Flutterby™! From 2021-04-02 to 2021-04-30

TEDx: Kate Lister: an honest history of an ancient and nasty word:

With candor and cunning, sex historian Kate Lister chronicles the curious journey of an ancient, honest word with innocent origins and a now-scandalous connotation in this uproarious love letter to etymology, queens, cows and all things "cunt."

Right now I'm around 9:30 where she's talking about all of Shakespeare's "cunt" puns.

[ related topics: Language Erotic Sexual Culture Theater & Plays ]

I know I'm a nerd when I'm reading a Space Opera and there's a throwaway line mentioning farads, amps and volts, and I'm immediately driven to figure out the time...

[ related topics: Space & Astronomy ]

Ancient phallus unearthed in cave

The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in the Swabian Jura.

and

"Female representations with highly accentuated sexual attributes are very well documented at many sites, but male representations are very, very rare," explained Professor Conard

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Nature and environment Current Events Monty Python ]

Woohoo! First dose (Pfizer) acquired, via trek to Healdsburg.

Melissa Febos in the New York Times Magazine — I Spent My Life Consenting to Touch I Didn’t Want

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

[ related topics: virus Invention and Design New York ]

Holy crap the price of lumber! And, I was suffering from sticker shock in Friedman's and checked online prices, and drove to Lowe's, still about twice what I expected to pay, but like 2/3rds of Friedman's prices.

[ related topics: Woodworking ]

If gender is determined by genitals, this kid is more boy than any other human: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports: Triphallia (triple penis), the first reported case in human

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.11.008

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Sexual Culture Health Law ]

From Shadow: IvanMakes: A better way to do kerf bending, using a 4.5° router bit and steamed ash. I'm not quite sure how to set the router height from this video, but I really like the results.

[ related topics: Movies Video Woodworking ]

YouTube recommendation algorithm showed me a "Remember One Direction?" video. Fuck you, YouTube. I remember New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys, and get the fuck off my lawn.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Invention and Design Video ]

This is kinda fascinating: Dr Jen Gunter — Vajenda: How Birth Control Pills Treat Acne

A lot of people are starting to realize that even though most stock picking is just gambling, index funds are a different sort of centrally planned economy: Could Index Funds Be ‘Worse Than Marxism’?

With index funds, nobody’s behind the scenes, dumping bad investments and selecting good ones. Nobody’s making a bet on shorting Tesla or going long on Apple. Nobody’s hedging Europe and plowing money into Vietnam. Nobody is doing much of anything at all. These funds are “passively managed,” in investor-speak. They generally buy and sell stocks when those stocks enter or exit indices, such as the S&P 500, and size their holdings according to metrics such as market value. Index funds mirror the market, in other words, rather than trying to pick winners and losers within it.

Even ignoring the large centralized economy issues, there's the fact that this trend also creates small more volatile side-markets. the MeFi thread has a lot more good links and comments...

[ related topics: Apple Computer Currency Gambling Economics ]

If you had any doubts at all about the whole anti-trans/concern over trans kids in sports thing was just an attempt by troglodytes to enforce gender sterotypes, this should put the nail in that coffin: Soccer tournament bans 8-year-old girl’s entire team because she ‘looks like a boy’

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Sports ]

I think we need to do a Delta day trip: Dutra Museum of Dredging

(And, of course, the Western Railway Museum)

[ related topics: Art & Culture Travel Public Transportation ]

Portland's Current Cop Accountability System is Failing, DOJ Finds

In a March 23 letter sent to the City of Portland, DOJ attorneys list recent examples of the city's Police Review Board (PRB) relying on erroneous information, provided by Portland Police Bureau (PPB) leaders, to determine whether or not an officer acted in violation of PPB policy.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Gambling ]

Bwahahaha! The Mary Sue: Jordan Peterson Is Angry That He Inspired Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Take on Red Skull and We Have To Laugh — Have you tried...not being a nazi?

PsyPost: Studies provide new insights into possible psychological mechanisms underlying interest in BDSM

The study, “The Psychology of Kink: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study Investigating the Roles of Sensation Seeking and Coping Style in BDSM-Related Interests“, was authored by Alana Schuerwegen, Wim Huys, Violette Coppens, Nele De Neef, Josée Henckens, Kris Goethals, and Manuel Morrens.

The study, “The Psychology of Kink: a Survey Study into the Relationships of Trauma and Attachment Style with BDSM Interests“, was authored by ‪Stephan Ten Brink, Violette Coppens, Wim Huys, and Manuel Morrens

[ related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Invention and Design ]

Retracting headboard, with video https://youtu.be/lCfCyogVDdY

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People getting killed or maimed as a result of gender reveal parties has become so common-place that I've stopped taking note of it, but here's another case where gender is dangerous: Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

The error occurred, according to a report [PDF] released on Thursday by the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), because the check-in software treated travelers identified as "Miss" in the passenger list as children, and assigned them a weight of 35 kg (~77 lbs) instead of 69 kg (~152 lbs) for an adult.

The AAIB report attributes the error to cultural differences in how the term Miss is understood.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Aviation Software Engineering Sociology Law Journalism and Media Gambling ]

Mood: no one really @PoppyDare

Extroverts are suffering with isolation but I'm basically feral now. If I have to be around people again they'll need to lure me with treats. #introvertproblems #Imightbite

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Injuries and deaths due to firearms in the home DOI:10.1097/00005373-199808000-00010

Results: During the study interval (12 months in Memphis, 18 months in Seattle, and Galveston) 626 shootings occurred in or around a residence. This total included 54 unintentional shootings, 118 attempted or completed suicides, and 438 assaults/homicides. Thirteen shootings were legally justifiable or an act of self-defense, including three that involved law enforcement officers acting in the line of duty. For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Guns Seattle ]

Found: Page 25 of the CIA’s Gateway Report on Astral Projection, a wonderful journey through the '70s, the human improvement movement, and contorting theories in physics to try to match perceptions.

Excusing the racism as a "product of his time" discounts the efforts of all of those who try to engage in lifelong learning and improvement, usually without the huge privilege. Greek Immigrant Who Lived Off Welfare Dies In England

[ related topics: Education Race ]

Back in the '90s I loved the "Mind's Eye" compilations of computer graphics stuff, and that interest got me into building renderers and real-time stuff, and eventually sent me through a few years at Pixar, but that whole sense of surrealism was part of what appealed. In that sense, I really enjoyed Black Sheep Films' Anywhere Can Happen, kind of a look at what modern surrealist computer graphics is up to.

[ related topics: Pixar Humor Animation Graphics ]

12 rep to failure doesn't seem bad until the third circuit. These words are there to remind us that we can get through it. And yeah, we're aware that "BLAA" is part of that last lift.

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I'm not saying standards have slipped during the pandemic, but I'm about to get brownie batter all over my face

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My first bowl turning experience! Got 3 blanks roughed out, now they'll sit in sawdust for the better part of a year, then we'll turn 'em into bowls. Thank you, Mark! A super cool and contemplative way of making sawdust.

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🎶oops I did it again🎶

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In the middle of last year, there were a few Facebook square dancing groups that were full of calls to "open back up". I started noticing that the more responsible of my friends were taking notice of who was a member of those groups, so I left a bunch of those Facebook groups.

A few years ago, there was an incident of inappropriateness a County Supervisor, who's still in office, explained away with "in retrospect, I should have been wearing pants". Certainly friends of mine are Facebook "friends" with that person, and I don't think any less of them because of that Facebook relationship, but... Now there's a few unfolding sexual assault/rape revelations involving a Mayor, an ex-Mayor, and the various local political figures who've apparently turned blind-eyes to some pretty abhorrent behavior.

And suddenly we're all looking at our Facebook "friends" network more closely. I have a Facebook friend request this morning from someone unknown to me, but with a common friend, so I actually clicked through, and I'm not sure why this person is friending me. But every common friend makes me more likely to spend time evaluating if I want to open up the additional permissions that "friending" (and the overloading of those semantics is its own rant) gives that person.

One of the worst abuses social media, specifically Facebook, has inflicted on the world is the overloading of the semantics of the term "friend". Back in the early days of blogs, "follow" wasn't a bidirectional process, someone either checked your blog (or put the RSS link into their feed-catcher), or didn't.

Even Twitter exposes who I follow to the world.

And as we learn more about the peer pressure and credibility that gives new identies, well... I'm rethinking some of my Facebook friendships. I'm rethinking some of my group memberships. And thinking maybe I need some different tools to interact with people whose character I'm not certain of.

Cornell University: Networks: Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090 — (Ab)using Triadic Closure references:

• Boshmaf, Yazan, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznesov, and Matei Ripeanu. “On the Penetration of Online Social Networks: Exploiting the Social Structure.” University of British Columbia, 2011. Web. .
• “social engineering, n.”. OED Online. September 2011. Oxford University Press. 29 September 2011 .

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You don't need Glassdoor to tell if a company's shitty to work for, just look for the recurring names mentioned by LinkedIn recruiters.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Work, productivity and environment ]

Dentist office visit today, the music included The Hustle and other mid to late '70s music, and I thought about how this was the music of era where I was probably first taken to the dentist, and were they playing The Andrews Sisters then?

[ related topics: Music ]

RT Moriah Chace || Personal Finance Freelance Writer @MoriahChace

My mom on the J&J vaccine: more than six black men are dead, why aren’t we pulling cops?

👏👏👏

[ related topics: Writing Law Enforcement ]

As we learn just how much pollution is due to tire and road wear from running 2 ton vehicles, this seems important: Trading clunkers for electric bikes: France moves to offer financial incentive

Reuters) - France is offering the owners of old, exhaust-belching cars the opportunity to hand over their vehicles for scrap in return for a 2,500 euro ($2,975.00) grant to buy an electric bicycle.

Lawmakers in the National Assembly have just approved the measure in a preliminary vote. It was an amendment to a draft climate bill passing through parliament that aims to reduce greenhouse emissions by 40% in 2030 from 1990 levels.

[ related topics: Sports Currency Pedal Power Bicycling Global Warming ]

Well, this is some bullshit: Mike Lindell: My new ‘free speech’ social media platform will ban ‘taking God’s name in vain’

“You’re not going to be able to swear,” Lindell added. “There will be four words for sure you can’t say: You can’t say the C-word, the N-word, the F-word, and you can’t use God’s name in vain. What a concept. Right?”

[ related topics: Religion Invention and Design Journalism and Media hubris ]

Farming is a capital system, as evidenced by the need in farming for the migrant cheap labor that our current immigration system provides; a work force where the threat of deportation is used to bypass worker protections.

Often, despite this, the estate tax is attacked as "but what about the poor family farmer?"

USDA Economic Research Service: Less than 1 percent of farm estates created in 2020 will owe estate tax

Legislation enacted over the last several years has greatly reduced the Federal estate tax by increasing the exemption amount from $675,000 in 2000 to $11.58 million in 2020. Under the present law, the estate of a person who owns assets above the exemption amount at death must file a Federal estate tax return. However, only returns that have an estate above the exemption after deductions for expenses, debts, and bequests to a surviving spouse or charity are subject to tax at a rate of 40 percent.

(Obviously, if you've got a $50M farm you're gonna have that structured in a way that lets you move value to your heirs earlier than death...)

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Question for non-California housing nerds: How global is the extreme run-up in construction costs? What's a per square foot for multi-family housing going for in your area in 2020 or 2021 vs 2017 or before?

[ related topics: Sociology California Culture Machinery Fabrication Real Estate Model Building ]

Something's happening, because I'm noticing a particular uptick in recruiter emails right now.

The future of advertising? Your Fly Is Open: Lies, lies, lies...

In my last blog post, I outlined a relationship that exists between an organization called KISSPR and the Associated Press. It’s a cozy little venture in which KISSPR pays the Associated Press an undisclosed amount of money to have press releases placed on the AP website. Many of these press releases are thinly veiled advertisements for questionable products from questionable businesses masquerading as news. And the fine, upstanding products getting flogged through this relationship? Pre-written term papers, herpes treatments, hair-growth supplements, and psychic readings - just to name just a few.

How cozy is the relationship? KISSPR has their own directory within the AP’s Press Releases section on their site.

The author, Tom Liston, then goes on to do some searches and show how not only do these press releases propagate to other news sites, but then how reviews loop back around to say "You could see such trustworthy resources as Associated Press talk about this company as a reliable website to get a high-quality paper."

[ related topics: Weblogs Current Events Consumerism and advertising Currency ]

RT Ben Cotton (he/him) says #BlackLivesMatter @FunnelFiasco

Forget Inbox Zero. I'm rocking Motivation Zero.

Why "more training" isn't the answer: Reason: Is Your Local Police Department Using Pictures of Pregnant Women and Children for Target Practice?

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Law Enforcement ]

Pete Buttigieg said he wants to restore cruising by the summer and the internet reacted accordingly. He didn't, actually, a headline writer did, when asked about the resumption of cruises he said “The CDC is hopeful that a lot of these operators will be able to be sailing by mid-summer. We want to do this as soon as we responsibly can but we want to be safe.”, but the replies are golden.

RT Jonathon Snyder @JonathonSnyder

parks are mostly open already what is he talking about?

[ related topics: Bay Area Writing Current Events Net Culture Boats ]

A friend of mine is looking to buy a vice. And I know he means a vise, but it's all I can do to tell him that he doesn't need to spend money on vices, ya can do a lot of them for cheap. So I'mma subtweet him instead.

[ related topics: Currency ]

So I realize that not all of you are ResearchBuzz News subscribers or fans of Tara Calishain, but holy crap if you're not following along with some of the coolness she's doing with mining Wikipedia using Google Sheets, it's kinda mind-blowing, both to see Sheets as a platform like that, and the ideas she's got for extracting interesting things out of Wikipedia (and other sources).

Some descriptions and screen caps in her Patreon feed, but the real amazeballs is when we get the s00p3r s3krit URLs to the sheets in progress and both get to play with them, and watch other people playing with them.

And think about what might be possible on a more flexible platform.

For instance, she's taking a search term and looking for Wikipedia activity by date, and then feeding that back into Google News searches. So you know those times when you're like "oh, those assholes again", but searches on those assholes are all about *this* time? This is a way of deriving a timeline of the previous time(s).

But it's kinda limited in scope by spreadsheet data types, so it's good for the past few months, but not the things that happen a decade or so apart.

Anyway, someone needing a data scientist exploring this sort of stuff should hire her. Google should hire her to make Google News results better.

https://www.patreon.com/ResearchBuzz/posts

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Movies History Current Events ]

Samantha Cole: The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed

For years, anti-trafficking organizations have pushed agendas that toe the line of vigilantism. They shouldn't be surprised when someone takes their version of "justice" into their own hands.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Law Enforcement ]

As a host of a Zoom meeting, I want to have to log-in to the Zoom web page every time I go there, even if the last time was 20 minutes ago, from the computer that I'm hosting my Zoom meetings for, because security or something. Sigh.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Took the tandem up to Spring Lake and rode into Annadel

[ related topics: Photography Bicycling - Tandem ]

Starting to get into the spring bloom

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Need to get out in the morning light more

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Thinking about how the Minneapolis Police somehow thought that the idea that they were driving cars emitting so much CO that bystanders could die was somehow a better option than intentional murder.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

Charlene suggests that "shitload" is the wrong word to describe a large quantity of laundry.

Remote code execution vulnerabilities uncovered in smart air fryer

On Monday, researchers from Cisco Talos revealed the discovery of two RCEs in the Cosori Smart Air Fryer, a Wi-Fi-connected kitchen product that leverages the internet to give users remote control over cooking temperature, times, and settings.

The device in question is the Cosori Smart 5.8-Quart Air Fryer CS158-AF (v.1.1.0). CVE-2020-28592 and CVE-2020-28593.

[ related topics: Weblogs Food Net Culture ]

This is awesome: Signal discovers that the Cellebrite iPhone (and Android) hacking device contains vulnerabilities

In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

Vice: Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By Cops

[ related topics: Weblogs Software Engineering Current Events Law Enforcement iPhone ]

Baby geese do do do do doo

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Stack Overflow Blog: How often do people actually copy and paste from Stack Overflow? Now we know.

One out of every four users who visits a Stack Overflow question copies something within five minutes of hitting the page. That adds up to 40,623,987 copies across 7,305,042 posts and comments between March 26th and April 9th. People copy from answers about ten times as often as they do from questions and about 35 times as often as they do from comments. People copy from code blocks more than ten times as often as they do from the surrounding text, and surprisingly, we see more copies being made on questions without accepted answers than we do on questions which are accepted.

Well, duh: The person who asked the question, and who'd therefore mark it answered, is usually not the right person to actually determine what the correct answer is. If they were, they wouldn't have asked the question.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Weblogs ]

Looks like we're seeing a resurgence in exploring psychedelics: Two separate independent resources launching:

Psychable, the Online Platform for Psychedelic Healthcare, is Live – the Comprehensive Resource Connects Those Seeking Information on Legal Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Treatment Options With Practitioners in Their Area

Psychable Includes Thousands of Psychedelic Practitioners Listings as Interest in Uses of Psychedelics as Medicine Grows

Psychedelic Experience launches new website to help navigate the world of psychedelics

<span class="xn-location">NEW YORK</span>, <span class="xn-chron">April 22, 2021</span> /PRNewswire/ -- Saturday <span class="xn-chron">24th April 2021</span>, Psychedelic Experience will be launching a new website to help aspiring and experienced psychonauts traverse the ever-changing landscape of psychedelics.

>Inspired by the psychedelic renaissance and the rapid developments in legalization around the world, Psychedelic Experience, or PEx, has recently overhauled its web services. PEx will offer users an engaging, community-fueled resource to help them better understand psychedelics and to discover theia wide variety of safe and peer-reviewed organizations, retreat centers, guides, shamans, and much more.

(Both pointed out to me by the amazing Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz, who is doing some amazing things with Google Spreadsheets and data amalgamation and you should go throw her Patreon a few bucks.)

[ related topics: Libertarian Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Invention and Design Bay Area Theater & Plays Law Current Events Community New York ]

This morning, as we were driving to our second appointment, I got a text message from MyTurn.ca.gov telling me that "We're working around the clock to get more vaccines and appointments to Californians. Please keep checking..."

About a quarter of California vaccine appointments are booked through the official site. I hope that we can get a legislator to hold someone's feet to the fire for giving this contract to Accenture rather than someone competent, like a high school nerd slinging PHP.

Cal Matters: State’s ‘MyTurn’ website bypassed for most vaccine appointments

State officials told CalMatters that they spent $50 million building the site. A contract obtained by CalMatters shows up to $18 million will be paid to multinational consulting giant Accenture. Of that, $6.9 million was spent on development, but there’s another $5.7 million management cost in the first year and another roughly $6 million a year for two more years. Accenture used technology from Salesforce, a San Francisco-based software company, and was assisted by a workforce management consulting company called Skedulo.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Andersen/Accenture Health Bay Area Software Engineering Work, productivity and environment Television California Culture Pyrotechnics Currency ]

I was actually gonna be happy if I managed to clear the driveway by the end of tomorrow, but we knocked off work early this afternoon and I got a second workout. Now to dig the piers in.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Work, productivity and environment ]

How am I gonna make any progress if these things keep getting in my way?

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography ]

I mean, really.

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It doesn't look like much, but the ones that are dug in are within about 1/16" of each other. Hoping tonight's rain makes tomorrow's digging easier.

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46 hours since my second Pfizer dose. Arm hurt a lot on the first night, but any other ill effects so far have been well within the usual range of having a body.

This morning's productivity on the backyard deck was brought to me by two episodes of Tristan Taormino's podcast "Sex Out Loud". The first was Dr. Ina Park talking about her book "Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs". I'm gonna put that one on the reading queue, it sounds fascinating. The episode is at https://sexoutloud.libsyn.com/...cience-history-and-state-of-stds

The second was Dr. Heather Berg on Porn as Work, and that too was fascinating. I used to be a... well... in the words of my father, raging right wing asshole, an Objectivist Libertarian, and even fairly recently I've rejected the work of some Marxist economics with the "how does that even work?", but as I get deeper into the violence that seems to be necessary to extract value from labor, I start to become more aware of the places that violence is used for that purpose.

And how things like FOSTA/SESTA and anti-porn and "protect the childruuunnnn" legislative ventures are often just more deeply entrenching that extractive violence in society.

This was a really cool discussion that delved deep into some of that, made even better by Tristan Taormino's experience with roles as producer, director, and performer. https://sexoutloud.libsyn.com/dr-heather-berg-on-prn-as-work

Gotta call up Copperfield's and have 'em order this one: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250206657

[ related topics: Politics Objectivism Libertarian Books Erotic Sexual Culture Work, productivity and environment Community Economics ]

And the rain is chasing me inside

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It's starting to take shape. I might take a day off this week and see if I can knock the rest of it out. Also, that astoundingly expensive Festool drill/driver combo set paid for itself today.

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Former Louisville detective who helped incarcerate innocent men agrees to plead guilty, go to prison

Handy had previously agreed to a plea deal on a charge of felony perjury related to a 1995 case that put Edwin Chandler in prison nearly a decade for a murder he didn't commit. But the tampering with physical evidence charge in another case had been dismissed.

So his lies took a combined 52 years of freedom from his victims, and he gets a year. Seems... uh...

[ related topics: Privacy Law Current Events Civil Liberties Government ]

American Psychiatric Association: Deaths by Suicide Drop in 2020 While Overall Deaths Soared During Pandemic

Deaths by suicide declined by almost 6% from 2019 to 2020, according to a report in JAMA based on statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The decline is one hopeful finding in an otherwise grim report that revealed a 17.7% increase in overall deaths in 2020, with most of those directly attributable to COVID-19.

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I do not understand why this isn't just the default. RT Steph Hippo @stephhippo

FYI: chrome://settings/content/notifications

"Sites can ask to send notifications" -> off

What Ultimate Frisbee can teach us about Jon Ossoff.

At every level, from elementary school to professional, ultimate is almost entirely self-officiated. Players point out violations that they see, experience or even cause, and both sides have to agree the violation occurred for it to fully count. If they don’t, play resorts to a sort of half-penalty. The disagreement is incorporated into the game, not punted to arbiters on the sidelines. “The grace that allows us to exhibit, if we buy in, is transformative,” Baccarini said.

If you don’t take the responsibility of self-officiation seriously — if you’re inclined to lie, fight, or act the victim — people notice, and stop giving you chances to show off those instincts. It doesn’t matter what other skills you bring: Violate that cardinal value, and you’re on the sidelines. In ultimate, you’re either successful at owning your mistakes, or you’re genuinely bad at the game.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Interactive Drama Games Current Events ]

Andrew Brown Jr.'s death is off-screen in this video. You'll be forgiven for thinking that a bunch of armed dudes dressed in black rolling up in the back of a pickup truck and jumping out with guns blazing is ISIL in Syria rather than Pasquotank County https://www.wavy.com/video/cit...e-warrant-at-andrew-browns-home/

[ related topics: Privacy Television Machinery Guns Video ]

For all of your machine learning needs: Punatorium announces OPun:

Open source Puns! We've got a data dump of all of our puns on our site. You can check out the Github repository here

We would appreciate you keeping the source of Punatorium with the data you use. You can use it for private or commercial purpose, but please link back to Punatorium.

What might you use Open Pun (OPun) for? Well, you could spin up your own Pun of the Day API, to return a random pun each day. You could feed the puns into a chat bot to tell random jokes for your community (Need a chat bot? Check out our Typescript based chat bot that works on Discord, Telegram, and IRC).

Via the always awesome https://researchbuzz.me/

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Faith Merino on Lit Hub — False Memories and Manufactured Myths: Growing Up in a Conspiracy Theory Household

... Those less clear, less direct conspiracy theories were the more insidious stories in my home growing up, because they were the soup of insinuation and implication in which I was always swimming. I filled in the gaps, I made the structural jumps to the obvious next step in the story, and then it became my story, which became my memory of the event. And then I became the storyteller.

Like any story, a conspiracy theory has to be aerated through tellings and retellings in order to stay alive, and through the reach and versatility of social media, myth becomes memory. ...

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Conspiracy Government ]

I'm following along a Zoom presentation with the links in the slides, and it's a strong reminder: Organizations: make sure the links you publish in your slides work with the case published! Also, keep your web links static, don't move things once you publish!

[ related topics: Law Work, productivity and environment ]

Regular Coffee Drinking Tied to Functional Brain Changes

Using fMRI, researchers found that connectivity in the somatosensory and limbic resting states was reduced in regular coffee drinkers (CDs) in comparison with non–coffee drinkers (NCDs), suggesting an association between coffee drinking and improved motor control and alertness. In addition, dynamic activity in several cerebellar and subcortical areas of the brain was increased among CDs, consistent with an improved ability to focus.

The study is Nature Molecular Psychiatry: Habitual coffee drinkers display a distinct pattern of brain functional connectivity

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01075-4

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Cool Twitter thread about how the pop group A-ha was critical in the introduction of electric car incentives in Norway.

[ related topics: Automobiles ]

Walkable Main will not return to Breckenridge

“Something that I am really concerned about is … if a restaurant that is in the closure is able to be not just at 100% capacity but then even above 100% capacity, we already have an employment issue in this town,” Owens said. “We know lots and lots of people are trying to hire and are understaffed, and I guess I would just really hate to see some people that are at 120% capacity getting full staff, and then somebody north of town or south of town not able to get full employees because there’s just additional pressure on the employee situation.”

"We can't stop catering to cars, business might improve!" is certainly a take.

Via this Twitter thread.

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