2021-01-17

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• Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism - New Discourses

• "Dont use your HAM gear in a riot or we yank your license" Amateur & Personal Radio Users Reminded Not to Use Radios in Crimes | Federal Communications Commission

  • Or, CNN has a different take Blocked from social media, extremists discuss turning to radios to plan attacks, FCC warns - CNN

• Saw this in "Up", didn't we? South Korean firm's smart dog collar tells owners what's in a bark

  • This is great, but how much effort will they have to repeat for dogs that speak languages other than Korean?

• the tragedy of gemini | maya.land

  There’s something called the Eternal September, about how – well, should I be pretending to tell you from the position of someone who’d know? It happened the month after I was born.

  a response:

  Exclusivity and elitism get a bad rap. The most important ingredient for a high-quality community is high-quality people, and to keep out the lower-quality people you need to have barriers to entry.

• Why getting a name right matters - BBC Worklife

• Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government - BBC News

• Another scam paper published in a “scientific” journal – Why Evolution Is True

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/can-something-be-indefensible-but-understandable?srnd=businessweek-v2

• Armored Humvee Stolen From Military Base Ahead Of Planned Armed Protests At State Capitols | ZeroHedge

• The New York Times Is Worried Kids Are Gaming Too Much During the Pandemic

BidenTime / Next Riots

• Large Migrant Caravan Heading To US, Urges Biden Admin To "Honor Its Commitments" | ZeroHedge

• Biden inauguration: Executive orders to reverse Trump policies - BBC News

  • Biden To 'Immediately' Send Congress Bill That Would Offer Citizenship To 11 Million Illegals | ZeroHedge

  • Biden Outlines 'Day One' Agenda of Executive Actions | Newsmax.com

  Biden will end Trump’s restriction on immigration to the U.S. from some Muslim-majority countries, move to rejoin the Paris climate accord and mandate mask-wearing on federal property and during interstate travel.

• All 50 US states brace for violence as Joe Biden unveils plans to reverse key Trump policies

• Two Trump supporters in TX, One in Oregon (Yesterday) U.S. states on alert for possible armed Trump protesters — photos - Axios

  • Glad they're documenting the "Right Wing Uprising" that was scheduled for today, with pictures from yesterday.

• Armed Protesters Begin To Arrive At State Capitols Around The Nation | ZeroHedge

  • Biden inauguration: Fortified US statehouses see scattered protests - BBC News

Inauguration

• https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1350800988496687106

  Biden’s transition team has revealed there is a very real fear that members of the national guard who support President Trump might kill Biden during the inauguration so they’ve asked commanders to confiscate all ammo and magazines from the soldiers.

  Biden’s transition team asked if it would be possible to determine which soldiers voted in GOP primaries or who have contributed to GOP candidates so commanders could station them away from the president-elect. The request was refused fueling their fear of attack.

• FBI vetting 25,000 National Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack - Hartford Courant

  • FBI vetting Guard troops in DC amid fears of insider attack

  U.S. defense officials say they are worried about an insider attack or other threat from service members involved in securing President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.

• Tech scrambles to derail inauguration threats

• Prisons locked down ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration

• A 12-Foot Wall Is Going Up Around The Capitol To Protect Joe Biden And That's Weird Because I've Been Repeatedly Told By Dems Like Joe Biden That Walls Are Immoral | Not the Bee

• Pictorial: Here are photos of what D.C. looks like today on pre-Inauguration lockdown. | Not the Bee

• /pol/ - HOLY FUCK ITS A COUP. I REPEAT: IT - Politically Incorrect - 4chan

  am a National Guard soldier from the District of Columbia Army National Guard. Rumor going around for days is we aren't here for Biden. We are here to seize power for the real president, President Trump. My commanding officer just confirmed it. The order will come in the dead of night on the 19th/20th. When you wake up on the 20th, we will have seized all the organs of power in DC for President Trump and Biden and his cabinet along with TONS of senators and reps will be in cuffs. Everyone I have talked to is ready to go. We are ready to save America.

Capitol Insurrection

• 'I had no qualms': The people turning in loved ones for the Capitol attack | US news | The Guardian

  • Comment:

    Even though only 200-300 people acted unlawfully during the 'Capitol Hill Affray' - The FBI has received 140,000 tipoffs by relatives of those who lawfully attended Trump's Rally &/or attended the following protest at Capitol Hill.

• The left's 'urge to purge' response to the Capitol assault

• FBI releases photos of people suspected of beating DC officer, planting pipe bombs during Capitol unrest | TheHill

• Selfie-Snapping Capitol Hill Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images

• Capitol riot could be a bigger racial reckoning than the George Floyd protests - CNN

• House Democrats launch investigation into Capitol riot security failures - Vox

OrangeManBad

• Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up | US news | The Guardian

• Trump approval rating relatively unchanged in wake of Capitol rioting: NBC News poll | TheHill

• Giuliani associate told ex-CIA officer a Trump pardon would 'cost $2m’ – report | US news | The Guardian

OrangeFansBad

• What motivates the motivated reasoning of pro-Trump conspiracists? | Ars Technica

  New study suggests a desire to see society focus on men helps drive support.

• Extremists exploit a loophole in social moderation: Podcasts

• Twitter Bans Republican Member of Congress

  Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for repeated violations of new rules it put in place following the violent US Capitol riot earlier this month

• Parler CEO and family in hiding after receiving death threats - The Jerusalem Post

• After deadly Capitol riot, Army looking at which troops require security screening ahead of Biden inauguration

• QAnon Is Destroying the GOP from Within

• Campus Reform | Prof: 'All' Republicans are 'guilty' of Capitol attack; should be 'forced to shut the hell up'

• American Thinker issues Mea Culpa on their election reporting and a lot of you are not going to like it. | Not the Bee

LeftIsBad

• I AM DONE – The Burning Platform

  • The Gray Curtain Descends, Part 2 | ZeroHedge

  Peacefully splitting the US into two or more countries when it is so irretrievably and irreconcilably riven is almost breathtaking in its common sense. You go your way and we’ll go ours appeals to both logic and justice.

• No, AOC, It’s Not the Government’s Job to ‘Rein in Our Media’ – Reason.com

TechSuck

• Apple CEO Tim Cook: No Intersection Between Free Speech and Provoking Violence

• Vaccine Site Uses Credit History to Verify Patients’ Identities

• Stay away from Amazon Web Services (AWS); they cannot be trusted — Karel Donk

• Fired GitHub employee who warned co-workers about Nazis is seeking legal counsel

  • Minutes later: Update on an employee matter - The GitHub Blog

  • GitHub admits fault in firing of Jewish employee, head of HR resigns

• Trump’s Twitter and Facebook ban is already working. One stat shows it. - Vox

  So, banning things when they're mentioned causes mentiond of them to go down on these platforms? Mu god they've solved it!

• "Phrenology has an old fasioned ring to it" The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality | American Scientist

• How Will Parler Shutdown Affect Corporate Cloud Customers' SEC Filings? - Slashdot

  Prior to tech's shutdown of Parler, it's been suggested that such risks are largely theoretical. "We do not believe that Amazon will use the AWS operation in such a manner as to gain competitive advantage against our service," states Netflix in its last 10-K filing, "although if it was to do so it could harm our business."

• Parler Hosting Requirements

  • 40x i3.Metal instances (64 vCPU's, 512 Gb ram (more ram, of course, better for those)), 14 Tb nVME e/a (Scylla cluster)
  • 70-100x (96 vCPUs, 768 GB RAM) - 4 Tb nVME e/a (PSQL cluster, could use more RAM and CPU, but not easy to get)
  • 300-400 various other instances, less picky, generally 8-16 cores w/ 32-64 Gb of ram as available
  • Internal traffic ~300-400 Gb of traffic/minute
  • External traffic ~100-120 Gb of traffic/minute

  • now, I never used this or twitter beyond the casual look at what others posted, never signed up, etc. but this does seem to be an excessive amount of hardware to be built on renting. I am hopelessly old fasioned on these things tho. "Own your infrastructure" gets you mocked in tech circles.

• Tech titans give S.F. the finger as they flee. But this billionaire is staying and working to make it better - SFChronicle.com

• Big Tech Has Helped Trash America

• Tim Cook Defends Parler App Suspension: ‘We Don’t Consider That Free Speech’

• Leaked Location Data Shows Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking Users

• “Tencent QQ caught scraping all browser history on Windows”

  "For those unaware, QQ is a desktop IM service by Tencent"

  It was trying to read certain types of URLs encoded in MD5, found to be these. https://i.imgur.com/rSOyTt7.jpg It wants to know what you searched on e-commerce sites. This is somewhat unsursprising, Tencent failed on e-commerce, it desperately needs these data to help with user profiling.

  they don't even upload the URLs that match, but just the fact that there was a match for one of three groups of keywords. Seems like a lot of effort for little information gain...

HumansAreBad

• Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C

World

• Up to 8,000 US-bound migrants enter Guatemala from Honduras - CNN

• Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India

• Alexey Navalny detained on return to Moscow five months after being poisoned

• EU sets out plans to curb reliance on dollar in post-Trump era

COVID

• What is a coronavirus vaccine card, and do you need to keep it? | Salon.com

• Microsoft, Oracle, others team up to create vaccination passports

• (PDF) Study: No evidence of transmission of Covid from children to adults in school

• 10,000 Protesters In Vienna March Against Coronavirus Restrictions   | ZeroHedge

• US claims Wuhan researchers had coronavirus symptoms before first reported cases

• Covid Testing: Minnesota Is the Best State for Checking for Coronavirus - Bloomberg

Obits

• Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81

  • Grammy-winning music producer Phil Spector dies of natural causes

  • Phil Spector dead at 81: Jailed Wall of Sound producer dies of COVID | Daily Mail Online

  Revolutionary music producer Phil Spector has died from COVID-19 related complications at the age of 81. Spector was diagnosed with COVID four weeks ago and was transferred from his prison cell at California Health Care Facility in Stockton, where he was serving a 19 years-to-life sentence for the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, to a hospital.