Flutterby™! From 2019-02-01 to 2019-02-28

An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think — How to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect, explained by psychologist David Dunning.

The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club. People miss that.

Number two is, over the years, the understanding of the effect out there in popular culture has morphed from “poor performers are way overconfident,” to “beginners are way overconfident.” We just published something within the last year where we showed that beginners don’t start out falling prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, but they get there real quick. So they quickly come to believe they know how to handle a task when they really don’t have it yet.

[ related topics: Health Sociology California Culture Handicaps & Disabilities ]

How sex censorship killed the internet we love

The erasure of erotic art, to me, represents a crisis point of culture, of democracy. Art effects the greatest change and empowerment when it's transgressive, scandalous, nude, erotic. Visibility matters. Art is where minds are opened, ideas challenged, viewpoints explored, where people who hate have a chance to be changed, even if for a minute.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Sexual Culture Free Speech Nudity Sociology Art & Culture California Culture Net Culture ]

Twitter thread: "Heard Roger Stone called his treatment by law enforcement “unconscionable.” So I thought I’d start a non-definitive list of actual unconscionable things. ... "

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

Brian Steele has a Twitter thread on his Baltimore commute through a "transit oriented development"

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Not sure what the inside of this Panasonic bathroom fan/light combo ballast is suppose to look like, but I'm pretty sure it's not this.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Addendum to the bathroom lamp story: Pay careful attention to the 12v vs 120v on the parts, even when the big box story guy hands you the bulb... that's a set of cascading failures I don't need to repeat. Trying to find a replacement for the switch it toasted.

Mueller Probe Cost $25 Million So Far, Report Says. It’s Pulled in $48 Million From Tax Cheats

[ related topics: Politics Personal Lubricant ]

On the share of inheritance in aggregate wealth Europe and the United States, 1900-2010, Facundo Alvaredo, Bertrand Garbinti, Thomas Piketty.

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IUD insertions went up after Trump's election, research shows:

(CNN) — There was a significant increase in women with commercial insurance getting long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, in the month after the 2016 presidential election, according to a new research paper.

It was long speculated that women were rushing to get LARC methods -- such as intrauterine devices, often called IUDs, and implants -- because of President Trump, but the paper, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday, provides new evidence.

[ related topics: Health Invention and Design Theater & Plays Television ]

Digital exchange loses $137 million as founder takes passwords to the grave

The dramatic misstep was reported in a sworn affidavit that was obtained by CoinDesk. The affidavit was filed Thursday by Jennifer Robertson, widow of QuadrigaCX’s sole director and officer Gerry Cotten. Robertson testified that Cotten died of Crohn’s disease in India in December at the age of 30.

Good reminder that setting up some sort of digital will would probably be welcomed by your heirs...

Google software updates Nest Guard to take voice commands. So, yeah, it had a microphone that wasn't listed in the spec sheet...

[ related topics: Software Engineering Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Coworkers are trying to debug "a flash of grey". Took me a moment to realize that wasn't a Dead track.

When the web page preview and the tweet disagree

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Snow across the valley, the arctic blast has come to Petaluma

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South Carolina cops give up on any pretense of not being a gang: SC cops defend keeping cash they seize: 'What's the incentive' otherwise?

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Meta-Analysis Over Almost 20 Years Has Declared Its Verdict on Abstinence-Only Sex Ed

In 2008 alone, for instance, conservative states received more than $71 million in abstinence funding, and the authors say this translates to 1,080 extra adolescent births than would have otherwise been the case.

This suggests that abstinence funding "may not simply be an ineffective policy but may also have perverse effects in these states."

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Law Education Model Building ]

Californians Brace For Deadly 50-Degree Cold Front

CALIFORNIA—The rest of the nation may be battling bitter cold, but they have no idea what the poor people in California are about to face: weather in the mid-50s, with a chance of something strange called "rain."

[ related topics: Current Events California Culture ]

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship:

Since 2012, ICE has released from its custody more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship claims, according to agency figures. And a Times review of Department of Justice records and interviews with immigration attorneys uncovered hundreds of additional cases in the country’s immigration courts in which people were forced to prove they are Americans and sometimes spent months or even years in detention.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

Harrowing reading, especially in the context of wondering what the fuck we're spending all of these military dollars on: ProPublica on the USS Fitzgerald destroyer crash

Washington Post: Fact checking President Trump's State of the Union address.

[ related topics: Politics ]

Mind my Picasso… superyacht owners struggle to protect art, which I'm linking to only because of JWZ's observation:

Funny side note: due to Huygens sympathy, two guillotines on the deck of a superyacht will eventually synchronize!

[ related topics: Weblogs Current Events Art & Culture ]

Pretty sure most of Apple's resources these days are going into two stealth-mode teams: One dedicated to removing useful documentation from the web, the other to introducing weird state bugs into Cocoa.

[ related topics: Apple Computer ]

A little company while I hang out on the dock at the turning basin

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Google Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion., in which a bug in the Skia graphics library (used by all the major web browser) is deeply explored.

[ related topics: Language Books Law Graphics ]

Researcher Assaulted By A Vendor After Disclosing A Vulnerability:

Following a serious vulnerability disclosure affecting casinos globally, an executive of casino technology vendor Atrient has assaulted the security researcher who disclosed the vulnerability at the ICE conference in London. This is the story of a vulnerability disclosure gone bad, one involving the FBI, a vendor with a global customer base of casinos and a severe security vulnerability which has gone unresolved for four months without being properly addressed.

RT it's a dry heat @conlific Replying to @WeldPond:

Well, that doesn't play into casino/mob stereotypes at all...

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Conferences Gambling ]

Demetra Nyx: Men Are Sexually Repressed in Today’s Society: Here’s Why

Huh. Re-evaluating my perspective on makeup: Red Lipstick Sent A Strong Message At The State Of The Union

In fact, red lipstick has a history of landing on the lips of some of the most politically-effective women of the 20th century. Famous suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman trumpeted wearing red lipstick as an emblem of women's emancipation, and even wore it to the 1912 New York City Suffragette March.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Aviation Bioinformatics New York ]

Apple removes "Do Not Track" flag from Safari, "... to prevent potential use as a fingerprinting variable."

[ related topics: Apple Computer ]

J.K. Rowling Reveals That You, The Reader, Were Gay All Along

“You can’t just make hundreds of millions of people gay for SJW clout,” wrote one user on Twitter. “I loved this story because I deeply identified with Harry, a young boy living in a closet trying to figure out how to use his wand and now you’ve muddled it all up with this sexual orientation retcon.”

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Pedestrian Crossing Street Makes Sure To Look At Approaching Car So Driver Will Feel More Guilty If They Run Him Over

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Automobiles ]

Because I saw something about the Catholic Church being complicit in kidnapping 300,000 babies,I dug a little bit. Wow. Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie:

Lawyers believe that up to 300,000 babies were taken.

The practice of removing children from parents deemed "undesirable" and placing them with "approved" families, began in the 1930s under the dictator General Francisco Franco.

Doctor on trial over Spain 'stolen babies' scandal

In Doctor's Trial, Spanish Advocates Seek Reckoning For Decades Of 'Stolen Babies':

Stolen babies scandal haunts Spain

[ related topics: Religion Children and growing up Health History Current Events Monty Python Woodworking ]

Holy shit: Jeff Bezos: No thank you Mr. Pecker.

In the AMI letters I’m making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal: They will publish the personal photos unless Gavin de Becker and I make the specific false public statement to the press that we “have no knowledge or basis for suggesting that AMI’s coverage was politically motivated or influenced by political forces.”

AMI, or American Media, is the company behind the National Enquirer. The National Enquirer is apparently trying to influence the Washington Post's coverage of AMI and the Enquirer over David Pecker's immunity deal with the Department of Justice and AMI's coverage of Donald Trump.

[ related topics: Politics Photography moron Journalism and Media Law Enforcement ]

Regulatory capture in practice: Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization:

[ related topics: Libertarian Current Events ]

A full size box of tissues doesn't fit here, and the store we were at didn't have the half-size boxes, so....

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Me and my vulva: 100 women reveal all:

First it was breasts, then penises – now photographer Laura Dodsworth has taken portraits of 100 vulvas. She tells Liv Little why. Below: eight women’s stories

[ related topics: Photography Sexual Culture ]

It's a multi-function printer, and it does reproductions, so I guess that makes Greta a copy cat?

[ related topics: Photography Mathematics ]

Right Said Fred singer finally able to wear his shirt after sexiness reduction procedure:

“It was a difficult time for me,” said the considerably less sexy singer.

“I couldn’t travel to either Milan, New York or Japan, which was a problem, because I was a model, you know what I mean?”

[ related topics: Invention and Design Clothing New York ]

Oh geez, that screen on the two Mastodon instances that I use that looked like an unconfigured server that made me think both had abandoned service? That was actually some sort of welcome new user intro screen. More Mastodon UI fail.

[ related topics: User Interface Invention and Design ]

Huh, I thought all the patents from this project had come through, but apparently 10,197,888 is yet another patent with my name on it. Go me!

[ related topics: Intellectual Property ]

Today in "well, duh" news: Current Affairs: If Property Rights Were Real, Climate-Destroying Companies Would Be Sued Out Of Existence

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Civil Liberties Global Warming ]

Gavin Newsom calls SF-to-LA high-speed rail unrealistic, pushes for route from Bakersfield to Merced

"Abandoning the high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions and billions of dollars with nothing but broken promises... and lawsuits to show for it," Newsom added, explaining he wouldn't want to send the $3.5 billion in federal money the project has been granted back to the Trump administration.

[ related topics: Bay Area Current Events Trains Currency Gavin Newsom ]

Art space NIMBY’s last days in Oakland: Arts incubator makes way for pot grow . Sooooo... our land use policies make it reasonable for the art space to relocate to rural Lassen county to make way for agriculture in downtown Oakland?

[ related topics: Bay Area Space & Astronomy Art & Culture Real Estate ]

Today in prioritizing cars over people, I'm walking to work in the road because the water flowing across the sidewalks is deep enough to soak my shoes.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Shoes ]

Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent

A marginal note written in Latin and buried deep within one of the 16 heavy registers used by to record the business of the archbishops of York between 1304 and 1405 first alerted archivists to the adventures of the runaway nun. “To warn Joan of Leeds, lately nun of the house of St Clement by York, that she should return to her house,” runs the note written by archbishop William Melton and dated to 1318.

Of course maybe she was just trying to avoid getting raped by priests: Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery

[ related topics: Books Erotic Sexual Culture Current Events Monty Python Television Real Estate ]

YAGGWAG: New York City Detective Killed by ‘Friendly Fire’ During Queens Robbery:

Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill called the death of the detective an “absolutely tragic case of friendly fire,” and said it was later discovered the suspect was carrying a fake gun. A sergeant was also wounded in the police fusillade.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Law Law Enforcement Pyrotechnics Guns New York ]

Fleeing Waterville bank robber slips, spills money, gun in front of special agent, police say

He ran across four lanes of traffic on Main Street and into the Ming Lee restaurant parking lot, slipped on the ice and found himself face-to-face with a special agent for the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Task Force who just happened to be parked in the right place at the right time.

[ related topics: Food Law Enforcement Guns Currency ]

Police Policy for Sale: Lexipol, a private for-profit company, has quietly become one of the most powerful voices in law enforcement policymaking in the country.

The policy was written by Lexipol, a California-based company that says it provides policies for approximately 3,400 police, fire, and correctional agencies in 35 states. It has grown rapidly over the last 15 years and saturated California, where its clients include more than 90 percent of law enforcement agencies. It’s impossible to know just how far Lexipol’s reach has spread as the company declines to provide a list of clients, saying that it is proprietary information. But according to an analysis published last year in the Texas Law Review, “although there are other private, nonprofit, and government entities that draft police policies, Lexipol is now a dominant force in police policymaking across the country.”

Via @TheAppeal

[ related topics: moron Law Enforcement California Culture Pyrotechnics ]

In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%—that was bogus

But now NHTSA's full data set is available, and, if anything, it appears to contradict Musk's claims. The majority of the vehicles in the Tesla data set suffered from missing data or other problems that made it impossible to say whether the activation of Autosteer increased or decreased the crash rate. But when QCS focused on 5,714 vehicles whose data didn't suffer from these problems, it found that the activation of Autosteer actually increased crash rates by 59 percent.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Guy who pulled Nike merchandise from his store as a protest against Colin Kaepernick is closing his store:

He also cancelled an autograph session with Brandon Marshall at his store back in 2016, to protest Marshall’s decision to kneel during the anthem.

“As much as I hate to admit this, perhaps there are more Brandon Marshall and Colin Kaepernick supporters out there than I realized,” said Martin.

[ related topics: Current Events Civil Liberties ]

Hard to capture just how much flow there is right now on the normally tidal Petaluma River

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Saved for those evenings when we're thinking "we need a brain-dead movie": 8 queer romantic comedy movies that Gail Carriger loves.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a can cat in possession of spare time must be in want of a box.

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Whatever it says about understanding of America's racial politics, "I don't see color" explains a lot about how Starbucks roasts coffee...

Howard Schultz said he’s colorblind. That suggests a deep ignorance about America’s race problems.

Hat tip to Anil Dash on the coffee joke

[ related topics: Politics Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Trees aren't supposed to bend like that

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Everyone's reporting on this Amazon thing as though it's some sort of big decision, and it is, but by New York to not subsidize Amazon. Here's the relevant bit: "There are currently over 5,000 Amazon employees in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we plan to continue growing these teams."

So, basically, this is all Amazon spinning "New York has decided to not shovel money at us, and we're gonna continue to do business there anyway". Kudos to NYC for standing tall and not falling for the extortion.

Amazon — Update on plans for New York City headquarters

[ related topics: Books Weblogs Invention and Design Current Events Work, productivity and environment Currency New York ]

So on Monday, some of the office conversation revolved around a garage remodel in my boss's neighborhood which seemed excessively robust, involving various upgrades to the support and bracing. I commented that it had been a couple of years, but I remember when we had a wet rainy winter and there were houses in southern Marin sliding off houses, and if I was rebuilding a garage in his neighborhood I'd want it pretty darned beefy.

Anyway, this is a block or so up from his house. We're having a real actual California winter here. Marin storm havoc: Sausalito mudslide, broad flooding, outages.

I'm not sure it's possible to build a structure that beefy, however.

My drive over to Novato on Monday to call may be interesting: Levee breached near Highway 37 in Novato as rains pound North Bay

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Bay Area California Culture Real Estate Sausalito ]

Somehow I missed this back in 2013: 'Our wives and sweethearts' Naval toast rewritten:

Naval officers will no longer raise their glasses to "Our wives and sweethearts" - typically met with the unofficial reply "May they never meet".

Instead, they will say "Our families", following an instruction by the Second Sea Lord Vice- Admiral David Steel.

[ related topics: Cool Science Current Events Monty Python Marriage ]

RT Asperger's Are Us @AspergersAreUs:

When I tell people I used to have a time machine a lot of them ask why I didn't kill Hitler and I explain that my time machine broke shortly after I murdered Smithsen and when they ask who Smithsen was I always say "you're welcome"

[ related topics: Dictators ]

In a just world, CPB Agent Paul O'Neal would be up on kidnapping charges: Two U.S. citizens claim in lawsuit that feds detained them for speaking Spanish:

“Ma’am, the reason I asked you for your ID is because I came in here, and I saw that you guys are speaking Spanish, which is very unheard of up here,” the agent says in the video, which the ACLU has released.

The women allege that the agent then detained them for 45 minutes instead of letting them go when they identified themselves as U.S. citizens. Cody Wofsy, a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said the unlawful detention amounts to a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s bar on unreasonable searches and seizures.

Border Patrol Detained Me for Speaking Spanish in Montana. Then My Town Turned Against Me. By Ana Suda, Certified Nurse Assistant and ACLU plaintiff

[ related topics: Weblogs Law Civil Liberties Video Woodworking ]

American Journal of Public Health: Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate.

Results. Compared with average users, Russian trolls (χ2(1) = 102.0; P < .001), sophisticated bots (χ2(1) = 28.6; P < .001), and “content polluters” (χ2(1) = 7.0; P < .001) tweeted about vaccination at higher rates. Whereas content polluters posted more antivaccine content (χ2(1) = 11.18; P < .001), Russian trolls amplified both sides. Unidentifiable accounts were more polarized (χ2(1) = 12.1; P < .001) and antivaccine (χ2(1) = 35.9; P < .001). Analysis of the Russian troll hashtag showed that its messages were more political and divisive.

DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304567

PMID: 30138075

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I want the ability to break when my breakpoint *isn't* hit.

(Right now: Why is my transient popover being closed?)

HPD WARRANT: Informant didn't buy drugs from suspects killed in police shootout. Two people inside the house were killed when they shot at intruders who were police officers in a no- knock raid. Police officers who'd lied to obtain the no-knock warrant.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A confidential informant didn't buy drugs at the southeast Houston home where an investigation turned into a deadly shootout with police last month, according to a new search warrant.

That contradicts information used to get the no-knock search warrant, which said that a confidential informant bought heroin at the house the day before the drug raid. The raid happened on Jan. 28.

Cue the HPD union in 3... 2...

[ related topics: Drugs Privacy Health Invention and Design Law Enforcement Real Estate ]

The Intercept: Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to Police. I think the article is a little overblown, but there are some issues worth thinking about.

Although Ring owners must opt in to the Neighbors program and appear free to deny law enforcement access to the cameras they own, the mere ability to ask introduces privacy and civil liberties quandaries that haven’t previously existed. In an interview with The Intercept, Matt Cagle, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said “the portal blurs the line between corporate and government surveillance,” making it unclear where the tech initiative ends and constitutional issues begin. ..

Personally as soon as I connected my Ring cameras to my network I assumed all of that data was public, and their field of view is deliberately limited to places I don't mind having publicly visible.

Washington Post: The doorbells have eyes: The privacy battle brewing over home security cameras

Police want to register — and even subsidize — private security cameras. That’s just the start of the ethical challenges ahead.

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RT Aayla (In English, По-русски) @PunishedAayla

Putting an Adam Smith quote over AOC and dropping it into a libertarian right group is the fastest way to prove that even libertarians have no idea what they stand for.

Contains some hilarious examples.

[ related topics: Politics Libertarian ]

Vocal map of emotions. Mouse over to hear hundreds of different emotional expressions laid out as how they're related.

[ related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Maps and Mapping ]

Inside the horrifying, unspoken world of sexually abusive nuns. Apparently the priests weren't the only ones...A

Twitter coincidence that nails it

The tweets:

• https://mobile.twitter.com/Res...hBuzz/status/1097577752730001408
• https://mobile.twitter.com/red...dtext/status/1097575834980835328

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Spread Eagle to Dildo (Newfoundland). The best part is the popover.https://www.google.com/maps/di...2!1d-53.5555661!2d47.5706202!3e0

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Meritocracy in action: "USAToday bestselling author" wakes up to discover that the ghostwriter she hired on Fiverr plagiarized.

One of the victims elaborates: Courtney Milan: Cristiane Serruya is a copyright infringer, a plagiarist, and an idiot.

And then there’s the fact that it’s me. Look, I’m not special in any other way and I don’t want to toot my own horn to much, but if I were an unethical plagiarist and I was looking to plagiarize a romance author, I would pick literally anyone except the one who clerked for the Supreme Court, taught intellectual property as a law professor, and doesn’t back down from a fight.

[ related topics: moron Copyright/Trademark ]

Ouch: Punk Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel Somehow Always Ends in 9-to-5 Office Job:

“But even after I crashed my tour van and cannibalized my band members, I still ended up working at a computer solutions company in Dallas,” they added. “I mean, that can’t be right… right?”

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‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching:

During the same conversation, Sutton argued that the KKK “didn’t kill but a few people” and “wasn’t violent until they needed to be,” the Advertiser reported on Monday.

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ACLU and Michigan Immigrant Rights Center Demand That Grand Rapids Police Department and U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement Investigate Detention of American-born Citizen and Decorated Marine:

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan and the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) sent l etters today to the Grand Rapids Police Department (GRPD) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding an immediate investigation into the wrongful ICE detention of Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, a U.S. citizen and decorated veteran who fought in Afghanistan. On November 21, 2018, GRPD arrested Ramos-Gomez, who experiences PTSD, for a minor offense for which he pleaded guilty and should have been released December 14. GRPD called ICE, and ICE sought to deport Mr. Ramos-Gomez, even though he had the following pieces of identification on him when he was arrested:

• U.S. Passport
• REAL ID compliant Michigan driver’s license (which one cannot get unless lawfully present in the United States and which clearly shows he is a veteran)
• Military ID card
• U.S. Marine Corps tags
• childhood Kent District Library card 

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Musk missteps dredged up with lawyer's exit, misfired tweet.

Dane Butswinkas, the trial lawyer who represented Musk in his legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is leaving due to a poor cultural fit at Tesla and the desire to return full-time to his trial practice at the firm Williams & Connolly in Washington. Jonathan Chang, a vice president in Tesla's legal department, is taking over effective immediately.

The most amazing thing is that despite everything Musk appears to be, they're still building cars that none of the established automakers have been willing to touch...

[ related topics: Sociology Law ]

Drug catapult found at U.S.-Mexico border by Border Patrol agents.

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Cute tale about a woman accidentally discovering that she's a world-class Tetris player.

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Excavating Calabazas Creek: An Inefficient Route Through Silicon Valley, a fascinating meander from Saratoga Springs (CA) through Cupertino and Sunnyvale, and 50 years of development and suburban growth.

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"🎶I lit out from Reno, I was trailed by twenty hounds 🎶" Pope Francis decries critics of the Church as friends of the devil

[ related topics: Religion Gambling ]

I haven't done anything in Go yet, but this is an interesting read (and more cognitive load for programmers...): Allocation efficiency in high-performance Go services

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Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules

Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Law Current Events New York ]

Dang, he leaked that 6g is a thing. I've been working on it. It's awesome, 10x faster than 5g and uses quantum blockchain for security, even for text messages. Would you like to invest? PM me..

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

Daring Fireball: More Apps Caught Sending Highly Personal Information to Facebook. iOS app Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor from Azumio, Flo Health Inc.’s Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker, Realtor.com's app. Rumor has it whether or not you were logged in to Facebook.

Edit: WSJ: You give apps sensitive personal information, then they tell Facebook.

[ related topics: Health ]

Melissa Geissinger: Sometimes I want to punch Marie Kondo in the face

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I'm seeing a bunch of articles on how legalized cannabis might be threatening the alcohol industry, and I've gotta ask: What about florists? Ashley Monroe - Weed Instead Of Roses

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How an Investigation of Fake FCC Comments Snared a Prominent D.C. Media Firm

In May 2017, dozens of Americans came forward with claims that their identities had been used, without their consent, in a campaign to inundate the Federal Communications Commission with public comments critical of the Obama-era policy. Some told reporters that they’d never heard of net neutrality. Twenty seven signed an open letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai demanding a response. A year on, each of their names and addresses are still displayed on the federal agency’s website, right above, as the letter puts it, “a political statement that we did not sign onto.”

[ related topics: Politics Robotics moron Current Events Journalism and Media Embedded Devices ]

Peter Gray in Psychology Today: Schools Are Good for Showing Off, Not for Learning:

For example, in one research study, conducted many years ago, psychologists observed people playing friendly games of 8-ball at the university’s pool hall.[1] At first they watched from a distance, so the players wouldn’t know they were being observed, and then they moved in close and observed deliberately, making it obvious that they were evaluating performance. The result was that those who were already good, when not observed closely, performed even better when they knew they were being evaluated; but those who were just beginners, learning how to play, performed worse when evaluated. The same has been found for many kinds of tasks—intellectual as well as athletic or manual. Showing off is facilitated by evaluation and contests, but such pressures inhibit learning. And yet, in our constant attempt (supposedly) to increase learning at school, we keep raising the pressure, and then wonder why it doesn’t work.

And the ref is:

[1] Michaels, J. W., Blommel, J. M., Brocato, R. M., Linkous, R. A., & Rowe, J. S. (1982). Social facilitation and inhibition in a natural setting. Replications in Social Psychology, 2, 21–24.

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Fabulous Twitter thread on Beau Brummel and the destruction of interesting men's fashion.

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White Savior: The Movie (Late Night with Seth Meyers).

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Popula — About Face: Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men, a comic on men's clothing, aesthetics, personal differentiation, and the semiotics of the new fascism.

Via JWZ

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This is kinda fascinating. https://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-or-century/

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Dumber than a....

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What if we made, like, a lute, man, but what if that lute had an extra long neck and an extra pegbox? Introducing the Baroque Theorbo. Louder. More options for interesting intervals. What your prog musicians in the 1600s were playing.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies ]

Or maybe having "Relieve Physical Pain" under "Misuse" means there's something structurally wrong... https://store.samhsa.gov/system/files/sma17-5044.pdf

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So I get a lot of bogus Facebook friend requests. Usually there are no friends in common, it's not a name I recognize, but this morning there's one with 4 friends in common, so I click through to see if maybe it's someone from the square dance community. First post is "Hey see my naked movies within bio 💋💋⤵️".

To those 4 friends in common: Y'all are pretty transparent, I'm just sayin'.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies Nudity Community ]

Nixle: Sonoma County Sheriff's Office: Evacuation warning for Russian River.

We are recommending you evacuate now if you live near the Russian River. The Russian River is forecasted to go above flood stage at 7 p.m. tonight (Tuesday, February 26, 2019). The river is projected to crest at 45.9 feet at 10 PM tomorrow (Wednesday, February 27, 2019).

"Above flood stage" is somewhat less than "a bunch of roads are already closed". Flood stage is 32'.

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Coinbase’s Newest Team Members Helped Authoritarians Worldwide Monitor Journalists and Dissidents:

This history, which Coinbase has now acknowledged it was aware of before the acquisition, has made Hacking Team a long-running target of criticism in cybersecurity and civil rights circles. In 2013, Hacking Team was named one of five Corporate Enemies of the Internet by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), an international nonprofit aimed at protecting journalists. Hacking Team’s collaboration with authoritarians may have been ideologically motivated rather than merely mercenary: Its founder and former CEO, David Vincenzetti, regularly signed emails with the slogan “Boi chi Molla”—an Italian Fascist rallying cry.

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Today in UI design that borders on the criminally negligent: A court official failed to click a box — and a witness paid with his life:

That error happened 1,500 times across the state in a one-year period starting last June, when the problem was raised by prosecutors, Colorado Judicial Branch spokesman Rob McCallum said. But that audit figure represented certain open cases, and the system was used for at least seven years, he said. McCallum could not say if that meant the actual number of errors was far greater.

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Debunked the effectiveness of glasses for color blind people:

This study carried out by the UGR shows that a color blind person using theEnChroma®glasses will not perceive new colors, but rather the will see the same colors in a different way.

"This makes possible for some individuals using these glasses to distinguish some colors, but to the detriment of others which will be now confused. Even though a color filter as that used by the EnChroma® glasses may change the appearance of colors, it will never make color vision more similar to a normal observer's vision," the authors state.

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California keeps a secret list of criminal cops, but says you can’t have it — Attorney General warns reporters it's illegal to possess list of thousands of cop convictions. A Public Records Act request got the list, but now the Attorney General is trying to suppress it.

The documents provide a rare glimpse at the volume of officer misconduct at a time of heightened interest over police accountability. The list includes cops who trafficked drugs, cops who stole money from their departments and even one who robbed a bank wearing a fake beard. Some sexually assaulted suspects. Others took bribes, filed false reports and committed perjury. A large number drove under the influence of drugs and alcohol — sometimes killing people on the road.

Basically the same article: KQED: California Keeps a Secret List of Criminal Cops But Says You Can't Have It

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Hear 'Russian River Flow,' a Forgotten Ode to Guerneville Floods.

All roads in or out of Guerneville are currently flooded. Wischemann Hall in Sebastopol isn't flooded, but the parking lot and all roads to it are, so the square dancing there has been canceled at least through Saturday. Petaluma's had some flooding north of town, but nothing too bad...

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RT Tom Namako @TomNamako

Cohen: "I'm responsible for your silliness because I did the same thing that you're doing now for ten years. I protected Mr. Trump...I can only warn people the more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering"

Worth watching the associated video clip to hear it in his own words and voice.

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Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior (Facebook video)

A clip from a crime prevention video series called 'Satanic Cults & Ritual Crime' produced in 1990 for the Louisiana State Police for "training" them on how to deal with satanic cults in their area.

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Because I know I'm gonna need to pull this out: Momo challenge: 'Freaky game' described as hoax .

Although as I've snarked on the various threads where I've seen it, Baby Shark gives you the motive, Momo the methods...

Parents SHOCKED to discover that leaving kids on YouTube unsupervised is a terrible idea

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Petaluma 360 / Argus Courier: Square Dancing Makes Local Comeback.

Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted in U.S. custody.

But please, tell me again how your vote for FOSTA/SESTA, legislation that's clearly correlated to more women being killed, reduces "trafficking".

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Listening to music may be damaging your creativity

The team discovered that creative performance dropped significantly when listening to music over the course of all three exercises, as compared to periods during which participants were allowed to complete the exercises without distraction. Even when participants declared that the music improved their overall mood, in the third exercise, it still impaired creativity.

Applied Cognitive Psychology: Background music stints creativity: Evidence from compound remote associate tasks.

Summary Background music has been claimed to enhance people's creativity. In three experi-ments, we investigated the impact of background music on performance of Com-pound Remote Associate Tasks (CRATs), which are widely thought to tap creativity.Background music with foreign (unfamiliar) lyrics (Experiment 1), instrumental musicwithout lyrics (Experiment 2), and music with familiar lyrics (Experiment 3) all signifi-cantly impaired CRAT performance in comparison with quiet background conditions.Furthermore, Experiment 3 demonstrated that background music impaired CRAT per-formance regardless of whether the music induced a positive mood or whether partic-ipants typically studied in the presence of music. The findings challenge the view thatbackground music enhances creativity and are discussed in terms of an auditory dis-traction account (interference‐by‐process) and the processing disfluency account.

https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3532

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Blood money: Bayer's inventory of HIV-contaminated blood products and third world hemophiliacs.

Abstract This article presents an overlooked case of research misconduct and violations of basic principles of medical and business ethics. When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.

Account Res. 2014;21(6):389-400. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2014.882780.

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RT Kathy (Checks & Balances Bitchezzz🤣) Hays @everybodyzzmama:

i guess trump is now going to call himself a war hero bc he was shot down in hanoi.

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