2021-01-20

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Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing. -- Conor Barnes

• Joaquim Campa on Twitter: "Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. " / Twitter

• Hollywood and hyper-surveillance: the incredible story of Gorgon Stare

  • No mention of Charles Stross, who used name "Gorgon Stare" for his government surveillance / magic death ray network.

• Time Travel Theoretically Possible Without Leading To Paradoxes, Researchers Say : NPR

• "The painting was found but its custodian hadn't realized it was stolen." Italian police find stolen copy of Leonardo 'Salvator Mundi'

• Want to learn to curse like a Russian? There’s an Instagram account for that · Global Voices

• This shipment is bananas: Kelowna grocers receive 21 bricks of cocaine in fruit delivery | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

• NHTSA releases final Low-Volume Manufacturing Rules | DeLorean

• • Chart: 2020 Saw Unprecedented Murder Spike In Major U.S. Cities | Statista

  • completely mysterious spontaneous rise in murder rates in many major cities this summer. "in part, to the coronavirus and to the fact that people are cooped up"

• Linked earlier but the quote is golden Man arrested at Chicago Airport after allegedly living there for three months – Law Officer

  “So if I understand you correctly, you’re telling me that an unauthorized, non-employee individual was allegedly living within a secure part of the O’Hare airport terminal from Oct. 19, 2020, to Jan. 16, 2021, and was not detected? I want to understand you correctly,” Cook County Judge Susana Ortiz said during the hearing.

• Ancient Insect Genitals Found in 50M-Year-Old Fossil

• FAA investigation into 'Jet Pack Guy' suggests it might not be a guy at all, but a drone  | Daily Mail Online

  • Airliner Pilot Says Jet Pack Guy Over Los Angeles Looked Just Like This Crazy Drone

• Seek and Ye Shall Find… | OS/2 Museum

• Sacramento moves on eliminating single-family housing zones

TechSuck

• Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

• GPT-3 has ‘consistent and creative’ anti-Muslim bias, study finds

• European Commission levies $9.5M in fines for 'geo-blocked' Steam games

Econonomicon

• BlackRock May Start Trading Bitcoin Futures in 2 Funds

• Yellen warns of crypto currency for terrorism

• Inside California’s colossal container-ship traffic jam - FreightWaves

BidenTime

• Advice to Team Biden: Delete Your Twitter Accounts | Washington Monthly

• Majority of Europeans fear Biden unable to fix 'broken' US | World news | The Guardian

  A majority of Europeans believe America’s political system is broken, that China will be the world’s leading power within a decade, and that Joe Biden will be unable to halt his country’s decline on the world stage

• In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders | Reuters

• The ‘deep state’ of loyalists Trump is leaving behind for Biden - POLITICO

• In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders

• Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace - The American Prospect

• Campus Reform | Howard prof, Biden's pick to lead DOJ 'Civil Rights Division,' said Black people are 'superior' to Whites

• Biden’s Climate Team: Climate Change Is Happening Because of ‘Systemic Racism.’

• Kamala Harris will make history as the first woman, Black and South Asian vice president

• Joe Biden’s new gig | TechCrunch

• Jeff Zients, the ‘Mr. Fix It’ Biden put in charge of tackling Covid-19

Inauguration

• "We Want Revenge": Antifa Anarchists Activate After Biden Inaugurated | ZeroHedge

"The contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it’s like almost… extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America." -- David Chalian, CNN

• READ: The full text of President Biden's inaugural address - Business Insider

  • comment:

    Yes, Biden's speech was so "bipartisan" that he suggested the need for legal/military action against his internal American-citizen political enemies three times.

• Joe Biden inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States

• Joe Biden Will Swear His Oath Of Office On A Giant Family Bible

• Twitter Resets POTUS Account

  • As promised, Twitter made Joe Biden’s POTUS account start with zero followers

• Supreme Court faces bomb threat during Biden's inauguration - Business Insider

• After Investigation, Pentagon Finds ‘No Plot Against Biden’ Among National Guard Troops | The Daily Wire

• Live inaugural updates: 12 Army National Guard troops dropped from Capitol security, including 2 for ties to right-wing militias

• Media Cheers DC Under Military Occupation | ZeroHedge

Capitol Siege / Insurrection / Riots

• New Evidence Points to Riot Conspiracy

• Feds say charges over stolen Pelosi computer being prepared

• Sheriff: Deputy charged with threats after US Capitol attack - ABC News

• Website Published Every Face from Parler's Capitol Riot Videos

• Some Armageddon - Our Cyberpunk Now

  the most horrifying thing about January 6th was realizing that no one was actually turning the dial. It was all bubble and froth, small fiefdoms pushing for an advantage, with no one in charge, and something undeniably strange and terrible had happened, yet everyone involved was just a jackal tugging at the remains, trying to assemble the footage into a picture resembled their worldview.

• Take the Profit Out of Political Violence - BIG by Matt Stoller

  Once the problem of radicalization goes away, then it becomes possible to solve the monopoly problem.

Trumpoline

• Pelosi: Trump could be an accessory to murder 'because he instigated that insurrection'

• ( trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov link ) Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency

  • (whitehouse.gov link) Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grants of Clemency | The White House

  President Donald J. Trump granted pardons to 73 individuals and commuted the sentences of an additional 70 individuals.

  • With hours left in office, Trump pardons Bannon

  • Trump grants clemency to more than 100 people, including Bannon

  • (guy who stole 'self driving car' code) Ex-Google engineer among those pardoned by Donald Trump

• Memorandum on Declassification of Certain Materials Related to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation | The White House

• First Trump declassified Russia document: Christopher Steele's 2017 confession to the FBI | Just The News

• Donald Trump Exits the White House - The Atlantic

• Trump is said to be considering starting a 'Patriot Party' after facing criticism from top ...

• Ajit Pai Is Officially Gone

• Twitch’s Trump ban sustained after leaving office

• Chinese Foreign Ministry Bans Trump Admin Staff from Entering China/Macao/HK

  • China Slaps Sanctions on 28 Trump Administration Officials,Including Mike Pompeo

RightIsBad

comment board trolls are out in force. Right wing boards are stuffed with people crowing about Qanon didn't save you, "all aboard the trump train; because you're on the no fly list now", etc.

You're the hunted now. Here we come.

... I was expecting anything that happened to trigger the left into a full on pogrom and witch hunt to root out trumpism; nothing's happened to they told the troll armies to be provocative.

The HN / tech board trolls are gone today, and there are comments saying things like "Big Tech has overstepped, free speech and tolerance are important" that are not getting stomped.

My Employer sent out a statement about how to report a coworker's inappropriate social media postings, not anonymously.

• Bruceton mayor says Facebook post was about 'constitutional rights'

• As Donald Trump exits, QAnon takes hold in Germany

• Twitter and YouTube Banned Steve Bannon. Apple Gives Him Millions of Listeners

• Increasingly militant 'Parler refugees' and anxious QAnon adherents prep for doomsday

• Today’s blacklisted conservative: Lawyer who represented Trump fired by university

• QAnon Believers Struggle with Inauguration

• How Are You Or Your Family Members Detangling From QAnon?

• CIA Director Gina Haspel Announces Resignation A Day Before Biden Enters Office | ZeroHedge

• Airbnb has been quietly using social media to root out and ban extremists

  [Since 2017] The company has used dummy accounts on Facebook, Twitter and forums to identify users with ties to white nationalism and other possibly dangerous groups, according to The Information. Six or so employees in the trust and safety unit are said to have been tasked with tracking down users connected to those groups and kicking them off Airbnb's platform.

• Study Finds NRA Stakeholders Conflicted in Wake of Shootings | NC State News

LeftIsBad

• Big Tech Censors Trump after Capitol Riot | National Review

• Reading Suicide Notes

  All the troops, and all the hysteria, are not so much part of a grand plan but the real and fervent hope that someone, someone, please put them out of their misery.

World

• The Race for Mars Takes China-U.S. Tensions into Outer Space

• Madrid explosion: 3 dead, several injured as explosion rocks Spanish capital - CNN

• "50 seconds of prerecorded speech." Alibaba's Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet | Reuters

  Jack Ma met 100 rural teachers in China via a live video meeting on Wednesday morning, in the businessman’s first appearance since October, triggering a sharp jump in the Hong Kong listed shares of the e-commerce giant.

  • Jack Ma, Alibaba’s Billionaire Co-Founder, Resurfaces After Months of Lying Low

• Police discover first cannabis farm in London financial district | Reuters

COVID

• How to get a free bag of marijuana with the COVID-19 vaccine

• Wall Street Declares "The Beginning Of The End Of The COVID Crisis" | ZeroHedge

• Amazon offers Biden help with vaccine, suggests their 800K employees go first

• Study finds pandemic skeptics are younger, healthier, and more conservative than average

• Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan: retrospective study