Flutterby™! From 2019-06-02 to 2019-06-29

The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

Lena Edlund, a Columbia University economist,  and Cecilia Machado, of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, lay out the data in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. They estimate that the diffusion of phones could explain 19 to 29 percent of the decline in homicides seen from 1990 to 2000.

Kind of interesting to think about this in terms of the decline of value of retail: the geographic turf becomes less valuable for drug dealing, so protecting it is less important.

See also: Restaurants and food trucks.

[ related topics: Games Health Invention and Design Food Work, productivity and environment Machinery Education Economics ]

Sigh. It's only an "investment" if it'll actually pay off. This is a flat out expense, with no connected revenue stream and no way for the city to actually recoup from the value that's created (that's gonna go towards a few land owners, at the expense of a hell of a lot more vehicle miles traveled).

Petaluma invests in crosstown roads, particularly the Ranier and Caulfield connectors

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Current Events Economics Real Estate ]

You can just imagine the meeting where they named this: "Oxycodone? More like Roxicodone, amirite?" <finger guns> <wink>

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'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness

Housing First costs money, of course: Finland has spent €250m creating new homes and hiring 300 extra support workers. But a recent study showed the savings in emergency healthcare, social services and the justice system totalled as much as €15,000 a year for every homeless person in properly supported housing.

Bet if you track cross-generation you see much higher returns...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Invention and Design Law Enforcement Currency Real Estate ]

Love finding "Last Call for Best Practices in Social Media Marketing" in my spam folder

[ related topics: Spam Consumerism and advertising Journalism and Media Monty Python Marketing ]

Holy shit did this land with me: People-pleasing can be a result of trauma. It's called "fawning" — here's how to recognize it

[ related topics: Real Estate ]

I am being recruited

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On the one hand this is an "Well, yeah, Boeing, but Airbus has problems too!" story, but it's a harrowing read and worth thinking about as we design systems: The untold story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless?

For the first time, the captain of the imperilled Qantas Flight 72 reveals his horrific experience of automation's dark side: when one computer "went psycho" and put more than 300 passengers at risk.

[ related topics: Aviation Graphic Design ]

Oakland Votes Unanimously to Decriminalize Psychoactive Plants Like Ayahuasca, Peyote and Hallucinogenic Mushrooms

[ related topics: Bay Area Gardening ]

When I took Robert McKee's story seminar, one of the throw-away comments he made was "You know who likes movies with sad endings? Holocaust survivors."

I've pondered this one for a while, but Wired: 2019 Needed a Hit as Bleak as Chernobyl has some interesting dives into that psychology.

[ related topics: Religion Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Movies ]

GM and Fiat Chrysler Unmasked as Tesla's Secret Source of Cash. Now we know who's been buying the pollution credits...

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Catholic Church has spent $10M on lobbyists to fight extensions to the statutes of limitations that'd help victims of clergy sex abuse seek justice.

[ related topics: Religion Erotic Sexual Culture History Current Events Law Enforcement ]

These Men Say the Boy Scouts' Sex Abuse Problem Is Worse Than Anyone Knew

This isn’t the first time the Boy Scouts have been accused of protecting pedophiles and allowing them to move from troop to troop. Hundreds of individual sex abuse cases have been brought against the Scouts over the last several decades, and in 2010, a judge ordered the organization to make public an internal list of men accused of preying on boys. Within Scout headquarters, the list was known as the “P Files” or “Perversion Files.” In January, a child abuse expert hired by the Boy Scouts to analyze the files testified that she found 12,254 boys had reported experiencing sexual abuse at the hands of at least 7,800 suspected assailants between 1944 and 2016. Academics who research child sex abuse tell TIME that number is likely a gross underestimation. Many boys were likely intimidated or shamed out of reporting their assailants, who often held influential positions in local churches, schools, or businesses.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture Law Journalism and Media ]

Gun violence has sharply declined in California's Bay Area. What happened?

[ related topics: Current Events California Culture Guns ]

Piracy is Ethically Acceptable For Many Harvard Lawyers, Research Finds

Should digital files be considered a commons? Copyright infringement in the eyes of lawyers

... Although file sharing is typically illegal, our findings show that lawyers overwhelmingly perceive it as an acceptable social practice. The main criterion used by lawyers to decide on the ethical acceptability of file sharing is whether or not the infringer derives any monetary benefits from it. Further, our findings show that lawyers in the public sector (including judiciary and academia) are even more tolerant of online copyright infringement than those in the private sector. Interestingly, our data suggests that this is largely the result of self-selection: lawyers who lean more on the side of broad disclosure and social sharing tend to orient themselves toward the public sector. ...

[ related topics: Ethics Copyright/Trademark ]

Well. Today's just going all sorts of unexpected places. Still waiting on the tow truck....

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Some huge support for the "later 20^th century crime wave was lead releated" hypothesis: American Economic Association: Life after Lead: Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead

Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional assessment, medical evaluation, developmental surveillance, and public assistance referrals) recommended for lead-poisoned children. Using linked administrative data from Charlotte, NC, we compare outcomes for children who are similar across observable characteristics but differ in eligibility for intervention due to blood lead test results. We find that the negative outcomes previously associated with early-life exposure can largely be reversed by intervention.

Via this Twitter thread.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Health Economics ]

A veteran died in police custody. His body was returned to his family with some organs missing. Dude is on his way from Delaware to New York to visit his mom, stops in Pennsylvania to clear up an outstanding warrant, ends up dead.

On April 9, 2018, two days later, the family was told that Palmer had died in police custody at the York County Prison. Fourteen months later, the Palmers say they still don't know what really happened. But they are suspicious because when Palmer's body was returned to them, his throat, heart and brain were missing.

[ related topics: Privacy Invention and Design Sociology Law Enforcement New York ]

Among today's projects (along with a ton or so of concrete out of the back yard as we evolve landscaping plans), finishing this little piece to hold a tablet music player on top of our stereo

[ related topics: Music Photography ]

The odds are changing on the survival prospects of that rooster...

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I walked out of Bohemian Rhapsody wanting to see it again. I walked out of Rocketman feeling like i spent two uncomfortable hours I don't want to relive, wondering how they managed to make that material so flat.

Reporter "Heshmet Alavi" is a persona of the Iranian opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) whose stories are being used as by the Trump administration as pretext for war with Iran.

The MEK initially sided with the Islamic Revolution but fell out of favor shortly after the establishment of the clerical-led Islamic Republic. The subsequent crackdown forced the group into exile, operating between France and Iraq — where, thanks to Saddam Hussein’s largesse, the group occupied Camp Ashraf, used as a staging ground for its participation on Iraq’s side of the brutal Iran-Iraq War.

Looks like the US is once again getting played hard, just like the invasion of Iran...

[ related topics: History Dictators ]

North Texas Cops Caught Being Racist Online:

The Plain View Project, in conjunction with Injustice Watch, a Chicago-based watchdog group that focuses on criminal justice issues, investigated social media accounts of more than 2,900 officers, plus 600 retired officers, from eight departments across the country, including Dallas (1,048 total posts) and Denison (seven total posts), extending as far back as 2011. Many of the posts included in the database, available here, are disturbingly violent, and often target African Americans, activists, Hispanics, immigrants, Muslims, LGBT people, and women.

“Good Day for a Choke Hold”:

A review of the Facebook accounts of thousands of officers around the US — the largest database of its kind — found officers endorsing violence against Muslims, women, and criminal defendants.

[ related topics: Politics Movies Journalism and Media Law Enforcement Race Databases ]

RT David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink:

I'd like to share some reflections on the death of a patient. I’ve thought about her a lot.

She gave me explicit consent to tweet the details of her case, about four hours before she died. Her hope was that someone might benefit from her experience.

/1

A thread on dying gracefully

[ related topics: Law ]

How Spain’s Kings Hid Thousands of Nude Paintings from the Catholic Church

[ related topics: Religion Erotic Sexual Culture Nudity ]

These are allegedly "embarassing" plastic bags, but I'm wondering if I can get these logos on a reusable canvas tote... https://www.vancouverisawesome...g-plastic-bags-vancouver-market/

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Economics ]

Is anybody else concerned that the withdrawal of all of these facial recognition databases means that we now have an asymmetry in building machine learning models, and the big companies with large photo collections have even more power?

My first thought on learning about the Perceptics breach was "dang, I'd love to be able to train on that data set".

The Register: Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Washington Post: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in a data breach

[ related topics: Photography Education Databases ]

Too hot, so we called off square dancing a half an hour early and I'm enjoying the sunset on my drive home across 37

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Wine-tasting: it's junk science

Results from the first four years of the experiment, published in the Journal of Wine Economics, showed a typical judge's scores varied by plus or minus four points over the three blind tastings. A wine deemed to be a good 90 would be rated as an acceptable 86 by the same judge minutes later and then an excellent 94.

[ related topics: Law Wines and Spirits Handicaps & Disabilities Economics ]

Suspected pimp 1 of 13 busted in human trafficking crackdown. So, yeah, they arrested 12 women to "protect" them...

I suspect the situation is more complex than 1 pimp with 12 women, I suspect that those women aren't actually being helped by being arrested and being charged, and it's interesting how "anti-trafficking" so often ends up being anti-those-it-proclaims-to-help.

[ related topics: Current Events ]

I used to think the Wall Street Journal was right of center journalism. But between that editorial by the DA who prosecuted the Central Park Five and pimping perpetual motion machines, they've really given up any pretense of being fact-based, haven't they?

[ related topics: Photography Journalism and Media Economics ]

‘The migration problem is a coffee problem’:

In western Guatemala, cultivating coffee was once a way out of poverty. As prices fall, growers are abandoning their farms for the United States.

Are Innocent People Pleading Guilty? A New Report Says Yes

A new paper published by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) "The Trial Penalty: The Sixth Amendment Right to Trial on the Verge of Extinction and How to Save It."  We may not know every amendment to the Constitution, but we all embrace the fact that in the U.S. everyone is entitled to a fair trial by a jury of our peers.  However, going to trial can be a gamble with one's life.  One conclusion reached by the NACDL was that "There is ample evidence that federal criminal defendants are being coerced to plead guilty because the penalty for exercising their constitutional rights is simply too high to risk."

[ related topics: Invention and Design Law Civil Liberties Gambling ]

The Decline of the South excerpts Wall Street Journal: The South’s Economy Is Falling Behind: ‘All of a Sudden the Money Stops Flowing’ which you can't read because it's subscriber only.

But is nicely summarized by that first piece:

Basically, it’s like a precursor of the MBA strategy for most businesses- they squeezed as much short term profit as possible by lowering taxes and refusing to invest, and now, after having eaten their seed corn (in this case, the people), there is nothing left.

[ related topics: Politics Law Currency Economics Government ]

Twitter thread addressing Jared Diamond's biases and perspectives, by the author of this critical review of Diamond's new Upheaval book

[ related topics: Books Invention and Design ]

I was gonna try to not critique any of the Presidential primary candidates, just build up the ones I liked, but... RT Angus Johnston @studentactivism

"If we bring down a great political party that should not be blamed for what happened, we begin to bring down the system. ... And I for one don't have anything better to replace it with." —Joe Biden on the GOP in 1973, at the height of Watergate.

Wherein begins a Biden related Twitter thread.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Politics moron ]

RT Elim Garak @SamHolloway1

It’s fascinating to watch high ranking cops appear to lie reflexively, and then compare notes on how indignant they want to be at getting called out as liars. ACAB

Police said a trooper collapsed from an incidental overdose. Now they’re saying nothing.

[ related topics: Movies Law Enforcement ]

Queer true crime stories of the past show how the press stoked fear of gay men:

“Neurotic,” James Polchin writes in his book Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall, released earlier this month, “was code for a host of sexual and gender transgressions” at the time.

According to Polchin, a cultural historian and professor of global liberal studies at New York University, the victim-blaming evident in accounts of Ivar’s murder was typical of the way the press covered crimes against gay or presumed-gay men between World War I and the Stonewall uprising in 1969.

[ related topics: Politics Books Erotic Sexual Culture Invention and Design History Sociology Education New York ]

The Onion: American Museum Of Natural History Acquires Rare Third-Grader Separated From Group On Class Trip is the usual send-up of the horrendously condescending attitude of museums and anthropology in general towards other cultures, until it goes dark at the last sentence...

...and you're aware of the story of Minik Wallace.

[ related topics: Food Art & Culture Travel ]

It's a freakin' static const with an initializer! Don't be telling me that it needs a nullability specifier!

Fantastic Twitter thread on The Effects Of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality: Evidence from San Francisco, Rebecca Diamond, Timothy McQuade, Franklin Qian (2017).

Reduction in rental inventory, reduced mobility for established renters, all the usual problems.

[ related topics: Bay Area California Culture ]

Realizing that the fact that a community uses Slack is an indication that I don't have the spare cycles to participate in it.

[ related topics: Community ]

Phoenix Mayor Apologizes After Police Draw Gun On Family After Child Takes Doll

"I assure you that this incident is not representative of the majority of Phoenix police officers who serve this city."

Yeah, how many officers were involved in this incident? How many of them trained their drawn guns on the clearly out of control batshit insane guy who was threatening to kill someone over a possible shoplifting?

[ related topics: Sociology Law Enforcement Guns Video ]

Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content. They used different quote marks to put steganography messages in Morse Code into their lyrics, found 'em on Google's music lyrics.

JWZ: The only good use for Smart Quotes, ever:

So that's clever and funny, and Google are anticompetitive dicks, but there are no winners here. Genius is straight up admitting that the thing that drives people to their site is just the lyrics, not the annotations that they provide. Google isn't cloning their annotations.

[ related topics: Quotes Music Weblogs Current Events Economics ]

I ordered this music theory cheat sheet poster: https://www.tonedeafcomics.com...oducts/music-theory-cheat-poster . Now maybe I can finally start to remember how many flats or sharps to a given key...

Via https://www.classicfm.com/disc...theory/music-theory-cheat-sheet/

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Off-Duty LAPD Officer Opens Fire During Argument In Costco Killing 1, Injuring 3

“From my understanding, from some people we talked to, there was apparently an argument inside. Some type of argument that ensued into a gun battle,” Lt. Jeff Edwards told reporters.

Man killed by officer in Costco was nonverbal, had intellectual disabilities, relative says.

The off-duty officer's gun was the only firearm involved in the incident, police said.

That's some amazing spin, Lt. Edwards: Off-duty cop shoots a "gentle giant" with developmental disabilities, and an execution turns into a "gun battle".

[ related topics: Current Events Law Enforcement Pyrotechnics Guns ]

I sometimes wonder if I'm optimistic in returning square dancing to the 132-136BPM that it was back in the '60s and '70s (it's generally 126BPM now), but then I run across something from back when they used to really dance... 146BPM:

Square Dance - Mildred Bulher:

Mildred R. Buhler was a popular caller in northern California in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Here she is calling to her demonstration group from the Redwood City Docey-Doe Club. When her husband was transferred to London for his work, she took her calling equipment with her and called there, later establishing the British Association of American Square Dance Clubs.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies Nature and environment Work, productivity and environment California Culture Marriage ]

Lawyers for Sandy Hook families say Alex Jones sent them child porn.

Let's just say that having gone to high school at Newtown High School, and having a few ties left to back there, I'm predisposed to believe the lawyers for the harassed families.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Erotic Sexual Culture ]

tailflix, a drop-in replacement for tail -f that asks if you're still watching

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former NYPD detective testifies:

The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.

This is my shocked face.

[ related topics: Microsoft Health Invention and Design Sociology Current Events Law Enforcement California Culture New York ]

Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives

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OMG! Tesla Model 3 to pickup truck conversion! Want!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35gWBtLCYg

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Hong Kong Porn Sites Shut Down to Encourage More People to Join the Protests

One site urged users to attend the “life or death” protests instead of “jerking off at home”.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Hong Kong ]

The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal

Hackers from the CIA found a way to keep Samsung Smart TVs on “Fake-Off mode.”

A school district is fed up with ‘epidemic’ vaping. Now it will randomly test students for nicotine.

A "wishes to remain anonymous" source I trust (who is distinctly not pro-vaping) suggests that not only is the amount of detectable nicotine in the blood from vaping indistinguishable from second-hand smoke exposure (contrary to the claims made by the testing company in that article), there are also other factors impacting how different people metabolize nicotine that make this likely that this is just gonna be used for harassment.

[ related topics: Children and growing up ]

A little history for your Juneteenth: The black Georgia school teacher who turned out to be a Union spy

[ related topics: Children and growing up Current Events ]

Williams Obstetrics and Male Chauvinism

The 15th edition of Williams Obstetrics (1976) was edited by Jack Pritchard and Paul MacDonald, both from Parkland Hospital in Dallas. They were huge personalities and giants in their time. The 15th edition was a significant revision of the 14th edition, edited by Louis Hellman with Pritchard assisting. The 15th edition was all Parkland and is filled with a special type of arrogance. Collectors of these books will know that the 15th edition is remarkable for an entry in its index:

There follows a picture of the index, with the entry "Chauvinism, male, variable amounts 1-923".

The 16th edition had updated page numbers.

The punch-line is that the index compiler was "Ms. Signe Pritchard", Jack Pritchard's wife...

[ related topics: Books Marriage ]

Not a typo, they really got the wrong company: Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens:

But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters have signed a petition in which they say that Good Omens is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable”, and “mocks God’s wisdom”. God, they complain, is “voiced by a woman” – Frances McDormand – the antichrist is a “normal kid” and, most importantly, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil”. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show.

[ related topics: Religion Books Video Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett ]

A friend who knows photographer Rick Smolan suggested the movie Tracks, it's the tale of Robyn Davidson, who went to Alice Springs with the notion of capturing a couple of wild camels and trekking 1,700 miles to the west coast and the Indian Ocean. Smolan comes into it 'cause he's the photographer National Geographic sends to cover the trek, and their relationship is part of the story (but definitely not the story). Since Charlene's still on the mend, we watched that last night. It's one of those films I would have liked to have seen on the big screen, spectacular shots of the Australian desert.

With a bunch of movies recently I've found myself working out square dance puzzles in my head during the slow bits. This one kept my attention all the way through.

[ related topics: Movies Work, productivity and environment California Culture Pop Culture ]

Around noon, Charlene and I were off in the hinterlands for an appointment with her knee, and when we got back in phone range, my phone beeped to tell me that my SIM card was inactive. We quickly drove to a place with good cell coverage, called T-Mobile from her phone, and confirmed that, indeed, someone was attempting a SIM card hijacking.

So we corrected that, and I'm now back in front of a computer, and it looks like someone's cleaned out my DomainMonger account. (It also, as I was changing passwords, looks like USAA has a password length limit... that's a smell for bad things...).

At any rate, your reminder that SMS as 2FA weakens security...

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

US Psychoanalysts apologize for labeling homosexuality an illness:

It may be the first U.S. medical or mental health organization to issue such an apology. Although psychiatrists declassified homosexuality as a disorder in 1973 and psychoanalysts came around nearly 20 years later, the APsaA says it is unaware of any related professional group that had apologized

[ related topics: Health ]

Can't spell necromancer without romance!

A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters. You'll remember that Rose Cleveland, sister of notorious horndog Grover Cleveland, served as First Lady until 49 year old Grover married his 21 year old ward, Frances Folsom, all Count Olaf-lke...

The letters, preserved by the caretaker at Evangeline’s Minnesota home, are collected in a new book, “Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890-1918,” and make clear that they were more than just friends, according to its editors.

[ related topics: Books Sexual Culture Invention and Design Sociology Flowers Gambling Marriage ]

We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused. — Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true.

Found this dude hanging out in the shade at the end of G Street.

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I'm not normally a drinker, but Marissa is mixing at Andreesen's, and we need fashion advice for convention....

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i'm not normally a drinker, but Marissa is mixing at Andreesen's, and we need fashion advice for convention.... Part deux

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Using a Software Defined Radio to Send Fake Presidential Alerts over LTE

Via

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

Today's screams of rage brought to you by the fact that NSDraggingInfo's `namesOfPromisedFilesDroppedAtDestination:` documentation is a flat-out lie, and that Mail.app's message dragging behavior is totally different for single vs multiple emails.

RT Ian Goodrum ‏ @isgoodrum

"When expected North Korean fatalities increased from 15,000 to 1.1 million, preference for using nuclear weapons increased from 38 to 49 percent."

We need to come to terms with the fact significant portions of the US population are demons made flesh.

One-Third of U.S. Supports Nuclear War on North Korea, Knowing It Would Kill One Million, Report Shows

[ related topics: History Television Guns ]

Anti-immigrant militia member charged with impersonating US border patrol

Photographs and video showed Jim Benvie intercepting migrants at the border; this is the second arrest to target the armed groups

[ related topics: Photography Current Events Video ]

High levels of arsenic in bottled water sold at Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, study says

A test conducted by California nonprofit Center for Environmental Health finds that two bottled water brands — Peñafiel, owned by Keurig Dr Pepper and Starkey, owned by Whole Foods — contain levels of arsenic that are higher than tap water, violating state guidelines as a result.

[ related topics: Health Invention and Design Food Current Events California Culture Currency ]

The Night That Trans Women Rioted for Their Rights at a Tenderloin Cafeteria:

Screening on KQED Saturday, July 23, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria has a particular resonance now, 50 years after the event that inspired its making, as the need for queer safe spaces becomes a subject of focus once again.

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Bay Area Television Civil Liberties ]

I'm sure this was caused by either a pedestrian on their phone or a bicyclist running a stop sign.

[ related topics: Photography Sports ]

With premium beer essentially coming down to "haven't tried that name before", I think the question is whether or not beer producers can either sell the notion of hops terroir, or other aspects of specific hops (the way cannabis producers are), or whether they just ride the "new name" wave as long as it goes.

I know Petaluma's seen a shakeout in beer producers, even as Lagunitas sold their whatever percent to Heineken.

Of course this article also leaves unanswered the questions we had back two and a half to three decades ago about contract-brewed beers... Is That Really Craft Beer? 33 Surprising Corporate Brewers

[ related topics: Invention and Design Food Beer Gambling ]

I'm working with/training another young kid. He's intelligent, got personality, he likes helping people, he's 25... and there is so much he does not know. Not just work/tech stuff. Things I consider general knowledge. -Or am I just screaming; "Get off my lawn"? Yeah, probably. Thanks for letting me rant somewhere.

[ related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Work, productivity and environment ]

This house protected by a guard cat.

[ related topics: Photography Real Estate ]

Email from Medium: "Why I Deleted All My Social Media Accounts".... Uhhh.... And you're publishing that on...? Huh. Delete that unread.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

Arby’s Response to Plant-Based Proteins: Meat Vegetables:

“Universally, people know we’re supposed to eat vegetables every day. But 90 percent of American’s don’t eat the recommended amount. So we said if others can make meat out of vegetables, why can’t we make vegetables out of meat?”

To fulfill his vision of turning meats into vegetables, Jim turned to Neville Craw, Vice President of Culinary Innovation & Brand Executive Chef for Arby’s, to create the first Megetable.

It's not clear, however, if you can order Marrots at your local drive-thru just yet.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Food ]

Department of seeing the fnords: Was just in Grocery Outlet, and suddenly realized how many of the products on the shelves there there are the failures of package design A/B testing.

[ related topics: Graphic Design ]

RT Jules of the Chickens @SQLPi:

My Friends: “Ugh this thing I made just isn’t very good”

Me: “FUCK OFF WITH THAT OPINION, YOU ARE MAGNIFICENT AND YOUR CREATIONS ARE A TESTAMENT TO THE GLORY OF MANKIND”

Also Me: “Ugh this thing I made just isn’t very good”

My Friends: quote me back at myself

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LA to Philly

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