Flutterby™! From 2020-12-01 to 2020-12-30

RT Kate Petrova @kate_ptrv

I couldn’t just walk past this Tweet, so here is some fun #dataviz

Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the COVID-19 pandemic 1/n

Same Twitter thread in ThreadreaderApp

Bored Panda: Turns Out, Scented Candles Have Become “An Unexpected Victim Of The Pandemic” As Negative Reviews On Them Spiked After Covid Broke Out, which also ties in some other Tweets.

Data and examples on Github, the Amazon review scraper for collecting data.

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I don't know who I picked this up from, though the history in my browser has the Facebook tracking stuff so it was likely someone there, but last night we watched This Ain't No Mouse Music, a history of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. Chris is a fan of folk music, from Texas Blues to Virginia Country to Louisiana Zydeco to ... well ... everything. We totally found it worth the watch. Good music, good people, a reminder to support your local homegrown music scene,

This Ain't No Mouse Music Trailer

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One of the things I'm working on with my voice teacher is not sounding like a lounge lizard when I'm doing crooner songs. So she suggested that we try the theme from Moonraker. I just want to say that '80s cheese has a place next to the charcuterie on the hors d'ouvres tray.

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

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Naughty in N'Awlins goes down swingin'...: 41 Test Positive For Covid After Swingers Convention In New Orleans.

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Boxes and candleholders in the shop tonight

What's funnier than people selling Faraday cages for WiFi routers? The 1 star reviews complaining that after putting their WiFi routers inside said Faraday cages their WiFi signal becomes unusable... Also:

Question: Why put your router in a faraday cage when you can accomplish the same goal by throwing the router away and wrapping your head in aluminum foil?

Answer: Thanks for your question. If you wrap your head in aluminum foil then you can't use your router because you can't see. Thanks

So it appears that the sellers are in on the joke, even if the buyers aren't...

Amazon: Large WiFi Router Guard (Blocks About 90% of WiFi Router EMF While You can Still use The Router) Blocks 5G!

Via https://twitter.com/AnsgarTOdinson/status/1334015546979803137

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The Police Are Pretty Sure They’re Going to Get Away With It — In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.

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Philly’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping dishes the dirt on the news conference heard ’round the world: ‘It was nothing we anticipated’

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Looks like everybody's trying to compete with Wish these days... Actual search results from https://www.sears.com/search=medicine%20ball right now...

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RT James Palmer @BeijingPalmer (May 6, 2020)

Honestly, at this point, comparing the American response to pandemic to Chernobyl is deeply unfair to the Soviet Union.

Independently, RT smack barm moon wet 👹 @small_jawn

any history of COVID-19 in the US should really start off with an anecdote about how the chernobyl miniseries came out in 2019 and there was immediately a conclave of pundits smugly declaring that we would never respond to a disaster with such epic and malicious mismanagement

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Honest employment: California Pastor Left Church for Erotic Dancing Career on X-Rated Site

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Journal of Korean Medical Science: Evidence of Long-Distance Droplet Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by Direct Air Flow in a Restaurant in Korea. A case of COVID-19 indoor transmission, 5 minutes of exposure:

A total of 3 cases were identified in this outbreak, and maximum air flow velocity of 1.2 m/s was measured between the infector and infectee in a restaurant equipped with ceiling-type air conditioners. The index case was infected at a 6.5 m away from the infector and 5 minutes exposure without any direct or indirect contact.

https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e415

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Nothing new here, but a nice little summary of "defund the police": RT Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC

What if activists aren’t PR firms for politicians & their demands are bc police budgets are exploding, community resources are shrinking to bankroll it, & ppl brought this up for ages but it wasn’t until they said “defund” that comfortable people started paying attn to brutality

The thing that critics of activists don’t get is that they tried playing the “polite language” policy game and all it did was make them easier to ignore.

It wasn’t until they made folks uncomfortable that there was traction to do ANYTHING even if it wasn’t their full demands.

The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.

Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.

To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that’s the point.

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Wow: If you're at all interested in group dances, Calvin Campbell has just released Dancing for Busy People and Teaching New Dancers for free!

On the Modern (Western) Square Dancing front, he's also released The Mainstream Caller's Notebook and All About Modules

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If you want to check the quality of your online community, look at what happens when someone posts an off-topic message... Sigh.

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Frontiers in Psychology, 22 October 2020: The Role of News Consumption and Trust in Public Health Leadership in Shaping COVID-19 Knowledge and Prejudice

As described in the “Materials and Methods” section, participants were also asked follow up questions about the specific news sources they frequently use and we examined whether the use of these specific sources is related to COVID-19 knowledge and prejudice. To do so, we calculated t-tests to compare people who frequently used each of the sources (i.e., CNN, Fox News, Facebook, Twitter, National Public Radio [NPR], and the New York Times) to people who did not use these sources to determine if consuming each source of media impacted knowledge and prejudice related to COVID-19.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560828

Via Study links regular use of Fox News, Twitter, and Facebook to reduced knowledge about COVID-19

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MIT Technology Review: We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says

Also, just so I have a place to hang it. Metafilter post on both biases currently happening in economics, and in AI

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Atlas Obscura: The Deadly Temptation of the Oregon Trail Shortcut

To encourage settlers, Hastings penned a guidebook called The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. It touted the American West as a virtual Garden of Eden, and claimed his cutoff to be the “most direct route” to the San Francisco Bay Area. But the one thing he didn’t do? Test the cutoff himself before making the claim. Existing trails followed centuries-old paths established by animals and maintained by the local Shoshone people. The cutoff, though faster in theory, was new and full of treachery.

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Interesting: Science Daily: Glucosamine may reduce overall death rates as effectively as regular exercise, study suggests

Glucosamine/Chondroitin and Mortality in a US NHANES Cohort Dana E. King and Jun Xiang — The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine November 2020, 33 (6) 842-847; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.06.200110

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Last night we watched Yes, God, Yes (Trailer), expecting something kinda like But I'm A Cheerleader (Trailer). It wasn't, it was more a straight-ahead drama. Given the number of women in "Executive Producer" roles, it was a film that a bunch of women thought needed to be made, and I suspect there's a large swath of the middle of the country that this film was targeted at, that isn't 50-somethings in Northern California.

Anyway, one of the scenes involved "walking tacos", a concept that I had only recently been introduced to: Heavy Table: Oaxacans, Mormons, and A Bag of Chips: A Brief History of the Walking Taco. Via MeFi.'

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On a HAI message board, Karin Grace Wares mentioned her memoir, Hot Blooded: A Sexual Resurrection. I ordered it from Copperfield's, and quite enjoyed it.

One of the things that COVID-19 has made me aware of is how much of our sexual attitudes are a product of our times. I'm watching at how my various older gay friends are reacting to COVID-19, and it's amazing how much their experiences with having survived the AIDS epidemic has informed their behavior and attitudes now, and how there have been mentions of some sex parties that a younger generation were willing to attend, probably because they hadn't had that trauma deeply ingrained.

And as I sort through some of my own sexual traumas, I'm realizing that some of them come from the fact that my parents, and upbringing, were more Silent Generation than Baby Boomer, so I'm kind-of in a limbo that's between Boomer and Gen-X, with the additional cultural confusion that comes from extremely rural, Waldorf, and whatever set of neurological differences I carry.

When Charlene and I met, in a hot tub at a neo-tantra community event at a mansion in Tiburon, we talked about not being exclusive, but in practice that's never happened; I just don't have the spoons to have secondary relationships (which speaks to some of my own relationship traumas). However, I do listen to a number of polyamory and ethical non-monogamy podcasts, because those are the folks who are talking about personal growth and human relationships in terms that make sense to me.

But in listening to those folks, most of them are at least a decade younger than I am, if not more, and the generational differences in what sex means, and how they approach relationships, are clear. There's a huge difference in a generation that has access to "they/them" pronouns, to the one for which "ethical non-monogamy" wasn't a new concept, but was a new term.

As I read through Hot Blooded, I kept running across footnotes from books on my sex and sexuality bookshelf. This speaks a lot to my generation, echoing a lot of what I found in the writings of Susie Bright, and Carol Queen, Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. Within the first few pages I found myself dropping quotes on social media, and as I got deeper into the book the observations got no less pithy, but built on previous thoughts so that they were no longer so easily excisable from context.

As she goes through her own journey, and likens that to what was happening in the culture around, I had the warm familiarity of the thoughts of my generation, contrasted with some wonderful insights and experiences probing the edges and frontiers of the time.

I think I may have to read this one again, and take stronger notes this time. Recommended.

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If anyone needs me, I'll be wrestling my demons.... naked, in the Jello pit.

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The tree is up, the annual running of the fold-down train succeeded.. https://youtu.be/znNq9DSSaM4

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🎶yuletide carols being sung by acquire🎶

Up-Front: Yes, this is a dig at the history of psychology as a discipline, but it's also praise that the discipline is learning and changing.

Charlene's doing some study on psychology, taking some classes, a lot of reading, and I mentioned something about how I thought the consensus in modern psychology was that reliving traumatic experiences was generally just reinforcing the negative impacts, and she said she'd like to find more, so I went and dug through a few papers, and...

You know, it's fairly easy to throw digs at medicine, to point out that up into the 1990s, except for trauma care, you were generally better off without medical intervention.

Evidence-based medicine is a relatively new invention, and has brought some amazing changes in understanding...

Well, yeah: A lot of the practices of psychology of the 1980s and 1990s have been, in the twenty-naughts and twenty teens, been found to probably have been actively harmful. I mean, forget the casual harms of the era of Freud and Jung preying on bored Vienna housewives, like seriously reinforcing the shit out of traumatic experiences in awful ways harmful. Sometimes it's amazing how long a discipline can go without someone calling bullshit.

So I posted this to Facebook, and it spawned some good discussion, and then this morning I see this come across my Twitter feed:

The Onion: Report: Majority Of Psychological Experiments Conducted In 1970s Just Crimes

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Abusing Github's markdown with CSS: CSS in README.md like wat

Today in the obvious: Two independent studies have drawn the same conclusions: billions of dollars in surplus military equipment that have been transferred by the federal government to thousands of U.S. police departments have not reduced crime or increased officer safety.

Nature Human Behavior — Counterevidence of crime-reduction effects from federal grants of military equipment to local police. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-00995-5

And this link is not rendering correctly for me, but: Nature Human Behavior — Police demilitarization and violent crime. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XCTPNR

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Interesting: U.S., states sue Facebook as an illegal monopoly, setting stage for potential breakup

The U.S. government and 48 attorneys general filed landmark antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, seeking to break up the social-networking giant over charges it engaged in illegal, anti-competitive tactics to buy, bully or kill its rivals.

The 48 include Guam and Washington DC, a little Emacsery suggests that the missing states are Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and South Dakota.

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Wish YouTube made cover song rights management easier. I'd love to have a "I know the publisher is UMG, I know YouTube has a licensing deal with UMG, put ads on this and send them the money" button.

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Installed. https://canotify.ca.gov/

MIT Technology Review: What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine?

When you just start making up imaginary states to support your Supreme Court arguments: Brief of the State of New California and New Nevada State as Amici Curiae In Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Leave To File Bill of Complaint

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Charlene hads decided to go back to the Christmas music of her childhood

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Greta is helping Charlene make a wreath.

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So far as I can tell, Bluetooth is where USB was circa 2000: Sketchy OS support, doesn't always work as expected, weird connection issues. Except that it's that way on all platforms, and has been for a long time...

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"No one should have to think for his life without trousers." A.H. Lee's The Knight and the Necromancer

Forgot to upload this yesterday, high tide on the river

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The thing about city councilperson Zoom meetings is that it's a good thing that Virtual Reality and Telepresence haven't advanced to the point where I can reach through the screen and throttle people. And people are coming to me to help manage such meetings. Sigh.

Where was he radicalized, who were his thought leaders, and where did the material support for the planning and execution of this operation come from? Ex-Houston Police Officer Charged In Attack Over Bogus Election Fraud Plot

The suspect, Mark Anthony Aguirre, told police he was part of a group of private citizens investigating claims of the massive fraud allegedly funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and involving election ballots forged by Hispanic children. He said the plot was underway in Harris County, Texas, prior to the Nov. 3 election.

Aguirre said he was working for the group Liberty Center for God and Country when, on Oct. 19, he pulled a gun on a man who he believed was the mastermind of the scheme. His victim, identified as "DL" in the police affidavit, is an air-conditioner repairman. Authorities found no evidence that he was involved in any fraud scheme claimed by Aguirre.

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Kinda like how all of those Ferguson community organizers started turning up dead: Kris Smith Is the Second Louisville Protest Leader to Be Murdered in Three Weeks

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Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

The paper, by David Hope of the London School of Economics and Julian Limberg of King’s College London, found that such measures over the last 50 years only really benefited the individuals who were directly affected, and did little to promote jobs or growth.

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Yeah, sure, Y2K blablabla: How's your IT support staff dealing with the Flashpocalypse? How many essential systems in your organization still require Flash as it goes end-of-life in two weeks?

The Verge: In 2021, we need to fix America's Internet — We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them

In 2009, the US spent $350 million on a “National Broadband Map” that turned out to be nothing more than a chance for the wolves to guard the hens: it relied on ISPs like Comcast and AT&T to submit their own data, which the FCC does not audit. According to the FCC’s map, I have 11 different broadband providers at my address! But if you break it down:

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Sahan Journal: A Minneapolis cop told Somali American teens he was proud U.S. troops killed ‘you folk’ during Black Hawk Down. The police union fought to keep his job anyway.

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When this whole stay-at-home thing started, I paid for a Zoom account, and ended up as co-host of a couple of regular meetings. Mostly I'm happy to stay in the background, watching the participant list for people who forgot to mute before they flushed, but people notice that the meeting runs better when I'm there.

There's a new housing development going in a few blocks away from me, the folks behind it noticed, and asked if they could pay me to fill that role for one of their community outreach meetings. I never know what to charge, so I said "how about a donation to a mutually agreeable charitable organization?", they said "is $200 okay?", I thought "a hundred bucks an hour for me to learn something sounds decent" and the meeting happened last night.

It was a developer's community outreach meeting. It demonstrated why I think the education that Know Before You Grow does is so important. I have all sorts of complaints about the particulars, but that's not important. That's reason I'm involved in KBYG and Petaluma Urban Chat, and we're not reaching all of the people who need to hear the message, but we're working on it. I will try to put the rants about the particulars of that in a more generic context, so I'm not seen as attacking a particular person.

But... I do not think of myself as a people person. I am happy to be the guy in the background running tech. At some point I started to take a more active role in the meeting, and... well... I'm not sure if I ended up more Phil Donahue or Maury Povich.

Anyway, I closed down the meeting and pried my face from the rictus where it had been as I was trying to be impartial, or at least appear that way. I learned a bunch. I think the developers got their money's worth. I have a new appreciation for city staff.

And it's harder to hide behind the microphone when the point is engaging and moderating.

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Oregon Just Ended Excessive Parking Mandates On Most Urban Lots — A 2019 law legalizing "middle housing" statewide turns out to also be one of the biggest parking reforms in US history.

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Sunny Moraine — Explicit Sex Scenes and the Work of Stories

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Signed up for Netflix for that silly Petaluma Christmas movie. It is sobering that the premier streaming service has UX that sucks that hard and is so full of anti patterns.

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Watching California Christmas. Most unbelievable thing so far: cell coverage in the West County.

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"🎶 A Child, a Child shivers in the cold Let us bring him silver and gold... 🎶" Because that's exactly what a cold shivering child needs.

11-12 passes with the zester to get the zest off the lemon, 25 lemons per 1.75l bottle, 50 lemons down, 75 to go

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I cannot wait for my little laptop to come back from Asus so I'm not using the gawdawful Gmail web interface... anyway, I was digging through my spam folder, which I'm about a month behind on, and Shadow sent along this cool image sequence: I Bent Wood To Make A Monitor Stand! By jesus30arellano. Be nice to find a better solution to covering up the kerfs than the face plate, because the grain direction makes me go "wha?", but it's a cool little piece.

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Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned

The stunning disclosure from an agent who belonged to an elite toxins team in Russia's FSB security service came in a lengthy phone call following the unmasking of the unit by CNN and the online investigative outfit Bellingcat last week.

In what he was told was a debriefing, Konstantin Kudryavtsev also talked about others involved in the poisoning in the Siberian city of Tomsk, and how he was sent to clean things up.

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The White House Paid Up to $500 Million Too Much for These Ventilators, Congressional Investigators Say

A House panel says “gullible” White House negotiators overpaid for Phillips ventilators, and it has asked the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General to investigate evidence of fraud in the deal.

Obama administration signed a deal with Royal Philips N.V. to develop and deliver a low-cost ventilator at $3k each, Trump administration renegotiated to $15k each.

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More Trump appointees are coming out with stories to try to stave off charges. In this case it's former CDC chief of staff Kyle McGowan and his deputy, Amanda Campbell: Ivanka Trump, Famed Public Health Expert, Screened CDC Guidance to Make Sure It Was Nice to Her Dad

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XBiz: Southern Baptist Leaders: 'Fight Porn' Instead of Church's History of White Supremacy, Sex Scandals

Katie McCoy made it clear that she sees the religious crusade against sexual expression in general, and Pornhub in particular, as a unifying campaign to quiet debates within her denomination, and between denominations, including criticism for the SBC’s history of embracing white supremacy, and their delayed response to allegations of sexual abuse by their clergy.

via https://twitter.com/XBIZ/status/1341124803546079232

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JavaScript is the new virtual machine: WebAssembly versions of ffmpeg for incorporation into your iOS apps.

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"Generous authority is using your power as a host to protect and fulfill the purpose for the group." Priya Parker on the art of gathering

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Hope you're having a happy Christmas Adam!

We were reading up on entrance requirements to Honduras last night, for reasons not related to our own possible travel, and I was kinda surprised to see that although USAnians might be asked to quarantine for two weeks, those from the UK or South Africa definitely would be quarantined, and for 3 weeks. Looks like the reason for the difference is a much more contagious version of the virus behind COVID-19: The Economist: Tracking B.1.1.7 — Evidence mounts: a new coronavirus variant is more transmissible

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"... leaves others feeling nothing at all ..." So this deep ennui isn't just 2020?

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Oh, no, I'm just lying here, I wasn't at a chasing the older cat up the cat tree and around the room, I have no idea why he's starting at me angrily ...

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Yeah, you can see where this is going

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Charlene wanted a little lamp for the headboard. I had some LED strips.

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Interesting juxtaposition over at Slashdot, a link to Bitcoin Miners in Nordic Region Get a Boost From Cheap Power, where wet weather has lowered the cost of hydro power dramatically, and a link to Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel? — A team at Oxford University has reverse engineered fuel from the greenhouse gas—but so far just in the lab, with the caveat of course that the catalysts and energy inputs would need to be carbon neutral.

Like maybe if there were some physically useful operation that could be done with all of that electricity being burned for "proof of work"?

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Dropping the pretense that it isn't just a protection racket: Report: Phoenix police officer said, 'If the mayor defunds the police, I'm going to shoot her'

The comments, whether made in jest or not, were taken seriously. The Phoenix Police Department asked Tempe police to criminally investigate the case. Phoenix police also opened an internal affairs investigation to determine if Poulos violated any policies. That report has not been released.

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A tale of pasta, intrigue, iron supplements, and using the FDA to suppress competitors: Rachel Handler on Grub Street — What the Hole Is Going On? The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020.

With all of the defensive coding and comprehensive test coverage necessary to work in modern interpreted (or semi-interpreted, as in Objective-C) languages, the security "failures"/implications of C are really failures of the containing run-time environment.

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CNN: FBI team leader: How I know the Blackwater defendants didn't deserve a pardon from Trump — Opinion by Thomas O'Connor

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Thousands of Colorado residents without heat after attack on gas service

The FBI has joined a criminal investigation of what police said appears to be an "intentional attack" on gas service lines in Aspen, Colorado, that left thousands of residents and businesses without heat as temperatures in the skiing mecca plunged to near zero degrees.

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Today in "duh, that's why they're illegal" news: Scientists find magic mushrooms could help fight fascism

Increased nature relatedness and decreased authoritarian political views after psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression Taylor Lyons, Robin L Carhart-Harris.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881117748902

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Nature Communications: Synthetic biology 2020–2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world, including Pivot Bio's "Proven" fertilizer, a bacterium that fixes nitrogen from air around corn roots...

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