Flutterby™! From 2022-01-01 to 2022-01-31

"hunky dory" sounds like a particularly attractive rowboat.

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Part of the bathroom cabinet I'm building.

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A few months ago we went to that Van Gogh multimedia show thing. It was a technological marvel, and kinda cool, but not overwhelmingly so. I don't see a need to do it again, except if they're featuring maybe Escher.

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anyway, we've found that a good way to really study an artist and a work is to do a puzzle, and they had puzzles in the gift shop, so we bought one, and...

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This was a tough one. The print is relatively low resolution, the die wasn't super crisp, and there were only 4, or maybe 2, parts. Several times we questioned whether we were having fun or not. Anyway, we did it.

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oh doh, this was the 3rd picture i meant to post.

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Okay, I get why everyone's dunking on the CDC's 5 days asymptomatic thing, but if it's been a week since my possible (secondary) exposure, and the next test appointment is 4-5 days out, and it'll take 3-4 days to get the results from that...

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Dear big chain retailers: If I enter "covid test" in your *product* search engine, I want products, not services. I should not have to game your engine with "antigen test" to discover your product availability.

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Ars Technica: How leaded fuel was sold for 100 years, despite knowing its health risks. Short version: GM & Standard Oil ran disinfo campaigns, even when they knew that there were alternatives to lead to raise the octane of gasoline.

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Stand-out from this weekend's time in the shop: Culture Serial Killers' version of AC/DC's T.N.T. (YouTube video). "... lock up your daughter, lock up your wife, lock up your back door..." will never sound the same to me.

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I am not going to shame the particular "online academy", but a quick Google suggests that Juliard runs about $72k/year loaded, Oberlin over $78k/year. Pay your music teachers and musicians.

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RT Kat Maddox @ctrlshifti

security engineer: we're going to start moving towards zero trust

developer: oh cool. how does that work

security engineer: [narrows eyes] why do you ask

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Just in case you trusted your hardware:

RT Chris Wysopal @WeldPond

Dan Farmer sounded the warning bell about the danger of IPMI vulnerabilities in 2014. http://fish2.com/ipmi/river.pdf

Now there's been rootkit discovered in the wild that hides in iLO (HP's IPMI variant). https://threats.amnpardaz.com/...21/12/28/implant-arm-ilobleed-a/

That's a long dwell time. There must be more out there.

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I almost hesitate to link this, because it kinda illustrates the problem, but looking at the newspaper from a century ago illustrates just how little value there is in consuming most of what's presented as "news". https://www.washingtonpost.com...g-they-were-about-what-mattered/

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Mini Tokyo 3d, WebGL 3d animation of Tokyo transit, trains and subways and stuff all animated out in real-time.

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Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat

Around March 2021 I decided on writing an emulator capable of running a full Linux Kernel in VRChat. Due to the inherent limitations of that platform, the tool of choice had to be a shader. And after a few months of work, I’m now proud to present the worlds first (as far as I know) RISC-V CPU/SoC emulator in an HLSL pixel shader, capable of running up to 250 kHz (on a 2080 Ti) and booting Linux 5.13.5 with MMU support.

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/dys...eaker/status/1478074055651520513

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Square dance caller's Facebook group, someone just referred to "older music from the '80s", and yes, although a lot of square dance music was old in the '80s, but also fuck you very much.

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Seattle Times: Kent (WA) assistant police chief disciplined for posting Nazi insignia, joking about Holocaust:

In addition to the two weeks without pay — during which Kammerzell was allowed to take paid vacation to make up his salary — he was ordered to attend “cultural sensitivity training.”

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As I am reminded again of all of the tales of how abusive Theranos was as a workplace, and how many good ideas I've seen go unfunded, I once again have my perception that cruelty is part of the value that shareholders seek reinforced.

The QR code attack we've all thought got played out years ago: RT Austin Police Department @Austin_Police

🚨Scam Alert🚨

APD Financial Crimes detectives are investigating after fraudulent QR code stickers were discovered on City of Austin public parking meters. People attempting to pay for parking using those QR codes may have been directed to a fraudulent website and made a payment.

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Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!

https://www.adweek.com/agencie...ying-they-were-in-poor-judgment/

Bodycam video shows Houston cop speeding, driving with 1 hand before hitting and killing pedestrian with patrol car

Jackson was walking west on the sidewalk in the 4100 block of Reed Road near Scott Street as Hernandez's cruiser approached from the east around 5:40 p.m. Several cars were stopped at a red light at the Reed Road and Scott Street intersection, police said. As Hernandez sped toward the intersection, video shows the officer turn the steering wheel nearly 180 degrees to avoid colliding with other cars. Hernandez's cruiser slid slightly right, jumping the sidewalk and hitting Jackson before slamming into a Dumpster bin in a nearby parking lot.

Via https://twitter.com/eBikeChick/status/1478469914197311490

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Ugh. Driver, who didn't stop, hit and killed a neighbor cat. We need speed control in this neighborhood, and even with a sympathetic city engineer I have no idea what we can implement within the straitjacket that the legal system favoring automobiles over all other modes imposes

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RT virtual machine elf @scriptkitty00

STOP SAYING "CRYPTOBROS" it erases all the women in the NFT space who are also prolific idiots

Related: Web3 is going great (dot) com, a FuckedCompany for crypto.

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Using my blog's login page to test some stuff for work, and realized that that page is pretty close to not having changed in 2 decades(!)

Edit: Pretty sure that LID happened post-2002, but pre 2005, so it's not quite 2 decades.

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Mitch McConnell says, of Democrats, “They assume that people who get elected to the legislature are idiots”. Has... has... has he *seen* legislatures?

https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-m...ses-notion-idiots-220207757.html

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Way to grab the future there, GM:

https://insideevs.com/news/558804/gm-delivered-26-evs-2021q4/

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I'm finding lots of discussion about autofill and credentials from a user side of things, but does anyone have suggestions for best credentials autofill modern thinking from the browser implementer side of things?

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On the one hand, "faked", on the other hand there were definitely armed potentially violent white supremacists threatening citizens. Seattle police improperly faked radio chatter about Proud Boys as CHOP formed in 2020, investigation finds

The radio chatter about members of the Proud Boys marching around downtown Seattle, some possibly carrying guns, and then heading to confront protesters on Capitol Hill was an improper “ruse,” or dishonest ploy, that exacerbated a volatile situation, according to findings released Wednesday by the city’s Office of Police Accountability.

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Sorry, NSISRestrictedToNonNegativeVariable, I think your values suck.

Launching spchcat, an open-source speech recognition tool for Linux and Raspberry Pi

... I’ve been following the Coqui.ai team’s work since they launched, and was very impressed by the quality of the open source speech models and code they have produced. I didn’t have an easy way to run them myself though, especially on live microphone input. With that in mind, I decided my holiday project would be writing a command line tool using Coqui’s speech to text library. To keep it as straightforward as possible I modeled it on the classic Unix cat command, where the default would be to read audio from a microphone and output text (though it ended up expanding to system audio and files too) so I called it spchcat. You can now download it yourself for Pi’s and x86 Linux from speechcat.org!

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Poor Chevrolet Bolt Owners, They Will Never Be Welcome in a Garage Ever Again

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Ya'll figure Wordle's list comes out of /usr/share/dict/words? I'm thinking we should just solve the game.

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Wordle 202 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Looking forward to that Wordle badge + Github commit calendar mashup.

Argentine Tangos, a short film about tango, and love, and with a very sweet ending twist...

Nothing illustrates how difficult it is to figure out what a person is interested in like seeing how bad Facebook's targeted ads and Netflix's movie recommendations are. In a way it's refreshing that Twitter doesn't even try, and just shows us crap clickbait...

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Fantastic Twitter thread on the true costs of owning a 2003 Honda Accord through its life.

LI called my mom and asked her to guess the total [for repairs and maintenance, no energy or capital costs]. “I don’t know, Thomas—$4500?” No. $27,772.90

Now that Lovecraft and Winnnie the Pooh are both in the public domain, we can hope for lots of crossover fiction. @ScottLynch78 on Twitter provides some starters:

I. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the bump, bump, bump, on the back of my head as I am dragged down the stairs behind Christopher Robin. Bump, bump, bump, driving the things I have seen out of my mind. I do not wish to stop bumping. I do not wish to remember!

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I will be taking no questions at this time.

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Starting to texture the front of this bathroom cabinet. The panels of the doors will be mirrors. Obviously it'll be rotated 90 degrees left and hang in a corner. L

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I don't mean to use her as an excuse or anything, bot how could I possibly disturb this?

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If looks could kill...

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Hey, it's been several weeks since safety(dot)af(dot)mil has been serving up a Let's Encrypt cert for myloginsecurity(dot)com, a site which sure looks like it's doing phishing... Repeated attempts to find someone to fix this have failed.

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I have found my new favorite daily word game: https://swag.github.io/evil-wordle/

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Ugh. I am writing code that is veering dangerously close to cryptography, and I understand better how bad security decisions get made...

(Wonder if there's an npm module that'd help me generate secure passwords... 🤪)

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If you noticed that Twitter looks angrier and more outragey today, go back up and check to make site that you're still on "Latest Tweets". All my browsers got reset to "Home".

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Dear Browser Makers: `autocomplete="off"` is indication that you should definitely keep this value around for future use.

Dear banking web sites: fuck you.

sunset

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more sunset

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palms and sunset and moon

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uh, wait, this is palms and summer and moon

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Two vans of locksmiths just pulled in. Shit just got real.

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Code is Just is a mondo Twitter thread that I hope at some point gets turned into just a page, because it is a fantastic memoir of a young disadvantaged kid learning how to program.

Threadreader version

Via MeFi

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Hidden infrastructure: dropped the car off for service at the dealer, took the bike on the river trail, and found runoff retention reservoirs that I was unaware of.

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VCs, hear me out: A Wordle/Conway's Game of Life crossover.

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The 7 day average new cases per 100k unvaccinated residents per day for Sonoma County is currently 464.9. Which seems astoundingly high, until you realize that with 494k residents and ~20% unvaccinated, that's still gonna be over 230 days until they're all infected.

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Just a little reference for the next time a cryptobro whines about being scammed because someone social engineered them into using the JavaScript console to get Discord creds... (*cough* "Blockchain City" *cough*)

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If we look a little deeper, we can re-interpret the Dean's statement as "hells yeah we support spreading disease and killing off old people! Eugenics is consistent with our University values!"

https://www.washingtonpost.com...2022/01/14/professor-covid-rant/

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Almost ready to take the bathroom corner cabinet apart for staining. Need to cut the mirrors for the door panels and set up for mounting them, and prepare for the door catches.

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wanted to go to Armstrong Redwoods, but it was full so we went to the coast

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arch at Goat Rock State Park

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a little early for flowers, but they're starting

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Another

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Clouds

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Nick's Cove

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and a stop by the Inkwells in an unsuccessful search for salmon, but where we did learn that Lagunitas is 350 As Fuck.

Two from Shadow:

RT Mani-shadowhunter @manisha72617183

The phrase "what the entire fuck" implies the existence of fractional fucks.

"what the absolute fuck" implies the existence of positive and negative fucks.

"what the actual fuck" implies existence of imaginary fucks.

Conclusion: fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.

A YouTube video of a resin inlaid cheese board/cheese knife build, that uses a lot of CNC work, but I also find interesting from the way he uses magnets to hold the under-tray.

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Who owned slaves in Congress? The Washington Post looks at the recent database of slave ownership in congress.

William Richardson, for example, a Democrat who fought for the Confederacy, died in office in 1914 after representing Alabama for 14 years. Another Democrat, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a suffragist and a white supremacist, was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1922 and briefly represented Georgia at age 87. The first woman ever to serve in the Senate was a former slaveholder.

And yes, it also talks about the more than 480 slave owners who identified as Republican at some point during their elected careers.

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Duck!

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Saved for future reference: Planetizen: Do Seniors Need Cars? One common argument against road diets and other pro-walkability policies is that seniors need cars more than anyone else. Is this claim borne out by data?

Just another sunset.

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Don't mind me, I'm just making popcorn...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...-immunity-sex-trafficking-probe/

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Amazing device to cut metal with high precision (YouTube video). An angle grinder and some rails and a worm drive and a neat little cut-off device, but the cool bit is the methods of work as the builder assembles this thing. Lots of good little reminders for me about punching my drill marks, and I'm not sure what material he's using for the drive belt, but that assembly method was super cool.

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This is fantastic. I saw it scroll across yesterday, and was like "yeah, of course that's what MLK Jr. wrote", but then I saw all of the praises of Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday, quotes with mysterious ellipses in the middle, the NHL praising him without dialing back their shunning of Colin Kaepernick, and went back and read it today, and it's worth a read.

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the author of The 1619 Project: tweeted the thread that starts here:

I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"

which describes the speech she gave using excerpts from King's speeches. As mentioned in the MeFi thread:

Rarely has the word “outsmarted” been so literally demonstrated.

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Hell is a platform where the documentation seems to only exist in WWDC videos or the source code for the open source bits. MacOS, I'm talking about MacOS.

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RT Tom @NowWeAreAllTom

2000s iTunes:

"hey buy this content! It has DRM!"

2010s Bandcamp:

"hey buy this DRM-free content!"

2020s N F T marketplaces:

"hey buy this content-free DRM!"

Listening to the Petaluma Special Meeting of the City Council and Fair Board Subcommittees, and... if you can't hear my eyes rolling you're not in the Bay Area...

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My inner peas are split.

Pew Research Center: Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal for recreational or medical use

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I went trying to chase down the source of an image shared on Facebook, and it turns out that Barbie sex toys is an entire Etsy category.

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Just a comment I left on the Facebook link to Ben Werdmüller's blog post on "Settling":

I grew up moving around a lot, and into my adult years thought of places as things to be occupied as long as they served me. I think it was helped that, as a young misfit, I found "my peeps" online, so where I lived in meatspace was less important than the relationships I built with people all over the world. It was only when I hit 40 that I started to yearn for a more solid and stable community, for the idea that I wanted a real relationship with where I lived.

I wonder now if part of that was the destruction of those online communities, the intrusion of "the real world" into them that made them so much less than they'd once been, and I had to start finding other ways to filter in order to build structures of friendship.

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Fast Company: Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan

The Guardian: Berlin’s car ban campaign: ‘It’s about how we want to live, breathe and play’

The web page of the organizers is at Berlin Autofrei.

Via Kottke

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"Home & family"? I mean, I'm with ya, but I'm not exactly mainstream on this opinion.

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Yet another town with an out-of-control scary gang problem: Police in this tiny Alabama town (Brookside) suck drivers into legal ‘black hole’

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In honor of Dolly Parton's birthday, may I once again strongly recommend this podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america

Ugh: Does this mean Gmail for your own domain, too? If so, sounds like it's time to switch to something else.

Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying for Workspace this year

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It's Twenty freakin' Twenty Two: How come the local paper (Petaluma Argus-Courier aka Petaluma360) is still sending me an email that sends me to articles in some sort of analogue of physical paper? It's not more usable to page through thumbnails of the physical pages and then click to get a sidebar of the text than to get a list of headlines and subs which link to digital-native versions of the articles. It's like "Hey, we're still trying to hold on to newsprint and ink for as long as we freakin' can, rather than adapting to the new reality, but why are we having trouble surviving?"

In other news, the regional daily (Press Democrat) has just closed its printing plant and gone to printing down in Fremont.

I still think back to that meeting in 1994 that Mike Harrison and I had with the muckety muck at the Chattanooga paper (I think it was the Times, and not the News-Free Press, though at that point they might have already consolidated management) pointing out that this digital future was coming, and they could either be ready for it or not.

And he told us he'd worry about it when we figured out a business model for him.

I really should up my donation to the regional weekly (North Bay Bohemian), because I definitely don't need daily filler from my newspaper, and they're the ones doing actual investigative journalism in the region.

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Whoops, nuking this, will try again.

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Apparently Sonoma County has given up trying to reach a particular demographic, so they're not even gonna mention churches...

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IEEE Spectrum: What You Need to Know About the FAA 5G Kerfuffle — Why is 5G only a problem for planes in the U.S.?

Thanks to the coworker who caught me on the video call. As his kid asked, "which is which?"

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If Wordle has you addicted, and Evil Wordle doesn't sate your need, may I suggest the 7 letter Queerdle? https://queerdle.com/

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More evidence that the hydrogen economy is bullshit (sorry, Toyota): Vice: Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing

Global Witness: Hydrogen's Hidden Emissions — Shell’s fossil hydrogen plant in Canada found to be emitting more climate-wrecking gases than it is capturing

Via /.

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Washington Post: A Wharton School of Business professor said her students think Americans make six figures on average. That’s a long way off.

“I asked Wharton students what they thought the average American worker makes per year and 25% of them thought it was over six figures,” she tweeted Wednesday. “One of them thought it was $800k.”

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‘If I Die, I Die’: Meat Loaf Spurned COVID Rules Before Death

The singer said in a recent interview that he was getting tired of pandemic restrictions, complaining about “power-mad” flight attendants who make people wear masks.

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The problem with giving your software a personality is that you might give your software a personality that sucks.

"I can feel Clippy DNA here."

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Emily Nagoski: Aging and Sex — I read the comments. And for once, it wasn't a mistake.

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Really good read: He thought tending bar sounded like fun. Then the entire kitchen staff quit on Christmas Eve.

Bill McCamley was NM's labor secretary, but working at a local movie theater taught him the truth about what's ailing the workforce.

Via MeFi, which also had this observation from mhoye which references that WaPo Wharton article that I linked earlier:

Forklift-related accidents kill about 100 people per year; as a result of that, every reputable company requires operators to complete training from a certified instructional program before they can operate them. Wharton MBAs kill a lot more people than that, if less directly, and they're allowed to graduate believing a whole bunch of things that not only aren't true, but aren't even close to true, and get put in charge of much bigger, much more dangerous economic machines.

Seems wrong to me. Maybe MBAs should have a practical element to them that looks more like survivalist courses than classroom learning. You can pack one suitcase, no laptop, no phone, one already-almost-maxed-out credit card and a twelve-year-old car. You're given a job at an Amazon warehouse somewhere on the outskirts of a small town, and you're there for a year, in the economic wilderness. If you have to call your friends or family for help, if you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, that's an F.

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WaPo: A Canadian restaurant was closed after it accepted dog photos instead of vaccination proof

The Granary Kitchen’s Facebook page explained the closure, calling it “an unfortunate circumstance” involving an “underage hostess” and said it would reopen after retraining staff. “We would like to remind everyone of the tremendous pressure being placed on front staff, and please remember to be kind,” the post read. An email to the owner of the restaurant requesting comment was not immediate.

So, yeah, blame it on the teenager...

CTV News Edmonton: Alta. restaurant that accepted dog photos instead of QR code has history of 'flagrant disregard' for measures: former employee

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"Trade crypto with a broker you can trust" is kinda like saying "buy meth from a dealer you can trust". When they're busted, they *will* turn.

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Man, the Spade Cooley episode of Cocaine & Rhinestones was rough, but the episode about Tammy Wynette's relationship with George Richey was a close second. Still recommend the podcast.

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Just walking by the river in the moonlight

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Political Geography: The effects of housing supply restrictions on partisan geography

Abstract Economists have scrutinized the effects of residential building restrictions on the cost of housing, growth, and migration in recent years. More strictly zoned states and metro areas have lost population to less strictly zoned areas in the United States, but have seen per capita incomes rise, because lower-income households are disproportionately likely to seek out locations with affordable housing. By changing the geographic distribution of population, housing supply restrictions should also affect political geography. This paper estimates those effects with a variety of methods and data. There are consistently sized, statistically significant effects at the state, county, and subcounty levels. Jurisdictions with greater housing supply restriction gradually and subsequently become more Democratic; there is no evidence that Democratic-moving areas subsequently become more regulated or costly. U.S. housing supply restrictions select for education. Areas with more costly housing see their college-educated share of the population rise, and the college-educated have become more Democratic than the non-college population.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2018.07.007

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Anyone have ideas on how to guess relative markets for podcasts vs videos? I host a Zoom forum that we're posting as video, and we're talking about format changes that would let it podcast better, but don't know if that's productive.

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Hmmmm... Why did @SignalApp just take almost exactly 24 hours to deliver two messages? I'm glad that was an "I'm on time" and not an "I'm delayed" or "I have to reschedule".

Among this weekends project: roll-up sunshade for the swim spa. The wheel is a stand-in, to replace with something sexier.

trying again: roll-up sunshade for the swim spa. the stand-in wheel will be replaced with something sexier.

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We increased this size of this window to have an emergency egress from the window, and build some steps for the space.

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Our World In Data looks at Covid death rate by vaccination status, particularly interesting is that in a study from Switzerland, yeah, vaccinated death rate is better than an order of magnitude lower than unvaccinated, but the boostered death rate is an order of magnitude better than that.

In their desire to impose big pedestrian killers on us, Ford complely underestimated the small truck market. Now do an electric Maverick, you utter tools. https://jalopnik.com/ford-stop...due-to-overwhelming-d-1848410887

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Maybe giving viruses a secure place to be persistent on motherboards was a bad idea after all? New MoonBounce UEFI bootkit can’t be removed by replacing the hard drive

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Evergreen: RT Aaron Patterson @tenderlove

I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

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Journal of Public Economics, Volume 206, February 2022, 104578: Broadband Internet and social capital

Merging information on the topology of the network with geocoded longitudinal data about individual social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political engagement. Overall, our results suggest that broadband penetration crowded out several dimensions of social capital.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104578

Guardian: Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK — Study finds involvement in political parties, trade unions and volunteering falls as web speeds rise

Republic World: Faster Internet Speed Linked To Lower Civic Participation, Claims Study — Researchers from Cardiff University & Sapienza claimed that people’s political activism seems to be inversely proportional to their internet connection speed.

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The Bad Cops: How Minneapolis protects its worst police officers until it’s too late

Via https://twitter.com/webster/status/1486050400117694470

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There's a trend in California, driven by an enterprising SoCal lawyer who's making hay offf of the California Voting Rights Act, to drive cities to district elections. Petaluma is making such a switch. This suggests that our housing situation won't get any better...

W. E. Upjohn Institute: Warding Of Development Local Control, Housing Supply, and NIMBYs

My results suggest that towns reduce the number of housing units permitted by 21 percent afer switching to ward voting. The effect is larger (38 percent) for multifamily units and in towns with higher owner-occupancy rates. It appears that more localized control has a large negative effect on housing production. This suggests that reforms restricting the influence of local levels of government or small groups of people on land-use regulation and housing approval could indeed increase housing supply. However, note that while switches to ward voting provide a natural experiment for this question, I do not consider all the effects of ward representation or claim that it is worse overall than at-large systems

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Whoah: Next time I'm down in Southern California, I'm gonna have to see this: Planetarium Projector Museum, a virtual exhibit for a real place in Big Bear Lake, down in the San Bernardino Mountains.

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Biometric Tech Company ID.Me Continues To Swallow Gov't Agencies, Cause Problems For People Trying To Access Their Gov't Benefits

As if making US government benefits contingent upon a company with a Macedonian TLD wasn't bad enough to begin with.

Today I learned that Santa Rosa has a park named after a dirty cop. This is not the way to engender trust between the populace and the government...

Santa Rosa City: Chief Melvin F. "Dutch" Flohr 1940 - 1974

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A friend recommended this documentary when I mentioned the solution to today's Queerdle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU

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A little feel-good reading: An old Virginia plantation, a new owner and a family legacy unveiled, in which an Air Force vet finds an old farm house a few miles from where he grew up and decides to move from California to Virginia, and then uncovers the past.

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It's almost like all of the hullaballoo over "Critical Race Theory" wasn't actually about CRT, or something: The Mcminn County School board just voted to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “MAUS” by Art Spiegelman from all of its schools

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In a long Twitter thread, food writer Jack Monroe talks about how standard inflation metrics don't capture impacts on the lowest income peoople, and announces the "Vimes Boots Index".

Twitter thread from the official Terry Pratchett account with the relevant passage (if you haven't read it already).

Guardian: Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index</>

Tor.com: Terry Pratchett’s Sam Vimes Is the Namesake for a New Price Index

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This is a good read, and a good reminder of how much has changed since 2006: Vulture: Revisiting the Tryouts for the Orgy Could John Cameron Mitchell’s gleefully sexual 2006 film Shortbus get made today?

Via Metafilter

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Just because I know at some point I'm gonna want to find this again: Right Wing Watch on Twitter posts Sherri Tenpenny shilling for dollars on some right wing TV show spewing gobbledygook about "quantum entanglement" and "the Google credit scores and the dematrix and all of those things."

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Sneaking suspicion that a lot of people who claim to pay a lot of taxes don't actually pay a lot of taxes....

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Brookings: Gender-based online violence spikes after prominent media attacks

In order to analyze the relationship between attacks by prominent media figures and the quality of online discussion, we—NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics and the International Women’s Media Foundation—collected data on three case studies: Carlson’s targeting of Taylor Lorenz above, the journalist Glenn Greenwald’s targeting of Lorenz on Twitter, and Carlson’s targeting of Virginia Heffernan in a separate segment on Fox News.

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It's always interesting when games teach us things we didn't know about ourselves. Like Queerdle, today, teaching me just how straight I am, because I never would have gotten the answer without cheating, but once I saw the answer it was obvious.

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Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions>

The Crisis Text Line’s AI-driven chat service has gathered troves of data from its conversations with people suffering life’s toughest situations.

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WHYY: Pennsylvania fuel tax meant for bridge repair went to state police instead

Via https://mobile.twitter.com/Eoi...gins_/status/1487230016014405634 which observes: “Defund the police is a political loser”

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Google Sheets+Forms mavens: A square dance club is tracking vaccination & contact status using Forms in to Sheets. Is there a way to pull up and edit a record in Forms? (eg: add booster info)

I occasionally wonder about my abilities to do various things, and then friends ask me for assistance, and suddenly I realize that I am a god among men, and likely significantly undercompensated. This weekend it's kitchen reno and JavaScript.

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"Let's keep doing it until I get a blue ball" is an actual phrase I just heard.

(From someone who's trying to build some JavaScript to provide an HTML page with ball colors.)

My projects seem to be a continual exercise in easy glue-ups....

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RT Tom Eastman @tveastman

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.

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