Link. Only one is concerning – if it happens.
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Reduce ride-share COVID risk.
Link. “open the windows that are opposite each occupant. That configuration allows fresh air to flow in through the back left window and out through the front right window”
“The BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine has this digital code at its heart. It is 4284 characters long, so it would fit in a bunch of tweets. At the very beginning of the vaccine production process, someone uploaded this code to a DNA printer (yes), which then convert
Link. 20th century was a long time ago.
“you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them
Link. When HRC first said this it seemed obvious to me. Now every sane person knows this is true.
[FBI] … “did not necessarily suspect Russian involvement in the bitcoin transfers, which appear to have been made by a French computer programmer who died by suicide on Dec. 8 after triggering the transfers”
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“at least 300 rioters were present in footage taken inside the Capitol while police were struggling to evacuate lawmakers. The actual number of rioters is probably greater…”
Link. Detailed recreation of what we know so far.
Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?
Link. Answer starts with a T.
“Trump wanted Americans to believe a falsehood that there were two elections — a legitimate election composed of in-person voting, and a separate, fraudulent election involving bogus mail-in ballots for Democrats.”
Link. His least bad option.
Trump’s top lies.
Link. This compilation is an ugly job well done. If only we knew Trump was truly done. So many gullible victims.
“a middle-aged man wearing a Trump flag as a cape told a young man standing beside him, “There’s gonna be a war.” His tone was resigned, as if he were at last embracing a truth that he had long resisted”
Link. Bottom of the curve.
Trumpism: “two-thirds of Americans over the age of 18 don’t have a college degree, with degrees being most common among those ages 35 to 54.”
Link. Over 55 4y degrees are unusual — and cognitive decline is common. (Yes, we clearly see decline at 55.) Over 55 is particularly susceptible to FoxGOP and Trump, easy to fleece for money.
macOS clipboard has no numeric datatype.
Link. Is Windows better? Computers are weird.
Autistic (white) child dies during extended police restraint.
Link. Police almost certainly had no or little training. And some were likely cruel and stupid.
“only reason I could think of that they weren’t shooting us was they were waiting for us to shoot first. And if it became a firefight between a couple hundred officers and a couple thousand demonstrators, we would have lost.”
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Toyota pays tiny fine for violating the law.
Link. Just the cost of doing business.
Pastor Kirbyjon H. Caldwell close to Bush and Obama – ran a vile scam.
Link. Six years seems light for what he did. What a lousy person.
Reminder: iMessage Not Meaningfully E2E
Link. Anything digital can be take. Apple makes it easy for FBI.
Terrific thread on deprogramming Trump cultists
Link. “1. Establish rapport (no shaming). 2. Ask for a claim. 3. Ask for a measure of confidence in this claim. 4. Ask what reasoning supports this claim. 5. Ask what justifies this reasoning. 6. Then explore if those justifications are strong enough to support that level of confidence.”
Johns Hopkins security researchers ‘shocked’ at Android and iOS vulnerabilities
Link. Casablanca class shock I suspect. Potemkin security keeps FBI happy.
“By the time he drove from Tennessee to Washington to march on the Capitol, his Facebook group had swelled to more than 61,000 members”
Link. Fame makes heroin look like tylenol. Fb Groups are huge problem.
“A mere nine years after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia elected a former KGB lieutenant colonel, Vladimir Putin, to the presidency. It was the last meaningful election we ever had. We chose unity and we got dictatorship.”
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“It takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or what others around them believe, or what would make sense of their own previous choices.”
Link. Civilization relies on those who can do this.
Chapman Univeristy’s John Eastman claimed Pence could overthrow the electoral college.
Link. “Richard Cullen, Mr. Pence’s personal lawyer, called J. Michael Luttig, a former appeals court judge revered by conservatives”
MN GOP speaker: “weeds of leftist liberals subjecting us, suffocating us. We are a garden that needs to grow. We cannot grow if we have weeds choking us off.” The audience chimes in, shouting: “Kill the root, kill the weeds!” and the speaker close
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COVID anosmia biology.
Link. Readable and useful.
Impeachment 2: “… it’s a delaying tactic — a way to keep Trump occupied in the final days of his presidency so he causes as little additional trouble as possible”
Link. Not only, but yes. McConnell may be cooperating in his own Slytherin way.
Sheldon Adelson story.
Link. Lost a son to drug addiction — which fits his opposition to legalizing cannabis (but his casinos served alcohol of course). Connections to China mob/government and laundered money.
“that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a coup attempt. Trump disguised what he was doing by operating in plain sight, talking openly about his intent”
Link. This is a part of his genius. To me it seems magical. He openly and honestly says what he thinks and plans — and most seem not to hear.
GOP cursed by Trumpism.
Link. If their voters are deprogrammed they may not vote. But the cult requires Trump.
Trump is the Messiah of white American evangelicals.
Link. Christianity was getting dull.
Russia’s SolarWinds Attack and Software Security
Link. “The real question is why the US government bought such shoddy software for its critical networks”. Focus on this.
“individuals with higher exposure to the T. gondii parasite are more likely to go on to develop glioma”
Link. Curious.
“Trump watched with interest, buoyed to see that his supporters were fighting so hard on his behalf”
Link. For 6 hours Trumo did little, enjoying the show made for him.
“acting attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, has instead informed federal prosecutors around the nation, in a memo from his top deputy, that all investigations should be run out of the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington”
Link. Sabotage?
“Maybe Cruz is, in fact, a blockhead, just like the ones he managed to spur to tragic, pointless savagery. Maybe he’s a fool with a photographic memory”
Link. A great memory can take a mediocre mind a long way.
Ex-Capitol Police Chief Says Requests For National Guard Denied 6 Times In Riots : Insurrection At The Capitol: Live Updates : NPR
Link. In normal world we would learn a lot more about this. In the midst of chaos it might take a bit.
“emerging Democratic coalition of college-educated white voters and high turnout among Black voters and other minority groups.”
Link. A good foundation.
A Letter from the Nye County Chairman.
Link. A classic example of Cult devotion. “[Trump] …gives everyone, no matter how dirty, an opportunity to do the right thing (sometimes with warnings such as the phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State recently)”
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Link. Great essay.
“current coronavirus does not seem to productively infect macrophages, which are by far the main target for that antibody-receptor-uptake ADE mechanism. The related MERS coronavirus was able to do this”
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“A man his colleagues saw as empty and driftless turned his identity into a kind of a mirror of that old American evil, and has become what many Americans told him they wanted him to be.”
Link. Trumpism filled his emptiness.
Biden’s essential task is to help the Left Behind.
Link. Blue collar, non-college, left behind. Half of America. $15 minimum wage, employment subsidies, learn from Germany … and more.
Announcing National Security Council staff appointees, Biden restores the office for global health threats. – The New York Times
Link. Sanity is coming.
Would-be Pelosi assassin late to riot: “I’m trying but currently stuck in Cambridge, OH with trailer lights being fixed,” he wrote in one of several text messages to friends, according to the F.B.I.”
Link. Arrested with large array of ammo and weapons. Their incompetence saved so many.
MNResponds: health care providers volunteer to assist COVID vaccination and more.
Link. For us Ramsey County’s Medical Reserve Corps. This has been a state secret to date. The web site is ancient and barely runs in a modern browser. Try Chrome.
“The sacking of the Capitol was enabled by a host of factors, including catastrophic security failures now being investigated. But the temporary seizure of a global seat of power was, at its core, an outgrowth of delusional and destructive forces cultiv
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Black men dying of COVID – the weathering? (“John Henry” in the article)
Link. We think chronic stress chops off telomeres and causes premature aging. Diet and diabetes amplify the effect. (Fears of genetic susceptibility seem unfounded.)
Special olympian: “He was 64. His sister Carole Cusack said the cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.”
Link. Alzheimers is the curse of Downs.
Another vulnerable cultist dies in the name of Trump.
Link. Long ago one of my hobbies was visiting cults. They were full of vulnerable people.
“… those of you who are feeling weak tonight, those of you that don’t have the moral fiber in your body, get some tonight,” he said. “Because tomorrow, we the people are going to be here and we want you to know we will not stand for a lie.”
Link. A good overview.