traffic on the Ethereum Blockchain Is Being Used to Breed Digital Cats. The application is Crypto Kitties, tamagotchi for this generation, but there seems to be a lot of speculation, so it's also digital Beanie Babies.

Addendum: CryptoKitties birthing fees increases in order to accommodate demand

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"Hey baby, looking for a date?" I'm in front of a church unloading my truck for a square dance calling gig. Either bad market research, or churchgoers are the target demographic, I'm not sure.

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Clear cold morning. I thought it was going to be painful, but after the first mile and a half on the trail it felt positively balmy.

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I grew up on the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and the mythology of them. On a family road trip in 1984 we stopped in the house in DeSmet. There are, of course, some questions that come up when reading those books (the "rugged independent" storytelling is hard to reconcile with the guy who keeps fucking up and abandoning his disasters until eventually he manages to actually get gainful employment), and with that in mind I may have to read Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, a biography by Caroline Fraser.

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Garret Vreeland at dangerousmeta has a few thoughts about Bears Ears and mining.

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ROFL: I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor.

Hat tip to NowThis

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RT @cloud_opinion

Typically a bar wants you doing shots after few drinks - shots tend to be more expensive and you are too drunk to know.

I just explained serverless pricing to you in terms you can understand.

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance. Guy named Andrew Therrien gets a call from a debt collector, takes a year, runs it to ground.

Amazed that the FTC doesn't have the power to do more in cases like this. And as I've turned off the ringer on my cell phone because the spammer calls have gotten too frequent to use voice, I wonder how much value is being stolen from all of us by scammers abusing our telephones.

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Just here for the headline: Secret Time Capsule Found Inside Jesus' Butt

Descubrimiento de “cápsula del tiempo” en Cristo de Sotillo de la Ribera

Agencia EFE take on the story

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University releases statement on 'controversial speaker' Richard Spencer's planned visit, Aggies express outrage on social media.. The article quotes Preston Wiginton, the organizer of the event:

“If we want to have a white state, or a white community or a white homeland we should be able to have that,” Wiginton said. “We respect that for all people. If we look at the NAACP, black people have the right to have that. Why can’t white people have a WAACP?”

The... uh... Wational Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Why not?

Sobering thought of the day: This guy got into Texas A&M. That's the top 25% of his high school class at the time of application and a combined Math and Critical Reading SAT score of at least 1300. That's 88th percentile.

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Maybe if we encourage everyone to hop in this stratospheric bitcoin rise, that'll pop the bubble sooner and we can move on to sane discussions about crypto currencies?

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Brisk along the river this morning

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From Facebook from Twitter from I can't trace it back:

“The weather next week in Alabama will favor Moore because it’s supposed to dip into the teens.”

And:

He’s either going to win or he’s going to come in a little behind

NPR: Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why.

Via MeFi

San Joaquin County’s chief forensic pathologist resigneds, alleging Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore interfered with death investigations to protect law enforcement officers

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The State Folk Dance Conspiracy: Fabricating A National Folk Dance Originally published in the Old-Time Herald, v.4(7) p.9-12, Spring 1995:

The most curious statement that club square dancers make to justify square dance as the state folk dance is that the term “square dancing” encompasses contra dancing, clogging, ballroom dancing, Texas two-step, country-western dancing, and various other American folk dances. This was a designation made unilaterally by national club square dance organizations, without consulting traditional square dancers or their organizations. While this appears to make modern Western square dance more inclusive (and perhaps helps their legislative goals), it also gives an inaccurate and confusing picture of what square dancing (traditional or modern) really is. ...

The MeFi discussion.

I just finished reading As I Saw It, which describes the "fabricating a folk dance" process from the perspective of one of the leaders of that movement.

Also worth reading: Square Dance Calling: The African- American Connection, Philip A. Jamison, Journal of Appalachian Studies Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 387-398.

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Cut The Bullshit And Make The Dinosaurs Shoot Machine Guns — An open letter to the JURASSIC PARK franchise.

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RT Sev 🎅🏻 @sudosev:

2017, still no security appliance that lets us fight attackers in real time with VR. Hackers was made in 1995, come on people.

Greater Greater Washington: A new Potomac River bridge is a bad idea, even for drivers, a study shows.

In fact, all forms of transportation have the same effect. Transportation makes cities larger but doesn't actually make your commute shorter. This principal is called Marchetti's Constant. Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti noticed that from ancient Rome to today, cities (then) or metro areas (now) are about the size you can traverse in an hour, or 30 minutes to the center. If it's on foot, that's one size; on a horse, another; streetcar, another; cars, another.

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Conversion therapy has been pretty thoroughly discredited, so... why are we still trying to make the yuletide gay?

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US DOJ press release: Jury Convicts Former Atlanta Police Sergeant for Using Excessive Force to Break Walmart Customer’s Leg

A federal jury has convicted former Atlanta Police Department Sergeant Trevor King, of Stockbridge, Georgia, of using unreasonable force when he arrested a Walmart shopper who the officer wrongfully suspected of shoplifting a tomato. King beat the victim with his police-issue baton, breaking two bones in the victim’s leg. The jury also convicted King of writing a false incident report in an attempt to cover up his wrongdoing.

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At the Redwood Rainbows holiday party

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how to win at Monopoly: buy all 32 houses and hold them, preventing denser development. There's a simile here to urban growth that might be worth exploring... https://m.imgur.com/gallery/vX3zm

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Today in "are you fucking kidding me?" news... Prop 13 has utterly destroyed how California cities work. Increasing the scope of it is so many additional layers of awful.

Giving Grandma a tax break to get more homes on the market: realtors’ Prop. 13 ballot proposal:

The proposal from the California Association of Realtors would expand Proposition 13, the landmark constitutional amendment passed by voters in 1978 that has kept homeowners’ property taxes artificially low over the years, even as their home values have doubled or even quadrupled. Under the initiative, homeowners who are over 55 or severely disabled would be able to keep those lower tax obligations for life, regardless of how many times they move, as long as they stay in California.

“A lot of older people — and I’m one of those older people, by the way — are feeling locked into their properties,” said Alex Creel, a lobbyist for the association, which is gathering signatures to qualify the measure. “They’re holding onto their property not because they like their house, but because they like their taxes.”

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Good morning from Helen Putnam Park

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More morning

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Surge in gun sales after Sandy Hook led to spike in accidental gun deaths, study says

Science: Firearms and accidental deaths: Evidence from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting

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I'm giggling, which is probably an indication that I've hit Christmas music overload: Now You Can Fight Sexism At Christmas By Singing Hyrrs, Not Hymns:

The videos:

• Kick The Balls (to "Deck The Halls")
• Oh Sexism! (to "Oh Tannenbaum")
• Equal Salary ("God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen")
• More Than Half Of Working Women ("Royal David's City")
• Stereotypes ("Silent Night")
• Wenceslas
• Female Sexual Pleasure ("In The Bleak Midwinter")

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Farting in slow motion: [NSFW] Meanwhile on primetime TV in Denmark.

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Scientific Reports: Effect of canola oil consumption on memory, synapse and neuropathology in the triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.

The data presented in the current paper demonstrate that chronic administration of a diet enriched with canola oil results in significant deficits of working memory and synaptic pathology, but has no effect on the Aβ deposits and tau phosphorylation levels in a transgenic Alzheimer’s mouse model that develops Aβ deposits and tau neurofibrillary tangles.

So the canola oil mice got stupid and fat.

The authors suggest that maybe we should study canola oil further before we recommend it as a substitute for olive oil...

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17373-3

Temple University press release

By way of Larry Burton, via Atlanta Journal Constitution: Canola oil linked to dementia, study says.

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Via Shadow: GeoOrbital - Invest in the future (YouTube video), an intro to the GeoOrbital electric bicycle wheel, with a bunch of really cool ideas for how to use a self-contained wheel differently.

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Someone was flying an RC float plane in the Petaluma turning basin. It was pretty cool!

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Starbucks Buenos Aires Accused of Cryptocurrency Mining Using Customer's Laptop, or: wifi script injection for fun and profit!

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Whoah moment: realized how much of my entertainment is scored by Kevin Macleod at Incompetech.com. The soundtrack of so much of my life...

Science Daily publishing the press release: No bones about it: Cannabis may be used to treat fractures — Tel Aviv University researcher finds non-psychotropic compound in marijuana can help heal bone fissures:

"We found that CBD alone makes bones stronger during healing, enhancing the maturation of the collagenous matrix, which provides the basis for new mineralization of bone tissue," said Dr. Gabet. "After being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future."

Vice News: Why the Study Linking Cannabis to Bone Healing Was Likely Over-Hyped.

But, really, do you want to take the chance that it was over-hyped?

Looks like the paper is Cannabidiol, a Major Non-Psychotropic Cannabis Constituent Enhances Fracture Healing and Stimulates Lysyl Hydroxylase Activity in Osteoblasts.

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http://tv4ever.dk - a Chrome plug-in to do time shifting of online TV streams. VCR for the web.

A project of Steven Snedker of http://vertikal.dk who was writing about Flutterby and Newwwsboy (my initial blog software) back in 1999!

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The California Road Charge Pilot Program final report has been released.

• Final Report page

PDFs:

• Full Report
• Summary Report
  
  
• Highlights Brochure

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Sunrise alert

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RT fangmeli @pangmeli:

wild that disney made a movie about a hot fat dom lesbian sea witch who dies desperately & unsuccessfully trying to use her witchcraft to prove to a straight girl that her father is a maniac & her bf only cares about her superficially

RT fangmeli @pangmeli

ursula: this guy?? this guy??? this guy wouldn't even care if you couldn't communicate

ariel: feel like he really *saw* me in that rowboat tho

ursula: look I literally just made myself a brunette & now he's marrying me instead

ariel: idk he's had a hard life. he almost drowned

And the thread goes on...

"You know it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me..."

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Enjoying the irony...

Wandered downtown, gingerbread at the Hotel Petaluma, no tickets for Star Wars...

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Enjoying the irony, now with the pictures

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A little lunch-time self-care.

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Trains of thought in the Marie-Lyke household: hay is for horses, the apocalypse has four horsemen, alpacas are mammals and therefore have lips and why would that even be a question?

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So, wait, the looters take over the government and we have a train crash? Holy shit, we really are living in an Ayn Rand novel.

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Oh this is beautiful: RT Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green:

There is no way the extended_random extension and TLS1.3’s keyshare just happened to share the same value. I smell an excellent prank.

Apparently RSA implemented a crypto backdoor in their BSAFE TLS library. Security researcheers who reverse-engineered the free version of this library saw the backdoor, but believed it was turned off. Apparently it was turned on in the commercial version used in Canon printers. This flag conflicted with a new TLS keyshare feature.

Wonder if someone did this in order to surreptitiously expose that the flag was getting turned on in the commercial version of the library.

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This morning's run, one of three

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This morning's run, two of three

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This morning's run, three of three

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MPR news: Officers shoot man inside Mpls. City Hall:

Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said Minneapolis police personnel were interviewing the man and then left him alone in a room.

"And he began injuring himself with an edged weapon. After attempting to subdue the adult male subject, officers discharged their weapons," Arradondo said.

RT Sam Richards @MinneapoliSam:

Man in interrogation room at City Hall attempts to injury self so MPD officers respond by shooting him.

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Detroit Free Press: Kaffer: 8 years into tests of abandoned rape kits, Worthy works for justice:

In 2009, 11,341 untested sexual assault kits — the results of an hours-long process that collects evidence from the body of a rape victim — were found during a routine tour of a Detroit police storage warehouse, some dating back to 1984. ...

Those samples revealed 817 rapists involved in more than one attack, over 50 of them have 10 to 15 hits.

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Pacific Standard: Social Media Use Is Linked to a Fear of Crime:

Importantly, the researchers found social media usage raised fear levels mainly among those who generally feel safe in their neighborhood. This supports the idea that "media consumption may have stronger effects for individuals without personal experiences with crime and violence."

The study is Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 77, December 2017, Pages 158-168: Investigating the relationship between social media consumption and fear of crime: A partial analysis of mostly young adults. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.08.047

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Sarah Brynn Holliday: How Social Media is Silencing the Sex Industry:

I am all for tearing down oppressive, capitalistic, sex-shaming structures and systems in favor of creating a better world. However, the heart of the matter here is that we shouldn’t have to create something new. We need our current social media platforms to work for and with us, to drop the stigma, to recognize that working in the sex industry is just as valid as any other career, to allow us to promote beyond our networks to reach new people.

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The Benefits of Body-Worn Cameras: new findings from a randomized controlled trial at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. No surprise that the cohort with the cameras used less force and generated fewer complaints.

In examining the costs and benefits of BWCs we estimated that BWCs cost between $828 and $1,097 per user per year, and generate net annual savings of between $2,909 and $3,178 per user. BWCs generate savings mainly through significantly faster investigation of complaints. We have assumed that there would be 0.84 complaints per officer each year in the absence of BWCs (the average during the preimplementation period of the BWC study). The “break-even” level of complaints occurs between 0.23 and 0.27 complaints per officer per year.85 At the break-even level, the costs avoided by BWCs would just offset the costs to implement BWCs.

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Decriminalizing Indoor Prostitution: Implications for Sexual Violence and Public Health Scott Cunningham, Manisha Shah, in The Review of Economic Studies, rdx065, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx065

Most governments in the world, including the U.S., prohibit sex work. Given these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District Court judge unexpectedly decriminalized indoor sex work to provide causal estimates of the impact of decriminalization on the composition of the sex market, reported rape offences, and sexually transmitted infections. While decriminalization increases the size of the indoor sex market, reported rape offences fall by 30% and female gonorrhoea incidence declines by over 40%.

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Joseph's Machines: How to do Christmas in 10 seconds (YouTube).

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Andre Shakti: Sex Work and Daddy Issues: A Love Story

I definitely have “daddy issues” — and “mommy issues” and “uncle issues” and “grandmother issues.” As a sex worker, the “daddy issues” trope is particularly stigmatizing because some of us do come from what traditional society would deem “broken” homes, where we’ve been failed by the masculine role models in our lives.

What may come as a surprise, though, is that the catalyst for our familial trauma and isolation often results from family members’ discovery of our sex work — and/or gender identity, sexual orientation, etc — not the other way around.

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The American Flyer S gauge train from my Dad's childhood around the Christmas tree this year. Track folds down from the wall. https://youtu.be/CiE_Q5Ux8BA

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Why communication in our household doesn't always work: "If you, by chance..." "Honey, you don't buy chance, it either happens or..."

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Games on the Net before the Web, Part 2: MUD. I was first introduced to the concept of a MUD through an article by Pavel Curtis describing LambdaMOO in Steve Steinberg's Intertek magazine. Even after I got into full-on connectivity, I never got into MUDs or MOOs because I never really liked the whole "chat" interface, even though the concept of a chat interface within a programmable environment always sounded really need in concept.

But I've still got a soft spot for the idea and what it could be.

And in reminding myself about history: Tech vs Tek?.

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Yes, I know that some of the pesticides used by "certified organic" farms are really nasty stuff, but we need some way to stop injuring farm workers and causing overspray and other externalities:

Firms Fined for Pesticide Incident That Sickened 92 in Bakersfield

Drifting Pesticides Keep Making California Farm Workers Sick

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WSJ: Spanking for Misbehavior? It Causes More.

Risks of Harm from Spanking Confirmed by Analysis of Five Decades of Research

“Our analysis focuses on what most Americans would recognize as spanking and not on potentially abusive behaviors,” says Elizabeth Gershoff, an associate professor of human development and family sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. “We found that spanking was associated with unintended detrimental outcomes and was not associated with more immediate or long-term compliance, which are parents’ intended outcomes when they discipline their children.”

Gershoff and co-author Andrew Grogan-Kaylor, an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, found that spanking (defined as an open-handed hit on the behind or extremities) was significantly linked with 13 of the 17 outcomes they examined, all in the direction of detrimental outcomes.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fam0000191

@DrVox David Roberts Twitter thread

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In tracking down that spanking harmful entry, I ran across an American College of Pediatricians article that purported to debunk some of those spanking studies. But then I remembered that Charlene had recently brought to my attention an article about the American College of Pediatricians president that contained some pretty egregious simple biology errors, sooo...

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Saw The Last Jedi. Restless audience, not a film that was holding attention. A New Hope ended with a callback to Triumph of the Will, I think this one needed more Downfall references.

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I realize that picking on The Last Jedi is kinda "your favorite band sucks", but I see this article making the rounds this morning, and... Possible spoilers so I'll put the majority of this entry in the comment.

Star Wars’ Vice-Admiral Holdo and Our Expectations for Female Military Power

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At the Sonoma County Woodworker's Association Artistry In Wood show

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This mid-century modern display box blew me away. Spectacular curves and joinery.

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San Rafael has "3 free hours of parking". The only non-broken EV charging stalls have non-chargers squatting in them.

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Along the trail this morning at Schollenberger Park. The fog kept the run a little warmer...

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Nephew is visiting, wants to build a go-cart. Score at the junk yard meant we spent the day refurbishing the drive train from a broken power wheelchair. Next up, building a longer chassis and a body... https://www.instagram.com/p/BdRCntJAQ6w/

Similar video over on YouTube.

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With some help, Ethan has chopped and stretched the chassis. Next up, a lowered seat... https://www.instagram.com/p/BdTLTDLAifB/

Ethan checking the charge state on our batteries.

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Now Ethan is playing with cockpit ergonomics. Still have some control wiring glitches to work out... https://youtu.be/HTcv_a53I0g

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Roz and Charlene at the Museum of Sonoma County with the carved leopard at the artistry in wood show.

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Next up, seat cushions and aesthetics... And a little crash engineering, after this picture he tore off the front footrest

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