2021-01-19

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• First preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says

• IRS delays start of tax season to Feb. 12: What this means for filers - al.com

• 40 Years Ago, They Told Us Home Taping Was Killing Music | Discogs

• "DECO is a project that uses cell phones to detect cosmic rays and other energetic particles." Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center

• Magicicada - Cicada Mania

• "seems awfully presumptuous to assume that a universal society is desirable" Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable

• Study: Fried food intake linked to heightened serious heart disease, stroke risk

• Story of Mammoth Survival Is in the Soil - Scientific American

• Oumuamua Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens? | The New Yorker

• Low-flying Airplane to Map Geology of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois

• The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming - Glenn Greenwald

• Benton County investigating arsons near Big Sandy - WBBJ TV

TechSuck

• Chilly This Winter? Cozy Up to the Computer That’s Mining Bitcoin

• ‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator | The Babylon Bee

• OpenWRT forum user data stolen in weekend data breach

• Intel Problems – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

  Right now it makes no sense for the U.S. to subsidize Intel; the company doesn’t actually build what the U.S. needs, and the company clearly has culture and management issues that won’t be fixed with money for nothing.

• Electric vehicle startup Rivian adds $2.65B investment

  • The Next Tesla? Investors Bet Big on Electric Truck Maker Rivian

  • Wait, wtf? haven't these people already been shown to have nothing but plans to rob investors, last year? Something about a totally faked demo of their electric freight truck?

• NearlyFreeSpeech.NET Blog » Free Speech in 2021

  So, a bunch of people suddenly discovered they care deeply about free speech immediately after a handful of racists faced even mild consequences for plotting a literal insurrection.

  We believe that America accomplished what it has despite the hatred and bigotry that has always plagued us, not because of it. We believe diversity is America’s spicy secret sauce, which we love. And we have no interest in living in a sea of mayonnaise. [If you are a racist] We do not want you to host your garbage here. We will not lift one finger to help you do that. We will kick you off the instant you give us a reason. We’re not the right service for you.

CensorsAreGood

• When Radio Stations Stopped a Public Figure From Spreading Dangerous Lies | History | Smithsonian Magazine

• Internet back on in Uganda as Museveni is declared elections winner

BidenTime

• Why Biden and Democrats might not push employee status for gig workers

• Joe Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants

• Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden

• Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House

Inauguration Riots

• Biden, Harris To Speak From Lincoln Memorial During Ceremony Honoring COVID-19 Victims | HuffPost

  The inaugural committee has encouraged all Americans to participate Tuesday by lighting a candle in their windows.

• Comment (re Nat'l Guard troops being "vetted" by FBI):

It’s not just the NG. My son was ordered to vet his active duty troops for participants in Trump rallies and report back. This is Fort Bragg.

@JackPosobiec WH source: The NRA, Turning Point USA & Patriot Guard Riders are three of many non-militia groups on the list CID / FBI are using to cross reference in vetting for potential "extremists"

• 12 National Guard members removed from Biden inauguration

  Twelve U.S. Army National Guard members have been removed from the presidential inauguration security mission after they were found to have ties with right-wing militia groups or posted extremist views online, according to two U.S. officials.

• QAnon adherents discussed posing as National Guard to try to infiltrate inauguration, according to FBI intelligence briefing - The Washington Post

Capitol Seige / Sacking / Insurrection

• HN comment re "CHAZ was different!"

What would you call the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone if not an attempt at insurrection? Come on, can we have some intellectual honesty here? Both situation sucked, the people involved sucked, their reasoning sucked and they should all go to jail so that sane people can get back to their lives in peace. We are being forced into building absurd logical houses of cards just so we do not concede an inch to the other side. What childish madness.

• The War Comes Home: The Evolution of Domestic Terrorism in the United States

• Trump provoked Capitol riot, Mitch McConnell says

• 41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege

  • I feel certain it was at least 6hr, last week. "about an hour" matches with the memories i have of the coverage of the actual day, tho.

• Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

• Opinion | We Mock the Rioters as Ignorant Buffoons at Our Peril - POLITICO

• Police command structure crumbled fast during Capitol riot

• Straight Pride Parade organizer, Natick Town Meeting member arrested for alleged roles in US Capitol riot Jan. 6 - The Boston Globe

• US Capitol riot: Retired New York City firefighter Thomas Fee charged in connection with riot - CNNPolitics

• Oath Keeper leader charged with conspiracy in the plot against the Capitol - The Washington Post

  U.S. authorities have leveled the first conspiracy charge against an apparent leader of an extremist group in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol, arresting an alleged Oath Keeper who is accused of plotting to disrupt the electoral vote confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory and proposing further assaults on state capitols.

• Members Of Right-Wing Militias, Extremist Groups Are Latest Charged In Capitol Siege : NPR

• 2 Georgia men charged in DC Capitol riot after posting pics, videos on social media

• Over 100 people charged in Capitol Hill riot

OrangeManGood

• Thank you, Mr. President – HCRN

• Wyoming Republican Chair Hints at Secession Following Liz Cheney Impeachment Vote

OrangeManBad

• YouTube extends Trump suspension for another week

• Sam Liccardo : Trump's second impeachment after Capitol riots isn't enough. He needs to go to prison.

• The most bizarre thing about Trump’s farewell speech is how normal it sounds

  • With his final words, Trump reminds America which Americans he cares about

• Operation Warp Speed Created Vaccination Chaos

• McConnell Sparks GOP-Split Talk, Claims "Mob Was Fed Lies...Provoked By Trump" | ZeroHedge

OrangeFansBad

• Democrats Fear Inauguration Violence... But Certainly Are Experts | ZeroHedge

• Donald Trump supporters embrace Signal, Telegram and other 'free speech' apps - ABC News

• After U.S. Capitol Siege, Federalist Society Considers Purging Trump Supporters - Big League Politics

• Laura Loomer: I’ve Been BANNED From Owning A Firearm, A Warning Of What’s To Come For All Conservative Americans

• Incitement Or Free Speech? Comey Calls For The Republican Party To Be "Burned Down" | ZeroHedge

• "Trump supporters are Racists: In numbers" Where Trumpism Lives | Boston Review

  White homeowners’ perception of a loss of status relative to upwardly mobile Hispanic and Asian American households is the social context out of which emerged the nativist politics at the center of Trumpism. Middle-class whites in Republican objectors’ districts are nevertheless considerably more likely to own their own home and receive higher incomes than any other racial group except Asian Americans. It is whiteness itself that has lost salience as a signifier of social status and class, and it is to this status anxiety that Trumpism is addressed.

  • However: when you consider the "psychological projection" factor, this becomes interesting. Whom do we see in the ranks of the Democrats and RINOS? Why, the White neighbors of these outer, richer suburbanites, who give to the proper politicians and causes and attend the country clubs and so on.

    Further, whose children fill out the ranks of the "peaceful protester" mug shot sheets from all over the country? Few of the underprivileged of any color managed to hit riots in more than one city, but those mugsheets are a sea of mayonnaise.

• Capitol rioters were “predisposed” to conflict; Trump et al. fanned flames

• Liberal Media Scream: Call to silence conservatives and kick OANN and Newsmax off air

• MyPillow Products Will No Longer Be Sold by These Companies

• QAnon Conspiracy Theories Can't Be Ignored | National Review

World

• Via video, apparently: Jack Ma Emerges for First Time Since Ant, Alibaba Crackdown - Bloomberg

• US Cuts Off Telephone Line To Russian Consulate In New York Day Before Inauguration | ZeroHedge

• U.S. Military Says Its Troop Removal From Somalia Is Complete | RealClearDefense

• Woman Is Sentenced to 43 Years for Criticizing Thai Monarchy

• Turkey imposes advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest

• Where surveillance cameras work but the justice system doesn’t – Rest of World

• China is committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uighur Muslims

COVID

• Senate Democrats call on Biden to immediately invoke Defense Production Act

• L.A. Suspends Air Quality Rules to Cremate Backlog of Covid-19 Victims

• Man freezes to death steps from Montreal shelter after public health rules

• New Study by Citizen Scientists Tries to Make Sense of Long Covid Syndrome

• Large Numbers of Health Care and Frontline Workers Are Refusing Covid-19 Vaccine

• Wuhan-lab researchers admit being bitten by coronavirus infected bats: Report - The Hindu BusinessLine

Obit

• Harry Brant, son of Peter Brant, Stephanie Seymour, dead at 24