Flutterby™! From 2021-10-01 to 2021-10-30

More than half of police killings in the US are unreported in government data, study finds

Or, rephrased, every day, a cop in the United States kills someone and the prosecutor and medical examiner cover it up.

Via a Tweet from Elf Sternberg

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Good morning America, how are ya? Amtrak down to Fresno this morning to drive back with Charlene.

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Through the Delta

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Hey, it's great that we've dedicated a day to this, and are advertising bike and walk to work day on a 3 lane highway in the middle of the Central Valley, in a daft when visibility is probably a mile or so...

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Work, productivity and environment California Culture Bicycling ]

Hey, it's great that we've dedicated a day to this, and are advertising bike and walk to work day on a 3 lane highway in the middle of the Central Valley, in a daft when visibility is probably a mile or so...

[ related topics: Photography Consumerism and advertising Work, productivity and environment California Culture Bicycling ]

All I want to did is walk from the car charger to the Trader Joe's. It seems like the plan is to drive from store to store. In the same freakin' mall.

[ related topics: Photography Automobiles ]

Because I know I'm gonna want to find this again: Metafilter thread that links to The most important device in the universe (YouTube video) and The second-most important device in the universe (also a YouTube video compilation). Heavily used movie props created by John Zabrucky.

[ related topics: Movies Video ]

Order of operations around here: Check in the fix, write the bug report, test the fix. (Yes, it actually does make sense in context, buuuuuut...)

In honor of Facebook's epic BGP fail today, which may or may not have anything to do with this, here's CBS 60 Minutes: Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation

Her name is Frances Haugen. That is a fact that Facebook has been anxious to know since last month when an anonymous former employee filed complaints with federal law enforcement. The complaints say Facebook's own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest—but the company hides what it knows. One complaint alleges that Facebook's Instagram harms teenage girls. What makes Haugen's complaints unprecedented is the trove of private Facebook research she took when she quit in May. The documents appeared first, last month, in the Wall Street Journal. But tonight, Frances Haugen is revealing her identity to explain why she became the Facebook whistleblower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yjINsQu-Wk

[ related topics: Politics tolkien moron Current Events Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Television Economics ]

The Historical Jesus and the Slave of the Centurion: How the Themes of Slavery, Sexuality, and Military Service Intersect in Matthew 8:5-13 Erik Koepnick, author Dr. Kathleen Corley, Religious Studies & Anthropology, faculty adviser

Abstract When the identity of the slave in the Gospel narrative of “The Healing of the Centurion’s Slave” is studied through historical-critical research, the written and earlier oral traditions of the story indicate that the miraculous act is true to the historical Jesus. Also, by exploring the slave’s identity as a slave, same-sex love interest, and military recruit—and the 1st century C.E. implications thereof—the author concludes that the historical Jesus understood the sexual relationship between the centurion and his slave, and healed the latter based on the faith of the former. Jesus never spoke negatively about homosexuality and never offered sociological or theological discourse pertaining thereto.

[ related topics: Religion Humor Erotic Sexual Culture ]

Virginia girl, 10, dead from COVID after being named ‘class nurse,’ school investigating

One week before her death, Teresa Sperry told her mom and dad that her fifth-grade teacher at Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk gave her the “nurse” job of walking sick kids to the actual nurse’s office, according to a Facebook post from her mother, Nicole Sperry.

CNN: Virginia family is trying to process how their healthy 10-year-old daughter died from Covid in five days

"One of the things she told us before she got sick, was that her job was to be the 'class nurse' to take the sick kids from the class to the nurse's office," Jeff said. "And you have to understand my daughter, this is who she is, helping people is my daughter, it's not something that she wouldn't have wanted to do."

Suffolk schools to investigate whether teacher asked student who died to walk sick children to nurse

[ related topics: Children and growing up Health Sociology Current Events Heinlein Eric's Life ]

So, wait, you're telling me that a company with huge contracts with American intelligence agencies is the primary funder of the conspiracy-theory spreading OAN network? How could this possibly go wrong? A Reuters Special Report: How AT&T helped build far-right One America News

[ related topics: broadband Current Events Conspiracy Government ]

Fantastic Twitter thread about machine learning datasets gathered from the open web, and how un-curated data sets for machine learning reinforce biases.

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Great Twitter thread going in-depth to the recent FT attack on electric cars. Summary: yeah, cars are bad, but electric cars still suck less than internal combustion automobiles, and the FT article is a hit piece.

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You know who you are. A good alternative to lorem ipsum for certain applications: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

Dating app for Jewish singles who are into male penetration (TikTok video)

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Looking at people pushing cryptocurrencies and NFTs and thinking about how those same people were telling me about fiat currency being a Ponzi scheme just recently...

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As we see the Minneapolis police wrest control away from civilian authorities and go nuts there, it's instructive to look at when New York fell to the NYPD, and what's happened in the intervening years: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/r...2020/07/18/when-the-nypd-rioted/

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

So, wait, Cocoa threads UI actions so that a button press can compete with a press gesture recognizer on a competing view to see which lands first? Aaaaaaigh.

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In 1990 I was paying $450/month for a two-bedroom apartment, paying $5 including tip for lunch. In 2021 I'm paying about $2200/month mortgage plus about $500/month for property taxes, and $20 for lunch. CPI calculator claims 215% over that time...

[ related topics: Politics Real Estate Government ]

A little too on the nose with the metaphors here: Someone hijacked a Navy warship’s Facebook account so they could livestream ‘Age of Empires’

hat tip to Tara at https://researchbuzz.me

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I'm reading David Byrne's "How Music Works", part memoir, part exploration of how the context of music changes the meaning we take from it. Lots of good stuff, chapter 8 was about making a music scene, with discussion of why CBGB worked, and now I'm hitting chapter 9, and even more good stuff. But this quote from John Philip Souza hit me, and (should we we ever really get back to square dancing) will influence my square dance calling:

"The country dance orchestra of violin, guitar, and melodeon had to rest at times, and the resultant interruption afforded the opportunity for general sociability and rest among the entire company. Now a tireless mechanism can keep everlastingly at it, and much of what made the dance wholesome recreation is eliminated."

This embellishes an observation made in chapter 8 about how a good scene enables casual listening and casual participation, and how scheduled shows and seats for an audience create a very different environment than pool tables and a broken up space.

[ related topics: Music Nature and environment Space & Astronomy Television Community Furniture ]

Mac window transparency: because some people fondly remember the days when CRTs needed degaussing and got burn-in.

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New research on emissions strengthens case for a 20mph default urban speed limit

New research[1] from engineering consultants, Skyrad, models the impact of capping speeds at 20mph vs. 30mph. This “real life” modelling that takes account of the stop/start nature of urban traffic yields a very different result from traditional steady-state models. It shows significant and substantial reductions in emissions: CO₂ lower by 26% and NOx 28% lower. With UK hosting COP26, campaigners are calling on governments to set 20mph or 30km/h limits as national urban/village defaults.

[ related topics: Nature and environment Invention and Design Law Television ]

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Via this Twitter thread

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

Just cycling around and hanging out in the old stomping grounds.

[ related topics: Photography Sports Pedal Power Bicycling ]

Alas Bedford Book Gallery is closed, but I am intrigued.

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Alas Bedford Book Gallery is closed, but I am intrigued. (fixed)

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RT Keep It Surly @surlyurbanist

You know this country is still in thrall to confederate romanticism in many ways when it is never really discussed widely that we have true universal public education in large part due to Reconstruction constitutions set up by Blacks in the south

Bringing Universal Education to the South — JSTOR Daily

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Drove over to the east bay this afternoon to sit with a friend in hospice. I will never know if they knew we were there, but I know. Carefully consider in what order you eat dessert; life is finite.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Food California Culture ]

Came across the Bike Equity mailing list:

City looks to add 100 miles of bike lanes by end of 2022

Chicago Department of Transportation will spend $17 million over the next two years to add bike lanes across the city, with a focus on the South and West sides.

Equiticity Research Projects, including Biking where Black: Connecting transportation planning and infrastructure to disproportionate policing, Jesus M.Barajas.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.103027

[ related topics: Religion Humor Sports Pedal Power Bicycling ]

Interesting look at standardized testing: Some final thoughts on the SAT and ACT

Still remember that long section I had in high school English about how to take standardized tests, and how many people I've talked to about test taking who never had that portion of their education.

Via https://twitter.com/JonBoeckenstedt/status/1447584690932629511

[ related topics: Children and growing up Education ]

'Shoot the tires': The violent early history of cars in Golden Gate Park

Despite that overt threat, the park leaders continued to resist. Finally, on July 4, 1907, Park Commissioner Metson let loose with his shotgun-to-the-tires suggestion. In a Chronicle article headlined “Buckshot for Speeding Autos,” McLaren himself spoke of his own recent incident of “rank indifference” from a motorist in violation of park rules who “refused to recognize the superintendent’s authority and rudely thrust him aside.”

Bring back buckshot for speeding autos.

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Slept like shit, decided to get up before my alarm, differently on the SFO AirTran to my terminal 2:45 before my flight. Do I coffee or try to sleep on the plane?

[ related topics: Aviation Woodworking ]

Biking out for a morning grocery store run, and fin the lady at the crosswalk watching car after car after school bus wasn't a harsh reminder that I'm in Ohio, this is:

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Automobiles Bicycling Public Transportation ]

Pondering the possible functions of this button

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Going through old papers my mom saved. Apparently I was sending some pretty sensitive information...

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I don't think I'm blowing any ongoing operations...

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Blockchain just an acceleration to the end-game of "what hardware giveth, software taketh away".

[ related topics: Games Software Engineering ]

I always aspired to be the creepy uncle, but ya teach the niece how to make glitter slime and suddenly you're the cool adult...

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Wait, you don't have anything for me to eat!

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End of the season

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More end of season

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TOL to PRD to PHX to SFO. Good morning, Chicago!

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err: to ORD ..

Other places manage to make automated trains that don't slam you around like a cut rate 1960s amusement park ride, why is the ride on SFO AirTrain so freakin' awful?

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Other places manage to make automated trains that don't slam you around like a cut rate 1960s amusement park ride, why is the ride on SFO AirTrain so freakin' awful?

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Serious Q: is there any legitimate site for a China Post tracking number? We have a number given to us by a shipper that claims delivery in Petaluma on the top Google hits for "China post tracking", with nothing on the Ring cameras.

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“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength..." https://www.theatlantic.com/id...resignation-accelerating/620382/

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So quick to assign guilt to non-police suspects, so unwilling to take responsibility when a cop kills a motorcyclist: RT ABC Action News @abcactionnews

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the trooper entered the path of the motorcyclist which led him to crash into the cruiser and become ejected. Troopers said the motorcyclist then fell into the road and was hit by a semi.

Motorcyclist killed after crash with FHP cruiser, semi on I-4

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Wow. In theaters, at the same time...

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There has to be an easy way to tell the Mac that, no, I don't want it restoring its very wrong notions of which applications were running previously when I restart it.

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Bagheera can be kind of a dick https://youtu.be/1oYgmwChszA

Why painted bike lanes are immoral in one video.

Content warning: Nobody gets hit, but holy shit. The video.

[ related topics: Movies Bay Area Video Bicycling ]

Yeah, an email advertising a "Dick's flash sale"? I'm not opening that. I get enough of that on MeWe.

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Prediction: Cryptocurrencies and NFTs will lead to to the next depression as the stock bubble did to the 1929 crash.

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RMI SHIFT Calculator — State Highway Induced Frequency of Travel

The calculator applies to roads with Federal Highway Administration functional facility classifications of 1, 2 or 3, corresponding to interstate highways, other freeways and expressways, and other principal arterials, respectively. The calculator generates a reasonable estimate for induced vehicle miles traveled at the appropriate order of magnitude for a given area. It is not intended as a substitute for more granular traffic modeling or simulations—but rather as a tool that can effectively translate well-established induced travel demand elasticities to analysis of roadway capacity expansion impacts.

The Stranger: [Seattle] Unvaccinated, Unmasked, and Unemployed: Firefighters Drop Their Boots After a One-Off Community Breakfast to Show They “Still Care”

The firefighters, cops, and other supporters left after a prayer, a few tears, and another group picture. The shoes were snagged almost immediately. Within ten minutes of their departure a group of young people collected the shoes for mutual aid projects.

In a text message, a representative from the group said, "We’re glad we were able to save these shoes for people who actually need them instead of being wasted for some dramatic, egotistical display that would have been trashed overnight anyways."

Via https://twitter.com/hannahkrieg/status/1450549826333011969

[ related topics: Religion Law Enforcement Shoes Community Seattle ]

Dr. Jen Gunter: PBS Scrubs Noted Anti-Vaxxer Dr. Christiane Northrup from their YouTube Channel

Last month I took you on a deep dive into the anti science, misogynistic, patient blaming, anti-Semitic teachings of Dr. Christiane Northrup. You can find that post here. I was shocked that Oprah and PBS had seen fit to make her a household name given what she has always promoted. I wondered if anyone in the media who had elevated her, and there were many who did, had actually read any of her work?

Via https://twitter.com/DrJenGunter/status/1451178590339354629

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

Language Log: Passive voice: two out of three isn't good enough, which I got to by this Tweet about Lorry falls into water at Bristol harbour.

Elf Sternberg quoted a tweet with:

"In one study, subjects looked at photos of traffic. When shown a photo of a car they were more likely to identify the subject of a photo as a thing. When shown a bicyclist, they were more likely to use language describing a person."

and:

This gets at the heart of why drivers typically hate bicyclists. Drivers don't even think of themselves as human, but superhuman, wrapped in steel, and are annoyed to have to share the road with mere flesh and blood.

and:

This puts some interesting color on the post-humanism versus transhumanism debate. There are already transhumans in the world, and have been since the invention of the motorized vehicle. And they quickly adopted a language and attitude that puts ordinary people at risk.

[ related topics: Quotes Photography Cool Science tolkien Nature and environment Current Events Automobiles Gambling ]

Scientists create a wooden knife three times sharper than a steel blade

Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2021.09.020

Via https://researchbuzz.me/

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Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube

So, uh, I have an old Roku. I have two new Chromecasts. I haven't pulled the Roku out of the back of the TV yet, but I'm not really sure what function it serves these days.

I think if I were Google I might put the app on Roku just to avoid anti-trust claims, but....

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Technology and Culture Invention and Design Television Mathematics ]

Strong evidence for the continued contribution of lead deposited during the 20th century to the atmospheric environment in London of today https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102791118

Although leaded gasoline was banned at the end of the last century, lead (Pb) remains significantly enriched in airborne particles in large cities. The remobilization of historical Pb deposited in soils from atmospheric removal has been suggested as an important source providing evidence for the hypothetical long-term persistency of lead, and possibly other pollutants, in the urban environment. Here, we present data on Pb isotopic composition in airborne particles collected in London (2014 to 2018), which provide strong support that lead deposited via gasoline combustion still contributes significantly to the lead burden in present-day London.

Costs of IQ Loss from Leaded Aviation Gasoline Emissions https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b02910

In the United States, general aviation piston-driven aircraft are now the largest source of lead emitted to the atmosphere. Elevated lead concentrations impair children’s IQ and can lead to lower earnings potentials. This study is the first assessment of the nationwide annual costs of IQ losses from aircraft lead emissions. We develop a general aviation emissions inventory for the continental United States and model its impact on atmospheric concentrations using the community multi-scale air quality model (CMAQ). We use these concentrations to quantify the impacts of annual aviation lead emissions on the U.S. population using two methods: through static estimates of cohort-wide IQ deficits and through dynamic economy-wide effects using a computational general equilibrium model. We also examine the sensitivity of these damage estimates to different background lead concentrations, showing the impact of lead controls and regulations on marginal costs. We find that aircraft-attributable lead contributes to $1.06 billion 2006 USD ($0.01–$11.6) in annual damages from lifetime earnings reductions, and that dynamic economy-wide methods result in damage estimates that are 54% larger. Because the marginal costs of lead are dependent on background concentration, the costs of piston-driven aircraft lead emissions are expected to increase over time as regulations on other emissions sources are tightened.

Both via this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1450591638796087296

[ related topics: Children and growing up Cool Science Nature and environment Aviation Community Economics Archival Model Building ]

RT Barry Dorrans @blowdart

“What’s your Halloween outfit?”

“Supply chain problems”

“But that’s just your every day old clothes”

“Yes”

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Twitter: Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter. We already knew this, but:

Right-leaning news outlets, as defined by the independent organizations listed above, see greater algorithmic amplification on Twitter compared to left-leaning news outlets.

Via Protocol: Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.

"We can see that it is happening. We are not entirely sure why it is happening. To be clear, some of it could be user-driven, people's actions on the platform, we are not sure what it is. It's just important that we share this information," Chowdhury said. The META team plans to conduct what she called a "root-cause analysis" to try to discover the "why," and that analysis will likely include creating testable hypotheses about how people use the platform that could help show whether it's the way users interact with Twitter or the algorithm itself that is causing this uneven amplification.

I suspect that some of it is just that the economic forces behind the "right wing" provide money for campaigns and efforts which exploit the algorithm.

Edit: The Guardian: Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets

[ related topics: Politics Weblogs moron Current Events Television Currency Economics ]

SPUR: Water for a Growing Bay Area:

This report — a collaboration between SPUR and Pacific Institute — shows that the Bay Area can add 2.1 million jobs, 6.8 million people and 2.2 million homes by 2070 and offset all water use from this growth in two ways: through modest improvements in water use efficiency and by locating new growth in areas that are already developed.

[ related topics: Invention and Design Television California Culture Gambling ]

Oh, interesting: First look I thought it was a 4 rotor configuration, and wondered how they were going to handle failures, but it's 8 rotors: Jetson One - Official Launch (YouTube video), an ultralight single- person homebuilt quadcopter, for $92k.

Jeson Aero

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"Yeah, my Mac's in Prince mode, you know, purple accent." "Okay, but it's also dark mode, so I guess that's Dark Prince mode?"

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I think I've lost Dan & T.C.'s bandwidth bet, but this seems relevant: ISPs Want More Money Because So Many People Are Streaming Squid Game

Via /.

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Shopping is hard. Let's do math.

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My approach to CSS: Just mark everything !important until it actually does what I want. And then don't touch it.

Dear lazyweb: is there an automatic transcription service for Zoom that will integrate and give speaker names? Currently using Amazon Transcribe, but have to guess at the speaker names later.

[ related topics: Books ]

Wooh atmospheric river! Power line diagnostic lights are blinking, and the poles are flexing in the wind! Should have buttoned down the umbrellas and sun shade in the back yard; too late now.

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Yeah, there's a little bit of water pressure out there....

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Wider shot...

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yay! Power back on!

No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond's exposure to infectious agents https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2021.102175

... Bond clearly belongs to the 20–34% of international travelers who engage in casual sex and of whom approximately half do not use a condom [11]. Somewhat in his defense, Bond has nearly all known risk factors associated with higher frequency of unprotected sex abroad (male, single, younger age, traveling without partner, alcohol and tobacco use etc.). That casual sex is not without risk appears supported by the high mortality rate (27.1%; 95% CI 16.4–40.3) among Bond's sexual partners, although sexually transmitted infections played no obvious role in any of their deaths.

Via MeFi

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And yes, that answered one was a scam as well (I muted it and let a human repeat "hello" for few seconds).

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Fascinating article on how the snake oil shysters are driving legitimate researchers out of medicine: Judge Dismisses Lyme Disease Lawsuit Against IDSA, Doctors, but the Ordeal Has Left Its Scars

So the last thing Sigal expected after all these years was to find himself named in a lawsuit alleging that he was part of a conspiracy to deny patients of what they claimed was appropriate treatment for Lyme disease. Yet, that's exactly what happened in November 2017, when a group of 24 patients with Lyme disease, led by Texas resident Lisa Torrey, filed a lawsuit against the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), eight insurance companies, and seven of the doctors involved in producing the IDSA guidelines on Lyme disease diagnosis and management. Sigal himself had not even participated in writing the guidelines. He simply reviewed them, made a few grammatical suggestions, and said they looked good. Yet, over the next 4 years, he and his fellow defendants rode an emotional rollercoaster of seemingly endless motions, amendments, and other legal developments, waiting to find out whether they would owe millions of dollars for simply summarizing — or just reviewing — the available medical literature on Lyme disease.

(Oddly, getting a request to create an account to continue reading from Firefox, not from Chrome)

[ related topics: Writing Law Conspiracy Government ]

The Philadelphia Inquirer: SEPTA rape case is latest in a U.S. pandemic of police lying. There must be consequences. | Will Bunch

The police disinformation about passengers watching the SEPTA rape is just one of a series of cop lies rocking the U.S. political debate. Enough is enough!

[ related topics: Politics moron Law Law Enforcement ]

RT kai @kaichoyce

𝘪 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 *𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦* 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

"There can be no such thing as psychological warfare…if you develop a psychological weapon sufficiently that it is destructive to any potential enemy, it will destroy you with the enemy…" - Frank Herbert, talking about Dune, but maybe foreseeing Facebook?

From the interview linked in Dune’s Not a White Savior Narrative. But It’s Complicated. Transcript of the interview at http://sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm

[ related topics: Ziffle Interactive Drama Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Guns ]

PPIC: Police Use of Force and Misconduct in California

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RT Robert 🎃 Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R

Classical composers (c. 1500-1950) vs. Britney Spears

A THREAD:

[ related topics: Pop Culture ]

Or, at least, prison doesn't make society any safer, and probably makes it less safe: Crime and Justice: a review of research — Custodial Sanctions and Reoffending: A Meta-Analytic Review https://doi.org/10.1086/715100

Every review has reached nearly the same conclusion: compared with noncustodial sanctions, custodial sanctions, including imprisonment, have no appreciable effect on reducing reoffending. The studies tend to show that placing offenders in custody has a slight criminogenic effect, although this association is not sufficiently robust to argue for its certainty.

Via this Twitter thread

[ related topics: Bay Area Law Enforcement ]

More reason we need to abolish arbitration, or at least reform the hell out of it: As closed-door arbitration soared last year, workers won cases against employers just 1.6 percent of the time

[ related topics: Sociology Work, productivity and environment Currency ]

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Before Rosa Parks, 15 year old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. She’s now 82 and still on probation.

[ related topics: Race Public Transportation ]

Who Invented the “Glory Hole”—Glass Blowers or Gays?

Via MeFi

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So far today I have 14 "Scam Likely" calls on my phone. On the one hand, I'm grateful T-Mobile is suppressing them, on the other hand how can we not have the political will to make voice calls on phones even a thing to consider again?

[ related topics: Politics moron ]

Stack Exchange Code Golf: High-throughput Fizz Buzz, using assembly language to get double-digit gigabyte per second throughput (the basic naive C implementation using printfs gets triple digit megabytes per second).

Via lobste.rs

The Secret Life of a Happy-Ending Masseur and the Women Who Swear By Him

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Holy crap, can someone get GM a software development process? Between the phone app and the in-dash display and whatever they're using for appointment management and service coordination, it feels like software is a complete afterthought to them.

[ related topics: Software Engineering ]

Categorizing workspaces in the app I'm a part of developing, and realized that "bong hits 4 Jesus" and "Smurfs and other gourmet delicacies" go in "work" rather than "personal". My job is pretty cool.

[ related topics: Religion Drugs Humor Work, productivity and environment Heinlein ]

The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor — How a dark-money mogul bankrolled an astroturf backlash.

[ related topics: Politics Currency ]

Only Minneapolis police officer formally disciplined for misconduct tied to the department's riot response has left job, Minnesota

Ryan's infraction: speaking without permission to a magazine columnist about what she called a toxic, para-militant police culture that breeds dangerous officers like Derek Chauvin.

[ related topics: Sociology Law Enforcement Heinlein California Culture ]