2021-01-18

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• Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr: Far-Right Extremist Suggests Treating People Of All Races Equally | The Babylon Bee

• Anatomy of a CNC Router

• Executive Order on Protecting Americans From Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform | The White House

• Executive Order on Protecting Law Enforcement Officers, Judges, Prosecutors, And Their Families | The White House

• I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea - TJCX

  I had literally nothing to say to that. It had been a bit of a working assumption of mine over the past few weeks that if you could improve the health of the patients then, you know, the doctors or the hospitals or whatever would pay for that. There was this giant thing called healthcare right, and its main purpose is improving health—trillions of dollars are spent trying to do this. So if I built a thing that improves health someone should pay me, right?

• TV Detector Vans Once Prowled The Streets Of England | Hackaday

  • commentary consensus is, since these went out of business in the 80s/90s, they never existed and the whole story is fake and "compliance PR"... they existed once, they do not now; and this article explains that...

• Clubhouse for X - The emerging trend of audio-only applications - Digital Health / General - EI2030

• Why Combustions Are Always Exothermic, Yielding About 418 kJ per Mole of O2 | Journal of Chemical Education

• APOD: 2009 January 11 - In the Shadow of Saturn

• HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

I have empirically determined that very few company situations
actually give a shit about whether someone is bad at their job.

• With the Death of Cash, Privacy Faces a Deeply Uncertain Future | Hacker Noon

• GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy | Hacker News

  • This whole discussion exemplifies how software development has forgotten the software. Issue tracking, bug reports, version control, testing, etc etc... How far down do we have to drill, here, before we get to someone doing actual work, that generates value, and the "software development ecosystem" means how much to them at that level?

• $3k home learning 'pods' are causing controversy in Silicon Valley

• 2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook | I, Cringely

Chip Shortage

• Ford closes German and Louisville plants as global computer chip crisis worsens

  • Ford closes German plant for 1 month as global chip crisis worsens

  • Chip-shortage 'crisis' halts car-company output

• You’re not imagining things, there is a serious chip shortage | Network World

Other Propaganda

• MLK Day 2021 - Honor Dr. Martin Luther King By Living With Grim Purpose

• Our Machiavellian Moment | Boston Review

• Climate change solutions short stories contest

• 1776 Commission Takes Historic and Scholarly Step to Restore Understanding of the Greatness of the American Founding | The White House

  • (PDF) The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

• It's the "white-male effect", you see: The Risk Makers. The nuclear, auto, and food industries… | by Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly | OneZero

• The "Energy Drink" is passe.. Likker is quicker! Chill imbibes: inside the booming business of relaxation drinks

• Wilmington 1898: When white supremacists overthrew a US government

• Racial profiling leads minorities to shop online rather than in stores

• We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden | US news | The Guardian

• Dozens of stories on this one, again Data Scientist Rebekah Jones, Facing Arrest, Turns Herself in to Authorities

  • As I recall, this lady became famous when she objected to publishing dates of death along with COVID death numbers on the FL state statistics page; losing her job over it. Media's poster child for pessimism since.

BidenTime

• Biden’s Climate Team: “Systemic Racism” Is To Blame For Climate Change | The Daily Wire

• Kamala Harris to resign Senate seat Monday - WRCBtv.com

• Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source | Environment | The Guardian

  • "Who needs a pipeline?" Viewpoint: Global demand to lift Canadian crude-by-rail

• Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is Maddeningly Obvious

DC Siege / Inauguration Riots

• National Guard Spokesdroid Statement: https://www.bitchute.com/video/kLoslbPYTRFZ/

  "Happy Holiday to Dr. Martin Luther King, and please allow me to say how proud I am of the almost 25,000 National Guardsman who have come in from all 50 States and Territories to help support the Secret Service and the police departments with a peaceful transition to military power".

  • unfortunate slip or inadvertent truth?

• Andrew Cuomo skipping Biden inauguration over capitol threats

• "It Was A Non-Event" - MSM Forced To Admit Nationwide Pro-Trump Protest Panic Was Overblown | ZeroHedge

• "sacked the US Capitol" After Hysterical Lefitst Theatrics, Rioters Were Absent At State Capitols

  Americans have been gaslighted, again. After a horde of Trump supporters sacked the U.S. Capitol building over Congress certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s win in the Electoral College this month, Democrats and legacy media raised hysteria that the recent incursion was the first in what was supposed to become a series of domestic attacks targeting state capitols ahead of the inauguration.

  • I also note they've got an "osculate Disney" article up, as usual.

• Inauguration swearing in Jan. 17 2021 | Flickr

  Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Lamont Ruffin from U. S. District of Columbia District Court swears in 2,000 National Guard troops as Special Deputy U.S. Marshals

• Capitol Lockdown Lifted After Propane Tank Explodes Near Homeless Camp | ZeroHedge

  • Lockdown lifted at US Capitol Building after brief security scare - CNNPolitics

• Webcam Washington D.C. White House live | earthTV

• (Jan 11) D.C. Mayor Asks For More Inauguration Security - Government Executive

• FBI vetting Guard troops in Washington, DC amid fears of insider attack ahead of inauguration - 6abc Philadelphia

  • Troops at Inauguration Pre-Screened for Extremism, Says DC Guard Commander - Defense One

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

(Instapundit comment)

So. Armed protesters are showing up all over the place, and they are NOT pick-up-after-ourselves Trump supporters. An overlapping lot of Antifa, BLM, and boogalooers. https://www.zerohedge.com/p...

Meanwhile the Nat Guard soldiers in DC, drawn from states all over the country for no apparent reason, are having all live ammo taken away, ostensibly because suddenly someone's afraid they might Sadat Biden.

2+2 just added up again. I think someone may be setting the disarmed from-everywhere Nat Guardsmen to be slaughtered, as a pretext for a serious effort to disarm us all.

...man i hope not.

Capitol Insurrection

General comments:

The most telling part of the terrorist attack on the capital is how many family members, coworkers, and acquaintances couldn’t wait to turn them in. Somebody has to fill out the left half of the bell curve.

• Police command structure crumbled fast during Capitol riot

• A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege | The New Yorker

• 5k rioters? Lasyt I heard it was still under 200 arrested or charged... Don’t confuse 5k rioters with 74M voters

• FBI investigating whether woman stole laptop from Pelosi's office to sell it to Russia - POLITICO

  • Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

• US Capitol riot: Army reservist with security-level security clearance among the latest charged - CNNPolitics

• Capitol Rioter Guy Reffitt Threatened to Shoot His Kids If They Snitched: Feds

• The Capitol rioters are getting banned from dating apps

Q Believers

• The Sicilian Defense - D5 — MonkeyWerx

OrangeManBad

• Trump Built a National Debt So Big That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

• Giuliani says he won't represent Trump at president's impeachment trial - ABC News

"Because I gave an earlier speech [at the rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or in the Senate chamber," Giuliani said.

• Doublethink: Why Trump’s Challenges to Democracy Will Be a Big Problem for Biden - Government Executive

Trump never really threatened a coup, which is a swift and irregular transfer of power from one executive to another, where force or the threat of force installs a new leader with the support of the military.

By objecting to the outcome of the election, Trump highlighted aspects of the process that many Americans were previously unaware of, ironically ensuring the public is better informed about the mechanics and details of American elections. In that way, he may have, paradoxically, made American democracy stronger.

If prosecutors or Congress let Trump off the hook, they may be the ones breaking new and dangerous ground, truly shattering the rule of law that underpins American democracy.

OrangeFansBad

• Former Facebook security chief suggests conservative content be deplatformed

• The terrifying scourge of ‘multiracial whiteness’ - The Spectator - news, politics, life & arts

  • To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness

BigTechBad

• Amazon Permanently Shuts Down Prime Pantry - Subscription Insider

• Chris Vickery on Twitter: "Parler is back online now by routing 100% of its user traffic through servers located within the Russian Federation. Raise your hand if you understand the very significant impact this has on the ability to surveil and target insurrectionists who organize on Parler." / Twitter

• GitHub regrets firing Jewish employee who called Trump-incited mob “Nazis”

• U.S. asks Australia to scrap proposed laws to make Facebook, Google pay for news

• Apple sued for not removing Telegram from App Store over violent content and hate groups | AppleInsider

  Apple is being sued by the Coalition for a Safer Web for failing to remove access to Telegram while still blocking Parler, and also alleging it is being used by hate groups and extremists to attack the Capitol.

• This is great: Cut Google and Facebook out of your life, by using Apple instead! Degoogling my life – The Firing Neuron

• Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers

• Social-Media Algorithms Rule How We See the World. Good Luck Trying to Stop Them

• Apple pulls the plug on user-found method to sideload iOS apps on Mac

LeftIsBad

• CNN's Jake Tapper Feigns Moral Superiority About the Election Again, It Backfires Big Time

GovernmentIsBad

• (2014, PDF) Iain-Murray-Operation-Choke-Point.pdf

ChinaIsBad

• China "Sought To Influence" 2020 US Election, Director Of National Intelligence Assesses | ZeroHedge

World

• Brexiters are waking up to the damage they've done

• Guatemala police start clearing US-bound migrant caravan camp after violent clashes (VIDEOS) — RT World News

• Samsung de facto Chairman Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison

• Massive blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming bitcoin mining. - The Washington Post

COVID

• California suspends pollution-control limits to deal with backlog in cremations

• Rand Paul warns "There are doctors...saying we may need to wear masks forever."

• Trump Lifts Ban On Travel From EU, UK And Brazil... And Biden Immediately Reinstates It | ZeroHedge

• Clinica Sierra Vista pauses COVID vaccinations in Fresno out of an abundance of caution - ABC30 Fresno

• 1 in 8 recovered COVID-19 patients die within 5 months: study

• Covid vaccine: WHO warns of 'catastrophic moral failure' - BBC News

• The doctor who denied COVID-19 was leaked from a lab had this major bias.

• Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?

• Aditya Singh: Man found 'living in airport for three months' over Covid fears - BBC News

• Propaganda: No evidence Vitamin D affects Covid severity in people of European ancestry

• Third of recovered Covid patients return to hospital in 5 months and 1 in 8 die