Flutterby™! From 2021-01-01 to 2021-01-31

Charlene wanted to do something with egg whites. I was happy to take up the yolk. And yes I know that it should be served on a hubcap.

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A matter of scale — When memes fail anatomy: The scale of a blue whale’s butthole

Is a politician really the world’s second biggest a-hole?

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RT Albert Brooks @AlbertBrooks

I’m a very suspicious person. Last year I wished everybody a happy new year and look what happened. So this year, from the bottom of my heart, fuck you.

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Clouds and power lines

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Just because I know I'm going to have to find this again: Donald Trump calling the coronavirus the Democrats "new hoax"

Via this Twitter thread about the death of Virginia Senator Ben Chafin from COVID-19: https://mobile.twitter.com/kir...evedo/status/1345211303892115457

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Made in Missouri: Senator Hawley's Quest to Revive Obscenity Prosecutions

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How are low-media-consumption people managing streaming subscriptions? We signed up for Disney+ to watch Soul, and now I have to remember to cancel it before February, but I want to leave it available in case anything else comes up...

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Blueberry buttermilk pancakes with lemon curd, ergo your argument is invalid.

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Part of the brilliance of the early net was that it was not only a chance to try on other personas, but that that act left artifacts that we could observe. Now, hiding from the panopticon and attacks from the intolerant, we burn those artifacts in private unarchived forums.

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From back in October, but I keep wanting to refer back to it: Mother Jones: Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say

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Ugh. So it feels like a year, but my email log says that my little personal laptop went off to Asus about half a year ago. It bounced between repair centers, I've authorized about 3 different repair charges, all of which have expired. Today they sent me a "well, we can't find the parts to repair this, would you be interested in one of these alternates?" (without pricing on those alternates...)

I really miss having a Linux laptop. There's a lot of stuff that "just works" on Linux that's klunky on a Mac. And my not-that-old work Macbook Pro needs to go into the shop for battery service when work logistics can allow me a replacement while we do that.

On the other hand, I'm not square dance calling right now, and and I'm not traveling anywhere, so I don't *need* a non-work computer, I just need to sort my email situation so I'm not continuing to use the GMail web interface...

And, of course, the new Apple M1 computers are blowing minds with performance, even though they don't really have enough RAM to be all that generally usable, and it'll be a while before Linux is available on them. And computers only get faster the longer you wait...

Anyway, this little whine brought to you by unexpected possibilities to make different choices. I should probably set up a mail client on something and carry on

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Don't allow the collection of data that can be abused:

Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations

Under the country's Criminal Procedure Code, the Singapore Police Force can obtain any data -- including information gathered by the contact tracing TraceTogether app and wearable token -- to facilitate criminal probes, confirms cabinet minister.

Australia’s spy agencies caught collecting COVID-19 app data

The report, published Monday by the Australian government’s inspector general for the intelligence community, which oversees the government’s spy and eavesdropping agencies, said the app data was scooped up “in the course of the lawful collection of other data.”

By way of https://mobile.twitter.com/zac...taker/status/1346164314101657606

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ProPublica: The NYPD Files: “Nobody” Hurt, “Just a Perp,” Say Officers After NYPD Shot and Killed Man in His Own Home

The comments were captured in body-worn camera footage the NYPD recently disclosed, 20 months after Kawaski Trawick was shot in his apartment while holding a bread knife.

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Always domestic violence behind the terrorists: Wife of accused vaccine saboteur corroborates 'conspiracy theorist' claims in divorce records

In a filing the day before police arrested Steven Brandenburg, his wife told a judge about conversations she said fueled fears the couple's two children were in danger.

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Worth a read: NBC News: Think — Trump allies' Electoral College certification challenge follows in Democrats' footsteps

Before going full-throttle on the attack, Democrats should examine their own recent behavior — which also includes a dose of governing by temper tantrum.

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Genomic Evidence of In-Flight Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Despite Predeparture Testing

Evidence of in-flight transmission on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to New Zealand is strongly supported by the epidemiologic data, in-flight seating plan, symptom onset dates, and genomic data for this group of travelers who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (passengers A–G). Among the 7 passengers, 2 (A and B) were probably index case-patients infected before the flight, 4 (C, D, E, and F) were probably infected during the flight, and the remaining passenger (G) was probably infected while in MIQ. All 7 passengers were seated in aisle seats within 2 rows of where the presumed index case-patient(s) were seated.

Combined, these data present a likely scenario of >4 SARS-CoV-2 transmission events during a long-haul flight from Dubai to Auckland. These transmission events occurred despite reported in-flight use of masks and gloves. Further transmission between travel companions then occurred after the flight, in an MIQ facility.

Twitter thread, which largely consists of "discussed in the paper"

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Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis

The Danish equivalent of the BBC, DR, has a new animated series aimed at four- to eight-year-olds about John Dillermand, the man with the world’s longest penis who overcomes hardships and challenges with his record-breaking genitals.

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Right-Wing Brazilians Are Up in Arms Over This ‘Obscene’ Sculpture of a Vulva at a Botanical Art Park in Brazil

The sculptor, Juliana Notari, wrote on Facebook that the artwork, titled Diva, “questions the relationship between nature and culture in our western phallocentric and anthropocentric society,” and invites discussion about the “problematization of gender.”

The vagina dialogues: 33-metre artwork draws far right's ire in Brazil

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Department of Justice Statement on Solarwinds Update

The Department of Justice Spokesman Marc Raimondi issued the following statement:

"On Dec. 24, 2020, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) learned of previously unknown malicious activity linked to the global SolarWinds incident that has affected multiple federal agencies and technology contractors, among others. This activity involved access to the Department’s Microsoft O365 email environment.

After learning of the malicious activity, the OCIO eliminated the identified method by which the actor was accessing the O365 email environment. At this point, the number of potentially accessed O365 mailboxes appears limited to around 3-percent and we have no indication that any classified systems were impacted.

As part of the ongoing technical analysis, the Department has determined that the activity constitutes a major incident under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, and is taking the steps consistent with that determination. The Department will continue to notify the appropriate federal agencies, Congress, and the public as warranted."

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RT Guy “say it nicer to me” Hamilton-Smith @G_Padraic

A sheriffs deputy showed up at my home and demanded I provide to her my social media identifiers and threatened me with arrest unless I did not when I pointed out to her that wasn’t the law.

RT Guy “say it nicer to me” Hamilton-Smith

And I know that’s not the law, because that was actually a big part of the lawsuit I won in 2017.

RT Guy “say it nicer to me” Hamilton-Smith @G_Padraic

Here's the lawsuit, btw

https://casetext.com/case/doe-v-kentucky-ex-rel-tilley

RT Guy “say it nicer to me” Hamilton-Smith

Oh I also wrote a thing about this lawsuit and my experiences and this area of the law

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3224917

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Fantastic episode of Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino talking with Kaytlin Bailey on the history of sex work. Good listening today while a coordinated multi-state coup attempt is being facilitated by the same police forces that just a few months ago were tear gassing and shooting up (with "less lethal" weapons) anyone carrying a sign asking for civil rights or social justice.

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Video of police opening up barricades to let insurrectionists into the Capitol

The difference between the response to the BLM protests in DC and the insurrectionists

Bryan Rolli reminds us that Tom Cotton sent out a call for troops (That editorial in the NYT, back in June)

Terrorists brandishing an enemy flag have stormed the Capitol and have replaced the United States flag with that of their leader.

Matt Oswalt points out that guns drawn in the House chamber and Confederate flags in the hallways is consistent with what he'd predicted would play out

RT Paul Elard Cooley @paul_e_cooley

So when do the cops start spraying these assholes with rubber bullets and tear gas like they do to minorities, Native Americans, and the big bad Antifa "goons?"

More video of insurrectionists breaking into the Capitol

RT Jennifer Bishop @jenbeee

Those Capitol Police officers who opened the gates should be shown video over and over of their fellow officers defending the chamber door under fire. They put their own brothers and sisters at risk.

Yet another shot of an insurrectionist in the Capitol building with a Confederate battle flag.

I've seen some reports of coordinated attacks on State Capitol buildings, Salem Oregon and Atlanta Georgia, but I'm guessing more will become obvious as time goes on.

Clypian Twitter thread of Salem, which actually doesn't look as bad as I'd feared.

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Apparently some people think "Via Getty" is the name of some sort of super-insurgent, rather than a photo credit.

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Great little exchange between DC residents about the outsiders.

If you haven't seen the video of Elizabeth from Knoxville complaining about getting maced while "we're storming the Capitol, it's a revolution", it's worth a giggle: one video tweet, another video tweet. Someone failed their civics class.

Twitter finally locked Donald Trump's account until 12 hours after 3 particular tweets get deleted.

Facebook bans Donald Trump 'until transition complete', Mark Zuckerberg's post and announcement on Facebook.

Guy who was videoed stealing mail from Nancy Pelosi's office got a $10k PPP loan.

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Some among America's military allies believe Trump deliberately attempted a coup and may have had help from federal law-enforcement officials

The French police official said they believed that an investigation would find that someone interfered with the deployment of additional federal law-enforcement officials on the perimeter of the Capitol complex; the official has direct knowledge of the proper procedures for security of the facility.

Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.

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Buttplug+OBD-2, or tying a vibrator to your car engine's RPM.

This could be revolutionary for anyone with an affinity for Thrush or Harley style exhaust systems, but empathy for neighbors.

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Yesterday in Atlanta, insurgents swarmed the Capitol building, causing the Secretary of State to flee for safety.

Atlanta PD was on it, though, they avoided any arrests there, and went to Centennial Olympic Park arrested 23 people who were protesting the Jacob Blake decision.

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Boeing Charged with 737 Max Fraud Conspiracy and Agrees to Pay over $2.5 Billion

And do we have indication that their engineering culture is gonna change any? Thinking about the complaints in those chat transcripts about pressures to avoid $5k in flight change fees during the certification process.

Previously

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A QAnon promoter stormed the Capitol. Now, he's upset people are saying he's 'antifa'

Based on some of the bizarre theories I'm hearing about yesterday's insurrection, I'm pretty sure that I've got it figured out: Donald Trump is actually Deep State antifa, planted to discredit the Republican Party and "patriot" white supremacists.

(Seriously, we're up to Trump supporters telling me that Jake Angeli's pseudo-Germanic tattoos and years of fascist neo-Nazi social media presence are actually part of a plot to discredit the fascist movement. Logical thought is gone here, and the disappointing part of it is just how many people have given up any rational behavior.)

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From September 2015: Sen. Ted Cruz links deputy's murder to Obama administration rhetoric:

"I think the violence we're seeing directed at law enforcement is a direct manifestation of the harsh rhetoric and the vilification of police officers, of law enforcement that sadly has come all the way from the top," Cruz said. "Over and over again, President Obama and the Department of Justice and senior administration officials have chosen to vilify law enforcement."

Why bring it up again now, over five years later?

Capitol Police Officer Dies After Being Assaulted By Extremists In Siege

US Capitol Police officer has died following pro-Trump riot

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Shot: Giuliani says Capitol protesters "on the right side of history"

Chaser: Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways during belligerent attack

RT Jade Abbott @alienelf

Actually DED

RT Anthony V. Clark @anthonyvclark20

They claimed Mike Brown stole cigarettes......

United States Capitol Police on the death of officer Brian Sicknick

That economic anxiety on display: Texas woman flew on private jet to Washington, DC, to ‘storm the Capitol’

“We just stormed the capital. It was one of the best days of my life,” she tweeted at the end of one of the darkest days in American history that left one woman fatally shot and four more dead

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From the department of "no shit": The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration — Authorities are more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing protest than a right-wing protest.

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Twitter, Inc. company blog — Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

Washington Post article on the suspension

CNN article on the suspension

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A little history of sex work and how the "trafficking" myth and anti-prostitution laws are used to destroy the wealth and autonomy of women, and how racism ties into all of that. If you're looking to take your mind off the coup for a little while... https://sexoutloud.libsyn.com/...-of-sex-work-with-kaytlin-bailey

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Police let most Capitol rioters walk away. But cellphone data and videos could now lead to more arrests.

The countless hours of video — much of it taken by the rioters themselves and uploaded to social media — also offers an ideal data set for facial recognition. Many scenes were captured from multiple angles, with good lighting, over several minutes. Few people wore masks. While facial recognition technology often struggles to reliably identify people with dark skin, the large majority of the Trump supporters who entered the Capitol on Wednesday appeared to be White.

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Evan Greer in FastCompany: You can’t fight fascism by expanding the police state

We won’t reverse the damage done by Trumpism—like the attack on the Capitol—by doubling down on authoritarian policies like surveillance, policing, and censorship. We need to address systemic injustice at its root.

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Alabama AG leads nonprofit that helped organize march at Capitol

Attorney General Steve Marshall has not yet publicly addressed his role leading the dark-money group.

and

“I’m calling for the Rule of Law Defense Fund with an important message,” the robocall stated, according to Documented. “The march to save America is tomorrow in Washington D.C. at the Ellipse in President’s Park between E St. and Constitution Avenue on the south side of the White House, with doors opening at 7:00 a.m. At 1:00 p.m., we will march to the Capitol building and call on Congress to stop the steal. We are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue to fight to protect the integrity of our elections. For more information, visit MarchtoSaveAmerica.com. This call is paid for and authorized by the Rule of Law Defense Fund, 202-796-5838.”

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry tied to group that summoned ‘patriots’ to Capitol to ‘stop the steal’

Addendum: Also Georgia

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White man who drove into Iowa protesters avoids prison after guilty plea

A white man who deliberately sped his car through a crowd of racial injustice protesters in Iowa City, striking several, will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for three years.

A judge last month granted a deferred judgment for Michael Ray Stepanek, 45, who told police he drove his Toyota Camry through the crowd in August because the protesters needed “an attitude adjustment.”

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Just closing tabs:

• Twitter thread on identifying various insurgents who were part of the storming of the Capitol
• Twitter thread on addressing vaccine misinformation
• Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship: The Decision To Ban Trump From Twitter
• Behind the viral photo of Rep. Andy Kim cleaning up at midnight after riots — “It’s a room that I love so much. ... It pained me so much to see it in this kind of condition,” the New Jersey Democrat said.

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In fact, the conspiracy goes so deep that everyone in the world is in on it, and covering it up, and you're the only person who's willing to tell the truth....

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Evan Hill twitter thread on the DOD timeline of the National Guard response to the Capitol Hill riots

We will, we will

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Trying to stretch this Olive as far as I can, for door panels for various bits of furniture for the bedroom.

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Being super cautious with some test and isolation around these parts, so it's going to be a while in between grocery store runs. Letting things rise...

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I'm kind-of shocked with the way that so many on the right are equating the Conservative movement and Republicans with violent overthrow of the US Government and the imposition of a brutal police state. You'd think they'd claim a "party of ideas", but they're doubling down.

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The things I'm seeing come out of Parler look like violent snuff porn. It's pretty amazing that the party that's fought the First Amendment on anything remotely sexual is now complaining that private business doesn't want them to jack off to violent treason fantasies.

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Amazing how many people have suddenly become free speech fans now that it's about sedition.

These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist Ass Terrorists". You can kinda see the light bulbs in some of these descriptions of the attackers:

The officer even described coming face to face with police officers from across the country in the mob. He said some of them flashed their badges, telling him to let them through, and trying to explain that this was all part of a movement that was supposed to help.

“You have the nerve to be holding a blue lives matter flag, and you are out there fucking us up,” he told one group of protestors he encountered inside the Capitol. “[One guy] pulled out his badge and he said, ‘we’re doing this for you.’ Another guy had his badge. So I was like, ‘well, you gotta be kidding.’”

CNN: There have always been two Americas. The Capitol Hill riot proved it

These Black Americans are not surprised by what they saw at the Capitol this week. They reflect on how a mostly White mob could trash the Capitol and go home, when they would be arrested or worse.

Probably deserves its own link and commentary, but Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service

Seattle Police Department investigating officers involvement in the coup attempt.

Defense Department timeline for the National Guard's involvement in the January 6, 2021 First Amendment Protests in Washington DC (Emphasis mine, though I'm not the first person to point out this revisionist bullshit).

Tampa Bay man seen carrying lectern at U.S. Capitol riot arrested in Pinellas County. Tampa Bay area Trump supporters connected to U.S. Capitol riot.

Feds say police found a pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol insurrection as wide-ranging investigation unfurls

Republicans Are Calling For “Unity” After They Voted To Try To Overturn The Election Following The Deadly Capitol Attack.

Here Are The Republicans Who Objected To The Electoral College Count

RT 🇺🇸 eekamax 🇺🇸 @eekamax

The people in Congress who would have been safe if the rioters had gotten to them are calling for unity from the people who would have been killed if the rioters had gotten to them.

An example of one of the gormless traitors calling for "unity", last month: GOP Congressman: We Need The Senate To Investigate Hunter Biden — Rep. Ken Buck told a rally in Georgia that an investigation of Hunter Biden is “plan B” if Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election fail.

Police departments across the U.S. open probes into whether their own members took part in the Capitol riot. Ya think?

For every one of those "but have you read 1984 or Animal Crossing Farm?" tweets or Facebook comments: RT Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) @IwriteOK

For the record, George Orwell suggested every decent person kill one fascist. And then he went to Spain and threw grenades at fascists.

Daughter Publicly Shames Mother For Getting Punched While Attending Pro-Trump Protest

Helena Duke, 18, identified her mom in viral video footage from a fight which broke out near the Capitol during the insurrection, telling Newsweek she was "disappointed to be related to her".

"Hi mom remember the time you told me I shouldn't go to BLM protests bc they could get violent ... this you?," Helena Duke wrote on Twitter in response to the video.

Between her and Claudia Conway, I think the kids are alright.

Finally: Hate on display: A guide to the symbols and signs on display at the Capitol insurrection

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Following the "Blue Leaks", Bangor Daily News hosts a call to "Investigate and shut down the Maine Information and Analysis Center"

Via this Twitter thread

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Charlie O'Donnell: Seed Investments in Insurrection:

I suggested it might be worth creating a worker protection statement now, before they were tempted by a big Facebook contract in the future, that limits this kind of exposure or provides some kind of mental health options.

“No other VC asked questions like this.”

They had raised nearly $2 million of venture capital money to hire an army of workers whose job it was to mindlessly stare at images all day and no one asked about working conditions or if the existence of this company and others like it had costly societal consequences.

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WhatsApp has just removed their private key canary, you can assume that traffic on that messaging system is now read by Facebook.

As we see action towards a violent police state, I think it's important to look at Mao and Stalin and Suharto and the CIA to see what we're trying to avoid: The Atlantic reviews "The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution"

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The Brothel Boss Lady who Helped Build Seattle

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From back in June: 'They saved me': How Breonna Taylor protesters protected a lone cop, a moment captured in powerful photos

For De La Cruz, a local businessman, the moment was about accountability.

“If I can hold my brothers accountable, if I can march with my brothers and turn against them to say, 'This isn’t right,' that’s where the accountability comes in,” he said.

“In the end, that’s all that we are asking for," said De La Cruz, whose uncle is a police officer. "What we need is for those great cops to hold their brothers and sisters accountable at all times.”

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"No one could have seen this coming", a fantastic Twitter thread on the rise of right-wing terrorism and people who saw it coming.

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Today in "don't collect data you don't want leaked": Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users' Location Data, Has Been Archived

Operating on little sleep, @donk_enby began the work of archiving all of Parler’s posts, ultimately capturing around 99.9 percent of its content. In a tweet early Sunday, @donk_enby said she was crawling some 1.1 million Parler video URLs. “These are the original, unprocessed, raw files as uploaded to Parler with all associated metadata,” she said. Included in this tranche of data, now more than 56 terabytes in size, @donk_enby confirmed the raw video includes GPS coordinates, which point to the locations of users when the videos were filmed.

via https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1348642963803557890

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NYPD Anti-Discrimination Chief Suspended Without Pay Over ‘Vile, Racist' Messages

The allegations against Kobel were detailed in a report that a City Council oversight panel will make public. City Council investigators linked the messages to Kobel by matching information in the “Clouseau” messages to publicly available details about Kobel's life and career, including: that both allegedly joined the NYPD at the same time, held the rank of captain or higher in 2019; both allegedly where on the job in February 2020; both allegedly served in the NYPD Housing Bureau under former Chief Joanne Jaffe; both allegedly had fathers who died in the same year at the same age after serving in the NYPD; both of their mothers allegedly died on the same day; and both are allegedly the youngest of seven children and have at least two brothers who were NYPD officers, among other shared specific personal and family characteristics.

News 4 has obtained a copy of the report and is not publishing the alleged comments verbatim due to their offensive nature.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/1...le=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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BART to hire social workers instead of filling police officer vacancies to deal with social problems

BART plans to use nearly $2 million budgeted to fill six vacant police officer positions to hire social work-trained civilians to respond to homelessness, mental illness and drug addiction that plague the train system.

The plan introduced Friday adds a supervisor and 20 crisis intervention specialists to connect people in need with services ...

Emphasis mine. I mean, I don't know if it's actually cheaper to deal with mental health crises than shoot those people in the back, but you mean to tell me that for every cop we can hire 3½ social workers?

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RT David Adrian @davidcadrian

Fellas, I'm starting to think it wasn't really about ethics in game journalism.

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Giggle: Fake News: We Added Some Details to Getty Photos of Those Terrorists Who Stormed the U.S. Capitol

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Today's coup tab dump:

Just Security — Incitement Timeline: Year of Trump’s Actions Leading to the Attack on the Capitol

Looks like the DOD has quietly 404d that "First Amendment Protests" timeline PDF.

The Nation: Madness on Capitol Hill

“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

A reminder that New York Times columnists are morons and should be fired. From October: Ross Douthat: There Will Be No Trump Coup — A final pre-election case for understanding the president as a noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat.

RT A.R. Moxon @JuliusGoat

Republicans appear to be finished with the “trying to kill us while blackout drunk” phase of their abuse cycle and into the “crying at us to unlock the door while asking us why we’re being such a bitch about this” part of their abuse cycle.

2 Capitol Police officers suspended and at least 10 more under investigation for alleged roles in riot.

The Philly detective reassigned for going to Trump’s D.C. rally called Pence a ‘traitor’ after he condemned the violence and an officer’s death

The Philadelphia police detective reassigned after attending President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington — which ended with the president inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol — called Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor and a cabal operative” after he condemned the violence and publicly lamented an officer’s death.

“You’re a swap creature and fooled us all!” Detective Jennifer Gugger posted on Twitter on Friday, according to a screenshot reviewed by The Inquirer before it was taken down.

Reassigned.

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Because a lot of writing about abuse is ringing really solidly these days: "I have no idea what I've done wrong." Why I distrust parents of estranged children.

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The party of the "free market". Kentucky House Bill 175: AN ACT relating to unlawful discriminatory practices. Sponsors: S. Maddox, M. Hart, R. Goforth, P. Pratt, F. Rabourn, B. Reed

(1)It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for a financial institution or government entity to:

(a)Refuse to engage in the trade of any goods or services with;

(b)Refrain from continuing an existing business relationship with;

(c)Terminate an existing business relationship with; or

(d)Otherwise discriminate against a manufacturer, retailer, or distributor of firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition; a shooting range; or a trade association because the manufacturer, retailer, distributor, shooting range, or trade association supports or is engaged in the lawful commerce of firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition products.

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RT Monica Maalouf, MD @MaaloufMD

Censorship is when the government bans implicit bias trainings and the teaching of critical race theory.

Banning fascists from twitter is just the free market being the free market.

RT retroCRUSH @retrocrush

Crying because they can't get organic food in prison? Licking the boots of a dude who called your wife ugly? Refusing to stand up to a bully who rewarded 4 years of ass-kissing by encouraging a crowd to kill you? This is the same party that calls us simps, cucks, and snowflakes?

Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave

It actually takes two impeachments to vaccinate against Trump

RT soul nate @MNateShyamalan

look. no matter what we do, conservatives are gonna say this is like 1984. at this point we should go all in. make ted cruz wear the rat helmet

RT David Adrian @davidcadrian

Fellas, I'm starting to think it wasn't really about ethics in game journalism.

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For the love of all that is holy do not install the Google Drive sync app unless you have carefully curated your documents directory and know exactly what it will be syncing.

Morning coup tab dump:

Twitter thread of the names and faces of various participants in the coup attempt

US Department of the Treasury: Treasury Takes Further Action Against Russian-linked Actors

Kulyk, a former prosecutor for the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, formed an alliance with Derkach to spread false accusations of international corruption. Onyshchenko, a fugitive from Ukrainian justice due to charges of corruption, provided edited audio tape copies of purported audio recordings of conversations between former Ukrainian and U.S. officials, which Derkach released between May and July 2020 to discredit U.S. officials and influence the U.S. elections. Telizhenko, a former low-level Ukrainian diplomat, orchestrated meetings between Derkach and U.S. persons to help propagate false claims concerning corruption in Ukraine. Dubinsky, who serves alongside Derkach in Ukraine’s parliament, joined Derkach in press conferences designed to perpetuate these and other false narratives and denigrate U.S. presidential candidates and their families.

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/eri...rland/status/1348657841201172482

Only one person showed up to the pro-Trump protest outside Twitter’s San Francisco HQ — 30 police officers were there to monitor the scene

Poynter: Telling it like it is &mdash when writing news requires distance from neutrality:

The song played in my head as I read a Washington Post story about the attack on the Capitol written by John Woodrow Cox, based on the work of a team of reporters. I have known Cox’s work from his days at the Tampa Bay Times.

In a tweet, Cox shared a four-paragraph lead about what some have called an “attempted coup.” He characterized that lead as “the most astonishing four paragraphs I’ve ever written.”

RT Jack Murphy @JackMurphyRGR

Amazing interview today w/ @_Shan_Martinez_ discussing extremism in the military. Shannon became a neo-Nazi as a teenager near a military base and knew over 30 soldiers involved before she left the movement. The interview will be on @starsandstripes but I wanted to share this 🧵

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How a Special Forces meme ended up on Pelosi's office the day prior to the Capitol Hill riot. A little history of the GoldCorps. Not sure I buy some of the self-proclaimed innocence in the article, but it's a meme I wasn't aware of.

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Halifax Examiner: Debunking fake supermoons and other internet garbage

The Internet is full of fake and misleading imagery, and for the last six years Paulo Ordoveza, aka Pic Pedant, has been assiduously debunking some of the more egregious examples on Twitter. Ordoveza, who moved to Dartmouth from Washington, DC in 2018, is a web designer and developer working for a local independent production company. (His debunking work is completely separate from what he does for his employers, and he didn’t want to name them.) He started Pic Pedant back in 2014, when he was working on contract with NASA, and was appalled by some of the images shared online. ...

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Relevant to some conversations we've been having. Gonna see if this is available from Copperfield's: #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing

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Staten Island politician apologizes for shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ at heated lockdown protest. She clarified that she actually meant to say "Mein Fuhrer"...

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So I can show this to Charlene: Tom Jones delivering "Cry To Me" on The Voice UK, at 79 years old, sitting in a damned recliner.

In case this hasn't yet invaded your Twitter: TikTok is making sea shanties big again — Soon may the Wellerman come

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Ted Cruz claims "hang Pence" needs context. Meanwhile: Rap Lyrics Now Admissible as Court Evidence: A Dangerous Precedent (Guest Column)

"This blatantly racist decision is a travesty," writes veteran attorney Dina LaPolt.

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Here’s what I think happens in Orwell’s books based on how I’ve heard ‘Orwellian’ used

Julia smiled at Winston and loosened her red chastity sash. “We must go somewhere secret where we can express our views freely,” she said. She led him upstairs over Mr. Charrington’s shop and into a small room with a picture, an old-fashioned clock and a glass paperweight.

“Here,” she said. “My cable news show.”

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When I described Parler as "snuff porn", I wasn't kidding: RT Angie Nickamin ✡️ @nickamin20

Lady screaming at Senator Schumer "I actually got sexually excited seeing you hide under your desk...that's how much I loathe you"...

She seems nice.

Has attached video.

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Twitter thread about the kink of C. S. Lewis. If you thought that maybe Aslan was symbolic for furry tendencies well, you may have been right.

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Treason Strava: Interactive map of Parler video locations via https://mobile.twitter.com/joe...field/status/1349209609982992386

RT Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm

Remember when all those armed congress people rushed out to the western side of the Capitol and used their personal freedom guns to save Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick and everyone else during the murderous riot? Yeah. Me, too. That was awesome.

Twitter thread on the Parler/Amazon litigation, with highlights from Amazon. Good stuff.

Nicely stating the obvious: RT Hans Noel @ProfHansNoel

Everyone tweeting "1776" and "1984" is really tweeting "1861."

A Proud Boy in Disguise Helped Lead the Insurrection at the Capitol

The man caught on video breaking a window at the Capitol with a riot shield is a member of the Proud Boys who goes by the alias “Spazzo.”

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/mis...sowen/status/1349141288923365377 which has some summarization

Later additions: ‘It was like looking at evil’: The Capitol attack through the eyes of the Massachusetts delegation

“Every panic button in my office had been torn out — the whole unit,” she said, though they could come up with no rationale as to why. She had used them before and hadn’t switched offices since then. As they were escorted to several different secure locations, Groh and Pressley and her husband tried to remain calm and vigilant — not only of rioters but of officers they did not know or trust, she said.

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I am not a terrorist': Retired Navy SEAL speaks after Capitol siege — The Navy veteran said he wanted lawmakers to be left "shaking in their shoes."

"I would like to express to you just a cry for clemency, as you understand that my life now has been absolutely turned upside-down," Newbold told ABC News. "I am not a terrorist. I am not a traitor."

Dude doesn't seem to have a clear grasp of what a terrorist is.

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’Pearls Before Swine’ comic strips about military coup pulled from newspapers by syndicate

“I think that the bottom line is that when you do a series of comic strips about an insurrection in the United States government, you never think there will be an actual insurrection in the United States government,” he added. “Or, maybe it’s just that in the last couple years, if you do strips that assume the worst, you will generally be proven right.”

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Rep Richmond voices support for Trump's second impeachment (video)

From NBC's live blog of the proceedings":

“In the first impeachment, Republicans said we didn’t need to impeach him because he learned his lesson," he said as he was reminded he was out of time. "Well, we said, if we didn’t remove him, he would do it again. Simply put, we told you so. Richmond out.”

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Trailer for 1984, but with Muppets (Twitter Video)

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The Cops at the Capitol

As of today, at least 26 sworn members of U.S. law enforcement agencies from at least 11 states have been identified by law enforcement agencies and local reporting as attendees of the Jan. 6 rally in support of President Trump that sparked a riot at the U.S. Capitol. Beyond that tally, several former law enforcement agents attended the rally, and still more current law enforcement officials are under investigation for making statements in support of the rally.

the spreadsheet

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RT Richard Masoner 🚴‍♂️ @cyclelicious

Today's random encounter with a helpful member of the motoring public (HMOTMP):

HMOTMP: "Wear a helmet!"

ME: "Why?"

HMOTMP: "For your brain!"

ME: "What about your brain?"

HMOTMP: "I don't need one, I'm in a car."

ME: "..."

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Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is ‘Embarrassing’ — Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi calls Parler’s face plant in the wake of its deplatforming 'embarrassing,' driven by 'egotism.'

RT Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi @brokep

The pirate bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost 2 decades. Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.

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Twitter thread on the FBI crippling underground newspapers in 1969 by getting record labels to stop advertising in them.

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Coup tab dump of the morning:

Twitter thread from a Washington local of various videos from outside the storming, including some talk about message boards in the run-up to the speech, and how weird the crowd dynamics were.

“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years

Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building.

Twitter thread from Bellingcat sorting through the Parler video dump

GW Program on Extremism list of those charged with crimes related to the Capitol Hill assault

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Washtenaw County Michigan decriminalizes sex work

The Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office is well aware that sex work carries an increased risk for violence, human trafficking, and coercion. Data and experience, however, have shown that criminalizing sex work does little to alleviate those harms. Indeed (as outlined in further detail below) the criminalization of sex work actually increases the risk of sex work-adjacent harm. Accordingly, the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office will henceforth decline to bring charges related to consensual sex work per se. The Prosecutor’s Office, however, will continue to charge sex work-adjacent crime—including human trafficking, violence, and offenses involving children—that directly harm County residents.

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Bad lighting, but a very pretty large piece of floating wooden furniture going under the bridge.

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This thread: RT Funkit Toys @FunkitToys

ask me a question about making dildos and i will tell you a funny lie

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Doom scrolling so you don't ha... oh, who the fuck am I kidding? Of course we're all doom scrolling...

I love this because whether it's Ali Alexander who's lying, or legislators Biggs, Brooks, and Gosar, it's still schadenfreude seeing them turn on each other: A ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer, now banned by Twitter, said three GOP lawmakers helped plan his D.C. rally.

I am shocked, shocked, that there are fascists in the ranks of the Sacramento Sheriff's Depuputies: Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones Says Some Local Deputies Attended D.C. Trump Rally

U.S. says Capitol rioters meant to 'capture and assassinate' officials - filing:

The detention memo, written by Justice Department lawyers in Arizona, goes into greater detail about the FBI’s investigation into Chansley, revealing that he left a note for Pence warning that “it’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”

“Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” prosecutors wrote.

Jacob Chansley is the horns and fur guy (as opposed to the various other horns guys).

'You're Scared Now': Watch Parler Videos Rioters Filmed Inside the Capitol

Videos taken by the pro-Trump mob and originally uploaded to Parler are being re-shared and categorized online to help identity people who invaded the Capitol.

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Dustin Volz @dnvolz

D.C. police officer Michael Fanone: “A lot of people have asked me my about thoughts on the people that helped me. And now that I have kind of processed it all I will say, thank you. But fuck you for being there.”

(With attached video)

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Sitting by the river, enjoying the sunshine while I decompress a little bit.

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The lack of new episodes of This Kaiju I've suggests that not nearly enough of you are fans yet. Go. Listen. Make Nobilis and Grig so famous that they make this a priority. https://kaiju.libsyn.com/

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Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations

In addition, we estimate that the pandemic will result in reductions in life expectancy for the Black (2.10 y) and Latino (3.05 y) populations that are 3 to 4 times as large as the reduction for Whites (0.68 y). The greater toll for the Black and Latino populations arises because of both higher COVID-19 mortality rates and greater susceptibility to COVID-19 at younger ages among these groups compared with Whites. In both of the alternative mortality scenarios, the disparities would remain immense.

PNAS February 2, 2021 118 (5) e2014746118; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014746118

When the moles are so deeply entrenched: Why DHS Failed To Warn The Country About Jan. 6

“Nobody wanted to write a formal intelligence report about this, in part out of fear that such a report would be very poorly received by the MAGA folks within DHS,” one former DHS official who served in the Trump administration told TPM, on condition of anonymity to speak freely.

Product I want: Box with XLR mic input, headphone jack, Ethernet, Jamulus, and *just* enough UI to tell it what server to connect to. Optimize for low latency from ADC/DACs and the network jack. I would buy one for me, one for my voice teacher.

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RT Portland Police Disrespecter @SoundsnColor

Officer: Do you know how fast you were going?

Me: where were you the evening of January 6th?

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RT Otto Von Biz Markie @Passionweiss

This is an insane but all too believable story about the dirty cops who killed Andres Guardado -- and how two months prior, they abducted a guy from a Compton skate park who tried to stop them from harassing teenagers, and framed him for being on meth.

A wild ride, a crash, a cover-up: Skateboarder alleges abuse by deputies involved in Guardado shooting

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Selfies, social media posts making it easier for FBI to track down Capitol riot suspects

Federal law enforcement hasn't had to use significant legal and technical resources at its disposal because of online documentation.

Women Use Dating Apps To Get Capitol Rioters To Confess And Turn Them In, talking about some of the follow-up to this tweet

I know a friend of a friend who changed her preference on Bumble to Conservative. She’s matching with MAGA bros and they’re bragging and sending her pics and videos of them in the Capitol. She’s sending them to the FBI.

A number of people are pointing to someone who's been known as "John Sullivan" and his involvement in Capitol storming as evidence that there were "antifa" agitators. Tweet thread from November 26 of last year about how this asshole had been kicked out of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest communities in Salt Lake City and Portland

... due to alarming behaviors including grifting/profiteering, self-promotion/clout chasing, sabotage of community actions, threats of violence, and — maybe most disturbingly — ties to the far-right.

A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation

The "too long, didn't read" version of this argument (and again, please try to understand the nuance) is that even though Parler is currently down, it's not due to a single company having total control over the market. There are alternatives. And while it appears that Parler is having difficulty finding any such alternative to work with it, that's the nature of a free market. If you are so toxic that companies don't want to do business with you, that's on you. Not them.

RT the apocalypse, but make it fashion.✨ @ElleArmageddon

IDK who needs to hear this, but antifa/BLM doesn’t organize the same way the MAGA crowd does because their objectives are entirely predicated on community defense and protecting vulnerable people, rather than actively seizing power.

(thread)

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FCC Enforcement Advisory DA-21-73: Amateur & Personal Radio Users Reminded Not to Use Radios in Crimes

The Bureau has become aware of discussions on social media platforms suggesting that certain radio services regulated by the Commission may be an alternative to social media platforms for groups to communicate and coordinate future activities. The Bureau recognizes that these services can be used for a wide range of permitted purposes, including speech that is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Amateur and Personal Radio Services, however, may not be used to commit or facilitate crimes.

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Doors glued up

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This panel is going to be cut into sliding doors for the headboard. All one piece now to make the grain matching easier to track.

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More reason the COVID-19 stimulus bill should have just been larger flat cash payments (with no means testing, and just recover the money from higher income earners with tax). The PPP program has been a disaster: The Trump administration bailed out prominent anti-vaccine groups during a pandemic

Several of the Facebook pages of these organizations have been penalized by the social network, including being prohibited from buying advertising, for pushing misinformation about the coronavirus.

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2020 — The Game. Content Warning: Contains reminders of 2020.

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Sure, most of you have eye bolts in the ceiling of your rec room, but we put them in the kitchen. The size of the house means we're fitting exercise equipment where we can. In other news, I finally broke down and bought a couple pairs of sweat pants.

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RT Laurie Voss @seldo

"Boolean" but pronounced like "Jolene" and you sing the song every time you assign one.

Rest of the thread has lyrics...

Natural and unnatural — ‘Natural’ remedies are metaphysically inconsistent and unscientific. Yet they offer something that modern medicine cannot

By design, modern medical science refuses to offer existential answers. To the question Why me?, the only honest answer is often We don’t know. Even when there is a clear answer – ‘The lung cancer was caused by smoking’ – patients will still wonder why they were stricken when so many other smokers are not. To broaden the answer with an appeal to genetics or environment is no help, since even together these variables can’t explain their own existence. I can still wonder why I ended up with these lousy genes in this lousy environment.

Likewise, answers to the question What can be done? often prove unsatisfactory because modern medical science limits itself to the illness itself, not the rupture of trust. ...

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The Wellcome Collection: Sex work through the ages

Historically, prostitution has been punished, sometimes tolerated and only rarely accepted in society. The stories around sex work have been told mostly by researchers, artists and other academics. But today, mapping the different ways in which sex work has been perceived helps us to understand, and to look beyond stigma.

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Conversation on a private channel about exercise equipment, and... it's so refreshing to have discussion of dumbbells mean "weights" again...

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Tiny 3D-Printed DEC VT-102 Hides a Fully-Functional, ESP32-Powered PDP-11 Minicomputer

A tiny screen and a 3D-printed chassis brings some of Digital's fondest-remembered hardware up to date — and down in scale.

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More to counter the "COVID-19 deaths are over-counted" FUD (as if excess mortality stats weren't enough): Almost 30% of Covid patients in England readmitted to hospital after discharge – study

Readmission rate for Covid patients 3.5 times greater, and death rate seven times higher, than for other hospital patients

Preprint: Epidemiology of post-COVID syndrome following hospitalisation with coronavirus: a retrospective cohort study Daniel Ayoubkhani, Kamlesh Khunti, Vahé Nafilyan, Thomas Maddox, Ben Humberstone, Sir Ian Diamond, Amitava Banerjee doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.15.21249885

Conclusions Individuals discharged from hospital following COVID-19 face elevated rates of multi-organ dysfunction compared with background levels, and the increase in risk is neither confined to the elderly nor uniform across ethnicities. The diagnosis, treatment and prevention of PCS require integrated rather than organ- or disease-specific approaches. Urgent research is required to establish risk factors for PCS.

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Listening to Switched on Pop: 39 Good Music, Bad People, and they're using Lohengrin to semi-redeem Wagner, and I'm thinking about the impacts of traditional marriage and thinking that check needs to go on the negative side...

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Listening to Switched on Pop: 39 Good Music, Bad People, and they're using Lohengrin to semi-redeem Wagner, and I'm thinking about the impacts of traditional marriage and thinking that check needs to go on the negative side...

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Wonkette: How Scandalous Is Joe Biden’s Peloton Bike On Scale Of One To Are You F*cking Kidding Us, New York Times?

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The Walmart Effect: Testing Private Interventions to Reduce Gun Suicide

Abstract This article tests the impact of Walmart's corporate decisions to end the sale of handguns at its stores in 1994 and to discontinue the sale of all firearms at approximately 59% of its stores in 2006 before resuming firearms sales at some of those stores in 2011. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find that that from 1994 to 2005 counties with Walmarts robustly experienced a reduction in the suicide rate and experienced no change in the homicide rate. These models suggest that Walmart's policy change caused a 3.3 to 7.5% reduction in the suicide rate within affected counties, which represents an estimated 5,104 to 11,970 lives saved over the studied period (425-998 per year). In contrast, Walmart's 2006 and 2011 decisions to discontinue and subsequently resume the sale of rifles and shotguns in many of its stores was not associated with a robustly measured effect on homicide or suicide rates. We do find evidence that Walmart's 2006 decision to reduce the number of its stores that sold firearms caused a statistically significant reduction in the suicide rate for counties in which Walmart did not subsequently resume firearms sales.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1073110520979404

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/sha...watts/status/1352047154169212928

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Adam Neely does a breakdown of Lady Gaga's arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner at the Inauguration yesterday with transitions between 3/4 and 4/4 times, and some cool chords, and, fuck, I've got another person to follow on YouTube, but a lot of really good stuff in here, both in terms of music theory, but also for listening to specific vocal techniques: that "o'er the ram....parts" across the vocal break is mind-blowing for me (especially since she's obviously choosing that, shortly after she goes high with a darker tone that feels very different).

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I've been reading Justia for their summaries of influential court cases, this morning's email included this: Neil H. Buchanan on Justia: Trump’s Coup Failed, But He Gave Republicans a Road Map to Ending Constitutional Democracy…Soon. Not about the assault on the Capitol, but the prospects for further undermining the legal system.

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Lesson learned: Don't try to use Slack to transfer larger files. It's particularly slow on the upload, and several minutes of waiting on a download didn't give me a progress bar update. ~450G file size.

As expected: Judge Refuses To Reinstate Parler After Amazon Shut It Down

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein sided with Amazon, which argued that Parler would not take down posts that threatened public safety even in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and that it is within Amazon's rights to punish the company over its refusal.

"The Court rejects any suggestion that the public interest favors requiring AWS to host the incendiary speech that the record shows some of Parler's users have engaged in. At this stage, on the showing made thus far, neither the public interest nor the balance of equities favors granting an injunction in this case," Rothstein wrote on Thursday.

Later edit: Above The Law's summary and discussion, pointing out that the judge just denied the temporary restraining order, and the lawsuit is continuing.

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Petaluma goldsmith ‘reacts’ to Ariana Grande’s engagement ring, goes viral

Petaluma, CA, USA, Monday, January 18, 2021._Jordan Mantzke, a professional goldsmith makes rings in his workshop in downtown Petaluma. Jordan made a YouTube video reacting to singer Arian Grandes engagement ring that went viral. The video has gotten over a million views and now he is drowning in orders from around the country. (CRISSY PASCUAL/ARGUS-COURIER STAFF)

(I mean, Crissy is always awesome, but it's kinda feel-good.) The video is at, the follow-up video in which he shares his newfound fame and fortune with the buskers featured in his first video is at $1,000 Surprise for the Musicians!

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Hey Dick's Sporting Goods: when you share my search information from your site, you're giving away marketing data that is letting competitors deluge me with ads to order that product online. Since you're not managing inventory well, I'm tempted.

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Adam Neely's breakdown of Lady Gaga's mixed-meter Star Spangled Banner performed at the Inaugural celebration, looking at the 4/4 and 3/4 phrasing switches, and some of the cool chords and arrangement.

And that led me to Music Theory and White Supremacy, which is breaking down music theory the harmonic style of 18th Century European musicians.

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Woodworking Porn: On Lumberjocks, Shipwright demonstrates some 18th century French style joinery for curved sides on a cabinet that's going to be covered in inlay and marquetry.

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Biden: Yellen needs a “Hamilton” musical.

Dessa: Here you go.

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Janet Jackson takes the Bernie Mittens meme to new heights. This is amazing.

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Self-styled militia members planned on storming the U.S. Capitol days in advance of Jan. 6 attack, court documents say

Self-styled militia members from Virginia, Ohio and other states made plans to storm the U.S. Capitol days in advance of the Jan. 6 attack, and then communicated in real time as they breached the building on opposite sides and talked about hunting for lawmakers, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

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A fantastic throwback to the days when we thought that ordering food on the Internet would be scriptable... http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marthag/postscript/burritos from September 8, 1992 announces the burrito command-line tool:

There is a little Mexican grocery nearby that has an assembly-line burrito operation in back. You walk down the line with the person who is making your burrito, telling them exactly what you want on it. The problem is that the place is so good and such a good value that the lines get quite long at times. So La Costena (that's a tilde n) put in a fax machine and allows you to fax in your orders. Well, we've gone a quantum leap beyond that with the following.

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My wife guarded the Capitol. My mom joined the horde surrounding it.

Politicians put democracy at risk by feeding conspiracy theories. Capitol Police put themselves at risk to protect them.

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So you already know that https://buttplug.io/ "...is an open-source standards and software project for controlling intimate hardware, including sex toys, fucking machines, and more."

But did you know that the 🍑🔌 List of Awesome Buttplug Projects! 🍑🔌 includes everything from the Minegasm Minecraft plug-in to Caveman BIOS Teaches Erotic Typing?

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Greta is trying very hard to not look like she climbed up there specifically to intimidate Bagheera.

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Kellyanne Conway Accused of Posting Topless Photo of Her 16-Year-Old Daughter on Twitter

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From Eros Blog: More Twitter Pornocalypse Incoming (in which Bacchus does us usual good musings), Anti-porn organization takes aim at Twitter for NSFW ban, sex workers warn — Sex workers fear a repeat of Backpage.com and Religiously Inspired Group NCOSE Files FOSTA Lawsuit Against Twitter

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So yesterday for various reasons, people slid into my Twitter mentions defending Al Franken. And if I wasn't convinced his actions were kinda skeezy before-hand, their arguments allegedly supporting him pushed me towards the "eeeew" side of things.

Anyway, I figured I'd put a few links up here from that:

Video of the Franken/Tweeden skit (which reads to me as a lot of build-up for a rape joke), a racy Robin Williams USO routine which was used to slut shame Tweeden, and New Yorker: The Case of Al Franken.

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https://nohello.net/ — please don't say just hello in chat

Imagine calling someone on the phone, going hello! then putting them on hold... 🤦‍♀️

I've been watching this with amusement: The GameStop Game Never Stops and GameStop Is Just a Game — Also BlackRock, Melvin Capital and Leon Black.

Edit: Finally an explainer that isn't trying to force a subscription: Vox: The GameStop stock frenzy, explained — How a bunch of Redditors made GameStop’s stock soar, much to the chagrin of the hedge funds attempting to short it.

As Reddit and retail traders started to take notice of GameStop, they also took notice of how heavily shorted the stock was — information that’s generally pretty easy to get. And they figured out a way that, if they acted all together, they could sort of screw the shorts over and make a profit doing it. Kochkodin points to a post from four months ago starting to plot. Its subject: “Bankrupting Institutional Investors for Dummies, ft Gamestop.”

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Meanwhile, while we're all giggling over the GameStop pump & dump, Oklahoma trying to return its $2m stockpile of hydroxychloroquine

In April, Gov. Kevin Stitt, who ordered the hydroxychloroquine purchase, defended it by saying that while it may not be a useful treatment for the coronavirus, the drug had multiple other uses and “that money will not have gone to waste in any respect.”

But nearly a year later the state is trying to offload the drug back to its original supplier, California-based FFF Enterprises, Inc, a private pharmaceutical wholesaler.

There's always, uh, aquariums...

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Terence Eden’s Blog: The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML. Just another manifesto (with examples) for why we should be using simplified HTML rather than all the latest whiz-bang JavaScript gigabytes-for-a-page-to-load bullshit.

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What ancient Roman hospitality workers can teach us about this moment in history

As archaeologists excavate the remains of Pompeii’s bars, bakeries, baths, and brothels, we see a distinct pattern. People like Murtis and Julia -- who gained their freedom from slavery and wifery -- didn’t want to squander their liberty on war. As we can see from their homes and businesses, they wanted domestic comforts. University of Cincinnati classicist Steven Ellis suggests that the Roman economy during this period largely depended on trade and services rather than the bloody military engagements and civil wars of Cicero’s beloved Republic.

Via Eλf Sternberg, who pulled this quote:

"Cicero often opined about the nasty lifestyles of young people who preferred sex to war and he remains a conservative icon to this day."

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NBER Working Paper Series — Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties (direct PDF link)

... We find that policies that limit evictions are found to reduce COVID-19 infections by 3.8% and reduce deaths by 11%. Moratoria on utility disconnections reduce COVID-19 infections by 4.4% and mortality rates by 7.4%. Had such policies been in place across all counties (i.e., adopted as federal policy) from early March 2020 through the end of November 2020, our estimated counterfactuals show that policies that limit evictions could have reduced COVID-19 infections by 14.2% and deaths by 40.7%. For moratoria on utility disconnections, COVID-19 infections rates could have been reduced by 8.7% and deaths by 14.8%. Housing precarity policies that prevent eviction and utility disconnections have been effective mechanisms for decreasing both COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Or RT Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis

!! Study finds that uniform moratoria on evictions and utility shutoffs through November of last year could have saved *164,000* lives lost to COVID-19: https://nber.org/system/files/...p%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED

If real, that would make reducing housing precarity easily the best public health measure we've got.

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The pornocalypse comes for us all: Google Play bans video app for standard “.ass” subtitle support

This time, the puritan robot overlords that run the Play Store briefly decided that listing support for common subtitle files is enough to get your app banned. The developer for Just (Video) Player posted their story to Hacker News, writing in the app's bug tracker, "After a tiny unrelated description update, Just Player got suspended from the Google Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity policy". Google finds issues with following: Full description (en_US): “* Subtitles: SRT, SSA, ASS, TTML, VTT.”"

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What does witness protection mean for celebrity like this in the age of social media? Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

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Allison Stevenson: On Being Madonna and The Whore — Better yet, Lydia and Fran.

It started with my hellish weekend. I posted a humorous tweet about having made more money from a butthole pic on Onlyfans than I’d ever made writing an article for Vice (back when I wrote for them). Obviously, the joke was meant to highlight that freelance writers are grossly under-compensated for their hard work, while also letting you know that if you subscribe to my Onlyfans you can see my sweet butthole – two pretty important mission statements if you ask me. However, for whatever reason, the tweet “took off” and, as per usual, landed in the laps of Internet Men who proceeded to fat shame, insult, and then ridicule me for engaging in the degrading act of even trying to be sexual, much less profiting from it.

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Twitter thread about a story from 13th century Germany involving all sorts of sexual politics and gender switching.

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RT Linda Tirado @KillerMartinis

Parents I’ve discovered a hack

When you bought yourself the good cheese or whatnot and you know it’ll be about an hour before some kid eats it

Decant it all into leftover containers. No kid will ever ever look into the Tupperware.

They win battles I wage war

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More evidence for the "If you owe somebody a thousand dollars and don't have it, you've got a problem. If you owe someobody a million dollars and don't have it, they've got a problem." hypothesis: Petaluma Threatens to Shut Down Creamery Due to Safety Concerns. Petaluma Creamery owes the city close to a million and a half dollars.

In a 2010 letter to Peter threatening to shut off the plant’s water unless he paid some of his debt, then-City Manager John Brown indicated that the city had been lenient in an effort to save the Petaluma Creamery, which was originally founded as the Petaluma Cooperative Creamery in 1913.

Brown wrote that the city had worked with the Creamery “because it is important to the city to support agribusiness and because we recognize the outlet the creamery provides local dairy farmers for their milk. Nonetheless, the city’s water/wastewater ratepayers cannot subsidize the creamery.”

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Giant Jewish Space Laser is the name of my Ambient Electro Klezmer band:

• GOP Congresswoman blamed wildfires on secret Jewish space laser.
• Clinton Conspiracies, False Flags And Laser Beams That Cause Wildfires—Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Endorsed Them All
• And the SF Chronicle has the reserved measured version of the article: Marjorie Taylor Greene spread false theory that PG&E started Camp Fire with space laser

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RT Matt "uses words like egregore" Olson @arachnocapital2

lotta folks who would laugh at intelligent design applied to organisms sure love applying it to systems

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Seattle Cut Its Police Budget. Now the Public Will Decide How To Spend the Money.

The city will use participatory budgeting to allocate $30 million to programs that create “true public health and safety.”

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Pentagon close to reaching agreement to provide around 450,000 Covid-19 vaccinations a day

(CNN)The Pentagon and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are negotiating the final terms of an agreement that could see the military provide around 450,000 Covid-19 vaccinations a day.

The figure is included in a draft agreement between the two agencies viewed by CNN that also calls for the deployment of 10,000 troops at 100 vaccination centers across the United States that would run through at least February 26 as a start.

328.2M / 450k per day/ 365 days per year = 1.99817351598174

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a paper being observed must be occupied by a cat.

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Just made and attached 16 shroud blocks. Apparently on the actual ship they're forged, did the model does them with brass wire. But now it's tie and seize 16 shroud lines, and... I've gotta come up with a better system...

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A couple from the Reveal News "All Work. No Pay." series this morning:

They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants, in which a court-ordered rehab program ends up being unpaid labor in poultry processing.

She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants. In which a "rehab" program ends up being ... well...

Jennifer Warren has spent years recruiting the poor and desperate to her drug rehabilitation program in the mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina.

She promised them counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.

Twitter thread from the reporter

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