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.
Monthly Archives: January 2021
“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”
Link.
“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
Link.
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.
Pooh Xi.
Link. Xi is utterly humorless.
How mountain bike tires work.
Link. So much more than I knew.
Dlive – streaming for deplorables.
Link. “BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing service, stepped in to buy Dlive. BitTorrent’s parent company, Tron, is owned by Justin Sun, a Chinese cryptocurrency multimillionaire.” Shows micro-currencies can work.
“every sample of serum in the study neutralized the virus, regardless of its mutations, Dr. Bloom said, adding that it would take a few more years before the vaccines need to be tweaked.”
Link. Evolutionary biologists and vaccine specialists cautiously optimistic. It is adapting faster than some expected however.
America’s Cold Civil War – Noahpinion
Link. I have some analytic objections but this is an excellent starting point.
“there’s evidence that even though it’s not conscious, humans are actually still capable of detecting Earth’s magnetism.”
Link. Cryptochromes is a great name.
“textbook example of cascading mistakes of intelligence, preparation, training and, most of all, police leadership”
Link. Early analysis.
147 GOP Federal legislators voted to overturn an election. A hall of shame.
Link. Fischbach and Hagedorn from MN. Remember this. One day, a monument to them in DC.
“50 police officers were injured as the mob swarmed barricades, threw objects, battered doors, smashed windows and overwhelmed some of the officers who tried to resist the advancing crowd.”
Link. Lots of arrests to come.
GOP can’t reform – their voters are truly devoted to Trump.
Link. Cruz and Hawley forever.
“The election should be overturned because Trump and his coalition are supposed to have won and supposed to remain in power, because their voters are entitled to legitimate political representation and the opposition’s are not.”
Link. The worst President ever yes. But how bad is the GOP today compared to political parties of the past?
SF Books That Did Not Belong in the Childrens’ Section of the Library
Link. A friendly librarian let me smuggle out adult books. One day I got caught.
NYT IDs several rioters.
Link. Get a lawyer now.
“Second, we love power. Imagine how much you love your children, and then multiply it by a thousand.”
Link. Resignation letter.
Multiple security force resignations and firings post insurrection.
Link. We need to learn much more.
Flying is higher risk than expected.
Link. Wear N95 or closest available. Do not eat. Do not remove. Ideally avoid flying unless immunized or post-infection.
Trumpsurrection: take from the Left.
Link. I like description of GOP split between Romney party in Senate camp and POT in House.
Madness on Capitol Hill
Link. Superb description.
Fix Autocorrect’s Bad Habits by Resetting Your iPhone Dictionary | WIRED
Link. Doing this. AC is awful now.
Facebook bows to Apple.
Link. Once it was strong, now it is weak.
When2Meet replaces Doodle.
Link. Outlook uses FindTime.
“You are chewing real, gristly fat from some animal you just killed and cooked because if you eat only lean meat you’ll starve to death or get protein poisoning”
Link. Dogs don’t have energy hogging overdeveloped brains to feed.
Rat abandons ship: Facebook and Trump.
Link. Zuck is king of the rats.
“greater proportion of Democrats and especially Black voters returned to the polls than Republicans and white voters without college degrees”
Link. Black race and white college. Curious to see gender data.
The ACA lives: “Democrats could use reconciliation to reverse those changes, although they’d be likely to reinstate only a nominal fee for going uninsured.”
Link. Winning the Senate means ACA likely to survive for decades. Public option unlikely though.
“As the jellyfish rises in the water, the starting and stopping vortices meet, producing a virtual wall that aids propulsion.”
Link. Surface effect.