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How do you leave Nathan MacKinnon, of all people, that open?
It was the opposite of the meme-worthy photo circulating this week of five skaters converging on Connor McDavid. MacKinnon, arguably McDavid’s toughest competition in the 2019-20 Hart Trophy race, found himself chillin’ by his lonesome in the left circle in front of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ net on a Colorado Avalanche power play during Wednesday’s game. He received a pass from right winger Mikko Rantanen, charged up a shot like a video-game character and scored, obviously.
“I was looking around for a pass, and I had so much time that I just shot it, going high glove, and managed to catch the bar a little bit, and it went in,” MacKinnon said. “I wasn’t even expecting the seam. They might have gotten a little too aggressive on Mikko, and you can’t really do that on him. He’s such a good player. It was a great pass by him.”
It was rare to see MacKinnon neglected during a season in which he’s been anything but by the public. The Avs have endured lengthy injury absences to his two star wingers, Gabriel Landeskog and Rantanen, and MacKinnon has soldiered on, elevating whoever has replaced them and rocketing up the league’s scoring charts. With Rantanen and Landeskog finally back, MacKinnon’s 44 points place him third in the NHL in points, seven back of McDavid and Leon Draisaitl. When Rantanen was out 16 games with an ankle injury, he gained a unique bird’s-eye appreciation watching MacKinnon from the press box.
“The way he stood up and took some leadership, it’s fun to watch,” Rantanen said. “He’s a great leader and great player.”
Leadership is the key word. MacKinnon is an offensive juggernaut, virtually impossible to contain with the puck on his stick, but his focus this season has been on stepping up the intangible side of his game.
“The biggest thing for me is, I’m just trying to be a better leader,” MacKinnon said. “With Gabe out, he’s such a good vocal leader, and I’m not a vocal leader historically. I’m trying to do that a bit more. I think it’s keeping me more engaged in the game and more positive. I have more jump when I’m talking more and being more positive. I feed off it. I think my teammates feed off it a little bit, too.”
Asked if he thinks he’s reaching a career peak at 24, he says he’s not sure but that, if he is, he just hopes he can sustain it for a while. If he does, the Avs will continue to rise as Stanley Cup contenders. Across the past three seasons, only McDavid and Nikita Kucherov, a.k.a winners of the past three scoring titles, have more points than MacKinnon, and he ranks eighth in points per 60 minutes and ninth in shots per 60 minutes at 5-on-5.
“When you look at his stats, the numbers he’s put up in the last couple weeks without Mikko and without Landy, it’s incredible,” said Avalanche goaltender Philipp Grubauer. “He’s one of the fastest guys, one of the most skilled guys in the league. You give him time and space, and he’s going to make something happen. Same with Connor McDavid. Those guys are so fast. He’s been huge for us and can change a game. It’s what he loves doing, it’s what he does best, and it’s been really good so far.”
So yes, “MacKinnon is good” fits as a story. That’s obviously not in question. What is in question, however, is whether his all-world efforts this season will culminate in his first Hart Trophy as league MVP after he finished second in the 2017-18 vote and sixth in 2018-19.
As seems to be the case almost every season now, it’s a matter of deciding how closely we voters, a.k.a. members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, want to follow the literal definition of the Hart Trophy. It goes to the player judged as most valuable to his team. At least, it’s supposed to. Given what MacKinnon has accomplished despite the injuries to his teammates, it’s difficult to argue against his Hart case. McDavid literally has the other NHL scoring leader by his side in Leon Draisaitl. David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand have each other. MacKinnon’s case in this still-young season is similar to that of Taylor Hall’s in 2017-18. He beat out McDavid, the scoring champ, largely because Hall outscored his closest teammate by 40-plus points and lifted the New Jersey Devils to the playoffs. I had Hall first on my ballot that year. I’m an awards-definition purist. If we don’t follow the award’s definition, why did we bother to define it?
At the same time, every year in which we don’t vote McDavid as the league MVP feels a certain degree of icky. He won it in 2016-17 but missed out the next two seasons largely because his Edmonton Oilers missed the playoffs. The last player to win the Hart after missing the post-season was Mario Lemieux in 1987-88. That said, if we took the past two MVPs, Hall and Kucherov, and replaced them on their teams with McDavid, he likely would’ve been deemed the league’s most valuable player, as he would’ve made the playoffs (and posted even better numbers). He’s the best player in the world. He won the scoring race twice by age 21 and, if he holds off Draisaitl this year, will have won it three times by 23. The only other player ever to do that is Wayne friggin’ Gretzky. McDavid is a living legend relative to his age.
And yet, if the 2019-20 statistical leaderboard plays out as it currently exists, McDavid could wind up missing out on the Hart yet again, possibly because he splits too many votes with Draisaitl. MacKinnon, to me, is the MVP frontrunner even if he’s only the second-best player in the world at the moment. McDavid will likely win the Ted Lindsay Award for the most outstanding player as voted by the players for a third time in four years. That will highlight the discrepancy between the Hart and Lindsay and incite anger among certain fans.
Why, then, do we have to keep giving ourselves migraines, as PHWA voters and fans, over the best-versus-most-valuable debate? It’s time to introduce a new award for the NHL’s best player. Call it the Gretzky Trophy. My campaign for a Gretzky award to crown the league’s annual assist leader has fallen flat, so I’ll donate the name for this new best-player award. Per some background research, there would have to be league appetite at the board-of-governors level to get a new award launched, so we’ll assume for this hypothetical exercise that the owners love it and approve it, deciding it doesn’t step on the Lindsay’s toes too much because a peer-awarded honor is a different entity.
With a new PHWA accolade for the best player, we’d no longer wring our hands over whether the best player in the game gets robbed of the MVP because the team around him couldn’t get him to the playoffs – or because he had too many good teammates to support him. If you’re the best, you’re named the best. A new award would also expand the MVP race, reducing pressure to hand it to the game’s top player and opening up some exciting new discussions over which player did the most to help his team. For instance, Kucherov would’ve won ‘The Gretzky’ last season, but maybe Jordan Binnington would’ve scored the Hart. No one changed his team’s fate like Binnington did last season, right?
Food for thought. Let’s stop wasting time on best vs. most valuable. Let’s introduce another award.
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Interesting article in the Telegraph about the controversial experimental sterilization treatments being conducted on Lesbian and Gay children by the UK’s National Health Service, and how ongoing transgender campaigns of harassment against researchers are preventing scientists from addressing difficult questions about the efficacy –and the ethics- of such treatments.
From the article:
“The operations are being paid for by the taxpayers, although I don’t think that’s the issue. If the state can pay several thousands to save a person from a life of misery and eventual suicide then I for one think that is money well-spent. And yet the strange thing is that, taking aside the fact that “blockers” may affect cognitive ability and bone density, there’s actually no accepted medical proof or consensusthat sex change operations actually help someone’s mental health; we may one day find that it does, but we simply don’t know enough at the moment.
Yet that hasn’t stopped the growth of a political orthodoxy that boys and girls are sometimes born into the wrong bodies – their gender does not match their physical sex – and that this is best fixed by hormone treatment and/or surgery later in life; and that anyone who finds this uncomfortable suffers themselves from a psychological condition, apparently, called transphobia.
This is the only explanation acceptable to the media and, indeed, the state, which spends a fair deal of money (which we don’t have) combating transphobia. Yet at the moment science is still quite confused about Gender Identity Disorder, and what is acceptable to say about it is constrained by taboo and threats, and academics who argue against the standard political narrative tend to get persecuted.”
Of course there are over a hundred comments on the article by the usual suspects: straight middle-aged men who adopted a transgender lifestyle (at least online) after decades of male privilege, heterosexual marriage, and careers. They echo the thoughts of career-military man turned trans-activist Autumn Sandeen when he states that the future of the entire transgender movement should be based on the meme of “transgender children”, because it “take[s] the sex right out of the trans experience”.
Sandeen: “ I’ve always said there are two groups that are going to make change in transgender legislation and the “gender identity and expression” related language in legislation. It’s going to be trans youth because they take, you know, they demystify it and take the sex right out of the trans experience.”
Trans Youth Famly Allies director Kim Pearson: “They do. They do.”
Sandeen: “And then, transgender veterans – or people doing service like police. But it’s going to be military, veterans, police, fire, those kind of folks who are serving to send a message- especially veterans. It’s hard to tell a veteran, you know, “we don’t appreciate your service because you’re transgender”.
Adult transgenders use children because they have decided that using children obscures sexism and the sexualized/fetish aspect of the majority of the trans movement. And what creates more sympathy than a suffering child?
Pay no attention to the 50 year old retired military police officer with anger management problems who wants to share a dorm room with your seventeen year old daughter because he demands his “right” to a pretend-girlhood he’s always masturbated about.
Pay no attention to the convicted serial child predator who demands his “right” to sit in a hottub full of children in a women’s locker room because of his “gender identity”.
Pay no attention to the ingrained culture of pedomorphisis practiced by the very adults who promote these treatments on children and shout down academic medical and scientific study.
Pay no attention to the children who are committing suicide after graduating from “transgender youth” programs.
Pay no attention to the teen-aged transitioners now filled with regret.
Pay no attention to decades of intersex activism from people with first-hand knowledge of the damage done from performing medical “corrections” and experimentation on minor children.
Pay no attention that this treatment causes unstudied changes in brain growth, insulin resistance, bone density as well as lifetime sterilization, “elective disablility” and drug dependence of gender-noncompliant children.
Pay no attention to the fact that there has never been a SINGLE follow-up study on the youth who have been medically experimented upon in the name of “gender” AND that activist groups funded by adult transgenders to actively lobby for such experiments on children REFUSE to participate in any of the proposed international research BECAUSE WHAT LITTLE RESEARCH HAS BEEN DONE on gender-noncompliant children into adulthood CONTRADICTS THESE TREATMENTS. |
By Bill Hirschman
Every summer, the humidity rises, the snowbirds go home and Actors’ Playhouse mounts a fluffy innocuous musical about what modern life is like, featuring doggedly middle-of the-road music, lyrics that range from mildly witty to slightly anemic, and skits better than Saturday Night Live but not much.
These undertakings must be financially successful because not only does this company keep mounting them, but one has actually spawned a sequel: Mid-Life 2: The Crisis Continues, the off-spring of 2008’s Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical.
Continues is an honest word choice because virtually everyone from the writers to the performers are back for another round. Once again, director David Arisco and company have achieved precisely what they sought: a fun, light-hearted divertissement.
But the quality of the material is not worthy of the skill, talent, polish and unflagging commitment lavished on it by Arisco, music director David Nagy and cast members Allan Baker, Maribeth Graham, Margot Moreland, Lourelene Snedeker, Wayne Steadman and Barry J. Tarallo. These folks are troupers.
The strongest element in the script and score by brothers Jim and Bob Walton is my phrase to describe a touchstone of local theater since Flagler: “The Theater of Recognition.” It refers to authors plugging into (or pandering to) the audience’s life experiences or culture as a shortcut to winning over their affection. Yes, this is true of all great theater on a more elevated level, but here usually it’s when a playwright needlessly throws in a Yiddish phrase or a Spanish exclamation to charm a segment of the South Florida audience.
The Waltons do deserve praise for perceptively identifying and riffing on familiar experiences of a generation leaving their 30s and slipping into their 60s. There’s the couple insulted that a ticket clerk offers them a senior discount before they’re eligible. The man who can’t find his glasses because they are on his head. Those grunts we unconsciously utter every time we get up from a chair or bend over. Two men anxiously rebonding after the death of a friend. A couple trying to remember the name of an actor in a movie on television while resisting the urge to Google the answer.
As usual, there’s a few risque bits and lines that wouldn’t offend a nun, such as two men in a doctor’s office celebrating that Viagra has given them that long-lasting side effect that the commercials gleefully “warn” you about.
The Waltons hardly miss a trope or meme (that’s 21st Century language for cliché and stereotype.) Each one is rewarded by the audience with appreciative aahs, nods and nudges.
The problem is these are all set ups and premises. The Waltons have varied results after they posit the basic idea. Some are mildly entertaining and some are pretty darn lame. Certainly, there’s too little meat here for a two-hour two-act production.
It’s all whistling past the graveyard, right down to Gene Seyffer’s set design, which includes the title of each number projected above the stage, except that the letters are blurry until a giant magnifying glass slips over it.
But the material is unfailingly delivered with verve and professionalism, such as poor Moreland gamely throwing herself into a silly number about an embarrassed mother picking out condoms at a pharmacy to ensure that her teenager practices safe sex. Or there’s Tarallo and Snedeker in a weak skit about a device that helps a husband filter out ambient noise in a crowded restaurant.
The best moments are the quiet ones not reaching for laughs such as Snedeker lending her lovely voice to the joys of hearing a single word, “Nana.” Or Snedeker and Steadman recalling their courtship during a visit to the old neighborhood.
Some audience members at Sunday’s matinee were charmed and burbled with pleasure, a few termed it tedious and left at intermission. If you’ve been to these before, you know what you’re getting and you could do a lot worse. At least the folks on stage are a plus.
But my theater-going partner offered a thoughtful alternative: Palm Beach Dramaworks has produced staged concerts of classic musicals for three years now such as Camelot and Man of La Mancha. Each has been thoroughly entertaining and a lot more satisfying than these slice-of-modern-life fripperies. But they still qualify as summer fare that doesn’t strain the audience. Perhaps the finances of the Mid-Life ilk are too profitable and the Dramaworks’ efforts too costly. We don’t know. But we bet that Miami-Dade audiences would embrace either Dramaworks touring its offerings on Actors’ Playhouse’s stage or for Arisco himself to lend his considerable talents to a similar enterprise. Just a thought.
Mid-Life 2: The Crisis Continues plays through Aug. 17 at the Actors’ Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables. Performances 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Runs two hours including intermission. Tickets $40-$48, student rush $15. Visit actorsplayhouse.org or call (305) 441-4181. |
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Question: "What is the meaning of the name Jesus? The life of Jesus on earth may be divided into two great periods, (1) that of his private life, till he was about thirty years of age; and (2) that of his public life, which lasted about three years. All of Christ's miracles provided dramatic and clear evidence that he is the Son of God, validating his claim to the world. The form יֵשׁוּעַ (yēšū́aʿ) is attested in some of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (Ezra–Nehemiah), and translated as Jeshua or Yeshua in some English editions (the former appearing in the King James Version). We have Baskets, Candle Holders, Ceramic Accent Pieces, Decorative Bird Cages, Decorative Clocks and more. What a ledge. Altdeutsche Heldenlieder aus dem Sagenkreise Dietrichs von Bern und der Nibelungen.
Famous writers Damon Runyan and Walter Winchell covered the trial. 98 Social. &0183;&32;(Christianity) Jesus of Nazareth, a first-century Jewish carpenter, held to be a prophet, teacher and the Messiah, or Christ, in Christianity. Jesus paid the price for us that results in forgiveness for our sins from God. The English term Christmas (“mass on Christ’s day”) is of fairly recent origin.
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A chart listing the Old Testament prophecies that were fulfilled by Jesus. Many people have questions about Jesus and on this site you will find biblical answers to the most common questions asked about the birth and life of Christ, his ministry and disciples, and of course the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Day : int Public ReadOnly Property Day As Integer Property Value Int32. Jesus Christ was a real person who lived in Palestine about 2,000 years ago. The mistletoe is a commonly used Christmas decoration. More news for Christmas.
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In their closest conjunction in 400 years they will be separated on the sky by only about 1/5 the apparent diameter of the Moon. International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. From classic Christmas cookie recipes to festive Christmas tree decorating ideas, you&39;ll find everything you need to celebrate the holiday. Over 1 hour of the top Christmas songs featuring all of your favorite classic Christmas songs. See maps and real-time presidential election results for the US election. Je'sus, the proper, as Christ is the official, name of our Lord. Christmas papers are subject to the same competitive selection and peer review process as regular papers. Merry christmas and happy new year greeting card with copy-space.
Relatinised from Old Portuguese Jesu, from Latin Iēsus, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y&39;hoshúa). It is common to organize a special meal, often consisting of turkey and a lot of other festive foods, for family or friends and exchange gifts with them. The year of Jesus&39; birth is debated by scholars, who generally place it sometime between 7 B. Christmas Decorations, Christmas Traditions, History of Christmas Around the World, Santa Claus and more!
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Find yummy Christmas recipes, Christmas stories, Christmas entertainment and free games to play. Jesus is a religious leader whose life and teachings are recorded in the Bible’s New Testament. Jesus Christ is truly God, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son, the Eternal Word, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit always was, is, and always will be. We invite you to uncover the remarkable surprises of this island full of natural wonders: from the unique annual red crab migration to rare and unusual birds and glorious deserted beaches. Occurring on a routine or daily basis: the day-to-day movements of the stock market. For three days, investigators had found nothing and there was no further word from the kidnappers. Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath. Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary.
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A movie about the life, work and death of Jesus as we know it from the Bible. &0183;&32;The books of the Old Testament contain many passages about the Messiah—all prophecies Jesus Christ fulfilled. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. It’s time to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, and you can greet this Christmas season in style with these holiday home decorating tips. I’m Starting To Think Cats Like The Pizza Box More Than The Pizza Itself – 25 Pics. Org is a site dedicated to Jesus Christ. You can find all sorts of advice on preparing for Christmas, whether you plan on dining out for Christmas dinner or holding brunch at home for your family. He is a central figure in Christianity and is emulated as the incarnation of God by many.
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Other common decorations associated with Christmas are holly and ivy – both are associated with Pagan festivals as it was customary to decorate with greenery for these festivals. Etymology "Christmas" is a shortened form of "Christ&39;s mass". Get set for Christmas with our festive ranges of food, drinks and gifts and decorations. Was Jesus Just a Good Man? The Jesus Calling app is designed to easily display content from Sarah Young’s other devotionals, so the need for multiple stand-alone apps is no longer necessary.
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Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ. In this collection of sayings, Jesus laid out some of his best-known teachings, including the Lord’s Prayer. We eat turkey, rice with a lot of things, meat, salad and for dessert we eat a cake and some sweet. &181;Torrent&174; (uTorrent) Web torrent client for Windows -- uTorrent is a browser based torrent client. Christmas is a Christian holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. After Dark Funny Meme Dump 28 Pics. Jesus Christ Resurrection.
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After the burial of Jesus, the holy women returned and prepared spices and ointments. Jesus and Mo cartoons are wonderfully funny and true. Various simple coloring book pages celebrating the life of Christ (also see the Apostles and the Parables sections). From Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (yeshúa). While Christmas trees are traditionally associated with Christian symbolism, their modern use is largely secular. The Parables Madeleine Boucher discusses the different types of parables. Hyphenation: Je‧sus 2. What Is Jesus&39; Real Name?
But mankind disobeys God. Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. With Brian Deacon, Rivka Neuman, Alexander Scourby, Niko Nitai. Whether it's holiday decorating trends, new family traditions or inspired gift ideas, we're here to help make your season as festive can be. Send a letter to Santa Claus or a Christmas card to a friend. A small slice of a Frenchwoman's day -- in France and in French. Many of these traditions vary by country or region, while others are universal and practiced in a virtually ubiquitous manner across the world. Hyphenation: Je‧sus.
When the Sabbath was passed, the holy women brought sweet spices that they might anoint Jesus. FTD Christmas Collection ‘Tis the season to give the gift of joy to the ones you love. And it happened in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Click on a headline below to go to the related article or section: Chart of Old Testament prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. Film and Commercials Director. C : daytime sleeps during the day and works at night 2 astronomy : the period of rotation of a planet (such as earth) or a moon on its axis the length of one day on Mars 3 : the mean solar day of 24 hours beginning at midnight by mean time open seven days a week the first day of every month Take one pill two times a day.
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Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. He is the Creator of the universe. &0183;&32;The followers of Jesus, referred to as the “elect” or “saints,” were expecting to rule over the Gentile nations and even judge angels (1 Corinthians 6:1-4).
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Jesus is so unique because two worlds collide in him: heaven and earth, the divine and the human. The Paris Visite is an all-day ticket with four periods of validity: one, two, three or five consecutive days. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible. Please enable it to continue. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it. And 12:00 P. Hyphenation: day. 4 Many years before Jesus was born, Jehovah promised in the Bible that he would send the Messiah, or Christ.
Jewish religious leader who was crucified in Jerusalem after his teaching and reported miracle-working incurred the disfavor of the Roman. The Revelation to John focuses on the prophecy of the risen Christ. Shop online at Tesco for convenient Click+Collect or delivery to your door. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. Recherche des paroles de chansons d'artistes fran&231;ais et internationaux. (religious) a. Jesus in Charlton T.
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These include baby Jesus, the Nativity and the Three Kings, but also Santa Claus, reindeer and elves. A Jewish Christian surnamed Justus ( Colossians 4:11). Underneath the Christmas tree I just want you for my own More than you could ever know Make my wish come true All I want for Christmas is you, yeah I don't want a lot for Christmas There is just one thing I need And I don't care about the presents Underneath the Christmas tree I don't need to hang my stocking There upon the fireplace. BUY THE MOVIE: Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the life, must be the center, the criteria and the model for our daily lives. Indoor Christmas D&233;cor. Scratch Day started as a global network of events where people gather to celebrate Scratch, the free coding platform and online community for kids.
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He is regarded by most Christians as the Incarnation of God. A survey conducted by the. See also Josva. Christmas Island Tourism: Tripadvisor has 668 reviews of Christmas Island Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Christmas Island resource. ” However, when translated from Hebrew into Greek, in which the New Testament was written, the name Yeshua becomes Iēsous. TODAY All Day is a streaming channel from NBC News, bringing you the best news, information and inspiration from the TODAY show, all day long. Jesus’ deity is why He proclaimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life. Wish a Merry Christmas to loved ones this holiday season with Christmas cards from Zazzle!
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I gave up Facebook and Twitter for Lent about three hours ago. This blog series will chronicle my experiences since the admission that it had become too much of a time suck and a distraction in my life. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna increase my posts here to make up for my lack of time online. I have children, a dog, the weather’s warming up, a book to edit, aging parents, and always: laundry.
Tuesday, February 12, 2016:
Lots of people talk about gaining something when they quit or stop something that’s toxic in their lives. When people quit smoking, they gain weight; when people quit drinking, they gain anxiety, they have to “feel the feelings” that they blocked by abusing their poison of choice.
Addictions are no joke and in my genetic make-up, I can really screw up my life in a huge way if I don’t stay on top of things. I just replied to a comment on my previous post:
“It’s all good to practice some self-awareness and rattle the chain every now and then. I knew in my heart what I needed to do. But what was causing me strife was the illusion of codependency, that I gave people meaning. I love the people I’ve met; I enjoy them immensely and if we were all together in the same neighborhood, we’d be inseparable, but FB is like an addiction for me. I didn’t get the twitches when I wasn’t online, but it was close. And then the anger at the envy knowing it was all [the content I refer to in the previous post] manufactured. I’m dealing with a child right now who badly wants to have a YouTube account because he wants to create content to be LIKED and APPROVED OF and have “hearts” and “shares” so he will become famous. So I can’t very well say it’s no big deal and still do all this. I’m 45. He’s a child, but I must model for him.”
For me, it came as a gift when I realized a couple days ago that I was truly, completely, totally and undeniably sick of Facebook. What had become an interest in 2008 became a fancy in 2009 and 2010; then a full-on habit little more than a year ago along with the deluded notion of self-import. I created a “fan page” for my blog, this blog you’re reading now.
It was all created with the best of intentions, but it wasn’t really an original idea, and for anyone who knows me personally: starting that fan page was the least likely thing you’d ever expect from me. It’s easy for me to say all this now, to blame someone I no longer speak to as the engine for my driving off the cliff, but she’s not responsible although she made it look easy. But having an intractable need to be liked by everyone makes those things easy. It’s the copy-cats, like me, who suck at it.
A real-life, delusional equivalent regarding my self-import would be this: how drinking too much makes me super charming, a scream at parties and an excellent dancer…
So what started as an interest, turned into a habit and then became a full-on obsession because I thought, in order to be a successful
poet, artist, dancer, voice announcer, perfume salesperson, shoe seller, shoe maker, shoe reviewer, soap maker, painter, singer, musician, cook, potter, runner, lawyer, doctor, mother, baker, designer, architect, DJ, writer… you needed a Facebook page. You don’t and it doesn’t … whatever I just said. They are not interchangeable. They are apples and oranges. An apple will not taste better if you chill the orange before eating it.
I believed my own press. I thought what I was doing was providing a service, a ray of sunshine in some peoples’ day, but what I was doing, secretly (and if I honestly admit this to myself, which I am with you reading it), was luring them to come back, to stay online with me, to provide me with a relationship when there really wasn’t one. I am NOT saying the kindnesses were disingenuous. The exchanged kindnesses were absolutely sincere and I dig that. What I’m saying is this: it’s just online. It’s one dimensional, it’s not real. It’s nice, but they can’t run my errands nor can I run theirs.
What will make me a better writer?
But that doesn’t matter at this point in the discussion although it was important to state — what matters is that I thought I needed to Be That Person. To Be A Success meant having a Facebook Fan Page. (I say to myself, “Self: look at the GM model … shit, if that company, which had a ton of cash said the scheme didn’t work, what the what do I think I can gain?”)
Facebook says this!: Forget what we thought about the old algorithms! Old business models are dead: no one talks to anyone anymore, they just Like one another now — but not you know, like-like… just like, like. Nothing too serious.
I started a blog a year before the FB page.
About three months later, I learned I could see my blog stats.
No! Spam. From Norwegian porn pages and Russian pharmaceutical
Then I learned I could watch my stats increase the more often I posted. That made sense.
Then I learned I could see what happens with the addition of the FB page.
Oh! Someone shared my FB page! How great! Five Likes! WOW! I’ll be a famous writer! Because THAT’S what makes me a Famous Writer: fans. Not writing… shhhh. Stop that. Writing has nothing to do with it; it’s all about appeal! Get back in your hole!! NnnnnNnnn.
Oh! To show up on a News Feed (what the what is that? — like US / Arab relations, like US GDP news, newsfeed? Oh! Like, Facebook news: “I just got an A” or “My kid just threw up in my lunch” or “Sven just stood up!” newsfeed. Got it…) I need to post more.
Post more what?
Post more stuff. More status updates. And blog posts. And posters. Posters that say nice things. Or things I say. Ok. Then people will share them. And that will get me more Likes. But I need to remember to put my website address or a watermark on the poster because then people will just steal it for their own.
No! Oh. But no one shared. Ok! I’m an optimist! I’m chipper! I’m doing
the same things and expecting different results!
Then I saw other fan pages.
For other blogs.
This is fun! I’ll share your 10,000-strong fan page to my 34 fans and you can share mine which has 34 fans to your 10,000 fans.
I appreciate the kick-start, but your fans not so much? Ok… well, I’ll still Like you and share your stuff because THAT’s what makes us popular and excellent writers. Because I’m a GOOD TEAM PLAYER! So if some of my fans see me share your stuff and they Like your stuff, but shows up on my page, then I get a Like and their friends see that They Liked…. your …. stuff………. on… my… page.
Oh. Ok. Well, I’m here now… let’s see what else is going on.
“Page Pimping”? That sounds horrid. What the hell is that?
Your page, with “Bitches” and “Hos” and “F*ck” and “Butt Sex” in the titles will share my page named after a nickname my son gave to a dinner I made? Hmm… I’m seeing this as a no-win for me… But it’s different? But sort of similar to “S4Ss” — what’s that? “Shares for Shares?” Oh… sort of like what I tried three months ago. Ok, I’ll try again. I get that my page, Grass Oil, means NOTHING, really… but that was sort of the point. And I’m good with that because that means it’s working: that my fans are the most brilliant ever. They know that if I start putting cat memes or pictures of Lara Croft on my page that I’ve been abducted and replaced by aliens. Hey, they stick around and I don’t know why… but they do and I dig that about them, so the fault is mine that I’m not more famous than a page devoted to a ceramic copy of Lionel Richie’s head. Not kidding…
Then the Facebook IPO. If you didn’t have 300 fans by then, you were hosed. Because remember, this is what life is really all about: Facebook fans.
But I’ll just click here… and see what these other pages who like your page are doing…
And then began the foray into other fan pages for … what?
Hate Gingrich? Love him?
And then there were the memes.
Willy Wonka memes.
What’s a meme?
So go ahead and read just the definition. I dare you to read the origin. “The Selfish Gene.” I don’t want that disease or infection. I’m done. No, I already gave at the office.
So then I had this epiphany when I was vomiting last week from norovirus: GET OFFLINE. It was real brief, just like that. NONE OF THIS IS REAL. I MEAN, IT IS REAL, BECAUSE PEOPLE TYPE THESE THINGS, BUT NONE OF IT HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH DINNER, YOUR SON’S ALGEBRA HOMEWORK OR THE CARPOOL.
But… I won’t be popular anymore. I won’t see any more cat memes. Or offensive jokes or sexist comments or anti-gay slurs or things that scare me, like Guns for Girls. I won’t be popular anymore. I won’t be popular anymore. I won’t be popular anymore.
I won’t be popular anymore? To the 1 billion registered users, 462 of which “like” my fan page? That’s OK. That’s like this: there are 600 kids in my son’s school. I would say about 30 of them know me by sight. So, what’s 30 of 600… 55%? (hahahahaaaaa. i hate math.) but you see my point? It doesn’t matter. What does matter is the bricks and mortar, and phone calls and the true friendships I’ve made with some fantastic bloggers and artists.
I will establish a diet. I will ration my time online, but only after this time of relief. I will keep my account open for that stuff, and to stay in touch with those people, but if I go back, I’m not gonna let this stuff get to me anymore. Let it invade my dreams and my psyche and distort my thinking. I want my fictional characters to do that instead. Then I’ll really be crazy. Because they’re made up.
So here we are. I am at my blog tap-tap-tapping away. It’s only been about four hours, but I can tell you I will have some behavioral habits to break.
The first will be to take the apps off my phone and my iPad. Check.
The next will be to not logon to FB first thing. Then stay there, for some stupid reason, as I had for many days in a row.
The second will be, after I hit “publish” on this post, to not go searching for my stats and wait for comments. I think what I will do is automate or schedule these posts, so I won’t be here when they upload. That will help.
Then shut off the wifi for my laptop so I can edit my book, which I hope I can release within the next 12 months and then… who knows.
By the way, Twitter, it’s easy. It’s fun, but I’m barely ever on. It brings me next-to-no views; literally: maybe 2 per post.
Being in the moment is the first remedy. Here we go.
Because she says it better than I do: “Eff you, FB.”
update: here is my second entry: https://mollyfielddotcom.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/what-i-will-gained-by-quitting-2-five-days-after-facebook-lent-give-up/ |
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The 31st Chaos Communication Congress has been held for the third time in the Congress Center Hamburg between December 27th and December 29th. The Roadmap offers an overview of all talks and their speakers. And even if you didn’t make it to Hamburg, most of the talks could be watched over a streaming portal. Under the banner of Congress Everywhere there is further information regarding this multimedia endeavour as well as a list of localities where likeminded people can meet. In addition to all that, only days after the 31C3 the recorded talks are online in a variety of formats. Basically, all relevant information regarding the 31C3 can be found in the dedicated Wiki. In this article, I’ll summarize all the talks that I have attended and chronicle my impressions of the 31C3.
A day before the congress officially started, the CCH is open. The last few tickets are on sale and visitors can check themselves in. I wholeheartedly recommend to arrive a day early and do the check-in on Day Zero, before the events start. This saves the endless standing in queue on Day One. Besides, this will allow for a few last hours of sleep before the congress starts. Although the event hasn’t officially started, the presence of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is noticeable.
31C3 was opened by erdgeist and Geraldine de Bastion. Last year’s congress didn’t have a slogan due to the speechlessness after the Snowden leaks. This year, the congress proclaimed A New Dawn, claiming that the first shock of the leaks is over and we’re now looking for new ways. One of the suggested new ways is the end-to-end encryption of communication of all kind. The keynote was held by Alec Empire, who is an artist and a member of Atari Teenage Riot. He talked about his experiences with Atari Teenage Riot and his views of political movements, the music industry, the actions and manipulations of society as well as the art and technical scene that should come closer together. His demand is to question authorities and to further decentralization, which has been a creed of the CCC for quite some time. I wasn’t too impressed by this talk. There was no recognizable train of thought and I wasn’t able to make out a clear message during the entirety of it.
I pass the time until the next talk to explore the CCH. There are four halls that all hold talks at the same time. Then there’s the Hackcenter and several rooms that hold workshops or offer space to hold what the CCC refers to as Assemblies. The NOC team offers a free Wi-Fi network spanning the entire building that supports IPv4/IPv6. On Day One, the net ran flawlessly with a few exceptions such as when Hall 1 was packed to the rafters with 3000 attendees. That’s when the network had a bit of trouble communicating with the outside world. This year, the wiki was – unlike 2013 – available at all times. More data concerning (network) activity can be found on c3netmon.
Following this was a talk titled SCADA StrangeLove: Too Smart Grid in da Cloud The StrangeLove Team, represented by Sergey Gordeychik and Aleksandr Timorin, presents their findings in the industry sector of IT Security. There are a huge number of vulnerabilities that are shockingly easy to exploit such as standard passwords that are hardcoded and web servers with buffer overflow vulnerabilities upon
GET requests. Therefore, there’s a lot that still needs fixing and doing in the ICS sector. Vendor reactions to findings vary, they say. They thanked Siemens CERT for their constructive work. There’s still not a single vendor that doesn’t react to vulnerabilities and neglects to publish patches.
Andrea Barisani showed that the EMV (Europay, MasterCard and Visa) Standard as well as the Chip plus Pin process still has several vulnerabilities during his talk titled Practical EMV PIN interception and fraud detection. Using the attacks PIN verification wedge and CMV downgrade he was able to successfully attack the Chip plus Pin process of all available credit cards. Therefore, credit card fraud is still possible. Andrea’s summary: Liability for fraud should not be on the side of the client, because fraud is entirely possible without the client doing anything.
The following talk SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate. held by Tobias Engel describes how using only the protocol Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) the location of any mobile phone could be determined. Apart from information gathering, an attacker is also able to manipulate Call/SMS routing. In a live demo Tobias demonstrated how a call using SS7 can be re-routed to another phone. These attacks are possible due to the fact that SS7 does not require authentication and everyone with access to SS7 can send requests for random phone numbers.
The talk Mobile self-defense by Karsten Nohl builds on the findings of the previous presentation. Karsten focused on intercepting and recording SMS and calls using UMTS. Because calls and text messages are encrypted in UMTS, reading them requires a key. However, using SS7, it’s possible to request the current decryption key. This means that using the vulnerabilities in SS7 a call can be re-routed and decrypted at the same time. This doesn’t only work for calls but also for text messages. Further along the talk Karsten visualized during project GSM Map how mobile phone operators of many a country implement security measures for GSM (2G) and UMTS (3G). Finally, Karsten presented the app SnoopSnitch that acts as a means of self-defence against attacks on the mobile phone layer. For example, it recognizes IMSI Catcher. SnoopSnitch is available for Android higher than version 4.1, requires root access and the device needs to have a QUALCOMM chipset. SnoopSnitch utilizes the debug function of the QUALCOMM libraries in order to access the GSM baseband because these attacks can only be recognized on this level.
The talk Ich sehe, also bin ich … Du (translated: I see, therefore I am… you) by starbug showed that authenticating using biometric means can be insecure. For example: He was able to extract fingerprints from photographs that were taken from several meters away and use them for authentication purposes. Finally, starbug presented his Hack of the Apple TouchID in the iPhone.
Unfortunately, I missed the beginning of the talk titled ECCHacks by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange because I was still in queue to buy some 31C3 clothing. After about ten minutes of the talk, I stopped trying to follow because it was definitely not the right time for complex mathematical formulas. This is a talk that should best be watched in peace and quiet as a recording.
After all that theoretical math there was a talk about the practical uses of cryptography and Operational Security (Opsec)_ in the life of journalists. The title of the talk was Crypto Tales from the Trenches. The journalists Julia Angwin and Jack Gillum as well as the documentary film maker Laura Poitras were accompanied by security researcher Nadia Heninger reported how they started working with crypto software, how they learned to properly use them and how difficult it was to get sources who lacked technical background to understand that they should use encryption in their communication.
To conclude the first day the film Citizenfour by Laura Poitras was screened in Halls 1 and 2 as a stream. After the movie, Laura Poitras received standing ovations and spent more than half an hour answering audience questions.
After the official part of the first day ended without bigger incidents. Guesstimated, there were many more people than there were last year. Asked to put a number on it, I would say that there were about 10 000 people. During some presentations in hall 1, that could hold about 3000 people, was packed to the rafters and seat rows had to be defragmented so that more people could fit into the hall. During the 30C3 this only rarely happened during some very popular talks. But because there were more rooms in the CCH and there was none of the feeling of lack of space and proximity of everything that is so prominent in memories of the days in Berlin was just not there. A new feature during the presentations was the showing of subtitles. The team writing the subtitles tries to create subtitles as the talks were being held. These subtitles were displayed underneath the slides of the presentation. This is more of a success during talks with slow speakers than during those with fast speakers. I am curious to see if these subtitles will be used all the way throughout the congress, but they’re still more of a nuisance to me rather than an additional benefit.
The first talk of the second days was Why is GPG damn near unusable by Arne Padmos that was all about the encryption software GPG. It’s not easy to use – Arne used the example of Glen Greenwald and Edward Snowden – and the basic vulnerable points during deployment of encryption software.
Joseph Tartaro and Matthew Halchyshak held their talk Cyber Necromancy that concerned the reverse engineering of network protocols. Both are/were big fans of the PlayStation game Metal Gear Online. But one year after the game was published, the official servers for it were shut down. The two decided that they would develop their own server, based on an analysis of the client as well as the network traffic (only requests sent by the client as there were no responses by the server anymore). After ten months of hard work, the two were successful to get their beloved back up and running. However, it is necessary to run a custom firmware on the PlayStation that runs the game.
In the talk The automobile as massive data gathering source and the consequences for individual privacy by Dr. Rüdiger Hanig and Jimmy Schulz talked about the data that are collected by a modern car and how high the need of said data by various parties. Among these parties: companies that rent out cars, or insurance companies. The two researchers demanded that the owner of the car has access and control of said access to that data. Talks with the car industry, however, have been difficult thus far. My opinion of this is that it’s highly questionable whether or not the car industry will ever comply with these demands.
Next on my list was Forging the USB armory by Andrea Barisani. It was about a USB drive that has all the capabilities of a computer. It’s called USB armory and it can run a modified Linux version. It can be used as SSH Proxy, password manager, web proxy, or as an authentication token. The device is powered via the USB port and sports its own CPU – a Freescale i.MX53 -, memory as well as storage in the form of a SD card. The device is the size of a normal USB stick. The device can be accessed by SSH. An interesting detail, just as a side note: The device is completely manufactured in Italy.
The artist Aram Bartholl gave the visitors of his talk titled Hard Drive Punch the chance to destroy hard drives they brought along live on stage. Meanwhile he showcased various means of destroying hard drives starting with the traditional method of hammering the drive to death and ending with the use of thermite.
Going by the title of Too Many Cooks – Exploiting the Internet-of-TR-069-Things the talk started with an edited version of the internet meme of the same name. Lior Oppenheim and Shahar Tal discussed a weakness in the remote management protocol TR-069, deployed in routers for home use, for example (SOHO routers). The service TR-069/CWMP can be reached at port tco/7547. During a scan in November 2014 that covered the entire IPv4 spectrum, the researchers discovered 46 million devices that accept a connection on that port. The software Allegro RomPager v4.07 (published in 2002) runs on 11.3 million of those. After an analysis of that specific software on various devices Oppenheim and Tal found a vulnerability concerning the implementation of the webserver and not TR-069 itself that exploits modified cookies. Thus, they were able to access the admin interface of the router. They named the vulnerability Misfortune Cookie (CVE-2014-9222). Other than tcp/7547 the vulnerability can also be exploited using tcp/80. There’s no need for authentication. The service can’t be deactivated on devices, the only known countermeasure is a firmware update. But for many devices, there’s no vendor patch thus far. The affected devices are listed on a website.
Zakir Durumeric is not only a student at the University of Michigan but also main developer of the ZMap Project. During his talk concerning The Matter of Heartbleed he took a look back on Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160) and presented several scans using ZMap. In the Top 500 of websites, the vulnerability was patched within 48 hours. Zakir estimates, based on scan results, that 55% of all HTTPS websites were potentially vulnerable and in 18% of all websites, the vulnerability could be confirmed. Two weeks after Heartbleed’s publication, there were only 600 000 hosts still affected. All affected hosts were notified by the university and the patching rate was elevated by 47%. But patching alone wasn’t enough. The certificate and the private key should be renewed as well – but only 10.1% of all affected websites replaced their certificate. There’s much left to do.
The following talk by Nick Sullivan also dealt with Heartbleed and was titled Heartache and Heartbleed: The insider’s perspective on the aftermath of Heartbleed. Nick works at Cloudflare and talked about his experiences when dealing with the vulnerability. He knew that Heartbleed was bad on the day that it was published when his mother called him to ask what was going on… He presented statistics that showed that there were 200 million tests executed using the Heartbleed Test Tools before he went into The CloudFlare Heartbleed challenge which aimed to prove that the private key could really be extracted using the vulnerability. It took all of ten hours to prove that this was indeed possible. The reason for this was yet another bug in OpenSSL, which led to the age of certificate revocation. Over the course of 24 hours, more than 100 000 certificates were revoked and this led to grave problems (workload, denial of service) with CRL, OSCP and CRLSets. There should be a new solution for spreading revocation lists.
Frank Rieger and Felix von Leitner presented during their talk titled Fnord News Show the news-highlights of the past year. Readers of Fefes Blog – the blog written by Felix von Leitner – might recognize a story or two.
The motto of the second day was defragmenting. Almost every talk I attended was fully booked. The place was packed to the rafters. Sometimes, it was necessary to close the doors until some people left the room in order to make more space. I can state with absolute certainty that the venue in Hamburg has also reached the point where it has capacity issues. But all streams worked flawlessly throughout the day. The subtitles weren’t displayed anymore on the second day, by the way.
Funky File Formats was Ange Albertini’s talk in which he played with all the possibilities of file formats. For demo purposes he created a JPG file that he decrypted with AES. It turned out to be a PNG file. He decrypted that file with AES again and it turned into a Flash video, which he then decrypted with 3DES. It turned into a PDF. There were more examples how files can be embedded in files of other formats. One of his preferred formats is PDF and he showed a document that was both an executable PDF viewer and contained PDF slides. Ange’s recommendation at the end of the talk was that you should never forget to open images in a music player, PDFs should be opened in console emulators and files should be de- and encrypted with all possible ciphers. All the examples he used can be downloaded from his website.
Olia Lialina took a look back into the past of web design during her talk The Only Thing We Know About Cyberspace Is That Its 640×480. For example: She spotlighted the time when it was fashionable to have an _under construction_-GIF on your website.
During What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons? by Michael Büker spotlighted the history of nuclear weapons. He started with the basics: The manufacturing, the various types of nukes and which effects the detonation of the bombs would have. After that, he analysed the development over time, starting in 1968, which countries had nuclear weapons and how they deal with having them. For example: India was testing nuclear weapons in 1974 under the codename Smiling Buddha. They considered the tests to be peaceful. In the 1960s, scientists collected the baby teeth of children in order to find traces of radiation in them. They were successful. Michael showed a video by artist Isao Hashimoto that chronicled all nuclear tests in a sped up way. Michael concluded his talk with the statement that humanity should get rid of nuclear weapons once and for all.
He discovered that the ROM is reprogrammable, because there’s no more TPM-Chip in a MacBook that monitors changes to the ROM. There are also no cryptographic checks and only a CRC32 based check. Further analyses showed that LMZA is used to compress and RSA2048 (SHA256) to sign the firmware (SCAP files). The checking of the signature is only performed on a software level. Using the Thunderbolt port users have the ability to load OptionROMs upon boot of the MacBook. Trammel used that as an attack vector to use his own RSA key to install a modified EFI ROM using Apple’s own Firmware update mechanism. And because all cool exploits these days get a nickname, he called this Thunderstrike. The vulnerability exists in every MacBook that has a Thunderbolt plug. It’s even possible to spread the vulnerability to other Thunderbolt devices. This software can’t be gotten rid of by mere deletion and even survives a reinstall of the operating system or a change of the hard drive. Apple has not yet published a countermeasure or a patch. Trammel suggested among other solutions that the EFI ROM should be cryptographically checked. Anja Drephal in Living Drones talked about history once again. She talked for 20 minutes about living drones. The most popular example of a living drone is a carrier pigeon, that were used during the two World Wars. The carrier pigeons were so vital to war efforts that harming or killing one led to half a year of imprisonment. A carrier pigeon named Cher Ami in the service of the French ended up being a decorated war hero and was treated as a prisoner of war. The Americans tried to train bats to act as bombs. And on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Russians trained dogs to take out tanks. They were outfitted with bombs and trained to crawl under tanks. The project wasn’t particularly successful. These days, scientists are working on controlling the electric signals sent to the muscles of moths in order to control their flight.
Will Scott covered Computer Science in the DPRK and talked about his experiences as a teacher at the university in North Korea. Will, much to his own surprise, had internet access without there being a filter. Most of the students, though, only had filtered access to the net. There’s an intranet for companies and universities that spans the entire isolationist state, but systems that accessed the internet didn’t have access to the intranet and vice versa. Most computers were running Windows XP, but he saw a few systems running North Korea’s own operating system Red Star OS. He was able to demo the OS which is a Linux distro supposed to look and feel like Mac OS X. Mobile devices are predominantly Android and a 7” tablet even had an analog TV antenna. It lacked Bluetooth and WiFi, though. This tablet, too, got demonstrated.
During The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability Netanel Rubin showed how handling Perl Lists in a specific way can lead to vulnerabilities. Among other affected areas, there are the modules CGI and DBI. An example he used was a vulnerability in Bugzilla (CVE-2014-1572). His summary: Perl shouldn’t be used anymore. The talk led to heated debate with Perl enthusiasts in the Q&A after his talk.
Epilogue to Day Three: The subtitles were still in use – in the stream of the talks they were just not displayed. Also, the Wiki including schedules was occasionally unreachable during the day.
All the projects that the two presented can be read in the blog of the Tor project
The 31C3 NOC team presented their numbers and statistics in their 31C3 Infrastructure Review.
The talk Security Nightmares by Frank Rieger and Ron was held for the 15th time. It reviewed the year and looked ahead in time. And just like the 14 times this talk was held before, it ran over length… and concluded with them wishing the attendees a happy new year and a good passing-over into 1984.
Tomate and dodger declared the 31C3 over with the final talk aptly named 31C3 Closing Event. There were over 10 000 people at the event. There were 186 talks in total, amounting to 122 hours and 30 minutes of scheduled events by 202 speakers and one theatre troupe.
31C3 was four days of great entertainment. Most of the talks that I attended were of high quality. My personal top three:
Most talks were recorded and can be watched and downloaded on the CCC media site. In closing, I would like to thank all people involved who made this great congress possible. Well Done!
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The iconic Chuck Norris spans generations for different reasons. For those who were old enough to enjoy television from the 1970s into the '90s, you’ll know him as Walker, Texas Ranger, and Colt in Bruce Lee’s The Way of the Dragon.
If you are a later-years Millennial and Generation Z-er, then you may be familiar with the satirical art of Chuck-themed facts. In fact, you may have known about these hilarious lists before you even knew who Chuck was.
Though he may not be as active as he used to be as an actor, the red-headed epitome of toughness known as Chuck is still relevant.
Chuck is a fighter for real.
For those who aren’t sure as to why Chuck’s strength is the center of a meme, it’s because he is actually an incredible fighter.
Chuck became a martial artist while serving in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He holds a black belt in Tang Soo Do, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
He is an All-American Karate and International Karate Championship titleholder and was friends with legendary martial artist Bruce Lee.
He’s the classic tough guy because he can literally and professionally defeat you.
Just so you know, Chuck is not dead.
It may be an odd thing to bring up, but there have been a few times where internet rumors about Chuck’s death have surfaced. The latest emerged only a few months after his birthday. This, of course, was a hoax. Chuck is still alive and he celebrated his 80th birthday back in March.
Not even movie ratings stand a chance against Chuck.
Chuck joined Sylvester Stallone in 2012’s Expendables 2. This was the last Hollywood film Chuck made before announcing his retirement from acting. Another Chuck fact that’s actually not a joke: in one swift chop, Chuck lowered the movie’s rating from R to PG-13.
If you’re wondering why an action star made an action movie softer, it has nothing to do with the action itself, but the language that was used. Apparently, Chuck will not be in films that use “vulgar dialogue.”
In an interview that was translated into English from Polish by Expendables Premier, Chuck explained how he managed to change the dialogue.
"Due to that, I said I won’t be a part of [Expendables 2] if the hardcore language is not erased," he said. "Producers accepted my conditions and the movie will be classified in the category of PG-13.”
Of course, he had to do something above and beyond tough: he just had to be incredibly decent!
He “toughened up” the Fiat for Europe.
In 2017, Chuck became the celebrity face for Fiat-Chrystler’s Fiat Professional advertisements. These were only aired in Europe, though.
The company believed that Chuck was still relevant enough to connect to younger generations and would ascribe his admirable traits to what is considered a smaller, less powerful car.
He just ended a lawsuit against a medical imaging manufacturer.
Chuck was involved in a lawsuit with Bracco Imaging from 2017-2020.
After Chuck’s wife Gena Norris claimed that the contrast imaging dye used for a routine MRI caused her “debilitating bouts of pain” and burning sensations, he quit Hollywood in order to care for her. In 2017, their attorneys claimed that the agent they used, gadolinium, had poisoned Gena.
Gadolinium is highly controversial and some have even called it harmful.
Chuck and Gena voluntarily ended the suit with the contrast agent manufacturer without a settlement on January 16, 2020.
He has kept up with politics and endorsed President Trump.
Chuck has been a proud Republican for years. He famously spoke out against President Obama’s reelection in 2012 and voted against California Proposition 8, which makes same-sex marriage legal, in 2008.
His endorsements for the 2016 election went down the line of Republican nominees until he finally endorsed Donald Trump. Chuck has also expressed support in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting with him personally in 2017.
Chuck is laying low in 2020 — probably with his guns.
In terms of the spotlight, Chuck is selectively choosing not to stand in it. Still, his later years have become a bit more political, featuring his team-up with Glock, Inc. as their spokesperson in 2019.
At the April 2019 NRA conference, he said of Glock, “I’m honored to partner with this world-renowned brand. The values that I have built my life and brand on — tough, real, constant and powerful — are echoed in everything that GLOCK does and creates.”
Chuck doesn’t need to endorse a gun company for the public to know what he’s built his life on. But as much as he’s a fighter, he’s also an actor — so some sort of show must go on. |
'cause it's been a while since there was a meme.
The book I am reading:
The number of reading platforms has multiplied the number of books I read at once. On my Kindle at the gym, I'm reading Mira Grant's Feed. In paperback, Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson. On my phone, The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson. On my Kindle but not at the gym, The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace, who is probably the pro writer I've known longest, since she was friends with my roommate in college. (Let me commend that last book to you, because you may not have heard of it: the prose is simply gorgeous, and I'm enjoying the hell out of it.) And about a thousand research books simultaneously. Okay, actually, I only have 59 research books checked out and about 12 in my personal collection relevant to my time period, but it feels like a thousand.
The book I am writing:
So, I'm working on (actively) two books, the awayfromhome book which I shall refer to as The Disenchanted Castle book, and the athome book, which is all Rhine River valleys and dragons and princesses and knights and Evil Horses Being Reformed. I dunno. That's all I can really say about them at the moment.
The book I love most:
Love is such a funny word. And love is fluid, too. In olden times, I might have said Pride and Prejudice or The Blue Sword, but those are more perennial favorites. Love is different. What I love the most right now, the book that gives me the shivers when I think about rereading it, is probably Graceling.
The last book I received as a gift:
Um... er... I got a lot of books at Christmas, you know? And I couldn't tell you which order I got them in at this point. So I'll point to Feed by Mira Grant which I got from iuliamentis. I'm pretty sure I got it after Christmas.
The last book I gave as a gift:
I gave splash_the_cat the four Megan Whalen Turner Thief of Eddis books for Christmas, and since it was such a debacle of giving (basically, Amazon just FAILED), that I know I gave them to her most recently of anything I gave. Because it took like a month to solve the problem.
The nearest book on my desk:
The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic Literature by Joyce Tally Lionarons is open on my desk, as is A Natural History of Dragons and Unicorns by Paul and Karin Johnsgard, T.H. White's The Bestiary, and Ernest Ingersoll's Dragons and Dragon Lore.
Closed and piled nearly as close are also The Nibelungenlied, a children's book in German about Hildegard of Bingen, Old and Midlde English c.890-c.1400: An Anthology, Wheelock's Latin, Newman's Sister of Wisdom, and a guidebook to castles in Rhineland-Palatinate.
It is a very full desk, and everything is very handy. And spread out nearly equidistant from me. |
Counterstrike is the long lived and hottest original person shooter game. It has its own problems. concerns. This issue turned into a whole lot worse. Within the following column, we provide solutions that are easy.
The match is a strategic shooter that is team-based, meaning both teams compete with a map. There are just five people in a team. The terrorists desire to plant the bomb at among those 2 regions that are designated.
Even the counter-terrorists desire whether the bomb has been planted, to defuse it, or to protect against this. By killing everyone from one 18, either team could attain success.
Hacking, even as it predicted in this particular match, or cheating takes just two forms. One is knowing where the competitions really are, many usually seeing them throughout the walls (ergo wallhacking). One other person is aim aid. When you’ve played with any games that are shooting, you realize some times the game will help you.
That you never have to be accurate aim at the enemy’s management. Together with humans on each side, in multiplayer matches, this mightn’t do the job. However, cheaters utilize software to get exactly the exact same effect. These forms ruin the ability for players and also pose an unfair advantage.
Can Valve find cheaters? There are just two manners. Regrettably both they mostly do not work.
The very first type of defense is VAC, that represents Valve Anti-Cheat. It’s really a software which runs on a new player’s computer and finds a few cheats (as an antivirus finds viruses). More about that below.
The second way utilizes community help. This technique goes on the name Overwatch (there was certainly an unrelated match of the exact identical name ). Folks report cheaters and great players issue a conclusion and examine gameplay demos of guesses. Then it’s straight back again to the black box of Valve and a few folks become prohibited in the long run. You’re able to observe it works from the estimating player’s view inside this WarOwl’s video.
Valve uses Overwatch for data that was branded to their server called VACnet. The point is to master how to find cheaters, and in line with these select players to get an inspection in Overwatch. The diagrams originate out of a demonstration on Utilizing Deep understanding how into Combat Cheating at CSGO, by which John McDonald speaks at length concerning the topics we skim here.
The presenter could have you feel VacNet was an excellent success. It has. You also can realize that the conviction rate in Overwatch moved up after the launch of VACnet in 20 17 if you see the video. This nudged the match Free to Play to be made by Valve in 2018 that was late. They have to have been aware it’d encourage adulterously but wished to feel VACnet could deal.
It’d not. The cheaters remain there. A Whole Lot OF THEM.
Back in Overwatch, the verdicts are devised to some”beyond reasonable doubt” foundation. This usually means that there ought to be few false positives, but regrettably many negatives. To put it differently, the accuracy is high, however, the recall is not low.
This really is an issue, as a method assembled similar to this can simply find evident cheaters. It will not cover the issue although It’s definitely best to prohibit them.
Moreover, the inherent reality is that more frequently than not it’s hard to be 100 percent convinced that somebody is unfaithful only by watching his speech. For a wise event (an oxymoron, we understand ) it’s in fact rather simple to remain unbanned.
By way of instance, cheaters may toggle on / away from their hacks. Whenever somebody reviews the demonstration, 1 shot could appear questionable. Then still yet a different person. Your cheater can be back again to his self and toggles off. Two or three the reviewer and also plays comes that the prior shots were blessed. Everyone gets blessed every so often, you realize.
An individual who has some experience develops a nose to get cheaters. You will give a quote, As you cannot be 100% convinced sometimes. As an instance”not adulterous”, or”may possibly be jobless”, or”confident he is cheating”. These words say chances, also in my own opinion it could be quite helpful in case Valve introduced probabilistic, percent predicated verdicts to Overwatch. Simply insert a slider, or even a listing with 0%, 10%,…, 90%, 100 percent to pick from.
Be aware these can do the job fine. Hint loss, or cross-entropy, the fundamental loss role (and test metric) found in category, if utilize probabilistic tags. So far as the math goes, proportions are equally as great as ones and zeros. An individual may attempt out training a regression version.
The main reason behind the present setup is obvious: they don’t really want to prohibit men and women that are innocent. It’s like the problem with spam-filtering – safer to let several spam messages slide in the inbox compared to put the best email into the junk folder.
The Trust Factor
Just what application are quotes that are probabilistic? Well, there’s yet still another strategy except that the you that is attacking. It’s known as the Trust Factor. Valve won’t disclose anything about this.
Every participant is assigned confidence score players and players using scores that were similar become paired. The theory behind it’s that cheaters play other cheaters from cheaters’ hell, even as the majority of citizens like each others’ company in games that are normal.
It’s really a fantastic concept, in reality this system does not seem to get the job done. It kind of worked through the duration of this calendar year, for a few folks improved, for a few worse, however recently the specific problem moved quite bad and also a standard person becomes paired using cheaters all of the time.
Utilize and a solution will be to present quotes that are probabilistic. Regardless of algorithms and features Valve has within their machine, the”percent convinced” out of Overwatch would incorporate a solid signal.
It’s well worth noting that generally speaking, it’s tough to comprehend a cheater only out of gameplay, if it’s the person is watching, or even perhaps a system. For several forms of cheats, then it borders.
There’s just a remedy that is more reliable. It’s known as anti-cheat, which is comparable to an antivirus. The notion is that there is an app operating onto a new player’s computer and it watches for software caked with the match.
Valve includes an anti-cheat. The issue is, it will not get the job done. A couple of times per year you’ll find really so-known as VAC waves, when Valve upgrades the software to comprehend fresh cheats. Many cheaters become prohibited (however, maybe perhaps not too many), a few make fearful to cheat to get a couple of days. It’s back to older ways.
There are alternative party servers you’re able to play instead of the servers of Valve. It works and faceit utilizes an anti cheat and can be recognized locally.
Therefore would Valve possess an anticheat? This really is some. Many folks assume that Valve does not wish to present. We have no idea exactly what this means. This software has been there running 24/7. Speaking about”more pliable” appears just like splitting hairs.
Even more straightforward steps
Why don’t we forget the rocket science? Zero anti-cheats, no machine-learning. Just economics. If your cheater has prohibited, it costs $0 to start. The match is absolutely free to play Steam accounts and he is a good idea to go.
The match will come in 2 tastes: Prime and ordinary. For Prime, you have to play with a lot (https://www.smurfwrecker.com/csgo-skin-changer/) or pay $15. It had been sufficient to deliver a contact number. A portable kit may be obtained for under $5. Very little of a deterrent. $ 1-5 is many ways better, if a person knows just where to check, however one can purchase a Steam accounts fully for roughly $ 3, even more economical.
There are hardware bans. Each computer comes with a mic. The computer becomes prohibited As a result of the user is found guilty of cheating. Desire to cheat? Purchase a fresh one.
In the event you never desire such extreme alternatives, then there is still yet another, quite a simple one: create the match paid . $20-30’s expense will work somewhat better compared to 3. But people will play with won’t they?
Let us go through the graph of quite a few players. At the long term storyline, an individual could observe this a dip is that influenced your choice.
Can it help? The purchase cost was heavy, but there isn’t that much change in the big picture, although it did, somewhat. The match experience moved particularly to brand new players, that get to match with all of the cheaters away, plus it isn’t even known by them. That isn’t conducive to developing a player base.
Interestingly, on October 14 th the quantity appeared upon the graph, attaining an all-time high since the match went Free-To-Play with. Ever since that time, it’s fallen sharply at the summer degree from this past year. It’s been an especially poor experience these last couple of weeks, and people are dropping out like flies. Surprise, surprise. Twenty decades of CS in October’s party did not help.
*To be fair such as for instance a release of CallofDuty October 25th.
And incidentally, that the match is absolutely free to play does not indicate the charity on Valve’s role of it. Folks today pay for weapon skins, especially for the material. These beginning at a few pennies, but in the event, you’d like, it is easy to spend $1000 on a single thing such as for instance a knife. For a lot of people, from launching a gazillion case, the hope of getting this kind of attachment is to bet. Cases feature goods frequently crap. Each opening is approximately $5.
The perspective of the cheater
It has just two things Overwatch and VAC.
It’s hanging around. Create a new account work with a cheat whether you get prohibited, and find out. You did? Oh ! Down load a second cheat, then produce a fresh account, and examine. Repeat as required.
Steam can get upgraded every once in a while. It’ll inform you as soon as it’s going to be certain you re-test the cheat.
This shows the way of making the match Free-To-Play was an incredibly poor move. It jeopardized VAC that it’s fundamentally useless.
1 way is to postpone prohibits for a couple of days. This will make testing cheats timeconsuming and difficult. It’s likely that Valve does it, that knows.
Delaying would supply training data into some version learning out of features, ideally jelqing nicely to cheats that are concealed.
Straight back once again to the gloomy life of some cheater. Of course people report and will notify you. Afterward someone reviews your presentation and you will also probably likely soon undoubtedly be asked if he is 100% convinced you just cheated. Solution? Pretend while still having fun wallhacks to look at a few corners, or put in off them. This could introduce some uncertainty and also you should be all set.
To cure this, verdicts should be introduced by Valve as clarified previously.
Doesn’t Valve do something to address exactly the problem in its own game that is widely used and long lived? This is just another of the questions, the father of all time.
The meme from the area is that C-S GO is hated by Valve. Still another explanation is while the engine is obsolete, they are doing work on a variation of Counter Strike. That is most likely wishful thinking. |
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But, one wonders, what would happen if a similar premise was launched in 2065? What about advertising now would look similarly unacceptable to viewers then?
Draper’s world was the world of the creative spark igniting the big idea. It was the world of the catchy jingle and meme-worthy slogans. The Don Drapers of the world could do no wrong great enough to tarnish the glow of their ability to blow away a client in a pitch or snag a Clio. Creative gods stood firmly astride their kingdoms on Madison Avenue.
Now, of course, we know better. Those were simpler times. Clients, and consumers, are not nearly that naïve. Today, we demand quantitative data and testing to back up our creative inspirations. It’s not just about Big Ideas. Today, advertising is also about Big Data.
But, 50 years from now, will our current preoccupation with data look anachronistic or prescient to that future audience? Are we exhibiting some equally entertaining naiveté? Will the pendulum swing back to the big idea – or will some other alternative present itself? Will data profiling, targeting and programmatic buying look as quaint then as a corny jingle and a three-martini lunch look to us now?
Advertising in the era of Don Draper had gone through its own evolution. At the turn of the century, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, a flood of new products entered the market. Advertising’s first job was to make consumers aware of new offerings, opening new markets in the process. Its primary goal was to inform.
But, by the 50’s and 60’s, mass media had made consumers aware of most product categories. Advertising’s job became to persuade consumers to purchase products they already knew existed. Its primary goal was to persuade. Market share, rather than market expansion, became the end goal. Hence the era of the big idea. You don’t need a big idea to inform, but you do need one to persuade.
Today, however, with the expanding capabilities of technology and micro-manufacturing fueling a new revolution of innovation, we may be coming back to a time where awareness is the primary concern. Advertising’s job seems to be to navigate increasingly complex filters to create awareness in increasingly targeted audiences. The era of branding that found it’s legs in the era of Don Draper already seems to be morphing into something much different that what we’ve known previously. Who knows what that will look like in another 50 years?
The thing about history is that it gives you the intellectual distance required to recognize how silly we once were. The greater the distance, the safer we feel in laughing at ourselves. In the case of advertising, 50 years seems to be an adequate buffer to feel pretty smug with our historical hindsight. Of course, if somehow you could be transported back to 1965 and talk to the average creative director at a big agency, it’s doubtful they would appreciate being enlightened about their ignorance.
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Haven Protocol is a Cypherpunk manifestation that builds upon the Bitcoin dream and provides a genuine path to financial freedom. Bitcoin will still be useful as a tool to reign in the central banks and government spending, but it lacks the privacy that is a human right and the stability to be used by the average person.
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While currency debasement, like coin shaving, is as old as civilization, fiat money is an exponential catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. As the debts pile up, more money printing and more debt issuance is required. The ponzi scheme has to continue because if the printer stops going brrrr, it will all collapse. What is a meme to us is a horrifying reality for millions around the globe living under authoritarian regimes financing their power on the backs of their citizens. Inflation, once fully unleashed, can be a true hidden evil of governments.
Cheaply created money has enabled those with the right connections to get filthy rich in an elaborate casino of financial markets that grows ever more complex. It could only end in catastrophe. Time after time, global markets would fail and then the establishment would intervene, only to ensure further riches for a select few and the eventuality of another collapse. In the process, the savings of the average person was destroyed. Was this by accident or design?
In 2009, when the global financial system had collapsed yet again, an unknown genius was stirring. Satoshi Nakamoto brought Bitcoin into this world. Bitcoin offered hope. It got people thinking. What does this note in my hand actually mean and where does it come from? The people began to wake from a slumber and understand the magnitude of the crime that has been perpetuated upon us for 50 years. There is still hope Bitcoin can reign in the establishment’s monetary monopoly and return financial freedom to the people. However, freedom cannot survive on sound money alone.
Unfortunately, at the same time, the Cypherpunks’ other great fear was just beginning to rear its ugly head. The era of digital surveillance was dawning.
In a world of increasing digitization, where nearly 60% of humanity has access to the internet, we are connected like never before. From the tribesmen of the Kenyan foothills to the Inuits in the Arctic, knowledge is at the touch of the button but the eye of big brother sits just behind the screen.
The tendrils of authoritarianism reach far back into history. From Plato’s Republic through Hobbes’s Leviathan to Schwab’s Great Reset, the establishment has always believed that the masses must be controlled. Only through their stewardship and our obedience can utopia be achieved. These beliefs stem from their dim view of humanity, likely a projection of their cynicism and contemptuous morality.
The digital age has brought to life the possibility of a digital panopticon that can enable a global technocracy. Where the scientific management of the population will be coerced by rendering them incapable of critical thinking and preying upon their greatest fears. A world where every interaction is tracked, measured, and manipulated to enable those in power to hold the keys to our past, present, and future. This is a genuine possibility and an unprecedented danger for our self-sovereignty.
A crucial component to this control is the surveillance of money. It is no secret that our data is harvested by a multitude of faceless corporations to be sold to the highest bidder. While known, this is treated by the public with apathy: “I’ve got nothing to worry about because I have nothing to hide.” The turkey is very happy with his life right up until Thanksgiving.
In every problem lies a solution. The maths integral to computer code offers an asymmetric defense against prying eyes. Encryption, easy to implement but almost impossible to crack, can enable the meekest individuals to thwart the mightiest of institutions.
And so encryption was applied to money and the word crypto returned to its true origins. Projects like Monero offered new hope, a truly innovative decentralized currency that offered users complete privacy through the power of encryption and cryptographic techniques. Surely now we had enough to protect our future freedom?
Perhaps. But at the moment this space is mostly an exciting hobby for already wealthy people, a select few lucky enough to hear about it and smart enough to see the opportunity. Even for the most dedicated amongst us, it is not possible to live a normal life through crypto alone. The average person has no hope. Volatility and a giant conceptual leap prevents the masses from recognizing crypto’s true potential.
The volatile and cumbersome nature of cryptocurrency means it can never help those who need it the most. Particularly for those where price fluctuations or a lack of privacy could mean death. Billions of people around the world still need help to avoid catastrophe. You still need help.
To truly gain our freedom, we need a secure financial system that can exist in parallel. We need a solution that can bring crypto to the masses where privacy is the default, and the monetary value can align with that they are familiar with.
Haven Protocol solves this. Very soon we will be launching the first ecosystem of untraceable assets that enables users to convert between volatile assets and stable currencies directly within their vault, in complete privacy. As an open source, community-led project that builds upon the privacy of Monero, Haven’s xAssets will enable anyone in the world to reclaim their financial freedom. It means freedom to anonymously diversify their wealth and transact in a variety of stable assets to protect themselves and their businesses from governments and technocracy.
This is a revolutionary solution that is the logical conclusion of this revolutionary movement. It’s the dawn of financial freedom. No more 1984, choose Haven. |
In a reimagining of the museum experience, Melbourne Museum has opened its flagship summer exhibition, Inside Out – with plenty of unexpected sights and sounds, and none of the usual static exhibition text or labels.
Lynley Marshall, CEO, Museums Victoria said Inside Out completely reimagines the way Museums Victoria presents its collection, “Museums Victoria is custodian of the vast and wondrous State collection of more than 17 million items, and Inside Out celebrates it in a completely new and wonderful way.”
“The exhibition will be an experience quite unlike anything we’ve done, bringing objects together in unexpected ways that spark imaginations and make visitors think twice,” said Ms Marshall.
Inside Out takes visitors on a surreal journey through a series of vibrant vignettes and abstracted everyday environments, from a High Street shop window display to a camping ground bathed in the moonlight of 1874, backstage at a drag show and even a hip sushi bar.
Made up of 370 extraordinary museum objects usually held behind closed doors, Inside Out is a love song to Museums Victoria’s collection of more than 17 million items. Visitors will be led on this adventure by a kooky and surprising audio guide.
Riffing on themes of love, time and immortality, a playful narrator takes visitors through the offbeat spaces, along the way introducing museum and non-museum experts who share unexpected and passionate stories about the museum’s most unusual collection items.
Almost half of the items have never been on display before including, the first Black Box flight recorder prototype, the beautiful H.L. White collection of Australian bird’s eggs, and a new taxidermy of a lioness. These objects will join popular favourites such as internet meme sensation, Sad Otter.
Throughout the otherworldly experience, visitors will hear personal stories from both museum experts and community members who share a special bond with the items, including a senior curator (Kimberley Moulton), tattoo artist (Clare Hampshire), bartender (Fred Siggins), fashion designer (Prue Acton), drag queen (Dorreen Manganini), preparator (Dean Smith), granddaughter (Judy Potter), Egyptologist (Colin Hope), astronomer (Dr. Tanya Hill), engineering curator (Matilda Vaughan) and a futurist (Maddee Clark).
A disco soundtrack has been specially commissioned from Vachel Spirason and Matthew Hadley of Total Giovanni – the Melbourne-based five-piece who are poised to perform at Falls Festival just days after Inside Out opens.
Zoe Meagher, Experience Developer, Museums Victoria said that the exhibition provides a smorgasbord of objects with show-stopping pieces sitting alongside the less conspicuous. “Inside Out enables visitors to meet not only extraordinary, beautiful and significant collection items, but also be drawn into the fascinating stories behind quieter items that might not otherwise catch the eye. Bring an open heart, bring a pair of headphones, a curious friend and press play!”
Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Exhibition continues to 11 February, 2018
Admission fees apply
For more information, visit: www.museumsvictoria.com.au for details.
Image: Museums Victoria presents Inside Out at the Melbourne Museum (supplied) |
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In fact, Elon Musk actually forecasts failure at the beginning of his bold and audacious ventures. According to Marcel Schwantes (via Inc.), Musk demonstrates “a healthy amount of humility” when starting a project. For example, at an interview at an energy conference in Norway, Musk said, “You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.”
As Musk points out, “When you first start a company, there’s lots of optimism and things are great. Happiness, at first, is high. Then, you encounter all sorts of issues and happiness will steadily decline and you’ll go through a whole world of hurt.” But, if you take your medicine and learn from your failures, there’s an upside. “Eventually, if you succeed… You will finally get back to happiness,” says Musk.
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A viral post falsely asserts that Republicans are responsible for “passing laws making it legal to run over protesters with your car.” That distorts proposed, but not enacted, legislation in several states offering some protections for drivers who unintentionally injure demonstrators blocking streets.
Is it “legal to run over protesters with your car”?
No, but that’s what a viral meme shared on Facebook claims. The popular post blames Republicans for passing such laws in the aftermath of the deadly attack on protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
“Never forget,” the meme reads. “When a white supremacist murdered a protester by running her over with his car, Republicans responded by passing laws making it legal to run over protesters with your car.”
Republican lawmakers in a handful of states — and with the help of Democratic legislators in one case — did introduce bills that would have afforded some protections to drivers who injure demonstrators blocking traffic. But those measures would have applied to drivers exercising “reasonable care” or “unintentionally” injuring someone who was obstructing traffic, and some were specific to civil charges. All but one that we found were proposed prior to the Charlottesville attack — not after it — and none were ultimately enacted.
The proposals came amid a flurry of various legislative attempts by states to control protests in early 2017.
A bill considered in North Dakota, for example, was introduced in January 2017, following prominent protests against an oil pipeline. That was months before a neo-Nazi plowed his car into protesters demonstrating against white nationalists in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, killing one woman and injuring others. The driver, James Fields, was convicted in 2018 of killing Heather Heyer and has received two life sentences in prison.
The bill proposed in North Dakota’s House of Representatives said that “a driver of a motor vehicle who, while exercising reasonable care, causes injury or death to an individual who is intentionally obstructing vehicular traffic on a public road, street, or highway may not be held liable for any damages.” It also said a driver who “unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual who is intentionally obstructing” traffic “is not guilty of an offense.”
The measure failed on its second read in February 2017.
States that considered similar proposals include: Tennessee (introduced in February 2017), Florida (introduced in February 2017), North Carolina (introduced in March 2017), Rhode Island (introduced in March 2017), Texas (introduced in July 2017) and Kentucky (introduced in January 2018).
None of them became law.
Some of the bills used very similar language, and the wording applied specifically to unintentional cases. The measures would not have simply made it “legal to run over protesters with your car,” as the meme says.
The North Carolina, Rhode Island and Tennessee bills all applied to a driver “exercising due care” who “injures another person who is participating in a protest or demonstration and is blocking traffic” in a public street. Those measures would’ve protected the driver from only “civil liability” (not criminal charges), but not if the “actions” of the driver “leading to the injury were willful or wanton.”
In Texas, the legislation also protected against civil liability and would not have protected against drivers’ “grossly negligent conduct.” The Florida bill, meanwhile, called for punishing (with a second-degree misdemeanor) protesters who “obstruct or interfere with the regular flow of traffic” without a permit — and proposed liability protection for a driver “who unintentionally causes injury or death” to such unauthorized protesters obstructing traffic.
Kentucky’s bill, the only one we found that was introduced after Charlottesville, proposed that a driver “may not be held criminally or civilly liable for causing injury or death to a person who is obstructing or interfering with” traffic during a protest without a permit — “unless the infliction of the injury or death was intentional.”
The suite of related bills came under fire after the attack in Virginia, with some questioning the need for such legislation and claiming such efforts could provide cover for would-be attackers. Those who had pushed for the bills tried to distance the legislation from the events in Charlottesville.
“It is intellectually dishonest and a gross mischaracterization to portray North Carolina House Bill 330 as a protection measure for the act of violence that occurred in Charlottesville this past weekend,” the Republican sponsors of that bill, Reps. Justin Burr and Chris Millis, said in an August 2017 statement. “Any individual who committed a deliberate or willful act, such as what happened this weekend in Charlottesville, would face appropriately severe criminal and civil liabilities.”
So, while the Charlottesville attack did renew focus on the legislation, it was not the impetus for the proposals, as the post indicated, and those proposals did not go on to become “laws.”
Florida Senate. “SB 1096, An act relating to obstruction of traffic during a protest or demonstration; creating s. 316.128, F.S.; prohibiting a person from obstructing or interfering with traffic during a certain protest or demonstration; providing criminal penalties; exempting a motor vehicle operator from liability for injury or death to a person who is obstructing or interfering with traffic under certain circumstances; specifying burden of proof; providing an effective date.” (as introduced 21 Feb 2017).
Kentucky General Assembly. “HB 53, An act relating to public protests.” (as introduced 2 Jan 2018).
North Carolina General Assembly. “HB 330, An act providing that a person driving an automobile while exercising due care is immune from civil liability for any injury to another if the injured person was participating in a protest or demonstration and blocking traffic in a public street or highway at the time of the injury.” (as amended 27 Apr 2017).
North Dakota House of Representatives. “HB 1203, A bill for an act to create and enact section 32‑03.2‑02.2 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the liability exemption of a motor vehicle driver; and to amend and reenact section 39‑10‑33 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to pedestrians on roadways.” (as amended 6 Feb 2017).
Rhode Island General Assembly. “HB 5690, An act relating to motor and other vehicles – applicability of traffic regulations.” (as introduced 1 Mar 2017).
Tennessee General Assembly. “HB 0668, An act to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 19; Title 20; Title 29, Chapter 34; Title 54 and Title 55, relative to civil liability.” (as introduced 8 Feb 2017).
Texas House of Representatives. “HB 250, An act relating to civil liability for injury of a protestor by the operator of a motor vehicle.” (as introduced 20 Jul 2017). |
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1) Moratorium on evictions will continue. This likely means landlords will take stimulus based loans / payments / tax write-offs since their renters can’t afford to pay rent. Just like in situations where the businesses that are taking any stimulus money, those businesses are now community policing their staff and customers and forcing social change and medical interventions on people, which are human rights violations. As landlords are taking stimulus money to cover rent, they will now act as the community policers for their renters. Who knows what the renters will have to capitulate to as new rules and regulations will be set out by the landlords. There are strings attached with these stimulus loans. If you take the loan, then you will be forced to work with a government approved wrap around service that will make your building or business a COVID-19 approved source of income. A landlord who has accepted stimulus money cannot host tenants in his building unless it is a “COVID-19” approved building and passed regulation. Just like a business that has taken stimulus money cannot continue doing business unless he implements COVID-19 approved policy and procedures to the staff and customer. Bottom line is the moratorium on evictions sounds good on the outside, but it’s another piece of social conditioning that is preparing people who rent, especially in concentrated urban areas, for a different way of life.
2) There is some fuzzy language about making it unlawful to stream or share memes. As a content creator, I felt it was something to look into though. I need to look more into it. Says something about corporations, like Disney for instance, being able to sue the person who is live-streaming or meme-ing if an image from say, Disney, happens to come into the messaging. The fine is $30,000. This tells me the algorithms are refining. There may be an example in the news of someone who has to pay this fine or go to jail. This example exists to scare us into self-censoring.
3) Companies don’t want to be held liable for any injuries or injustices or constitutional violations as a result of the COVID-19 policies they’ve had to implement and impart on their staff and customers. Much like the vaccine companies are not liable for injuries caused by their product, companies, large and small, want those same protections from liability. Although constitutional protections remain in tact, they remain in tact only on a technical basis. By waiving all liability to companies who violate constitutional or human rights protections, it ultimately does undermine those very constitutional and human rights.
That’s all I have so far.
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One more sleep!! ;)
Over the past few days I've been sharing posts about different diagnosis's you may have heard about or are even living with. I am providing this information as a way to open the lines of communication with your doctor and/or treatment team as well as those in your life. These posts can be found in the Health & Wellness category for future reference.
There are so many things that can cause our pain and I'm trying to cover a lot of them and I do apologize in advance if I miss your diagnosis...if you would like to have it covered...please let me know and I will gladly do some research for you. Please keep in mind that I am not sharing this information so you can self-diagnose...but to help answer some questions...to provide information and to help you get the conversation started.
Please feel free to share this information with those in your life...it might help answer some questions and it may help them to learn more about what it is you're living with and dealing with on a daily basis. With more information, maybe we can start to decrease the stigma around the "invisible illnesses" we live with.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a diagnosis once used to describe my pain. I've noticed over the years that although the pain has remained...the labels have changed. Has CRPS ever been used to describe and/or diagnose your pain? If you live with this too I hope the following will provide some information for you.
This information is being shared for your educational and entertainment use only and to open the lines of communication with your doctor and treatment and possibly even those you share your life with. If you live with this too...share the information with your support system so they can learn more about you. Do not use this information to self-diagnose...you're not qualified...but please do speak to your doctor if you have questions.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome - Topic Overview
What is complex regional pain syndrome? Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a term used to describe a group of painful conditions. Examples of earlier names for these conditions include reflex sympathetic dystrophy, causalgia, and Sudeck's atrophy.
Pain is the main symptom of CRPS. Most people have severe pain in an arm or a leg. Usually the pain is in a part of your body where you had surgery or an injury. The pain is usually constant and either shooting, sharp, or burning. The pain is much worse and it lasts much longer than you would expect for the kind of injury you had. Some people may not have had an injury or surgery before the pain started, but most people have.
Self-worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don't feel good about YOU, it's hard to feel good about anything else.
Picture taken on the pond.
Take a look at the herbs and spices...do you currently use any of them now in your daily diet? Are there some you're interested in or curious to try?
There are natural healing properties to many of our foods...even our herbs and spices.
Natural remedies have been around for generations upon generations and we keep passing them down to the next.
Now natural remedies are not the cure all....neither are the pills...but when used in combination with a healthy diet and an exercise plan...there are benefits.
Will you explore them for you? What's on the end of your fork?
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Where do we look for the strength to survive in moments of such profound loss and pain? I have been so low before that all I could do is get through one breath and one heartbeat at a time. Sometimes all we have left is to try to make it breath by breath.
Have you been there in that hazy space; disoriented — a hum-like ringing in the ears from an explosion of trauma or bad news? Your disbelief simply will not make it go away. In moments like this everything seems like it is in slow motion; hope is like a tiny speck at the end of a narrow dark tunnel. Sometimes we feel like we are beyond any conceivable positive thought and we just want it all to end. Everyone eventually tries to rally — at least once. We try to willpower ourselves forward; to pick ourselves up, but sometimes we just fall hard all over again.
I want to live from my softness again. I miss it when I go hard.
Picture taken by a friend J.M.
I hate it when this happens....I finally remember...
only to forget again.
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Do you choose injections as a part of your treatment plan? I do too. How do you find they work for you? Is the benefit consistent for you? Where do you go to receive your injections? There are many hospital based clinics available but there are also Pain Specialists who are qualified to deliver this treatment. And the effectiveness is different for each person and each treatment.
I receive anesthetic trigger point injections and for the most part I have found them helpful although not always consistent...I call it "getting my juice". I find with the injections I no longer feel like the tin man from Oz...and although it does hurt to some degree receiving them...the benefit has been worth while for me. I've also found this treatment carries less side-effects than other prescription medication and also works good in combination with them too.
I'm sharing this information to give you something to think about. To share information on a treatment you may not have considered yet. Please read the following information and speak to your doctor if you'd like to add it your treatment too.
Anesthetic or Corticosteroid Injections for Low Back Pain
Trigger point injections. Sometimes, putting pressure on a certain spot in the back (called a trigger point) can cause pain at that spot or extending to another area of the body, such as the hip or leg. To try to relieve pain, a local anesthetic, either alone or combined with a corticosteroid, is injected into the area of the back that triggers pain(trigger point injection).
We all have paths that we must walk and sometimes how long we are on those paths is a direct result of our decisions and thoughts.
Picture taken on the pond.
is living life with chronic pain...doing the best I can with everyday. |
It is challenging to know one of your favourite things is so aggressively mediocre.
This music, this opening, set the standard in my child mind for what epic truly represented. This opening that starts with a clearly damaged, recovered piece of footage, then switches constantly between different arcs of the story, showing characters who, at the start of the series aren’t even born. Three generations of a narrative collected in the opening, and in an 85-episode show, screened weekly if I got to catch all the episodes, some of these story beats were a literal year away.
Okay, so basically there’s a thing in shounen anime how every one of them, more or less, has a thing that means ‘hey, here’s the reason people have a special ability.’ Whether it’s the Devil Fruit from One Piece, the Special Grade Curses from Jujutsu Kaisen, or the special Jutsu from Naruto. Kamen Rider Drivers, X-Men Mutations, Stands, Kwamis, they’re there to explain why Some People have the cool special powers and Some Other People don’t.
In Bleach, the ‘thing’ was a sword. The term for it is your Zanpakuto, but c’mon.
It’s a sword.
These swords aren’t just, you know, a sword, they’re a real sword (hhhnnnnnn I dunno) made out of your soul. It’s not a device with its own personality or traits, it’s something that was Inside Of You All Along (which I guess means Anthy Himemiya was a Soul Reaper?), and the way it works reflects something of who you are. There are three forms this sword can take (basically).
In the classic science fiction DOS game, Star Control 2, you’re a human captain asked to contend with a variety of different alien cultures, who have a host of different possible reactions to the things you do and a fairly interesting broad range of wants and ideologies. My normal go-to example of the work done to make these cultures interesting is the Ur-Quan, who basically are two cultures engaged in a literal war over who’s got the better unhealthy way to reckon with their personal trauma.
And like, Star Control 2 is still at its root a game which is basically giving you individual people to chat with, with a slightly slack memory. Like, these aren’t cultures cultures. They’re a single surface of a culture that it sometimes implies that there’s degrees within that culture, with individuals that don’t necessarily comply with the standard you’re presented. The Vux have Admiral Zex, the Spathi have the Black Spathi Squadron (and Fwiffo, to an extent), and the Zoq-Fot-Pik show the way their culture varies within itself just by their constant bickering. The Slylandro talk amongst themselves right in front of you, showing they’re not all these vast monocultures.
This isn’t true of all cultures, though. In this space bursting with life, you have cultures that just don’t get that much variety, so they’re kind of ‘lesser’ cultures. The Supox barely get any screen time. The Druuge are just capitalists. The Umgah are Ettin.
One of these ‘lesser’ cultures – who you can still bully into joining your alliance, mind you – is the infinitely pugnacious Thraddash.
Johnny Maxwell is an extremely ordinary 12 year old child in 1995. He goes to school, he struggles with homework, he pirates videogames cracked by his nerdier friend Wobbler, and he avoids his parents shouting at each other by submerging himself in the glow of his screen. And it’s all going perfectly well for him as he plays his way through Wing Commander 2Only You Can Save Mankind until one afternoon, the Kilrathi Screewee reach out to talk to him.
And they want to surrender.
This isn’t part of the game, at least, as far as anyone else has said. It’s not anything that Wobbler’s seen. It’s not in the manual. And back in the day, videogames sometimes did things you didn’t expect, for really specific, interesting reasons and there wasn’t some sort of online compendium you could pop open to check out all the details of how these games work.
And that means that Johnny is confronted by a mystery that may just be a really interesting thing a game does.
Or maybe something else.
I’m going to spoil chunks of the rest of the book, though not exactly how it concludes. If you want to go read the book, it’s on Audible, it’s on Amazon, it’s on Google Books, and I like it a lot. It is however, a book extraordinarily of its time. It’s a book from 1995 about a twelve year old, playing videogames back when Amiga and Amstrad and Macintosh were all names to mention in the same breath. It’s also a book from when Terry Pratchett himself just didn’t understand women so well, and that means there are moments when a major character who’s a girl says some stuff that’s…
It’s very ‘precocious 12 year old’s vision of sexism,’ and that can make her feel pretty embarrassing to look back on now, especially because there are ways in which the story goes out of its way to prove her wrong. Like, it’s not like it makes the story markedly worse? But at the same time there’s a tragic kind of missed opportunity: That the story could have still kept what was important to Johnny while also showing more nuance and depth for the girl character.
Who I’m not naming, because it’s? It’s complicated?
Anyway. I like this book a lot and I’d like to recommend it, but with the caveats that it’s a white guy from 1995 writing about videogames and is a bit of a thicko about some of the topics he handles. Just stuff that hasn’t aged great.
The man from social media came round to “check up,” he said, “on what we wanted” I looked at my partner, thought awhile, and replied, “Just the usual I suppose Pictures of dogs, some stuff to feel cultural, some videogame deals, stream or two, but like, not of any shitlords” He nodded
“Spiritually,” he asked, “do you have any spiritual needs, longings?” I knew sort of what he was getting at, and I knew too I had to avoid being noticed “Well I mean I don’t really think about it much,” I said, as I tried not to start yelling about how the pope sucks arse He nodded
“I could always use coronavirus updates,” I said, thinking maybe that’s what he wanted “You know, just something to mix up the anxiety between rent cheques” He ticked a box and looked up at me “I see” “Well,” I said, “I guess I’d like to know about how my friends’ jobs are doing” tick, “and their kids’ schoolwork,” tick, “um, parties, sort of,” he ticked, silent “You know, all that stuff”
He turned to the next page “and… huge and deviant sexual longings?” “That’s the AD, mate,” I said But he went “Yeah, okay, I’ll be back with that form tomorrow Politics?” “Really fuckin’ interested, honestly, like, why can’t they ban the nazis-” “Ah, well, we’ll put that as ‘yes.’ Music?” “MP3 collection that’s still got weird filenames from napster” “Poetry?” “I mean, I read it, but I don’t own any books” “How much stuff do you think you buy based on promoted tweets?” “Uh.” Tick. “What do you think of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry?” “Couldn’t give a fuck, mate” “lol,” he said. “lmao, even.” “Yeah, mate.”
He asked me to sign, and complete a capcha, telling me it was non-obligatory, You know, for the purposes of verification only, Next morning we got on the feed all we wanted, except for the Meghan Markle stuff
There are two possible responses, I figure, from reading that title. The first is wait, what’s Animorphs? In which case I’m reminded that my fear that I talk too much about my interests is in fact, wrong. The other is hey, hang on, Talen, I thought you loved Animorphs, what gives?
What give is that I think that a good idea can stand up to scrutiny, and media is a series of communications between you and the people who made it, and the other people who consume it. The appeal of Animorphs, is, to me, a given: Rather, I think I’d like to be able to seriously make a case for why someone shouldn’t necessarily immediately love this series as I do.
Oh hey, it’s Talen a PC gamer who didn’t have a console through the 90s talking about a classic of the form in a genre he’s normally pretty condescending towards and it’s an iconic masterwork of the genre so there’s a checklist of things you kind of have to talk about on the way through before you get to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about well guess that means we gotta blaze through the outline.
Lively cast of interesting characters
Innovative MODE SEVENING
What’s the DEAL with how the first half of the game was a JRPG and the back half, a WESTERN RPG?
Did U Kno The American Release Was III?
Other Girl Hot
Other Other Girl Hot
Boy…? Hot? Maybe?
Playstation port bad!
Steam port bad!
GBA port okay, really!
Suplexing A Train
With that list of the key and important details that are necessary to cover I have hopefully cut down a chunk of the mandatory word count for this article. After all, where will we be if I treat Final Fantasy 6 as something that you may already know about, or as some subject that you already probably can find other sources to explain?
I intend to spoil things about this game but I don’t imagine I actually will? Like, you may view it as a spoiler to mention ‘there’s a character named Effuzio in the story’ and that’s fine, but I don’t particularly plan on talking about the main thrust of the plot. Besides, if it helps you at all, the story of Final Fantasy 6 isn’t really that important, or even that interesting. Not the single, big, core narrative that runs from instigating incident to attention arrival to conclusion to denoument, no, that isn’t important. What’s important to me is the sequences of smaller stories that make up the whole of experience of this multi-hour JRPG mammoth of a story, the characters that are Final Fantasy VI.
When allocating theme months, some are very easy. Pride Month wasn’t chosen by me, and Decemberween has to fall in December, because it’s in the name. Smooch Month ties to February, when people are marketing Valentines Day nonsense, and with all the spooky stuff we do in October, it only fits it naturally to get Dread Month. What this means is that of the six even numbered months in the year, four of them are already stitched up just fine. August gets Tricks month, because I like tricks, and I think it’s worth talking about them but I feel that if I talk about them all the time, the topic would run thin. Plus they’re kinda referential and you know what fuck you we do Tricks month because why not.
And that means there’s just April left.
And April is the month with Anzac day, a nationalistic holiday that makes me mad, and Easter, a religious holiday that also makes me mad. It’s also the month with my birthday in it, so… well, guess this gets to be Talen Month.
What I tend to use this month to do is either deep dives on subjects I care about or contentious topics that I’m only really getting involved in because I want to indulge the elements of myself that wants to pick fights. This may mean you get a month long examination of the Infinity Engine games starting with Baldur’sGate2 and ending with Planescape Torment, but it may also mean you get to see me yell at strangers on the internet in places I don’t go about their incorrect opinions on Magic: The Gathering as a ‘gacha game.‘
That said, you don’t need to be afraid of the idea that I’m about to present you with a raging analysis of Undertale, or She Ra. Neither of those ideas seem interesting to me right now so they’re just going to go by the wayside this month. Thankfully, both of these topics seem to have matured a little and nobody’s treating me like a failure to enjoy those media is a failure of me as a person. Thank you all for that.
What about stuff that’s coming? Well, this month, just to gear you up, I’m going to talk about some anime I love; I’m going to talk about Animorphs, I’m going to talk about music I’m fond of and how it upset people. I’m going to talk about watching sports! I’m going to talk about two different book series that impacted my life immensely by the same author. And I’m going to talk about a beloved videogame character when the time comes to talk about the How To Be entry for this month.
But March is over and we’re moving on to April! March lacks a theme, which means that anything I wrote in February and went: Hey hang on, this doesn’t relate, got bumped. And thus, I present to you something you can read that directs you to other stuff you can read, that’s all fun and good.
What did we get in the Game Pile? Two videos, and two text articles. The videos were on Second Sight, and how meritocracy is fake and Games Journalism is fundamentally broken, and on how Minecraft doesn’t have anything like Goblins and how that’s? interesting? I also tackled the digital Rootboard game and how it isn’t quite the same thing as the physical game, but how that can be a good thing, and finally, I took some time to take down Genewars, a 1996 RTS. Man, 90s RTSes are just a genre for me to poop on huh.
The Second Sight video was something I was pretty proud of, especially because there’s some techniques in that that I was afraid would look dumb and bad and it didn’t. The process of turning a 1500 word article into a video produces a video of about that length, which I think is good, since it means that there’s no reason to just list a series of things that happen in the game and to instead try to focus on what the game is trying to do.
In my efforts to not just become an anime review blog, I wrote about some deliberately oddball stuff. I talked about Chess, a really good musical that fits almost too well into modern discourse about what gamers think matter. I briefly talked about Until This Shakes Apart, a new album by Five Iron Frenzy I’ve been listening to in parts to repeat for months now. I got a single anime article in with The Ascendance Of A Bookworm, which I love a lot and will still use to tease Nixie. I talked a little bit about the way medium influences content with the book series of the Muddle-Headed Wombat. And finally, just a few days ago, I talked about complicated feelings around the series Black Books, which was made by a dreadful dickhead.
What else do I recommend you check out this month? Well, there are two pieces that were put up as part of a sort of ‘Hi, I like you and I like knowing what you like’ Birthday celebration: my article on being Edelgard in 4e D&D, and my article on the Hindren in 4e D&D. These were both little hat-tips to friends near their birthdays, and it seems they were well received, but they also were just, you know good content for if you’re into 4e D&D. While we’re talking about building in other games’ spaces, I wrote about how I use ‘pushed’ when talking about custom magic cards and how Competeitive Commander is essentially building its own game in another game.
Next up, here’s this month’s T-Shirt. Thanks to 2020 I never got to show students my original Naruto-style did you check the subject outline, but I wore it to class this year and they loved it, so it inspired another, updated version of the same idea. I expect I’ll make more on this theme.
March has featured some illness, which in our current situation kind of slowed things down more than I expected. I have two classes going this semester, and they’re both exciting and interesting and I’m talking to students who seem to be split into ‘let me pass and let me out’ and ‘I am genuinely interested in this,’ which is a good split to have. An important piece of PhD documentation got completed and handed in and now I’ve been working on the research part of that, which is exciting. I’m basically finding I have a little more time than I thought I did – that the kind of administrative work of the research project is less arduous than the work I’m enjoying doing, which kind of stands to reason. I even participated in a twitter event with other educators, about games, and got to get them to read ‘Gamification is Bullshit,’ which is
Weirdly, I know I said this last month, but another friend had to bow out of a game I was running. In this case, it wasn’t mental health, it’s that they’re a parent to a two year old, and time in the evenings has become precious. Oh well!
March is over, and as I’ve been doing so far this year, it’s time for another round of custom cards! Despite what you may think if you’ve dealt with me on the subreddit, I am not against white getting good stuff. In fact, I’m a firm believer in white’s weakness in Commander presenting an exciting area to put new and interesting things rather than just recoloured Concentrate. It goes even moreso for Boros, where I see their flavour space as full of interesting potential, that largely goes untapped as people just try to fix their problems with the same simple tools of ‘but what if blue,’ and ‘what if I make something overpowered?’ Thus, this month, I’m back to the ‘what about white in multiplayer?’ hobby horse, and we’re looking at Boros Cards. Some quick rules on this front:
Not overusing mechanics. There are a lot of good mechanics for making colours with mixed colour identities, like infusing spells like Boros Fury Shield, but I didn’t want to overuse anything. Most keywords are used once, some are used twice.
No new keywords. I’m rarely a fan of inventing a keyword when existing keywords are here for exploration.
No cycles. These are individual cards for adding to commander decks.
I still think this is probably the ‘best’ card of the lot, and most likely to sneak into non-commander environments.
Wraths that let you reuse utility creatures each combat have potential to be really strong? Hopefully the costs are high enough to hold it in check.
Wording updated to ‘this creature,’ courtesy of a redditor.
Surprised this didn’t excite more, since this mechanic seems really strong to me.
I really like this one! Card advantage and rewarding other effects the two colours do!
There were complaints that this was a lot of bodies for a small amount of mana. Siege Gang Commander was my first thought of response.
Continuing my belief that white should be the third copying colour.
Kicker is easy mode for this kind of design, and so I made sure it was good.
Rounding utility for superfriends decks.
Early game development vs late game closer.
Congregate is four mana; this is more, but also cleans up the board.
Cast it in upkeeps, not in response.
Just adjust the price to the number you want, really.
There was some fuss about it being a red creature with vigilance even though it does nothing.
Some suggestions were to make it more like Signal Pest proper, but I prefer the simpler flying.
There were arguments about if red got this effect, despite it being literally a reprint of a red card.
‘Oh no, it’s really strong with grapeshot.’
There was a complaint that this should be a split, not MDFC card, to which I say ‘get lost.’
This great big card advantage vigilance critter got NO comment. Wild!
Code name: Goadnapper
No idea why this was SO popular.
Originally, the activated ability was much pricier.
Received 0 votes, showed up in the bottom 5 on the circlejerk, and got praised there. Wild.
Monarch enabler that wants to make keeping the monarch easier. Simple.
“Why would I use this targeted removal that exiles when there’s this non-targeted removal that destroys?” Why indeed.
I feel this could lose some restrictions and be fine.
Updated to simplify the upkeep with hybrid costs.
Added the ability to hit any target.
I think red/white sagas are really strong space for those colours to milk more card advantage options.
This one seemed to confuse people, as if it was somehow hard to grasp what it did.
Reload and rebuild, I figure. Sure, could combo, but I don’t care, it’s commander.
The most popular of the cards, at this point is the Crownbreaker Partisan, a card I was worried was a little weak. I think the complain I found the most ridiculous this time was sniping about the Solimancy Forgecrafter, a white card that improves efficiency, and needs red to copy things.
Black Books is a short British TV series, available on Netflix and other less reputable streaming services, that was made in 2000 through to 2004. It means that this series is twenty years old and oh goodness me I am old now.
The series Black Books follows the … let’s be very generous and say ‘life’ of Bernard Black, a second hand bookstore owner in London who hates his job and hates his customers and hates having to do his taxes and hates restocking. It is, on a very deep level, an entire sitcom oriented around the story of a misanthropic shopfront owner, which may read as very true to life if you’ve ever encountered this kind of shopowner. Now, he’d be content to just boil away in his horribleness on his own, occasionally prodded into activity by his ‘friend’ next door, Fran, but then one day, circumstances bring Manny Bianco, a bohemian accountant into his life shortly before an incident of violent assault by some skinheads.
It’s a show that does a lot of weird stuff without spending a lot of money on doing weird stuff. You’re more likely to get weird people saying weird things than special effects, but it does a good job of showing off those weird things.
Black Books is one of those small-cast, small-season British comedy shows that leaves the more sitcom-oriented viewers wondering where the rest of the show went – you can watch all eighteen episodes and think ‘oh that was a short season,’ only to find that was the whole show.
It’s really good, it’s funny, it doesn’t overstay its welcome, and you’ll see, if you watch it, a small who’s who of British comedy people from twenty years ago, people who have since moved on to do solo shows or more prominent roles on their own. Particularly there’s the excellent Bill Bailey’s Guide To The Orchestra, which should be available for free on Youtube at the moment. Dylan Moran’s done solo shows and Tamsyn Grieg went on to lead Green Wing. Great stuff all.
Anime is an art movement that has encapsulated thousands of different competing threads and there’s no true centralising canon because it’s fragmented across all sorts of cultural anchor points. Australians of my age that are into anime so often got started because Aggro’s Cartoon Connection screened Sailor Moon, the ABC screened Astro Boy, Cheez TV screened Teknoman and SBS, in the late 90s, screened Neon Genesis Evangelion, meaning that those four anime are sometimes seen as ‘common ground’ topics. Common ground for one age bracket in one country, and even then, only sometimes.
There are some events that can be looked upon, in the english-speaking anime fandom, though, in terms of their impact on shared cultural spaces, typically conventions, but also just, anime releases that somehow managed to be widespread enough at the right time that they became foundation to the conversation. The big three of Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. Evangelion movies. Fullmetal Alchemist, then Fullmetal Alchemist again. A collection of trans girls and boys and nonbinary people that can trace a lineage from Ranma 1/2 through to Kampfer and Haku and Soul Eater and maybe a few tracing lines to Vandread.
There is a category of people I can annoy enormously by responding to a Touhou picture with which anime is this from?
There’s only so much room for any given series to suck up a lot of the oxygen in the fandom space. You can’t typically have five or six ‘big name’ anime that ‘everyone’ has an opinion on. One of those ‘event’ Anime, that rose, became incredibly prominent, and then deformed the culture at large, becoming one of the rings in the tree trunk that is this strange cultural enclaves, was the enormous franchise known as Haruhi Suzumiya.
In How To Be we’re going to look at a variety of characters from Not D&D and conceptualise how you might go about making a version of that character in the form of D&D that matters on this blog, D&D 4th Edition. Our guidelines are as follows:
This is going to be a brief rundown of ways to make a character that ‘feels’ like the source character
This isn’t meant to be comprehensive or authoritive but as a creative exercise
While not every character can work immediately out of the box, the aim is to make sure they have a character ‘feel’ as soon as possible
The character has to have the ‘feeling’ of the character by at least midway through Heroic
When building characters in 4th Edition it’s worth remembering that there are a lot of different ways to do the same basic thing. This isn’t going to be comprehensive, or even particularly fleshed out, and instead give you some places to start when you want to make something.
Another thing to remember is that 4e characters tend to be more about collected interactions of groups of things – it’s not that you get a build with specific rules about what you have to take, and when, and why, like you’re lockpicking your way through a design in the hopes of getting an overlap eventually. Character building is about packages, not programs, and we’ll talk about some packages and reference them going forwards.
Now this month, we’re going to return to How To Be’s roots, and once more we’re looking at a character from Fire Emblem: Some Number Of Houses. Yes, it’s the gal who’s Horny For Priest Murder (And For Other Reasons), the Look Up Other Reasons People Like Her, the One, the Only: Edelgard von Not Pronouncing That!
Genewars is a 1996 videogame release from games industry innovator and technology boundary pusher Bullfrog, at the height of their heady, genre-establishing, world-shaking PC gaming juggernaut status, overseen by the pandimensional fish-hoarding gamer genius explorer boy and repeated game revolutionary Peter Molyneux. After inventing the God Game genre with Populous, the RTS genre with Powermonger, perfecting the spatial management game with Theme Park, redefining flight simulator games with Magic Carpet and creating the fantastically engaging real-time squad based strategy dystopian cyberpunk offend-em-up Syndicate, but just before all-purpose warm-fuzzy-feelings inspiring Dungeon Keeper, Bullfrog announced a new RTS game called Genewars.
The premise of Genewars up front was that you weren’t going to buy units from a list, like some kind of plebian, Commanding and Crafting. You were going to create your own units, based on stitching together the DNA of species on the planet, and the possibilities were endless.
And from this perfected and extremely shiny forehead of Peter Molyneux, what could spring, but excellence?
Hindren are a type of cervitaur (‘part deer, part-humanoid, with four legs and two arms’) people you can meet in the indie videogame Caves of Qud. They’re originally a fan creation by indie bespoke curio crafter Caelyn Sandel, before they were implemented in the game proper in part thanks to the efforts of new Caves of Qud writer Caelyn Sandel, which meant they were present in the game to be streamed by Grahu-Rubufo, the Caves of Qud vtuber (voice acted by Caelyn Sandel).
Here, in this article here, is a version of the Hindren that you can bring to the table in your D&D games, as long as you’re playing 4th edition and have a DM that’s understanding about gay deers. Why now? Why am I doing this? Because it’s someone‘s birthday soon, and she’s lovely, and I like what she does.
This audio was originally recorded in March 2020. The intention was to use this audio, along with some video editing of our own original art, to demonstrate the designs we had in mind. Turns out that was a bad time to commit ourselves to a big project idea that maybe required drawing lots of art.
Nonetheless, here’s an hour and change of Fox and I discussing the different unused Pokemon types, and what we’d do to fill those design spaces, and how the ice type sucks.
For someone who hasn’t bought a new Magic booster in something like three years, I spend an awful lot of time working on Magic: The Gathering language, card design, and game lore. The primary way I play the game these days is Commander on MTGO, and creating cards on Reddit.
There are fifteen books that could be called Muddle-headed Wombat books. They have such titles as The Muddle-Headed Wombat And The Invention and The Muddle-Headed Wombat Is Very Bad. They are all pretty simple and formulaic narratives following the central character of Wombat, who is muddle-headed, his best friend Tabby, who is convinced that nobody in the world has suffered like him, and his other best friend, Mouse, who is a Mouse.
The stories follow a pretty consistent pattern: Wombat gets an idea inspired by some passing fancy or local event, and tries to get involved, gets it all a bit wrong because he’s a bit stupid, the friends have a bit of a tiff because someone is being a jerk, and then they sort it out by communicating and forgiving one another for their very understandable limitations. They all go home and have lemonade, or a tea cake, or something.
It’s all very low-stakes high-emotion narrative, because it’s aimed at five year olds, but it has a sort of easygoing charm that makes it easy to enjoy as an older reader. Oh, the plots aren’t interesting, not in a truly complex way, but there’s a lot to be said about the way that the stories put weight on finding fault and blame – there’s a lot of effort put in the way the stories flow that the story seldom treats accidents or happenstance as a get out clause for a character being a dickhead to someone else.
Iiiii love this character. I love the illustrations, I love the language, I love the charming simplicity of it all, and I love the way the stories breeze on by. I love the people who respond to this character by laughing and remembering his silly phrases or the way he fell about and kicked his fat little legs in the air. It’s so wombatty with Wombat’s stubbornness and his near indestructibility meaning that he’s not in danger of harm as much as he is in danger of upsetting someone or being upset. It’s a story full of feelings!
I play Picross pretty regularly. It’s a simple little game that my computer can pull up in a browser window and then I can belt through a game, or fail at it, very quickly. It’s something I’ve been doing pretty much on and off since Fox got me into the game in a waiting room at a doctor’s.
Picross, or a nonogram, is something I’ve written about in the past. The tool I use generates random ones within a particular difficulty grade, and you can ramp it up or remove elements that make it easier whenever you feel you need to. For me, this means that my personal limit on picrosses is around 15×15, no-mistake wins, with the occasional exception for unwinnables. I’m not amazing at them, but they’re functionally infinite and I don’t find myself holding onto great examples so I can share them around.
Though maybe I should.
Chances are if you’re on youtube, you’ve seen some of those specialised channels for dealing with particularly dense, high-potential games like Chess, where there are dozens and dozens of chess channels that want to break down famous games, or explore potential games, or just talk about games in progress as puzzles. In this space, there’s the fairly well known Cracking the Cryptic, which does Sudoku puzzles (and other things, they promise, but, I mostly see Sudoku puzzles).
I haven’t picked up Sudoku as a skill, mind you: I’ve just been observing it, from this other channel, and something I find most interesting is the ways that the people involved get very familiar with making intuitive leaps that they then explain. They’re not guessing – they just see solutions, and then they have to back-fill the explanation, to bring you along with them on their path of logic.
When I start on Picross now, I tend to see how quickly I can get the basics laid down – I know the numbers that matter the most to the kind of things I can do, I’m familiar with certain patterns that reach further than you think, and that means that I have tools that make approaching a Picross puzzle a little bit quicker. Not fast by any means, but it gets some of that initial friction out of the way.
Tonight, as Youtube brought on another Cracking the Cryptic to me, the puzzle involved ‘thermometers’ and that yielded someone describing the way you can slide numbers forwards and back, but you have limited space, and that gives you information you can work from. It was a small detail, but it made me sit up and go: Oh, like 4s in those regions.
And just like that, I was seeing the way these skills translate. I didn’t study Picross, I just played it a lot. Playing it a lot resulted in familiarity. Familiarity made it easier to play a lot. The systems of games feeding one another, and only when you put that in a different context do you see the way that familiarity can be turned into actionable, practical, pragmatic result.
Time to time, I write up an explication of characters I’ve played in RPGs or made for my own purpose. This is an exercise in character building and creative writing.
In the fey realms, there are courts; courts overseen by great powers, lords of realms or even of ideas themselves. The greatest and vastest powers, strange and incommunicable, are overseen by the Great Courts, with the fey royalty, the names people know, the names so important that they slip through even into the mortal’s realms.
But one court, the Court of Voids, lays hidden and secret, ancient beyond even the knowing of the Fae.A mystery of mysteries, with its Secret Queen, She Who Touches As Iron. Precious and few are the fey of this court, paying fealty to this secret queen, with blessings of stealth, secrets, combat and healing for the maimed.
His name, he says, is Brambles, and he lays fealty to this Secret Queen. But the Secret Queen wants secrets and justice – and where better to find those than the City of Heroes?
I have a shirt like this already, which I wore to my first of one of two classes this year. When I did, students all reacted positively to it, and I am an absolute sucker for even the most modest elements of praise. And so, here’s another familiar design that builds on this same joke.
In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga argues that it is not that games are a byproduct of culture, but that games represent the defining aspects of the formation of culture. That is, ‘making games’ and ‘playing’ are things you do before you get to the stage of having ‘a culture.’ And that’s exactly as much as we should listen to Huizinga about what and who counts as having ‘a culture,’ because it gets a touch yikesy with all the colonialism.
Nonetheless, Huizinga does argue that games are part of the formation of culture, and he suggests the way that animals with proto-cultures play games is itself a step on that path towards creating a culture. Wolves and birds play with one another to learn, and that implies that there’s a connection between playing and learning, and learning, the assumption runs, turns into civilisation and waistcoats and brandy eventually.
I don’t think that Huizinga was a furry, but I’m saying he’d see top-hat wearing waistcoated werewolves and go ‘yes, that.’
There’s this song. It’s called Big Willie Broke Jail.
Song’s pretty cool, I like it, I like some of the subtle details about it – like this is about a community being deputised to deal with a dangerous criminal, rather than about ‘the cops’ doing it. It’s got a good rhythm to it, and if I, an uneducated person on the matter, might call it ‘Mexican.’ This is the earliest version by a guy called Gus Backus, who is primarily known nowadays as a Schlager singer in Germany. He passed away in 2019.
I don’t like this version, not really? It’s a recording from the 1960s, and it shows – the mixing makes him sound kinda ‘soft’ and underwater, his enunciation isn’t quite my style, and while the music is fun, it’s a bit simple-sounding? I don’t mean to sound like I know how to do better, but I just know I like music that feels a bit more like the people involved are having fun. Definitely a 1960s country song style.
And now, unbelievably, Content Warning: some mentions of child sexual assault.
It’s something of a meme that ‘light novel series’ is a subgenre of anime that throws up some warning signs. It shouldn’t – after all, two of my favourite anime of all time are both from light novels, but traditionally the field of light novels are known as being primarily harem or isekai anime, often being quickly produced to cash in on recognisable or marketable characters. Often these characters have some particular visual motif that makes them very recognisable and makes for good merch opportunities. Well, Ascendance of a Bookworm is an anime that started its life as a series of light novels, and it is an isekai, and it features a recognisable main character who has a lot of good merch opportunities.
It’s just that she’s also five.
The premise! Urano Mototsu, college nerd and bibliophile dies in a hilarious bookshelf-collapsing incident during an earthquake. Upon her death, she wakes up in a new body, in a fantasy kingdom, which should be considered rather rad, except Urano was not someone who lusted after adventure in fantasy kingdoms, she lusted after books which are pointedly absent in this fantasy kingdom, and her new body, Myne, is also five years old.
What you then follow is a sequence of narratives about a five year old girl personally trying to catapult herself up the tech tree in order to have access to books, even if she has to prompt industrial revolutions to do it.
Everyone plays Magic in their own way. The game serves as a platform for players to find one another, but even the people who engage with that platform in ways that seem the same are still approaching it in different ways. Players are simply too complex, motivations to play are too varied, and the game itself is too complicated for two players to sit down and truly want and expect the exact same thing out of the game as they play, and formats and rules and social responsiveness are tools we have to make sure people are at least engaging with one another on a reasonably equal level. The utility of the game is that the game sets rules and boundaries that players can use to meaningfully communicate their own parameters, making it easier to dial into what they want out of the experience.
Knowing that, it’s got to be rough to be into Competitive Commander, or, as it’s known, CEDH.
Die Rich is a card game I developed… I want to say early 2020, late 2019. The idea comes from a long time ago, and it’s built around a design I used for referencing a thing in a RP space, of the Carthaginian General Hannibal.
The thing is, something happeend in 2020 (like, all of 2020), and that meant I never developed the rulebook for it. I’d played the game, before I ever made any of the cards, and I’d tested it, I knew the game worked… but I never wrote down the rules.
Now I don’t know if I remember them, exactly.
But I do have a deck of the cards, so I can play the game, and see the problems, and reconstruct what I generally know. Then I’m going to construct what I need the rules to cover, and you can read that. This is how these rulebooks kinda got made. |
By Doug Porter
A study released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) makes the case that so-called reforms to workman’s compensation programs at the state level are tied to a rise of the number of workers receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (DI).
Over the past quarter century, the number of beneficiaries in this program has gone from 25 per thousand to 59 per thousand, bringing the DI trust fund close to depletion in 2015.
Republicans are claiming the rise in claimants for disability benefits is being fueled by lower-wage workers seeking an easy way out of the labor force. It’s just the latest wrinkle in the old “poor are shiftless and lazy meme” at the heart of so-called reform schemes.
Here’s the Economic Policy Institute’s Monique Morrissey:
Congressional Republicans are trying to block a routine reallocation of funds to the SSDI Trust Fund, insisting that they will only allow reallocation if “reforms” to SSDI are implemented. The intellectual underpinning for their demands is that there is an unfolding fiscal crisis caused by workers who are able to earn a living but are instead choosing to claim disability benefits.
A chief proponent of this view, Stanford economist Mark Duggan, testified before the Senate Budget Committee earlier this year, claiming that disability benefits are increasingly attractive to lower-wage workers, who respond by leaving the labor force. According to Duggan, a key piece of evidence supporting this claim is an increase in the share of beneficiaries suffering from musculoskeletal disorders and other “subjective” health conditions who have a “substantial” employment potential.
Claims like these have become a mainstay of attacks on the disability program. However, a closer look at the evidence shows that SSDI benefits have become, if anything, less generous. Moreover, even research cited by critics shows SSDI receipt has a negligible impact on work effort because few applicants, including marginal applicants who were denied benefits, are able to earn a living afterward. Meanwhile, there are good explanations for the increase in the share of beneficiaries suffering from musculoskeletal disorders, including an aging population, rising obesity rates, and fewer workers able to retire early when their health deteriorates.
And, of course, the GOP’s solution to this problem is to raise the bar so that benefits are denied to as many people as possible.
Privatizing Profit, Socializing Risk
A summary from CEPR outlines the findings of researchers Dean Baker and Nick Buffie, indicating that 20% of the rise can be attributed to the shifts in state legislation on workman’s comp:
Using data from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) and the Social Security Administration (SSA), Baker and Buffie explore the relationship between WC and DI. In the course of the report, the authors examine the correlation at the national and state level between the percent changes in WC benefits and new DI awards and the correlation between the change in the number of WC and DI beneficiaries with changes in state WC legislation.
The authors find:
- In a variety of specifications there is a strong relationship between the decline in state level WC beneficiaries and rise in new DI awards. This suggests that people are turning to DI because they are less able to collect WC benefits.
- A test of whether the rise in DI awards by state can be explained directly by policy changes to the state WC program found some evidence of a direct relationship. Given the difficulties in capturing the policy changes in the relevant variable, this is strongly suggestive that the rise in DI benefits was in part the result of state-level policy decisions to make the WC program less generous.
- These estimates suggest that more than one-fifth of the rise in the percentage of workers receiving DI awards can be explained by cuts to the WC program.
Opt Out Means Left Out for Injured Workers
In recent years 33 states have cut workers’ comp benefits, made it more difficult to qualify or given employers more control over medical care decisions. The most odious of these changes have taken place in states allowing privatized injury benefit plans. More than a dozen states are considering legislation allowing these “opt-out” plans.
An industry-sponsored lobbying group, the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation (ARAWC), and the American Legislative Exchange Council are seeking to make these privatized plans the law of the land in all 50 states.
From Mother Jones:
Laws mandating workers’ comp arose at the turn of the 20th century as a bargain between employees and employers: If a worker suffered an injury on the job, the employer would pay his medical bills and part of his wages while he recovered. In exchange, the worker gave up his right to sue for negligence.
ARAWC’s mission is to pass laws allowing private employers to opt out of the traditional workers’ compensation plans that almost every state requires businesses to carry. Employers that opt out would still be compelled to purchase workers’ comp plans. But they would be allowed to write their own rules governing when, for how long, and for which reasons an injured employee can access medical benefits and wages.
In recent years, companies have used that freedom to severely curtail long-standing benefits.
Abandoning the Principles of Workman’s Comp
The companies utilizing such plans make the claim that, in addition to saving money on costs, they’re now more ‘hands on’ in dealing with workplace injuries, which benefits workers. The devil, however, is in the details:
The fine print of opt-out plans contains dozens of opportunities for companies to deny benefits. Employers can terminate workers’ benefits for being late to doctors’ appointments, failing to check in with the company or even consulting their personal doctors.
One truck driver for a food and beer distributor complained in court documents that his direct supervisor accompanied him to medical appointments for his hernia — a requirement under the plan.
Some plans have restrictions that read like the terms of criminal probation. While they’re healing, injured workers at W. Silver, a steel products manufacturer in El Paso, are prohibited from leaving the area, even temporarily, or engaging in any “pleasure” that may delay recovery.
Sometimes the plans of PartnerSource and others abandon fundamental principles of workers’ comp.
For nearly 40 years, every state has covered occupational diseases and repetitive stress injuries, recognizing medical research that some conditions develop over time. But in Texas, a number of companies, including McDonald’s and the United Regional Health Care System, don’t cover cumulative trauma such as carpal tunnel. U.S. Foods, the country’s second largest food distributor, also doesn’t cover any sickness or disease “regardless of how contracted,” potentially allowing it to dodge work-related conditions such as heat stroke, chemical exposures or even cancer.
When workman’s compensation benefits are denied, people have little choice but to look elsewhere. Often it’s MediCal, Medicare or Social Security Disability paying the bills. What employers are doing amounts to shifting their costs on to the public.
Sen. Bernie Sanders Calls for an Investigation
The recent investigations by ProPublica and NPR have prompted ranking Democrats on key Senate and House committees to urge the Labor Department to look into these changes.
“State workers’ compensation laws are no longer providing adequate levels of support and compensation for workers injured on the job,” the lawmakers wrote. “The race to the bottom now appears to be nearly bottomless…”
The letter is signed by Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential hopeful and ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee, Patty Murray, D-Washington, the ranking member of the Senate Labor Committee, Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, the ranking member of the House Workforce Committee, and seven other senior Democrats on House and Senate Budget, Finance, Employment, Workforce, Ways and Means, and Social Security Committees.
In a statement, the Labor Department said the agency “shares the concerns. Every year injured workers and their families are bearing more and more of the cost of workplace injuries and illnesses.”
On to other matters…
Gender Wage Gap Increases, Again
You’d think that companies would get a clue about paying women less than men for the same work. But apparently testosterone triumphs when it comes to pay.
From the Wall Street Journal:
“The median weekly earnings for full-time male workers was $889 in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That’s a 2.2 percent increase from a year earlier. Meanwhile, full-time female workers’ earnings were $721, up 0.8% from a year earlier.”
“The latest data marks the third straight quarter that the increase in male earnings was at least double that of female workers. As a result, women who work full-time earned 81.1 cents for every dollar a man earned from July through September. That’s down more than a penny from a year earlier.”
Bill Kristol’s Crystal Ball Wrong Again
Neoconservative political analyst and commentator Bill Kristol has the second worst track record in politics when it comes to predictions. (Dick Morris holds the first spot.)
This guy just says whatever random stuff enters his brain and spins it out there. Yesterday, responding to release of the trailer for the upcoming Star Wars film, Kristol took a stand on the evil empire:
Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, a neoconservative opinion magazine, called the Empire “a liberal regime w meritocracy, upward mobility. Neocon/reformicon in spirit.” Kristol added: “Needless to say, I was rooting for the Empire from the first moment. It was a benevolent liberal empire, after all.”
He’s also been the source for too much of the Joe Biden is definitely running for President crap we’ve seen in the media recently. Given that he’s the guy who predicted (and hyped) Sarah Palin as a great Vice President, I don’t know why anybody trusts him.
Yesterday he was telling the world that Joe Biden was having lunch with President Obama to inform him of his decision to enter the 2016 presidential contest.
And a few days before…
I’m told by Democrat I trust that Biden “almost certain” to run, will announce this week in time to speak at the Iowa J-J dinner Sat night.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 18, 2015
Biden announced this morning that he’s not running. His candidacy was doomed the minute Kristol started talking it up.
On This Day: 1933 – Wisconsin dairy farmers began their third strike of the year in an attempt to raise the price of milk paid to producers during the Great Depression. Several creameries were bombed before the strike ended a month later. 1964 – The movie musical “My Fair Lady” made its world premier in New York. 1967 – Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
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Man City have long been seen as the new kids on the block whilst United are somewhat seen as the old school, the veterans.
With their oil money, Man City have the ability to bring in anyone, whilst United’s ‘financial problems’ are often alluded to in the press.
Sir Alex has frequently stated that money is available if he needs it, and this past summer he spent a sizeable amount to strengthen the team after a number of departures yet the claims that United are skint remain.
By making these remarks, Vieira was attempting to reinforce the notion that City are the team on the up whilst United are on the wane.
Manchester United and midfield reinforcements go hand in hand. Papers know they will send tons of copy if they link us with a central midfielder and those websites that trade off transfer rumours know that they will get tons of hits if run the same tired stories of us supposedly in for any one of the numerous midfielders that we have been connected with.
As Paul Scholes retired last May it was assumed that United would bring in a new midfielder, this didn’t happen and although we started the season well the lack, of Paul Scholes began to tell. We bum rushed teams, overwhelming them as opposed to controlling them and dictating how a game would go.
Of course this didn’t always work, especially after Cleverley got injured and Anderson somewhat lost his way.
The wake up call came against Man City when a humbling 6-1 defeat, secured their place at the top of the table. United were now tasked with overhauling their neighbours, and whilst Sir Alex has always said he wanted to go into the derby game at the Etihad in touching distance of them, a master stroke on his part means we could very well go into the game ahead of them.
The decision to bring Paul Scholes out of retirement can be deemed ‘desperate’, but it has been an unmitigated success. Sir Alex identified a problem in the midfield and provided the best solution easily summed up by the internet meme captioned: “You ask for a Scholes replacement… I give you Scholes instead”.
Although it appears that Scholes may be staying on for one more year, at the time he was the perfect short term solution; he could provide what we needed as what we needed disappeared when he retired, he knows the club inside out so there would be know bedding in period and most importantly he cost us nothing.
In the games since his return we have picked up 25 out of 27 points, with the two points dropped at Stamford Bridge as we came from 3-0 down to draw 3-3. Guess who was at the center of the fight back? That’s right Paul Scholes.
There was no shame or disgrace in bringing back Scholes, he admitted he was missing the game thus it has been a marriage of convenience.
Looking at the other side back in the Autumn when Mancini said that Carlos Tevez would never play for Man City again it was believable. Whilst Scholes retired, Tevez publicly disrespected his team mates and club. His behaviour after seemed to be the final nail in his coffin as his utterances and appearances on TV in Argentina made it seem that there would be no come back for the striker.
It appeared like he wouldn’t be missed anyway, they were doing well in the league but after a wobble Mancini backtracked.
Tevez is better than Aguero, Dzeko and Balotelli and the Italian realised that Man City would have a better chance at winning the league with him. With Man City falling behind United in recent weeks, Mancini was more than happy to see him back in their kit and like Scholes’ return it paid off as he set up Samir Nasri’s winning goal against Chelsea on Wednesday.
This title race has very much been an intense cat and mouse game between the two Manchester sides. It was long established that we would be the only two teams competing for the title, and since then we have attempted to outfox each other and waited f0r slip ups to take advantage.
Both sides are looking for any advantage to ensure that the title ends up in their trophy cabinet, so for one side to be sitting their calling the other desperate is foolish.
This is possibly one of the biggest league campaigns ever for both clubs, if Scholes makes the difference for United as he has been and we win the league, Vieira’s comments will be water off a duck’s back. |
We need to write this very carefully lest we appear like we're throwing a competitor under the bus. But this seriously needs to be read by everyone who has a modicum of interest in the ongoing saga regarding the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board's campaign to legitimize app-based ride services like Uber and GrabCar.
In a nutshell, the LTFRB announced in May that it was finally regulating Transport Network Companies that use the app-based business model, the most popular of which is Uber. While it was easy to dismiss this announcement as just another way the Philippine government was looking to get its piece of the pie, it was really no big deal to us. The bottom line is this: Uber and its ilk need to be regulated so that they can pay taxes that rightfully belong to the government. Vilify our government all you want, but everyone needs to pay taxes, period.
But then it seemed some businesses that didn't want to be taxed or regulated used (and really abused, shame on them) public sympathy to try and paint the LTFRB's move as evil, greedy and anti-people. Worse, some media practitioners who either didn't understand the issue or were merely in it for the virality took up the cudgels for these companies and led an almost systematic campaign to revile the LTFRB.
Now, don't get us wrong: We're not exactly fans of the LTFRB. We constantly criticize them for the way they indiscriminately grant permits to public-utility transport providers at the expense of public safety (see dilapidated jeepneys and buses). But on this issue of legitimizing app-based ride services, we say the government has every right to do so. If a security guard pays his taxes, why shouldn't an Uber operator pay his?
And so we refused to be used by companies that didn't want to be regulated. Why should we help them do business in this country without paying taxes and being regulated like everyone else?
On August 11, lawyer Yves Gonzalez reached out to us to say that LTFRB chairman Winston Ginez wanted to talk to us regarding the Uber issue, as the agency was clearly losing in the social-media discussions. You see, it's not difficult to beat any government agency in a court of public opinion--most everyone hates the establishment to begin with. Add to the mix a popular "victim" like Uber and you have the government thrown to the ground like a Ronda Rousey casualty.
Chairman Ginez himself contacted us and gave his best effort to untangle his agency from the mess created by the disinformation launched against them.
But see, the public opinion had, by then, been so overwhelmingly won by the other side that most of our readers practically ignored what the LTFRB boss was saying, and they continued to cuss the government for its perceived greediness and total lack of concern for the common good. In fact, we were so worried we'd be accused of being a mouthpiece for the government that we posted this meme on our Facebook page. It was our way of assuring everyone that we had not crossed over to the "dark side," and that we still had the public interest in mind more than anything else.
And then something happened.
Gonzalez--the person who gave our contact details to Ginez--finally spoke up on the issue on his Facebook page. You will recall that Gonzalez was previously the MMDA's traffic director; he is now a social-media operations strategist. He is weighing in on the issue as a regular Filipino citizen.
His post attracted replies from our colleague James Deakin, who had been the most vocal defender of Uber almost to the utter exclusion of LTFRB's side of the matter. We will post here the exchange and let you judge for yourself. As for us, we're convinced this exchange definitively, clearly and unambiguously explains everything that needs to be learned about this whole LTFRB-versus-Uber episode.
The exchange follows in italics. It's quite long but we promise you it's worth your time if you truly wish to understand the issue.
YVES GONZALEZ: If this news annoys you, please direct your anger at Uber and ask them why, after three months, they still haven't applied to be covered by what they themselves called "historic" and "progressive ride sharing regulations."
JAMES DEAKIN: Hey Yves! On paper, it does seem like Uber and Grab have been remiss. But here's the real situation, as explained by the operators in their open letter: http://ubermanilatips.com/open-letter-from-partners-and-drivers-about-ltfrb-accreditation-and-ridesharing-regulation.
YG: Hi, James. GrabCar (the company) has been able to apply and be accredited, but Uber hasn't even applied. That is a fact. The situation and confusion of the drivers is quite different. The full facts are not in a single open letter. Uber is doing what it always does globally--say one thing, do another thing. It would be different if they had actually applied, but LTFRB is giving them a different time.
JD: Perhaps, but why are the LTFRB bullying them in the media before the deadline? They have until the 20th to comply. I don't see why they are being threatened in public as early as now. It's only natural that it would invite public outrage.
YG: LTFRB gave them advance warning so they can and actually comply. The alternative would have been to stay silent and then suddenly start apprehending. Now that would have been a fiasco for sure.
Study how Uber operates around the world and you'll know that this is their modus operandi: Get public sympathy on their side, say one thing, do another.
Why don't we ask Uber why they haven't applied properly for TNC status under the 'revolutionary' regulations they were so happy about? GrabCar immediately did. And why say LTFRB is running their 'own' taxi service when they are not? Now this falsity has spread and can no longer be put back in the bottle no matter how many errata and mea culpas are posted after. The damage has been done and misinformation has spread. This is what I find quite wrong.
JD: Appreciate the open and candid banter. But I never said they were running their own, bud. I said they were starting their own. Meaning they are creating the regulations to develop a new system altogether. I also said that the only ones they would allow to operate it would be those who bought 20 brand-new cars (now 25) which completely alienates the current operators that are making a decent, honest living out of what is a very legal service--up until Aug 20 at least.
I talked about reinventing the wheel because they could skip all of this Premium Taxi business and just work at legitimizing a tried and proven system, which would save time, money and a lot of unwanted congestion on our roads because Uber Black and GrabCar do exactly that with existing vehicles.
I’m not sure what Uber’s MO is outside of the country, but until they break the law over here, they should not be treated like criminals. And up until August 20, they are well within their deadline. To be honest, I would find it much fairer had they kept quiet about it and communicated solely with the transport companies for compliance and then just apprehended those that violated the deadline rather than use the mass media to threaten and intimidate them.
You mentioned I could not take what I said back. Well neither can they. And now we have innocent operators having their cars illegally impounded even before the deadline just because some enforcers either don’t understand what was said or just want in on the action. And that, sir, is what I find quite wrong.
YG: Your "starting their own" statement has pretty much been interpreted by 90% of your followers as LTFRB running it themselves. That's an understandable deduction from your statement. And it's false, as we all know. They also didn't reinvent the wheel. In fact, they have legitimized Uber-type operations as long as the TNC company applies. They have enriched the public transport regulations with new classifications. If no one wants to ride the Premium Taxis, they don't have to. They can take Uber or GrabCar. It's the consumer's choice. To demonize the Premium Taxi classification, which you did, is to jump the gun and assume that TNC is the only option that riders should have. To state that Premium Taxis are the reason LTFRB wants Uber to comply with regulations, is to put malice where there is none. In the picture now, LTFRB and drivers want the regulation to be effective. But Uber, the ball is in their court now.
JD: Leave the ball in Uber's court. As I said in a reply to you on Twitter, if they miss the deadline and have no legitimate reason for doing so, I step off my soapbox. They had their chance. Especially if GrabCar grabbed it. With regard to how I feel about Premium Taxis, well, that is an opinion, and one I will stick to because I really do think it is not only redundant, but the model is inferior. But if people want to invest in it or take it, that is fine. It is the privilege of living in a free country.
YG: Unfortunately, James, as much as you've been right on most issues involving LTFRB in the past, you were flat-out wrong on this one, and I'm calling it as it is.
You concocted an evil government conspiracy to get rid of Uber and have an alleged government-run Premium Taxi take its place. You created this story and it's what's going around now on social media--a disinformation. When you realized this was false, you backtracked and raised different arguments (what about the partners, 2.0-liter displacement is a bad idea, it's redundant, LTFRB sucks anyway, what about the taxis), but never admitted to the fact that you were wrong to claim LTFRB is "starting their own service called Premium Taxi." The fact that the post is still up means you still stand by that story. Even CNN Philippines has already issued an erratum on this, but you have not.
JD: I ask, then, who is starting the service if not the DOTC/LTFRB?
YG: Calling Premium Taxis LTFRB's "own service" is like saying TNCs (including Uber, if they apply), taxis, jeeps, airport shuttles, and every other franchised service are "owned" by LTFRB as well. LTFRB sets the regulation which provides for the existence of these regulated common carriers. Does NTC also "own" the telco carriers since they were the ones who issued the regulations that govern those? Does POEA "own" recruitment agencies? The fact that a regulator sets the rules out of which private entities can start a regulated business doesn't mean that the regulator "owns" those businesses. They oversee, regulate and are responsible for them. But to own them, that's definitely not correct.
On family tables this weekend, families will discuss at length how they heard LTFRB the regulator is starting its "own taxi service." And the people who know better would have a hard time explaining to them how wrong this conspiracy theory is.
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
JD: I see where you’re coming from, but if we are going to debate so passionately about my choice of words here between "own" service or “regulators,” then I concede. You are the lawyer after all, and I will happily edit my original post if it will put this to bed. But if we use your examples, it also means that Uber does not operate its ‘own’ service either as it does not own any cars, in the same way the LTFRB will not own or operate any of the Premium Taxis, the POEA doesn’t own recruitment agencies, and the NTC does not own Globe and Smart.
Yves, we’ve known each other for a while now, and I’ve always respected your opinion, but you also know that aside from reviewing cars, my job is to comment on issues that affect motoring. It is what I have done for the last 14 years, and I would like to believe that I have done so in the fairest way possible. Now you accuse me of concocting “an evil government conspiracy to get rid of Uber and have an alleged government-run Premium Taxi take its place” when all I ever stated was concern. I was very, very, very clear about this in my open letter to the DOTC. I said I was concerned about Premium Taxis replacing Uber or competing unevenly. Big difference.
I apologize if that offends you or the agency, but if you look at the state of our regulated public transportation system here, I think I have every right to be concerned. We all do. And we’re also allowed to express that freely, without fear of those feelings needing to be translated into a legal dialect that pleases the government. They are feelings, after all. Try and hail a cab on a rainy day to see what I mean.
Now, what is going around on social media is a public sentiment, my friend. As flattered as I am for you thinking I’m that capable of deceiving millions of people with a single post, this is a sentiment that is born from decades of frustration watching our public transportation system deteriorate before our very eyes; buses that are literally getting away with murder, taxis that rob, rape and extort passengers, jeepneys that operate illegal terminals and break every rule know to man...I think you get the picture. So when the only thing close to a solution is threatened, like Uber and GrabCar, you cannot expect to regulate people’s reactions.
So no, it wasn’t backtracking when I shared my personal opinion on the redundancy of a Premium Taxi service, or the logic of a minimum 2.0-liter displacement. Those were merely opinions that I am actually paid to write. You’re welcome to not agree. That is your right and I respect that. But it is also mine. Peace.
YG: Let's discuss your points per paragraph.
1. The difference between LTFRB the regulator and Uber the operator/TNC is that Uber earns a direct income from the partners that it "regulates" (controls actually). To anchor the argument on the "they don't own the cars" argument of Uber is to imply that ownership of cars is the only important factor in "owning" a common-carrier business and having accountability thereof (hence subject to regulation). The fact that (a) Uber takes a cut from all sales, (b) they can decide who is and who isn't part of the system, and (c) they control the whole ecosystem (with promos, rules, incentives to partners) makes Uber the prime player in this business (the party subject to regulation by the regulating body). The non-ownership of cars is as inconsequential as saying Uber doesn't own the Internet connection that makes the booking possible, or the fuel that burns during the trip. Those are not the crux of the matter. (But Uber PR will claim otherwise for sure as they have done so in multiple countries.) Control is a crucial element in any business, not just ownership.
2. I agree that you have always tried to do your work in the fairest way possible. That's why this particular incident had to be called out. When you posted the "they are starting their own service called Premium Taxi, which is just another racket" post, that was unlike you, in that it was both patently inaccurate and grossly unfair to LTFRB and the public who rely on your words. We can complain about the LTFRB for all the wrong things they have done and are doing, but let's not cause public anger on them for something that isn't true. Premium Taxi is not their own service, period. CNN Philippines misreported this, too, and promptly made an erratum when they realized their mistake. CNN Philippines didn't try to argue that they were right in how they used "own"; they admitted their mistake and corrected it. Your open letter after the post clarified where you were coming from, but the misinformation, as originally stated, remained and continues to spread.
3. No apologies to me needed as I did not get offended, but was rather alarmed. Yes, we all have the freedom of expression, but that freedom comes with an obligation to be responsible with what we say, especially when we know we have an audience that believes and acts upon our expressions. This is the reason you shouldn't shout "BOMB!" in a crowded theater. Or say that the government is gonna get into the taxi business when it is not.
Also, freedom of expression means the government cannot curtail your speech. I am not in the government. I am just a friend asking you to be more accurate with what you report. I hope this is not too much to ask.
No one is asking you to please the government, only to be fair and truthful with your words and not to cause mass confusion with wrong information. And I ask you this because I respect you as a person and friend, and that I expect this fairness and truthfulness from the James Deakin that I've known all these years.
4. Once again, the LTFRB is not asking Uber to stop operations forever. It is asking Uber to apply to be a TNC, so that LTFRB can regulate it properly and perform its legally mandated role. LTFRB knows Uber is here to stay, but that doesn't mean LTFRB will just wait forever for Uber to comply with their promise to apply for TNC status. By LTFRB giving a deadline, it told UBER na walang forever. By telling Uber that they will start apprehending their vehicles if Uber doesn't comply with the legal requirements, LTFRB was merely reminding Uber that they are not above the law just because they are popular or serve a public need well. The law is the law as they quoted. This is not about killing Uber, but about making sure all players are within the ambit of the regulating body, hence fair to all concerned.
The ongoing crimes being committed elsewhere on other common-carrier modes have not and should not make us a nation no longer governed by the rule of law. No one again is trying to regulate people's reaction; but I would like to think that no one wants people to overreact as well to false news.
5. Whether Premium Taxi will work, is smart or is better than Uber isn't important, because they will coexist. The existence of one is not cramping on the existence of the other. The only time these two suddenly conflicted was when you made them do so in your post.
I am passionate about this, James, because like you, I love and take Uber. I want them to get TNC status. I want the cloud of doubt to be removed on their legitimacy. I believe in their reason for existence. I love the fact that our commuting is leveling up. But I am disappointed at Uber for their inaction, which has created this whole mess. DOTC, LTFRB and Chairman Ginez have already reshaped regulation to accommodate Uber. Ano pa ba ang inaantay nila?
Entertaining read, wasn't it? Like we said, you be the judge. |
To say that Rand Fishkin is the ‘Godfather’ of the SEO industry may not be technically true, but it kind of feels that way.
He’s been a thought-leader in the digital marketing and search space since as long as I’ve been in the game (12+ years for me which is an eternity in anything digital these days), so if there were a Mount Rushmore of SEO (or digital marketing), he’d probably be on it.
He’s been showing people like me how to slay the dragon that is Google for years, and lots of folks owe their ability to have careers in the digital marketing space directly to his efforts.
Not only that, but he also Co-Founded a pretty well-known SaaS company called Moz along the way (with his Mom I might add), and built it into one of the best and most respected digital marketing platforms to this day.
Recently, he Co-Founded a new startup company called Sparktoro, aimed at helping marketers, public relations professionals, and entrepreneurial teams learn more about the audiences they want to reach.
He also just wrote a book entitled, ‘Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World,’ in which he shares his eperiences and lessons learned.
I connected with him to talk about everything ranging from his time at Moz, to the founding of Sparktoro, his book, as well as to get his thoughts on a number of subjects including funding, venture capital, content marketing, personal branding, gender-equality, and more.
Jake: You co-founded SEOMoz (later shortened to Moz) way back in 2004 with your mom. Can you tell us about the early days of SEOMoz?
Rand: Sure, so it started as side-project – it was just a blog – that I built to mostly share my frustrations and experiences trying to learn SEO.
We had accumulated a lot of debt as a little mini web-design/consulting shop, and we were trying to get clients, we couldn’t afford to pay our SEO sub-contractors, and so I had to learn the practice myself, then try to do it, and had a difficult time.
The industry was very secretive in those days. People held their practices really close to the vest.
That didn’t sit well with me, and I wanted to make something that would be transparent, open, and accessible for everyone to learn SEO.
That kind of became my mission as the site got bigger, went into 2004-2005, and then we shut down the old business (the consulting business) and started just taking SEO clients because the blog had sort of taken off.
Then, I was getting invited to speak at events starting in ‘05, and those led to some clients which then helped us dig our way out of debt.
It was interesting times.
Just the three of us kind of making it work the best we could, living on tiny salaries – next to nothing. I’d moved in with my girlfriend – who became my wife – Geraldine, so it was different days.
Jake: So I’ve read, and I’m admittedly a slow reader, the first couple of chapters of your book ‘Lost and Founder’ and anecdotally kind of know some of the background stories of what you’re talking about in terms of where you started in the beginning and being kind of rough and maybe running into a few “leg-breakers” here and there.
And so, I guess what point did you realize things are going to be okay and maybe this (SEOMoz) is going to be successful?
Rand: Hmmm, that was probably 2007 when we launched our software. I mean we didn’t even really think of it as a software launch, right?
We basically had some tools that we’d built for ourselves, Matt said that our servers couldn’t support it if we opened it up to everyone.
So we built a little Paypal paywall that you had to Paypal us $39 a month to get access to it, and that subscription – 6 months in – was doing as much revenue as our consulting business.
And that was probably the time when I thought, “Oh! This might really turn into something!”
Jake: So, you mentioned your blog taking off.
Can you talk about the process of making SEO – which wasn’t transparent at the time – and go through the story of the blog taking off?
Rand: Yeah, I think that there’s not a lot of, “Oh, this made the blog huge – this one thing!”
We had a few big successful pieces, one of them was ‘The Beginners Guide to SEO,’ the other one was the ‘Search Engine (Google) Ranking Factors,’ which again sort of took off and many people have since copied and made great versions of.
I would say the big thing about the blog that made it successful was that we/I had time.
I started blogging in 2003 about SEO. It wasn’t really until 2005 or 2006 – 100’s of blog posts in – that I started getting a feel for what resonated with the audience, what was actually useful, what made sense to publish (and not).
If you go back, you can still see in the archives those early, early days of SEOMoz, you’ll see that those posts are not particularly great or useful, they’re not all that readable, the writing isn’t terrific, the topics and headlines aren’t great, but then it slowly, slowly, slowly gets better.
I think that’s a part of why so many content marketing campaigns fail is that a company says, “Okay. Now we’re going to invest in content marketing,” and expect that 6 months in they’re going to have ROI. Nope, that’s crazy!
You know, I don’t expect to have ROI day 1 with any sort of inbound or organic marketing practice. Those are things that you build up slowly over a long period of time.
You start to grow a brand, you start to get good at empathizing with your audience and figuring out what they want, publishing good stuff, getting better as a writer and publisher, getting better as a promoter of that content, building up a network that will help you grow out that content.
It’s a flywheel, and it’s very hard to get it started, and once it gets turning, it’s relying on inertia to keep moving faster and faster.
Jake: Yeah, when I worked in “agency world” – I’ve spent 10-11 years in agencies – that’s what I would tell my clients, right?
It’s like a 401k versus stocks. Stocks would be pay-per-click, right?
You can invest in stocks and it’s a little bit risky, but once you sell those stocks and turn it off it’s gone.
Whereas if you keep investing in your 401k it’s going to keep growing and growing and growing slowly (you won’t see the gains [right away].
Some of them wanted to stocks and not the 401k, but…..it is what it is. 😊
Rand: I think in marketing, and to your analogy, the reason that so many long-term content marketing plays work so well is because those people have patience, because they’ve invested over a long time, and because very few people are willing to have that patience and that tolerance.
There’s not a lot of executive teams out there that will say, “Sure. Take the first 6-12 months to just learn. We don’t expect that you’re going to be great at it. And then next year we’ll start to see some returns from this.”
Unfortunately, very few people are willing to invest there, but that is a good thing for those of us who do because it means a lot less competition.
Jake: Yeah, absolutely!
As best as you can, can you tell us what that was like, and what might have been the impact – not just on the business but maybe even on the team – at the time?
It was $1.1M and they basically reached out to us.
So, it was less of a fundraising process and more of a ‘you know I’ve had a few coffees with these folks’ and we sort of decided that working together sounded interesting.
There were some things I wanted to do at Moz specifically to build our link index that required capital, and I think that round was actually extremely positive.
It helped Moz grow.
We essentially took that money, hired a few engineers, built our link index in Amazon’s cloud (launched that 9-10 months later), and by a year after we’d raised the investment [November 2008] we were profitable again.
I think that was an extremely health cash infusion, a really smart move, something that I’m very glad that we did.
It clearly helped accelerate the business’ growth and allowed us to build this technology that I think without it we frankly wouldn’t have been able to do.
The only big downside is that it comes with this requirement that you have a relatively extraordinary exit. And look, when you raise $1.1M you have a lot more freedom, right?
That’s not a huge amount of dollars. If you can return $5-10M to the fund it’s not going to make a huge difference to Ignition [Partners], but they’re certainly going to be fine and comfortable with it. And so, that was growth that was absolutely possible.
The later fundraising efforts, so in 2009, in 2010, and in 2011, over the course of Spring, Summer, Fall respectively, I tried to raise money again going down to Silicon Valley, meeting with investors in New York and Boston, and basically came up with nothing.
I probably pitched a grand total of 60-70 firms and partners over the course of those 3 different efforts. One of them was particularly intense, I probably talked to 40-42 (somewhere around there), and yeah it was a huge distraction, big time waster.
Obviously, didn’t get any funding in those efforts, and [I] didn’t really find someone who was a great match for us either.
In 2012, we did raise a round with Brad Feld at Foundry. We raised $18M that round and I think felt amazing about that.
You know, it felt like we were on top of the world when we closed that round because I had been working so hard at it for so many years to try to make this happen to find an investor who was a good match for us, and I think Brad and Foundry really were.
I think not realizing the other components of that which was that we now felt this artificial sort of foolish pressure to invest that money quickly to find quick growth.
That I think is what sort of had a negative impact on the business because we became very unfocused, we were flailing around looking for anything, we bought a bunch of other companies, tried to launch a whole bunch of new products, tried to make all these different things work, and in the meantime weren’t investing in our core SEO software and were getting passed by other people in the market.
By 2015-2016, we were seen as no longer the market leader in SEO software and that was really hard.
So, is there anything you learned form both of those acquisitions in particular, and how did they end up working out?
Rand: Yeah, I mean I think that the big lesson that I learned is: unless you are the runaway leader in your field, can continually invest in being the best, and you have sort of a department or division that is just running very, very smoothly, you probably should not try to take on new things, right?
You should be great at the thing that got you where you are, you should continue to invest in that.
You better stay ahead of your market, because frankly in B2B software switching costs aren’t nearly as high as people think they are.
And folks are very happy to move over to a new platform or a new piece of software if it does a better job than what you’re doing – especially in SEO which is so competitive.
There’s only a few positions on page one, so anything that gives you a boost you’re going to go to.
GetListed obviously turned into Moz Local which is a good product and a decent business, but I think that and Followerwonk, Moz content and investments (we were trying to sell our API), and then we were trying to build a sales team, do enterprise, and expanding our conferences from Mozcon to Mozcon Local…it was just too distracting.
We were selling eight different things instead of one thing, and that was really more than our team, our audience, and our platform could support.
Jake: Okay, I feel like we’ve covered a lot and I’d be remiss to not talk about the fact that when you started you did consulting, right?
And then you eventually shifted to a SaaS product in addition to some of the stuff you just mentioned.
Can you talk a little bit about the evolution of what went into going from the consulting to the SaaS model?
Rand: Yeah, well like I said it was very accidental for us.
We had some tools, we didn’t know if they’d be popular, we weren’t intentionally trying to build them for an audience (we’d built them for ourselves), and we launched them.
We were as shocked as anyone that they did so well, and I think that it was probably only 6-7 months in once we looked at the numbers and went, “Whoa! This is a lot of money coming in!!,” and these investors started reaching out that we said, “Okay, I think we’re on to something. We should probably learn something about the SaaS field.”
So, it’s very different from an intentional transition where you say, “Okay, I want to build a product business, and how can I do that?” Yeah…we’re not quite that story.
I think what made it work however, is that we’d already attracted the audience that was NOT our core customer for consulting but WAS our core customer for our software product.
And that was just by virtue of this kind of intersection of my passion for talking about SEO and the history of the blog there.
I think that very few consulting companies are attracting a large audience of people who would buy software that they would build, right?
I think most content marketing efforts are intentionally designed to attract your core customer, not some other person who might be a customer for something else you might build in the future.
And so I would certainly urge anyone who’s thinking about making that transition [to] find a way to build that audience first. If you have a way to reach them, your costs of customer acquisition are much, much lower.
If not, you could launch a great product – I’ve seen tons of consulting services do this where they launch a great product for people they think are going to be great customers, but they can’t find them, and attract them, and retain them affordably.
You know, it just costs them so much money to get every new customer and they can’t find enough of them.
Jake: Bouncing around here a little bit, and I’m not actually sure which one came first (I might have to go and look), so couple things happened kind of in the later stages of your existence at Moz so:
(1) you went through a round of layoffs, and
So, I’m just wondering, what went into kind of both of those decisions?
And for people that are maybe kind of struggling themselves in terms of those types of decisions (running the business, managing the business), what advice would you give based on how you approached those situations?
Jake: Tough question, sorry!
Rand: No, totally fair. So let’s see.
I would say with stepping down as CEO, I wrote about this in the book, but that decision was based almost entirely on my mental and emotional state at the time.
I talked to some of my exec team members and they were kind of like, “Hey, you’re – you know, whatever’s going on with you – you’re depression, your anxiety, all this kind of stuff is really negatively impacting things.”
And I think I felt like the only option I had was, “Well, I should put someone else in the CEO role. If I take the stress of that out, I’ll be able to get better.”
I’m not sure that that was actually the only or right move. I certainly could have stepped back in my duties and responsibilities and asked some other people to step up, but I just didn’t think about it at the time. I felt like I had to go all the way.
So I had some conversations with our investors and I said, “Hey, I want to make this transition, and I want to make Sarah CEO.” They were comfortable with it and so I stepped down in 2014 and Sarah took over.
My big goal as CEO at the end of 2013 and entirely 2014 was ‘Let’s return to profitability’ – get profitable again so that we never have to raise any more money and we don’t have any risk of layoffs and that kind of thing.
And I think Sarah was much more classic venture-model-minded, and she was like, “No. We have a lot of money in the bank. Let’s spend it. Let’s try and grow this thing. Let’s invest in a lot of these other products. We’re going to spin out these products from Moz Pro and make content and Followerwonk and Local all their own separate things.”
I think that proved to be really, really challenging and then 2.5 years later we met with the board and made the decision to do layoffs. We were just burning so much cash.
And you know, all of these businesses were making money and growing, but just not fast enough. And so, yeah. We shut everything down except Local and Pro and then basically focused on those businesses.
In end of 2016 into 2017, I just had a lot of conflict with the CEO and so in 2018 left the company sort of pseudo-voluntarily.
Jake: Yeah, I did want to ask about that. So in your farewell post to directly quote it you said, “On a scale of 0-10 where 0 is fired and escorted out of the building and 10 is left entirely of his own accord on wonderful terms your [my] departure was around a 4.”
So, I don’t want to get into anything personal or not public, but is there anything you can share from that?
Rand: I mean, just that you know, the way I wrote that was the best that I can do to describe things, right?
If a 5 is sort of right in the middle, this was a little on the not good side of that. And certainly, I think it was a very, very painful hard ugly experience going through it.
I have a lot of regret and some anger and resentment too, but at the same time starting a new company has proven to be a really great thing.
And so far – knock on wood – Sparktoro has been kind of charmed.
[I] found a great Co-Founder, we’ve had some great early press and amplification, a lot of people who’ve checked it out who follow the blog and who’ve signed up to get emails.
We launched a little side-project called Sparktoro Trending which is kind of designed to be like a Hacker News or tech meme for marketing and that has gone very well (a few hundred to a few thousand people visiting that every day already).
That’s made me feel good about (I mean that’s a side project) the product that we’re eventually going to be building through the company.
So, yeah some sad things around leaving Moz then some hopeful stuff around the new company.
Jake: Yeah, so last thing about Moz and I promise we can move on and put a wrap and talk about some of the other stuff, but you know, you turned Moz into a really, really successful company.
If you look at the revenue, you grew in 2008 from almost $2M to almost $47-$48M almost 10 years later. That’s (over the course of time, like a 401k it grew steadily – maybe not as fast as you wanted it to – but that’s) wildly successful.
So, what are you most proud of with respect to Moz?
Rand: Okay, so first off. I’m most proud the people we’ve helped.
You know Jake when we started this call/interview you mentioned, “Hey you/Rand/Moz have been really influential in my career and have helped me grow as an SEO and a web marketer.”
That’s what I’m most proud of.
I am most proud of being able to help so many people learn this practice that was so hard to learn when I was getting into this field. That made me feel like I really accomplished something positive with the company.
The assertion that Moz is very successful I think is fundamentally flawed though.
So Moz has many characteristics of a successful company and would absolutely be considered wildly successful if it were privately-held (with no institutional investors is what I mean).
Once you take institutional investors you are only consider – you know – success becomes a very clear line of demarcation, right?
There’s not successful over here and there’s successful over (t)here, and not successful is, ‘You have not returned capital to the investor in the quantity that they need to make their fund dynamics work.’
And over (t)here is, ‘You’ve done that’ right? You’ve returned – whatever it is – depending on the fund size, how long it takes, and how much money 3-50x the amount that was invested.
And Moz, maybe hopefully will over a 10-15 year lifespan will potentially return probably on the lower end of that (3-5x) if we’re lucky, if Moz does well and continues to grow, then manages to survive this competitive field that it’s in, and has a successful acquisition or maybe an IPO a long time from now.
It’s possible, but I would say that is still a very risky bet.
Jake: That’s actually a really good point of clarification because folks like me look at it from the outside and make some assumptions but kind of what the reality is is much different it seems like.
Rand: Yeah, I mean I think that people who say, “Oh, Moz is a wildly successful company,” forget that it needs to return that capital, right?
And that you know – it’s not like Founders and employees make a lot of money you know make more than just normal salaries.
In fact, probably lower than most market salaries than what they’d make at Amazon or Google or something because they hope that their stock options will someday be worth something, but that’s all resting on this (hopeful) transaction in some future time frame.
And Moz has only had one serious acquisition offer in early 2011 that would have been extraordinary but I turned it down.
I thought that it wasn’t for enough money at the time, I think I was greedy and cocky, and young and foolish, and yeah – that ended up probably being a huge mistake.
Jake: Hindsight’s 20/20.
Rand: Yeah, yeah. Well, I just hope — this is why the book exists, right?
‘Lost and Founder’ is out there so if you are starting a company, or you’re joining an early-stage company, or you’re thinking about doing some of these projects or products, you will make mistakes!
You will make terrible, dumb, stupid mistakes that you will beat yourself up for. I guarantee it. But you don’t have to make exactly the same ones that I did!!
Jake: Yeah. So assuming somebody has not yet or everybody (well, maybe not everybody), but at least everybody in the SEO space probably has heard about the book ‘Lost and Founder’.
So, assuming that you’re not in the marketing space, but you’re a startup Founder and entrepreneur or looking to become one, if you pick up ‘Lost and Founder,’ what should you expect to get out of it?
Rand: I mean I think the two biggest things are, from people who’ve read it or sort of had the experience, or tweeted about it, or shared their experience from reading it, that the two biggest things seem to be:
(1) I feel less alone. I feel like someone else, ‘Oh this other person who is relatively high-profile….their experience is similar to my own.’
And I think that is a really powerful thing, to not feel alone, to feel like everyone makes these mistakes, everyone goes through these hard times, no one has a perfectly blessed experience.
(2) I think the other thing is that there’s just a lot of individual lessons that resonate with people. It’s always different, right?
For some people, it’s the chapters on hiring, management, and how to build a great team.
For some people, it’s on building values and culture.
For some people it’s the marketing chapters, right?
The flywheel versus the growth hack kind of stuff.
For other people, it’s been the services and product-based business or how to build a network in your early years when you may not have one.
For some folks, it’s the later chapters on focus and layoffs and depression.
So the book is not about one thing, and so I think that everyone has something different that resonates with them strongly, and that’s been kind of cool to see too.
Jake: Excellent, yeah I’ve read – like I said I’m about 1/3 of the way through, and some of the early material (especially), there are kind of a few funny anecdotal stories that you go through – especially the one with the debt collector. Although I’m sure that probably wasn’t so great for you, [it’s] probably funny to look back on it.
But yeah, the stuff that you went you went through and that other Founders might go through, kind of going all the way through the process for me was pretty enlightening and definitely in line with what we hear all the time on this side [Startups.co].
Whether it be Founders who are kind of sharing their experiences with us [Startups.co] or our own Founders who are kind of veterans of many, many businesses for many, many years themselves – so you know I’m just the lowly marketing guy – but I know kind of hear a lot of that, and a lot of it I think is definitely going to resonate with anybody who picks the book up for sure.
Jake: So, you kind of touched on Sparktoro — that’s your new company!
You just close, very recently, $1.3M in angel investments, 75% close-rate on your email (to investors)…can you talk a little bit about Sparktoro?
Rand: Sure, yeah.
So, one of the problems that I saw very often in my career at Moz was for folks who didn’t already have a lot of search volume for the products or services they were offering.
They needed other ways to do their marketing other than search, right?
SEO is not going to help you if no one is searching for what you are selling. You have to go out to your market and try to get in front of them and reach them.
And when I observed people doing that practice – especially the last 6-12 months – as I was thinking about this problem more heavily and my next adventure, the issue that I saw as folks would say, “Well, I need to reach this particular market. Who are the people, and what are the publications, and the podcasts, the news media, the websites that these people visit, the blogs that they read, the YouTube channels they subscribe to, the people they follow on Instagram/Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin…”
And that practice is TOTALLY manual! Totally manual!!! It’s just ridiculous.
People will go to Google and then they’d search for their topic, they click a bunch of things, they find a bunch of links, they put them all into a spreadsheet, then they go to Twitter and search around there, they look for people with high follower counts, they go to LinkedIn and do the same thing, then they go to YouTube and do the same thing, and they go to Instagram and try to do it, but Instagram search kind of sucks so they just have to follow hash-tags…
Oh my God! Are you kidding me?!? That is ridiculous! I mean, it looked like SEO in 2002 or 2003 when there were NO tools to do this stuff.
And so people are like, “Yep. Everyday I go to Google and I search, and then I put the rank in [be]cause there’s no rank-tracking system. And then I tried to figure out what the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) looked like, and I’d take a screenshot every week and send it to my client…”
That kind of stuff. That’s exactly what this process looked like to me and I thought, “Okay. I/we can build software that can help with this where you enter the audience you want to reach or the topic you’re targeting and we can go out and get great data for you about who are the people in that field and what do they pay attention to, what do they follow and amplify and listen to across all these different channels and sources so that you can build this list of ‘Here are the publications of people that influence my audience,’ and then you can go do your marketing. That’s advertising, organic marketing, or going to their events, trying to do a guest editorial piece, whatever it is.”
Jake: You made the decision to make Sparktoro’s funding documents public, which as I understand it is not a normal thing.
So, what went into that?
Rand: Yeah… 😊
So with Sparktoro we raise a very, kind of unusual round.
I think you can gather from our conversation that I have some frustrations with the venture model and the binary outcome/success requirements, and I didn’t want to do that. I didn’t want to hamstring Sparktoro in that way.
I believe that there’s a big market here. I think that Sparktoro could be a business that’s as big as Moz is, or even bigger. But, what if that’s not the case?
What if I find out that the market taps out in the $3-10M in revenue per year range and growing after that is really hard?
Well, what is Sparktoro has 5 or 6 employees and is doing $5-6M in revenue and has great margins but it’s not getting super-high growth?
That still could be an extraordinarily successful company if only you structure the investment in the right way, right?
And so, the way that Sparktoro works is that rather than saying, “Hey investors. You only ever make money if we have a huge exit,” it says, “You make money if we have that huge exit – just like you would with any other investment, but you can ALSO make a lot of money if Sparktoro is profitable. And in any year that we’re profitable you can choose to re-invest the dollars into growth, or if we don’t see a ton of growth opportunity with just raw dollars, we can say ‘We’re going to pay out dividends.’”
And basically our salaries (mine and my Co-Founders), as well as our ability to benefit from Sparktoro’s profitability is limited until we pay back our investors 1x the $1.3M that they put in and then after that everyone participates prorata in the profitable growth of the company.
So any profits are sent out to everyone.
So, you know, [if] Sparktoro makes $1M in profit and a couple hundred thousand of that goes to investors as well.
First, the $1.1M goes back to them, then a couple hundred thousand goes to investors.
So, over the course of 10 years this company could return many multiples of your capital every year as opposed to in a “fingers crossed, I hope they sell one day.”
Jake: So, I guess my question is, why the transparency?
Rand: Oh, yeah.
Because I hate that the venture model is the only one, right?!?
It’s not [technically] the only one, but all the angel documents that you’ll see out there for fundraising, all of the open-source documents, they’re all designed to – you know the seed round stuff, the convertible notes – they’re all designed to price when you do the venture round, right?
And so success for many, many angel investors is, “Do the companies that I invest in – are they able to raise venture?”
And so, this company [Sparktoro], I don’t want to raise venture.
I know there’s lots and lots of companies and entrepreneurs who think the same way that I do.
In fact, almost all of the investors that I raised from think, “Hey, there’s another way here. There should be another way to do this.”
And that’s exactly what my goal is behind open-sourcing these docs, it’s [so] that other people will take a look at the documents and say, “Hey, I don’t have to pay a lawyer $10,000 or $15,000 to come up with a structure. Here’s a structure that a bunch of notable investors have already said they believe in, and this company has done it, and so I can use a system like this to structure my investment round.”
And hopefully it saves a lot of people time, money, and effort.
Hopefully, it also gets a few people thinking about how they want to build their businesses differently.
Jake: Excellent! Yeah, that’s awesome.
I think transparency, I mean you seem to be transparent in many of the things you do, and I think that’s definitely something from an industry-standpoint that I tend to agree with the philosophy.
It may be helpful and may help break down walls for other folks facing the same problems.
Jake: Last question[s] on Sparktoro, and this one is more specific to how did you find your Co-Founder?
Any advice from you in terms of what synergies – if somebody is a sole proprietor, bootstrapping, or going it alone – what did you look for in a Co-Founder?
One thing certainly was someone who shared my values and the way that I like to work.
So Casey and I are both passionate about this alternative form of fundraising, and building up the company with profitable growth.
We both like small companies, companies that don’t need to be hundreds of people. I think we both like things, sort of 50 people and under.
We both wanted to build a remote-work culture. So, have people who are able to work from home and be flexible.
Casey is kind of a stay-at-home Dad, or the primary parent at home for his family for a lot of stuff, and I think enabling that kind of thing is something we’re both passionate about.
And we also have a lot of the same beliefs around what makes for a great employee, what makes for a good team, and what doesn’t.
And then I think Casey is also someone who bolsters my weaknesses. You know Casey is very strong on the technical side.
He’s sort of a very talented full stack engineer, [and] has done both lots of front-end and back-end work which means that we don’t have to contract a lot of that stuff.
He can manage everything from the WordPress blog to the actual crawling of the data and building the databases for the system that we want to build.
And I can continue to do my sort of product design and product marketing, as well as being (a little bit) the face of the company and managing a lot of those sides.
So we complimented each other well on the skills side, but also on the values and beliefs side.
Jake: Awesome! Yeah, absolutely 100% important that you guys are kind of able to fill each other’s gaps right?
Bolster each other.
Jake: Personal branding… so this is definitely something that at least in my opinion your personal brand – you’ve been the face of (now) 2 companies, maybe even an industry or two (between digital marketing and SEO)…
So, how important is personal branding to growing a business in terms of ‘do you have to have to have a well-known personal brand to build a business’ or can you ‘grow a business while staying behind-the-scenes and not as much in public?’
Rand: Yeah, absolutely!
I think personal branding is something that came because I like writing and sharing (and I happen to be good at it), but there’s a million ways to build a business and not need to be that personal face.
So, I certainly wouldn’t encourage anyone who doesn’t want to be to do it. It’s only as valuable and useful as you have passion for it.
And I think I’m not a reluctant personal brand, but I…it’s not something I intentionally invest in, right?
I don’t try to be like, “Oh, well is this going to be good for the brand of Rand?”
I don’t think I’ve ever particularly thought that way. It just happens to be the case that the way I do things which is, “Is this something that will be useful to be lots of people and where I create it, share it, and amplify it.”
And that happens to attract also a reasonable degree of following.
Yeah, I’m sort of weird.
I’m like a pseudo-introvert where I really like to be alone and that’s kind of where I get a lot of my energy from and then, you know I can go on stage and do great! It’s after I get off stage that I’m not as good. 😊
Jake: Yeah, I totally get that. I’m definitely [a] very shy, introverted person which I think has to do with not wanting to go to and/or speak at conferences despite the fact that I’ve got a lot of experience, brings me a lot of anxiety, but then when you finally push me up there I can do okay.
Rand: Yeah, yeah. Haha. I’m fine on the stage.
It’s like when you get off stage, and then you’re meeting tons of new people, and then you know those people are like, “Oh yeah! We met like 6 years ago at this event!” “Oh no, I forgot your name! Terrible!!” You know that… I have a really tough time with that.
Jake: Yeah, I definitely am right there with you!
Jake: Last question, and this is definitely related, definitely off on a tangent…
So, just in following you I know that you’ve been a huge advocate for women’s rights, equality in the workplace, definitely with today’s political climate a lot of talk around this between the #metoo movement and everything else going on.
Can you speak a little bit to that, especially as it relates to somebody running a business and kind of factoring those things in as they grow their team?
I think that the statistics are obvious and clear, right?
Gender-diverse teams dramatically out-perform non-gender-diverse teams.
And, Casey knows that I attempted to recruit several women to Co-Found with me, but I think that that’s going to be something that we try to invest in very early on as well.
But the other thing, besides just the statistical benefit, I think that one thing that I do worry about is, I worry that/about many men (myself included).
For a long time, I never thought about how my experiences, my success was sort-of so dependent on my gender. I’ll give you an example, right?
I have never had to think twice about, “Hey, should I go to this conference that’s in this city where I won’t know anyone, and can I go out drinking with all of these guys after talk, and what am I wearing, and how will they treat me, and ‘Oh, this guy invited me to his room to chat more about this potential partnership. Could that mean anything but let’s chat about a potential partnership?’”
I have NEVER had to think about that! And women that I talk to, there is constantly that voice in their head that’s like, “Man, what is this going to be like?”
And just that psychological…even if nothing bad actually happens, and something bad almost always has happened to almost every woman I’ve talked to.
There’s no one who has like, “Oh no, it’s always been great for me.”
There’s always like, “Yeah, a few times, here or this or that…”
Rand: But even just the pressure of having to think about that every time.
Investors…most of the investors that I’ve met, the venture capitalists, the folks who I’ve pitched, they were connected to me through CEOs that I’d often meet through social events, through conferences and events, that kind of stuff, right?
I’d go down to Silicon Valley, I’d speak at their company, and then we’d like go out for dinner that night, and then we’d maybe end up back at somebody’s apartment drinking, and no problem, right?
I didn’t have to think twice about it.
And you know you read books like Emily Chang’s ‘Brotopia’ and you see just the insidious nature of this stuff, and as a guy you just don’t have to think about it so of course you think it’s easy.
Of course you think it’s equitable because for you it seems simple.
And I think that we, especially those of us who are in marketing, right?
Our whole job is to have empathy for our audience, empathy for other people, we can put ourselves in their shoes so we can understand their behaviors, their buying habits, what they act like, what they do.
And I think for men – we need to be able to do that for women, for people who are white, we need to be able to do that for people of color, for people who are fully-abled, we need to be able to do that for people who are not fully-abled, for people who are young, we need to be able to do that for people who are old, right?
So, I think that that’s just something fundamentally comes with the territory of being a human being, and if you’re not behind that…well, we’re not friends.
Rand: You’re not cool in my book! You’re out!! 😊
Jake: Yeah, absolutely definitely agree. I’ve never had to worry about that.
In fact, one of the things that I think I’ve noticed working in the digital marketing space, especially with women on the digital marketing teams, [is they are] constantly feeling “mansplained” to – even by their own [team members]!
And I’m like, two years ago I didn’t even know that [“mansplaining”] was a real thing!
Jake: And then I’m like, “Wait a minute. Have I ever done that to someone? If so, I’m mortified! Mortified, so yeah…gosh!”
Rand: Yeah, and I feel like, I mean it’s one of those crappy things where I think even when your intentions are good sometimes you – due to historical gender dynamics – just fall into patterns.
And so I think that being aware of it, that’s the wonderful thing about all of this. I think you and I, and the generations to come, right?
They’re aware of it. People are talking about it, we know what it is, it’s entered the lexicon, and so I think that is the first step to making a change.
You have to talk about it to know about it so hopefully there’s progress there.
Jake: Yeah, absolutely!
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1. SURFER GIRL : “I have watched you on the shore, standing by the ocean roar, do you love me do you surfer girl”
Were you ever interested in someone (other than a celebrity) who did not return your interest? Of course. The best advice I got upon becoming single after my first marriage was, “Everything is timing.” You can have chemistry and wonder, but if you are at different points in the “what you are looking for” department, it is doomed. So if someone does not return the interest, it may not be you. It just might be that moment.
2. BE TRUE TO YOUR SCHOOL : “So be true to your school now, just like you would for your girl or guy…”Looking back, how do you feel about your high school days? They were great. Everything revolved around WTIT. Along with the original five DJs, Gary, Joe, Billy, Johnnie and I, we had DJs Bull, Carter B, Teddy Q, Ken, Hunt and Benny. So, we had instant parties. We taped and spoke with our girlfriends and many parties had a WTIT music tape running. We never could have imagined that WTIT would last to record a 45th anniversary show. A now we are months before our 50th in 2017.
3. FUN FUN FUN : “…and she’ll have fun fun fun till her daddy takes the T-Bird away…”What was the worst punishment you received as a teenager? I can’t remember any. Believe it or not, I was a pretty good kid. I pulled some shit, but I never got caught.
4. I GET AROUND : “Round round get around, I get around”Where did you go on your last long trip? San Diego to see my son James. It is a spectacular city. I hadn’t seen him in a long time, so it was great catching up. He called me last weekend. He got promoted and will train in New York this week. I’m off this week and is job (Godiva retail) is paying for a train so that he can stay with us after training on Wednesday. They are flying him out of Hartford as well on Sunday!
5. HELP ME RHONDA : “You gotta help me Rhonda, help me get her off of my mind”
What do you do to cheer up after a personal tragedy such as a lost job, power outage or broken relationship? Drink Smirnoff.
6. CALIFORNIA GIRLS : “I wish they all could be California girls. The west coast has the sunshine an
d the girls there get so tan, I dig a French bikini on Hawaiian island dolls, by a palm tree in the sand”Where are the best boys found? Around the WTIT Studio table.
7. SLOOP JOHN B : “I wanna go home, please let me go home, ya ya. Well this is the worst trip, I’ve ever been on…” What is the worst trip you’ve ever been on? I really don’t think I had a bad trip. There have been bad aspects, like missing a connection, but never a bad trip.
8. WOULDN’T IT BE NICE : “I guess the more we talk about it, it makes it harder just to live without it, but let’s talk about it…”What is your biggest wish? I haven’t mentioned yet that after I published this fucker I realized that there was a cadence that seemed familar. Then I checked. This meme was written by Kathy for a now defunct meme “Rock ‘n Roll Fridays” in 2011. I started to tell this story on the Stealing blog, but then realized that it didn’t matter. I was surprised that it didn’t hit me when I found it. My big wish then was to buy a house with Kathy. Now it seems that we’ve lived here forever. Now I just want my marriage to work out. It seems to be going well.
9. IN MY ROOM : “There’s a place where I can go and tell my secrets to. In my room. In my room.” What is your favorite thing about your own personal room or space in your home/office? The WTIT Studio has been in my home since I was 15. It is my sanctuary.
10. GOD ONLY KNOWS : “You never need to doubt it, I’ll make you so sure about it. God only knows what I feel about you” When was the last time you told a significant other or close relative that you loved them? Kathy and I say it all the time. I’ll have lots of chances today. My older kids and their families are coming here for a picnic. We’ll see my son Ben his wife Maria and their daughter Zoey. My daughter Heather, her husband Alec and daughters Lauren and Lindsay. Seeing my dgranddaughters is always special!
11. GOOD VIBRATIONS : “My baby has good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations…” When do you get good vibrations? Daily.
12. KOKOMO : “We’ll go to Kokomo. We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow. That’s where I wanna go…” What is your favorite warm weather destination? If I were to grab Kathy and set a destination it would be St. Martin. Other than the fact that she hates the beach, this plan is awesome.
13. DO IT AGAIN : “Let’s get back together and do it again…”If you could go back in time and gather up your school friends, what would you do again? I gotta share my original answer from 2011. “In a heartbeat. I’d love to do one more tape with the original WTIT DJs. Ironically, four of us
live locally for the first time in years. Johnnie Walker has been me with me at WTIT since the beginning. [Gypsy] and I occasionally email through facebook since he’s moved back. Gary is still in D.C. We email, but it’s not like we get together when he is in town. I have not seen Billy since I ran into him in 1987. But, I would love for us to have have one more Tape Radio show together.”
Now here’s the irony: In 2011 we were just recording a couple of times a year. In 2012 we started a monthly thing would be in order. The “Billy” that I refer to returned in 2013 and hasn’t missed a session since. In 2014 Galloping Gary had read on our Facebook page when we were recording and just showed up. I wish a had a picture of my surprise. So I did get that night. Only Gypsy was missing, but it was close enough. I can remember looking around the table that night just soaking it in. Johnnie has since moved to Colorado. So the only shot of four or five of the originals again will be at our 50th. We told Johnnie that we’ll pay to fly him out since he’s retired and on a tight budget.
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Dear Movie Clubbers,
Karina writes somewhat nostalgically about the days when she wasn’t compelled to make Top 10 lists. I know the feeling—I felt it when I was one of those people who had to do it, when I was reviewing for Dallas Observer and New York Press. I used to rationalize the Top 10 list as an exercise, a snapshot, a yearly ritual. But I still dreaded it.
Why? First there’s the matter of comprehensiveness. How could I label these particular films the year’s best, I always asked myself, when I knew there were dozens of good or great movies that for whatever reason I hadn’t seen? And I used to see about 300 theatrical releases a year—three times as many as I managed to see in 2010! (Still haven’t seen Black Swan yet, but I plan to see it this week, having been forewarned that it would come up here—though not in flowchart form, Dan, you sneaky bastard.) Beyond that, taste evolves, and hindsight cools reactions to Films of the Moment. I bet almost everyone who makes Top 10 lists looks back at them years later and wonders why they put a certain movie on a list when they can barely remember a thing about it.
All of which is a prelude to saying I don’t have a proper “10 Best” list to offer this time out. That’s partly due to being a gypsy freelancer who’s not tied to one publication or beat. But it’s also due to my having shifted my focus in recent years. Most of the pieces I published in 2010 weren’t straight reviews but pieces that took a macro- or a micro-view of movies and TV—everything from video essays about the life and work of Dennis Hopper, the cultural impact of 24, and the opening credits of David Fincher’s movies, to pieces about the soul-sucking mediocrity of most superhero films, and how digital-era filmmaking clichés have destroyed the magic of stunts. It’s either the microscope or the telescope for me—and that’s increasingly how I like it.
In that spirit, here’s a list of telescope and microscope subjects that I hope we’ll examine.
1) The documentary (or “documentary”) as conceptual art stunt—a category that includes such diverse films as I’m Still Here, Catfish, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Karina’s favorite, Trash Humpers (which I reviewed, quite positively). These movies dealt with issues that don’t often get examined outside semiotics classes: the fungibility of genre distinctions; the relationship between art and audience; the storyteller’s right to blur fact and fiction and/or intentionally mislead viewers. Their impact extended beyond the art house, and at least one of them—ExitThrough the Gift Shop—was a breakout popular success, deservedly so. Last summer my 13-year old daughter and 68-year old father went to see Exit together on my recommendation, loved it, then went to a deli and spent two hours discussing it. Talk about crossover appeal! Is this kind of movie a momentary blip on the radar or a harbinger of art house cinema’s future?
2) The “3-D is the future of theatrical movies” meme, and the utopian fantasizing and cranky backlash that went with it. I suspect the fascination with 3-D is less about the (legitimate) fear that theatrical moviegoing is being threatened by home video and Internet piracy and more about a deeper shift that has made the computer the main venue for experiencing media—and life. Are we on our way to becoming Matrix people with data ports in the backs of our skulls? What does it to get people to turn off their laptops, desktops, iPads, iPhones, and spend a couple of hours experiencing popular art in the company of other humans?
3) Inception, aka the answer to the question posed at the end of 2). Karina writes that certain images in Trash Humpers “are more uncannily dreamlike, or at least nightmare-like, than a lot of Inception.” I’ve noticed a lot of critics doing this—describing a favorite 2010 movie that was unconventionally structured and/or dealt in dream imagery as somehow being better than Inception. (I did it myself just last week in a video essay about one of my favorite 2010 films, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.) Clearly Inception is to 2010 what Avatar was to 2009 and Titanic was to 1997 and what the original Star Wars was to 1977—the box-office juggernaut that many critics find lacking, perhaps egregiously shallow and overrated, but that cast such a powerful spell over millions that they keep invoking it over and over to call attention to their own pets. So I have to ask: If we repeatedly deny the quality and effectiveness of a movie that enthralled the world, is that not a back-asswards way of endorsing it? If we ourselves cannot stop thinking and talking about Inception, might there in fact be something to it?
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A Wyvern is a dragon that most recognizably has two legs as opposed to four. In modern fantasy, Wyverns are distinguished as smaller, more animalistic variants of the modern dragon that may or may not have a poisonous stinger at the end of their tail.
Depictions of dragons that match the wyvern's physique have been around since Late Antiquity, although the term Wyvern would only be conceived of during the early 17th century. The term was created to distinguish four-legged dragons and two legged dragons across various mythologies, notably English and French mythology, in British Heraldry. Outside of British Heraldry, the distinction would not become prevalent until the late 20th century when fantasy media fully separated the Dragon and Wyvern into two distinct creatures.
The word Wyvern is derived from the Middle English wyver, a deviation of the Old French guivre (poisonous snake), which itself is a variation of the Old French voivure, both terms originating from the Latin vipera (viper).
Alternatively, Medievalist William Sawyers theorizes that the word Wyvern could've been influenced by the other meaning of guivre (written as wigre): "javelin" or "light spear". Noting the similarity between a snake and a javelin in shape and how javelins were often fletched (thus had avian features), Sawyers concludes that when light javelins fell out of favor in the Middle Ages and the usual meaning of guivre was replaced by vipere in French, the two meanings were melded together into a mythological creature not thought of before that evolved into the wyvern.
The wyvern is displayed in British heraldry frequently as a charge, and occasionally as a crest or supporter. They are usually depicted as resting on their "eagle feet" and tail, the latter of which is curved, although some have been drawn wingless. The Wyvern represents triumph over a draconic enemy, war, power, or pestilence depending on depiction.
The wyvern is regarded as the personal crest of Thomas Crouchback (1278-1322), an earl of Leicester, Lancaster, and other cities who could be said to be Leicester and the county of Leicestershire's "political saint". In the present, a myriad of Wyvern monuments and relief can be found in Leicester, built with Thomas in mind.
Wyverns have been fully fleshed out in modern fantasy media as a separate species. As mentioned, they are typically weaker, smaller, and less intelligent in comparison to the modern dragon, overall having animalistic tendencies and serving as apex predators. Wyverns are also commonly, although not universally, associated with poison. This is usually shown through having a poisonous stinger at the end of their tail. They may or may not have a breath weapon.
Additionally, a new classification of Wyvern, the pseudowyvern, which are wyverns that use their wings as forelegs, has been been coined by fans of Monster Hunter. The term however remains primarily used only in the Monster Hunter fanbase.
Beginning in the twenty-first century, dragons with two legs as opposed to four would begin to see an upsurge in popularity, mainstream fantasy series such as Harry Potter, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Game of Thrones depicting such dragons. The reason why is uncertain, possible reasons being it being a convivence for animators or as suggested by Wikipedia, recent discoveries in paleontology. In particular, George R.R. Martian depicted his dragons with two legs in Game of Thrones in order to make them more scientifically accurate.
Wyverns are discussed among a couple of cryptozoologists such as Dale A Drinnon, with sightings of late-surviving pterosaurs being attributed to wyverns. Any sightings however can likely be traced back to large birds.
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It was the announcement Edmonton was hoping for last Thursday when the Province unveiled its Budget 2014: money for southeast LRT extension to Mill Woods.
Edmonton’s Valley Line LRT is moving forward after the Province today made a commitment to provide up to $600 million to help finance the project. In a prepared statement, Premier Alison Redford said:
“Alberta is preparing to welcome a million new residents over the next decade, many of whom will be choosing communities like Edmonton as their home. Our Building Alberta Plan is helping municipalities build public transit systems to accommodate growth and make it easier for Albertans of all ages and levels of mobility to get where they need to go.”
In stark contrast to his disappointment last Thursday, Mayor Don Iveson was understandably pleased with today’s result, calling it “a momentous occasion”:
Today’s announcement was a bit over-the-top in my opinion, with Premier Redford, cabinet ministers, and MLAs arriving at Churchill Station via LRT. I think Mayor Iveson picked up on the pomp as well, joking that he hoped the ministers enjoyed their trip on the LRT.
It was a good opportunity for Edmontonians to show support for LRT expansion however, with students from City Hall School holding up #yeg4lrt signs at the top of the escalator. There was a sizable crowd gathered and lots and lots of media on hand to capture the event. If you’d like to watch the announcement, you can see the raw footage here.
What the Province has committed to is:
- up to $250 million under GreenTRIP over three years beginning in 2016-17 upon approval under the second call for GreenTRIP projects,
- up to $150 million in matching provincial funding if the federal government approves this project under the new Building Canada Fund beginning in 2016-17, and
- up to $200 million in an interest-free loan to be repaid by the city over 10 years, fully backed by the Alberta Capital Finance Authority (ACFA).
As Mayor Iveson noted today, only $400 million of that is new money. The interest-free $200 million loan is simply a creative way to bridge the gap.
It is unusual though not unprecedented for the Province to offer interest-free loans to municipalities through the Alberta Capital Finance Authority (ACFA). For instance, a program known as “ME first!” launched in September 2003 and provided interest-free loans to encourage municipalities to achieve energy savings in their operations. It is common for the City to receive loans from ACFA for infrastructure projects, with typical interest rates ranging from 1.6% to 3.3%. Some projects that the City has previously borrowed for include the Whitemud Drive/Quesnell Bridge rehabilitation, the Walter Bridge replacement, and the NAIT LRT line. Any loans would be subject to the Municipal Government Act, which outlines debt limits and other restrictions. Edmonton is well within both the provincial debt limit and its own more strict limits.
Technically the money won’t start flowing until 2016, which perhaps not coincidentally happens to be the pre-election budget. It certainly did feel like a politically motivated announcement today. The Province received immense pressure from Edmontonians after last week’s budget and Mayor Iveson and his colleagues on Council did a good job of harnessing that to their advantage (the mayor even played along with the #SadDonIveson meme).
As Dave noted today:
Still, the assurance from the Province means that the City can keep the project moving forward, and that’s a win for Edmonton. We won’t lose a construction season, and the federal funding will likely be received without issue. Mayor Iveson confirmed:
“Knowing that we have a clear pathway to apply for those dollars allows City Council to consider moving ahead to the next step of this journey.”
The mayor thanked Council, our regional neighbours, and the ministers at the Province for working hard to get the deal done.
I know many people have been working on this for a long time, but I think Mayor Iveson deserves a lot of credit for making this happen. He expressed disappointment and frustration last week, but did not alienate the cabinet ministers he needed to work with to move things forward. He kept the lines of communication open, and clearly said the right things.
Today’s news, while positive for the Valley Line LRT, is not the long-term commitment that the mayor has been seeking, but it is another step in the right direction.
Valley Line LRT
Here’s a look at what the Valley Line LRT will look like from Mill Woods to 102 Avenue downtown (subject to change):
The City’s website has already been updated with details related to the funding:
“Thanks in part to timely commitments by our provincial and federal partners, the Valley Line will remain on schedule for a construction start of 2016, aiming to be open to the public by the end of 2020.”
The next step is a Request for Proposals to shortlist qualified consortia (groups of affiliated companies) that bid on the project. That stage is expected to take three months. |
Once derided as primarily an online player, ZooMaa first began to build a name for himself as a Search and Destroy specialist. During Call of Duty Ghosts, he began to transition into playing respawn game modes as well and attending his first events.
Having qualified for Season 2 of the MLG CoD League, ZooMaa’s squad were acquired by Denial. Although the squad qualified for the international playoffs at MLG Anaheim, a last-place finish prompted a major team shuffle, with the squad rebuilt around ZooMaa.
The new team – now featuring prominent pro players Renato ‘Saints’ Forza, James ‘Replays’ Crowder and Jeremy ‘StuDyy’ Astacio, was an instant success, picking up victory at UMG Dallas on their very first outing together. Despite now being surrounded by high-profile names, ZooMaa continued to distinguish himself as a potential superstar.
It was in Advanced Warfare, however, that he completed his ascent to becoming one of Call of Duty’s superstars. After transitioning with Denial into the new season, ZooMaa would move to Team EnVyUs for a stint before finding himself on FaZe Clan.
The first iteration of the FaZe squad challenged the dominant OpTic Gaming in a couple of finals, but didn’t look in much danger of actually toppling them. After losing in the grand finals of the MLG Pro League Season 2 Playoffs, ZooMaa and Ian ‘Enable’ Wyatt teamed up with Denial duo and World Champions James ‘Clayster’ Eubanks and Dillon ‘Attach’ Price.
The squad would go undefeated against the previously indomitable OpTic for the rest of the season, picking up three championships during which ZooMaa himself was praised as one of the best players in the world.
ZooMaa remains a member of that FaZe Clan squad today, although recently the team have been through their first team change in over two years. Despite their success towards the end Advanced Warfare, the team had a much less successful year on Black Ops 3. Though results picked up noticeably in Infinite Warfare, as the year progressed the team remained without a championship win.
Things finally came to a head after a top-16 finish at CWL Anaheim, and a change had to be made. To some controversy, it was James ‘Clayster’ Eubanks on the chopping block, with Peirce ‘Gunless’ Hillman, one of the rising talents behind eUnited’s success, brought in as a replacement.
The new FaZe roster was unable to pick up its first trophy on its debut, instead coming in at 5th/6th at the Global Pro League Stage Two Playoffs. The squad were arguably unfortunate to run into both eventual grand finalists EnVyUs and OpTic Gaming, but the placement leaves the team still looking to prove themselves as they head into this year’s Call of Duty Championships.
With multiple trophies to his name, it’s difficult to isolate a single greatest achievement for ZooMaa. It’s easier to narrow down a time period – between the formation of the FaZe Clan roster that held until recently, and the end of the Advanced Warfare season.
During that time, ZooMaa helped to push his squad to three major championship victories, taking down the god-squad of OpTic Gaming in all three grand finals. ZooMaa was arguably in his prime on an individual level, and the team became the first to ever deny OpTic Gaming of multiple trophies.
If a single event were to be selected, however, it would probably be the Gfinity Summer Championship. Offering a $50,000 first place prize – one of the biggest pay-outs of the year outside of the Call of Duty Championships – it was only the second event the then-new FaZe had competed at.
Having previously won UMG Dallas, the squad were looking to prove that they weren’t a one-hit wonder, that they could go toe-to-toe with OpTic on a consistent basis. The two teams would meet in an epic best-of-seven final in which FaZe came back from a 1-3 deficit to win 4-3. The match was an instant classic, and also the first time OpTic had fallen short at consecutive events since the addition of Ian ‘Crimsix’ Porter and Matthew ‘FormaL’ Piper.
In his rise to the top, ZooMaa quickly developed a reputation as one of the fastest players in the game. While he’s experimented with an Assault Rifle at times, ZooMaa is at his best with an SMG in his hands.
Particularly during Advanced Warfare, ZooMaa was a player to get up in the enemy’s face and force as many interactions as possible, making space for his team and drawing attention away from the dominant riflers. In prime form, ZooMaa would become a one-man wrecking ball, not only taking more fights than any other player but winning most of them as well, almost single-handedly forcing back opponents.
In Search and Destroy, he became known for this aggressive behaviour that it practically became a meme: everyone knew the “ZooMaa flank” was coming, but he retained a remarkably high success rate nonetheless.
Today, ZooMaa is a little more conservative in his play, having amassed more experience at the highest level and learnt when it’s better to reign in the aggression.
Like almost all Call of Duty professional players, ZooMaa is no stranger to a range of social media sites. His largest following is to be found on Twitter, boasting more than 278,000 followers, though ZooMaa hasn’t dedicated quite so much time to content creation for sites like YouTube and Twitch as some of his fellow competitors. An active Instagram makes up his second most popular account, with over 138,000 followers.
Unlike some, ZooMaa generally isn’t a particularly divisive or controversial figure. Typically coming across as humble and honest in interviews, even those who may support fierce rivals are rarely found with a bad word to say about ZooMaa on a personal level. |
I live on audiobooks these days. My commute to work is so long (an hour on a good day) that I don’t know what I would do without an audiobook to listen to on my drive. I usually love the ones with full casts, because they just bring such a dimension to the book that a single narrator cannot always accomplish (although really good narrators can draw you into the stories with their varied voices).
Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme that the lovely Bionic Bookworm does. If you are interested in doing any of her topics on your blog she welcomes it! Don’t forget to check out her upcoming topics if you’re interested in participating in future Top 5’s! Be sure to check out her topics here!
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Narrator: Jim Dale
There is no narrator like Jim Dale, he’s just a classic.
The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Hands down my favourite audiobooks, because they have such a brilliant cast, sound effects, and everything put together just draws you right into the story.
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
Narrator: Fiona Hardingham
I love Fiona Hardingham as a narrator (she also performs Furyborn and Kingsbane, My Plain Jane, Sherwood, and about 200 others but I haven’t personally listened to them).
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Other than the fact that each narrator pronounced Jurda differently and that was distracting, I love that this audiobook has a full cast.
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
Narrator: Emily Ellet
She has such a nice voice for this book and the characters, the only thing I will say is that she speaks really slowly so I had to increase the speed a little to enjoy it.
Do you listen to audiobooks? Do you have any favourites that I haven’t listened to? Let me know in the comments! |
August Adventure: Virginia
Jacob, Anna, and I embarked on a month-long vacation during the month of August. New Haven has a bad habit of being unbearably hot and humid during the summer. So we thought we would beat the heat by dropping in on our lovely families, who have air conditioning.
We were so excited to visit the grandparents whom we hadn’t seen since Christmas. Then she was just learning to crawl and for our visit Anna was walking around, carrying things, and communicating often, though not yet verbally. Waiting for her upon arrival was a basket full of beanie babies, a chair her size that looked like a giraffe, and a tricycle. She loved carrying around the babies and couldn’t get enough of them. She was a bit young and small for the tricycle but wanted me to push her around the house every chance we’d get. She loved that thing and figured out a shortcut to ringing the bell so she could tell people to get out of her way!
While there we acquired a little seat for her to join us at the table and a little piano to play. Auntie Rachel showed her how to play the keys and also the demo song, which Anna dances too. The keyboard is Anna-sized and just right to fit on her lap.
Anna loved helping Meme in the kitchen. And Meme let her play with everything. Pots and spoons made excellent drums and places to mix up apparently tasty imaginary treats (see below). Anna also got into the tupperware regularly, but I think she just hung around for all the yummy snacks.
We took advantage of my parents’ pool and went swimming. Anna is such a natural in the water and practiced her kicking on the floaties. She was such a cutie set in her ways. Once she got settled on the floating raft, if I set her on it a different way, with her feet hanging off the other side, she would struggle to get her feet back to where they “belonged.”
My parents were such a blast to hang out with for the few weeks we were with them. We did so much with them, antiquing for books (and Anna toys), canning salsa, and shopping for fabric and baby clothes. My mom and I planned out a little quilt for Anna and Jacob and my dad worked on welding projects. Always staying busy for sure.
We also did a little sightseeing down in Mt. Airy, NC. It is the hometown of Andy Griffith so half the shops on the little main street through town have Mayberry in their name. The town was fun, we had pork chop sandwiches for lunch, found some cute socks and books to buy, and enjoyed walking around with our little girl. We stopped along our journey to find some cheap fabric and play on the slide at the local playground.
Jacob and I also made a trip with Anna out to the local science museum. We found out, the hard way, that it is under construction so is temporarily relocated at a nearby mall. It was amusing to see the same exhibits that I’ve seen since my childhood. We had fun exploring and making music and building with blocks. As usual, on our mid-week excursions the place was deserted. We love having free reign of a place.
But the best part of our trip was the escape from city life. Anna loves being outside, going on walks, and seeing animals, so she was in heaven at my parents house. There were eggs to pick, chickens to chase, a donkey and horse to pet, feed, and point at.
We rode ATVs, tractors, and in hay trailors. We picked food from my parents amazing garden and ate better than well. Anna struggled a bit with the walking on the uneven terrain but that’s how one learns right?
My parents bought Anna a little ATV just her size to ride around on the porch with. It wasn’t until she rode on the big ATV that she understood why we would make the truck or boat noise when she rode around on her little one. But then she did and made the noise all the time when she got on her little on to go along.
Anna loved feeding the horses. I think we are all just grateful she still has all her fingers. Anna kept asking for “more” apples, good thing Papa was there to oblige.
Jacob and I appreciated a few dates with reliable babysitters. We are so grateful for my parents and their wonderful hospitality. Every meal was great and Anna loved spending time with her grandparents. |
Oh boy, let's hop on Amazon.com and look through my wishlist because you know I have a lot saved. I usually don't buy a lot not just because I'm actually super poor, being a college student and all, but also because I like not having a lot with me. Downsizing to a college dorm has made me realize that I only need the necessities and none of the hoarder stuff. I also don't let people buy things for me, especially if they are just trying to get on my good side. However, if you do want to get on my good side and you want to anonymously buy me ANYTHING on this list, be my guest.
Honestly, I'm not a brand name person so it doesn't have to be a Hydro Flask, but, these super cute colors have me drooling over Hydro Flask. You can obviously tell that I am absolutely in love with the new Frost color.
I have just recently gotten into bullet journaling and using a planner and stickers are a MUST. Sometimes I don't always have the creativity to draw everything out in my journal or for my planner so I need those cute little cactus stickers to spice up my pages.
Similar to my mother, I am not the best at keeping plants alive. However, I am not as bad as some friends I know that can kill air plants. So, I love succulents who do not need a lot of effort and water to survive. Plus they're super cute. Trader Joe's, Target, and any gardening store have super cute succulents so make my living space homey and lively.
I just recently bought a fanny pack that needs some color. Iron on patches are the perfect thing to create a fun and lively persona for my backpack and fanny pack so people don't think that I am all dreary.
I have always wanted a hanging chair in my bedroom and a hammock doesn't do it justice. Unfortunately, in a college dorm, I cannot anchor a hanging chair into the ceiling so a structured chair would have to do. But talk about a comfy place to read!
One particular lamp, the 3D moon lamp has been the highest on my lamp page however standing lamps that create the environment of a modernist apartment is exactly my vibe. Having the lamps that you can move so you can continue writing your memoir or maybe the world-changing article is what I need.
Old rock music sounds good coming out of the speakers of my car but it would sound even better off playing in an old-time record player that sits on a desk, overlooking a view of the rain outside. Can you feel my aesthetic yet?
If you've ever typed on a typewriter you instantly feel like an important reporter quickly typing up an article for the New York Times that is going to blow the scam at Wall Street wide open. As a writer, a typewriter is a necessity if I want to feel like what I'm writing is important and going to change the world.
Chunky Knit Blanket
I love being warm and cozy in my room. Blankets are my number one favorite thing to help keep me warm despite my room being negative two degrees. Plus the chunky knit blanket is super cute, somewhat dense but not super hot when being under it.
An Avocado Plushie
I'm sorry, but have you seen these? They are the absolute cutest things on the planet even though I'm not a big avocado person and I would love to curl up with one of these when I got home after a long day.
There are no better stickers than RedBubble stickers. Meme stickers? They got it. Dog stickers? They sure as hell got it. Galaxy and aesthetic stickers? Yup. They have everything and I want all of them.
Paper Mate Mid-Liner Felt Tip Pens
This brings out my inner teacher to have these pens. Plus they're perfect for the hours I spend journaling and drawing. These are what the pros use so I neeeeeeed them to feel efficient.
Burt’s Bees Chapstick
This is the way to my heart. I use chapstick every day and Burt's Bee is the best to keep these lips nice and soft during the cold weather up here in Boise.
A Neon Light
Seeing my Pinterest board of Room Aesthetic being covered in neon lights, I fell in love with the neon sign of a moon in light blue. Personally, it is something with a nice glow if you're relaxing with the lights dim or watching a movie.
I already have five coffee mugs that are crowding my desk at the moment but I already want more. Having an array of coffee mugs that just spice up my kitchen or my Instagram stories are just what I need.
A Polaroid Camera
A new style polaroid camera is nice, yeah, but getting an actual old style polaroid camera is living life. Snap some '70s looking photos of your and your friends and make that collage wall look good.
Doc Martens are the epitome of my aesthetic, plus being in a climate where it is rainy and slushy outside for the good part of five months yet it is blazing hot inside classrooms, snow boots will not cut it. Doc Martens are the perfect weatherproof and stylish boot I could pair with everything.
A Good Hammock
I currently have a hammock that isn't too bad but it can not hold two people. Having a good hammock that you can trust that it won't break, fall, or slip is key to stacking people down by the river during good weather.
Let's go back to my whole thing about needing so many blankets in my life. A weighted blanket would save me so much money to try and create the same feeling by piling on every blanket I own to feel nice and safe and warm under all of my blankets. |
Last year David had the online equivalent of a good ole front-porch chat with Virginia Willis, food writer, chef, and author of the IACP-nominated cookbook Bon Appétit, Y’all! Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking. The book, a collection of recipes that encompass her Atlanta upbringing, includes gems from her mom, grandmother—whom she called Meme—and aunts. Willis also studied in France, at L’Academie de Cuisine and Ecole de Cuisine LaVarenne, and she deftly folds in favorites from that time in her life. These unlikely bedfellows–Southern cooking and classic French cuisine–inform and act as a counterpoint to each other, in the end giving classic Southern dishes a French twist.
Willis has a sterling culinary pedigree, starting in Atlanta as an apprentice to food writer, author, and TV personality Nathalie Dupree. She worked with Dupree on four PBS series and cookbooks, including the James Beard award-winning Comfortable Entertaining. She also was an editorial assistant to culinary icon Anne Willan. In New York City, she assumed the mantle of kitchen director for Martha Stewart Living Television, a program she’s appeared on many times.
Despite her vast experience and globe-hopping, at heart Willis is a down-home girl all too eager to pass on a recipe, a bit of advice to aspiring food writers, a kind word—all of which she does in this podcast. So grab a tall, cool glass of sweet tea, sit back, and listen to this fascinating woman talk about what matters most in life: family, food, and fun. And in that order.
Virginia Willis’ Recipes
Have a question for Virginia? Or want to leave her a message? You know what to do below. |
So you have a social cause that you want to promote online. Some media attention would be nice, but even better would be if you had a Twitter hashtag trend across the world, or if you had your heartwarming promotional video trend on Upworthy. If only a large part of the voting population could hear what you have to say, the government would only have to listen, wouldn’t they?
There exists an unfortunate assumption among those who engage in online social activism that public attention is always a good thing and that nothing will ever change unless the whole world knows about it. The media in particular feeds this idea partly because it actually does benefit from attention (because advertising revenue) but that’s not entirely fair. Journalists are professionals after all, and there is a long standing value throughout history that the media is there to support the ‘little guy.’ And, even in the age where traditional media is in a period of slow decline, the media’s main tool is drawing attention to social problems.
But attention is a pretty blunt instrument. Once unleashed on the world, it is quite difficult to control. For example, there is a story I told a ways back in my TedX talk about Social networks and public policy. As part of a consultation for the new Halifax Central Library we got people together in the Foggy Goggle to knit a yarn bomb. A co-conspirator decided to place the invitations to the consultations by adding clothespins and string to the piece. What happened next was amazing – people added candy, lovenotes, stories, cartoons etc to those clothespins – it was beautiful.
We posted it on YouTube and amazingly it found itself on the YouTube front page. However, unlike the response from Haligonians, the response from YouTubers was mostly hate. We were criticized for the aesthetics of the piece, for being hippies, for not giving the yarn wrap as a blanket for homeless people and so on. This is an example of what Maarten Hajer calls “multiplicities” in his great book Authoritative Governance. A message that makes a ton of sense to one audience will totally bomb with another. This usually has to do with the base assumptions of different networks. In short, attention — even positive attention — is unlikely to move policy makers unless it is somehow connected to power. So, if you want to create policy change, you need to think about how your particular social movement will be connected to power. So, I came up with ten thoughts on how you might do this. This is not backed by research, it is only some conjecture based on my reading and observation.
- Anger is a resource, but not a solution: It is true that there are things in the world that make us angry, and it is excellent advice to say that if you are angry, then that is a time to think about doing something about it. Usually, this means express your anger to your social networks. Often, anger can be contagious, and start the conversation. But then what? Anger is kind of like sugar. Sugar is great, but almost no one wants to eat it on its own. You have to bake it into something inspiring. How about actually looking at the existing policy that is making you mad and re-writing it the way you think it should be?
- Coalitions, coalitions, coalitions: So it turns out that you are on the wrong side of the current pendulum swing. You can trend your topic all you want, the government is probably just going to ignore you. However, maybe you can connect with groups that have some similar beliefs. These groups can come from odd places. For instance, radical feminists and social conservatives, who are frequently on different sides on the abortion debate, tend to have common beliefs when it comes to such things as victim’s rights and access to pornography. Thinking broadly about where your allies might be (even temporarily) can help your ideas find their way into even an ideologically opposite government.
- Governments Don’t Always Respond to Problems: The truth is that there are no end to the number of problems that governments could respond to. Pointing out that a problem exists is not enough to make government move. One view of how this all works comes from John Kingdon and others. The idea is that problems, solutions and power all happen in different places — it’s not until these things connect that you begin to see change. Kingdon argues that these connections occur during “policy windows” (ie. attention-getting events). So, that’s what you ought to be trying to do during a protest, or tragic event – try to connect the problem with possible solutions and groups who may have the resources to encourage the public to change.
- If it Catches On, Someone is Going to Represent Your Cause: Despite all the rhetoric that online media “democratizes” information because it gives citizens their own platforms to publish, the reality is that a very small number of people, perhaps only one, is going to become the representative for your cause. This doesn’t necessarily happen because someone is a tyrant or power-hungry, but because we all only have so many people we can pay attention to in the long run. And when given a choice, why wouldn’t we just go with the most popular opinion. One example is the role Michael Geist plays in representing the more “open” side of Canadian copyright law. And why shouldn’t he be? He’s a very knowledgeable lawyer and professor. This natural thing to happen in social networks can be a problem however, because it makes your cause look like a one person bandwagon. It is a good thing to think about how you can get multiple people’s voices in your network.
- The ‘Boomerang Effect’ is a Thing: From Keck and Sukkink’s Activists Without Borders, the boomerang effect refers to the way social movements can use international groups to enact social change. We see this somewhat with the Northern Gateway and Keystone Pipeline situations. The Athabaska peoples do not have a great amount of power to go up against the oil industry and a generally energy-positive government. However, using environmental networks in the US, they have managed to get considerable support for their cause with Canadian rock star Neil Young putting his celebrity behind it, and Leonardo DiCaprio using his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge moment to highlight the importance of treaty rights.
- Homophily is a Thing: Homophily is a persistent trait of social networks. It means the tendency for people of like ethnicity, gender, race, class etc. to tend to want to be together. It can also refer, but to a lesser extent, to policy beliefs. This means that just because your cause got a lot of pickup from social media does not mean it has saliency across the board. You should not let your collective excitement and “me too-isms” make you overconfident. There are others in other places thinking completely different things about the issue. You might want to try and connect to them and see if there is any common ground.
- Arguments are a Thing: I get how memes and slogans help to get a broad message across. The number of things I see followed by a comment like “this is just so true!” is just a little bit frustrating, because often, with even just a little bit of research, it is easy to find exceptions to the rule. As you will see in point #8, memes have their place – but be ready with a solid argument to defend your position. It is at the solid argument stage where you will start to see government agencies and departments responding to your ideas.
- Think both “weak” and “strong”: There are ways we connect with each other to build trust and there are ways we connect to make acquaintance and perhaps have a little fun. My recent research suggests that you should try to do both. Activities that build strong ties on social media include acknowledging volunteers and donors, posting accountability information, and taking pictures of activities that your group is involved in. These things help people become emotionally attached to your cause. Activities that build weak ties include sharing a meme, connecting to celebrities and marketing Twitter hashtags. These things connect you to people outside your local network and open up doors to other ideas and allies.
- Pass the Baton: Even though a small group of people are going to end up being the “heroes” of your cause (see #4), you can still build support by making sure that you have sub-causes that can let other voices come up to the top of the list. It is important to give as many different voices the highlight as you can. This may not happen with any single event, but over time you can show that you have solidarity by letting new faces come forward.
- Empathy is a Muscle: The world is full of misery and this requires us to look at our worlds constantly with an eye to how we can improve things. However, we are also human. The truth is, people get fatigued as they come to serve social causes. This fatigue eventually ends up with a surprising lack of empathy for causes that are not our own. Do not fall into this trap. The best way to avoid empathy fatigue is to be selfish once in a while. Take a break from the Internet and go find yourself on a camping trip, take a vacation or spend time with family. The problems will still be there when you get back. Take care of yourself.
These are just some jotted down thoughts I have based partly on some readings, and partly on some research. I’d really appreciate any other ideas you have on the matter. Also, as a favor, if you like this post, I’d really appreciate it if you could share links to my articles on the Keystone XL Pipeline & the Third Sector. |
50 Cent Brutally Trolls Tekashi 6ix9ine And 21 Savage With Instagram Meme
6 February 2019, 10:33
The 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' rapper took aim at 6ix9ine following his plea deal and rapper 21 Savage, who remains incarcerated as a result of ongoing immigration issues.
6ix9ine currently sits behind bars awaiting trial for multiple counts of racketeering and weapons charges - nine of which he pleaded guilty to last week - and has been accused of 'snitching' on his former associates.
Meanwhile, 21 Savage is being held in federal custody after his recent arrest on immigration charges, as officials claim that he is a British citizen unlawfully residing in the U.S.
Taking to Instagram, Hip-Hop's resident troll 50 Cent posted a meme which mockingly suggested that 6ix9ine had ratted on 21 Savage after being threatened with a lengthy jail sentence.
"This is the real King Of New York," he captioned the image, which has since been deleted. "But ya'll still gonna play his music so just chill alright. LOL"
Fif has made a habit of trolling 6ix9ine in the past, whilst frequently referring to the 'DUMMY BOY' rapper as his biological son. The rapper has a tumultuous relationship with his actual biological son, his eldest, Marquise.
In related news, 21 Savage is reportedly being held in lockdown for '23 hours a day' with no television access and little contact with the outside world following his arrest.
Artists including Cardi B, J. Cole, Migos, Nicki Minaj and more have all spoken out in support of the 'Bank Account' rapper. |
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Every once in a while, one of these nice blog awards rolls through the entire “blogosphere” and gives many of us an excuse to personally thank other bloggers that we enjoy reading and/or inspire us in some way. Earlier this week I was awarded “The Dragon’s Loyalty Award” by a fellow blogger named Gene’O, from the blog Sourcerer. I wish to thank Gene’O, and hope others will check his blog out! These aren’t real “awards” as some people think about them, in that they do not have a panel that chooses a winner and there is no prize. These are more like a recognition meme of sorts – a way for bloggers to look back and thank their online buddies.
The award itself has simple rules:
- Link to the blog that awarded you
- Post 7 things about yourself
- Nominate 7 other blogs for the award
So here we go, I guess I’ll post seven random things about myself since I rarely talk about myself on here.
1) Ever since I graduated, I’ve become one of those people that, for whatever reason, tries to stay busy all the time. Aside from blogging, I work full time, help on a buddy’s podcast, and take college classes through EDX. This has led to me getting “burnt out” every once in a while. I try to reign it in the best that I can.
2) I used to be really into metal music in High School, and still enjoy it but not exclusively like then. As I’ve aged, my tastes actually broadened and I listen to incredibly heavy stuff like Norwegian Black Metal mixed with poppy sounds of 80’s post punk and new wave. I shudder to think of someone that accidentally stumbles into my iTunes account.
3) For the fist ten years of my “adult life” (I’m 31 now), I never got my driver’s license. In fact I only started driving when I turned 27, and it was because I got a job pretty far from my house. My wife and I try to live frugally, so retail work did not support the idea of owning a car.
4) I’m a “cat guy” because I’m fairly scared of dogs to a degree. When I was four years old I was mauled by the family dog, and as one would assume – I simply don’t trust them anymore. I have kept cats ever since then, and people joke around that “I’m a crazy cat lady”, even though I’m not a lady of any sort…lol
5) I used to be REALLY into Japanese anime, so much that I was once the president of the local anime club. although I’m not into what many newer fans are into, I almost enjoy anime sci-fi better than British sci-fi.
6) I’m not a sports guy at all. Although, I’m a HUGE fan of professional wrestling. despite me knowing exactly how fake it is, much to the dismay of non-fans that non-politely try to remind me of the fact. I just like the athleticism, stories, and matches more than “real sports”.
7) I have a handlebar mustache that I have gone as far as to purchase mustache wax to maintain.
And now, here are a few blogs to check out (my nominees):
- In My Not So Humble Opinion – I posted about how much I enjoy Ben’s blog before. If you enjoy comics and other nerd topics, check it out!
- Ruminations and Observations – Belle runs an interesting blog that combines photography, history lessons, and even Doctor Who. It’s great!
- CK Ponderings – A great photography blog usually focusing on places in and around the UK. His 365 days and 500 days series are always interesting to see.
- The *Nixed Report – One of my friends, Thomas, runs a Unix/pop culture site that I sometimes appear on the Podcast for.
- Is My Geek Showing – Another site that occasionally posts Doctor Who stuff plus a multitude of other topics.
- No Chic, Just Geek – Awix posts stuff that is leagues above what I write about. His posts are very detailed and almost scholarly in many regards.
- Here’s You a Blog – The blog of Lisa Bonnice, writer, podcaster, and talk show host!
Well that’s it for today! I hope everyone has a great holiday Next week!! |
Pathologist Blames Floyd Death On Heart Problem, Would Not Have Classified As Homicide
Post Date: 2021-04-14 20:04:08 by Horse
"The bottom line is, moving air in and out, and speaking and making noise is very good evidence that the airway was not closed..."
VIDEO: O’Keefe Breaks Down "BIG WIN" Against The New York Times in Veritas Defamation Lawsuit
Post Date: 2021-04-14 19:09:25 by NeoconsNailed
The New York Times cited 52 sources including Wikipedia in its motion to dismiss our defamation lawsuit, in an attempt to claim that Project Veritas is libel proof. The Gray Lady argued they could print whatever they want about Project Veritas, because Wikipedia and other media outlets said bad things about Veritas first. New York Supreme Court disagreed: Polling does not decide the truth nor speak to evidence, and Defendants have not met their burden to prove that the reporting by Veritas in the Video is deceptive. Justice Wood: There is a substantial basis in law to proceed, to permit the plaintiff [Project Veritas], to conduct discovery, and to then ...
No charges for officer in Capitol riot shooting: prosecutors
Post Date: 2021-04-14 18:01:58 by Ada
The US Capitol Police officer who shot and killed rioter Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6 will not face charges for her death and an investigation into the shooting has been closed, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. In a news release, the DOJ said the unidentified officer who fired a single shot at Babbitt near the Speakers Lobby inside the Capitol did so in self-defense and to protect members of Congress. Investigators also determined Babbitts civil rights were not violated in the shooting, according to the statement. Acknowledging the tragic loss of life and offering condolences to Ms. Babbitts family, the U.S. Attorneys Office and U.S. Department ...
Joe Biden WALKED ALL OVER By Foreign Leaders. He Is Not Taken Seriously On The World Stage AT ALL
Post Date: 2021-04-14 17:48:56 by Esso
Poster Comment:Stumbling up the stairs towards a nuclear war.
Who Is Freer These Days?
Post Date: 2021-04-14 14:44:12 by Ada
Those old enough to remember the Cold War will recall, perhaps with some prompting, that the fight with the Soviets was as much a moral war as a political one. It was not that the communists were in error about some item in dispute. The communists were immoral because communism was immoral. Whatever the faults of liberal democracy, it was morally superior to the evils of communist totalitarianism. At the time, this was not a tough case to make. Americans could speak out against the government, while Russians had to suffer in silence. The West had elections and big public spats over policy. Debate in the East was always behind the dreary walls of the communist party. Most important, the ...
Post Date: 2021-04-14 14:06:57 by Horse
STDs reach all-time in the US for sixth consecutive year with 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis
Post Date: 2021-04-14 13:54:29 by Horse
The number of sexually transmitted diseases reached an all-time high in the U.S. for the sixth consecutive year, a new report finds.
'Thin Blue line' my ass....
Post Date: 2021-04-14 12:44:25 by X-15
HAPPENING NOW: Police association members and chiefs from Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are holding a news conference at the Capitol to speak out against a bill allowing permitless carry of firearms. #txlege pic.twitter.com/CLLD7IPJvu Reena Jade Diamante (@reenajade) April 13, 2021 Is anyone surprised that Texas police would oppose the exercise of God- given rights without their approval?
'Throw away your masks and burn your vaccine passport': Rand Paul 'It's absolutely unconstitutional – not to mention, it's absurd'
Post Date: 2021-04-14 12:08:45 by Ada
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a practicing physician, is urging Americans to throw away their face masks and burn vaccine passports. "The left has gone completely COVID crazy," the Kentucky Republican says in a new fundraising pitch. "They want government-enforced shutdowns, mask mandates, school closures, forced vaccines, and now they're talking about a COVID vaccine passport. It's absolutely unconstitutional not to mention, it's absurd." The ophthalmologist wrote: Throughout the COVID crisis, these radicals have embraced theatrics, abandoned science, and the longer it goes on, the more they double down. The newest power grab comes in the form of an ...
Bernie Madoff Has Died, Age 82
Post Date: 2021-04-14 12:06:43 by Esso
Just over 12 years after he was jailed for the largest ponzi scheme fraud ever, AP reports that Bernie Madoff has died in a federal prison. Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, apparently from natural causes, according to a person familiar with the matter. Last year, Madoff's lawyers filed court papers to try to get the 82- year-old released from prison in the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he had suffered from end-stage renal disease and other chronic medical conditions. The request was denied. A court-appointed trustee has recovered more than $13 billion of an estimated $17.5 billion that investors put into Madoffs business. At the time of his ...
Experimental Vaccines are Ineffective and Could Cause Mad Cow Disease
Post Date: 2021-04-14 10:59:56 by Horse
Dr. Richard Fleming, physicist-nuclear cardiologist, issued a dire warning that experimental covid vaccines are not effective, but could cause Mad Cow disease. Im not anti-vax, Fleming told War Room, Tuesday. Im just anti-bad medicine. Fleming says the vaccine companies own data, from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson, all show their vaccines make zero difference in stopping covid. The Emergency Use Authorization data shows there is no difference. Its just random chance, he said. However, the risks are high. In the animal model, they develop spongiform and Mad Cow disease, Fleming said. We also ...
NEW RIGHTIST CARTOONIST! Anti-Zionist 'Hedgwik'
Post Date: 2021-04-14 10:56:12 by NeoconsNailed
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Post Date: 2021-04-14 10:37:22 by Horse
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Post Date: 2021-04-14 10:24:33 by Ada
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Intelligence Sources Say Biggest Threat To U.S. Is Actually U.S. Policy
Post Date: 2021-04-14 09:53:23 by Ada
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Countdown to Destruction
Post Date: 2021-04-14 09:29:28 by Ada
Biden Lunatics Aggressively Harassing Russia and China The situation in the Ukraine is spinning out of control rapidly. The Biden People have B-1 nuclear-capable bombers patrolling in Scandinavia. Theyve begun flooding the region with warships. Last week, they upped the ante and did a patrol with B-1 bombers over the Aegean Sea. CNN, April 9: The United States is considering sending warships into the Black Sea in the next few weeks in a show of support for Ukraine amid Russias increased military presence on Ukraines eastern border, a US defense official told CNN Thursday. The US Navy routinely operates in the Black Sea, but a deployment of warships now would send a ...
Daunte Wright Had Warrant Out For 'Choking And Holding A Woman At Gunpoint For $820'
Post Date: 2021-04-14 08:11:25 by Horse
Black Lives Matter martyr Daunte Wright "choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra," court papers obtained by The Daily Mail allege.
Nancy Pelosi's Husband Uses Call Options To Buy Microsoft Ahead Of Big Govt Contract
Post Date: 2021-04-14 07:56:02 by Horse
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Americans for America 1st (Time for Texans to get their shit together).
Post Date: 2021-04-14 06:04:14 by noone222
Poster Comment:These people are Americans for America 1st and it's time for serious Americans to unite. I spent 3 winters in Laredo, Texas, where the population is primarily Hispanic, and are most definitely patriotic Americans that do not deserve to be over run by an invasion supported by cartels and other communists. This is a very serious and dangerous moment in time.
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Corbett Report Banned From YouTube After 14 Years, 570k Subs And 92+ Million Views
Post Date: 2021-04-14 01:43:45 by Horse
posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, "Science Says," around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021, and then went to bed. Sometime shortly after midnight, the main Corbett Report channel was removed from YouTube. And, just like that, 14 years of work--some 1700+ videos, 569,000+ subscribers and 90 million+ video views--was erased from the digital ether. . . . Well, the GooTube portion of that digital ether, anyway. Given that I've been promoting YouTube alternatives since at least 2009, and given that I have made video after video after video after video after video warning my audience that I would be banned from GooTube, and given that I even ...
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For any of those regular Goodreads users, you might be familiar with the site’s yearly reading challenge that encourages all comers to read as much as possible. I pledged to read fifty books by the end of 2013, and so far I’ve managed to complete twenty books towards that goal. This week’s Broke and the Bookish meme is dedicated to the best books read so far this year. While I may not have as many read as I would have liked, there are still some excellent reads to be found on this list.
*The following links lead to Goodreads.com*
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness: I mentioned the sequel–Shadow of Night–in my last Top Ten Tuesday post. Part of the reason I think I was so charmed by the characters is that I instantly connected with the academic Diana. Once you connect with a character, it’s hard to let a series go. I recommended Discovery of Witches to both family and friends and those that have picked it up have absolutely loved it.
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin: Do I really need another post where I spout off about how much I adore this series? I don’t think so. You might reach your saturation point with my Martin talk. So just read the series when you get a chance and enjoy!
- The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman: This is an interesting add to my list. I started with the television show, which is truly groundbreaking, particularly in the makeup department. The makeup was so good I started having vividly terrifying nightmares. So I stopped watching the show, but randomly decided to try the graphic novels. No nightmares yet, but I’m even more attracted to Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s black and white graphic style. Right now, I’m four issues in and am completely hooked.
- The Girl Who Kicked Over the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson: This is the final book in the Millennium trilogy. I started reading the series several years ago on a recommendation from my Aunt Kris. I waited patiently for this one to come out in paperback and then it sat patiently on my shelf for a while while I finished reading other things. Wonderfully satisfying book overall.
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett: I’m usually way behind on my consumption of popular literature, and The Help is no exception. While I’m not quite finished with this one, I should be within the next twenty-four hours. And I’m already confident that Stockett’s prose deserves a spot on this list.
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood: Oh Madame Atwood, how I respect you. Her prose pours over you like poetry. Even better, she’s a great storyteller. This book was written in 1985 but is still eerily fresh and relevant. It’s also one of the American Library Association’s top 100 most challenged books for the years 1990-2000. Sometimes it’s more important to read the banned or challenged books than to swear by the most beloved ones.
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me and Other Concerns by Mindy Kaling: Laugh out loud funny. Kaling is such a charismatic personality, and reading this book makes you want to take her out for a drink because you get the sense that she has more stories to tell.
- Attachments by Rainbow Rowell: Huzzah for fluff! This was such a pleasant and quick read. For more of my thoughts on Rowell’s novel scroll down to my last post.
- Hector and the Search For Happiness by Francois Lelord: It’s the Little Prince meets The Tao of Pooh. Philosophy about what it means to be happy. I’m not saying that this book has all the answers, but it might make you think twice about what matters.
- Courtesan by Diane Haegar: Historical fiction in any courtly era usually is right up my alley–particularly the great love stories. Haegar brings tender life to the mistress of King Henri II of France, Diane de Poitiers. Very well done piece.
That’s the best of my read’s from 2013…at least so far. I may have a slightly different list by the end of the year. We shall see.
Happy reading everybody! |
Kumba Massacre 24 Oct 2020 – A Terrorist Attack by Ambazonia Terrorists
Breaking News Kumba Massacre 24 Oct 2020 – A Terrorist Attck by Ambazonia Terrorists.
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Ambazonia Terrorists have shot and killed at least 5 children in Fiango, a precisely in Kumba of Meme Division, Southwest Region of #Cameroon 🇨🇲. The crime against humanity was carried out by amba boys at Mother Francisca International Academy.
At least 8 children were badly injured by the terrorists, who opened fire at the school, and used machetes to cut open children’s skulls. The children went for catch up classes on Saturday because Ambazonia terrorists have paralyzed education in the area, since 2016.
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To sporting news now, and West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle has found closure from an incident this week in which he propositioned a female sports reporter live on air.
After making a pass at Channel Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin in a Big Bash post-innings interview, the 36-year-old opening batsman for the Melbourne Renegades appeared at a press conference at Melbourne airport earlier today.
“These things happen,” he said. “We have to move on.”
Isn’t it wonderful that Gayle is able to move on and put it all behind him?
Unfortunately for him, a tidal wave of women everywhere won’t let him do that. Because, as women, we can’t just move on from the latest example of everyday sexism. Because it is women and girls who most bear the brunt of this behaviour every day.
Sexism doesn’t just happen. It happens when sexist men make it happen.
And a “sorry” followed by “… if she felt that way” is not an apology. It’s victim blaming.
Gayle says there was no harm done even when explicitly told his actions have harmed her (“she’s pretty upset”). He chastises the questioner, “be quiet and let me finish.” Gayle doesn’t want to hear that this woman didn’t like his advances. His ego is damaged. He believed that because she was physically attractive and on his turf, she had to play by his rules. Her participation in sport as a woman, meant that she was inviting sexually loaded comments.
While others want to dismiss Gayle’s behaviour toward Ms McLaughlin as cheeky, as Gayle being Gayle (reminiscent of “boys being boys”) and (albeit it a short-lived tweet from Channel Ten’s sports account) “smooth,” others, including myself, won’t just let it go. Even when we are painted as overreacting and told to “calm down.” As my colleague Melinda Liszewski responded on Twitter: “Keep calm and let sexism win? I don’t think so.”
This is what Gayle said after being dismissed for 41 off 15 balls in the Melbourne Renegades’ win over the Hobart Hurricanes:
“I wanted to come and have an interview with you as well, that’s the reason why I’m here – just to see your eyes for the first time. It’s nice. So, hopefully we can win this game and we can have a drink after.”
This was not a bit of fun. It was an act of public humiliation on free-to-air television. As McLaughlin showed her discomfort, Gayle laughed at her displeasure and chided, “Don’t blush baby.” Telling her not to blush was both condescending and infantilising. Also disturbing were the audible sniggers from the commentary booth at Gayle’s performance, demonstrating that this was not one man’s private flirtation with a woman but a public display for the lads.
Gayle held her captive. He made a pass at her against her will on national television. She had no choice but to take the humiliation – his admission he’d virtually fantasised about being interviewed by her, his mocking laugher, his verbal touch-up. It’s not enough for him to admire her quietly. He has to make it public and she has to know it.
Channel Nine reduced all this to Gayle and other cricketers being “smitten” in a (since deleted but helpfully cached by Google) tweet. Is it too much to expect that a woman can perform her professional duties without being hit upon?
Channel Ten boss David Barham said he phoned McLaughlin who was angry and upset. Why wouldn’t she be? She turns up to work and gets harassed. Those making light of it don’t know what it is like to have this happen.
Respected Fox Sports journalist Neroli Meadows angrily described what it’s like to be harassed every day in your working life. She blasted Gayle for his behaviour, describing him as a repeat offender:
“He’s done it before, he’s done it to me, he’s done it to several women … It happens, situations likes that, 10 times a day when you’re a female in this sports industry and that’s just a fact.
“We do not need that to happen to us in our workplace because that is what it is, our workplace and Mel has been doing her job for 10 to 15 years and she has done it with respect. Her career now gets defined by this.
“The same thing has happened to me, the same thing has happened to Yvonne Sampson at Channel Nine, the same thing to Erin Molan at Channel Nine. We have successful careers and they get defined by idiots saying the wrong thing, inappropriate and then other people laughing as though it’s the one thing that has ever happened. Of course it’s not.”
An extreme outworking of disrespect for female sports reporters that is endemic to sports journalism, especially in the United States, is a practice where random men shout over a female sports reporter’s live piece to camera “I would f–k her right in the pussy” – which now has its own FHRITP meme.
Gayle’s response give an insight into how high-profile men hate being called out on their behaviour. In essence, his attitude is I’m allowed to be a pig and you’re not allowed to call me on it.
The former Cities Minister Jamie Briggs demonstrated this when he forwarded an image of the young public servant who made a confidential complaint about him, to his mates (one of whom leaked it to The Australian and who knows where else). This was followed by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton’s “mad f—ing witch” text, sent to News Limited journalist Samantha Maiden.
Women who speak out are to be shamed and made to heel.
We still have a long way to go before rhetoric in high places about respect for women results in a change in behaviour nationally. Sexism continues unabated at every level of culture and we’re still expected to take it as a compliment. Not to do so means you are weird.
Following an interview I did on Channel Seven’s Sunrise program yesterday regarding Briggs and Dutton, I received messages on my public profile Facebook page that my response was an overreaction. That I should preserve my anger for serious matter like rape, abuse and violence. But these behaviours occur on a continuum which begins with a lack of respect for women.
As Our Watch states, the most consistent predictor of support of violence by men is their agreement with sexist attitudes. And Victoria’s Police Chief Ken Lay has said: “Our culture is filled with men who hold an indecent sense of entitlement towards women…”
In most schools I address around the country, girls describe unwanted comments about their bodies, being pressured for sexual images, being touched inappropriately in the classroom and on the school bus. Some of these girls are 12 and 13.
The behaviour of public figures such as sportsmen and public officials trickles down to influence the boys who go onto harm girls. Attitudes affect behaviour. Sexism begets sexism.
That’s why, Chris Gayle, we won’t be moving on and putting what you did this week behind us anytime soon. (Nor, it seems, will Gayle’s club. The Renegades have now lobbed a $10,000 fine on him for his behaviour.) |
A viral social media post falsely claims Dr. Anthony Fauci is “pushing” remdesivir as a potential COVID-19 treatment drug, because he “invented” it with Bill Gates and they stand to profit from it. Remdesivir was invented by the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which receives any profit from sales of the drug as a treatment for COVID-19.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become a prominent figure during the COVID-19 pandemic since he began speaking regularly at daily press briefings of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in late January. But as a public backlash to mitigation measures has grown, so has the ire directed toward Fauci.
Fauci has been the target of death threats and bogus claims on social media, including a post that falsely claims he is advocating the use of remdesivir as a potential treatment for COVID-19, because he “invented” it, along with Bill Gates, and they’ll profit from its use.
“Hydroxychloroquine is cheap – 91% effective. Remdesivir is $1000 – under 50% effective,” the text meme reads. “Why is Fauci pushing Remdesivir? It was invented by Fauci and Gates. It’s stock is now soaring. Always follow the $$$$$$$.”
But neither Fauci nor Gates invented or stand to gain from remdesivir.
Since 1984, Fauci has been director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. Through his work, Fauci has been listed on patents as an inventor, with HHS colleagues, of various drugs, including treatments for HIV/AIDS.
However, HHS and Fauci do not hold a patent for remdesivir.
Remdesivir was invented by Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, following research that began in 2009 for treatment of hepatitis C and respiratory syncytial virus. Gilead received a patent for remdesivir in 2017 for treatment of filoviruses, such as Ebola. The company also received two other patents for remdesivir to treat filoviruses and coronaviruses in 2019.
Gilead has received an Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for remdesivir as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the company receives any profit from sales of the drug.
As part of the EUA granted by the FDA, Gilead has been donating remdesivir to the federal government to treat certain COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals. The company will donate 940,000 vials of remdesivir — enough to treat about 165,000 patients, an HHS spokesperson told the health news website STAT.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also was not involved in the invention or development of remdesivir, a spokesperson for the foundation confirmed to USA Today. Like Fauci, Gates has been the subject of online conspiracy theories.
In late April, Fauci spoke about a government study of remdesivir at a press conference with President Donald Trump, calling the results “very important proof of concept” and cause for optimism, but not a “knockout.”
The social media post is correct that the success rate for remdesivir in the initial study was modest — and Fauci has been transparent about that. On NBC’s “Today Show“ on April 30, he said that participants in the study who were given the drug showed a 31% “better chance of recovering” from COVID-19 than other participants in the study who were given a placebo.
On the other hand, the post’s claim about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine is inaccurate, as we’ve reported.
Despite Trump’s repeated promotion of hydroxychloroquine, and his announcement recently that he has been taking it, no studies have conclusively shown that it is effective in combating COVID-19, and certainly not 91% effective. The FDA has also warned against taking it outside of a hospital or clinical trial setting due to serious potential side effects, including heart problems.
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“FDA cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 outside of the hospital setting or clinical trial due to heart rhythm problems.” U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 24 Apr 2020. |
1. Rose is the first story I ever wrote to “The End” in the fall of 2003. It weighed in at 525 pages, 124,000 words. I was dissatisfied with the epic fantasy (e.g. Jordan, Martin) and romantic fantasy I was reading that didn’t have enough romance for me. Rose is both epic fantasy and a love story. And yes, there is more sex than a typical romantic fantasy, but it is not strictly a romance either.
2. Its original title was very cheesy: My Beloved Barbarian. *cringe*
3. I entered that first version proudly in an RWA contest and was appalled at the judges’ thorough and (in the end) extremely helpful criticism. (No, the horse does not need its own POV (point of view), and I probably shouldn’t change POV every paragraph.)
4. I continued writing, including book 2 of the series, read a bunch of how-to books, read more fiction, and in the summer of 2004 I finished a second much improved version.
5. I entered that version in 3 contests and it finaled in all 3. One finalist judge requested a full and so Shannari, Rhaekhar, and Gregar took a ride to NY.
6. Where they were buried in a slush pile for three years… I finally formally withdrew the submission last year.
7. I continued writing other stories but always came back to this first beloved story. Something wasn’t quite right. I knew I could do better. Undertaking a third major revision pass was difficult, even gut-wrenching at times. I basically murdered the original heroine and created Shannari brand new. I axed all the cheesy stuff I could, tightened the prose, worsened the conflict, heaped emotional turmoil on my characters, and finally finished that third final version the beginning of 2007.
8. Feb. of last year I wrote Survive My Fire, which takes place in Keldar, a country connected to the Rose world but an entirely different culture. With dragons.
9. End of March, I saw a brand new publisher, Drollerie Press, specializing in mythic fiction, fairy tales, cross genre work. The lovely artwork on the site immediately drew my attention. Totally up my alley! So I sent the novella, SMF, first.
10. April 11, 2007 I had my first sale!
11. Deena asked to see more of my work, so I sent MBB retitled as BloodRose.
12. By May, that old beloved story had also been accepted at Drollerie, retitled to The Rose of Shanhasson (much more epic in flavor, I think).
13. I bawled, called my beloved sister, and bawled some more. We’re bringing out the champagne this weekend when The Rose of Shanhasson releases!
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“It’s safe to say that Rachel Dolezal never thought much about the endgame. You can see it on her face in the local-TV news video—the one so potently viral it transformed her from regional curiosity to global punch line in the span of 48 hours in mid-June. It is precisely the look of a white woman who tanned for a darker hue, who showcased a constant rotation of elaborately designed African American hairstyles, and who otherwise lived her life as a black woman, being asked if she is indeed African American.
It is the look of a cover blown.
At first, as I watched Dolezal’s story rise from meme to morning show, I wasn’t completely sure what to think, or particularly sure how much I cared; there are, obviously, a host of more crucial issues facing black America. But despite my initial reluctance to even acknowledge Dolezal’s presence in the national conversation, she slowly began to win my attention. There have been women over the years who’ve spent thousands upon thousands of dollars for butt injections, lip fillers, and self-tanners for a more “exotic” look. But attempting to pass for black? This was a new type of white woman: bold and brazen enough to claim ownership over a painful and complicated history she wasn’t born into. ” *
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The Best Hookup Apps For the iPhone
The Best Hookup Apps For the iPhone
Like almost every other sector in our modern world, technology has switched how dating and hookups work in our society. There are dozens of dating apps out there, but not all of them are created identically. While most call themselves “dating apps” and have the intention of getting people into relationships, some have a big reputation for being more for hookups and casual joy than actual long-term relationships. Whether you lead a busy life or you’re just looking for something not-so-serious, you may choose a method for finding a quick fling over a long-term relationship. Most dating apps can provide you with some sort of short-term meetup, but there are certain dating apps where it’s a bit gauche to use their service to find a fling when most users are looking for something more serious.
With the advent of smartphones and other similar technological leaps, being coerced to go to a bar or party with the express purpose of hooking up with someone has been retired, for the benefit of everyone involved. You don’t have to feel odd or awkward attempting to find someone who’s looking for the same connection as you, since these apps are often all based around quick hookups or casual relationships. Using these apps is a far lighter method than heading out to a bar or party, and you can do it all from the convenience of your couch. There are slew of apps that are aimed at more “serious” relationships, including Slew of Fish or Okcupid, but these are all based around some form of casual relationships or hookups.
And reminisce, before you meet anyone in public or give any private details out to a stranger, make sure you feel convenient with the individual, along with a standard level of trust inbetween the two of you. Stay safe over all else.
Unsurprisingly, our beloved hookup app has become a staple of American culture. Yes, Tinder is our beloved casual and hookup app on iOS, the undisputed king of the "hookup app" industry. The app’s been considered for flings and quick relationships for years, even if Tinder markets itself as a full-fledged dating app. And while it might be difficult to pinpoint exactly why this app became the hookup app over all others, we’d argue it’s the ordinary method of sliding left and right to select your choices. Let’s take a look at the app.
If you’re unacquainted, Tinder functions like a "hot or not" game, rebuilt for the twenty-first century and combined with the social media that fuels us all. Tho’ your bio is significant (as it is in any dating app), your looks and photos are lightly the most significant of your profile. You swipe inbetween accounts purely based on what your photos (and your bio, if you choose to view deeper into a profile) look like, with a card-based interface that divides your possible nearby matches into yes or no selections.
Every day, millions of users swipe left and right on the app, with a user base in the hundreds of millions of users per month, making it not only one of the most popular dating and hookup apps on the market today, but one of the most-used apps in general. Tinder was one of the very first apps to use a swiping mechanism for dating apps, creating a brilliant user interface for anyone looking to find love in the decade since the iPhone very first launched. As you swipe either left (for no) or right (for yes), you’re playing a matching game with potential suitors. If you and another user both swipe right, you’re matched up and a conversation thread embarks. It’s an amazingly effortless way of going about matching users together, but it does rely on having good pictures, a strong bio, and generally not being a creep when beginning a conversation.
While branded as a dating app, Tinder has its own reputation among the general public for being used primarily as a way to hookup with other users. While relationships have embarked from users meeting on the app—indeed, it’s become far more socially acceptable to say you and your significant other met while using Tinder—the app seems to spawn far more stories of being used as a instrument for casual romance. Obviously, not everyone using the app is looking for something purely casual, but you’re tied to find users simply looking for a potential meetup rather than love and romance. Like any dating app, using Tinder for casual entanglements often requires you to be open and fair about your intentions from the get-go—don’t lead anyone on by claiming to be looking for a real relationship when you aren’t.
While it may be concerning to some, you’ll need a pre-existing Facebook account to use Tinder. However, the app won’t post anything to your page without your permission beforehand, and no one will be able to see or recognize that you use Tinder by visiting your Facebook profile. Tinder’s effortless to setup, too, so long as you already have that Facebook account. You can build your profile over a brief few minutes, importing pictures from your Facebook account and building a biography. After you’ve created your account through Facebook and you add your extra login information, you’ll be ready to go, accomplish with your own sets of match radiuses, age ranges, and preferred gender(s).
The app uses your physical location to connect you with others in your area, and if you both "like" each other, you will match and can have a conversation within the app. From there, you can choose to share other details like phone numbers, and even plan to meet up in person. With its ample user base and popularity, you’ll find slew of options to match and speak with. The app is free to embark using, but there is an option to pay to get extra features such as unlimited likes, redos on missed matches, and matching with anyone in any location and other things that might be of interest to some people. While there are numerous paid optional features on Tinder Plus, you can still use the app in its limited form without paying a dime. And while the app is well-built, it’s the name recognition and the popularity of the app that keeps it in our very first position—the user base makes this the best available dating app on iOS.
The most common way people use Tinder is to search for an individual, but a few months ago, Tinder launched a different method of swiping. Called Tinder Social, their newest app is all about going out with friends and meeting other groups Instead of swiping with individuals left and right, you can swipe through groups of friends in the same way, making it a superb way to meet up with some fresh friends if you’re in a fresh town or city.
So whether you are an individual or a group looking for some people to string up out with or someone to meet up with, Tinder is likely the best app for you. Not only is it utterly effortless to set up and use, but it also has millions and millions of users and is enormously popular. Wherever you live, there is a very good chance that there will be a ton of potential matches in your city and neighborhood.
Tinder might be the clear leader in this industry of dating apps, but it certainly isn’t the only app created for those looking to meetup with others and possibly hookup casually and loosely. If Tinder doesn’t shove your buttons in the right way, you certainly aren’t out of luck—the next app you should check out is Blendr, one of our beloved dating apps on iOS.
Blendr uses your GPS location like Tinder, using your location to match your account with potential matches. While the user base isn’t fairly as large as what we’ve seen from Tinder, it’s large enough to find different users than what you’d otherwise find on an app like Tinder. While Tinder has become largely synonymous with the idea of dating apps, Blendr—itself a spin on popular app Grindr, which will discuss in more detail below—certainly has grown in size and strength in the half-decade it’s been on the market.
With so many people available on the app, there are a ton of opportunities to find someone for a casual hookup or fling. Like most dating apps, picking your photos is amazingly significant. If you choose poor photos, or your photos are obnoxious or cliche, there’s a chance that you’ll turn off some potential flings. Best to pick photos that demonstrate yourself and also your interests at heart. Just like with Tinder, be ready to snap some fresh pictures for your account.
One of the most popular features of this app is the capability to not include private details about yourself. In fact, you don’t even have to use your real name if you choose not to, tho’ recall that others may be hesitant to click on your profile if it doesn’t contain some straightforward attributes. You do have to provide your phone number for verification. Some like this sense of anonymity, while others feel it could possibly scare others away. One this is for certain, though—that anonymity might help people be fair about their intentions, even while they’re hiding their names, occupations, or private details.
Like Tinder, this app is also free, but also offers some paid features, including a subscription model. There is a credit system on the app, which can involve you purchasing credits that will permit users to put your profile near the top of the "nearby" section, gaining you priority in search results. If you purchase more credits, you will likely get more potential matches, but even if you don’t, there should be no shortage of people to talk with and string up out with. There are also a few cool features about this app that apps like Tinder don’t have including observing who has viewed your profile and more.
While it may not get as much publicity as Tinder does, Blendr is undoubtedly a good option to meet people who often seem to be into some casual joy. With a user base of two hundred million and growing, no other dating or hookup app has as many people using it.
Grindr, the very first app from the creators of Blendr, was one of the very first social dating and hookup apps to show up in the App Store geared towards gay and biseual boys. Grindr’s available in a ton of countries and areas and, unlike pretty much every other app on this list, isn’t made under the guise of being a dating and casual encounter app. Nope, in this case, Grindr wears its message on its sleeve: Grindr is for hooking up with other gay and bisexual boys around you. Unlike other apps like Tinder, Grinder shows you exactly where and how far away other Grindr users are from you. This makes it effortless to meet other boys looking to hookup or meetup in person, without having to deal with the social anxiety and dangers that can spawn from attempting to meet another gay man. Unlike other apps, everyone on Grindr is on the same page when it comes to dating. For visible security reasons, apps like Grindr could never truly work well with straight relationships—showing your location on a map as a woman is just asking for a dangerous stalker or assaulter to attack—but if you’re a gay man looking to meet other gay studs, Grindr is absolutely the place to go.
Bumble is one of the greatest, most-talked about apps in the dating industry right now for one reason: unlike Tinder, there’s a limitation on how conversations. Let’s take a look. Bumble boasts having the highest post-match talk in the industry, which they claim spawns from their respective rules when it comes to talks. Once a match has been made, only the woman in the situation (if it’s a heterosexual match) can begin talking, stopping creeps from attempting to lay down some terrible pickup lines—or worse. In a same-sex match, both people have to react to each other within twenty-four hours. And of course, there’s a sturdy reporting feature within the app in order to discourage people from inhibiting disrespectful behavior and messages towards each other. The app’s free, with an optional subscription service available, and sees regular updates to the app with bug fixes and fresh features.
Unspoiled is an exceptionally ordinary and straightforward hookup app on the App Store, one of our favorites. All you need to get began is to upload a selfie of yourself. Once you like another person’s profile and they like yours—just like Tinder—you can begin a talk. A unique feature of this app comes from the hour limit users have for talking, which stops any kind of annoying or long-term talk that can haul on. There’s no doubting this app is purely for joy and hookups; the company itself even supports that notion. Unspoiled markets itself as an app not for relationships, but for after-dark joy, and for that very reason, it’s a ton of joy to use to meet people in your neighborhood who are down to get down. Here’s the one downside to Unspoiled: other than a free trial, it’s a paid subscription app. You’re going to have to pay to use the service, and some users might not care for a fresh monthly or annual fee (especially since the cheapest plan is a $14.99 weekly fee). Still, if you need a hookup app, this one is the most direct, self-aware app we’ve seen on the App Store.
Down is an app based on providing you with ten matches per day based on your location. In that regard, the app is far more toned down than its competitors like Tinder or Blendr, where you can cycle through dozens of different people in a day. As has been found with Tinder’s own limitations, this helps to spawn natural discussion inbetween you and your ten matches, without the feeling like you don’t need to talk to anyone. You can specify whether you’re looking for a strong relationship or elementary casual joy, making it effortless to determine what you want compared to what other users are looking for. You can choose inbetween "getting date" and "getting down" with your matches, and the user won’t know what you’ve chosen unless they select the same. The app boasts over five million users, and with local users around the world, you’re trussed to find a good match.
You’re most likely familiar with the term "Netflix and chill," a dating euphemism meme that essentially refers to asking someone of your preferred hook-up to come over to "witness Netflix," which will inevitably lead to an gig of Parks and Rec playing in the background while you, er, chill. The phrase grew via the country’s lexicon so much, became so common, an app was invented solely for the purpose of "chilling." This app, Mimitate, is plain enough: fellows post a selfie of themselves watching their beloved content on Netflix. If someone is interested in your selfie, they can initiate a talk. The app’s a fine premise, but a lack of latest updates and reviews on the iTunes listing tells us the market for Mimitate might just not be there. Still, it’s worth attempting, especially if you’re interested in finding someone who loves binging Orange is the Fresh Black as much as you do. |
As much as I’d like to deny it, September is here. The leaves are already piling up along the sidewalk from the big cottonwoods along the driveway. It’s time to evaluate the performance of the annuals. In my gardens, they are the workhorses that carry the heavy load of continual bloom through the hot, hot often dry months of summer so they must be outstanding. It has taken years of trial and error to find varieties that can deliver the color I want without a lot of work. Here are the six reliable annuals that work for me here in central Indiana. 1) Marigold “Durango”. Yes, I’ve raved about this tough, gorgeous anemone-flowered marigolds before but they deserve every word of praise. The flowers are large, 2-2 1/2″ and come in a range of colors from deep red to lemon yellow, with oranges, soft orange and bi-colors as well. 2) Celosia “Fresh Look Orange” really comes into its own when the weather turns hot and will be durable until frost. About 15″ tall, so despite heavy blooms it requires no staking. It’s a great cut flowers, and holds its color for dried arrangements as well. If orange isn’t your color, it also comes in yellow, red, gold, and rose. 3) Zinnia “Profusion Double Deep Salmon” stays compact (10″) and tidy all season. It doesn’t even really require deadheading because new flowers keep appearing that hide the old ones as they fade. The Profusion series is disease-resistant and comes in a Cherry, Gold, White,Yellow and Fire (deep orange.) I prefer the double series, although the standard single Profusion series was an All-American winner when it first came out. 4) Ageratum “Blue Horizon” is a tall, sky-blue fluffy flower that is also a good cut flower with strong stems. The butterflies adore it and the blue makes the orange and apricot flowers in the garden pop, as do these white “Helen Campbell” cleome that add some height (3′) and light to the back of the border here and there. It’s a self-seeder but I usually start a few indoors so they will bloom a bit earlier. And for those really hot, dry spots right along the sidewalk 6) Portulaca “Happy Hour Orange” fills in an amazing amount of space for such tiny leaves, and never quits blooming despite the weather. The “Happy Hour” series has really improved the performance of this old favorite, often called “Moss Rose.” They come in yellows, white, reds, pinks, rose. They can even survive life in the Lady Cottage window box, which dries out so quickly & I often forget to water! All six of these annuals
So that’s a simple “Six on Saturday” but they make me smile every day in the garden. To see what makes other gardeners smile, check out all the “SOS” posts at The Propagator, the host and creator of this meme. |
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Gravity is very poorly explained in the branch of science called physics. They assume that throwing an apple from the Tower of Pisa proves, that the mass of the Earth pulls the apple from upside to down. Is that so? There is Something rotten in the State of Physics.
Now is physics class, and unlike primary school, it gets really fun! Sorry if you had great fun there, there are good teachers out there, but you know what I mean.
It is about gravity, a force of nature that science has never been able to explain to satisfaction. We do not promise to explain it in detail, but we will try to map out why science has never explained their 400-year-old claim, and where about it went wrong.
For the occasion, of course, a stack of clever heads are gathered and put in play, people who have done some homework. A few other so-called clever heads may become a head shorter along the way. We will try to do the trick of lifting gravity.
House wife physics
The first wise head is for a pleasant diversion a woman. Paris Spaulter is a lady who has been a housewife all her life, while along the way she has wiped out both Newton and Einstein! She is of course no ordinary housewife, because she has a PhD in biochemistry and a number of years as a researcher behind her. But with her husband’s support, it meant she could spend all her time reading the writings of the scientist who made the biggest difference and who, for odd political-strategic, ideological, and science-historical – and possibly religious – reasons, was never read closely. We’re talking about Johannes Kepler.
Kepler formulated 3 physical laws, but the third law was never read by Newton, who was born 12 years after Kepler’s death. This fatal lapsus was never corrected since, for everyone subsequently accepted Newton’s statement about gravity: That all observable phenomena of attraction in the known universe were based on the mass of bodies.
Kepler had paved another way, for, contrary to Newton. He based his laws on observations and data. Newton did not use the exquisite data available – that is, Kepler’s data based on Tycho Brahe’s observations over 30 years. Newton guessed out in the blue, but he still broke through – not because of his knowledge, but because he was part of The Establishment in England at the time. He was the Big-Shot of the time and elite. Kepler was aware that all the planets that in his time and ages could be observed rotating about their axis in the same way and in the same direction of rotation as the Sun’s rotation about its axis. With the knowledge that emerged in the following century up to the Danish scholar Ørsted, one would in hindsight probably have said that it was an electrical or magnetic phenomenon, because that is exactly how magnets behave. NB: magnetism is a form of electricity.
The error of gravity continues unabated throughout history, so that Einstein’s ideas about space-time and the curvature of light, his relativity, and his thermodynamics are allowed centuries later to develop into pure speculation. Newtons science is no longer based on observations of natural phenomena (apart from the anecdote with the apple), but is pure mathematical speculation. That Einstein, surprisingly, was a lousy mathematician does not make things better. He delves into absurdities that time should be the fourth dimension, after which his successors go completely grassroots in x-number dimensions, parallel universes, and further out of a string of absurd speculative string theories. None of these speculators today are able to explain gravity, for no one has thought of returning to the premise that Johannes Kepler had set out in his third law.
Newton should, in fact, have been on the track simply by considering the shape of the apple. The cosmic apple is the shape of an electric field around a body. But in his time there was no talk of electricity.
In Kepler’s and Tycho Brahe’s time, only a certain part of the solar system was observed. The outer planets Pluto, Neptune and Uranus were out of observable range. The major intermediate planets were known: Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, and also the inner planets: Earth, Venus and Mercury (order from the outside and towards the Sun). Today we have access to study all nine planets + a lot of other things inside and outside the solar system: asteroids, comets, belts – the galaxy, other galaxies, different types of stars, star clouds, and more. The precision and scope of observed data is very high.
Just to to clear the path: Flatearthers, please give us a call when you yourself are actually there at the end of the pancake looking down the abyss. We would really like to know, what it’s like. Let’s move on.
When the scientific housewife Paris Spaulter started her life’s work, it was intended to explore and support Kepler’s solid data with updated and more complete data. Everything she encountered turned out to support Kepler’s 3rd law. She has therefore in her book Gravitational Force of the Sun totally reformulated Newton’s definition of gravity to be a product of acceleration and area.
After Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity, his scientific successors then tried to adapt Nature / Cosmos to this theory. It is probably called: to adapt the landscape to the map. This has happened until recently, when, for example, American taxpayers have paid billions and billions of dollars on projects such as the Lazer Interferometer Leigo and the Tokamac reactor without these being able to detect gravity or produce a single kilowatt of energy. Both projects have been a total failure. Had one read Kepler then and understood that gravity does not exist, but that everything in the Universe is electricity, today we would have had clean energy, minimal pollution, no deadly pharmaceutical industry and only a fraction of the wars in which various state powers and supranational bodies murder the earth’s populations due to explosively inefficient fuel. Poverty would not have had legs to walk on, and we had not lived in a world permeated by lie-on-lie-on-lie. We had probably also been spared both nuclear power and Al Gore’s climate fraud. Scams stand on the shoulders of scams.
The three biggest villains and scammers in the history of science are Newton, Darwin and Einstein. Before Einstein, it was still common and respectable to use observational and experimental data. With Einstein – and it is highly doubtful whether Einstein was actually able to perform that kind himself – advanced mathematics was introduced. The mathematicians occupied and monopolized physics, physics was encrypted, monopolized and patented.
Alan Watt describes the phenomenon of Einstein as follows: in his childhood and adolescence he had difficulty understanding … everything. He was no genius or prodigy. He, on the other hand, was so lucky to get a job in the patent industry. Here one must understand that patents are not there to protect inventors and their inventions but are there to steal the inventions that are particularly important to Big-Industry and-or to make sure that they are never realized. Only patents that are harmless in the larger context are allowed to go through. The industry was already then a body of the global elite.
This is a whole subject in itself, but Einstein made his contribution to the industry by helping to steal patents, which was obviously his real talent. As a reward, the invention thieves’ global mafia – we just need to think of one of the church inventors and geniuses, Nicola Tesla, whose inventions were stolen or destroyed by J.P. Morgan – that is, the patent thieves made Einstein a scientific saint. That’s the thing they are good at. So the central bank elite, the Zionists or Jesuits, same-same, marketed with the greatest efficiency the mediocrity and the swindler Einstein as the ultimate scientific genius. The damage – or perhaps one should rather say spot added to damage – that the Einstein cult inflicted on science is immeasurable. His inflicted injury was based on pre-inflicted injury.
In his book, The Incorrigible Racist Albert Einstein, author Christopher Jon Bjerknes takes it even further and declares Einstein a plagiarist, a swindler, a pseudo-scientist. It was his wife, Mileva Einstein Maric, who wrote most of it. They had an agreement to keep it a secret, and when he received the Nobel Prize for plagiarism – her plagiarism – he sent according to. the agreement the full amount of the award to her. He was so heavily grilled in Germany for his plagiarism and because he could not even account for the work of the physicists, Pointcaret, that he plagiarized, he had to flee to the United States.
As a main purpose of his flight, he himself writes in his letters that it was to promote Zionism. In the United States, too, he was grilled, but the myth machine that the Zionists had built around him was able to draw any attention to his funny hair and eccentric habits and completely away from his meandering machinations. Every time there was scientific criticism, the Zionists shouted about anti-Semitism and thus made serious professional discussion and criticism impossible and politically incorrect. Certain aspects of his person, on the other hand, were completely omitted, e.g. his pedophile tendencies. When he could not fuck his cousin’s minor daughter, his married the cousin instead so he could take care of the whole family. In a letter, he calls them my little harem.
In Kepler’s 3rd law, there is no mass involved. On the other hand, it can be interpreted and read as a product of acceleration and area. The larger the surface area, the greater the acceleration, the greater the attraction. So gravity is a misleading word, for it is not gravity that creates attraction.
The interpretation of Kepler thus says:
meaning: compression = accell2 / area3
We are talking here about rotating bodies with a very large surface area. The rotation is created from a central motor, the Sun, which in turn is a local transformer station for a galactic rotating central motor (there again is …). Gravity = compression does not take place via the mass of the body but by rotating like an electric generator connected to a universal generator system. Forgive me if this sounds like another cosmic machine model.
To compensate for the inability to explain the alleged gravity, science in turn is rich in imaginative explanations. In particle physics, they to no surprise talk of gravitons, since everything is materialized and made into particles. There is talk of inward curvature, 4-dimensional geometry. Gravity violates science’s own laws and the conservation of energy as a constant. In order to believe in the phenomenon, one must adopt a kind of religious belief. It is also claimed that gravity was created in The Big Bang. This is absurd, because without gravity, all matter would be evenly distributed in the universe and not compressed into one bone-hard singularity.
Magnetism is also a form of electricity.
Sir Isaac had just been to the hairdresser
Here goes Newton’s weight = mass x mass / distance:
It is not mathematics that is the problem. It’s mythematics and has led to an army of mythematical misconceptions, lately:
WIMPS (weakly interacting solid particles)
MOND (modified Newtonian dynamics)
MACHO (solid compact holo object)
Black shield radius
quantum field theory
The God Particle
… and many more. The latest freak from the particle industry is the god-help-us-god particle that the mad scientists claim to have found in the Hadron Collider at CERN. The idiots seriously believe that they can find the Creator, as long as they find a particle that is small enough to be inside all other particles. It is reductionist materialism, and the main problem of science is precisely this. They have, in turn, been allocated endless resources – a military size budget! to buy toys for. They have good friends in high places with money in their pockets.
Or something completely different is going on in CERN than we’re told, because the whole tale of the Hicks-Boson particle race seems almost childish, it smells of smoke-screen. If you look at the two huge rings of electro-magnetic fields laid on top of each other in the CERN collider, you think of a huge Tesla generator. Historian and author Joseph P. Farrell is not afraid to throw out out certain high-octane speculations in this regard by guessing that they are in the process of establishing a torsion field that taps into the Sun’s energy field. In this connection, violent fluctuations have been measured in the Earth’s magnetic field when they run the machine. A very dark and potentially very dangerous project, which in that case is connected with The Secret Space Program and The Black Budget and The Shadow Banking System. People who are not afraid of including occult topics their research as dr. Farrell, could also come up with the idea that they’re trying to open a dimensional portal or are developing a giant weapon system that could shake the entire globe. We can only guess what might fall out of that sort of thing – something from a fantasy universe or a Hollywood production with lots of 3D graphics. And nothing cute like in Hell Boy.
Of course, CERN also does other things, some of which may even be useful, and the individual scientist is not aware if anything other than what he thinks he has been hired for is going on. Geeks can be like little children, preoccupied with their own play until the day it goes wrong or they discover, that they were not working for the sacred research but for a branch of the military industry. The CERN project with the collider is so insanely large that it assumes military dimensions, like its budget.
Genius and fake-genius
A true genius, on the other hand, Nicola Tesla, did not have high thoughts about Einstein and his entourage. He wrote:
Today’s scientists have replaced experiments with mathematics, they wade through equation after equation and end up building structures that have no connection to reality.
Their theory is a beggar dressed in purple, whom ignorant people assume to be a king. The exponents of the theories are brilliant, but they are metaphysicians rather than scientists.
And Tesla was a man who knew what he was talking about. A highly educated physicist unlike Einstein, who was merely a patent officer. Tesla was closely connected to reality, and the range of inventions and discoveries that are directly due to him is or his initiative, to say the least, is astonishing:
radiation weapons – star-wars technology
the electron microscope
electronic robot control
This list is only a fraction of his huge merit list. He foresaw, among other things mobile telephony in 1909
His main criticism of the physics of the past – and unfortunately still today – is the total neglect of ether. It corresponds to the biblical concept of the Firmament. As you know, ether is an ancient concept, and we can (re) use it for a maximum of time for lack of better.
Tesla went on to say:
A good example of such an interaction becomes clear in relation to gravity, which should rather be called Universal Compression. I believe that material bodies do not exert weight against each other, but it is the ether that causes these bodies to compress in relation to each other.
We mistakenly call this phenomenon gravity.
The stars, planets and the whole Universe emerge from the ether as parts of it for various reasons became less dense.
One must give that much credit to Einstein that he actually doubted his own theories and expressed it on several occasions. It is usually forgotten, and at that point he was perhaps wiser than the Einstein’ians. As a substitute for ether – or perhaps rather: as a re-branding of it, science has invented a surrogate they call dark matter.
Incidentally, Einstein did not come up with the theory of relativity at all due to David Hilbert. And the preconditions for the theory were already developed by his wife Mileva, an entire chapter in the history of science in itself – based on plagiarism and stolen goods from scientists who were not later quoted for it or given credit for it. Another misconception was that Einstein was part of the Manhattan project. He was hung up early by Oppenheimer, who considered him a total nitwit.
Einstein 2.0 – you could not criticize a cripple, could you?
The same one-sided adoration of the alleged genius scientist we see with the gnome Stephen Hawking, who has been marketed as an Einstein 2.0. Here, too, we are rarely told that there are many equally gifted people in his branch who completely disagree with him. And the fact that with his illness he should have died long ago or lost his intelligence more than suggests that he is an art product of the invisible geniuses who throughout world history have practiced fabricating these idols.
An example from art history: the figure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a genius god from the world of music, was probably one of these creatures. Behind the person hides up to 60 different Italian composers, a few of whom in turn lost their own deserved claim to fame in this media stunt. Here, the master stage director was, among others, Wolfgang’s own father, who was an agent for the early version of the music industry, a branch of the publishing industry that has Venetian roots (here certain red lights shine). We know today how the pop music industry almost mass-produces diurnal fly versions of these artificial idols. When they have served their purpose, there will be arranged a sacrificial ritual where they preferably will die from a drug overdose or a suicide. Plain- and car crashes are also popular.
The term ether is the word of the day to fill the gap that science provides. In Walter Russell, the concept is replaced by a differentiation into 17 gases, gases that inhabit the ’empty space’ and all can transport light. The concept is unfortunately burdened by the fact that the NewAges need a simple concept. Nicola Tesla and Victor Schauberger really just use the term because they have not yet arrived at the differentiation that Russell presents. Robert Otey uses the term ether-junkies 😉 about those who within NewAge have a tendency to pick up concepts from ancient spiritual traditions – and then by the way get them in the wrong throat. And as we know, NewAge is not science but religion.
The Creator can never be found in a particle, as in the example of the God particle. According to Russell, the Creator must be in the Silent Magnetic Light that controls the Universe.
The genius in a random junk moment? Or the sabbatarian’s greeting to his goddess, Kali? The black mother with the black hole.
And then there are the black holes / Black Holio myth. The goddess Kali and the Kabbalists’ illusionism – we should perhaps say illuminism – have apparently crept inside cosmology and physics. Evil tongues claim that Einstein was merely a Kabbalist disguised as a scientist. The books in his library strongly indicate that. In any case, his scientific siding is responsible for the fact that science today has turned off at an unproductive side road. Something could indicate that there is a special interest behind it. In the case of Tesla, this interest, the hidden agenda, was at least so evident that for a while it appeared on the scene in the form of J.P. Morgan as the representative of the financiers and the dark men of the intelligence service as the representative of the Deep State Gestapo, the 20th century Spanish Inquisition. Tesla was character assassinated by the dark men. Einstein, on the other hand, expressed fairly clear Zionist sympathies, and if you said Zionist, you also said Jesuit. Then, unfortunately, we end up again with the infamous, satanic Kabbalists who always operate in the engine room, where the great manipulation of humanity’s consciousness and destiny takes place. The fate engineers may be an appropriate name for them.
These dark men of fate have much to thank Newton-Einstein for, for through the great century-long misguidance we still do not have the science we should have had, where clean energy and energy medicine had long ago replaced the in every way dirty oil industry and the evenly dirty pharmaceutical industry.
The Universe seen from the University
The idea that there are places in the Universe where gravity is so great that it sucks all matter in – called Black Holes – originated from the Big Bang theory, where the whole Universe was such a black hole – which then suddenly got enough of itself himself and spit out the Universe in a kind of giant orgasm explosion, Das Urknall. A mindset for little boys who play with explosives and masturbate too much. Science forgets to remind us that it is just a theory and talks about it as if it were an already accepted and proven fact. The idea of neutron stars that should be such black holes is gravitational mythology. Gravity and magnetism can be explained quite simply and meaningfully as electricity, so there is no need to talk about gravity at all.
Incidentally, the BigBang theory was created by a Catholic (Jesuit) priest named Lemaitre for mind control. Therefore, the Pope also stood in the foyer and welcomed the guests at the conference of the European Astronomical Society in the 1950’es, where the theory of The Big Bang was presented for the first time. He said: Gentlemen! I congratulate you. For you have just confirmed our Fiat Lux (… and God created the World and said: Let there be light). Note the term ‘our’. There were reportedly a number of scientists who got an uncomfortable feeling at the religion’s unexpected and inappropriate embrace of science. An ideological-scientific coup (remember that the Vatican is a state).
Fun stuff in the Vatican. The priest invented the oritinal orgasm, the nutty professor curved the room like an Italian salami. At the same time, the Vatican made an agreement with the Zionists in common understanding?
Walter Russell admittedly used the term black holes, but he meant something completely different than academy physics and almost made fun of them. Russell, used the term to contradict the Einsteinian idea of the heat death (thermodynamics) of the Universe in the form of dying stars to point out that there are just as many places in the Universe where suns are born. Or upscale: where galaxies are born (the mysterious phenomenon of the quasars). One has to talk about Black Holes + White Holes or something similar that explains the great cosmic Yin-Yang. Terminology is fragile, language is imperfect.
Big Bang is evolution theory in cosmic terminology. This is where the staged fake genius between Newton and Einstein, Charles Darwin, comes in. Gravity does not exist. Evolution does not exist. Big Bang does not exist. Humanity does not evolve, it involves, it devolves. Everything human has been subjected to one great de-generation. There was a pre-civilization before the present one, probably 13,000 years ago + that was wiped out. They had an extreme high technology and we can still see remnants of it today. The dating is uncertain, and we have to talk in relative time and not absolutely – so something came before something else that came before something third. So 130,000 years can easily be a reality behind 13,000 years. The extinction took place – probably – on several occasions, and the causes can be found in an interplay of natural disasters – with great certainty – or as a result of advanced warfare – possibly. Read also: You don’t piss of the gods with impunity
Maybe we should talk about circulation instead of evolution. And then we may view human civilization and consciousness as cosmic cycles (The Great Year).
Should anyone be in doubt that the previous civilization was the present far superior, then someone should simply study the phenomenon of moving large boulders. The previous civilization could lift boulders of up to a 1000 tons (Baalbek), which the present one cannot today. I Gornia Shoria in the Ural mountains a was of stone with weight up to 3.500 tons has been discovered. This would have been quite unthinkable without high technology – a subject where the sciences of history and archeology are also completely astray. They are almost double on the shit, as they desperately and in fierce stubbornness cling to their unsubstantiated claim that it was Stone Age or Bronze Age cultures that built pyramids and sphinxes.
Why is it, that science is so terrified of dealing with this subject? It may not be science that shakes its pants either, but the ideological and financial backers of science. They created Darwinism as a control apparatus for human thinking in the age of Industrialism and classical Imperialism, so the idea of a prior high civilization would destroy the foundation of the brainwashing. Just as their scientists have never explained gravity, nor have they ever found the missing link between apes and humans. The Jesuit and neo-Gnostic Theilard de Chardin tried to gossip about the Piltdown Man, but it turned out to be a scam. Is there anything the Jesuits have not had their dirty fingers in?
The gaps in science
Black Holes in Russell’s sense is something other than an the academic concept. These are creative fields of tension in the overlapping gas rings where creation takes place. It’s the galactic Vessica Pisces, the intersection of two 3D circles. It’s the Creator’s large holographic 3D printer. The thing is, creation did not take place then but takes place all the time. It is typical for Catholics to introduce their linear timeline, the Kronos trick, from Genesis to Armageddon. Darwinian evolutionary thinking and Einsteinian mythology + the Big Bang theory are, in a way, equally Catholic-metaphysical.
But the atom then, it exists, we all know that! Does it? In both atomic physics and chemistry, electric charges are constantly operated on, so the leap to a nuclear model that is not particle-based but electrically based should not be completely impossible.
If one studies the history of how the atomic nucleus was invented, then it happened on a very shaky basis with incorrect observations + incorrect interpretations of these (Rutherford-Bohr). But the theory stuck as an adopted fact. Robert Otey explains that he was amazed that his chemistry professors in the 70s, after teaching the atomic nucleus theory for 3 months, admitted that it was a scam, a forgery, but that they had been forced to teach it according to their curriculum. Interesting! So there was a small pocket in time where it was well known that it was fraud, and that pocket closed just a decade later, where everyone more or less considered it an accepted fact, beyond theory. Younger chemists and physicists no longer question the premise, because they have been taught it according to their professors’ curriculum, which must therefore assume that it is not just models and theories but proven facts.
It shows the mechanism that has formed the great monolithic and hard-to-break dogmas in science. To use a Catholic term, a canonization takes place – canon = law – whereby science violates its own sacred rules of the game, its own ethics. This is how science becomes a hybrid between religion and law, and that is why giant monsters from Jurasic Park can wade around and eat everything that moves in the landscape, for they have been allowed to do so. To criticize them is, in turn, outlawed. Like voracious Tyranosaurus Rex, these monsters trample around in the scientific swamp and scare the life out of their prey. There is predator capitalism, and there is predator science.
Since we take it up front with dinosaurs and gravity: take it easy. Should a stack of perverted geneticists succeed in recreating the DNA on this one, it will collapse under its own weight before it could eat you. All serious calculations of weight and muscle power made by physicists, anatomists and engineers have determined that the T-Rex could not stand on its own two feet – unless the Earth at that time had a much less attractive force than today. Which is another scientific myth: the constant size of the Earth.
So Otey’s professors said: take it as a model, a theory, make your calculations, get the course over, deal with it – basically: move on, have a life, and apologize that we have had to fill you with junk science. Of course, they did not put it that clearly, because then they had been fired. They suggested it to the sharp student.
Atomic theory is that the atom is held together from within by a nucleus that affects certain particles in a mysterious and inexplicable way. Protons, neutrons and electrons are small particles that fart around in their high-speed mini-solar systems and do all sorts of dog tricks. Electrons are, in theory, oppositely charged particles. These electrons are supposed to operate in a layer of outer layers, a shell around the nucleus. By adding one extra electron, the nuclear fisherman gets a new element in the series of elements in the periodic table.
Walter Russell says in his two books The Secret of Light and Atomic Suicide that such particles do not exist and that gravity does not work that way. Nature does not have such a kind of glue that holds particle pieces together. Nature is cell-based. The cell is a life form, the atom is a machine, and physicists have been in love with machines since the breakthrough of industrialism. The strong and weak power of nuclear physics was invented ad hoc because speculative, metaphysical science needed to repair the serious contradictions it had created through atomic theory. The atom should explode in the air in a split second, but there must be forces that still hold it together. These forces were therefore invented because they were desperately needed. The didn’t see, find or prove them, they invented them to fill in the blanks. Similarly, dark matter and dark energy were later invented by quantum physics, for there was a desperate need to put labels on the 99.9% percent of the Universe that had oops-disappeared in the theorists’ theories.
Russell has a terminological weakness. He uses the same words as mainstream academia, but they have a different meaning. It has confused many. He should have created a new terminology. The concept of atoms should be replaced with the concept of elements.
The Zionists in Hollywood are playing along with their cartoon version of particle physics. In Dan Brown’s Illuminati flirtation, an annoying little demonic god particle who intends to destroy the Vatican has escaped. More fun stuff in V-Town.
One of the particle physics stunts is called antimatter. God does not live in a particle, but physicists are still trying to reduce creation to a particle, the particle of God. Russell defines substance as movement and antimatter as silence. Russell is far closer to Kepler than to Newton, for Kepler spoke of motion relative to area. God is the Quiet Magnetic Light, the Kingdom of Heaven. But physicists are now looking for anti-protons, anti-neutrons and anti-electrons, which should then form an anti-atom and anti-matter. It turns into an anti-absurd anti-circus. They are constantly looking for ways to escape the Universe and Nature. Academic gorilla tape.
The empty space does not exist. In the emptiness hides a cosmic cathode-anode complex, silence-motion, Yin-Yang, implosion-explosion, di-polarity.
The cosmic cathode is God’s silent zero-point state, the 99.9% that science denies – while trying to unravel its omissions in the back room. The over-booking of dimensions of the speculative string theory is an absurd deception. The cosmic cathode operates in the non-dimensional field, while the cosmic anode operates in the dimensional field with its well-described three dimensions. All movement comes from non-movement, from silence. This is the true dualism between the cosmic mind and the cosmic matter. It is this fine balance that the Darwinists (or whatever we shall now call them) have perverted into an executioner-victim- or ruler-slave complex. And before them the Gnostics and Catholics as the pure-unclean, where everything earthly was unclean and therefore the work of the Devil and should therefore be forsaken and despised. The Church Father Augustine believed that the woman was an unclean creature, as her instincts were attached to reproduction.
Good and Evil certainly exist (we just need to open our eyes, see: A Study of Evil), but it exists in the intentional universe, the human. That the cathode is good and the anode is evil is therefore a projection waffle, where people view the Universe as they themselves act and think – as below, so above. It is Abrahamic BS, the sabbatical narrative of Godfather with a long beard, who orders the enemies of his chosen people slaughtered as sheep in the form of a sacrifice to the Dying God. Evil entered the world when a well-known tribal people in the Middle East introduced Yahweh, the bipolar god with the two faces, the Janus face, the demiurge, the usurper of the throne, the Destroyer disguised as the Creator. See Farrell og de Hart: Jahwey The Two Faced God. There is a gorge of un-similarity between the tyrannical, angry-pissed-off, punitive, anthropomorphic, usurper pseudo-god of the Abrahamic religions to the Creator, the Silent Magnetic Light of the Universe. The long-bearded father god was thus to be male. Feminism is not in high demand here. But in a cosmological context, it is extremely worrying that the feminine – not feminist! element of the Universe is doomed out. It lies in the language. The Germanic language is – as usual, but unfortunately not recognized – English superior. Man in English is male and must cover the human being. Mensch in Germanic is both male and female.
God is light. God is love. God is [inexorable] law. God is So much, so good. However, one of the reasons why Russell is not included in the scientific society, such as Tesla, Steiner, Velikovski, Levashov, Hannes Alfvén, is due to the cult that Russell and his wife created around him and his wife. The NewAgers love them for the same reason. Russell claimed to be a reincarnation of da Vinci and Lao a ditto of Lao Tsu. Then you may have had it coming. Another component is their total denial that there is evil in the world, for God is only love. It’s water on the mill for the whole NewAge pseudo-philosophy of positive thinking, the law of attraction, aso. And in addition, civil-cowardly, as it almost condemns that we hold the exponents of evil to account. Think positive and ignore the filth that happens in front of you, because it goes away by itself …!
Russell’s other main mistake, as mentioned, is that he uses mainstream terminology to describe something completely different. It creates a lot of confusion.
Wallace Thornhill is the most famous exponent of the Electrical Universe in the tradition after Hannes Alfvén introduced it. The electrical engineer Alfvén received a Nobel Prize for it, after which he was excluded from the good company. The world was not ready for that, for the good company was in exaltation over the Big Bang, their new creation myth. It is reported when he appeared at the Scientific Congresses of the Astronomical Society that people whispered in the hooks: Behold, there comes the guy who received the Nobel Prize, and with whom we must not speak. They simply felt a pain in the ass for the fact that the Nobel Prize, for once, went to real science, because he was not one of the mathematicians who had overthrown astrophysics, but a practical man, an electro engineer. In his work for the Swedish government, he observed that plasma phenomena arose in connection with high-voltage installations. The Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland had previously observed the aurora / northern lights and then recreated it scaled down in a laboratory. So these are real physicists, not theoretical physicists. Alfvén then created a universal model for the Universe, which today has become the Electrical Universe. An absolutely not finished and clarified project, but one that has come well from the start – except that the mainstream refuses to study it.
Not that there is no plasma physics that is taken seriously, because it does. But it lives in a kind of reserve that is allowed to contribute as long as its developers do not ask serious questions about the adopted premises but simply contribute by consensus with their curiosities
Otey – from housewives and hillbillies one must hear the truth. Revival of the serious laymen.
Thornhill does not go as far as Otey as to abolishing atomic theory. He reformulates it, corrects it and introduces electricity, not gravity as the driving force. That was what the mathematician Maxwell had suggested. It therefore gives positive and negative charges for what we have called gravity. It causes a deformation of the atom. But it is compatible with Paris Spaulter’s interpretation of area and acceleration, for Thornhill places gravity / compression in the surface and not in the core of a planet. The positive charge is inside the surface, the negative is outside. It will also be able to explain the abnormalities of gravity measured in very high towers and very deep mine shafts. Gravity is not universal like Big G either, because we tend to assume that it is the same everywhere on Earth.
The Electrical Universe solves problems in long paths. In the Newtonian model, bodies must almost ‘know’ something about each other in order to follow the law of gravity. Arrest nature, that scoundrel, it does not follow the law! But in an electrical universe, that’s exactly what’s going on. All planets, like electrical systems, can sense the others in the system at any time. It’s plugged into the solar light chain, and interplanetary communication – if we may be so cheeky as to use a word reserved for the exchange of information between intelligent beings – takes place without delay. Which in turn means that the speed of light is not the highest at all. Incidentally, it is already far exceeded if, as a particle physicist, one calculates the speed of the electrons’ spin around the proton.
Light is not particles, that travel through the Universe. Light does not have a speed. It is a resonance phenomenon that has a delay.
But then the Flat Earth theory arrived, and then we may well forget it all again… Maybe the flat-earths should start studying The Electrical Universe so that they do not completely opt out of even alternative circles where they can be taken seriously. They may be able to ‘save’ their theory by finding out that the anomalies they claim to have observed are electrical phenomena. But they have to mess with it themselves. My personal theory about that theory is that it is an implant that should make us think in other directions what the Secret Space Program and the new Space Based World Economy have been working on. Oh, and we know, who put the meme out there: Cass Sunstein, Obamas so called ‘information czar’.
There are undoubtedly civilizations in space with capabilities and technologies that would enable them to transport themselves to Earth. That is not the case. The thing is, most of the observations people have made on UFOs are without a doubt military programs. These have taken place since before World War II and in particular during and after. It is Tesla tech that scientists in Germany were working on and that they had gotten from their Serbo-Croatian friends who had gotten it again when the Americans wanted to force Tesla to work on a weapons program for the government. He denied this and gave his blueprints to his brother-in-law, who was a Croatian ambassador. Some of it went to Germany, others went to Russia via Serbia. After the war it went to Antarctica and to Argentina. Some of it returned to the United States after importing German scientists into NASA.
The Germans, or as Douglas Dietrich says, the Third Reich in exile, flew around in their turtles (Schildkröten) and made life miserable for the Americans all the way up to the 50s. This is also confirmed by William Lyne. What happened to them then, we can guess. Americans today have all sorts of programs running, and how much more convenient can it be that the CIA has started and maintained the meme that is cultivated as the NewAge religion in various UFO communities. One of the imported Nazis, Werner von Braun, pre-described that the next big scam, that next enemy image, the successor to ISIS, that replaced communism, that replaced Nazism, that replaced… the Turks and the Mongols (it was so good enough), to scare the living Jesus out of the peoples of the earth will be a fake alien invasion. Al Qaeda In Space! 1-2-3 shit your pants.
One of the scientists who provided technology to the Germans was the Austrian Victor Schauberger. As a forester, he studied water all his life. As Wallace Thornhill says: The true philosophers of nature are superior to mathematicians because they have not abstracted themselves from reality. Science lost the chain and ran off the track 100 years ago (Einstein) and has not since picked it up again. But Schauberger was always based on nature, because he was always in it.
Spirals, organic shapes, water and long beards
He saw how the water itself and the fish in the water almost defied gravity. The salmon created a kind of torsion field around it via the gill, which enabled it to swim effortlessly against strong currents. In return, it found quiet pockets in rushing rivers where it could rest. Schauberger studied the helical movements of the water’s movements and developed models where one could help the rivers – and the people by the rivers – so that the water did not run over its banks. Today, such projects are being established in Austria, where water is restoring a healthy flow. A number of large stones are placed in carefully selected places in a river. This moves the otherwise destructive force from the water to the middle of the river so that it does not strain the sides. It also means that the riverbed is reorganizing so that the quiet pockets mentioned are restored and fishing life thrives.
The major floods that occur are due to deforestation. On a mountain top or sides that either lacks trees or where the trees are a planted in monoculture, the water only gets what Schauberger calls a half cycle. The healthy forest soil is a thick layer of humus that can absorb huge amounts of water and store it deeply before being shut out again. Schauberger calls it a whole cycle. Paradoxically, in his younger days, he himself contributed to the deforestation, for he used his unique inventing abilities to develop some special chutes where large tree trunks could be transported down using minimal consumption of cold water.
He developed a plow that did not turn the earth and destroyed the natural stratification and its life, but instead made a double turn and put it in place as it had been plowed up. He studied the healing power of water and developed facilities for the revitalization of water using minerals and vortex movements. He developed water pipes that were not straight but double helical, where the water ran through almost without resistance, as it is the natural movements of the water. And this is where his transcendence of gravity came into the picture. He constructed a strange machine in which he used the ability of water to go against its own current. The electrical forces of the water and its vortex-helical capabilities were built into a device that spun at high speed, 2-3000 rpm. Inside the pot or kettle-like apparatus there were slats that resembled gills or chambers in a snail shell. He is said to have smashed the roof of a house when it was running. There is only one copy of it today and it works, though without lightening. This is because two components are missing at the top, which Schauberger himself described as necessary for the process.
Whether it was precisely this technology that was in the German turtles or Haunebu’s – they had several names and there were several types – is difficult to know. William Lyne guesses that the Germans also rebuilt submarine hulls to be able to fly, because flying cigars were observed in the air. It sounds a bit clumsy, but once you have that kind of technology, weight is no longer an issue. Remember that the force called gravity is unbelievably weak in relation to electricity and the electrical state called magnetism or electromagnetism. We are talking about 1: 1038. In recent times, flying machines the size of football pitches have been observed. And that they exist is unquestionable, because there are lots of ordinary people who do not hang out on scary UFO sites who have seen them. And no, we do not have to import them all the way from the Pleiades or Sirius when they are made in the basements of the Nevada desert or in the Boing factories’ Research & Development labs.
So there are several forms of decay in physics and in science. One of the most serious is the contribution of science to the programs that run behind the backs of humanity and which are certainly not to our advantage. They are only for the benefit of a number of the worst individuals inhabiting this planet. In return, their destructive experiments are paid for by the money they have stolen from humans through their taxes, looting and financial scams. It is the global usurers Demonic Star Wars that is rolling out.
The Global Deep State has thus already lifted gravity. I would dare to guess that they no longer use the term when talking to each other. Their really is quite and completely different from other people’s.
Just let the village fools, cardboard heads and little ignorant, naive poor people who inhabit this planet believe that something is working, as we have told them. We invented gravity in the Royal Society of Science as early as the 17th century, and they have not since recovered from it. Later, we gave them Einstein and the entire Jewish physics scam. They ate up and they demanded another serving! They loved it! Then we gave them the gnome Hawking (You would not criticize a cripple in a wheelchair, would you?). They love stardom and entertainment, and so we gave that clown Michiu Kaku so he could give them some kaka in Illustrated Science. And Robert Dawkins, so they don’t get too creative. And if they absolutely want to spice things up with creativity, then the Satanists get some UFO accommodation, some flat-earthers, and some festive fireworks in the sky. Admit it: 9/11 was simply a work of art! And they loved it! But they understood nothing of it.
– an imaginary quote from a toast somewhere in a bunker complex in the Nevada Desert.
One of the guys, that in my opinion today is able to explain the physics behind UFO-technology and physics as such is the smartest man on Earth, Kevin Wheeler. He vlogs under the synonym Theoria Apophasis:
And recently I stumbled upon Kevin Orlowski and the Magnetic Energy project, that seems really promissing. Very discrete but with a huge R&D behind going decades back including the work of Kevin Orlowskis father.
I swing back and forth between a strong and the less strong theory of whether the whole thing is a deliberate scam. I am not for a second in doubt that there has always been fraud involved, but the question is to what extent fraud and malice should be weighed against stupidity and mistakes. Although The Powers That Be in the 400 years we have outlined, that is, since Kepler’s 3rd law was neglected, has never held back with fraud, falsification of history and manipulation, one could theorize – and this is true conspiracy theory – whether they not only have observed mistakes and stupidities and said: Aha, what can we use it for?
It’s called cybernetics. It is a dynamic control system intended to control supertankers and ocean-liners, ie slow-reacting large, complex systems / vessels. It dates from a time when there were no computer systems that could do the same. A single variable that moves forward in the water redefines the entire control and aligns all other variables. The goal may be the same, but the course, speed, and engine power can be adjusted. In cybernetics, even the goal can be adjusted.
This is how The Powers That Be operate. They have so far been able to adjust both goals and means and apparently keep a course through the centuries without the passengers on the ship having been anything but glimpsed aware of it. The picture is not chosen at random, because The Powers operates as you may know according to Maritime Law. They sail constantly and variably under flags of convenience in international waters.
Are scientists then stupid or corrupt? Well, most people are both intelligent and convinced that they are earning a good cause. In their own optics, the answer is no. Of course, there are those who know that they are contributing to something that is unethical. There are also those who, despite a nagging doubt in the back of their minds, ignore this and install a set of blinders. And then there are the scared ones. Both Newton and Einstein have at one time expressed doubts about their own excellence. It could be an argument that they did not fully understand the game they were contributing to and that they were useful idiots to the cybernetics of their day and age.
But it’s not that simple. Do not underestimate the blind spots. A genius with blinders still wears blinders. Once intellectuals think they know something, they can be fully convinced of their own excellence and infallibility, and the consequences of highly gifted stupidity performed by people with influence are many times as destructive as yours and my sub-meter-stupidities, which at most can’t make a cat mischief.
The 10 Commandments for Scientific Fraud
The answer may seem obvious to you, but for most people, that kind of thing is almost unthinkable. Humans have this unfortunate gullibility towards authorities like children towards their parents. We perform a kind of spontaneous regression every time someone appears as an authority, whereby we momentarily relive ourselves as 7 years old and react as such. A child does not dream that its parents do not want its best, and its tolerance for unreasonableness is almost infinite. Even children who have been abused have a loyalty to their parents that is both tear breaking and frightening at the same time. It is the mechanism that the abusers of our belief in authority and loyalty exploit. But that still does not answer why.
A first answer: on Why did you do that? would simply be:
Because we could. Your back door was wide open, you slept in the classroom, you asked for it yourself. Just as it is the nature of a scorpion to sting with its poisonous bread, it is our nature to deceive. We do not think we are psychopaths.
Another answer would be:
Your ignorance combined with our knowledge is our power and your powerlessness. It was an inscription with gold-painted letters that was carved into the gate of the cathedral school, where I spend my high school days at the age of 15-17: Knowledge is power. We – the makers of the inscription – forgot’ to just tell you that it was not your knowledge. Unless you’re invited, of course. And we do not like party-crashing!
A third answer would be:
It simply follows an ancient practice developed by the Empire. As Romans, we occupied and conquered lands and peoples, stole every conceivable knowledge, technology, and culture, after which we either wiped them out or gave them to the Emperor in the name of Christ. We are the legitimate descendants of the Romans, and therefore we have an established right to do the same. It is almost a duty and we are very conscientious. You must actually have a little compassion with us.
A fourth answer would be:
Because you can not handle the truth. We give you the noble lie in our paternal concern for your welfare. We handle the knowledge you do not benefit from. The sheep need their shepherds. We only want your best, even if we have to lie to you – or take your life. And we can see by our behavoral studies on you, that you that you are far happier to believe than to know. We have thrown a curse that now has its own life. It cannot be recalled. It can at most be destroyed, but you are not able to, because you have taken false knowledge as a poison.
A fifth answer – a variation of the fourth – would be:
There are two kinds of knowledge and two kinds of religion. One knowledge / religion is for the people. People want to hear goodnight stories and live a carefree life. The other knowledge is for the inner circle, for the few chosen of God, for us. We want a lot of real knowledge because we like power. We see a kind of communion of interest here. The religions of the past have today become science.
A sixth answer – a strong interpretation of the theory in question – would be:
We have all the knowledge we need. We use it as it can be used. We have always had it in our archives from ancient times, the previous civilization. The day we no longer need this place, we wipe it out.
A seventh answer – an elaboration of the sixth – would be:
We are the technocracy. We refine our knowledge and technology to include all the ways we can control life on earth. This applies to plant, animal and human life as well as the earth’s climate and all the earth’s resources. We consider spontaneous, healthy and balanced life to be uncontrollable. Technoculture is going to replace nature.
An eighth answer would be:
The table catches, when the dice is thrown. After all, our poor scientists have a whole shelf of publications and dissertations and dissertations and articles and books behind them. They have a career, they have a professional reputation, they have a permanent place in academia and a permanent job with money. We have invested in them. They can not turn on a plate in one day, you must understand that. They would lose their face and their pride.
A ninth answer – the Old Testament – would be:
Knowledge is dangerous to man. That man ate of the tree of knowledge was sinful. We must make sure to recall this knowledge by locking it up, destroying it, polluting it, diluting it, turning it upside down, creating knowledge surrogates, leading it astray. But of course we have archived the right knowledge beforehand. We can also use it – against you.
A tenth answer would be:
Knowledge has an inertia. Textbooks and encyclopedias about knowledge have been written. Knowledge is on the shelves. Knowledge flashes on the screens. Knowledge comes out of the speakers
It’s a question of temperament and interpretation, which combination of the above answers fits with the situation. One answer I would be wary of is: How should we have known that?
Let’s get this straight:
You the mighty and knowledgable cheated in antiquity, you cheated in the Renaissance and in the Age of Enlightenment. You cheated in the last-century and in the last, and you have not stopped it yet or at any time in between. So stop playing stupid and innocent. And if you have the courage to admit your mistakes, we see no reason why you are not already in the process of making amends. However, there is no sign of that.
Repentance and self-knowledge are foreign to psychopaths and swindlers. We must regret that so many honorable scientists have been compromised. And science also operates in sheepfolds. One branch of science is cut off from another that loses the connection to the third who no longer has a common interest with the fourth… Science has become fragmented. It can be useful as a stage to disassemble the pieces to take a closer look at them. But then they have to be reassembled in fine and improved condition, and that just never happened. It is the scientific Babylonian conceptual confusion caused by materialism, reductionism, and over-specialization.
The result has been a cross-collegial disrespect on the one hand, and on the other a fundamental lack of curiosity and understanding of what the others are doing. Even scientists working in the same main field have to translate for each other what they mean when they express themselves. Science has taken an advance on the global village, where everyone speaks their own post-Babylonian volapyk dialect, which sounds similar but does not mean the same thing. This fragmented world of knowledge is virtually impossible to convey.
There is a principle of sound knowledge: it must be simple. It may be empirical and interim calculations are complex, but if the result can not be presented simply, then something is wrong. That was exactly what we have seen with today’s case study, gravity. The obscure thought is the obscure talk.
And then we are back to the housewife who grounded Newton and Einstein by simply taking the necessary time and effort to do what the high gentlemen should have done themselves: read inside, do their homework, take as a starting point observations and data and remain true to the ethics that science claims to uphold. |
It might seem odd to ring in the New Year by doing a retro review, but science fiction can predict the future and 2017 is a good time to review Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson.
Snow Crash hero’s is literally named “Hiro Protagonist”, which means even dense book reviewers (like myself) know he is the main character. He lives in the 21st century and works as a pizza delivery boy for a mob-owned pizza franchise and due to his abysmal wages has to share a room at a converted public storage site with an immigrant grunge rocker roomate. Of course, that is just Hiro’s real life. In the Metaverse, the virtual reality successor to the Internet, he is a renowned hacker and the world’s greatest sword fighter. In fact, you get the sense he is responsible for creating this digital world, but instead of fame and riches, his lack of ambition has doomed him to a life as a 2-bit hacker who scrapes together what little cash he has by sending gossip to the Central Intelligence Corporation (the future successor to the CIA).
This all changes when his ex-girlfriend, Juanita Marquez, tells him about “Snow Crash”: a new drug/computer virus that is sweeping both the real and virtual world. It can crash minds and cause people to speak in tongues, and does just that to Hiro’s friend Da5id. Thanks to a data file Juanita gives Hiro, he begins to see a connection between the Snow Crash virus, ancient Sumeria and the Tower of Babel legend. Hiro will attempt to track down the man behind the drug with the help of Y.T., a skateboard riding courier who does freelance work for the Mafia, while fighting Raven, a bad ass Aleutian with a grudge against the United States. If Hiro fails, the entire world could kiss free will goodbye.
Snow Crash is an exceedingly well-written and entertaining cyberpunk novel that deserves its spot on all the best of lists I’ve found it on. I personally found the world-building to be exquisite and, if it existed, I would buy a leather-bound fake history book of all the events that led up to its present. The 21st century of Snow Crash is set in a future where the United States government no longer effectively governs the country. Instead most of the duties that were once handled by the government are now controlled by mega-corporations, autonomous gated communities (called “burbclaves”) and mercenary armies. Without anyone enforcing the laws, America is a completely laissez-faire society where the line between legit business and criminal enterprise no longer exists, making “Mafia” just another brand name.
Libertarians should beware, however, because this is largely a dystopia. Hyperinflation has destroyed much of the global economy, refugees are so numerous that there is an entire fleet of them lashed onto the USS Enterprise and racism isn’t something contained just to social media. This brings us to my earlier comparisons to 2017, especially with the current migrant crisis, a new president who seems to think the private sector can do a better job than the federal government and an incredibly interconnected population that has become susceptible to lies and propaganda.
To be fair, there are some details about the future that Stephenson got wrong. There is a lot of early 90s slang laced throughout the book that seriously dates the writing. Also characters bemoan how bad wireless connections to the Metaverse is and devices like tablets don’t appear to exist. Even the recent virtual reality craze doesn’t prevent how the Metaverse is portrayed from coming off as overly-ambitious. Nevertheless, not being able to keep up with the pace of technology is a common problem for many older cyberpunk works and I don’t judge Snow Crash too harshly because of it.
Why? There are a lot books out there that people are telling you to read to better understand our present that it has almost become cliche to recommend a book for that reason. That said, I can’t help but suggest a reading of Snow Crash if you feel any unease about the near future. At times it does eerily appear to lay out the road we are embarking on…and perhaps shows how there is still hope even if we make all the wrong decisions. Hiro and his friends aren’t politicians or celebrities, they are regular people doing what they think is right. They aren’t perfect people and, depending on your moral code, you may not like all of the choices they make, but you have to respect the fact that they took action besides sharing a meme when confronting a would-be tyrant.
So if you want to read a classic SF novel that is even more relevant now, check out Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. |
During HAchubby’s visit to the United States in January, fans speculated whether the popular Korean Twitch streamer could be joining OfflineTV after visiting their house for a collaboration broadcast with Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys.
HAchubby was one of the breakout stars of Twitch in 2019, as the Korean streamer connected with viewers on her journey to learn English with her chat through meme culture.
However, after her second visit to the United States, speculation grew as to whether the personality could eventually be joining OfflineTV after she posted a photo wearing their merchandise.
Could HAchubby join OfflineTV?
The streamer visited the United States for the second time on January 16th, and documented her trip meeting up with American-based streamers such as AngelsKimi, MayaHiga, and TheSushiDragon.
However, the Twitch personality joined Pokimane for a stream on January 21 where the two discussed a variety of topics, such as her journey to learn English. “If you move to Los Angeles, you would learn English in six months. Done!” she told the Korean.
The following day on January 22, HAchubby joined the rest of the OfflineTV crew, which included LilyPichu, Fedmyster, Pokimane, and Michael Reeves, for a group IRL broadcast at Universal Studios in California.
While doing collaboration streams is not proof of her joining, HAchubby has showed interest in moving to America in the past, and when newest member YouTuber Michael Reeves joined the streaming group, he had hung out with them on numerous occasions before it became official.
Fan speculation was fueled further when the Korean streamer posted a photo on her Instagram on January 24, wearing an OfflineTV hoodie, which she had sported during their Universal broadcast.
After posting the photo, fans wondered if she could be the latest member to join OfflineTV, such as user ‘oceanic_pears’ who jokingly cracked “Lmao Hachu new offline.tv member confirmed?” – a sentiment that was seen in the chat during the group’s broadcast.
Only time will tell if HAchubby will ever move to the States to stream or whether she will land at the OfflineTV house, but fans can’t help but think of the possibility after her recent vacation.
At the time of this article, the Korean personality has amassed over 162k followers, which is all the more impressive considering she gained almost all of her viewers in just under a year since gaining popularity in 2019. |
Have you ever tried to coin a word, and then get the entire English-speaking world to use it? It’s really hard — especially when the people at the Oxford English Dictionary stop taking your calls. I thought I was onto something a few years ago with “boregasm,” a term I invented to describe the feeling you get when you’re trapped in some dull meeting, conversation or perhaps inscrutable religious ceremony, and you’re forced to stifle a big old yawn. In doing so, sometimes, if you’re lucky, the yawn will kind of rebound at the back of your throat and wash back down internally, flooding your nervous system with undeniably pleasant tingles. Not sexy ones, admittedly — still boring ones — but pleasant nonetheless.
You know that feeling, right? Just me? Okay, fine.
But aside from believing myself to have struck upon the perfect portmanteau for our times (and I still do), I found the act of defining this creepy interior phenomenon brought other benefits. In giving all the dreary episodes in my life the prospect of a private treat-shiver, it allowed me to embrace the tediousness; one gratifying upshot was that I’d actually look forward to weekly team meetings as prime multiple-boregasm territory.
Sadly, though, this has so far remained very much a perk personal to me. No matter how many casual conversations and emails I’d offhandedly drop my new word into, it never seemed to ignite as office slang or internet meme. And yet, a couple of years down the line, we get the million-times-less-catchy and endlessly more boring “ASMR” popping into common usage to characterize a similarly tingly feeling. You people of the internet with your weird collective choices, just what are you like?
In any case, it turns out that I’m not the only one to have found a warm and fuzzy side to the near-universally detested feeling of boredom. Sandi Mann, a psychologist at the U.K.’s University of Central Lancashire, for example, has been studying boredom since she discovered it was “the second-most commonly suppressed emotion in the workplace” while researching her Ph.D. thesis (no surprise that the leading one is anger). She describes an experiment she carried out on campus, “where we got people off the street and into a sound-proof room, where they were persuaded to leave their phone behind.” She and her team simply wanted to see what would happen to people when they were fully deprived of distractions.
“Obviously a lot of them ran screaming from the room — they couldn’t take it,” she says. “What we found with those people who did stick with it was that first they went through this very agitated phase, but once they got through that, they found it really relaxing. People were saying that it was like a respite, like having a warm bath. They just found it really pleasant.”
The more she’s looked into it, the more beneficial Mann has found boredom to be, as detailed in her book The Science of Boredom — The Upside of Downtime. The pre-eminent bored-reward being that, in her view, it’s the emotion that gives you a direct line to creativity. “If you actually have nothing to do, then your mind will create things,” she says, describing a common mental trajectory she’s observed in subjects in her isolation booths. “Because our minds are never still, they’re always active. And that’s when we start daydreaming — and daydreaming is really the key to relaxation and creativity.”
Anatomy of Monotony
Try telling that to a bored teenager, though. As any harassed parent will tell you, a well-timed “I’m so bored!” is one of the most powerful weapons in a child’s arsenal of things that draw an instant reaction — either you jump to entertain them, or yell at them for having the spoiled-brat temerity to suggest they have nothing to do.
To another of the world’s leading boredom researchers, though, the latter is entirely the wrong reaction. “I think of that as akin to someone who’s out drowning in a lake and you say, ‘Well, just swim to shore!’” says John Eastwood, associate professor of psychology, York University, Toronto, and co-author of the book Out of My Skull — The Psychology of Boredom, which is due to be published in March. “Intellectually, they know there are things to do, and if they could become engaged in one of them, they would, right?”
“I’ve got kids myself,” he adds. “Studying boredom, I get in particular hot water, because [when they get bored] they just look at me: ‘What are you going to do, Mr. Boredom Researcher?’”
For young people themselves, agitation brought on by dullness seems to be an intensifying problem. In November, the results of a nine-year study led by Elizabeth Weybright at Washington State University indicated that boredom levels are worryingly on the rise among American teenagers. Surveying eighth, 10th and 12th graders between 2008 and 2017, the researchers found that self-reported episodes of abject and unwelcome nothing-to-do-ness have been steadily increasing since 2010 — at a rate of more than 1.6 percent per year — with a sharper rise among girls than among boys. According to Eastwood, these findings are “really important, because to my knowledge, it’s the first study to definitively show that boredom levels are increasing. People have suspected this for a long time, but [until now] there just wasn’t great data.”
For a number of years, Eastwood has run the marvelously dystopian-sounding Boredom Lab at York University, which has been attempting to further our understanding of the dreaded B-state by arming psychologists with a clear definition of what it actually entails, as well as a consistent scale with which to measure it. At first glance, the description he and his colleagues have arrived at might seem counterintuitive: Boredom, Eastwood says, is “the unfulfilled desire for satisfying activity,” and as such, it’s a mental state of “both high and low arousal,” perhaps an incessant switching between the two.
While some might quibble with the apparent contradiction here, intuitively it makes sense. Happily or serenely doing nothing doesn’t constitute being bored, he contends; restive frustration is a key ingredient: “When you ask people about their emotional experience, their feelings or their energy level when they’re bored, they say they’re both animated and restless and that they’re lethargic.” Aside from this oscillation between high and low energy states, the bored-out-of-their-minds also typically report a handful of other all-too-familiar symptoms: “A feeling that time is passing slowly; difficulty concentrating; feeling that whatever one is doing lacks meaning.”
Digging beneath all this surface ennui, Eastwood says he and his team have identified a psychological structure made up of two essential features. The first is that a bored mind is something akin to an idling engine: In a bored state, we’re tormented by the sense that our brain power is being grossly underutilized. Performing a simple, repetitive task on an assembly line, for example, demands a degree of concentration but leaves the larger portion of your cognitive capacity unfulfilled; “unfortunately in this circumstance you can’t completely give yourself over to some other activity, like daydreaming or surfing the internet on your phone.” Boredom tends to strike when you’re minimally engaged, and it’s, on this account, the dangling-on-hold music of your brain.
Eastwood draws on literature to add a second, even more unpleasant layer to the structure. “Tolstoy talked about boredom being ‘the desire for desires,’” he explains. “The idea is that when you’re frustrated you have a desire, but it’s thwarted: Something stands in your way.” This is why boredom can’t be reduced to passive states, like listlessness or apathy, in which “you lack a desire” in the first place. Instead, it’s almost the opposite — an urgent “desire to find something that can be done in the moment”; it’s just that, like a hungry vegan in a steakhouse, not one of the options at hand is going to work for you. So it’s not just incapacitation; it’s an incarceration.
You’re Probably Already Way Past Peak Boredom
This brooding, rattling-the-bars aspect of being bored might also begin to explain why it feels so much worse for kids and teenagers than it does for adults. “Adolescents are constrained by rules, by parents and by teachers. And we know that constraint is a big situational cause of boredom. So when you’re not free to choose your activities or determine your fate, you’re more likely to struggle with boredom,” suggests Eastwood, with the caveat that any conclusions about the connections between boredom and teenage development should be seen as speculative, since research in the area is still in its infancy.
With that in mind, there might also be biological factors in play. As our brains develop, the frontal lobes — responsible for planning, organizing and regulating behavior — are a region that “doesn’t fully mature until the early 20s,” says Eastwood. “And we know that people who report a lot of boredom also report having poor self-control. We also know that people who have damage to that front part of the brain experience more boredom. So it stands to reason that adolescents developmentally don’t yet have the self-control fully online to be able to regulate their behavior, engage in activities and avoid boredom.” He also notes that people who are sensation-seekers — “people who want to jump out of airplanes and do exciting things” — are also more prone to boredom than the average homebody. “And there’s some reason to think that sensation-seeking increases during adolescence.”
The good news for all those increasingly stupefied 12th graders — and for us all, in fact — is that it does ease off over time. In a typical life-course, says Eastwood, “We know that from age 10 to about 16, boredom increases quite dramatically, and then it kind of peaks; depending on the study, you get a different peak point.” But from late teens, “you see an almost equally rapid drop in boredom, until you get to around mid-life, like to your 40s. Then what you see is that boredom continues to drop but at a much more gradual rate.” The least-bored in the population, he says, are those aged around 50, with some studies showing an uptick again after 65 (potentially, this could have something to do with retirement). Thankfully, then, attacks of boredom are the inverse of hangovers — they get less powerful as we get older.
Try a Little Tiresomeness
This doesn’t explain why teenage life throughout the notoriously distraction-filled 2010s has gotten more boring. The authors of the study had no definitive answers to this (and remain fairly stumped as to why girls should be getting it worse than boys), although they suggested it might have something to do with the notion that sensation-seeking tendencies have also been on the rise in the population at large, or that it might be related to teens spending more time on social media, in tandem with more solitary patterns of behavior.
“I know exactly why these kids are more bored than ever,” says Mann. “We’re creating bored kids by giving them too much stimulation. From the start — even from before they’re born — we’re stimulating them with music in the womb, Beethoven, Mozart…” She points to a combination of wall-to-wall schedules for school kids, packed with clubs and extracurricular activities, and an unfettered access to technology that’s ensuring they’re experiencing precious few moments of genuine, undistracted downtime. “The more stimulation we give them, the more they seek. It’s a dopamine hit,” she says. “And with every new hit, they’re constantly seeking more, so their boredom threshold changes. They need more and more activity to beat the boredom.”
In a world of smartphones and 24/7 opportunities for communication and entertainment, Mann points out, boredom, as “a search for neural satisfaction that goes unsatisfied,” simply shouldn’t exist. “It should be one of those emotions that people’s grandparents tell them about, and today’s generation should be, ‘Ooh, gosh, what does that feel like?’” Yet having amusements and diversions on tap has only made the comedowns that much harder to endure. “They’re not learning to manage their own boredom,” she says. “They’re learning that other people can solve their boredom problems, and if they’re bored they can swipe and scroll it away.”
Her prescription is to reframe boredom no longer as the villain but as the gateway to a more fulfilling kind of mental life. “We need to see downtime as something to be valued rather than something to be denigrated,” she says. “We need to see people doing nothing as a good thing.”
This doesn’t just apply to teenagers scratching each passing minute into the walls whenever they’re deprived of YouTube for any length of time: It’s an injunction for all of us to down-devices. “While waiting in line, don’t get your phone out,” Mann advises. “The time when you’re waiting at the playground for your kids, don’t get your phone out; on the train, at the train station, seek that time. Go for a walk without your phone. Go for a swim — swims are really good, because you can’t take your phone in with you. When you’re commuting in your car, don’t put the radio on.”
If we can “look for opportunities to let our minds wander,” Mann reckons, we can all become accustomed to breaking through the pain barrier of boredom once again, and relearn how to get lost in our own thoughts and till the fertile fields of our imagination. “When we’re daydreaming, we see things in different ways, and we kind of do all this lateral thinking and thinking outside the box — all those processes that are inhibited by consciousness. That’s why we need more boredom in our lives, so we can daydream and we can have the creativity back that I fear we, and the next generation, are losing.”
Eastwood, meanwhile, also wants us to focus on boredom as an emotion that’s in some ways beneficial to us, for all its bleak frustrations. He likens it, just as millions of teenagers do every day, to the experience of physical pain. “It’s good that we experience physical pain; if we couldn’t, we’d be in a lot of trouble.” As long as we respond well to it — we flinch away from the lit stove, or take positive steps to get a slipped disc properly treated — pain is the signal that “keeps our bodies safe.” We should see boredom in exactly the same light, says Eastwood: “Boredom is the signal that tells us our mental faculty is under-utilized. In a nutshell, boredom saves us from the possibility of stagnation.”
Throwing back some codeine for that slipped disc and hoping it will go away would be a terrible idea for your long-term pain prospects; similarly, it’s up to us to respond to boredom’s warning messages in the right way. “Just like pain, we could say, ‘This feeling of boredom is so aversive, I want to get rid of it as quick as I can: Let me play another game of Candy Crush,’” says Eastwood. “And so the boredom goes away, no doubt. But you haven’t addressed the underlying problem. Arguably, you’ve just made it worse.” Learn to listen to it, though, and respond to it in the right way, and boredom “can keep us moving toward the good life, toward flourishing.”
If we’re driven to passively consume games, gossip, current affairs, videoclips, feature articles about the psychology of boredom or anything else that’s sloshing around our own news feeds each time we’re threatened by the specter of an empty half-hour, we’ll always be, as Eastwood puts it, “a cork in the ocean that’s buffeted around by currents and pushed this way and that way.” Instead, what our brain is really telling us with its bored-now antsy-ness is that we should be actively propelling ourselves forward with purpose, to go out and do something meaningful instead. “The problem is, we have to be able to tolerate a little discomfort to find ourselves,” says Eastwood. “So boredom helps us: We’re thrown out of our interaction with the world; we’re stuck with ourselves for a moment. We don’t like it, but we have to stick with that and say, ‘Okay, who am I? What do I really want to do? What matters to me?’ And it provides that opportunity to reclaim our agency.”
Seize the day or seize the daydream — either way, we should stop seeing boredom as a thing to be dreaded, according to the people who study it for a living. For a life that’s more enlivened, fulfilled and creative — and ultimately just a whole lot less fidgety — we need to let a few more little creaky patches of boredom back into it. If that sounds too hellish a prospect, perhaps you shouldn’t hunker down for the full boregasm to begin with: Try a little light boreplay instead.
Now that one has to stick. Come on, this time, people! |
VID’s February 11 Meeting Focused on Endorsements
Co-President Mar Fitzgerald opened the February 11 meeting by announcing there would be lots of endorsements today. Co-President Cam Krause delivered the President’s Report, saying we had signed on to the Invest in Our New York Coalition, involved with taxation and advocating to invest in housing and public services. He also announced that the two Co-Presidents will be sending regular emails–David Siffert and Livvie Mann will be in charge. The 2021 Gala will be on Thursday, May 6. Notifications will be sent and a payment link established. Alvin Bragg will be holding a virtual fundraiser on Friday, February 12, called “Cocktails with Alvin”. The Education Committee wrote a resolution demanding amnesty for New York schools, which passed the Executive Committee.
Brad Hoylman will be holding phone banks, and Erik Bottcher has a new field director, and he’s trying to get vaccines for seniors. Irene Kaufman will hold an “emergency documents” forum with Deborah Glick on March 11–she will have more details in New Business. He cautioned members that the meeting is being recorded, and to turn the camera off if they don’t want to be in the recording.
District Leader Reports & Endorsements
Arthur Schwartz, District Leader candidate, announced he would combine his presentation with his District Leader Report, but would make it brief because it was also his birthday! He was also getting his second Covid-19 shot at 9 pm. He spoke of lawsuits he had brought including Jumaane Williams, Eric Adams, the Mayor, and Dianne Morales. He’s been working with David Siffert in a committee to push amendments to the State Democratic Party rules regarding gender non-conformity. He brought a lawsuit against the MTA for closing fare booths for their employees lunch breaks. He’s involved with PALM. He helps older people fight for apartments, and gets calls all the time. He worked hard to get Democratic voter turnout up. He hasn’t been endorsed by VID since 1997, and said it would be nice to be endorsed again. He also said he embodies the principles of the reform democratic movement and VID. This was followed by Q & A.
Now Jen Hoppe, the Female District Leader candidate, gave her presentation for endorsement. She said there were two reasons why she felt it was important to be endorsed: she expanded the network across the country to build coalitions with progressive leaders, including a coalition of clubs for Biden, and she helped organize the Manhattan Democratic Day of Action. And, she got to work with the Board of Elections, allowing her to see how badly reform is needed, and what needed to be reformed. She was honored to be involved in fixing the deep disfunction at the BOE.
Jen also gave a very brief District Leader Report, saying that County Committee assignments had been pushed ’til next year, but there were some open seats to be filled. See procedure here.
After discussion, the vote for Female District Leader was Jen Hoppe 94.7% and 5.2% No Endorsement. For Male District Leader, the totals were Arthur Schwartz 12% and 87.9% No Endorsement.
Judicial Candidate Endorsements
Now the Judges looking for endorsements made presentations:
First was George Santana, Civil Court candidate for the Second District. Then, Chris Chin, Edward Irizarry, Jeffrey Zellan, Betty Lugo, E. Derron Bowen, Kim Parker, and Harold Bahr.
These candidates were discussed and then votes were taken. In the Civil Court, County-Wide, the two winners were Kim Parker and E. Derron Bowen. In the Civil Court, Second District , the winners were Christopher Chin and No Endorsement.
Judicial Delegate Endorsements
For Judicial Delegates and Alternates, the winners and vote totals were: Ed Yutkowitz 58.1%, Irene Kaufman 80%, Karla Moskowitz 80%, Lauren Esposito 78.1%, Judith Jacobson 69%, Linda Jacobson 69%, Rick Braun 70.9%, Daniel Palmisano 67.3%, Cristy Dwyer 58.2%, and Ann Kjelberg 54.5%.
Mayoral Candidate Endorsements
The endorsement election for Mayor was held. The candidates had previously been viewed and questioned, so after discussion, a vote was held. The vote count was Scott Stringer 50.8%, Maya Wiley 22%, Eric Adams 8.5%, Andrew Yang 6.8%, Dianne Morales 5.1%, Shaun Donovan 1.7%, and No Endorsement 1.7%. Scott Stringer won the endorsement.
Tony Hoffmann of the Campaign Committee said there would be petitioning, but they were trying to figure out how to do it safely.
Grace Price, of the Campaign Finance Committee, said they needed more people, and asked people to join. She also said it appeared that Cy Vance had been reimbursed for travel expenses twice, but he had corrected it.
Patricia Laraia, of the Education Committee, distributed the School Amnesty Resolution. She explained that schools are financed by a projection of the number of students, and since the numbers are down due to the pandemic, the schools will be forced to make up the shortfall financially. This has happened before; in 2013 the schools were granted amnesty. Put to a vote, the Resolution passed with 31 in favor, none against, and 3 abstentions. Resolution on School Budget Amnesty
Nadine Hoffmann, of the Gun Reform Committee, merely stated that many resolutions that didn’t result in legislation last year will have to be restarted.
David Siffert, of the Legislative Affairs Committee, urged anyone interested in joining to contact him and he would add them to the list host.
Erik Bottcher, VID member and City Council candidate in District 3, appeared and made a short speech thanking VID for their endorsement and updating us on his campaign. He also introduced his new campaign manager, Hannah Moses, and she made a short presentation
Irene Kaufman stated that on March 11 she was going to hold a forum on what documents you may need in an emergency–templates for docs like power of attorney, emergency room forms, etc.
Cam Krause and David Siffert have been working on an Invest in Our New York phone bank on March 8. They will have more info soon, or you can contact David or Livvie Mann.
Jen showed the “cat attorney” meme to the club, which got a laugh.
The meeting was adjourned. |
Woah!!! We’re halfway there!
I reviewed it for my YouTube channel
Or we will be, after I give you this premium pro shot live recording of this first night in Wembley 1995!
It s a must see for every fan and beyond, and it will make the rest of this blog post, far more interesting 😉
This is my 10 minute video review ->
#21 Wembley 1 st night June 23 | 1995 Bon Jovi Concert Series (Stories)
I had so much fun with it!
“It” does not mean a balanced, thought through, overview with historical context of this first night of the legendary three Wembley concerts.
Whatever came to mind, sitting under the tree in my first outdoor video in years, and with my complicated analysis on pretty useless notes in front of me.
So the video turned out fresh and funny, but on the information side it was a bit thin! Aware being punctual and thorough was not its forte, I already announce in the video, I would compensate by writing it out, quite possibly in a blog post.
Which is this.
But if knowing Jon dances like Axl Rose at one point, ladies being snatched from behind the bar, and meme worthy speeches all time-stamped out for you, are all NOT need to know info for you?
You can skip the blog and just subscribe to my channel:
YouTube channel! Reviewing the 1995 Bon Jovi tour
For all your highly entertaining, yet stunningly incomplete Bon Jovi video reviews.
I will not be (double) covering any of the anecdotes from my video review.
And, disclaimer, even this written review is still incomplete and definitely does not do justice to the entire band, as my focus for the video review (hence: my notes) was on Jon Bon Jovi and his interaction with the audience.
Having said all that, let’s start!
“Are you alive out there?!”
Bon Jovi | 1st Night at Wembley Stadium | Fixed Audio! | London 1995
23 June 1995
Classic 1995 opening, with the “two puncher” Prayer and Bad Name,
topping it off with a double layer of Wild in the Streets!
01 Livin’ On A Prayer [0:40]
face paint & eye makeup Jon Bon Jovi:
Striking yellow or orange face paint on the cheeks, and dark eyeliner
02 You Give Love A Bad Name [5:45]
03 Wild In The Streets [9:27]
At [ 14:10 ] Jon jumps off the stage, shakes hands with the audience, puts a cowboy hat on, tosses it back into the audience, snatches a rose, clenches it between his teeth (in between singing his lines), providing excellent photogenic moments!
After Wild In The Streets [15:25] Jon always addresses the audience, and gets them excited for the 2 to 3 hours to come.
Jon indicates how special it is for them to be here, something that he will elaborate on later tonight.
He ends with:
“Fasten your seat belts and let me drive. Take it Hughy.”
Moving right into the bass line (from bass player Hugh McDonald)
of Keep the Faith ->
04 Keep The Faith [15:51]
When I first started watching concerts with other fans, I always wondered why they were referring to “Keep the Faith” as “Jungle”.
But if you start watching at [ 19:36 ] you can hear this “Sympathy for the Devil” like intermezzo, and in fact a cover of that song was played here occasionally!, but you can clearly hear the same jungle noises Mick Jagger makes here, and Jon even sings:
“It’s a jungle out there, baby.
You ve got to watch your back, and I ve got to watch mine.
It’s a jungle out there, mama!”
And then dropping onto one knee, for a dramatic pause. And back up just in time at the microphone.
05 Blood On Blood [23:17]
Blood On Blood never sounded better than with these amazing acoustic openings!
For those interested: Right here you can see there is a very large distance between crowd and stage, reminiscent of Live Aid, really.
Great showman-ship, when Jon stands tall at the mike!
Singing the legendary words:
“Bobby is an uptown layer.
And Danny is a medicine man.
I m a singer here…”
And the crowd roars:
“In a long-haired rock n roll band!!”
06 Always [29:16]
Always is that moment when you realize you’ve just seen the greatest male performer of the 20th century.
And for those who are still in doubt, Jon has Dry County up the sleeve of jacket number 2, the first of the two red leather ones, which you will see later.
07 I’d Die For You [36:59]
In Blood on Blood Jon Bon Jovi had already played the acoustic guitar;
But in I’d Die For You, Runaway, and a few more songs in this show, he plays electric.
At [ 37: 15 ] you see Jon and Richie opening the song, playing side by side.
Which brings me to the main unexplained difference between old and new Bon Jovi; Jon plays less guitar during shows.
For me, someone who rates music heavily based on the number of electric guitars and HOW HARD they’re being played!, I particularly miss what I will call “bad ass Jon” on electric guitar.
But I’d Die For You Wembley 1995?
Oh, yeah baby!
27:27 – and up
Some jaw-dropping shots of Tico working those drums!
Few would pull this off! What an intensity.
And at 1:16:30 Tico shows he can even do this, whilst smoking a cigarette!
08 Blaze Of Glory [41:56]
09 Runaway [47:37]
10 Dry County [52:42]
Okay, okay, okay! How do I say this without shouting?
I DON’T! WATCH THIS ONE! OMG! IF ONLY YOU WATCH ONE SONG FROM THIS ENTIRE SHOW LET IT BE DRY COUNTY!!!
The lyrics, the vocals, the dropping on tha knees, my friends!
The speech at 59 minutes!
I m somewhere between shouting and being speechless.
11 Lay Your Hands On Me [1:04:42]
Lay Your Hands is when the sermon comes in! Or, as Jon puts it:
“Welcome to Jonny’s church of Rock n Roll”
It is personally my favorite Bon Jovi song live. And if you don’t get enlightened, redeemed and your soul saved watching this?
I don’t know what will!
But even then there’s still the Axl Rose-like swaying, dancing, at 1:12:44 to enjoy.
And a rerun to being saved since the next song is introduced with:
“I think your souls are about to be saved!
Tico, gimme that beat baby!”
Kick-starting their classic 90s two-puncher closer routine of “the main show”:
Sleep When I m Dead, and Bad Medicine!
Cause they re just getting warmed up, baby!
12 I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead [1:14:28]
“Now I gotta know; Are you still ALIVE out there?!”
That’s how Sleep When I m Dead begins, dragging the audience into a teasing game that will last for two Bon Jovi songs, three covers, 22 minutes and four giant blowup dolls!
“Sleep” and “Bad Medicine” together, are like a small concert in and of their own right.
It’s the moment when there are the most fans on stage, two fully functional bars as far as I can see!
At 1:23:25 Jon Bon Jovi goes over to ask the female bartender for a dance, and it’s clearly not scripted, because initially she doesn’t even notice him, and he goes behind the bar, playing the chords to “Sleep” at the same time, before they wildly dance over the stage.
With little acts of theater that involve the entire band, countless musical intermezzos, numerous forms of dancing and waves and waves of heavy ass guitars, there are really no words to describe what an incredible party these two songs are!
~ Jumpin’ Jack Flash [1:19:46]
~ Papa Was A Rolling Stone [1:21:10]
13 Bad Medicine [1:24:49]
Part of their Rock Fest punchline, Bad Medicine is always where the boys take it home. But it has a hidden secret:
If he feels like it, then all Jon’s heavy duty driving the ladies craaaazy is done RIGHT HERE!
There is an improv moment that Jon can drag out as long as he wants, and when there are no cameras there?
No pending PG18 ratings?
Oh, then he gives all…..
However, Wembley night one was meant for the dvd which would later become Live From London. Because of audio problems, they eventually chose night 3.
But this show was recorded to be that professional concert registration, so that explains why the sexual atmosphere is not from the level I usually encounter at audio only bootlegs!
But, Jonny would not be Jonny without making the most out of it;
And at 1:28:18
You get the whole act, about shaking your ass and becoming rich and famous!
And according to them they had to break it off because of Richie’s mom looking at them!
~ Shout [1:31:35]
14 Bed Of Roses [1:36:23]
Now I m no fan of Bed of Roses, but it wasn’t until I started my 1995 review series, that I realized that 90’s Bed of Roses?
Oh, love that one!
Still not sure why it all makes such a difference, but Richie Sambora’s backing vocals for sure must be one reason why Bed of Roses 1995 was a killer one, to open the encore with.
15 Hey God [1:44:30]
16 Rockin’ All Over The World (w/ Steven Van Zandt) [1:51:26]
17 Richie Acoustic Guitar Solo [1:57:41]
Opening the second encore with a beautiful guitar song, and I have no doubt guitar playing Bon Jovi fans could tell me exactly which songs/ melodies he’s playing here;
This is the time to acknowledge both that Richie Sambora was such an important part of why 80s and 90s Bon Jovi was unprecedented.
And that my reviews, both this written one which was based on the notes I made to make a 10 minute video, as well as my video review and whatever I usually say in those videos;
Do not do him justice. Nor the other band members of Bon Jovi!
My reviews are very Jon-dominated, and I think I can get away with it, since I only make these small videos and I emphasize I’m a normal writer and not knowledgeable on music.
But it’s this guitar solo, right before Wanted Dead or Alive, that makes me realize I really wish I had more musical background, and the right vocabulary to describe it.
Which brings me to the next song, and the only song where even I can hear Richie:
18 Wanted Dead Or Alive [2:00:17]
In retrospect, I believe that although Richie does not sing all the time, that in essence? Wanted Dead or Alive is a duet.
That there was something incredibly tragic and inauspicious, already written here between the lines of what may be the greatest Bon Jovi song ever.
That if paid better attention, the tragedy of Richie leaving the band in 2013, was already weaved in.
For those with ears to hear, the message was clear.
19 Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night (w/ Steven Van Zandt) [2:06:09]
20 Jon asking audience what to play [2:15:44]
21 Good Guys Don’t Always Wear White [2:17:11]
22 This Ain’t A Love Song [2:21:58]
And so it ends; This Ain’t A Love Song
After three encores filled to the brim with rockers and straight forward partying, we’re dropped back into the drama filled final act of a 2,5 hour show.
Jon dances for us one more time.
Tico smokes another cigarette.
Richie looks more regal than ever; dressed fully in black, with a long coat and hat.
The fans on stage are long gone, the bar is deserted.
Jon throws the microphone stand to the side.
Drops on his knees, one final time, for the longest outro ever.
Singing, a wordless melody for minutes straight.
We hear Ritchie’s guitar, only the sound of strings and the wordless male voice singing about something that has never had vocabulary.
Yet we understood perfectly.
This ain’t a love song.
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An Indian cricket is currently exciting the internet for showing exceptional skills that have nothing to do with the game of cricket.
Royal Challengers Bangalore may have lost to Kings XI Punjab last night, but RCB fans had a field day with a video of captain Virat Kohli dancing before the match.
Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli was filmed dancing on the field ahead of the game. A video of the impromptu performance is now going viral on social media.
The video was shared on the microblogging platform by a Twitter user named Jatin. In the short clip, Kohli can be seen giving a fun twist to the pre-match warm-up with a huge smile on his face. Twitter is having a field day with the hilarious video of the dance performance ahead of the IPL 2020 clash.
Watch the video below:
ffs Kohli 😭😂 pic.twitter.com/rrdP48e8Tv
— J. (@LogicalBakwaas) October 15, 2020
Since being posted on Twitter last night, the 26-second clip has garnered over 4 lakh views and 26,000 ‘likes’.
For many Twitter users, the clip of Virat Kohli dancing translated into meme gold. Several people set it to Bollywood tunes. Watch with sound on:
Thursday’s match marked Virat Kohli’s 200th appearance for the Bangalore-based franchise. “RCB means a lot, not many understand that emotion. 200 games for them is unbelievable, I wouldn’t have believed it in 2008. It is an honour, they’ve kept me and I have stayed on,” said Kohli at the toss ahead of the match on Thursday.
Not bad dance steps at all for a cricketer. |
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in misinformation and conspiracy theories about the scale of the pandemic and the origin, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. False information, including intentional disinformation, has been spread through social media, text messaging, and mass media. Journalists have been arrested for allegedly spreading fake news about the pandemic. False information has also been propagated by celebrities, politicians, and other prominent public figures. The spread of COVID-19 misinformation by governments has also been significant.
Commercial scams have claimed to offer at-home tests, supposed preventives, and "miracle" cures. Several religious groups have claimed their faith will protect them from the virus. Without evidence, some people have claimed the virus is a bioweapon accidentally or purposefully leaked from a laboratory, a population control scheme, the result of a spy operation, or the side effect of 5G upgrades to cellular networks.
On 30 January 2020, the BBC reported on the growing number of conspiracy theories and bad health advice regarding COVID-19. Notable examples at the time included false health advice shared on social media and private chats, as well as conspiracy theories such as the disease's origins in (Chinese) bat soup and the outbreak being planned with the participation of the Pirbright Institute. On 31 January, The Guardian listed seven instances of misinformation, adding the conspiracy theories about bioweapons and the link to 5G technology, and including varied false health advice.
In an attempt to speed up research sharing, many researchers have turned to preprint servers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and SSRN. Papers are uploaded to these servers without peer review or any other editorial process that ensures research quality. Some of these papers have contributed to the spread of conspiracy theories. The most notable case was an unreviewed preprint paper uploaded to bioRxiv which claimed that the virus contained HIV "insertions". Following objections, the paper was withdrawn. Preprints about COVID-19 have been extensively shared online and some data suggest that they have been used by the media almost 10 times more than preprints on other topics.
According to a study published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, most misinformation related to COVID-19 involves "various forms of reconfiguration, where existing and often true information is spun, twisted, recontextualised, or reworked"; less misinformation "was completely fabricated". The study also found that "top-down misinformation from politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures", while accounting for a minority of the samples, captured a majority of the social media engagement. According to their classification, the largest category of misinformation (39%) was "misleading or false claims about the actions or policies of public authorities, including government and international bodies like the WHO or the UN".
A natural experiment—an experiment that takes place spontaneously, without human design or intervention—shows a potential link between coronavirus misinformation and increased infection and death. There was one instance of this reported where two similar television news shown on the same network were compared. One reported the effects of coronavirus more seriously and about a month earlier than the other. People and groups exposed to the news show reporting the effects later had higher infection and death rates.
Misinformation on this subject has been used by politicians, interest groups, and state actors in many countries for political purposes: to avoid responsibility, scapegoat other countries, and avoid criticism of their earlier decisions. Sometimes there is a financial motive as well. A number of countries have been accused of spreading disinformation with state-backed operations in the social media in other countries to generate panic, sow distrust, and undermine democratic debate in other countries, or to promote their models of government.
Virus origin theories
It is thought by most virologists that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in bats, and transferred to humans via a spillover event, possibly involving another intermediate animal host. However, many other origin stories have been told, ranging from claims of secret plots by political opponents to a conspiracy theory about mobile phones. The Pew Research Center found, for example, that one in three Americans believed the new coronavirus had been created in a lab; one in four thought it had been engineered intentionally.
Wuhan lab leak story
Though the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not been determined, unfounded speculation and conspiracy theories regarding the possibility the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology have gained popularity during the pandemic. Examples of hyperbole regarding this possibility say the pandemic was the result of an accidental leakage of a coronavirus, or that that the virus was engineered as a bio-weapon. Despite much speculation on the Internet, "lab" related theories are not supported by scientific evidence. Some proponents of this theory are dedicated to trying to unearth "evidence" which supports it, while attacking evidence which does not support such theories. Definitively proving or disproving a "lab" related origin of the virus is a difficult and lengthy process, and long investigations are required to provide a definitive proof or disproof of any theory of the virus' origin.
One early source of the bio-weapon origin was former Israeli secret service officer Dany Shoham, who gave an interview to The Washington Times about the Wuhan laboratory. The Epoch Times, a newspaper affiliated with Falun Gong, refers to the SARS-CoV-2 virus as the "CCP virus", and a commentary in the newspaper posed the question, "is the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan an accident occasioned by weaponizing the virus at that [Wuhan P4 virology] lab?" One scientist from Hong Kong, Li-Meng Yan, fled China and released a preprint stating the virus was modified in a lab rather than having a natural evolution. In a peer-review, her claims were labelled as misleading, not scientific, and an unethical promotion of "essentially conspiracy theories that are not founded in fact".
US politicians began spreading the unproven theories of a "lab" origin, including Republican Senators Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn, as well as then-President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Many scientists and authorities countered that the theories had no evidence to support the claims being made, including NIAID director Anthony Fauci and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. One popular idea used incorrectly to support the "lab" origin hypothesis invokes previous gain-of-function research on coronaviruses to support the idea that the virus was of laboratory origin. Virologist Angela Rasmussen writes that this is unlikely, due to the intense scrutiny and government oversight gain-of-function research is subject to, and it is improbable that research on hard-to obtain coronaviruses could occur under the radar.
In response to propagation of the "lab" origin theory in the US, the Chinese government has promulgated its own version of the conspiracy theory, holding that the virus was developed by the United States army at Fort Detrick.
On 9 February 2021 a team probing the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic for the World Health Organization said that that the coronavirus "most likely" originated in animals before spreading to humans, and rated the lab leak theory as "extremely unlikely", with Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO mission chief, saying in a subsequent interview to Science that as a consequence of the investigation, the lab leak theory was considered even more unlikely than before, and that although it was not "impossible," investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2 would likely continue for years.
Chinese espionage involving Canadian lab
Some people have alleged that the coronavirus was stolen from a Canadian virus research lab by Chinese scientists. Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada said that this had "no factual basis". The stories seem to have been derived from a July 2019 news article stating that some Chinese researchers had their security access to the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, a Level 4 virology lab, revoked after a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation. Canadian officials described this as an administrative matter and said there was no risk to the Canadian public.
The article was published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Responding to the conspiracy theories, the CBC stated that "CBC reporting never claimed the two scientists were spies, or that they brought any version of the coronavirus to the lab in Wuhan". While pathogen samples were transferred from the lab in Winnipeg to Beijing on 31 March 2019, neither of the samples was a coronavirus, the Public Health Agency of Canada says the shipment conformed to all federal policies, and there has not been any statement that the researchers under investigation were responsible for sending the shipment. The current location of the researchers under investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has not been released.
In the midst of the coronavirus epidemic, a senior research associate and expert in biological warfare with the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, referring to a NATO press conference, reported that secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg could not comment about the event, but expressed concerns about "increased efforts by the nations to spy on NATO allies in different ways". Nothing suggested that espionage was the reason behind the expulsions from the lab, that coronavirus was taken from the Canadian lab or that it is the result of bioweapons defense research in China.
United States biological weapon
According to London-based The Economist, plenty of conspiracy theories exist on China's internet about COVID-19 being the CIA's creation to keep China down. According to an investigation by ProPublica, such conspiracy theories and disinformation have been propagated under the direction of China News Service, the country's second largest government-owned media outlet controlled by the United Front Work Department. Global Times and Xinhua News Agency have similarly been implicated in propagating disinformation related to COVID-19's origins. NBC News however has noted that there have also been debunking efforts of US-related conspiracy theories posted online, with a WeChat search of "Coronavirus is from the U.S." reported to mostly yield articles explaining why such claims are unreasonable.[a] for example the CPC-owned newspaper Global Times.
On 12 March 2020, two spokesmen for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zhao Lijian and Geng Shuang, alleged at a press conference that Western powers may have "bio-engineered" the coronavirus, alluding to the US Government, but more specifically to the US Army as having created and spread the virus.
In January 2021, Hua Chunying renewed the conspiracy theory from Lijian and Shuang that the SARS-CoV-2 virus originating in the United States at the U.S. biological weapons lab Fort Detrick. This conspiracy theory quickly went trending on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, and Chunying continued to cite evidence on Twitter, while asking the government of the United States to open up Fort Detrick for further investigation to determine if it is the source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
On 22 February 2020, US officials alleged that Russia is behind an ongoing disinformation campaign, using thousands of social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to deliberately promote unfounded conspiracy theories, claiming the virus is a biological weapon manufactured by the CIA and the US is waging economic war on China using the virus.[b]
According to Washington DC-based nonprofit Middle East Media Research Institute, numerous writers in the Arabic press have promoted the conspiracy theory that COVID-19, as well as SARS and the swine flu virus, were deliberately created and spread to sell vaccines against these diseases, and it is "part of an economic and psychological war waged by the U.S. against China with the aim of weakening it and presenting it as a backward country and a source of diseases".[c]
The same theory has been reported via Iranian propaganda "to damage its culture and honor". Reza Malekzadeh, Iran's deputy health minister and former Minister of Health, rejected claims that the virus was a biological weapon, pointing out that the US would be suffering heavily from it. He said Iran was hard-hit because its close ties to China and reluctance to cut air ties introduced the virus, and because early cases had been mistaken for influenza.[d] The theory has also circulated in the Philippines[e] and Venezuela.[f]
In the Muslim world
Iran's Press TV asserted that "Zionist elements developed a deadlier strain of coronavirus against Iran". Similarly, Arab media outlets accused Israel and the United States of creating and spreading COVID-19, avian flu, and SARS. Users on social media offered other theories, including the allegation that Jews had manufactured COVID-19 to precipitate a global stock market collapse and thereby profit via insider trading, while a guest on Turkish television posited a more ambitious scenario in which Jews and Zionists had created COVID-19, avian flu, and Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever to "design the world, seize countries, [and] neuter the world's population".
Israeli attempts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine prompted negative reactions in Iran. Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi denied initial reports that he had ruled that a Zionist-made vaccine would be halal, and one Press TV journalist tweeted that "I'd rather take my chances with the virus than consume an Israeli vaccine". A columnist for the Turkish Yeni Akit asserted that such a vaccine could be a ruse to carry out mass sterilization.
In the United States
An alert by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding the possible threat of far-right extremists intentionally spreading the coronavirus mentioned blame being assigned to Jews and Jewish leaders for causing the pandemic and several statewide shutdowns.
In India, Muslims have been blamed for spreading infection following the emergence of cases linked to a Tablighi Jamaat religious gathering. There are reports of vilification of Muslims on social media and attacks on individuals in India. Claims have been made that Muslims are selling food contaminated with coronavirus and that a mosque in Patna was sheltering people from Italy and Iran. These claims were shown to be false. In the UK, there are reports of far-right groups blaming Muslims for the coronavirus outbreak and falsely claiming that mosques remained open after the national ban on large gatherings.
According to the BBC, Jordan Sather, a YouTuber supporting the QAnon conspiracy theory and the anti-vax movement, has falsely claimed that the outbreak was a population-control scheme created by the Pirbright Institute in England and by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
Piers Corbyn was described as "dangerous" by physician and broadcaster Hilary Jones during their joint interview on Good Morning Britain in early September 2020. Corbyn described the coronavirus as a "psychological operation to close down the economy in the interests of mega-corporations" and stated "vaccines cause death".
5G mobile phone networks
In February 2020, BBC News reported that conspiracy theorists on social media groups alleged a link between coronavirus and 5G mobile networks, claiming that the Wuhan and Diamond Princess outbreaks were directly caused by electromagnetic fields and by the introduction of 5G and wireless technologies. Conspiracy theorists have alleged that the pandemic was a cover-up for a 5G-related illness.
In March 2020, Thomas Cowan, a holistic medical practitioner who trained as a physician and operates on probation with the Medical Board of California, alleged that COVID-19 is caused by 5G. He based this on the claims that African countries had not been affected significantly by the pandemic and Africa was not a 5G region. Cowan also falsely alleged that the viruses were waste from cells that were poisoned by electromagnetic fields, and that historical viral pandemics coincided with major developments in radio technology.
The video of Cowan's claims went viral and was recirculated by celebrities, including Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, and singer Keri Hilson. The claims may also have been recirculated by an alleged "coordinated disinformation campaign", similar to campaigns used by the Internet Research Agency in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The claims were criticized on social media and debunked by Reuters, USA Today, Full Fact and American Public Health Association executive director Georges C. Benjamin.
Cowan's claims were repeated by Mark Steele, a conspiracy theorist who claimed to have first-hand knowledge that 5G was in fact a weapon system capable of causing symptoms identical to those produced by the virus. Kate Shemirani, a former nurse who had been struck off the UK nursing registry and had become a promoter of conspiracy theories, repeatedly claimed that these symptoms were identical to those produced by exposure to electromagnetic fields.
Steve Powis, national medical director of NHS England, described theories linking 5G mobile phone networks to COVID-19 as the "worst kind of fake news". Viruses cannot be transmitted by radio waves, and COVID-19 has spread and continues to spread in many countries that do not have 5G networks.
There were 20 suspected arson attacks on phone masts in the UK over the 2020 Easter weekend. These included an incident in Dagenham where three men were arrested on suspicion of arson, a fire in Huddersfield that affected a mast used by emergency services, and a fire in a mast that provides mobile connectivity to the NHS Nightingale Hospital Birmingham. Some telecom engineers reported threats of violence, including threats to stab and murder them, by individuals who believe them to be working on 5G networks. On 12 April 2020, Gardaí and fire services were called to fires at 5G masts in County Donegal, Ireland. The Gardaí were treating the fires as arson. After the arson attacks, British Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said the theory that COVID-19 virus may be spread by 5G wireless communication is "just nonsense, dangerous nonsense as well". Telecommunications provider Vodafone announced that two Vodafone masts and two it shares with O2, another provider, had been targeted.
By 6 April 2020, at least 20 mobile phone masts in the UK had been vandalised since the previous Thursday. Because of the slow rollout of 5G in the UK, many of the damaged masts had only 3G and 4G equipment. Mobile phone and home broadband operators estimated there were at least 30 incidents where engineers maintaining equipment were confronted in the week up to 6 April. As of 30 May, there had been 29 incidents of attempted arson at mobile phone masts in the Netherlands, including one case where "Fuck 5G" was written. There have also been incidents in Ireland and Cyprus. Facebook has deleted messages encouraging attacks on 5G equipment.
Engineers working for Openreach, a division of British Telecom, posted pleas on anti-5G Facebook groups asking to be spared abuse as they are not involved with maintaining mobile networks. Industry lobby group Mobile UK said the incidents were affecting the maintenance of networks that support home working and provide critical connections to vulnerable customers, emergency services, and hospitals. A widely circulated video showed a woman accusing employees of broadband company Community Fibre of installing 5G as part of a plan to kill the population.
Of those who believed that 5G networks caused COVID-19 symptoms, 60% stated that much of their knowledge about the virus came from YouTube. In April 2020, YouTube announced that it would reduce the amount of content claiming links between 5G and coronavirus. Videos that are conspiratorial about 5G that do not mention coronavirus would not be removed, though they might be considered "borderline content" and therefore removed from search recommendations, losing advertising revenue. The discredited claims had been circulated by British conspiracy theorist David Icke in videos (subsequently removed) on YouTube and Vimeo, and an interview by London Live TV network, prompting calls for action by Ofcom. It took YouTube on average 41 days to remove Covid-related videos containing false information in the first half of 2020.
Ofcom issued guidance to ITV following comments by Eamonn Holmes about 5G and coronavirus on This Morning. Ofcom said the comments were "ambiguous" and "ill-judged" and they "risked undermining viewers' trust in advice from public authorities and scientific evidence". Ofcom also found local channel London Live in breach of standards for an interview it had with David Icke. It said that he had "expressed views which had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers in London during the pandemic".
On 24 April 2020, The Guardian revealed that Jonathan Jones, an evangelical pastor from Luton, had provided the male voice on a recording blaming 5G for deaths caused by coronavirus. He claimed to have formerly headed the largest business unit at Vodafone, but insiders at the company said that he was hired for a sales position in 2014 when 5G was not a priority for the company and that 5G would not have been part of his job. He had left Vodafone after less than a year.
A tweet started an internet meme that Bank of England £20 banknotes contained a picture of a 5G mast and the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Facebook and YouTube removed items pushing this story, and fact checking organisations established that the picture is of Margate Lighthouse and the "virus" is the staircase at the Tate Britain.
American scientist selling virus to China
In April 2020, rumors circulated on Facebook, alleging that the US Government had "just discovered and arrested" Dr. Charles Lieber, chair of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Harvard University for "manufacturing and selling" the novel coronavirus to China. According to a report from Reuters, posts spreading the rumor were shared in multiple languages over 79,000 times on Facebook. Lieber was arrested on 28 January 2020, and later charged with two federal counts of making an allegedly false statement about his links to a Chinese university, unrelated to the virus. The rumor of Lieber, a chemist in an area entirely unrelated to the virus research, creating the coronavirus and selling it to China has been discredited.
In 2020, a group of researchers that most notably included Edward J. Steele and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe, claimed in ten research papers that COVID-19 originated from a meteor spotted as a bright fireball over the city of Songyuan in Northeast China on 11 October 2019 and that a fragment of the meteor landed in the Wuhan area, which started the first COVID-19 outbreaks. However, the group of researchers did not provide any direct evidence proving this theory.
Misreporting of morbidity and mortality numbers
Correctly reporting the number of people who were sick or who had died was a struggle, especially during the earliest days of the pandemic. In the US, the public health handling of the pandemic has been hampered by the use of archaic technology (including FAX machines and incompatible formats), poor data flow and management (or even no access to data), and general lack of standardization and leadership. Privacy laws hampered contact tracing and case finding efforts, which resulted in under-diagnosis and under-reporting.
Accusations have been made of under-reporting, over-reporting, and other problems. Necessary data was corrupted in some places, for example, on the state level in the United States.
Chinese under-reporting during early 2020
Leaked documents show that China's public reporting of cases gave an incomplete picture during the early stages of the pandemic. For example, on 10 February 2020, China publicly reported 2,478 new confirmed cases. However, confidential internal documents that later leaked to CNN showed 5,918 new cases on 10 February. [clarification needed], 1,772 clinically diagnosed cases and 1,796 suspected cases.
Misleading Johns Hopkins News-Letter article
On 22 November 2020 a study by assistant director for the Master's in Applied Economics Genevieve Briand was published in the student-run newspaper Johns Hopkins News-Letter, and later retracted due to it being used to spread misinformation on social media. The study incorrectly suggested that there were no excess deaths due to COVID-19 in the US without taking into account the total excess mortality from all causes reported during the pandemic, with 300,000 being associated to it per CDC data. Deaths per age group were also shown as a proportion percentage rather than in raw numbers under the erroneous presumption that they would reflect the effects of the pandemic. In addition, the study observed a reduction in deaths from other causes and suggested that deaths due to heart and respiratory diseases could be being incorrectly categorized as deaths due to COVID-19, failing to take into account that those with such conditions are more vulnerable to the virus and therefore more likely to die from it.
Allegations of inflated death counts
In August 2020, President Donald Trump retweeted that only 6% of reported COVID-19 deaths in the United States were actually from the disease, based on COVID-19 being the only condition listed on the death certificate. The lead mortality statistician at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics said that those death certificates likely did not include all the steps that led to the death and thus were incomplete. The CDC collects data based on case surveillance, vital records, and excess deaths. A factcheck.org article on the issue reported that while 6% of the death certificates included COVID-19 exclusively as the cause of death and 94% had additional conditions that contributed to it, COVID-19 was listed as the underlying cause of death in 92% of them, as it may directly cause other severe conditions such as pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome. In mid-October 2020, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States was reported at 218,511 (CDC), 219,681 (Johns Hopkins University) and 219,541 (The New York Times).
Alleged leak of death toll
On 5 February 2020, Taiwan News published an article claiming that Tencent may have accidentally leaked the real numbers of death and infection in China. Taiwan News suggested that the Tencent Epidemic Situation Tracker had briefly showed infected cases and death tolls many times higher of the official figure, citing a Facebook post by 38-year-old Taiwanese beverage store owner Hiroki Lo and an anonymous Taiwanese netizen.[better source needed] The article, referenced by other news outlets such as the Daily Mail and widely circulated on Twitter, Facebook and 4chan, sparked a wide range of conspiracy theories that the screenshot indicates the real death toll instead of the ones published by health officials. Justin Lessler, associate professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, claims the numbers of the alleged "leak" are unreasonable and unrealistic, citing the case fatality rate as far lower than the 'leaked information'. A spokesman for Tencent responded to the news article, claiming the image was doctored, and it features "false information which we never published".
Mass cremation in Wuhan
On 8 February 2020, a report emerged on Twitter claiming that "data" showed a massive increase in sulfur emissions over Wuhan, China. The Twitter thread then claimed the reason was due to the mass cremation of coronavirus victims. The story was shared on multiple media outlets, including Daily Express, Daily Mail, and Taiwan News. Snopes debunked the misinformation, pointing out that the maps used by the claims were not real-time observations of sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations above Wuhan. Instead, the data was a computer-generated model based on historical information and forecast on SO2 emissions.
A story in The Epoch Times on 17 February 2020 shared a map from the Internet that falsely alleged massive sulfur dioxide releases from crematoriums during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, speculating that 14,000 bodies may have been burned. A fact check by AFP reported that the map was a NASA forecast taken out of context.
Misinformation against Taiwan
On 26 February 2020, the Taiwanese Central News Agency reported that large amounts of misinformation had appeared on Facebook claiming the pandemic in Taiwan was out of control, the Taiwanese government had covered up the total number of cases, and that President Tsai Ing-wen had been infected. The Taiwan fact-checking organization had suggested the misinformation on Facebook shared similarities with mainland China due to its use of simplified Chinese characters and mainland China vocabulary. The organization warned that the purpose of the misinformation is to attack the government.
In March 2020, Taiwan's Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau warned that China was trying to undermine trust in factual news by portraying the Taiwanese government reports as fake news. Taiwanese authorities have been ordered to use all possible means to track whether the messages were linked to instructions given by the Chinese Communist Party. The PRC's Taiwan Affairs Office denied the claims, calling them lies, and said that Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party was "inciting hatred" between the two sides. They then claimed that the "DPP continues to politically manipulate the virus". According to The Washington Post, China has used organized disinformation campaigns against Taiwan for decades.
Nick Monaco, the research director of the Digital Intelligence Lab at Institute for the Future, analyzed the posts and concluded that the majority appear to have come from ordinary users in China, not the state. However, he criticized the Chinese government's decision to allow the information to spread beyond China's Great Firewall, which he described as "malicious". According to Taiwan News, nearly one in four cases of misinformation are believed to be connected to China.
Misrepresented World Population Project map
In early February 2020, a decade-old map illustrating a hypothetical viral outbreak published by the World Population Project (part of the University of Southampton) was misappropriated by a number of Australian media news outlets (and British tabloids The Sun, Daily Mail and Metro) which claimed the map represented the 2020 coronavirus outbreak. This misinformation was then spread via the social media accounts of the same media outlets, and while some outlets later removed the map, the BBC reported, on 19 February, that a number of news sites had yet to retract the map.
On 24 January 2020, a video circulated online appearing to be of a nurse named Jin Hui in Hubei, describing a far more dire situation in Wuhan than reported by Chinese officials. The video claimed that more than 90,000 people had been infected with the virus in China, that the virus could spread from one person to 14 people (R0=14) and that the virus was starting a second mutation. The video attracted millions of views on various social media platforms and was mentioned in numerous online reports. However, the BBC said that, contrary to its English subtitles in one of the video's existing versions, the woman does not claim to be either a nurse or a doctor in the video and that her suit and mask do not match the ones worn by medical staff in Hubei. The claimed R0 of 14 in the video was noted by the BBC to be inconsistent with the expert estimation of 1.4 to 2.5 at that time. The video's claim of 90,000 infected cases was noted to be 'unsubstantiated'.
Decline in cellphone subscriptions
There was a decrease of nearly 21 million cellphone subscriptions among the three largest cellphone carriers in China, which led to misinformation that this is evidence for millions of deaths due to the coronavirus in China. The drop is attributed to cancellations of phone services due to a downturn in the social and economic life during the outbreak.
COVID-19 deniers use the word casedemic as a shorthand for a conspiracy theory holding that COVID-19 is harmless and that the reported disease figures are merely a result of increased testing. The concept is particularly attractive to anti-vaccination activists, who use it to argue that public health measures, and particularly vaccines, are not needed to counter what they say is a fake epidemic.
David Gorski writes that the word casedemic was seemingly coined by Ivor Cummins – an engineer whose views are popular among COVID-19 deniers – in August 2020.
The term has been adopted by alternative medicine advocate Joseph Mercola, who has exaggerated the effect of false positives in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to construct a false narrative that testing is invalid because it is not perfectly accurate. In reality, the problems with PCR testing are well-known and accounted for by public health authorities. Such claims also disregard the possibility of asymptomatic spread, the number of potentially-undetected cases during the initial phases of the pandemic in comparison to the present due to increased testing and knowledge since, and other variables that can influence PCR tests.
Early in the pandemic, little information was known about how the virus spreads, when the first people became sick, or who was most vulnerable to infection, serious complications, or death. During 2020, it became clear that the main route of spread was through exposure to the virus-laden respiratory droplets produced by an infected person. There were also some early questions about whether the disease might have been present earlier than reported; however, subsequent research disproved this idea.
California herd immunity in 2019
On 31 March 2020, Victor Davis Hanson publicized a theory that COVID-19 may have been in California in the fall of 2019 resulting in a level of herd immunity to at least partially explain differences in infection rates in cities such as New York City vs Los Angeles. Jeff Smith of Santa Clara County stated that evidence indicated the virus may have been in California since December 2019. Early genetic and antibody analyses refute the idea that the virus was in the United States prior to January 2020.[needs update]
In March, conspiracy theorists started the false rumor that Maatje Benassi, a US army reservist, was "Patient Zero" of the pandemic, the first person to be infected with coronavirus. Benassi was targeted because of her participation in the 2019 Military World Games at Wuhan before the pandemic started, even though she never tested positive for the virus. Conspiracy theorists even connected her family to the DJ Benny Benassi as a Benassi virus plot, even though they are not related and Benny had also not had the virus.
Surface and Fomite Transmission
Early in the pandemic it was claimed that COVID-19 could be spread by contact with contaminated surfaces or fomites—even though this is an uncommon transmission route for other respiratory viruses. This led to recommendations that high-contact surfaces (like playground equipment or school desks) be frequently deep-cleaned and that certain items (like groceries or mailed packages) be disinfected. Ultimately, the US CDC concluded that the likelihood of transmission under these scenarios was less than 1 in 10,000. They further concluded that handwashing reduced the risk of exposure to COVID-19, but surface disinfection did not.
Resistance/susceptibility based on ethnicity
There have been claims that specific ethnicities are more or less vulnerable to COVID-19. COVID-19 is a new zoonotic disease, so no population has yet had the time to develop population immunity.[medical citation needed]
Beginning on 11 February, reports, quickly spread via Facebook, implied that a Cameroonian student in China had been completely cured of the virus due to his African genetics. While a student was successfully treated, other media sources have indicated that no evidence implies Africans are more resistant to the virus and labeled such claims as false information. Kenyan Secretary of Health Mutahi Kagwe explicitly refuted rumors that "those with black skin cannot get coronavirus", while announcing Kenya's first case on 13 March. This myth was cited as a contributing factor in the disproportionately high rates of infection and death observed among African Americans.
There have been claims of "Indian immunity": that the people of India have more immunity to the COVID-19 virus due to living conditions in India. This idea was deemed "absolute drivel" by Anand Krishnan, professor at the Centre for Community Medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He said there was no population immunity to the COVID-19 virus yet, as it is new, and it is not even clear whether people who have recovered from COVID-19 will have lasting immunity, as this happens with some viruses but not with others.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed the virus was genetically targeted at Iranians by the US, giving this explanation for the pandemic having seriously affected Iran. He did not offer any evidence.
A group of Jordanian researchers published a report claiming that Arabs are less vulnerable to COVID-19 due to a genetic variation specific to those of Middle East heritage. This paper had not been debunked by November 2020.
Xenophobic blaming by ethnicity and religion
COVID-19-related xenophobic attacks have been made against individuals with the attacker blaming the victim for COVID-19 on the basis of his or her ethnicity. People who are considered to look Chinese have been subjected to COVID-19-related verbal and physical attacks in many other countries, often by people accusing them of transmitting the virus. Within China, there has been discrimination (such as evictions and refusal of service in shops) against people from anywhere closer to Wuhan (where the pandemic started) and against anyone perceived as being non-Chinese (especially those considered African), as the Chinese government has blamed continuing cases on re-introductions of the virus from abroad (90% of reintroduced cases were by Chinese passport-holders). Neighbouring countries have also discriminated against people seen as Westerners.
People have also simply blamed other local groups along the lines of pre-existing social tensions and divisions, sometimes citing reporting of COVID-19 cases within that group. For instance, Muslims have been widely blamed, shunned, and discriminated against in India (including some violent attacks), amid unfounded claims that Muslims are deliberately spreading COVID-19, and a Muslim event at which the disease did spread has received far more public attention than many similar events run by other groups and the government. White supremacist groups have blamed COVID-19 on non-whites and advocated deliberately infecting minorities they dislike, such as Jews.
Bat soup consumption
Some media outlets, including Daily Mail and RT, as well as individuals, disseminated a video showing a Chinese woman eating a bat, falsely suggesting it was filmed in Wuhan and connecting it to the outbreak. However, the widely circulated video contains unrelated footage of a Chinese travel vlogger, Wang Mengyun, eating bat soup in the island country of Palau in 2016. Wang posted an apology on Weibo, in which she said she had been abused and threatened, and that she had only wanted to showcase Palauan cuisine. The spread of misinformation about bat consumption has been characterized by xenophobic and racist sentiment toward Asians. In contrast, scientists suggest the virus originated in bats and migrated into an intermediary host animal before infecting people.
South Korean "conservative populist" Jun Kwang-hun told his followers there was no risk to mass public gatherings as the virus was impossible to contract outdoors. Many of his followers are elderly.
Lifetime of the virus
Misinformation has spread that the lifetime of SARS-CoV-2 is only 12 hours and that staying home for 14 hours during the Janata curfew would break the chain of transmission. Another message claimed that observing the Janata curfew would result in the reduction of COVID-19 cases by 40%.
A fake Costco product recall notice circulated on social media purporting that Kirkland-brand bath tissue had been contaminated with COVID-19 (meaning SARS-CoV-2) due to the item being made in China. No evidence supports that SARS-CoV-2 can survive on surfaces for prolonged periods of time (as might happen during shipping), and Costco has not issued such a recall.
There were claims that wearing shoes at one's home was the reason behind the spread of the coronavirus in Italy.
Cruise ships' safety from infection
In March 2020, the Miami New Times reported that managers at Norwegian Cruise Line had prepared a set of responses intended to convince wary customers to book cruises, including "blatantly false" claims that the coronavirus "can only survive in cold temperatures, so the Caribbean is a fantastic choice for your next cruise", that "[s]cientists and medical professionals have confirmed that the warm weather of the spring will be the end of the [c]oronavirus", and that the virus "cannot live in the amazingly warm and tropical temperatures that your cruise will be sailing to".
Flu is seasonal (becoming less frequent in the summer) in some countries, but not in others. While it is possible that the COVID-19 coronavirus will also show some seasonality, it is not yet known.[medical citation needed] When the COVID-19 coronavirus spread along international air travel routes, it does not bypass tropical locations. Outbreaks on cruise ships, where an older population lives in close quarters, frequently touching surfaces which others have touched, were common.
It seems that COVID-19 can be transmitted in all climates. It has seriously affected many warm-climate countries. For instance, Dubai, with a year-round average daily high of 28.0 Celsius (82.3 °F) and the airport said to have the world's most international traffic, has had thousands of cases.[medical citation needed]
While commercial companies that make breastmilk substitutes promote their products during the pandemic, the WHO and UNICEF advise that women should continue to breastfeed during the COVID-19 pandemic even if they have confirmed or suspected COVID-19. Current evidence indicates that it is unlikely that COVID-19 can be transmitted through breast milk.
People tried many different things to prevent infection. Sometimes the misinformation was false claims of efficacy, such as claims that the virus could not spread during religious ceremonies, and other times, and other times, the misinformation was false claims of inefficacy, such as claiming that alcohol-based hand sanitizer did not work. In other cases, especially with regard to public health advice about wearing face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, additional scientific evidence resulted in different advice over time.
Efficacy of hand sanitizer, "antibacterial" soaps
Claims that hand sanitizer is merely "antibacterial not antiviral", and therefore ineffective against COVID-19, have spread widely on Twitter and other social networks. While the effectiveness of sanitiser depends on the specific ingredients, most hand sanitiser sold commercially inactivates SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Hand sanitizer is recommended against COVID-19, though unlike soap, it is not effective against all types of germs. Washing in soap and water for at least 20 seconds is recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as the best way to clean hands in most situations. However, if soap and water are not available, a hand sanitizer that is at least 60% alcohol can be used instead, unless hands are visibly dirty or greasy. The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration both recommend plain soap; there is no evidence that "antibacterial soaps" are any better, and limited evidence that they might be worse long-term.
Public use of face masks
Although authorities, especially in Asia, recommended wearing face masks in public, in other parts of the world conflicting advice caused confusion among the general population. Several governments and institutions, such as in the United States, initially dismissed the use of face masks by the general population, often with misleading or incomplete information about their effectiveness. Commentators have attributed the anti-mask messaging to efforts to manage the mask shortages, as governments did not act quickly enough, remarking that the claims go beyond the science or were simply lies.
In February 2020, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams tweeted "Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus", but he later reversed his position with evidence mounting that masks can limit the spread of coronavirus. On 12 June 2020, Anthony Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, confirmed that the American public were told not to wear masks from the beginning due to the shortage of masks and explained that masks do actually work.
Some media outlets claimed that neck gaiters were worse than not wearing masks at all in the COVID-19 pandemic, misinterpreting a study which was intended to demonstrate a method for evaluating masks (and not actually to determine the effectiveness of different types of masks). The study also only looked at one wearer wearing the one neck gaiter made from a polyester/spandex blend, which is not sufficient evidence to support the claim about gaiters made in the media. The study found that the neck gaiter, which was made from a thin and stretchy material, appeared to be ineffective at limiting airborne droplets expelled from the wearer; Isaac Henrion, one of the co-authors, suggests that the result was likely due to the material rather than the style, stating that "Any mask made from that fabric would probably have the same result, no matter the design." Warren S. Warren, a co-author, said that they tried to be careful with their language in interviews, but added that the press coverage has "careened out of control" for a study testing a measuring technique.
There are false claims spread that the usage of masks causes adverse health-related issues such as low blood oxygen levels, high blood carbon dioxide levels, and a weakened immune system. Some also falsely claimed that masks cause antibiotic-resistant pneumonia by preventing pathogenic organisms to be exhaled away from the body.
Anti-maskers have called upon bogus claims about legal or medical exemptions in their refusal to mask. They have, for instance, claimed that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; designed to prohibit discrimination based on disabilities) allows exemption from mask requirements, but the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) responded by stating that the act "does not provide a blanket exemption to people with disabilities from complying with legitimate safety requirements necessary for safe operations." The DOJ has issued a warning about cards (some featuring DOJ logos and notices about ADA) that "exempt" its holder from wearing a mask, stating that they are fraudulent and were not issued by a government agency.
On 31 July 2020, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte said those who didn't have cleaning supplies could use gasoline as a disinfectant to clean their masks. He further stated that "For people who don't [have Lysol], drench it in gasoline or diesel... just find some gasoline [and] dip your hand [with the mask] in it." His spokesman Harry Roque later corrected him.
Contrary to some reports, drinking alcohol does not protect against COVID-19, and can increase health risks (short term and long term). Drinking alcohol is ethanol; other alcohols, such as methanol, which causes methanol poisoning, are acutely poisonous, and may be present in badly prepared alcoholic beverages.
Iran has reported incidents of methanol poisoning, caused by the false belief that drinking alcohol would cure or protect against coronavirus; alcohol is banned in Iran, and bootleg alcohol may contain methanol. According to Iranian media in March 2020, nearly 300 people have died and more than a thousand have become ill due to methanol poisoning, while Associated Press gave figures of around 480 deaths with 2,850 others affected. The number of deaths due to methanol poisoning in Iran reached over 700 by April. Iranian social media had circulated a story from British tabloids that a British man and others had been cured of coronavirus with whiskey and honey, which combined with the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers as disinfectants, led to the false belief that drinking high-proof alcohol can kill the virus.
In Kenya, in April 2020, the Governor of Nairobi Mike Sonko came under scrutiny for including small bottles of the cognac Hennessy in care packages, falsely claiming that alcohol serves as "throat sanitizer" and that, from research, it is believed that "alcohol plays a major role in killing the coronavirus."
Warm or hot drinks
There were several claims that drinking warm drinks from around 30 °C protects you from COVID-19, most notably by Alberto Fernández, the president of Argentina said "The WHO recommends that one drink many hot drinks because heat kills the virus". Scientists commented that the WHO had made no such recommendation, and that drinking hot water can damage the oral mucosa.
These false claims mostly spread out across social media and in Latin American countries.
Claims that vegetarians are immune to coronavirus spread online in India, causing "#NoMeat_NoCoronaVirus" to trend on Twitter. Eating meat does not have an effect on COVID-19 spread, according to Dr. Anand Krishnan of AIIMS. Fisheries, Dairying and Animal Husbandry Minister Giriraj Singh said the rumour had significantly affected industry, with the price of a chicken falling to a third of pre-pandemic levels. He also described efforts to improve the hygiene of the meat supply chain.
A number of religious groups have claimed protection due to their faith, some refusing to stop large religious gatherings. In Israel, some Ultra-Orthodox Jews initially refused to close synagogues and religious seminaries and disregarded government restrictions because "The Torah protects and saves", which resulted in an eight-fold faster rate of infection among some groups. The Islamic missionary movement Tablighi Jamaat organised Ijtema mass gatherings in Malaysia, India, and Pakistan whose participants believed that God will protect them, causing the biggest rise in COVID-19 cases in these and other countries. In Iran, the head of Fatima Masumeh Shrine encouraged pilgrims to visit the shrine despite calls to close the shrine, saying that they "consider this holy shrine to be a place of healing." In South Korea the River of Grace Community Church in Gyeonggi Province spread the virus after spraying salt water into their members' mouths in the belief that it would kill the virus, while the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu where a church leader claimed that no Shincheonji worshipers had caught the virus in February while hundreds died in Wuhan, later caused in the biggest spread of the virus in the country.
In Tanzania, President John Magufuli, instead of banning congregations, urged the faithfuls to go to pray in churches and mosques in the belief that it will protect them. He said that the coronavirus is a devil, therefore "cannot survive in the body of Jesus Christ, it will burn" (the "body of Jesus Christ" refers to the church).
Despite the coronavirus outbreak, on 9 March 2020, the Church of Greece announced that Holy Communion, in which churchgoers eat pieces of bread soaked in wine from the same chalice, would continue as a practice. The Holy Synod said Holy Communion "cannot be the cause of the spread of illness", with Metropolitan Seraphim saying the wine was without blemish because it represented the blood and body of Christ, and that "whoever attends Holy Communion is approaching God, who has the power to heal." The Church refused to restrict Christians from taking Holy Communion, which was supported by several clerics, some politicians, and health professionals. The Greek Association of Hospital Doctors criticized these professionals for putting their religious beliefs before science. A review of the medical publications on the subject, published by a Greek physician, claims that the transmission of any infectious disease through the Holy Communion has never been documented. This controversy divided the Greek society, the politics and medical experts.
Cocaine does not protect against COVID-19. Several viral tweets purporting that snorting cocaine would sterilize one's nostrils of the coronavirus spread around Europe and Africa. In response, the French Ministry of Health released a public service announcement debunking this claim, saying "No, cocaine does NOT protect against COVID-19. It is an addictive drug that causes serious side effects and is harmful to people's health." The World Health Organization also debunked the claim.
In Sri Lanka and Philippine and India, it has been claimed that one should stay at home on particular days when helicopters spray "COVID–19 disinfectant" over homes. No such spraying has taken place, nor is it planned, nor, as of July 2020, is there any such agent to be sprayed.
The notion that the vibrations generated by clapping together during March 2020 Janata curfew would kill the virus was debunked by the media. Amitabh Bachchan was heavily criticised for one of his tweets, which claimed vibrations from clapping, blowing conch shells as part of the Janata Curfew would have reduced or destroyed coronavirus potency as it was Amavasya, the darkest day of the month.
In India, fake news circulated that the World Health Organization warned against eating cabbage to prevent coronavirus infection. Claims that the poisonous fruit of the Datura plant is a preventive measure for COVID-19 resulted in eleven people being hospitalized in India. They ate the fruit, following the instructions from a TikTok video that propagated misinformation regarding the prevention of COVID-19.
Anti-vaccination activists and other people spread a variety of rumors, including overblown claims about side effects, a story about COVID-19 being spread by childhood vaccines, misrepresentations about how the immune system works, and when and how COVID-19 vaccines are made.
Role of mRNA
Claims of altering human DNA
The use of mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 has been the basis of misinformation circulated in social media, wrongly claiming that the use of RNA somehow alters a person's DNA. The DNA alteration conspiracy theory was cited by a Wisconsin hospital pharmacist who deliberately removed 57 vaccine vials from cold storage in December 2020 and was subsequently charged with felony reckless endangerment and criminal damage to property by Ozaukee County prosecutors.
mRNA in the cytosol is very rapidly degraded before it would have time to gain entry into the cell nucleus. (mRNA vaccines must be stored at very low temperature to prevent mRNA degradation.) Retrovirus can be single-stranded RNA (just as SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is single-stranded RNA) which enters the cell nucleus and uses reverse transcriptase to make DNA from the RNA in the cell nucleus. A retrovirus has mechanisms to be imported into the nucleus, but other mRNA lack these mechanisms. Once inside the nucleus, creation of DNA from RNA cannot occur without a primer, which accompanies a retrovirus, but which would not exist for other mRNA if placed in the nucleus. Thus, mRNA vaccines cannot alter DNA because they cannot enter the nucleus, and because they have no primer to activate reverse transcriptase.
Claims that mRNA vaccines are still experimental
There is a claim that mRNA vaccines are still experimental. mRNA vaccines have been used by over 8 million people. At the moment there is no evidence of the development of autoimmune diseases.
In a viral blog post, German politician Wolfgang Wodarg, together with ex-Pfizer employee Michael Yeadon, spread misinformation claiming that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility in women. Commenting on these claims, David Gorski wrote "The sad thing is that this not-so-dynamic duo is stoking real fear that the new COVID-19 vaccines will make women infertile and is doing it based on speculative nonsense".
Polio vaccine as a claimed COVID-19 carrier
Social media posts in Cameroon pushed a conspiracy theory that polio vaccines contained coronavirus, further complicating polio eradication beyond the logistical and funding difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claims have been circulated on social media that the Pfizer‑BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine (active ingredient tozinameran) causes Bell's palsy. During the trial, four of the 22,000 trial participants had Bell's palsy, the FDA observed that the "frequency of reported Bell's palsy in the vaccine group is consistent with the expected background rate in the general population".
Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) is the phenomenon by which the immune system can overreact to the introduction of material against which it already has antibodies. ADE has been observed in animal studies during the development of coronavirus vaccines, but as of 14 December 2020[update] there had been no observed incidences in human vaccine trials. Nevertheless anti-vaccination activists falsely cite ADE as a reason to avoid vaccination against COVID-19.
Claims about a vaccine before one existed
Multiple social media posts promoted a conspiracy theory claiming that in the early stages of the pandemic, the virus was known and that a vaccine was already available. PolitiFact and FactCheck.org noted that no vaccine existed for COVID-19 at that point. The patents cited by various social media posts reference existing patents for genetic sequences and vaccines for other strains of coronavirus such as the SARS coronavirus. The WHO reported that as of 5 February 2020, despite news reports of "breakthrough drugs" being discovered, there were no treatments known to be effective; this included antibiotics and herbal remedies not being useful.
On Facebook, a widely shared post claimed in April 2020 that seven Senegalese children had died because they had received a COVID-19 vaccine. No such vaccine existed, although some were in clinical trials at that time.
Aborted fetus material in the vaccine
In November 2020, claims circulated on the web that AZD1222, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, "contained" tissue from aborted fetuses. While it is true that cell lines derived from a fetus aborted in 1970 plays a role in the vaccine development process, the molecules are completely separate from the vaccine itself.
Risk of prion disease
A widely-reposted 2021 Facebook post claiming that the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 could cause prion diseases was based on a paper by J. Bart Classen. The paper was published in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, whose publisher, Scivision Publishers, is included in Beall's list of publishers of predatory journals. Vincent Racaniello, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, described the claim as "completely wrong".
Widely circulated posts on social media have made many unfounded claims of methods against coronavirus. Some of these claims are scams, and some promoted methods are dangerous and unhealthy.
Some conservative figures in the United States, such as Richard Epstein, downplayed the scale of the pandemic, saying it has been exaggerated as part of an effort to hurt President Trump. Some people pointed to empty hospital parking lots as evidence that the virus has been exaggerated. Despite the empty parking lots, many hospitals in New York City and other places experienced thousands of COVID-19-related hospitalizations.
Various national and party-held Chinese media heavily advertised an "overnight research" report by Wuhan Institute of Virology and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, on how shuanghuanglian, an herb mixture from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), can effectively inhibit the novel coronavirus. The report led to a purchase craze of shuanghuanglian.
The president of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina launched and promoted in April 2020 a herbal drink based on an artemisia plant as a miracle cure that can treat and prevent COVID-19 despite a lack of medical evidence. The drink has been exported to other African countries.
In February 2020, claims that Vitamin D pills could help prevent the coronavirus circulated on social media in Thailand. In May 2020, the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, while noting that "current advice is that the whole population of the UK should take vitamin D supplements to prevent vitamin D deficiency", found "no clinical evidence that vitamin D supplements are beneficial in preventing or treating COVID-19".
Common cold and flu treatments
There were also claims that a 30-year-old Indian textbook lists aspirin, antihistamines, and nasal spray as treatments for COVID-19. The textbook actually talks about coronaviruses in general, as a family of viruses.
A rumor circulated on social media posts on Weibo, Facebook and Twitter claiming that Chinese experts said saline solutions could kill the coronavirus. There is no evidence that saline solutions have such an effect.
A tweet from French health minister Olivier Véran, a bulletin from the French health ministry, and a small speculative study in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine raised concerns about ibuprofen worsening COVID-19, which spread extensively on social media. The European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organization recommended COVID-19 patients keep taking ibuprofen as directed, citing lack of convincing evidence of any danger.
Animal-based products or foods
Indian political activist Swami Chakrapani and Member of the Legislative Assembly Suman Haripriya claimed that drinking cow urine and applying cow dung on the body can cure COVID-19. WHO's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan criticised politicians incautiously spreading such misinformation without an evidence base.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) prescriptions
Since its third version, the COVID management guidelines from the Chinese National Health Commission recommends using Traditional Chinese Medicines to treat the disease. In Wuhan, China Central Television reported that local authorities have pushed for a set of TCM prescriptions to be used for every case since early February. One formula was promoted at the national level by mid-February. The local field hospitals were explicitly TCM-oriented. According to state media, as of 16 March 2020, 91.91% of all Hubei patients have used TCM, with the rate reaching 99% in field hospitals and 94% in bulk quarantine areas. In March 2020, the online insert of the official People's Daily, distributed in the The Daily Telegraph, published an article stating that Traditional Chinese medicine "helps fight coronavirus."
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine
On 11 March, Adrian Bye, a tech startup leader who is not a doctor, suggested to cryptocurrency investors Gregory Rigano and James Todaro that "chloroquine will keep most people out of hospital." (Bye later admitted that he had reached this conclusion through "philosophy" rather than medical research.) Two days later, Rigano and Todaro promoted chloroquine in a self-published article that falsely claimed affiliation with three institutions.[further explanation needed] Google removed the article.
In December 2020, Chair of the US Senate Homeland Security Committee Ron Johnson used a Senate hearing to promote fringe theories about COVID-19. Among the witnesses was Pierre Kory, a pulmonary and critical care doctor, who erroneously described ivermectin as "miraculous" and as a "wonder drug" to be used against COVID-19. Video footage of his statements went viral on social media, receiving over one million views as of 11 December. In the United Kingdom Andrew Hill, a senior research fellow at Liverpool University, posted a video of a draft meta-analysis that went viral before it was removed.
A review article by Kory, Paul E. Marik, and others on the efficacy of ivermectin, which had been provisionally accepted for publication by a Frontiers Media journal, was subsequently rejected on account of what the publisher said were "a series of strong, unsupported claims based on studies with insufficient statistical significance" meaning that the article did "not offer an objective [or] balanced scientific contribution to the evaluation of ivermectin as a potential treatment for COVID-19".
In the United States, the use of ivermectin for COVID-19 is championed by a group calling itself the "Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance" (FLCCC), which says it heads "the global movement to move #Ivermectin into the mainstream". The effort has gone viral on social media, where it has been adopted by COVID deniers, anti-vaccination proponents, and conspiracy theorists. David Gorski has written that the narrative of ivermectin as a "miracle cure" for COVID-19 is a "metastasized" version of a similar conspiracy theory around the drug hydroxychloroquine, in which unspecified powers are thought to be suppressing news of the drug's effectiveness for their own malign purposes.
The viral social media misinformation about ivermectin has gained particular attention in South Africa where an anti-vaccination group called "South Africa Has A Right To Ivermectin" has been lobbying for the drug to be made available for prescription. Another group, the "Ivermectin Interest Group" launched a court case against the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), and as a result a compassionate use exemption was granted. SAPHRA stated in April 2021 that "At present, there are no approved treatments for COVID-19 infections".
Some QAnon proponents, including Jordan Sather and others, have promoted gargling "Miracle Mineral Supplement" (actually chlorine dioxide, a chemical used in some industrial applications as a bleach that may cause life-threatening reactions and even death) as a way of preventing or curing the disease. The Food and Drug Administration has warned multiple times that drinking MMS is "dangerous" as it may cause "severe vomiting" and "acute liver failure".
In February 2020, televangelist Jim Bakker promoted a colloidal silver solution, sold on his website, as a remedy for coronavirus COVID-19; naturopath Sherrill Sellman, a guest on his show, falsely stated that it "hasn't been tested on this strain of the coronavirus, but it's been tested on other strains of the coronavirus and has been able to eliminate it within 12 hours." The US Food and Drug Administration and New York Attorney General's office both issued cease-and-desist orders against Bakker, and he was sued by the state of Missouri over the sales.
The New York Attorney General's office also issued a cease-and-desist order to radio host Alex Jones, who was selling silver-infused toothpaste that he falsely claimed could kill the virus and had been verified by federal officials, causing a Jones spokesman to deny the products had been sold for the purpose of treating any disease. The FDA would later threaten Jones with legal action and seizure of several silver-based products if he continued to promote their use against coronavirus.
The yoga guru Ramdev claimed that one can treat coronavirus by pouring mustard oil through the nose, causing the virus to flow into the stomach where it would be destroyed by gastric acid. He also claimed that if a person holds his breath for a minute, it means s/he is not suffering from any type of coronavirus, symptomatic or asymtomatic. Both these claims were found to be false.
Another televangelist, Kenneth Copeland, claimed on Victory Channel during a programme called "Standing Against Coronavirus", that he can cure television viewers of COVID-19 directly from the television studio. The viewers had to touch the television screen to receive the spiritual healing.
Name of the disease
Social media posts and internet memes claimed that COVID-19 derives from "Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease 19", or similar, as supposedly the "19th virus to come out of China". In fact, the WHO named the disease as follows: CO stands for corona, VI for virus, D for disease and 19 for when the outbreak was first identified (31 December 2019).
Claims that The Simpsons had predicted the COVID-19 pandemic in 1993, accompanied by a doctored screenshot from the show (where the text "Corona Virus" was layered over the original text "Apocalypse Meow", without blocking it from view), were later found to be false. The claim had been widely spread on social media.
Return of wildlife
A viral post that originated on Weibo and spread on Twitter claimed that a pack of elephants descended on a village under quarantine in China's Yunnan, got drunk on corn wine, and passed out in a tea garden. A Chinese news report debunked the claim that the elephants got drunk on corn wine and noted that wild elephants were a common sight in the village; the image attached to the post was originally taken at the Asian Elephant Research Center in Yunnan in December 2019.
Following reports of reduced pollution levels in Italy as a result of lockdowns, images purporting to show swans and dolphins swimming in Venice canals went viral on social media. The image of the swans was revealed to have been taken in Burano, where swans are common, while footage of the dolphins was filmed at a port in Sardinia hundreds of miles away. The Venice mayor's office clarified that the reported water clarity in the canals was due to the lack of sediment being kicked up by boat traffic, not a reduction in water pollution as initially reported.
Following the lockdown of India, a video clip purporting to show the extremely rare Malabar civet (a critically endangered, possibly extinct, species) walking the empty streets of Meppayur went viral on social media. Experts later identified the civet in the video as actually being the much commoner small Indian civet. Another viral Indian video clip showed a pod of humpback whales allegedly returning to the Arabian Sea offshore from Mumbai following the shutdown of shipping routes; however, this video was found to have actually been taken in 2019 in the Java Sea.
Virus remains in body permanently
It has been wrongly claimed that anyone infected with COVID-19 will have the virus in their bodies for life. While there is no curative treatment, most infected people recover from the disease and eliminate the virus from their bodies.
Efforts to combat misinformation
On 2 February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) described a "massive infodemic", citing an over-abundance of reported information, which was false, about the virus that "makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it". The WHO stated that the high demand for timely and trustworthy information has incentivised the creation of a direct WHO 24/7 myth-busting hotline where its communication and social media teams have been monitoring and responding to misinformation through its website and social media pages. The WHO specifically debunked several claims as false, including the claim that a person can tell if they have the virus or not simply by holding their breath; the claim that drinking large amounts of water will protect against the virus; and the claim that gargling salt water prevents infection.
In early February 2020, Facebook, Twitter, and Google announced that they were working with WHO to address misinformation. In a blog post, Facebook stated that it would remove content flagged by global health organizations and local authorities that violate its content policy on misinformation leading to "physical harm". Facebook is also giving free advertising to WHO. Nonetheless, a week after Trump's speculation that sunlight could kill the virus, the New York Times found "780 Facebook groups, 290 Facebook pages, nine Instagram accounts and thousands of tweets pushing UV light therapies," content which those companies declined to remove from their platforms. On 11 August 2020, Facebook removed seven million posts with misinformation about COVID-19.
At the end of February 2020, Amazon removed more than a million products that claimed to cure or protect against coronavirus, and removed tens of thousands of listings for health products whose prices were "significantly higher than recent prices offered on or off Amazon", although numerous items were "still being sold at unusually high prices" as of 28 February.
Millions of instances of COVID-19 misinformation have occurred across a number of online platforms. Other fake news researchers noted certain rumors started in China; many of them later spread to Korea and the United States, prompting several universities in Korea to start the multilingual "Facts Before Rumors" campaign to evaluate common claims seen online.
The proliferation of COVID-19 misinformation on social media has led to workshops for the application of machine learning resources to misinformation detection. Some workshops are listed below:
- The First Workshop on Combating Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situation, collocated with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI-2021), focused on the detection of COVID-19-related fake news in English. The sources of data were various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Given a social media post, the objective of the workshop's shared task was to classify it into either fake or real news. The winner of the task presented an ensemble approach based on COVID-Twitter-BERT models' finetuning.
- The Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text: Identification of Informative COVID-19 English Tweets, aimed to automatically identify whether a COVID-19-related tweet in English is informative or not. The organizers provided the research community with a new dataset of tweets for identification. The selection of tweets included information about suspected, confirmed, recovered, and death cases as well as the location or travel history of the cases. The winning solution in this task presented a neural network ensemble of COVID-Twitter-BERT and RoBERTa language models.
The media have praised Wikipedia's coverage of COVID-19 and its combating the inclusion of misinformation through efforts led by the WikiProject Med Foundation and the English-language Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine, among other groups. WHO began working with Wikipedia to provide much of its infographics and reports on COVID-19 to help fight misinformation, with plans to use similar approaches for fighting misinformation about other infectious diseases in the future.
Newspapers and scholarly journals
Initially, many newspapers with paywalls lowered them for some or all their coronavirus coverage. Many scientific publishers made scientific papers related to the outbreak open access (free).
The scientific publishing community, while intent on producing quality scholarly publications, has itself been negatively impacted by the infiltration of inferior or false research leading to the retraction of several articles on the topic of COVID-19, as well as polluting valid and reliable scientific study, bringing into question the reliability of research undertaken. Retraction Watch maintains a database of retracted COVID-19 articles.
A number of governments have made transmitting misinformation about the virus illegal. This may be the extent of the virus within a country, or the inadequacy of preparations for and measures taken against the virus.
The Turkish Interior Ministry has been arresting social media users whose posts were "targeting officials and spreading panic and fear by suggesting the virus had spread widely in Turkey and that officials had taken insufficient measures". Iran's military said 3600 people have been arrested for "spreading rumors" about coronavirus in the country. In Cambodia, some individuals who expressed concerns about the spread of COVID-19 have been arrested on fake news charges. Algerian lawmakers passed a law criminalizing "fake news" deemed harmful to "public order and state security".
In the Philippines, China, India, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, South Africa, Cote d’Ivoire, Somalia, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Serbia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, people have been arrested for allegedly spreading false information about the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Arab Emirates has introduced criminal penalties for the spread of misinformation and rumours related to the outbreak. Myanmar blocked access to 221 news websites, including several leading media outlets.
The UN WHO has warned of criminal scams involving perpetrators who misrepresent themselves as representatives of the WHO seeking personal information from victims via email or phone. Also, the Federal Communications Commission has advised consumers not to click on links in suspicious emails and not to give out personal information in emails, text messages or phone calls. The Federal Trade Commission has also warned on charity scams related to the pandemic, and has advised consumers not to donate in cash, gift cards, or wire transfers.
Cybersecurity firm Check Point stated there has been a large increase in phishing attacks to lure victims into unwittingly installing a computer virus under the guise of coronavirus-themed emails containing attachments. Cyber-criminals use deceptive domains such as "cdc-gov.org" instead of the correct "cdc.gov", or even spoof the original domain so it resembles specific websites. More than 4,000 coronavirus-related domains have been registered.
Police in New Jersey, United States reported incidents of criminals knocking on people's doors and claiming to be from the CDC. They then attempt to sell products at inflated prices or otherwise scam victims under the guise of educating and protecting the public from the coronavirus.
Since the passage in March 2020 of the CARES Act, criminals have taken advantage of the stimulus bill by asking people to pay in advance in order to receive their stimulus payment. Because of this, the IRS has advised consumers to only use the official IRS coronavirus web address to submit information to the IRS (and not in response to a text, email, or phone call). In response to these schemes, many financial companies, like Wells Fargo and LoanDepot, as well as health insurers, like Humana, for example, have posted similar advisories on their websites.
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- Multiple conspiracy articles in Chinese from the SARS era resurfaced during the outbreak with altered details, claiming SARS is biological warfare. Some said BGI Group from China sold genetic information of the Chinese people to the US, which then specifically targeted the genome of Chinese individuals. On 26 January, Chinese military enthusiast website Xilu published an article, claimed how the US artificially combined the virus to "precisely target Chinese people". The article was removed in early February. The article was further distorted on social media in Taiwan, which claimed "Top Chinese military website admitted novel coronavirus was Chinese-made bioweapon". Taiwan Fact-check center debunked the original article and its divergence, suggesting the original Xilu article distorted the conclusion from a legitimate research on Chinese scientific magazine Science China Life Sciences, which never mentioned the virus was engineered. The fact-check center explained Xilu is a military enthusiastic tabloid established by a private company, thus it doesn't represent the voice of Chinese military. Some articles on popular sites in China have also cast suspicion on US military athletes participating in the Wuhan 2019 Military World Games, which lasted until the end of October 2019, and have suggested they deployed the virus. They claim the inattentive attitude and disproportionately below-average results of American athletes in the games indicate they might have been there for other purposes and they might actually be bio-warfare operatives. Such posts stated that their place of residence during their stay in Wuhan was also close to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first known cluster of cases occurred. In March 2020, this conspiracy theory was endorsed by Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. On 13 March, the US government summoned Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai to Washington over the coronavirus conspiracy theory. Over the next month, conspiracy theorists narrowed their focus to one US Army Reservist, a woman who participated in the games in Wuhan as a cyclist, claiming she is "patient zero". According to a CNN report, these theories have been spread by George Webb, who has nearly 100,000 followers on YouTube, and have been amplified by Chinese Communist Party media,
- The acting assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, Philip Reeker, said "Russia's intent is to sow discord and undermine U.S. institutions and alliances from within" and "by spreading disinformation about coronavirus, Russian malign actors are once again choosing to threaten public safety by distracting from the global health response." Russia denies the allegation, saying "this is a deliberately false story". According to US-based The National Interest magazine, although official Russian channels had been muted on pushing the US biowarfare conspiracy theory, other Russian media elements do not share the Kremlin's restraint. Zvezda, a news outlet funded by the Russian Defense Ministry, published an article titled "Coronavirus: American biological warfare against Russia and China", claiming that the virus is intended to damage the Chinese economy, weakening its hand in the next round of trade negotiations. Ultra-nationalist politician and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claimed on a Moscow radio station that the virus was an experiment by the Pentagon and pharmaceutical companies. Politician Igor Nikulin made rounds on Russian television and news media, arguing that Wuhan was chosen for the attack because the presence of a BSL-4 virus lab provided a cover story for the Pentagon and CIA about a Chinese bio-experiment leak. An EU-document claims 80 attempts by Russian media to spread disinformation related to the epidemic. According to the East StratCom Task Force, the Russian-funded Sputnik news agency was had published stories speculating that the virus could have been invented in Latvia (by a Latvian affiliate), that it was used by Communist Party of China to curb protests in Hong Kong, that it was introduced intentionally to reduce the number of elder people in Italy, that it was targeted against the Yellow Vests movement, and making many other speculations. Sputnik branches in countries including Armenia, Belarus, Spain, and in the Middle East came up with versions of these stories.
- Iraqi political analyst Sabah Al-Akili on Al-Etejah TV, Saudi daily Al-Watan writer Sa'ud Al-Shehry, Syrian daily Al-Thawra columnist Hussein Saqer, and Egyptian journalist Ahmad Rif'at on Egyptian news website Vetogate, were some examples given by MEMRI as propagators of the US biowarfare conspiracy theory in the Arabic world.
- According to Radio Farda, Iranian cleric Seyyed Mohammad Saeedi accused US President Donald Trump of targeting Qom with coronavirus "to damage its culture and honor". Saeedi claimed that Trump is fulfilling his promise to hit Iranian cultural sites, if Iranians took revenge for the airstrike that killed of Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani. Iranian TV personality Ali Akbar Raefipour claimed the coronavirus was part of a "hybrid warfare" programme waged by the United States on Iran and China. Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iranian Civil Defense Organization, claimed the coronavirus is likely a biological attack on China and Iran with economic goals.Hossein Salami, the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed the coronavirus outbreak in Iran may be due to a US "biological attack". Several Iranian politicians, including Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Rasoul Falahati, Alireza Panahian, Abolfazl Hasanbeigi and Gholamali Jafarzadeh Imanabadi, also made similar remarks. Iranian Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made similar suggestions. Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to the United Nations on 9 March, claiming that "it is clear to the world that the mutated coronavirus was produced in lab" and that COVID-19 is "a new weapon for establishing and/or maintaining political and economic upper hand in the global arena". The late Ayatollah Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani claimed that "America is the source of coronavirus, because America went head to head with China and realised it cannot keep up with it economically or militarily."Reza Malekzadeh, Iran's deputy health minister and former Minister of Health, rejected claims that the virus was a biological weapon, pointing out that the US would be suffering heavily from it. He said Iran was hard-hit because its close ties to China and reluctance to cut air ties introduced the virus, and because early cases had been mistaken for influenza.
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Q: In a situation like this when we need scientific solution to a medical crisis, when you get in our country for examples, political leaders saying things like cow dung or cow urine can be beneficial in fixing something like coronavirus, do we end up taking a step back after such statements, as we need to deal with the issue in a modern scientific manner.
A: I completely agree, I think all the public figures including politicians need to be extra careful when it comes to making such statements, because they have such a huge following. It's really important for them to say things that are based on some scientific evidence ... when it comes to the claims of cures of this infection we should be extremely careful about our statements and it should be made by the people who know what they're talking about. And has to be backed by evidence.
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Hip-Hop legend Lil Kim stopped by Hollywood Unlocked and let it be known if you thinking about doing a film with her likeness in it, she has to have the final say on who portrays her. The Queen Bee’s disdain for the 2009 Biggie Smalls biopic, Notorious, is no secret. When Melyssa Ford asked the rapper about the film again, “The Jumpoff” crafter reminded us she hated the film, especially Naturi Naughton’s portrayal of her on the big screen.
Naughton has been the talk of the internet lately thanks to her boss and Power co-star 50 Cent trolling her with a disrespectful meme. Now she has to endure the ghosts of the film she starred in so long ago, once again. Kim didn’t hold back when asked to revisit the moment and share her thoughts on the matter.
“I’m gonna touch on this briefly because I think everybody already knows my answer to this, but I hated everything about that movie,” Kim added and emphasized, “I hated it. Wasn’t involved in it. I actually had to get my lawyers involved, which I ended up getting a check from it. That was the only reason I was [like] whatever.”
Kim wasn’t done; she pointed out that despite knowing she was not feeling anything about the film, production still continued without her blessing. The gloves came off once she started focusing on Naughton and the decision to cast her to portray her in the movie.
“I was not okay with that!… I would have never picked her. Never, ever, ever. She has nothing in common with me. Nothing. No, seriously. I said it already, so I’m not gonna sit here and act like I didn’t say these things.”
Speaking on Naughton’s response to her criticism of her casting Kim stated:
“I don’t like the way she’s been disrespectful about it. I wasn’t even like, basically blaming her, but she did like a whole documentary coming at me.” Kim closed things out by revealing she decided to let the matter go because she got a check and that Naughton “didn’t want this smoke.”
On a brighter note, Kim did give one person her blessing to play her in any upcoming films that involve the Queen Bee, and that is none other than Teyana Taylor. We definitely can see that, and based on her performance at VH1’s 2016 Hip Hop Honors, where she was apart of tribute to the Brooklyn rapper, she’s got it down pat already.
You can here Kim address the situation herself at 26:30 mark of the interview below.
Photo: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz |
Startup Ripple is going to hold a VIP party featuring Snoop Dogg. 10 tickets to the event will be played in Twitter.
On Tuesday, the company announced that famous rapper Snoop Dogg will perform on the Blockchain Week NYC, which in may organizes community XRP.
“We organize this special evening as a special thanks to those who care about liquidity, transaction checks, performs research and development on xRapid Ledger and XRP, but also spreads positive comments about the benefits Ripple,” reads the website of the company.
For those who are not invited to the Blockchain Week, Ripple organizes two separate competitions, in which you can win tickets to the party. To do this, community members must participate either in the quiz, which will be held on April 26, or to make meme in the contest, which kicks off may 2.
Of 10 tickets, eight will be awarded on the results of the quiz. Participants will need within the hour to correctly answer three questions using a single tweet. The questions will be published on April 27 at two o’clock in the morning Moscow time, and the winners will be announced the following day.
To participate in the second contest, Twitter users have to come up with a caption for one of the two images that the company will post on 2 may. Applications must be filed within 24 hours, and the results will be announced may 4.
Although performance on this show will be the most significant part of Snoop Dogg in the event kriptosmartfon, but this is not the first appearance of Snoop Dogg in cryptonote. So, at the beginning of this year, the rapper shared on his Twitter, the announcement of the trading cryptopidonia Robinhood, and also visited some theme crypto-parties. |
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!
Just do the following and go here to participate: Teaser Tuesday
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) 'teaser' sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Teaser is from 97% on iPad
As Sissy says, having something to love goes a long way towards filling the void that not being loved leaves behind.
'I know I can't have a baby,' she says quietly.
My Review - 3 1/2 It has a Hand that rocks the cradle creepy feel. |
Want Books? is a weekly meme hosted here at Chachic’s Book Nook and features released books that you want but you can’t have for some reason. It can be because it’s not available in your country, in your library or you don’t have the money for it right now. Everyone is free to join, just grab the image above. Leave a comment with a link to your post so I can do a roundup with each post.
I first heard about The Girl With the Cat Tattoo by Theresa Weir from contemporary romance author Laura Florand. She mentioned that it’s a romance novel with scenes from a cat’s point of view! That seems like such a fun and unique book. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything from the point of view of a cat (or even a dog). I checked The Girl With the Cat Tattoo’s Goodreads page and it looks like it’s also recommended by Ruthie Knox.
Here’s the summary from Goodreads:
When a matchmaking cat takes it upon himself to find his young mistress a new mate, he accidentally stirs up memories better left forgotten.
Melody’s husband was murdered by what seemed a random act of violence. Two years later, the killer hasn’t been caught, and Melody is coping in unhealthy ways. During the day she’s a mild-mannered children’s librarian, but at night she’s a party girl, hanging out in bars, drinking with new friends, and often bringing home strange men. Although acquaintances have tried to keep in touch, Melody has cut herself off from most of the people in her old life. Max, her eccentric cat, doesn’t approve of her new friends, he’s tired of the parade of losers, and he finally takes it upon himself to find Melody a new man.
I have a feeling I’ll find the matchmaking cat funny. What about you, what book is at the top of your wishlist? Also, please let me know if you’ve read any of Theresa Weir’s books and what you thought of them. |
It’s Instagram Monday… again! And, it’s been one extremely busy week.
Last Tuesday, it was baby galore. Seriously. First, I received a picture from former co-workers, Larry and Shelley holding a sign that said, “Hey B! Question: Are you pregnant yet??” To answer the question for those who are curious, NO! We are not expecting any babies, nor are we trying – and for the record, we would not make a big announcement in that manner. (Just a little FYI.) Now, this photo may seem weird to you – however, coming from Larry – it’s not weird at all. In fact, during my time at Visit Savannah I’m pretty sure he asked me this question on a daily basis. It’s just become a running joke. Second, I received a call from these sweet, Giles girls letting me know the baby was on her way! Sure enough, Preslee Layne Sutton was born on July 17, 2012. Congratulations to my childhood friend, Lindsey and her husband, Robert. She is such a doll. I was able to meet her that evening and she is beautiful.
That same evening, Justin and I had a very special house-guest. Justin’s college roommate was in the area and stopped by for dinner – my (new favorite) fish taco recipe! Thanks for stopping by, Ty.
Later in the week, we made it downtown for lunch at Cafe 230. I ordered the special for the day: fried chicken, with black-eyed peas and collards! The atmosphere, food, and service is impeccable and it’s convenient for us to meet during a work day. If you’re in the area, you should definitely stop by and try the special – it’s always a winner.
The photos don’t lie, I’m pretty obsessed with good eats – especially fresh, summer veggies. Living in south Georgia is such a treat during the summer months. We have an endless supply of tomatoes, peas, peppers, herbs, watermelon, peaches, and peanuts! Yep, the south is near to heaven. With so many fresh favorites, I’ve been making this healthy snack often. As in almost every night of the week, with slight additions – like banana peppers. It’s too easy not to, especially when Justin loves it as much as I do.
One lazy evening together, we whipped out the cards (one of our favorite, together things) and played a hand or two of Gin. Not bragging or rubbing it in anyone’s face, but I won. Every time.
We also challenged these friends to a game of Cranium… and we won. Man, I’m on a roll with this not-bragging thing.
Friday, I was really missing my Savannah friends. As most of you know, I lived in Savannah for two years and recently (as in two weeks before this day) moved back to Albany to be with my love. So… I’m still (and probably always will) missing my closest friends and co-workers. I said all of that to say, that’s the reason for the group photo above and for this post.
To kick-off the weekend, Justin took me on a double date with the McBride’s to see The Dark Knight Rises. Our overall review was 7 squirts – it’s Batman, it can’t flop… but, The Dark Knight was easily 10 squirts. In my opinion, there just wasn’t enough of the Batman. I wanted to see more. Not to mention, who the heck is Bane? Okay, I know who he is but in comparison to the Joker… If you’ve seen The Dark Knight Rises, I’d love to hear what you think! (In all seriousness: Our hearts and prayers go out to those in Aurora, Colorado.)
On Saturday, I finally finished uploading our wedding photos. You can view them all here. And, we celebrated Meme’s birthday! (We love birthdays!) We went to Henry Campbell’s (the location of our rehearsal dinner) and enjoyed creme brulee for dessert. It was all so delicious. Perfect for a fancy, date night in Albany – very romantic, delectable eats, and great service.
How did you spend the last week? Did you celebrate anything special? Share your week’s highlights with us, we’d love to hear about your week and weekend!happy Monday, the newlyweds |
… so once again I am filling a vase with dahlias and the best of other autumn bloomers as they may well not be here next week.
I therefore picked all dahlia blooms that were still on the ascendant and added the first few chrysanthemum blooms too, having realised after reading Anna’s and Christina’s posts last week that my ambivalence towards the latter seems to depend on the type of bloom – these orange, densely packed ‘Orange Allouise’ blooms are a no-no for me, but the more open petals of the dark red ‘John Riley’ are quite appealing. The chrysanths and dahlias ‘Karma Serena’, ‘Karma Naomi’ and Bishop of Llandaff’ were joined by as many blooms as I could muster from Rudbeckias ‘Cherry Brandy’ and ‘Rustic Dwarf’. Red Amaranthus caudatus and heads of Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ were included to reflect the pinky redness of Karma Naomi.
As an afterthought, twigs of twisted hazel were added to the blooms in an autumnal coloured glazed jug, the bare stems seemingly hinting at the colder months to come. Joining the vase were little dishes from IKEA children’s section, part of a Chinese tea service I guess, filled with autumnal coloured crystals – yellow citrine, reddish orange carnelian and the brown and yellow banded tiger’s eye with its curious chatoyancy. The jug was photographed in the woodland, almost blending into the leafy undergrowth – so although perhaps not ideal just goes to show how autumnal the contents were.
Next week sees the second anniversary of In a Vase on Monday when everyone who posts a vase will go into a draw for a vase-related giveaway. Several bloggers have posted a vase nearly every week since my own first tentative effort, but for those who haven’t yet joined the meme why don’t you give it a try? The idea is to find material from your own garden or foraged locally to plonk or place in a vase or other container to bring you pleasure during the week – which they certainly have done for many of us. Just leave links to and from your post so we can see what you have found – or just enjoy other people’s vases if you are not able to create your own. See you soon! |
By now, several months into a pandemic that has shut down production and pushed back the release of more movies and TV shows than any of us can or should be able to remember off the tops of our heads, we’ve all become a little numb to the concept of delays. They’ve gone from being a once-in-a-blue-moon oddity to a normal part of pop culture. It no longer feels weird or ominous or even like a punchline.
But that wasn’t always the case. In the distant, halcyon past a movie getting bumped to a new release date could spark all sorts of speculation, even elevate the movie itself to a sort of meme status amongst fans–and no movie did that better or with more panache than Fox’s New Mutants, a movie that is still not out yet, here in 2020, some three years after it’s intended premiere. To make matters even more hilarious, Fox (or, well, Disney now, who, in the intervening years, acquired the 20th Century studio) has stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the possibility that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong for the New Mutants. There’s even going to be a Comic-Con At Home panel for the movie where, if there’s any justice in the world, we’ll finally be able to stop pretending it’s ever going to hit theaters and get a date for its streaming debut.
Though it’s probably best not to get our hopes up, all things considered. After all, the long and horrible journey New Mutants has been on since that first trailer released is arguably more memorable than the trailer itself at this point. So, with that in mind, let’s chart out the New Mutants timeline from beginning to (probable) end.
July 17, 2017 – Principal photography began on the project, most of which taking place in Boston’s historic, and historically haunted, Medfield State Hospital. Spooky! Maybe the process of filming at that location cursed production from the start and we’re just seeing the fallout, Poltergeist-style. Who knows?
September 16, 2017 – Filming wraps, according to director Josh Boone on instagram.
October 13, 2017 – The first trailer for the movie is released, touting an April 13, 2018 release date..
January 11, 2018 – The movie is officially pushed back from its original release date (April 13, 2018) to February 22, 2019. The stated reason for the move was to avoid conflict with Deadpool 2.
April 13, 2018 – The first release date comes and goes with no movie to show for it.
January, 2019 – The second delay shifts release to a third date, from February 22 to August 2, 2019.
February 22, 2019 – A second release date is missed.
March, 2019 – Disney acquires 20th Century Fox. The status of any planned reshoots remains completely unknown or speculatory at best. A fourth release date is set: April 3, 2020. Cast members get frustrated.
August 2, 2019 – The third try isn’t the charm as yet another release date is missed.
January, 2020 – A second trailer is released. The April release date appears to be holding firm.
March, 2020 – Boone comes forward to set the record straight, claiming no reshoots ever happened. Meanwhile, the Coronavirus pandemic forces Disney to completely shift its 2020 release schedule.
April 3, 2020 – Nope, it didn’t show up here either. That’s a fourth release date gone by and still no movie.
May, 2020 – The fifth release date is set for August 28, 2020.
July 16, 2020 – The Comic-Con At Home panel for the movie is announced along with a new trailer. The panel is scheduled for July 23 at 2PM PST/5PM EST.
August 28, 2020 – Will it actually release this time? Will it be a streaming exclusive? Does this movie even exist?
The biggest question now is whether or not Disney will try and continue to push for an actual theatrical release, or if the movie will drop as a streaming exclusive, similar to other long-delayed projects like Artemis Fowl, which skipped theaters for Disney+ earlier this year. All things considered, the pandemic-related shutdowns offer the perfect excuse for Disney to put this shambling mess out of its misery on something like Hulu (it’s probably too scary to fit with the Disney+ brand, after all) but the likelihood of that happening is impossible to determine. If a global pandemic isn’t enough to force The New Mutants from out of the shadows and onto our TVs, we should probably start to accept that nothing is or will be.
Maybe The New Mutants will go down in history as a series of ever shifting release dates and hastily recut trailers that continue to be trodden out Weekend At Bernies style whenever Disney needs to drum up conversation. Honestly, that might be kind of fun.
You can tune into the New Mutants Comic-Con At Home panel on July 23 at 5PM EST, 2PM PST. |
Dancing Astronaut's Top 50 Biggest Tracks of 2013: 30-21
30. Jeremy Olander – Let Me Feel (Original Mix)
The stand out track from camp Pryda Friends, Jeremy Olander’s “Let Me Feel” was first debuted in an EPIC Radio mix in December 2012 but thrust back into the spotlight on Eric Prydz’s February Essential Mix. A pure house output from one of progressive’s most promising assets, “Let Me Feel” has touches of the label’s iconic sound with an infectious melody and charm that are all Olander’s own.
29. Monsta – Messiah (Dirty South Remix)
Dirty South brought the album-hot dance sphere his own full-length offering, straying from his usual singles-and-remixes practices for Speed Of Life. But still, his best offering of 2013 was one of the few that reverted back to his individual release days. Working around Monsta’s “Messiah,” Dragan packed all the looming remix punch in an anthem that goes head-to-head with some of his historically beloved remixes.
28. Madeon – Technicolor
Madeon returned to original production duties with a cryptic teaser and a digital scavenger hunt before debuting “Technicolor.” At 6:25 minutes, his resurgence was his most intricately layered composition yet. A swirling epic of 16-bit arpeggios and synthpop dream sequences, Madeon painted the entire spectrum of sound with the appropriately named production.
27. Moguai – Champs
Moguai joined the Size Records family with “Champs” just before Miami Music Week last March. A refreshing take on the festival house trends of 2013, the producer stayed true to his talent for punctuating his melodies with club-friendly electro work. As beautiful as it is bouncy, “Champs” keeps the energy and the artistry intact in a genre full of lackluster imitators.
26. Baauer – Harlem Shake
The most viral dance music song of all time, Baauer’s “Harlem Shake” became an internet phenomenon and a cultural identifier for the pop culture year as a whole. Far exceeding its home in the fringe genre of trap, “Harlem Shake,” proved that it doesn’t take major label support to crest the Billboard charts — just an infectious hook and an internet meme.
25. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike – Wakanda (Original Mix)
Competing with “Mammoth” for Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike’s biggest track, the Axtone-released “Wakanda” takes top honors for the duo’s pre-eminent output of 2013. A track that may be responsible for the “drop epidemic” of this past year, “Wakanda” took everyone by storm when it was first debuted. Breakneck percussion, blaring Dutch horns and tribal chants turned the track into a Frankenstein monster that quickly overran main stages worldwide. Often imitated, but never duplicated, “Wakanda” set the bar for festival music in 2013.
24. Mark Knight & Funkagenda – Man With The Red Face (Hardwell Remix)
In celebration of Toolroom’s tenth anniversary, Mark Knight curated a collection of remixes for the TEN compilation series. Hardwell’s approach to the Mark Knight & Funkagenda original “Man With The Red Face” stood out as the most soundly adapted cut on the comp. Shying away from his big room electro successes, Hardwell’s take stands up well against the label’s techier leanings. Reminiscent of his last Toolroom release “Three Triangles,” this remix showcases his production talent outside of the commercial house arena.
23. Mat Zo ft. Chuck D – Pyramid Scheme (Club Mix)
Mat Zo released “Pyramid Scheme” ahead of his debt artist album Damage Control. Fulfilling a lifelong dream of working with Chuck D, Zo’s biggest release since “Easy” was a warning shot of things to come that pieced together well-oiled dub beats with a hip-hop icon’s vocals.
22. W&W & Ummet Ozcan – The Code (Original Mix)
W&W find themselves in the top 50 for a second time for their collaboration with Ummet Ozcan, “The Code.” Debuted on Hardwell’s Essential Mix, the collaboration quickly made its way into the Beatport Top 10, securing itself a profound presence in festival sets throughout the summer. The trio blended electro and big room house with ease, delivering arena-ready builds and a larger-than-life, main stage flattening drop.
21. Digital Lab, Henrix & GTA – Hit It
This Size Records anthem made rounds late in 2012, giving producers the heads up on how to excel in big room for the following year. Released early in 2013, Digital Lab, Henrix, and GTA’s “Hit It,” set the ripples that would make the waves for the sound of this year’s festival season. It was in the lineage of “Atom” and the preface for “Animals,” a placeholder in rocking crowds and keeping drops from becoming stale. |
The meme that dares to ask what book has been in your bed this morning? Come share what book you’ve spent time curled up reading in bed, or which book you wish you had time to read today! This meme is hosted by Midnight Book Girl.
This Sunday I reading A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay.
The New York Times bestselling author of No Time for Goodbyereturns with a haunting psychological thriller that blends the twists and turns of Gillian Flynn with the driving suspense of Harlan Coben, in which a man is troubled by odd sounds for which there is no rational explanation.
College professor Paul Davis is a normal guy with a normal life. Until, driving along a deserted road late one night, he surprises a murderer disposing of a couple of bodies. That’s when Paul’s “normal” existence is turned upside down. After nearly losing his own life in that encounter, he finds himself battling PTSD, depression, and severe problems at work. His wife, Charlotte, desperate to cheer him up, brings home a vintage typewriter—complete with ink ribbons and heavy round keys—to encourage him to get started on that novel he’s always intended to write.
However, the typewriter itself is a problem. Paul swears it’s possessed and types by itself at night. But only Paul can hear the noise coming from downstairs; Charlotte doesn’t hear a thing. And she worries he’s going off the rails.
Paul believes the typewriter is somehow connected to the murderer he discovered nearly a year ago. The killer had made his victims type apologies to him before ending their lives. Has another sick twist of fate entwined his life with the killer—could this be the same machine? Increasingly tormented but determined to discover the truth and confront his nightmare, Paul begins investigating the deaths himself.
But that may not be the best thing to do. Maybe Paul should just take the typewriter back to where his wife found it. Maybe he should stop asking questions and simply walk away while he can. . .
What book are you in bed with today? |
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Hi everyone! Leo Notenboom here for askleo.com. What I want to talk to you today about relates to privacy in a slightly different way. What I want to do is give you kind of an overview of some of the things that happen to your data whenever you post pretty much anything online.
I’m going to use social media as my example, but in reality, just about any type of public or even private kind of data sharing or data storage online will have some interesting ramifications that I’ll be going over here in a moment. I think what most people don’t realize is that their data gets copied and archived way quicker and in many more places than they realize.
Now, realize also, one of the things I talked about, I think it was last week that one of the joys of digital data is how easy it is to copy. This is what makes backups both possible and in some ways trivial. It’s what makes digital data, to me, so much preferable over the analog counterpart.
That being said, though, digital data is easy to copy and copying happens a lot. So, let’s take a look at a very simple example. You post something: a statement to Twitter, a photograph to Instagram, you share a picture on Flickr – any number of different ways that you are making some amount of content available to probably the world, although, even if you restrict access, in may ways, you’ll find that you’re still making it accessible to more people than I think you really realize.
So, you upload your picture to this service. The very first thing that happens is that your picture gets immediately replicated across multiple servers that service uses to provide their service. I’m sure you realize that places like Facebook or Instagram or Flickr, they’re not just one machine in a closet somewhere, these are literally hundreds, if not thousands of computers each with their own hard disk, each with some amount of shared storage on which all of these photographs exist.
The photographs or your tweet or your text or your whatever, get replicated as quickly as possible across multiple devices to account for failure. In a lot of ways, it’s a form of backup, because what these services don’t want to have happen is have a failure at a specific point in time take data that they could have saved had they simply replicated it as soon as that data arrives.
So your photograph gets uploaded and boom, it’s on a couple of dozen, a couple hundred servers on that service’s hardware already. Next, well, people look at it. As you might expect, that was kind of the whole point of your sharing this data. So what happens when somebody looks at a picture that’s stored on the internet? The picture gets downloaded to their machine. In other words, it’s copied to their machine. That means that everybody who takes a look at your photograph now has a copy of it on their PC. Typically, that copy lives in the browser cache. It can live there for a few minutes, it can live there for several weeks depending on exactly how busy that particular person is with their internet and how much space they’ve allocated to their cache, how many sites they visit, how much room it all takes up.
You get the idea. The point is that a copy of your photograph now lives on their machine, and that’s true for every single person who views your photograph. OK, so that kind of, sort of makes sense. While this is maybe more copies than we might have expected, it makes sense, because we’ve uploaded to a service that’s trying to provide a solid and stable service, and we’re letting people look at it, and they need to be able to do whatever it means to look at a photograph downloaded from the internet.
But wait. There’s more. People can copy your photograph and I mean by more than just seeing it in their cache, people can do things like right-click on a photograph and “Save As” or take a screenshot of the photograph. There are many sites that try to prevent photographs or texts from being copied in various ways and yet, if you can see it on the screen, you can copy it somehow.
There are ways; they’re not necessarily always elegant, but there are absolutely ways to copy whatever can be seen. So, what that means is that if someone likes your photograph, they like the picture that you posted of some dogs, for example. They can download it to their machine and save it for themselves.
You’ve just lost all control over that for sure, because they now have a copy that’s completely in their control that you know nothing about. They can then go ahead do things with it later like turn it into a meme, or who knows what else, but people who can view your information can copy your information. They can download your information.
So that kind of sort of makes sense. People have access to the data; they can copy it; they can do things with it on their computers. Another source of surprise for many people are search engines. So we uploaded our photograph to a place say, like Flickr or Instagram or whatever, and many of these sites are enabled in the search engines which means if you were to search for something, you might find your photograph on one of these hosting services because a search engine came along some time prior to that and said, “Oh, here’s a photograph. There are these words associated with it. I’ll return it in some search results.”
Now, there are what I’ll call “gentleman’s agreements” that allow a site to say, “No, don’t do this to me. Don’t index my content.” But it’s a gentleman’s agreement and not all search engines are gentlemen, and there are a lot more search engines than you realize.
We tend of think of the “Big Two” right now: Google and Bing. But in reality, there are hundreds if not thousands of search engines around the planet. Once you post content online, it could be getting indexed by any, if not, all of these different search engines.
Worse. Many of these search engines create what are called caches. All that really means is they take a copy of what they’ve indexed, so rather than just necessarily pointing at the original site like Facebook or Instagram or Flickr, they actually copy your photograph or copy your text and put it on their servers in a cache. Google does this.
You can request the cached copy of a website, of a web page when you find it in the search results. There are many reasons for doing that. Google does it in case the site goes away, but other services, other search engines do it for a variety of reasons. Again, what that means is your content, your text, your photograph has just now been copied on to other services around the planet that you don’t even know of.
But wait … it gets worse. We talk about search engines but in reality, what there are out there are these things called “spiders” and what they’re doing is essentially what a search engine does. It goes out and it indexes the web; it tries to find all of the different pages on the internet and see what’s there and index them so that you can find them.
Those aren’t the only reasons a spider might exist. One very legitimate example is research. A lot of universities, a lot of computer science programs, a lot of educational institutions have their students write spiders that go out and index the web, retrieve content from the web, archive content from the web for various and sundry research purposes. Your data might be part of that.
But wait … we’re not done. There’s more! Archiving is a really, really interesting word and especially concept when it comes to the internet. Because the internet is always changing in one way or another, there are various and sundry services that attempt to archive what’s out on the internet at any point in time.
The most famous, perhaps, is archive.org. You can find old versions of askleo on archive.org to see what it was like 13 years ago. The point being, though, that these sites specifically take copies of what they find on the internet for archival purposes.
Well, your information may be part of that. If your information is visible on one of these sites that is getting archived, it will get archived along with everything else. Ok, great. We’ve got search engines, we’ve got research spiders, we’ve got archives, what else is there?
Well, we’re not done. At this high level, there’s one more thing that I talk about all the time, and yet everybody forgets when they think of online data and that is backing up. And this is particularly true for even data you considered to be private and online – your email, your files that you use in a file sharing service. In addition to replicating the data as soon as they get it, so that they can provide a high level of availability immediately, they’re backing up your data.
What that means is that they’re creating copies of your data and storing it somewhere. And we don’t know for how long. It could be a few days; it could be a few weeks; it could be for years. There’s literally no way to know because these services don’t tell us.
And if the people who are viewing what it is we’re sharing with the world take the time and trouble to back up their computer, they’ve potentially backed up your photographs, maybe in their internet cache, maybe in their explicit saving of your pictures. Who knows? The bottom line is your information could be backed up there as well.
The point that I’m trying to make here is that when you share something publicly, and even when you share something privately, the data that you share online or using online services is getting replicated in dozens if not hundreds of different places whether or not you realize it and to be honest, whether you or not you really want it to be because it’s all out of your control.
The bottom line is that once you share something publicly and even when you share something privately, you lose a tremendous amount of control over what happens to that data. Now, there are two pushbacks I always get when I talk about this.
One is well, can I just ask people to remove the data? The answer is you can ask all you want. This is actually partly what the so-called the “right to be forgotten” is all about. It’s an attempt at some legislation that would force the search engines to not point to data on request of the person who the data is about. For example, if I didn’t like something that was posted about me, I could request that the search engines not point to it. Note that doesn’t remove the data. The data is still there in the original source.
You would then actually have to go to each and every individual source that might have replicated that data and ask them to remove it. Do you know who all those sources are? Of course not. Neither do I. There’s no way to know who made copies of the data once it was published online. Second, asking for something to be removed is just calling attention to it. Originally now referred to as “The Streisand Effect” because the Hollywood star, Barbra Streisand made a big fuss about photographs of her home being removed from the internet, well, all that really did was cause those pictures to be duplicated and posted and reposted again, again, again and again so that we now actually refer to this as “The Streisand Effect” calling attention to something by requesting its removal. You can see it happening to tweets these days a lot particularly, from politicians who maybe speak or tweet a little bit without thinking.
The other question all the time is, “Well, if there are all these copies out there, why can’t I get a copy of my data if I’ve lost it for some reason? Like, I’ve lost my email, or I’ve lost all my photographs. Can’t I go out and get a copy of it from these services that have all of these backups and replications?”
Theoretically, you could but generally they don’t and the reason they don’t is a very simple one. It’s, I’ll say, cost-effective for them to duplicate, replicate and back up absolutely everything all the time. It is not cost-effective for them to go looking for your needle in their haystack, to actually go out and say, retrieve back up copies, no, they’re not going to do that; not on request.
What they will do or what they may do or what they might be required to do is respond to a court order, a subpoena, legal action that might require them to take the time to incur the expense to go out and retrieve that information, but to just get it for you especially if the service is free, to just get it for you, because you happen to lose something?
You’ll find that is in their Terms of Service explicitly stated is your data is your responsibility. If you lose it, they’re not going to find it for you no matter how many copies of it they may have stored away in various places. So, the bottom line here really is be aware that when you post something online, you really are losing all control over it. You’re basically setting it free to go out and live a life of its own out on the internet. Where it ends up, what happens to it, what people will do with it, whether they steal it, copy it or completely ignore it, there’s simply no way to tell, but it is important to realize that every time you post anything online.
What do you think? Is this too scary? I mean, we’re doing it every day, and it doesn’t really seem to hurt us very often. What really are the ramifications that have you concerned about this massive data replication that happens whenever we do something? Let me know? As always, here’s a link to this article out on askleo.com. That’s where I have the video posted along with moderated comments where I read every comment. We keep the trolls out. We keep the discussion civil. I’d really be interested in what you have to say. Until next time, I’m Leo Notenboom for askleo.com. Remember, be safe, have fun, and don’t forget to make a few copies of your own. Don’t forget to back up. Take care.
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No doubt, regular readers are probably somewhat surprised that I didn’t discuss the antivaccine rally scheduled to be held in Atlanta last weekend that I wrote about last week. As you might recall, this rally consisted of two crappy tastes that taste crappy together, namely Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the antivaccine movement together with the Nation of Islam. Given that the Nation of Islam, besides being a truly crank religion on its own, of late has gotten very cozy with the Church of Scientology, thus amplifying the crank factor by orders of magnitude (at least).
Readers not familiar with this recent and very odd alliance (given that the antivaccine movement is overwhelmingly white, educated, and affluent) might reasonably ask: How on earth did Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the rest of the antivaccine movement meet and ally themselves together? Basically, it dates back this summer to antivaccinationists’ opposition to SB 277 in California, the bill (now law) that eliminated non-medical exemptions to school vaccine mandates. It’s also related to the “#CDCwhistleblower” manufactroversy, in which CDC scientist William Thompson. The story basically goes as follows.
Between November 2013 and July 2014, a troubled CDC psychologist named William Thompson, who had been involved with some seminal studies testing whether there was a link between vaccines and autism—surprise! surprise! they found there weren’t—engaged in a number of phone calls with an biochemical engineer turned incompetent antivaccine epidemiologist named Brian Hooker. Not realizing that Hooker was recording the phone calls, Thompson took the opportunity to kvetch to Hooker about the CDC in general and his co-investigators in particular, especially Frank DeStefano and Thompson’s other co-authors on an important 2004 paper that examined whether there was any relationship between MMR vaccination and autism. As a result, Brian Hooker did an epically incompetent “reanalysis” of the paper and managed to get it published in a relatively new journal. What this reanalysis claimed to find was that DeStefano et al. had done some statistical prestidigitation to eliminate a statistically significant difference in African American males correlating with age of MMR vaccination. Of course, as I discussed at the time (as did many others), Hooker, in his love of “simplicity,” had neglected to control for important confounders and imputed way too much significance to a spurious correlation that disappeared when proper correction for confounders was made. As I’ve put it many times, simplicity in statistical analyses of epidemiological data is not a virtue. In any case, so incredibly incompetent was Hooker’s analysis that the journal actually retracted the paper.
Likely because Brian Hooker couldn’t keep his big mouth shut about his “good friend” and source within the CDC, Andrew Wakefield found out about Thompson. Hooker appears to have wanted to keep Thompson secret a while longer, the better to pump him for more information, but Wakefield couldn’t resist making a video proclaiming the “CDC whistleblower.” It wasn’t long before the identity of this “CDC whistleblower” was revealed, resulting in a Twitter storm from antivaccinationists who seemed to believe that the central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement (that the CDC knew vaccines cause autism but were hiding it from the public) had just been proven. Nothing really ever came of it other than Wakefield complaining with Hooker to the CDC about “scientific fraud,” leading to the destruction of thousands of irony meters everywhere, and to Representative Bill Posey (R-FL) giving a mostly-ignored talk in front of the House accusing the CDC of malfeasance, possibly revealing that William Thompson really is antivaccine.
Fast forward to this summer. In the wake of the Disneyland measles outbreak, California was on the way towards passing SB 277, a bill that eliminated nonmedical exemptions to school and day care vaccine mandates. It was at this time that the antivaccine movement in California and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. cozied up with the Nation of Islam to help oppose SB 277 by using images of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and invoking the “CDC whistleblower” to convince Minister Tony Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan that the CDC was covering up a link between MMR vaccination and autism in African American boys. Brian Hooker and RFK, Jr. even spoke at a Nation of Islam event held at a Church of Scientology public center.
Thus was an alliance between the oddest of odd bedfellows born. There was so much antivaccine pseudoscience presented that even Orac cannot apply much-deserved not-so-Respectful Insolence to it all. I will therefore concentrate mainly on RFK, Jr. and Minister Tony Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. The two are not that far apart in terms of their dedication to evidence, if you know what I mean.
Right from the start, a little taste of conspiracy
Antivaccinationists are about the crankiest cranks that there are; so it’s not surprising that something happened at the Friday protest that perfectly encapsulates antivaccine thinking and the tendency of these groups to engage in conspiracy mongering. It involved a worker power washing the wall near where some of the protesters were yelling, leading a particularly “enthusiastic” antivaccine activist on Twitter to this:
Later, another protester posted this meme:
As Tim Farley made clear in a Twitter exchange with these two antivaccine activists and in this video, all that was happening was that there was a worker power washing a wall near where they were protesting.
My first reaction to this was, understandably I think: WTF? Fortunately, Tim Farley was out on his morning run and captured video:
As you can see, it was just some poor worker doing his job, not some nefarious security detail from the CDC-pharma cabal “hosing down” the protesters. I feel sorry for the guy. On the other hand, he probably has an amusing story to tell his friends over beers about the cranks who thought he was some sort of secret security agent.
Elsewhere, I saw Periscope videos with protestors chanting “Stop killing our babies!” and “No more vaccinations!” Unfortunately, I didn’t figure out how to save these videos before their 24 hour expiration time hit. However, to give you a flavor, there does remain one saved video showing a woman ranting about how you “cannot inject toxic chemicals and kill our babies” and explicitly comparing the vaccination program to the Holocaust (“we’re gonna have another…where you put ’em in a camp and kill ’em”):
But, no, this wasn’t an antivaccine protest. Oh, no.
In discussing the rest of the proceedings, I’m going to include a lot of video, not so much because I expect anyone to watch it all (I assure you as someone who’s watched many of these videos that they are all very tedious to watch), but so that those who are inclined to check my commentary against the video record may do so if they doubt what I write.
Tony Muhammad brings the religious antivaccine paranoia
The Nation of Islam has always been full of bizarre ideas. Perhaps that’s the reason why over the last several years it has become more and more closely associated with the Church of Scientology. It’s therefore not surprising that Minister Tony Muhammad would be susceptible to the race angle. Given the higher level of distrust of the medical profession and medical research among African Americans, not entirely unjustified given history like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, it doesn’t take much to convince someone like Muhammad that the white-dominated CDC, government, and pharmaceutical injuries are harming black babies, even if that claim is based on evidence as bogus as Brian Hooker’s “reanalysis” of DeStefano et al. and claims of a “CDC whistleblower.” I include Minister Muhammad’s two speeches if you wish to watch them. They are strikingly similar to each other, such that I wouldn’t bother to watch both. They also show just how much the Nation of Islam, at least as represented by Tony Muhammad, has become antivaccine. Here he is on Friday night.
And here he was on Saturday afternoon (another version here):
Much of both of these talks was devoted to religion, thanking the sponsors of the event, and praising Barbara Loe Fisher and RFK, Jr. more than talking about vaccines, such that I’m only going to focus on the most telling part, this passage, included in both talks in one form or another. It’s so telling that I transcribed it extensively:
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the 1930s and 40s warned the Nation of Islam that there are wicked people in high places who are coming up with experimental chemicals that could hurt the human family of the planet. And we were always warned not to take certain vaccines. And as a result, we have not suffered from the autism, from the measles, from the many viruses and sicknesses that are happening in our community. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan also said, “This is prophecy. I need you to listen.” He said when you go into the Book of Exodus, there was a Pharaoh who saw in the Book of Exodus that the slaves was getting restless, and Pharaoh knew that it was time for a deliverer to bring them out from under his control. And Pharaoh made this statement. “Come on, let us deal wisely with them.” Then he said, “Let’s kill the males and spare the females.”
Then Minister Farrakhan went to the New Testament. Herod looked at the stars and knew that it was time for a deliverer to come and lead the people into a new kingdom. And Herod said, “Let’s kill all babies two and under.” So it is no surprise that the vaccine makers have now increased the vaccine and are trying to get it to our boys before they are three years old. It’s in prophecy. He then went to the Book of Revelation as I close. He said in Revelation there is a woman who is pregnant with a child, and then there’s a dragon standing in front of the woman. The dragon wanted to devour the child before it was born. Now big pharmaceutical companies they have become the dragon of this whole planet, and all of their products once you inject them into your body or take them into your mouth it drags your mind down and you lose control.
Here is the relevant passage from Revelation:
A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. 4 Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.”[a] And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.
OK, so Minister Muhammad wasn’t exactly correct about the dragon wanting to devour the savior before he was born; rather he was waiting until he was born. Still, Tony Muhammad told both crowds that vaccines are part of Biblical prophecy (and not a good part), that they are of a piece with the Pharaoh’s slaughter of the children of the enslaved Israelites, Herod’s slaughter of the male children under two, and the dragon of Revelation devouring the savior as soon as he is born, likening big pharma to that dragon of Revelation.
But don’t you dare call Tony Muhammad and the Nation of Islam “antivaccine,” even though it is clearly true.
What I’m afraid of is that the cynical coupling of antivaccine imagery with religious imagery and the distrust many African-Americans feel towards the medical establishment will promote the same sorts of pockets of low vaccine uptake that we’ve already seen among affluent white communities with large number of antivaccine parents, in the poorest African American communities, whose children are not as well fed, do not have access to the best health care, and will therefore suffer more than the children of the “Thinking Moms.” Worse, in his talk on Friday night, Muhammad promised that he was working with hip hop artists to get the message out, claiming that he had been invited to meet with Atlanta artists on Thursday night.
Oh, and to him pharmaceutical companies are gangsters, pure evil.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. lets his antivaccine freak flag fly even higher
Longtime readers might remember that the post that arguably got me the most noticed in my first year of blogging was a discussion of the errors of fact and science coupled with massive conspiracy mongering in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s 2005 antivaccine magnum opus “Deadly Immunity“. I’d periodically discuss some bit of antivaccine misinformation or pseudoscience RFK, Jr. was promoting, but then he seemed to disappear off the face of the earth (at least as far as vaccines went) for a few years, with hardly a mention. Then, in 2014 he resurfaced in a big way, publishing a book about the evils of thimerosal in vaccines, something I thought to be very quaint, so very 2005, given that there hasn’t been more than trace amounts of thimerosal in vaccines since 2002, including making a guest appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher and The Dr. Oz Show to spew his usual antivaccine nonsense while risibly proclaiming himself “fiercely pro-vaccine,” and, of course, teaming up with the Nation of Islam to oppose SB 277 and attack the CDC.
Here he was speaking to the antivaccine activists at Grant Park on Saturday. It’s painful to listen to:
I’m going to leap to near the end of RFK, Jr.’s speech first because yesterday the antivaccine cranks over at that wretched hive of scum and quackery known as Age of Autism were all excited about a “challenge” that he issued to Frank DeStefano, the scientist whom William Thompson accused, along with his coauthors, of research fraud (click to embiggen):
If you watch the video above, you’ll see that, after some silence over some of RFK, Jr.’s more—shall we say?—bizarre stylings, the couple hundred people or so watching the talk cheered lustily. For some reason, antivaccinationists seemed to think that RFK, Jr.’s challenge to DeStefano to sue him if he thinks he’s being slandered was some brilliant strategy. Basically, RFK, Jr. was full of bluster, sound and fury, signifying nothing. He’s rich; so he can afford to defend a slander suit, and if DeStefano were ever stupid enough to sue him RFK, Jr. would then be able to subject DeStefano to discovery. Basically, given that one’s reputation probably can’t be damaged much, if at all, by the bleatings of a lying crank like RFK, Jr. accusing him of a crime he didn’t commit, DeStefano would be wise to ignore this opportunistic “challenge.” No doubt RFK, Jr. knows that and knows that DeStefano won’t sue him. It was all theater designed to get the troops fired up, nothing more.
It’s not surprising that RFK, Jr. ended with theater, because he started with theater as well, theater designed seemingly to convince anyone not in the antivaccine movement watching that he is really, truly not antivaccine. As has become his routine, RFK, Jr. clutched his pearls mightily to the point of crushing them with his bare hands and loudly objected to the news coverage of the #CDCtruth event that described the protesters as “antivaccine.” He repeated what has become a risible cliché in his repertoire and woundedly proclaimed himself “fiercely pro-vaccine,” a line that never fails to get a hearty chuckle from me.
Once again, I note that RFK, Jr. repeated his oft-repeated bit of misinformation about how there have been four “studies” (or investigations) of the CDC that have found it to be a cesspit of corruption. These distortions have been discussed before, but apparently I need to mention them again, at least briefly. For instance, RFK, Jr. claimed that the “Congressional Oversight Committee” investigated the CDC for three years and found all sorts of corruption. Of course, what RFK, Jr. was clearly referring to was Rep. Dan Burton’s hearings back in the day, or to the mummer’s farce that was Rep. Darryl Issa’s “autism” hearing in 2012. Probably both. Similarly, he noted an investigation by Senator Tom Coburn, who issued this report in 2007. I can’t help but note the report discussed potential financial mismanagement, but nothing in it implicated the vaccine program. Rather, it concentrated on Congressional earmarks being funneled through the CDC to various states, such as grants to Hawaii earmarked by Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and extravagance in building the Thomas R. Harkin Global Communications (and Visitor) Center. Given that Coburn was a Republican and Inouye and Harkin were Democrats, one can’t help but sense some political score settling in this report. Read it for yourself and see.
RFK, Jr. also cited an investigation by the HHS Office of Research Integrity (ORI) into CDC misconduct last year and the resignation of its director, who criticized the bureaucracy in his resignation letter. I can’t help but strongly suspect that what he was referring to was the very manufactroversy known as the “CDC Whistleblower scandal” that isn’t a scandal and didn’t show that the CDC covered up data showing an alleged link between the MMR vaccine and autism in African American boys. Brian Hooker, Andrew Wakefield, and James Moody did write a letter to the HHS ORI last October. I also note that the resignation letter of the former director of the ORI, David Wright, who resigned in February 2014, is publicly available online. Tellingly, there is nothing about the CDC in his letter, which complains mainly of a hidebound and secretive bureaucracy and Dr. Wright’s frustration at how difficult it was for him to get anything done. While it’s true that Wright did characterize HHS as a “remarkably dysfunctional bureaucracy” in his resignation letter, I couldn’t find any primary sources to back up RFK, Jr.’s quotes attributed to Wright about how the agency is so corrupt as to be unfixable. I call BS on RFK, Jr.’s claim.
I also call BS on RFK, Jr.’s claim about Paul Offit, too. He was lying again (see the 16:45 mark). Calling Offit the “Lex Luthor of vaccines,” RFK, Jr. also referred to Offit as a “toady of Merck” because he holds the Maurice R. Hillman Chair in Vaccinology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Playing on the ignorance of how endowed chairs work, RFK, Jr. claimed that because Offit holds this chair he is in the pocket of Merck. Of course, Merck, like many corporations, has a charitable foundation, and the charitable foundation donated an endowment to found the Maurice Hillman Chair, which Hillman had worked to set up before his death, specifically $1.5 million, while the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) provided $500,000. Most importantly, Merck has no say over who holds the chair, as described in the press release announcing the chair:
The Hilleman Chair will be awarded to a physician/scientist making significant contributions to vaccinology on the standing faculty of Penn. The Hilleman Chair holder will be selected by an interdisciplinary search committee appointed by the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Dean, School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
One notes that RFK, Jr., either through sloppiness or dishonesty, also seemed to say that Offit was awarded this chair in 1989, before he was appointed to the committee that sets the vaccine schedule, implying that he was in the pocket of Merck before he was on that committee. The Hilleman Chair, however, was not established until 2005; so Offit couldn’t have been awarded the chair in 1989.
RFK, Jr. then went on to lie some more. He stated that Paul Offit voted to add the rotavirus vaccine he had invented to the vaccine schedule and that he sold his patent after it was on the schedule. It is a lie that Offit voted on adding a vaccine for which he had an interest, a lie ably refuted by Liz Ditz and Skeptical Raptor. And, no, Offit was not reprimanded by Congress either. He did nothing wrong.
Not surprisingly, RFK, Jr. also misrepresented the science, as he has been doing for more than a decade, even invoking his ad hominem term “biostitutes,” which is his term for scientists he views as having “sold out” to big pharma. Be that as it may, RFK, Jr. laid down the howler that scientists shouldn’t be doing epidemiological science, but rather animal studies, where they can examine animal organs, and toxicological studies in Petrie dishes. His rationale? Because epidemiological studies look at groups and can be manipulated. He even trots out one of the dumbest examples I’ve ever heard, claiming that you can design a study that shows that sex doesn’t make you pregnant by excluding people who are pregnant from the study. I mean, seriously, listen to it for yourself beginning around the 19:00 mark. RFK, Jr. owes me a new keyboard, because I made the mistake of having a mouthful of coffee when that passage played on my laptop! (I really should know better now.) He then claimed that this is the same thing as excluding autistic children and children with neurological disorders before doing the epidemiological study. Never mind that this is done to make it easier to see any observed effects and to avoid confounding. Let’s just put it this way. You can indeed design an epidemiological study to show that sex is not associated with pregnancy, but it would be an epidemiological study of the type that antivaccinationists do: Incompetent.
Indeed, RFK, Jr.’s ignorance of epidemiology is truly even more epic than even Brian Hooker’s. What he says doesn’t even make a tiny amount of sense. Indeed, I bet that even Brian Hooker, if he saw this talk, would cringe.
But don’t you dare call RFK, Jr. “antivaccine,” even though it is true. After all, he claims he is “fiercely pro-vaccine.”
Antivaccine, not pro-safe vaccine
I could have gone through several of the other talks if I wanted this post to balloon to an even more unmanageable than usual size; so I refrained. Much of it was just the same old antivaccine pseudoscience that I’ve been writing about for years. Indeed, I was tempted not to discuss RFK, Jr.’s talk at all, given that it was basically an expanded version of his interview with Bill Maher from a few months ago, complete with the same lies about Paul Offit, the same distortions about the CDC, but with extra added bonus ignorance about science. However, his “challenge” to Frank DeStefano changed my mind. In any case, the only real new wrinkle in this antivaccine rally, the only thing new under the antivaccine sun, are the collaboration of the Nation of Islam and the attempt by antivaccinationists to use them as an “in” to the African-American community. This alliance has the potential to cause real mischief among people who are already disadvantaged with respect to health care.
In the end, though, I find this “rally” (or these “rallies”) to be evidence of just how marginalized the antivaccine movement is. I would like to think they are a sad, last gasp of a dying movement, but, if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the antivaccine movement, no matter how beaten down it is, never dies. It’s Halloween week; so I’ll use a slasher flick analogy. Like Michael Myers or Jason, no matter how many times it seems to be dead or dying, the antivaccine movement always returns to endanger our children and kill again. I fear this time it will be no different. |
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Here’s How To Argue Against All The Bullshit Bushfire Conspiracies Doing The Rounds
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It’s as tiring as it is predictable: As bushfires continue to rage across three states, conspiracy theorists pop out of the woodwork to do everything they can to divert attention away from the actual causes of the crisis.
So far, at least 25 people have lost their lives, thousands of homes have been destroyed, 10 million hectares have burned, millions of trees have been lost, and at least half a billion animals have died.
Yet, from the top levels of Australian politics to your racist uncle on Facebook, a bunch of weird, half-informed (or completely misinformed) memes are doing the rounds in an attempt to move the discussion in completely the wrong direction — namely, away from talking about climate change.
And it’s very deliberate. Just the fact that we (and heaps of other media outlets) have to spend time writing this article is an example of conspiracy theorists successfully diverting resources away from talking about solutions, and towards debunking nonsense ideas.
Still, here we are.
So here’s a list of some of the most common mistruths doing the rounds, and how you can gently explain to your Weird Uncle Roger that he’s just plain wrong.
Hasn’t Australia Always Had Bushfires?
This is probably the most common one you’ll hear when someone tries to argue that climate change isn’t to blame for these catastrophic fires. “Australia has always had bushfires, it always will, and therefore there’s nothing we can do.”
And yes, Australia is a big, hot, dry, country, and we regularly have bad bushfire seasons. But what’s different this time is the sheer scale of the fires. Bushfires have never burned this hot, this widely, for such a prolonged period of time. Smoke has never filled Australian (and New Zealand) cities for weeks on end. We’ve never had to buy gas masks just to go about our everyday business. There’s nothing normal or routine about this bushfire season.
This is the worst bushfire season we’ve ever faced, and we’re not even halfway through summer yet.
So far this season 1,687 homes have destroyed & more than 21,000 buildings saved. Since 1 Jan, 771 homes lost. This figure is likely to increase. It will take time for teams to work through these areas due to limited access on isolated roads and villages. #nswrfs #nswfires pic.twitter.com/ieLh9UxtFT
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) January 7, 2020
It’s difficult to imagine a time in the future when Australia won’t battle bushfires in some form every year, but there’s HEAPS we can do to lessen the severity of them. Speaking of which…
Is Climate Change To Blame For The Bushfire Crisis?
No one is suggesting that having too much carbon in the atmosphere caused Australia to spontaneously combust. But plenty of people (like, y’know, scientists) are saying climate change is a significant contributing factor to the severity of these fires.
In fact, this report from 2008 made an incredibly accurate prediction about the severity of the 2020 bushfire season.
Scott Morrison didn’t even tweet the word ‘climate’ for ten years. pic.twitter.com/znuWOtByIh
— Matt Burke (@matttburke) January 7, 2020
The Garnaut Climate Change Report was first handed down in 2008, and here’s what it had to say about the link between climate change and bushfires, specifically mentioning the year 2020 as the point at which the link would become painfully obvious:
“….fire seasons will start earlier, end slightly later, and generally be more intense. This effect increases over time, but should be directly observable by 2020,” the report stated.
You’ll hear it a lot in this article, but to be clear: Climate change isn’t the spark that lights the fires, but it does exacerbate the conditions that turn that spark into a raging inferno. Because of climate change, Australia is hotter and drier than ever. And that means the 2020 bushfire season is only the beginning.
Can Australia Really Make A Difference To Climate Change?
This is a favourite right-wing talking point: Australia is such a small country, and our contribution to global warming is so tiny, that we couldn’t possibly make a difference.
And sure no individual country could reverse the progress of climate change on their own, that’s why all of the experts say we need unified, global action — and the last time we checked, Australia is part of that globe.
Also, Australia is the world’s second highest emitter per capita, just behind the United States. So yeah, we actually can make a difference.
Will Australia “Meet And Beat” Its Climate Targets?
This is one of Scott Morrison’s favourites. Whenever the prime minister is asked if Australia needs to do more to address climate change, he responds that we are on track to “meet and beat” our Paris Climate Accord targets.
Apart from the fact that this is just straight-up not true, it’s also misleading in a few ways.
First, the government wants to use “carryover credits” in order to meet our targets. That means taking the excess carbon credits from our old climate change targets, and counting them towards our future targets. It’s basically an accounting trick to make it seem like we’re doing a better job than we actually are. Australia is the only country in the world attempting to do this.
And that’s not to mention that fact that Australia has a long history of lobbying for lower emissions targets during global negotiations, dating all the way back to the Howard government. Just last year, the Morrison government was accused of sabotaging a global climate change deal.
To get a sense of what the rest of the world thinks about our action on climate change, just remember what the leaders of Pacific Islands nations had to say about us last year.
Does The Morrison Government Believe In Climate Change?
Scott Morrison tried to claim this recently and it’s laughable. Apart from the aforementioned accounting tricks, the Liberal party literally tore down Malcolm Turnbull’s entire prime ministership because he tried to take half-hearted action on climate change.
And even if we forget about policy for a second, let’s take a look at some of the goons who fill the government benches.
Just this week, the Coalition’s most high profile climate change denier, Craig Kelly, made an absolute dick of himself on British TV while trying to deny a link between bushfires and climate change.
Then there’s the government Senator who thinks the Bureau of Meteorology is cooking the books, the backbencher who attacked bushfire victims, the minister who says the science is “uncertain”, and the Deputy Prime Minister who thinks anyone who links bushfires and climate change is an “inner-city raving lunatic”.
There is definitely a small section of the government that genuinely believes in climate change and wants to take serious action on it — but that section is massively outnumbered by science-deniers and conspiracy theorists.
Are The Greens To Blame For Bushfires?
This is another extremely popular meme, especially in right-wing Facebook circles. The premise is that the Greens are such tree-huggers that they refuse to allow hazard reductions burns in bushland. It’s nonsense.
First, the Greens support hazard reduction burns, as it says on their website.
Second, can you name one state or territory where the Greens are in power? No, because there isn’t one. Certainly, the Greens have the balance of power in some jurisdictions, but to suggest that they’re using this power to prevent hazard reduction burns is ridiculous.
This is a complex issue, but the short version is that there are two types of controlled burns: Backburning is a firefighting tool used to create firebreaks to stop a fire from spreading. Hazard reduction is a fire prevention tool designed to decrease fuel, to make fires less likely to start and spread during bushfire season.
There are a bunch of reasons that we don’t do as much hazard reduction burning as we should. One is government funding cuts, another is… you guessed it: climate change! For example, fire services can only conduct hazard reduction burns on days where the weather conditions will allow them to do so safely. But the number of days each year where it is safe to conduct hazard reductions burns are getting fewer and fewer, because the weather is getting hotter and more wild.
As we say, it’s a very complicated issue. Here’s a handy explainer from the ABC if you want to know more.
Sometimes a photo can say a thousand words. This one snapped yesterday by one of our Air Attack Supervisors from above.
Thank you for all the kind messages of support.#NSWRFS #NSWfires pic.twitter.com/hVgMfw4j50
— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) January 7, 2020
Are Arsonists To Blame For Bushfires?
Sure, some of the fires we’ve seen this season (and every fire season), are started by arsonists. On Tuesday, it was revealed that 183 people have been charged with with fire-related offences this bushfire season — but most of those were for throwing cigarettes out car windows or breaking laws related to fire bans. Twenty-four people were charged with deliberately starting fires, which is still obviously a higher number than you’d like it to be.
But there are other bushfire causes that are much harder to prevent, such as lightning strikes or power line failures, like the one that caused 40 deaths on Black Saturday in 2009.
There appears to be a deliberate disinformation campaign rolling out on social media right now, blaming the bushfire crisis on arsonists rather than climate change.
And again, as we’ve been saying throughout this article, it’s not just about the spark that lights the flame, whether its arsonists or natural causes — it’s about what happens after that spark. Australia is getting hotter and drier, and that’s a perfect environment for bushfires to become more frequent, more powerful and more damaging.
And The Rest
There are a bunch of other memes, photos and hoaxes relating to the bushfire crisis that are just too silly for us to debunk individually. Fortunately, the good people over at BuzzFeed have done a pretty good job of that for us.
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I don't know a single person on any end of the political spectrum who doesn't want to see an end to police shootings of black folk. I don't know a single person who doesn't want to make sure that shootings like the Charleston one never happen again. But most ordinary white people also don't have a clue how they could help with that, other than posting the occasional facebook meme or generally feeling it would be a good thing if something were done. Or maybe they'd like to do something, but are nervous about it - how will other people feel if they just show up to a protest or meeting? The blunt truth is that Black and White people in America often live very separate lives, and even if their is a desire to cross the boundaries, a lot of people don't know how. So while I'd love it if you showed up, I'm going to give you something easier as a start. Read to your kids.
Ok, you already knew you should be reading to your kids, and odds are, if you have them, you are. Because most of the readers of my blog (and most blogs) are white, middle class and reasonably well educated, either self-educated or otherwise. If you really needed it you could look at some studies about the neurological value of reading, including one that just came out: or you could go with something slightly older. But honestly, you don't actually need science for this, you already know that reading is incredibly important both for the much-vaunted "preparing our children for their 21st century world" and also for giving your kids things like empathy, imagination and the ability to understand how people other than themselves might think.
Again, if you have kids and read this blog, I bet you already read tons to your kids. But what you may not do, because most parents don't, is actively, consciously make sure that your kids are reading lots of books with non-white protagonists, with Black language, Black culture and themes that make everyone deal with difference. Or for that matter, books with other non-white protagonists. Or if you are doing so, you probably aren't trying to make sure that a PROPORTIONATE amount of your children's reading is made up of books with major non-white characters. Most of us have a long list of great classic books in our head - and comparatively few that we know have non-white characters as anything other than a minor sidekick.
No, this is not trivial - a lot of what's happening in America stems from the basic inability to recognize that other people are fully human and like to us. That's a subtle kind of racism that gets imbedded in a lot of heads, because we don't live closely enough to fully understand one another.
When I say we don't recognize one another as fully human, I should clarify I don't mean explicitly racist assumptions like caricaturing Obama as an ape, or wishing harm to those who are different than you. What I am talking about a kind of acknowledgement that is really difficult to do - to look at another person and in a momentary interaction, grant them the same consciousness and depth and complexity that you have. Let's be honest - that's hard with people who we know. We tend to jump to conclusions and judgements - that your neighbor who always parks so close you can't get into your space is just a jerk, not someone struggling with chronic pain who needs to get that much closer. Your sister who always expects you to help her out at the last minute is a lazy procrastinator, not someone trying to juggle a lot of things in difficult circumstances. Right? Whereas we are deeply hurt when someone fails to see why our choices are not the product of our necessities and circumstances. Even with the people who love the best, seeing them to be equally whole and human to ourselves is very hard.
And the more visible difference there is, the less knowledge of one another, and the more cultural transmission of racist or sexist or homophobic cultural assumptions, the harder it is to see other people as human, and the easier it is to use the placeholder assumptions we get from stereotypes and racism in our snap judgement. To go for "thugs" not "kids," to assume that the non-white guy in the drugstore isn't there to buy Zantac just like you are, to say that kid who is acting up in class may have a disability rather than being a bad girl, to see language or clothing as cultural, rather than an affront. To make those tiny little microdecisions that say "This person is just as human as I am" - let us acknowledge that this IS a hard thing for most white people in America. And that the failure to do so has consequences involving death and suffering. In that sense, we know that all of us have racist assumptions.
One of the best tools we have for developing empathy with others, besides getting to know them, is reading. After all, the first thing that reading does is ask us to imagine ourselves in the heads of others, either through through identification or vicariousness. Books mostly DEMAND we see others as human, because, well, that's what good books do - make characters into people who see the world in a way necessarily different from ourselves. Childhood reading is often our first experience of seeing the world through other eyes, and developing the empathy that emerges from that reading.
Most of us spend a lot of time making sure our children read great Children's literature, and most of us probably recognize that Black and Native American and Asian and Hispanic kids need to see kids like themselves on the page, that reading books about all white kids is subtly disheartening for non-white kids, that an all-white literary lineup implies that the greatest acts of imagination and adventure are not for them. What we've been less likely to think about is the way that reading mostly great books about White children shapes the way that WHITE Children recognize or fail to recognize others as human in the same ways they are. It shapes the way WHITE kids think about the world and what kinds of acts and adventures and imagination are for non-white people.
By twelve, many of our book-devouring children have crossed the plains in a covered wagon (sometimes multiple times ;-)), they've imagined themselves orphaned and forced to survive in complex situations, been tossed to magic kingdoms galore, discovered they and they alone can save the day, sorted out complicated feelings about growing up, divorce, first loss, first love, sneaked ahead to read books about things they aren't quite supposed to know about yet. Their childhood of picture books has taken them through childhood anger and misbehavior to the kingdom of Wild Things, where there are no limits, except the need for someone who loves you best of all. They've been left home without parents with a destructive force that wears a funny hat and speaks in rhyme that shows you can both make and repair mayhem and asks whether you really need to tell the truth about it. They have undergone most real life difficulties with guidance through most of the early traumas and adventures of childhood with familiar characters. They have lived over and over in worlds knowing that little mice and anthropomorphic pigs and little girls from Kansas and sibling sets from England escaping bombs and children from the turn of one or another century are both like and unlike them, and are fully, deeply real.
What they often haven't done very often, however, is had that experience enough with Black children or Asian ones or Native American or Latino ones. Those books usually come later, assigned by their teachers as schoolwork. Don't get me wrong, most of us do provide a smattering of them, but not enough to counteract several messages our kids are getting - first, that really compelling adventures and experiences mostly happen to white children, second to provide regular imaginings of living in our culture in a different skin and different world that enables us to start from the instinct of granting another full humanity. We don't read enough pictures books with non-white kids for our kids to see those children as fully like them - the occasional introduction of a moralistic book about Ruby Bridges or a black girlfriend is not enough. Instead, we have to introduce a world in which everyone has adventures and where crossing cultural and skin lines is part of our imaginative training.
Is reading perfect? It isn't. It isn't a substitute for Black or Hispanic or Asian teachers, schoolmates, best friends, doctors, neighbors, family members. But what if you don't have those things, or not enough of them? We live where we live, and we know who we know, and most of us should work harder at diversifying our community, but don't for all sorts of reasons - time, energy, fear of rejection, fear of awkwardness.... But it is a start, and we don't know where that start will end. From very early on our children notice difference - race, skin color, disability. If we don't give them books that talk about these things and show these things, if we implicitly suggest that those books are for Black Children, not our children, if we think that books that make race complicating are too hard or uncomfortable, we will raise another generation of white kids who think that pretending to be color blind is the same as ending racism, and a generation of white children that will again feel helpless to stand with their black friends - because they don't know how to make any.
Yes, my Black sons and daughters need lots of books with pictures of children like them. But so do my White ones. In learning that Black experience is as whole and real as their own, in developing empathy that crosses cultural and racial barriers, and in imagining themselves into Black lives, they are unlearning the implicit racism of their culture. That's not all there is to do, but it is a beginning, and one everyone can offer to their own children.
Where to start? There are lots of suggestions out there, but some great books our family adores. My next post will include a list.
I have recently observed this about myself, that I don't have enough exposure to non-white culture to not be surprised to learn that the black podcaster I am listening to is a multi-millionaire. I live in northern New England, the least diverse part of the country. My state is 3rd for least diversity, and is bordered on either side by the 1st and 2nd least diverse. I asked my best friend, who lives in DC and works in diversity, what I can do and she also told me to actively seek books and music and art by non-white people. I am very much looking forward to your list.
“Again, if you have kids and read this blog, I bet you already read tons to your kids. But what you may not do, because most parents don’t, is actively, consciously make sure that your kids are reading lots of books with non-white protagonists, with Black language, Black culture and themes that make everyone deal with difference.”
How about playing some *rap music* for your kids?
Some bleeped versions of the CDs are probably available that hopefully preserve some of the lyrics from the ’hood.
I play rap music for myself, and I don't have to watch out for the language in that nearly as much as some of the other music Eric and I enjoy ;-).
Another side to this is that there is a lot of fiction out there which leaves the race of the participants down to the reader. This is particularly true in the SF and Fantasy genres. Maybe not as good as having emphatically black etc participants, but better than nothing.
For me these non-specific characters are a one of the reasons reading is so for me much more enjoyable than film and tv.
Thnk you Jackie Robinson is my all time favorite to read to Kids.
"What I am talking about a kind of acknowledgement that is really difficult to do – to look at another person and in a momentary interaction, grant them the same consciousness and depth and complexity that you have. Let’s be honest – that’s hard with people who we know."
F**k me, that's profound. Not being facetious here, that is a really deep and succinct observation (especially, to me, the bit about "that's hard with people we know"). But it's also one that ties together, or is at the root of, so many different issues, I'd say. Certainly feels relevant to all sorts of things I've been trying to get my head around.
Thank you so much for this. We are taking a hard look at the books we read to and offer the children at our school and the timeliness of this blog post couldn't be exaggerated. Can't wait to see your list of recommended books!
Thank you so much for this.
We've made a conscious effort to include books with Black protagonists in our toddler's library (and pull them out repeatedly), as well as an effort to include books about other cultures and religions (aka: something not steeped in white Anglo-Christian culture... for Jewish stories, Shik Shak Shabbath is a favorite - a book about multicultural community-building through food, seriously, what's not to love?). Religion-wise, though, there's an issue: Jewish books, semi-easy to find, Hindu books so-so... but books about muslim culture and religion aimed at kids under 6? Forget it. I've even asked a pre-school in a primarily muslim neighborhood to recommend things, and they don't have any to recommend.
Sharon, thanks for this post! I just re-posted on https://www.facebook.com/raceconscious...would love to connect at some point and also would love to invite you to guest blog on Raising Race Conscious Children if you are interested!
Ooh, I have book ideas! I have been doing this for my littles as well, as part of my '50 books by authors of color' reading challenge. Specifically I have favorite authors.
- every. single. thing by Jacqueline Woodson. My favorite is Each Kindness, which I think should be required reading for all humans. She also has a story about fostering.
- Rita Williams-Garcia wrote a great trilogy starting with One Crazy Summer set in the 60s.
- everything by Nikki Grimes, also has a few foster stories.
- Mildred Taylor and Octavia Butler, of course, for the older ones. And I *strongly* recommend the biography of Ida B. Wells written by Fradin, for ages 12-to-adult.
(East) Asian American favorite authors, in approximate order of reading age (and favorite book) :
- Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon)
- Allen Say
- Lenore Look (Ruby Lu, Brave and True)
- Lisa Yee (Millicent Min trilogy (best as a trilogy))
- Wendy Shang (I LOVE BOTH HER BOOKS SO MUCH)
- Jenny Han (starts out 'teen romance', ends up surprisingly awesome)
I don't have any good lists for any other culture, but there's Malala's autobiography of course, and there is a children's version which I've read. Since she was a middle schooler in the early events of the books, it's written to be accessible for middle schoolers. (Um, I'll get to the grown up version someday myself.)
Also, I recommend the links on this page for new ideas, and I especially recommend the searchable database at the Jane Addams awards.
I am readiing "Black Hawk Down" - an awful reminder of the stupidity of the US in trying to be the policeman of the world, the bravery of our soldiers, and the hostility toward America created by these "good intentions."
Books for kids about Muslims are not easy to find. Here are a few:
-Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors
-My First Ramadan
-Rashad's Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr
-1001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization
-Malcom Little: The boy who grew up to be Malcom X
-Deep in the Sahara
I think one of the things that is difficult for people to understand, but easy to teach children is how diverse Muslims are. We often get lumped as 'Arab' but Muslims come in all colors and nationalities.
As I understand it, Islam and Nation of Islam are not exactly the same thing. Could you please help me understand if this is a misconception. |
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There are a lot of really important stories in Truthout today. The concept of history repeating as David Wilcock discussed in his last book is eerily apparent here tho the time spans involved are much shorter.
From the distraction tactics being used to cement oil oligarchs ability to exterminate life on Earth, to the racist removal of indigenous children nothing we are seeing in the news of late is actually “new”.
It is time for the collective of Earth to say no more from the depths of our inherent spiritual power of creation. All that is not of love must end.
We must withdraw our consent and call forth the transformation of this power-over based society into something rooted in love, compassion and caring before it truly is too late for our species and so many others.
John Pilger, Truthout: Echoing the infamous Stolen Generation of the 20th century, Australia once again is “removing” Aboriginal children from their families under a government policy that smacks of social engineering and racism.
Josephine Simmons, Truthout: In Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban on corporate contributions in federal elections was unconstitutional. As countries in Europe consistently have managed to find ways to regulate campaign financing, the US has moved toward a system of big-dollar contributions.
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The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Florida Gov. Rick Scott is now officially a killer, and Charlene Dill is one of his victims. Dill fell into what’s called the “Red State Doughnut Hole,” created by Republican lawmakers. It says that if you make more than $5,400 and less than $11,400, you get no health insurance.
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Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: Home Depot tycoon Ken Langone said that he hopes populist sentiment is “not working, because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.” This envy and jealousy meme won’t disappear anytime soon.
Vicente Navarro, Social Europe Journal: What we are seeing in Spain is a dream for conservative forces that have been the dominant forces over the Spanish state. They are achieving what they always wanted: a reduction of salaries, a very frightened labor force, weak labor unions and the dismantling of the welfare state.
Oliver Stone and Mark Weisbrot, The Boston Globe: The Bush administration had a stated policy of trying to isolate Venezuela, and the strategy ended up isolating Washington instead. President Obama promised to turn a new page. But today, his administration finds itself even more isolated than that of his predecessor.
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Eagle-eyed enthusiasts may have picked up on all of the spacecraft, people and settings featured in the two-and-a-half minute video, but for those who did not, or have yet to read "First Man," historian James Hansen's 2005 authorized biography of Armstrong on which the movie is based, here is a step-by-"small step" review of some of the trailer's key scenes. Your password must include at least 8 characters with a combination of upper/lower case, number and symbol. "We need to fail down here, so we don't fail up there," says Gosling as Armstrong. Listen to An Excerpt From Star Trek: Discovery - Die Standing, Go Inside Star Trek: Discovery Dead Endless with Narrator Robert Petkoff, Michelle Yeoh and Gersha Phillips Talk Section 31 Costumes, WATCH: Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Comes to Blu-ray, WATCH: The Star Trek: Discovery Holodeck Experience, WATCH: The 'Discovery,' 'Short Treks' and 'Lower Decks' Comic-Con Panel, Star Trek: Discovery: The Sound of Thunder VFX Breakdown, WATCH: Star Trek: Discovery, "Saints of Imperfection" VFX Breakdown, #TrekFormations: A Talosian Metamorphosis, WATCH: #Trekformations Turns Mary Chieffo into L'Rell, Star Trek: Discovery - Alien Transformations, Star Trek: Lower Decks - "Exocomp Arrival", Star Trek: Lower Decks — No Small Parts Easter Eggs, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Get Your Trek On, WATCH: Star Trek: Prodigy Beams Down to NYCC, PREVIEW: The Star Trek Universe Arrives at NYCC, Star Trek: Lower Decks - U.S.S. Don't have an account? Click here to login or here to sign up.
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URL. Armstrong and Aldrin were members of the Apollo 8 backup crew and were witnesses to the launch, which sent the first humans to orbit the moon. First Target (2000) ← Back to main. Speaking of "Apollo 13," this might be the best representation of Houston Mission Control since that 1995 film. The Basics. Sign up here. Rather, it is for Armstrong's first spacelight, as command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966. About TMDb; Contact Us; Support Forums; API; System Status; Get Involved. Rather, it is for Armstrong's first spacelight, as command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966. Free shipping on orders of $35+ & save 5% with your Target RedCard. "I vonder vere Guenter Vendt." $92.70. An email will not be created automatically. Judging by the layout of the room and the glass window separating them, this scene might be from after Armstrong (Gosling) returned from the moon and was held with his crewmates in quarantine for 21 days at the Lunar Receiving Lab in Houston. For a wide assortment of First Gear visit Target.com today.
A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her father, who has gone missing. The trailer opens with the dramatic launch of a Saturn V, the rocket that flew 24 astronauts on nine missions to the moon, including Apollo 11 crewmates Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins for the first lunar landing in July 1969. Don't miss out; hit play above and get your own first glimpse of Star Trek's future - then get a closer look with the latest images released. Armstrong entered quarantine before the Apollo 11 launch, too, but by then he was already at the Cape, which had different facilities. Directed by John Woo. Chazelle has been quoted saying that he was drawn to "First Man" because the public only knows the astronaut, the "human himself is a little bit of an enigma." [The astronauts] would only do it for maybe 20 minutes at a time, but in the movie, because we had to get a lot of shots, I was in it for like six to eight hours," Gosling told late night host Jimmy Kimmel in an interview on Friday (June 8). Update (June 12): Universal has removed the Challenger audio from the trailer.
– Houston, the "First Man" trailer has landed and with it a whirlwind of scenes depicting almost a decade of spaceflight history.
Discovery. $76.45. This is one of the few times that the trailer incorporates archival material and here it is the unfortunate choice of the last audio before the loss of space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
The only set of four engines that comes to mind are the Gemini spacecraft's retrorockets, but this rendering differs in some ways from their configuration. When the trailer finally shows Armstrong (Gosling) seated on board a spacecraft, it isn't inside an Apollo command module. A note about the audio in this scene: just after the X-15 drops away from its B-52 mothership, a bit of dialog can be heard from a different era of spaceflight: "Go at throttle up," and then "Roger, go at throttle up." Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer, Jake Gyllenhaal Will Star in HBO Limited Series.
Later, Armstrong would fly the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV) to train for his own mission. Despite Armstrong later serving on the commission that investigated the tragedy that claimed seven lives, the use of the audio is inappropriate and is presumably limited to the trailer and not included in the film itself. First Gear. Join the Community. Mack Anthem Sleeper Cab with 53' Trailer White 1/64 Diecast Model by First Gear. On Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 crewmates Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire that broke out inside their spacecraft during a routine pre-launch test. In between various scenes of Armstrong (Gosling) and Scott (Abbott) flying aboard Gemini 8, the trailer inserts this shot — of the Apollo 11 launch.
Though not billed as a biopic, "First Man" focuses on Armstrong, his personal life and his NASA career as a research test pilot and NASA astronaut between 1962 and 1969. Tandem-Axle Tag Trailer Magnetic Gray 1/50 Diecast Model by First Gear. View HD Trailers and Videos for First Target on Rotten Tomatoes, then check our Tomatometer to find out what the Critics say. The vantage point depicted here is dramatic, but it shows the fire emanating from above the astronauts' seats. Universal Pictures on Friday (June 8) released the first teaser for director Damien Chazelle's upcoming feature film about the first man to walk on the moon, starring actor Ryan Gosling as the late Neil Armstrong. The trailer's final shot before the title screen puts the viewer in Armstrong's shoes, or lunar boots as it were. In addition to flying the X-15, Armstrong's years as a research test pilot also saw him help develop a "flying bedstead" to prepare its pilots to land on the moon.
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"Only after we've mastered these tasks, do we consider trying to land on the moon," says Slayton (Kyle Chandler) in the trailer. Armstrong and David Scott (Christopher Abbott) accomplished the first docking in space, linking up with an Agena target vehicle in Earth orbit.
There he is! Later clips also show their two sons, Mark and Rick. The same room, with modifications, was later used for Apollo 11.
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One man recently shared how he told a joke to a girl he liked and she laughed at it
After telling a joke to his crush, one girl liked it so much — she laughed.
No issues there, right?
The girl had to be hospitalized due to asthma.
Read on for the cute story!
[SPOILER ALERT/UPDATE: this guy asked the girl out and they are now dating!]
“So there’s this girl I like at work, and we’re really good friends. We’re having lunch and we are making those ironic depression meme jokes as most friends do. For some reason, I (in my unknowingly-stupid way to get her to laugh) got the idea to say ‘Well hey, you know what’s just one letter away from sad? DAB?’ And promptly did the deed.
Also, I have the ability to cry on demand so I just stared stone-cold her and let two tears fall down.
She finds it funny. Extremely funny. So funny she drops to the floor and starts laughing her a** off.
After a good thirty seconds, she starts grabbing her chest and coughing. I asked if she was okay when she begins to convulse a bit. Freaking the f**k out and thinking she’s having a d**n seizure, I start to reach for my phone.
And in the exact second, my manager randomly decides to come in and sees this big guy towering over this poor little girl on the floor. I only manage to cut off her impending rage by saying I think she’s having a seizure and I’m calling 911.
Fortunately, I was able to explain to her what happened when the ambulance arrived.
Turns out, she has asthma, and my joke caused a flare-up, and was waving her arms to try and tell me to get her inhaler. Whoops.
TD; DR. Made a joke with a girl that ended up causing an asthma flare-up, manager walked in when it happened. She ended up in the hospital and I almost lost my job.”
Thankfully, the girl turned out just fine.
One user commented how that her laughing was a good sign that she liked him.
He replied back, saying how he was actually planning on asking her out on a date.
Another user commented, saying how he had a “great in” at this point — but he needed to take it easy on the dab jokes unless she wanted to be back in the hospital.
Other clever comments, included:
“Okay but imagine actually dying laughing at a dab joke.”
“And kids, that’s how I nearly killed your mother with a dab.”
And my personal favorite:
“Tell her that you can guarantee that the date will leave her breathless.”
But for folks with asthma — it is no laughing matter.
One user commented on how he appreciated the story but warned of an ugly truth.
“As a side note, from a guy who also has asthma, when you get those laughing fits, it really only takes 30 seconds until you can’t control your breathing anymore, and you feel like you are suffocating.”
He goes onto say that those around people with asthma should know the limits of said people.
It gives “I’m dyin’ over here,” a whole new meaning…
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Status on TR list : Huh, this one looks interesting 🙂 On the TR pile.
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Silver Harris is over clingy men—maybe men altogether. But when she shares a toe-curling kiss with a sexy Irish vampire on New Year’s Eve, she wonders if maybe it’s human men she’s fed up with. Silver turns to the popular vampire dating site, V-Date, only to discover that vampire men are just as unimpressive as their mortal counterparts. And her mysterious hottie? He’s nowhere to be found.
Can’t a girl catch a break?
Logan Byrne can’t get that sassy redhead—or that kiss!—out of his head. When his boss assigns him to spy on V-Date, he meets Silver again. Turns out, the police are recruiting humans to snitch on vampires through the dating site. As the snark and sparks fly, feelings between Silver and Logan deepen. But, when old demons resurface—literally—Logan isn’t sure he can shield either of them from the dangers that have been lying in wait for centuries.
Status on TR List : I love Beth Williamson and I adore her historical’s. On the TR list.
A fierce bounty hunter. An outlaw on the run. A love that transcends it all.
After three years on the run, the notorious bounty hunter Tyler Calhoun catches up with the elusive lady outlaw, Nicky Malloy. The intensity of their dislike for each other is only matched by the burgeoning passion they can’t control.
A loner by nature, a cold hard hunter by choice, Tyler fights his feelings for his prisoner the only way he knows how — by ignoring them. He’s not prepared for the depth of his feelings, or how hard it will be to hold her prisoner–so close and so far away. Pursued and hunted themselves, Nicky and Tyler are forced to turn to each other for aid, trust, and comfort as their journey progresses to an inevitable end.
Caught in a murky world of lies, they hold on to each other as they travel to Wyoming to confront the man that brought them together. Tyler has to decide if his love for Nicky is worth more than the bounty he was sent to find.
Status on the TR List : I love this series but I’m a book behind. I will be reading this.
In Copper Ridge, Oregon, a cowboy’s best friend might turn out to be the woman of his dreams…
If Finn Donnelly makes a plan, he sticks to it. After his brothers left Copper Ridge, Finn stayed behind, determined to keep their ranch going by himself. And when he realized his feelings for Lane Jensen were more than platonic, he shoved that inconvenient desire away. It was easy…until it wasn’t. Suddenly his brothers are coming home to claim their share of the property. And Lane is no longer just in his fantasies. She’s in his arms, and their friendship is on the line…
He’s been her buddy, her handyman, her rock. But until that one breathtaking kiss, Lane somehow overlooked the most important thing about Finn Donnelly—he’s all man. They’re right together, no matter how much his volatile past has bruised him. Finn wants to hold Lane’s body, but he doesn’t want to hold her heart. But Lane is falling fast and now she’s got a plan of her own …to show Finn there’s nothing hotter than friendship turned to slow-burning love.
Also includes a bonus Copper Ridge novel, Take Me, Cowboy!
Status on TR list : Checks all the boxes for me 🙂 On the list.
A hot & hilarious new standalone from #1 NYT Bestseller Lauren Blakely…
Let’s be honest, ladies. A good man is a lot like the perfect car. You want a hot body, an engine that purrs, and superior performance under the hood…for the best joy ride of your life.
I’m at your service. Ready to go all night long.
But then a wildly sexy brunette appears in my life and throws a wrench in all my plans. She’s fiery, she’s talented, she’s gorgeous, and I’d really like to know what makes her engine hum.
Henley also happens to be my biggest rival, and now we’re forced to work together every day on the most important custom car build of my career. The trouble is I can’t quite figure out if she wants to kick me in the lug nuts or beg me to give her a good, hard fuel injection. Until one night that question is answered on the hood of a sports car when she calls out my name three times. And we can’t seem to put on the brakes.
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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted at Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
I’m planning the next event this week and all the organisation for that has made me review lazy. I am so excited by some of the authors getting involved (Tessa Bailey, Vivian Arend and Laura Kaye are all signed up) and there is more space so I can’t wait to see who else joins in. I am also in the middle of holiday planning which is far more fun than reviewing 🙂
This weeks posts are…
- Waiting on Wednesday : One Sexy Ride by Vivian Arend
- Amazon US Kindle Price Drop Post : Vivian Arend, Lexi Blake & Jeaniene Frost
- Random Musings : Things that I wish I’d know before I started blogging…(Warning, contains swearing)
- Top Picks : Includes releases from Lorelei James, Maisey Yates & Eve Langlais |
WEIGHT: 47 kg
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Illustration by Jacqueline Lin. But the meme happened to take over the internet just as my sudden sublimation into a single, cock-sucking transsexual slut was taking place. It felt good to channel an obscure libido of much darker origin into a familiar pact with others who were also seizing sexualities that had been stolen away from them. Everything happened so fast.
Lucas held me in one arm like I was weightless. I was folded in half, my breasts crushed against my thighs, pinned upright to his thick chest as my legs draped over his forearm.
My mind emptied like the shot-sized bottle of vodka that fell out of his pocket as I watched him fuck me in the floor-length mirrors. We watched Jarhead. He figured he ought to do what he wanted this summer, since everything would be on the line soon. So we fucked as much as possible, like we were fucking for our lives.
I guess we were. A new season had begun. With everything lost and nothing to give, I thought I might meet another Diana thrusting in the hot nights to come. Maybe she would be stronger than the one who died the day her love left. I would find her, and men would help by penetrating the barrier that has kept this imaginary, liberated version of myself unreachable for so long. So, fueled by pop culture rhetoric and desperation, I returned to my roots, and began to transform myself to save myself.
My stylist cropped my long hair to graze my shoulder blades, and my colorist lifted me to an ash blond. Is this how the hot girl I was searching for might look? I never loved anyone but one man, and until this year, I kept Diana just for him. |
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
Salvage by Keren David
Shadowplay by Laura Lam
Raging Star by Moira Young
Trouble by Non Pratt
The Falconer by Elizabeth May
Trial By Fire by Josephine Angelini
Lies Like Love by Louisa Reid
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
Night School: Resistance by CJ Daugherty
Starring Kitty by Keris Stainton
What have been some of your favourite reads in 2014? |
Now, federal authorities say the man, identified as Air Force Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, 32, was an adherent of the “boogaloo boys,” a growing online extremist movement that has sought to use peaceful protests against police brutality to spread fringe views and ignite a race war. Federal investigators allege that’s exactly what Carrillo was trying to do last month.
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged Carrillo with murder and attempted murder, and leveled aiding and abetting charges against Robert Alvin Justus Jr., who has admitted to serving as a getaway driver during the courthouse ambush, according to the FBI. Protective Security Officer David Patrick Underwood was killed and a second officer, whom officials have not named, was critically wounded in the ambush. Inside the three vehicles Carrillo used, police found a boogaloo patch, ammunition, firearms, bombmaking equipment and three messages scrawled in blood: “I became unreasonable,” “Boog” and “Stop the duopoly.”
“The assassination and injury of federal officers who swore an oath to protect the American public will not be tolerated,” Chad Wolf, the acting secretary for homeland security, said in a statement announcing the charges. “The Department of Homeland Security will continue its mission to end violent extremism in any form.”
Carrillo’s attorney, Jeffrey Stotter, told NBC News investigators’ claims are “accusations and allegations,” and said his client was “left deeply shaken” by his wife’s suicide in 2018. He also told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that Carrillo, who was an active-duty Air Force staff sergeant at the time of the attack, suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009.
“All I can ask is that we avoid a rush to judgment as to what occurred,” Stotter told the Sentinel.
The newly detailed alleged motive behind the attack at the Oakland courthouse comes as concerns rise about right-wing violence at Black Lives Matter protests. On Monday, a counterdemonstrator shot a protester during a scuffle in Albuquerque, after a militia group in military-style garb and armed with semiautomatic rifles stood menacingly in the crowd throughout the afternoon. Other boogaloo boys have been charged recently with fomenting violence at other protests.
The alleged crime rampage started with a Facebook exchange between Carrillo and Justus on the morning of May 28, according to the criminal complaint.
Carrillo was transferred to Travis Air Force Base about a month after his wife’s 2018 death and had no disciplinary record in the Air Force. He was a Phoenix Raven team leader, heading an elite squad of security forces stationed at Travis Air Force Base. He served four months overseas in Kuwait in 2019.
“It’s on our coast now, this needs to be nationwide,” Carrillo allegedly posted in a group chat with Justus and one other person, referring to a YouTube video showing a crowd of protesters attacking two California Highway Patrol vehicles. “It’s a great opportunity to target the specialty soup bois. Keep that energy going.”
“Let’s boogie,” Justus allegedly replied.
The term “soup bois” has been used in boogaloo memes to refer to the “alphabet soup” of federal law enforcement agencies such as the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the Federal Protective Service (FPS). Facebook messages also show Justus and Carrillo planned to use nearby protests as a distraction, knowing police resources would be focused on preventing rioting and looting, the criminal complaint alleges.
The next day, on May 29, as thousands of protesters filled the streets in Oakland, Justus allegedly drove the 1992 white Ford van to the federal courthouse in Oakland and rolled past two Protective Security officers standing guard as Carrillo opened the van’s sliding door and fired multiple rounds, authorities say.
The men fled in the van and disappeared for days while police circulated photos of the vehicle, pleading with the public for information that would lead them to the gunman.
Eight days later, on June 6, a witness in Ben Lomond, Calif., about 70 miles south of Oakland, spotted the 1992 van, its license plates removed, windows obscured with spray paint and a distinctive missing hubcap replaced with a new one that did not match the other three wheels. Inside the car, investigators found Carrillo’s fingerprint on a can of white spray paint, according to the complaint.
The van’s VIN number led officers that afternoon to Carrillo’s property in Ben Lomond.
As they approached the isolated home surrounded by wooded hills, someone began firing. Two sheriff’s deputies were shot in the gunfight, and one later died. Then, an explosion erupted nearby.
The shooter, allegedly Carrillo again, ran away, armed with a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a silencer and designed to fire multiple rounds with each pull of the trigger. He allegedly stole a Toyota Camry from a driver at gunpoint. He abandoned the car nearby after scrawling the boogaloo-linked phrases on the hood in his own blood, authorities say.
Wounded from the gunfight, Carrillo did not make it much farther. He allegedly stumbled onto a local resident’s property, still bleeding, with his rifle strapped to his chest, and demanded the homeowner’s car keys. The man calmly went inside to retrieve the key and handed it to Carrillo, law enforcement officials said. When Carrillo turned to leave, the man tackled him, disarmed him and held him until police arrived and arrested him.
Federal officials took particular issue with Carrillo’s alleged intent to use protests in Oakland as cover for the ambush attack.
“Indiscriminate targeting of law enforcement officers by those motivated by violent extremism of any stripe is contrary to our nation’s values and undermines the powerful message of peaceful protesters,” Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement Tuesday. “We stand firmly against anyone who seeks to hijack the protests with acts of violence and destruction.”
The so-called boogaloo boys movement might be more accurately described as a loosely connected online community, with no formal organization, leadership or coherent set of beliefs. Almost everything about the far-right ideology — starting with the name, spawned from online jokes about a 1982 break-dancing film — bubbled up through meme-sharing on social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube and more obscure sites such as 4chan and Gab.
The igloos and Hawaiian shirts that boogaloo supporters sport in public are drawn from memes riffing on the name, which sounds similar to “big igloo” and “big luau,” and refers to a civil war that “boogaloo bois,” as they are also known, imagine in the near future. One uniting theme behind the movement is a belief in and support for that civil war against a tyrannical government. Beyond that, the boogaloo ideology is flexible.
Many of those who claim an allegiance to the far-right movement, which is made up largely of young white men, frequently carry rifles and espouse a need to defend the Second Amendment. According to the Anti-Defamation League, some boogaloo adherents oppose government overreach and advance libertarian ideas embraced by militias and gun-rights groups; others openly spread white supremacist rhetoric and encourage a race war.
In April and May, boogaloo boys showed up to anti-lockdown protests. One alleged supporter was arrested as part of an armed group that aimed to defend an illegally opened bar in Texas from law enforcement attempting to enforce the governor’s coronavirus restrictions.
More recently, they’ve been spotted at Black Lives Matter events. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) tweeted a photo of two men in Hawaiian shirts posing near a flipped police cruiser in Salt Lake City on May 31. And on June 3, federal prosecutors charged three men allegedly connected to the boogaloo movement with exploiting a racial justice protest in an attempt to incite violence using a molotov cocktail.
In addition to the federal charges, Carrillo faces a murder charge in the slaying of Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, and attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting at deputies when they searched his California property June 6.
If convicted on the federal counts, Carrillo could face the death penalty for the murder charge and up to 20 years in prison for the attempted murder charge. Justus could face the same penalties for the aiding and abetting charges. |
The fly caught chilling on Mike Pence during the 2020 vice presidential debate has become this week’s biggest and best meme.
Whilst the second debate of the 2020 election was a lot less chaotic than the first, the biggest talking point was neither candidate nor their policies, but a fly.
The fly, that landed on US Vice President Mike Pence’s ivory-white hair, hung atop of his head for several minutes as the world tuned into the debate, leading to a tidal wave of online jokes.
Please enjoy the best of the internet’s take on the Mike Pence fly.
Now available in the @JoeBiden store
“Truth over Flies” pic.twitter.com/dEVPKGIy5M
— Johnny Verhovek (@JTHVerhovek) October 8, 2020
I wish Halloween parties were happening this year so I could go as “slutty Mike Pence fly”.
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) October 8, 2020
— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) October 8, 2020
— New York Post (@nypost) October 8, 2020
— Jay Diggs (@jaydiggsmusic) October 9, 2020
There are already MORE THAN A HUNDRED “Fly on Mike Pence’s head” Twitter accounts. pic.twitter.com/KrVmcONHsT
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) October 8, 2020
Look mom! I’m on TV!! pic.twitter.com/RQv18Ak9SK
— FlyOnMikePence (@FlyOnMikePence3) October 8, 2020
Mike Pence & fly… pic.twitter.com/vp75JreTcS
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 8, 2020
The fly on the phone with his friends like “Yasss bitch did you see me on TV??” pic.twitter.com/XYDkXDQj4g
– Kwan 🌊 #BLM (@KwanWho) October 8, 2020
I bet it took everything in mike pence not to launch his lizard tongue out and swoop that fly for a mid debate snack.
— scott immordino (@ScottImmordino) October 9, 2020 |
This meme reminded me of Mitry, the world’s best cat. I’m sharing his story with the world once again.
I wrote this post in 2013, and amended it ever so slightly.
Here’s a picture of mom hugging Mitry first thing in the morning. Can you tell I hadn’t had my coffee yet?
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Gandhi.
The best picture frame in the house sits hidden on a shelf, protected from the light of a mirrored dresser. The dusty gold-tone frame contains 4 pictures, faded from years of neglect. Those same pictures had rested face down on the same shelf for years, but they weren’t forgotten. The waterfall of guilt they elicited is more than I can bear, always followed by a gusher of tears.
It is now 20 years after his death, yet I still don’t know if taking Mitry to the vet for the final time was best. Did he want to die at home as his beloved human held him in her arms? When he screamed at the pain as the vet stuck the IV into his leg, was it because he was fighting to stay alive? Why did he look at me with those what-the-hell-are-you-thinking eyes just after the IV was in? Couldn’t the vet give him something for pain first? Couldn’t I see that Mitry wanted more time with me? Was I so insensitive to the best cat in the world that I still didn’t understand how much the words Gandhi reflected Mitry’s life?
We met in the most curious of ways; because of a bet.
I wanted a kitten. My 3rd husband didn’t want pets. So–I bet #3 that English was a Germanic language, not Romantic. If I won, I could get a cat. I have to admit, it wasn’t a fair bet. You don’t spend decades listening to a sister who teaches business grammar without picking up a few tidbits of knowledge along the way.
I traveled to the local Humane Society hoping to find the perfect feline, disappointed that no little orange kittens were available for adoption. The windowless meeting room for humans and possible pets contained 4 white walls and a chair. I can’t remember the number of cats paraded through it, most more interested in playing with toys than exploring the human.
Then, just as I was about to give up, there was Mitry.
He was placed on the floor, the door closed, and he sat to inspect the human in front of him. There had been playful cats, shy cats, and cats more interested in treats but none who stopped to consider why he had been imprisoned in a room with some strange woman.
Ever have those moments in life when the action you choose ends up being the right one? I don’t have those happen often, either. But that day, in that room, I gently slapped my thighs as if to say, “Come on up.”
Most cats would yawn, curl up and sleep–or look for a toy or a treat more interesting than a lump of depressed flesh slouching down into a chair. Mitry jumped on my lap, his purr so loud and so strong there was no question.
This was the kitty I waited my entire life to meet. But…but he was 1 1/2 years old? I was told he was a crusty alley cat not easy to capture and I was the first person he seemed to like. That last piece of information clinched the deal.
I had to wait a few days after he was neutered to drive him from the shelter to our home. His laid-back attitude became contagious. He’d purr on my lap, turning an anxious moment into a therapy session as I stroked his white fur with black spots.
I split from husband number 3, moving to a city 2 hours away to a new job.
His well-kitty exam was conducted by a new veterinarian, his first trip to the vet with my 2 teenage children. He uncovered a condition that, I was told, should have been apparent to any veterinarian. Mitry had a birth defect of the heart, one destined to take his life within the next 3 years.
A tidal wave over my head wouldn’t have been as devastating, and my children cried as hard as I did at the news. It was 1991. Mitry wasn’t yet 3 years old at the time and…and I was going to lose him so soon?
The vet said he had to stay indoors. Mitry was not supposed to be in the sun or to get excited. Mitry had other plans. He refused to be confined, an escape artist who loved to sunbathe. A year after moving to our new city, we purchased a house on a cul-de-sac that looked like the round bulb at the end of a mercury thermometer.
Every neighborhood has an alpha cat…
…and the one running this neighborhood was going to show the new cat on the block who was king. The bully started at the other end of the bulb, screeching at or threatening any cat daring to inhabit the same sidewalk. Mitry sat in front of our home, watching the bully make his way around the sidewalk. Two doors down, the neighbor’s cat ran away after a 2-second fight, but Mitry continued to lay claim to his sidewalk.
Should I pick up my cat and retreat into the house? I was still debating this when bully cat raced toward Mitry. You’d think a heated fight was about to take place, ending with a rather expensive vet bill. Mitry simply swatted the bully’s face with one paw…I kid you not–ONE paw. A swat to the nose, a swat to the eyes…and Mitry never moved from his position. The bully screeched, running away from Mitry as fast as possible. The best cat in the world looked back (just as in the picture below) as if to say, “You okay, child?” That was the moment I was convinced that if any cat was going to die of old age, it would be Mitry.
A year after this incident, Mitry was missing for 3 days. The neighbor in back of our home found him panting in his garage, asking my kids if they knew anyone missing a white cat with black spots.
No one knew how long Mitry had been in that garage, how he managed to drag himself into it, or why he was shot in the rear by a BB gun. We were more interested in rushing him to the vet who X-rayed the area. The bullet couldn’t be removed, but the body would form a protective barrier around it. The vet said there was nothing we could do but wait.
By that time, I met the man who would be my 4th husband who moved in with me. We were the talk of the neighborhood, the woman with a husband in another city and a boyfriend at home, but Mitry took it all in stride.
When you’re notorious, people don’t seem to want you around. In 1992, it was painfully apparent that the office manager and her cohorts were writing me up for every little infraction in an effort to relieve me of my job.
We moved to Texas with my boyfriend and my 2 children, who were now 12 and 14. We lived in the same city with my sister, renting an apartment where neighbors complained about Mitry laying just outside to sunbathe. The reason was simple. They didn’t like it when their yappy dogs received a swat across the face after disturbing Mitry while he slept.
I was concerned he’d disappear, a casualty of an apartment complex intolerant of cats. But a life in Texas was not meant to be. My mother passed away in 1993 and I moved into her house. After the movers unloaded the last box, I announced to my family, “The next time I move it will be to Forest Lawn (the name of a cemetery).”
It had been almost 5 years since Mitry became part of my family and Dr. Jeff, the veterinarian destined to care for my menagerie until two weeks before he died, confirmed Mitry’s heart condition.
The best cat in the world loved exploring acres of land, and chasing butterflies around the yard. He would leap up at a yellow wing just out of reach, cavorting around the yard in an attempt to catch a cricket, laying in the sun back-to-back with a dog or another cat.
Once, when husband number 4 was about to hit me, Mitry jumped on him, howling like a warrior going into battle. Never in my entire life had I witnessed a cat attacking one human to defend another. And never would I witness such devotion from a cat again.
Mitry was with me through the end of my 4th marriage and 3 years into the 5th and final one. It was my current husband, the one I have been with for so many years now, who told me that Mitry didn’t like his nickname, Twit. I’d never noticed the “look,” the one Mitry would give when he was trying to say, “Stupid human!” Once my husband pointed it out, the look never escaped me again.
It was 2001, a year after my first retinal detachment surgery, when Mitry began having problems breathing. The prognosis was congestive heart failure. The vet suggested I do the humane thing and euthanize. But…he had been playing, purring, never complaining once? How could I take the life of a warrior who fought so hard to continue living?
It was the weeks of administering oxygen, the labored breathing, the cries of pain that finally convinced me to take one last trip to the vet with him. The moment the vet put the needle in his arm, Mitry’s instinct was to bite me. His teeth touched my hand, but even then he had the presence of mind not to harm the human he loved. Should I have given him the dignity to die naturally in my loving arms, not fighting the fluids depriving him of life as the human he trusted firmly held him in place?
Before that day I wondered why a woman would wail at a funeral, considering it to be the act of an histrionic vying for attention. I took Mitry’s body home, sat with the lifeless lump of flesh on my lap, then held him in my arms as a grief so intense swept over my body it grew into a life of its own. Wailing is such an inadequate word to describe the sensation of a fist hitting your larynx as a demolition ball hits your torso. It is not a cry for attention any more than screaming when your legs are crushed by a steam roller.
To this day, the pictures of Mitry never fail to elicit a waterfall of guilt followed by a gusher of tears. And to this day, I wrestle with my decision. I may never know if the choices I made at the end of his life were the right ones. All I know for certain is that the day I adopted Mitry, was without a doubt, the best choice of my life. |
Dan Scavino, White House’s director of social media and assistant to President of USA Donald Trump shared a funny video of Trump on social media
A viral meme video of Donald Trump dancing to the Malhari track from the Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone-starrer Bajirao Mastani (2015) was shared by Dan Scavino, White House’s director of social media and assistant to the President. Trump’s visage has been superimposed on the actor’s face. Scavino wrote, “By no means do I intend to drive the haters crazy today — but after such an awesome week, let’s wrap it up with another great day (sic).”
He ended it with the Keep America Great (KAG) 2020 hashtag, Trump’s slogan for next year’s election.
Take a look at the video right here:
Though the meme has been doing the rounds, netizens don’t mind seeing it for the umpteenth time. Twitterati feels Trump sure knows how to make people dance to his tunes, some even feel his face looks better than Ranveer’s.
Here’s another funny meme that was shared by a Twitter user on Dam Scavino’s post.
Talking about Ranveer Singh, hundreds of fans turned up at Southall, London, to see the actor, recently, who was shooting for an ad. The actor’s presence created a crowd frenzy as the entire neighborhood came out on the street to catch a glimpse of Ranveer.
It brought the area to a standstill, which residents say has never happened before.
An eyewitness told ANI that the production had made elaborate security plans but they couldn’t anticipate the sheer numbers in which people descended on the location to see Ranveer Singh live in action. As a result, the creative team decided to include the crowd in the ad.
“Ranveer was super calm despite the pandemonium, spreading his usual charm and cheer amongst the locals who came in hordes to see him. Very few actors have the ability to handle crowds the way Ranveer does!” said an on-looker to ANI.
While fans went berserk, the superstar was seen taking care of the women and children. “He was seen ensuring women, children and the elderly don’t get pushed around in the chaos. He told the security to ensure their safety,” the person explained. |
Normcore is one of those ambiguous 21st-century terms that was bandied around a lot for a number of years while rarely being truly defined. So what is normcore, exactly? How do you know if something is normcore or not? Does it still exist and do we even want it to?
Normcore is about authenticity. It’s a rejection of extravagance. It's about subverting any notion of edginess. It's about dressing like Jerry Seinfeld. It was a fashion trend but was also derided enough to become a meme.
The rise and fall of normcore and its lingering impact on today's trends are tied to the time it was born, circa 2014. Pharrell Williams was wearing a big hat, the Apple Watch got announced, and Ellen DeGeneres broke the internet with a selfie of her mingling with other A-listers in the crowd at the Oscars. It was a simpler time.
Here, we've broken down what normcore is, where it came from, and how the implications of normcore style have changed in the years since people started using the word "normcore" and thinking it's a totally normal thing to say.
Where did normcore come from?
The term normcore is attributed to tongue-in-cheek New York trend forecasting agency K-Hole, which parodied the earnest youth-oriented trend reports that brands pay big bucks to read. Created by Greg Fong, Sean Monahan, Emily Segal, Chris Sherron, and Dena Yago, K-Hole produced its not-wholly-serious reports as downloadable PDFs analyzing the zeitgeist in terms of consumer behavior, fashion, and group identity.
Normcore as a concept appeared in K-Hole's first ever issue, “Youth Mode,” published in 2013. Under headings such as "We live in Mass Indie times," "Being special vs. being free," and "Thus the cargo shorts," it had an early Vice vibe of grinding up the era of Zooey Deschanel, landfill indie rock, lensless glasses, and Rookie Mag and reconstituting it as surreal nonsense.
Under "Normcore," the document reads:
Normcore moves away from a coolness that relies on difference to a post-authenticity coolness that opts in to sameness. But instead of appropriating an aestheticized version of the mainstream, it just cops to the situation at hand. To be truly Normcore, you need to understand that there’s no such thing as normal.
So normcore — essentially a joke that got out of hand — is about embracing the mundane and following the crowd, flying in the face of alternative subcultures and more challenging or bold approaches to fashion. Sure, the ’90s had Helmut Lang making sleek and subtle minimalism the style du jour, but it was still irrevocably connected to luxury and the feeling of belonging to something special. Normcore said you don't need to feel or look special to belong to a group.
Elsewhere, the report reads:
Normcore doesn’t want the freedom to become someone. Normcore wants the freedom to be with anyone. You might not understand the rules of football, but you can still get a thrill from the roar of the crowd at the World Cup. In Normcore, one does not pretend to be above the indignity of belonging.
In short, normcore reads as a reaction to the time's growing so-called "hipster" culture, involving putting Polaroid-like filters on early Instagram posts and not liking stuff because it was popular. Normcore as it came to be understood was about embracing the banality of plainness, of not being alternative, and of not seeking difference to affirm your individuality.
It is worth mentioning that, prior to K-Hole, the first recorded use of “normcore” was in a 2008 edition of the webcomic Templar AZ by comic artist Ryan Estrada, about a city overrun by people from strange subcultures. In 2014, Estrada penned a Medium article titled “I’m sorry, I accidentally invented Normcore,” explaining his role in the normcore original story. The punchline of his comic was the final subculture, normcore, comprising jeans-and-T-shirt-wearers who appropriate what's cool three years too late.
Estrada even contacted K-Hole to find out where its writers had first heard the term, only to be told they'd heard it from someone else and concluding that he had indeed invented normcore.
What does normcore look like?
Normcore, as the name implies, is about looking "normal" but in a faintly stylized, self-aware kind of way. Seminal ’90s sitcom Seinfeld is described as preceding the normcore aesthetic with its polar fleeces, stonewashed denim, and comfortable, blocky running shoes. In fact, the rise of chunky dad sneakers, from the reborn Nike Air Monarch to pretty much every New Balance model goes hand in hand with the normcore aesthetic.
An all-purpose normcore ’fit might feature a Patagonia, The North Face, or Uniqlo fleece over a plain tee and/or sweater, paired with basic blue wash jeans in a relaxed fit, white sports socks, a pair of New Balance kicks, and a New York Yankees cap (or any other team if you hate the Yankees). Figures such as Dev Hynes (baseball caps), Larry David (running shoes, beige slacks), and the late Steve Jobs (endless rotation of black turtlenecks, blue jeans, and New Balance 990s) have all been held up as icons of normcore style.
American Apparel was another major player in the run-up to normcore becoming a thing. Despite its Vice-friendly risqué advertising, the California brand's signature made-in-USA unbranded tees and hoodies in a myriad of colors were the type of anti-statement clothing that became associated with peak normcore.
What is normcore now?
When viewed in context as a style trend, normcore felt like a healthy respite from the indie rock-influenced styles of the late ’00s and early 2010s, such as bone-crushing spray-on jeans and skull-print Alexander McQueen scarves. The kind of vehemently anti-fashion style that normcore evoked, described by some as "looking like a tourist," leads us to Demna Gvasalia.
Nothing about Balenciaga is normcore, and it would be a disservice to Gvasalia to suggest as much, but in 2019, the embers of normcore smolder in the shape of Eiffel Tower-adorned tailoring, Comic Sans MS on dresses, and tourist tote bags. These items' normcore roots are in their ability to look as pointedly unfashionable as possible and willingness to shun the entire fashion industry. After all, what's more mundane than Comic Sans? Normcore is dead. Long live normcore. |