Flutterby™! From 2021-11-02 to 2021-11-30

Cannabis products may help treat symptoms of depression, improve sleep, and increase quality of life, study suggests

“Medicinal cannabis products, especially products high in CBD, may help to treat symptoms of depression, improve sleep, and increase quality of life,” Martin told PsyPost. “There is also some evidence that medicinal cannabis may alleviate symptoms of anxiety, particularly if administered over an extended period of time, but this is less clear from our results and warrants further study.”

Antidepressant and Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis Use in an Observational Trial https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.729800

Results: Medicinal cannabis use was associated with lower self-reported depression, but not anxiety, at baseline. Medicinal cannabis users also reported superior sleep, quality of life, and less pain on average. Initiation of medicinal cannabis during the follow-up period was associated with significantly decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms, an effect that was not observed in Controls that never initiated cannabis use.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Health Antidepressants ]

RT awr @awr_hey

critical security flaw found in all turing-complete languages: they can compute things. This is bad for obvious reasons

RT The Baron Bisonimir Sexhornen: twitch.tv/brainmage @Brainmage

Technically every mocking reply to a crypto bro is an NFT, because it's a digital record of them being owned

[ related topics: Technology and Culture Television Cryptography ]

The existence of a complex analytical tool says things about the environment in which it will be used. Example: XCode's view hierarchy inspector. Aaaaaaaaack!

[ related topics: Nature and environment ]

Seeing discussion about yet another "buy from Amazon, resell on Etsy with big markup" venture, and thinking about how community, trust, and relationships haven't scaled with technology.

[ related topics: Books Community ]

Today I learned about Carl Braden, charged in 1954 with "sedition" for helping a Black family buy a house in a white Kentucky neighborhood. Might have to put Anne Braden's "The Wall Between" on the reading queue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Braden

[ related topics: Sociology Race Real Estate ]

The rise and fall of the Jack Daniel’s committee: How D.C.’s police lodge made thousands selling whiskey online

“All Jack Daniel's bottled beverages were sold illegally without the proper licensing and shipped in violation of the law,” the lodge’s own internal inquiry concluded in 2020.

The whiskey-selling operation was run by a man named Michael Kruggel, who had become an officer at the D.C. lodge despite working as a security guard at a Tennessee Walmart. Under him, the Jack Daniel’s committee took in more than $500,000 — but spent nearly all of it on expenses and travel, according to the lodge’s internal inquiry. Kruggel, lodge records showed, submitted reimbursements for 72,706 miles of driving in two years, enough to circle the earth 2.9 times.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement Chattanooga ]

Oooh: For examination this weekend, https://cuttle.xyz/ "A design tool for digital cutting machines.", based on parameterized designs.

This looks like the sort of CAD for layout stuff that I could totally use.

[ related topics: Graphic Design ]

Just discovered a few episodes from a podcast titled "Worst Year Ever" that looked attractive, and in the process of subscribing and downloading those into my player, discovered that the episodes started in 2019. Oh sweet summer children....

[ related topics: Children and growing up Sociology ]

Uh, my dudes, they arent.

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Greta is not amused.

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Somme days you show up to friends with bubble materials https://youtu.be/XI3M3myuan8

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Another bubble

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Charlene and a bubble

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Just another bubble

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Do eReplacementParts and the other appliance replacement parts vendors just not want my business? I want to avoid Amazon, but the competitors web sites just suck so badly that here we are. Sigh.

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Rain pooling on a Tesla roof

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Fantastic: ‘I’m Overdue for a Discussion About My Role in Inspiring ‘Edgelord’ Shit’: A Conversation with Steve Albini

In a recent Twitter thread, the famed audio engineer owned the ugly parts of his past — years of offensive music, statements and posts — and said his generation needs to talk about how culture has changed

Via MeFi

[ related topics: Music History Political Correctness Sociology California Culture Community Skating ]

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Health Gambling ]

The party of pedophiles and voicemail spam https://www.newsweek.com/forme...less-voicemail-robocalls-1641018

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Spam Monty Python ]

Hey AllTrafficSolutions.com, why you gotta drag law enforcement like that?

[ related topics: Photography Law Enforcement ]

Ouch: No, Ivermectin didn't decrease the COVID-19 mortality rate, it tripled it. Whoopsie. Retraction Watch: Bad MATH+? Covid treatment paper by Pierre Kory retracted for flawed results

The retraction notice:

‘The data from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital were presented in Table 2, which lists in-hospital or 28-day mortality rates at the 2 MATH+ centers as compared to 10 published single-center and multicenter reports. The mortality rate among 191 patients at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital as of July 20, 2020 was reported as 6.1%, as compared to mortality rates reported in the literature ranging from 15.6% to 32%. The authors state that these data “provide supportive clinical evidence for the physiologic rationale and efficacy of the MATH+ treatment protocol.”‘

[ related topics: Movies Mathematics Furniture ]

RT Matt Braunger @Braunger

You can talk about how unrealistic superhero movies are, but nothing in them holds a candle to the small towns in Hallmark Christmas specials

RT Matt Braunger @Braunger

“We all live here in really nice houses, have gorgeous clothes, and meet in the town square every evening. Me, I own a modest bookshop, Kate makes pies, and old Dennis sells antiques. What’s meth?”

[ related topics: Drugs Movies Theater & Plays Clothing Real Estate ]

{ 'payload': '<?xml version="1.0"?><foo><![CDATA[`${yaml_goes_here}`]]></foo>'}

[ related topics: Web development Content Management ]

Facebook, out there protecting the readers of Floof Therapy from the spam that is my cat.

[ related topics: Photography Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Spam Monty Python ]

Officer dies of COVID while on leave for missing California city’s vaccine deadline

San Francisco Police Department Officer Jack Nyce tested positive for the virus on Nov. 2 and died Saturday, Nov. 6, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. His symptoms were so severe on Nov. 6 that he was taken to a hospital in an ambulance and died later that day.

[ related topics: virus Bay Area Current Events Law Enforcement California Culture ]

Oh cool: JSCut is a browser tool to convert SVG to gcode CNC cutting paths

Interesting juxtaposition and set of investigating agencies here...

Amazon drivers part of $10 million theft ring, FBI says

Amazon To Pay $61.7 Million to Settle FTC Charges It Withheld Some Customer Tips from Amazon Flex Drivers

Via https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1458503677958713346

[ related topics: Books tolkien Current Events Law Enforcement ]

Jalopnik: Let's Check In On Nobe, Everyone's Favorite Estonian EV Maker, linked to because holy crap if that little electric truck isn't the cutest thing ever and if I can get that with a lumber rack and a half-ton capacity shut up and take my money.

And if they'll sell it in "rat rod" paint job (which would have to be simulated, 'cause rusty carbon fiber), I'll pay extra for the privilege.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Heinlein Machinery Currency Woodworking ]

Cop-less Campuses: The LAUSD Replaced Police Presence with Mental Health Counselors in Schools. How’s That going?

The article is optimistic, but it seems like there's a lot of policing culture ingrained, and it may take a while to get through that.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Health Sociology Law Enforcement California Culture ]

Today's awesome Cocoa/Objective-C selector: "_something:didSomething:soContinue:". Naming things is hard... Apparently.

Lots of helicopter traffic over the Petaluma Veteran's Day parade.

[ related topics: Aviation - Helicopters ]

Lots of helicopter traffic over the Petaluma Veteran's Day parade. Now with link https://youtu.be/TkaxRAE1yuc

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Subtle sunset, but still worth a glance.

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Charlene, loading the dishwasher: "There's room for some small stuff in the bottom."

Me: "that sounds like the beginning of an embarrassing emergency room visit"

A message in my spam folder, in French, but with the title "parking" so I tried to read it anyway because I'm always looking for good resources & potential speakers on the topic of parking...

[ related topics: Spam Monty Python ]

Trying to figure out the ordering of M1 "Pro" vs "Max", and where that fits in the hierarchy of "Prime", "Choice" and "Select".

[ related topics: Law ]

All adults can get a COVID vaccine booster in California, not just those CDC listed

"Do not turn a patient away who is requesting a booster," California Department of Public Health Director Tomás J. Aragón said in the letter. "Allow patients to self-determine their risk of exposure."

The letter from the California Department of Public Health

[ related topics: Health California Culture ]

Deldo is a sex toy control and teledildonics mode for Emacs

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

My brain at 1AM

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This sounds sketch, if the FSD mechanism is anything like the lane assist in our Bolt, it's not like "tried" is very hard to override: Tesla driver’s complaint being looked into by US NHTSA regulators

The vehicle, a 2021 Tesla Model Y small SUV, gave the driver an alert halfway through the turn, and the driver tried to turn the wheel to avoid other traffic, according to the complaint. But the car took control and “forced itself into the incorrect lane, creating an unsafe maneuver putting everyone involved at risk,” the driver wrote.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Humor Current Events Automobiles Fabrication ]

How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased.

Charlene is currently taking the training for a life-coaching/therapy-ish regimen that... I have trouble reconciling with how the world works. On the other hand, I've been the practice dummy for one of her classmates (and a friend) and it was kinda cool, and I'm having my "this makes no sense" meet up with my "yeah, but I feel better afterwards".

And then I continually see how broken the whole field of psychology is, how even the evidence for things that seem to be evidence-based, like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is pretty sketch.

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

Pluralistic.net: Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs themselves

[ related topics: Currency ]

House committee releases new evidence from investigation into Trump administration interference with CDC during Covid-19 pandemic

In another interview, Dr. Christine Casey, an editor of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, described an email from Trump appointee and former US Health and Human Services adviser Paul Alexander that she saw as a request to stop a report. She called it "highly unusual and quite concerning for somebody to ask to put an immediate stop on MMWR reports. I don't think in my memory that has ever happened. And, to be accused -- because it is accusatory language -- that MMWR content is designed to harm our commander in chief, the President."

[ related topics: Politics Health Invention and Design Real Estate Woodworking ]

Austin Chronicle: Sex Sells: 40 Years of Forbidden Fruit — Terri Lynn Raridon gives Austin over to absolute pleasure

She laughs again, a delightful sound. "But I had to go in front of the Texas grand jury, which was an eye-opening experience. People don't realize this, but when you go before a grand jury, your attorney doesn't go with you. It's you, the jury, your accusers, and the district attorney. But we got no-billed, which means that they didn't want to take it to court. And the guy who busted us? That was a guy named Byron 'Bubba' Cates, who'd been working for the vice squad – this was back when cities still had those. He'd been working for vice down in San Antonio and was apparently a pretty dirty cop and got booted out of there, but Austin seemed to have no problem bringing him in and letting him head up vice in this city. And a year and a day to the day he busted Forbidden Fruit? He went up on federal racketeering charges. So there is, you know, some justice in the world."

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Law Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement ]

Thinking about a friend posting assorted slides from a law enforcement conference, how so many of those SaaS products looked like a web GUI on top of OpenCV, and wondering how many of those departments have a smart person who's playing with that in-house...

[ related topics: Law Enforcement Conferences Real Estate ]

Overshadowed by the bear, the weekend's excitement also included a boat fire in the Turning Basin.

[ related topics: Photography Pyrotechnics Boats Machinery ]

what being a square dance caller is like https://theycantalk.com/post/667874745661915137/predicament

Are trackless trams really ready to replace light rail?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, these claims turned out to be wildly premature. By January 2020, rutting at the first commercially operating Trackless Tram line in the Chinese city of Zhuzhou was so severe that the optical guidance system was no longer capable of docking at stations, rendering the line noncompliant with disability codes after only one year of operation.

Are Trackless Trams the solution to our problems?

[ related topics: Graphics Trains ]

I have been listening to the Stuff the British Stole podcast, and enjoying it quite a bit. A lot of interesting history, and it doesn't always come up with the simplistic answers.

But it primes me to really want to see this movie (and the refinements suggested in the replies): RT Sean Kelly @StorySlug

Indiana Jones sequel where his great-granddaughter, in the present day, pulls off elaborate museum heists with the aim of returning everything Indy ever "recovered" to the people and countries they rightfully belonged to to begin with.

[ related topics: Movies Art & Culture Pop Culture ]

For various reasons, my trek to work today was at a slightly different time, so I got to see a different dynamic of kids walking, and being walked, to (Grant Elementary) school (along Mountain View Ave). In previous mornings, I've seen kids riding merrily along, and then realizing that the combination of car approaching from behind and parked cars means that they no longer feel safe on the roadway, and need to transition to the sidewalk, but they're in an area of no convenient driveway, so they stop, drag their bike over the flowers in the strip between the road and the sidewalk, and continue.

This morning it was waiting through the interminable line of cars (probably parents who'd just dropped their kids off at school) in order to cross Mountain View.

In either case, I strongly support the notion of a mass of kids and parents taking over Mountain View for a bike and pedestrian arrival at Grant. It'd take maybe 10 minutes out of that street for cars, and every kid on a bike, or walking, to school means one less car trip to and from, the school, morning and afternoon. So 4x fewer car trips past the Mountain View & Mission/Olive intersection and curve (with drivers whipping way too fast through its crappy visibility).

NPR: It started with 5 families. Now hundreds are biking to school together in Barcelona.

Via this Twitter thread, with video

[ related topics: Children and growing up Bay Area History Law Work, productivity and environment Travel Automobiles Video Bicycling ]

The older I get, the more I recognize that art museums are a mechanism for perpetuating a myth of value for product that's primary service is money laundering.

[ related topics: Art & Culture Currency ]

RT Shatter 💉💉P 💉M @Shatter242

For the non US folks out there, here's an update on US political terms to help you sort it out what people mean:

Patriot = Nationalist

Republican = Fascist

Democrat = Conservative

Liberal = Authoritarian Centrist

Socialist = Centrist

Communist = Moderate Progressive Left

To which I'd add: Libertarian = Monarchist.

[ related topics: Politics Libertarian moron ]

Sunset from Penry Park

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These pind palm fruit seeds really h do look like deer or rabbit pellets...

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Pindo palm fruit on fronds

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Filled this bowl twice so far. Need to weigh what we've got and maybe scope the neighborhood for more because wine apparently takes a lot of fruit.

[ related topics: Photography Wines and Spirits ]

I remember my teens, and even early twenties, when I thought it was important to read all of the classics and philosophers and such (and I wondered why nobody else was familiar with all the literature I was). This is a good read on that folly: LA Review of Books: The Myth of the Classically Educated Elite

I think it's also a remnant of a time when media was more expensive to produce, so "mass media" meant something different. Dave Polaschek observed that there's some survivorship bias, but I'd offer that much of the survivorship is about what supports the existing dominant social structure.

[ related topics: Books Journalism and Media ]

Sonoma County Folks: The North Bay Bohemian, the only paper really doing investigative journalism in Sonoma County, is asking for support. Even if you don't subscribe to one of the other papers, this one deserves your help: https://pico.link/northbaybohe...=CheckoutWizard_northbaybohemian

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Journalism and Media California Culture ]

Whoah, parking lot at our office-building, 7 out of 9 vehicles there are electric.

Because NFTs have come up a few times recently on the timelines of friends, here's your chance to collect them all! You can use BitTorrent to download "The Billion Dollar Torrent (all NFT's from Ethereum & Solana)".

Get them all before DMCA takedowns and web rot cause the URLs hosting the NFT images todisappear forever.

https://thenftbay.org/description.html

[ related topics: Currency ]

RT Susie Dent 💙 @susie_dent

Word of the day is ‘circumbendibus’ (17th century): an answer or argument so convoluted and evasive that it isn’t really an answer at all.

A tool for Twitter to block the poster of a Tweet, and everyone who liked the Tweet. https://megablock.xyz/

In the same week we both learned that the FBI framed people for Malcolm X's murder (and may have been involved in it), and might have learned the location of Jimmy Hoffa's corpse? What a time to be alive.

[ related topics: Law Enforcement ]

You know what I really despise? That the opposite of love isn't hate.

So if you knew somebody who was building tools to enter an address and get usernames tweeting from that area, public webcams, and such, for fun in their own time, and who was dramatically underemployed, how would you assist them with career development.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Charlene is on Zoom in the other room asking "You don't know how to work the otter?", and I figured out what she was talking about, but what even is language any more?

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment ]

Yowzas, MacOS Monterey and LibreOffice do not get along. Sigh.

[ related topics: Macintosh ]

A friend suggested a Termination Shock book club. I read ahead and finished it last night, and think I'm gonna take another pass through it. Lots of stuff in there I'm pondering, none of it makes me optimistic about the prospects of future generations.

[ related topics: Books ]

As Facebook has yet again dinged me for posting pictures of one of our cats, it's useful to look at their fuckups over time: Facebook’s race-blind policies around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show — Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from “conservative partners”

One of the reasons for these errors, the researchers discovered, was that Facebook’s “race-blind” rules of conduct on the platform didn’t distinguish among the targets of hate speech. In addition, the company had decided not to allow the algorithms to automatically delete many slurs, according to the people, on the grounds that the algorithms couldn’t easily tell the difference when a slur such as the n-word and the c-word were used positively or colloquially within a community. The algorithms were also over-indexing on detecting less harmful content that occurred more frequently, such as “men are pigs,” rather than finding less common but more harmful content.

“If you don’t do something to check structural racism in your society, you’re going to always end up amplifying it,” one of the people involved with the project told The Post. “And that is exactly what Facebook’s algorithms did.”

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Invention and Design Community Race Gambling Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Oh, someone's not happy with Sarah Taber: RT SOMETHING ELSE. @SylvanaquaFarms

It appears that Sarah Taber has a book to sell and is using this WHYY piece to cover her arse.

Let’s have a look, shall we? A thread…

On the one hand this could look like in-group sniping, on the other hand, since I've uncritically posted some Sarah Taber stuff before, it's worth looking a little deeper.

[ related topics: Books ]

Oh look, the broken engineering culture that led to the 737 MAX problems spread further than that: FAA memo reveals more Boeing 787 manufacturing defects, including contamination of carbon fiber composites

The memo states that more than 1,000 airplanes currently flying are affected and that the FAA is concerned about the lack of detailed assembly data on every airplane. Boeing submitted its proposal for inspections and indicated that the process would not require FAA approval.

[ related topics: Aviation Sociology California Culture ]

A little antidote to the news that the writings of a scion of a dynasty that was built on exploiting a misinformed public are currently at the top of the Amazon bestseller list (and: fuck Simon & Schuster): Antivaxx Holocaust — Vaccine protests, yellow stars, and an inoculation of historical reality

Also: How Scientists Created A Typhus Vaccine In A 'Fantastic Laboratory'

MeFi thread

[ related topics: Religion Books Writing Current Events ]

India police charge Amazon execs in alleged marijuana smuggling case

The police, who had previously summoned and spoken to Amazon executives in the case, estimate that about 1,000 kg of marijuana, worth roughly $148,000, was sold via Amazon.

So, two things: Is that same day, or two day, shipping via Prime?

And I don't care if it includes stems and leaves, $150/kg? I thought $150/oz was pretty cheap these days...

[ related topics: Drugs Interactive Drama Books Law Law Enforcement Economics ]

Yeah, it worked as designed, and it was a scam and a whole lot of people got taken: ‘Buy the Constitution’ Aftermath: Everyone Very Mad, Confused, Losing Lots of Money, Fighting, Crying, Etc.

ConstitutionDAO tried to buy the Constitution. Now it has a $40 million mess on its hands and entire refunds are being wiped out by high fees.

And holy shit the transaction costs on Ethereum are huge and should completely demolish the lie that it's in any way usable as a currency.

[ related topics: moron Law Civil Liberties Currency ]

You can tell the import of a Central Valley town by how many exits it gets on Highway 99.

[ related topics: California Culture ]

"The attachment state of some Fluid data..." Not sure whether I'm reading about psychology, safer sex, or computer science. Also, why do we have to create new words for concepts that have been enshrined in computing for years? Is it just stupid branding?

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Invention and Design hubris ]

PNAS: Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation

We quantify the effects of restoring wolf populations by evaluating their influence on deer–vehicle collisions (DVCs) in Wisconsin. We show that, for the average county, wolf entry reduced DVCs by 24%, yielding an economic benefit that is 63 times greater than the costs of verified wolf predation on livestock. Most of the reduction is due to a behavioral response of deer to wolves rather than through a deer population decline from wolf predation. This finding supports ecological research emphasizing the role of predators in creating a “landscape of fear.” It suggests wolves control economic damages from overabundant deer in ways that human deer hunters cannot.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023251118

[ related topics: Economics ]

I never thought I'd be completely pulled into watching someone's piano lesson: Seymour Bernstein on Beethoven: Technique & Interpretation (Interview at the piano) (YouTube video)

Via MeFi

[ related topics: Music Movies Video ]

If you're a fan of Ali Badr or Andy Goldsworthy, check out the work of Jon Foreman (Sculpt the World)

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

If you, like me, enjoy what happens when a skeptical interview subject discovers that their interviewer is not just a true fan, but is also accomplished in the interviewee's subject and really knows the technical bits about the work, Rich Beato's interview with Sting and Dominic Miller (YouTube video) is worth playing.

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

The abolitionist history of Thanksgiving and pumpkin pie — and why the South resisted both

[ related topics: Food ]

Okay, I realize that there's a lot I don't understand and hear in modern percussion backgrounds, but Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth band, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band Supergroup) give Nandi Bushell a MasterClass in Drumming is fantastic at helping me hear more about what's happening in the classics.

[ related topics: Music Movies Food ]

Yes, Facebook, the history of country music is sometimes associated with the sale of drugs.

[ related topics: Drugs Music Photography Health ]

"Nice handbag, did you get it on Facebook Marketplace?" https://brokeassstuart.com/202...k-about-the-louis-vuitton-heist/

What's her AO3 account? Asking for... reasons... https://deadstate.org/christia...-my-husband-to-have-sex-with-me/

[ related topics: Religion Erotic Sexual Culture Marriage ]

On the occupied territories of the Miwok peoples, we're gonna cook some Moroccan-style saffron braised turkey and assorted veggies and have a friend who lives on Pomo land down for an afternoon of reflection and friendship.

[ related topics: Food Birds Real Estate ]

Obligatory foods post. Prosciutto wrapped asparagus, mashed celeriac, flatbreads made from nut flours (our guest is diabetic) saffron turkey, etc.

[ related topics: Photography Food Birds ]

Really, Google Maps/Auto? I say "1111 Gough" and you try to tell me about numerology? I'm trying to navigate here...

[ related topics: Maps and Mapping ]

Wanted to plug into the charger, but the asshole quotient is high tonight.

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When Michelangelo does it it's "art", but when I draw dicks all over the walls...

[ related topics: Art & Culture ]

So the two huge tech drivers of climate cHange are crypto currencies and Waymo vehicles endlessly circling San Francisco (A city so bereft of vehicles it's going to free parking... https://www.nbcbayarea.com/new...people-back-in-the-city/2741281/ )

[ related topics: Bay Area Current Events California Culture Cryptography Global Warming ]

This morning's productivity is brought to me by an interview with Matthew Hahn on How to Human. Very recommended. https://www.hellohumans.co/hth/066

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Okay, gotta print up some artist statements and zip tie these to a pole at a nearby crosswalk and see how people respond....

[ related topics: Photography Art & Culture ]

Is there either an under-counter soap dispenser that doesn't suck, or a soap that we should be using in our under-counter soap dispensers, such that I don't have to replace them every year or so?

Cycling Tips: How I became the internet’s most notorious bike thief

For one edition of the (now defunct) magazine a colleague had written an article about her bike being stolen, and we needed a feature image. All the bike thieves in our stock photo archive looked a bit shit, but we had a bike, a camera, a big bolt-cutter, and a can-do attitude.

[ related topics: Photography Sports Net Culture Fabrication Pedal Power Bicycling Economics ]

Web4 should run on LaTeX.

The World Wide Web is broken: it is dominated by a handful of websites, nearly everything is financed by ads, bloated tech needlessly slows down surfing, NFTs and blockchain are digital cancer, et cetera. Stop it. Just stop it.

Julia Serano on Medium: On Being Explicitly Named in a Violent “Gender Critical” Manifesto

In a subsequent statement to The Guardian, Cade has claimed that “she had only attacked ‘personas’, not people.” But the thing is, I’m not a fucking “persona” — I’m an actual human being. I am a real person who regularly faces anti-trans harassment and abuse, which Cade’s posts both exacerbate and contribute to. And I sure as hell can tell the difference between critiques of my work, writings, and beliefs (which are fair game, even if I disagree with said critiques), and slanderous attempts to smear me, and trans women more generally, as “sexual predators” in tandem with calls to “lynch” and “execute” us.</bloickquote>

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Erotic Games Sexual Culture Writing Work, productivity and environment Monty Python Bicycling - Tandem ]

RT Liam O Duck @liamosaur

I dunno who needs to hear this, but: NIST👊Special👊Publication👊800👊dash👊6👊3👊B👊has👊 recommended👊against👊enforcing👊password👊rotation👊since👊2016

RT Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @CSMFHT

I used to tell a joke about Orpheus and Eurydice, but looking back, it was not a great idea

R&B singer Ari Lennox held for disturbance at Amsterdam airport

"Our unit found a woman full of emotions, that wouldn't calm down," spokesman Robert van Kapel said. "That's why she had to be taken into custody."

Via https://twitter.com/ashokkbanker/status/1465386309350871042

[ related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Aviation Journalism and Media ]

Remember "Sealand" (previously)? Having nationalized HavenCo, they were kinda reduced to selling nobility titles, and... Hackers plant card-stealing malware on website that sells baron and duke titles.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Archival ]

Okay, lazyweb: Speaker and/or network media player recommendations? Currently using an old Fire tablet and a Monoprice Bluetooth amp, but want coverage for a second room...

[ related topics: Wireless broadband Journalism and Media Pyrotechnics ]

Well, driver left-turning from Kentucky on to Bodega/Washington while I was crossing with the walk signal sure got my attention this morning. I suppose the sun was in their eyes, but dayumn! Adrenaline!

[ related topics: Java ]

Twitter thread about the racist Tennessee "Moms for Liberty" going after historically accurate books as "Critical Race Theory" and therefore traumatic to teach.

Examples include photographs of white firemen blasting black children with water, and "white" and "colored" drinking fountains, and a teacher's manual which describes Eugene "Bull" Connor as racist.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Books Photography Chattanooga Education Race ]

FBI document shows what data can be obtained from which encrypted messaging apps.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media Law Enforcement Television Cryptography ]

Oh, this is amusing. Went looking in Facebook Marketplace. Not super optimistic, and this wasn't at all what I was looking for, but the scam factor here is pretty astounding, actually:

[ related topics: Photography moron ]