If you don’t at least twitch rhythmically to this seventies dance track, see your undertaker.
HOUSE PASSES NDAA, RESCINDS DOJ VAX MANDATE: The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate. The measure passed with wide bipartisan support with a tally of 350 to 80. Next stop, the US Senate.
BRITTNEY GRINER, FREE AT LAST: Our long national nightmare is finally over. The Biden administration orchestrated a prisoner swap with Russia. They released a petty drug smuggler heroic minority sportsball heroine; we gave them back their arms dealer. And remember that Marijuana (and derivative products) are still illegal under US federal laws, and in many US states. Meanwhile, Paul Whelan (who may or may not be a US, UK, Irish, or Canadian spy) continues to languish in a Russian prison.
NERVOUS JOURNO PEPPER-SPRAYS SELF, BLAMES RIGHT-WINGERS: I accidentally pepper-sprayed myself in the face. What’s worse is admitting I feel unsafe in Philadelphia.
OREGON SUPREME COURT SURPRISES: A new, strict gun law in Oregon remains on hold after the state’s high court said it would not grant an emergency motion to overturn a lower court’s ruling.
VIRGINIA GOVERNOR YOUNGKIN TO REFUND (SOME) COVID FINES: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced on Tuesday that he plans to reimburse individuals and businesses who paid fines for violating most state COVID-19 restrictions put in place by his Democratic predecessor.
POPULAR LIBERTY HANGOUT GOURMELTZ RAIDED: Virginia Alcohol and Beverage Control raided a Spotsylvania County restaurant Friday morning to execute a search warrant alleging the business has been selling alcohol without a license. This is a result of ongoing fallout from the COVID lockdowns. Please, Virginia peeps, and anyone passing through Fredericksburg, give them some business. (Disclaimer: Gourmeltz has hosted a Glibs meetup and I have spoken briefly with the owner.)
WOKE RESTAURANT REFUSES SERVICE TO SOCON GROUP: Richmond, VA. Metzger Bar and Butchery canceled a reservation for The Family Foundation, citing the group’s stance on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. Which is totally a different thing than demanding that someone else bake a cake or design a website for a QUILTBAG wedding.
THE ORIGINS OF “GENDER” – AN ACTUAL PRO-PEDO ACADEMIC: John Money believed pedophilia was a harmless sexuality which, when practiced “properly,” led to the child suffering no harm. (This article is disturbing, particularly the Reimer case.)
NEW YORK TIMES JOURNOS STRIKE: I was going to link to the actual NYT article on this since the strikers are requesting that union supporters not access the NYT website during the strike period, but since NYT is paywalled you get NBC’S reporting on the strike.
FIRST US CURRENCY WITH WOMAN’S SIGNATURE ISSUED: Latest in the parade of female firsts comes Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen whose signature will grace the most inflated banknotes in our history. A stunning, brave triumph of form over substance. Hey, Jan, maybe you should actually work on the economy instead of your calligraphy. (This article is nauseating in its sycophancy.)
SHAKE IT, ASTROBOTIC, SHAKE IT: This article about vibration testing of the Peregrine lander inspired my musical link. The Peregrine is supposed to launch in early 2023 and will contain several payloads from both NASA and private companies, as well as a small rover from Carnegie Mellon University.
First you saw the gif, now you can watch the video!
Amsterdam Ass Contest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah64tziH79M
That’s it, I’m done for the week. Nothing can top that.
Also, I’m going to pretend the guy they interview at the end is our own Q.
Sign in to watch video.
not gonna do it.
There is a browser extension that lets you get around that.
I will check it out from my home computer later today.
As recommended by our very own Pat:
https://freetubeapp.io/
FreeTube Youtube client, data stored locally, bypass age stuff. One thing youtube does well is tailor suggested videos well, which this doesn’t do so well (at all?), but other than that, very good if you know what you are looking for.
Jiggle jiggle.
I tried that but I couldn’t get it to bypass age stuff.
Huh, I just went to youtube, got the age restriction, pasted the link into freetube and it played normally.
It was purely for science. An empirical examination of the facts. No prurient motives involved.
That link works, but I tried another age restricted link before that didn’t.
O think there’s some learnin’ to do. I want to post links that go through a client like that and can be used here. So you still only have to clock and enjoy.
I think you can “nsfw” in the URL somewhere, in front of “youtube” maybe? I remember it working.
That’s impressive. And a woman speaking Dutch is ridiculously sexy in a way that German isn’t.
“rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate”
Good.
“HOUSE PASSES NDAA”
Bad.
Well, there wasn’t any way they were going to eliminate defense spending.
“Meanwhile, Paul Whelan (who may or may not be a US, UK, Irish, or Canadian spy) continues to languish in a prison.”
So do the J6 protesters.
Dammit, I meant to write “Russian prison.”
You did. I edited it. I also should have taken out the “a”.
Arwa is a Grade A dipshit. Philly is out of control because the criminals know there aren’t consequences. It ain’t easy access to guns that encourages mobs to loot Wawa’s on a regular basis.
“The real reason for all this violence, however, is that Philadelphia has high rates of poverty and easy access to guns.”
No, it’s drug prohibition. Same as every other city.
How easy is it to carry a gun legally in Philadelphia?
Ah, the old “I need these 12 cases of laundry detergent to feed my family” chestnut.
Never gets old.
Here’s Rico Soave arguing with his co-host about the Philly gas station owner who hired armed security. Poverty causes looting, you see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK1XQJ2Bjds
Or rather, here’s Soave listening to a hide-bound hack who always refuses to concede anything about her ideology. Robby gets to do this every day.
YT;DW but this attitude makes me so angry.
Am I to believe that “being poor” is a perfectly acceptable excuse to steal from others?
What about all those chumps who decide to better themselves instead of choosing a lifestyle of crime? I have some experience in this matter. Maybe I should give up my job and start robbing banks instead.
These are not poor people. These are people who steal to support the next video game or nice pair of sneakers. Also drug addicts who can still function. I have been desperately poor, and never resorted to stealing. Fuck anyone who assumes being poor causes theft. Having a complete lack of morals in a consequence – free environment causes theft.
Not hard. PA is in the top half for ease of CCW application.
I’m guessing a not insignificant proportion of Philadelphia gun wielders aren’t going to pass the background check on a CCW.
Sure. But the man did say “legally.”
OK, because many cities have their own restrictions.
PA has statewide preemption.*
*Don’t ask me about OC in Philly.
Philly is out of control because the criminals know there aren’t consequences.
Funny, that’s the same reason cops are out of control too!
There’s only consequences for those who try to change the system.
That’s funny, back when I was poor, I couldn’t afford a gun, much less ammo.
“The right blames this violence on liberals and the movement to defund the police: Philadelphia has a famously progressive district attorney who, they argue, is too easy on criminals. The real reason for all this violence, however, is that Philadelphia has high rates of poverty and easy access to guns. That’s not a winning combination.”
Yes, and that just change din the few years. Used to be no ghettos in philly.
“Famously Progressive DA” and “all this violence.”
Huh. Whoda thought.
“I feel unsafe in Philadelphia.”
Tbf, most people would.
Better KC
Yes better audio, but I like the energy and costumes of the live version.
Speaking of live version, the wife and I saw him a number of years back in San Diego. The wife and her friend kept saying “just close your eyes”, because KC hasn’t aged well – though he can still belt out that song.
I forgive him. Aging is not kind.
/looks at self in mirror. Notices an extra inch of forehead that was not there last year.
If that ain’t the understatement of the year, it will do until a better one comes along.
For those not into disco
“alleging the business has been selling alcohol without a license. This is a result of ongoing fallout from the COVID lockdowns.”
They can’t punish them for one thing, so they are making something else up?
“We secretly revoked a bs license because you challenged our authority”
COVID vacks news – good
Youngkin fines – goodish
Everything else – bad
I would love to give Gourmeltz more of my bidness, but I hope to not be that close to the DC metro for a very very very very very very long time
NYT Strike – Meh. Nobody to like there.
Astrobotics – Neutral. While much of what NASA does is not an essential function of government, this is far less expensive and less of a boondoggle than Artemis.
They should have an ass contest in zero gravity.
Speaking of NASA, and of course Nazis.
Why yes, yes it was. Both the US and the Soviets built their space programs at least partially around the Nazi V2 program. This is not some type of earth-shattering revelation.
I’m reminded of Tom Lehrer’s song about Werner von Braun:
Call him a Nazi, He won’t even frown.
“Nazi, schmazi, says Werner von Braun.
I always used to say the USSR had more of the captured Nazis and as a result had the head start on payload lift.
“Our Nazis were better than their Nazis”
There was a movie about Werner’s life called I Aim at the Stars. Someone retorted, “But sometimes he hits London.” (Mort Saul was always credited, but wiki says otherwise.)
This is not some type of earth-shattering revelation.
It seems it might be to those under the age of say 40, maybe 50.
Still laughing about Alyssa Milano angrily denouncing her Tesla in favor of Volkswagen.
Orly?
I drive through VA sometimes, but usually much farther west. If I ever decide to punish myself and take the coastal route, I’ll be there.
The Shenandoah really is a lovely drive.
It’d be nice if Gourmeltz could be picked up and moved 4 hours or so to the West.
Yes
No
LMK. I’m roughly an hour south of there and can meet you.
I’m 10 minutes away if we’re gathering.
“Which is totally a different thing than demanding that someone else bake a cake or design a website for a QUILTBAG wedding.”
True.
I remember some chicken restaurant refused to serve Trump’s secretary.
There was also the whole “Republicans shouldn’t be allowed to eat in peace as long as there are kids in cages” thing.
Good old Maxine was at the forefront of that one.
Also, daddy money feminist Jessica Valenti.
Me, right now: https://media.giphy.com/media/l0MYSCYtvpbUqmG8U/giphy.gif
I think the last time I was this stressed at work was circa 1997
I’m going to have to put in a good 10 hours on Saturday, probably. So I hope you all are ready to get ass-flatteningly drunk* with me Saturday night
*IDK what that means, I just made it up in my head and it sounded about right
Well, I’m for drinking, but against flat asses.
Who’s ass will be flattened?
It will be an unsupervised Zoom, as the girlfriend and I have plans all weekend. Friday is the Tremont Walkabout, Saturday is an Ugly Sweater Christmas Beer Crawl. There’s only 9 stops, so we may stop at a brewery that’s doing multiple variant releases of their Christmas Ale that same day (and get pizza), Sunday meeting up with the niece for brunch and then to watch the Browns game.
I just found out I was going to lose 4 days off (I thought I only had carry-over days left). Boss said try to use them so I was like sure, and I booked 3 of them. That leaves me with 6 days to finish this project that realistically needs at least two more months. Everybody knows it ain’t happening so I’m not stressing out.
Not to defend John Money, but I wouldn’t say he invented gender.
The word gender was in quotes.
There are bunch of people who blame him for inventing gender transitioning. Which he didn’t do.
Now you are switching arguments, but sure he didn’t invent gender transitioning. He did transition an infant though.
Well, that’s what they are implying by “gender”.
He invented the idea of gender fluidity separate from biological sex.
He didn’t.
Reading the article made it seem like he provided the basis for the current madness.
Well, he definitely was a contributor to making it madness.
If I recall correctly, at some point they jammed the legacy media cartel protection act into the NDAA, was that removed, or is it still in?
Ah yes, John Money, that perverted psychopathic piece of shit.
There was another person at Hopkins whose name I can’t remember right now who acted as a check on Money’s frequent recommendations for sex change surgery. Hopkins got rid of him a few years ago (he was quite old) and replaced him with a sex change advocate who has no issue with treating twelve year olds.
I think it’s safe to say while Hopkins greatly benefits from its med school reputation, it has become a stain on the country. It’s total lack of morals and ethics in multiple fields is quite astounding.
And Money was notorious for inventing bullshit psychological word salads. He was a leader in the postmodern trend towards utter meaninglessness of everything. The Left eats that shit up like socialites at a modern art museum pretending to understand what the blank canvas means.
Now that I think about it, he’s like the pedophile psychologist version of Derrida.
“Kiff, I have a sexy disease. Tell everyone what it is.”
“Sigh. Sexlexia.”
My dog is the size of a large rat so he doesn’t really deter bad guys – unless the bad guys are scared of rats. Anyway, I had gone out to the garden to test the spray – I’m not a complete idiot, I didn’t want to inhale that stuff in a confined space – and managed to get some droplets on my face. At first it was kind of pleasant. A nice little tingle. An exhilarating Philly facial. Then it started getting painful. Then I rubbed my eyes and …. yikes! 0/10 do not recommend.
I beg to differ. Perhaps you should test out a pistol…
Philadelphia has high rates of poverty and easy access to guns. That’s not a winning combination.
The poors are getting guns from gun shops and shooting each other?
Yes. And this only happened recently. Up until a few years ago, there were no guns in Philly and nobody was poor.
Decades of Democrat control.
Definitely the fault of Republicans, just like in Baltimore, San Francisco, and Chicago
Do we really trust this person with a for-real pistol? Can you imagine her in training class being all like “I just want to fire a warning shot.” She probably actually thinks that you just walk into a gun store, plop your money down, and walk out with a pistol five minutes later. This is the type of person Byrna was created to appeal to.
I’ll give her some credit for actually testing her pepper spray. Most people don’t.
So points for mindset, but points off for intelligence – most pepper spray companies make inert training units.
I was thinking that Charles Darwin would sort things out.
Everyone knows how cheap guns and ammo are, I mean they get handed out like business cards, right?
+1 Michael Moore lie
He’s a blind squirrel looking at a stopped clock. He knew Trump was going to win and why, and he tried to tell “his people,” but they shunned him.
“I’m not a complete idiot….parts of me are missing!”
FIRST US CURRENCY WITH WOMAN’S SIGNATURE ISSUED:
Sorry, but US currency is countersigned by the Treasurer of the United States, a post that has been held by women since 1949.
The Ministry of Truth has reviewed this assertion and deemed it FALSE!
The US was still using metallic-backed paper notes back then, not Currency.
Ivy Baker Priest (September 7, 1905 – June 23, 1975) was an American politician who served as Treasurer of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Her signature was on bills when I was a kid.
wait… what,
So they’re just blatantly telling lies again? Jesus.
rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate
The lefty covidians will whine like Alex about this caving in to the dark side.
Let’s go to the Fountain of Derp for commentary.
https://democraticunderground.com/10143005142
Seems to me that mRNA clotshots undermine the troops. And since when do leftists care about the troops?
They hold out in hopes that the troops will murder their political opposition.
It’s to save democracy!
And by hold out you of course mean “are correct in knowing that”.
selling alcohol without a license.
The. horror.
That whole thing is so hilariously over-the-top peak Guardian I could only SMDH in awe.
Did you ever read their give us money because climate change thing?
I think I glanced at that once.
They are so ridiculous it makes you wonder if it’s all an elaborate ruse.
LGBTQ+ rights.
The alphabet people have the same rights as everyone else.
More, as far as I can tell.
John Money believed pedophilia was a harmless sexuality which, when practiced “properly,” led to the child suffering no harm.
Interesting. When pedophiles get beaten within an inch of their life for molesting children there is justifiable suffering and harm.
A stunning, brave triumph of form over substance.
Women are excellent at spending money.
This is how it starts.
In a major breakthrough for genetic research, scientists have recovered what is by far the oldest DNA to date. The 2-million-year-old DNA reveals an unprecedented glimpse of a unique Ice Age ecosystem that existed long ago, while also offering an eerie preview of our own future in a warming world, reports a new study.
The discovery of this lost world is based on environmental eDNA (eDNA), a mishmash of genetic detritus that represents an entire habitat, extracted from Kap København Formation, a fossil bed that sits in a polar desert in Northern Greenland. The frozen landscape and mineral conditions at the site contributed to the unrivaled preservation of this genetic material, which is a full million years older than the next oldest DNA, found in a mammoth tooth.
I read the other day about how the Democrat party is “disciplined”. So unlike the Republicans, who fight over Trump candidates vs. non-Trump candidates, you can count on the Dems to always circle the wagons around all of their candidates, regardless of how corrupt or batshit crazy. And you dare not speak against the party line, otherwise you are ostracized and cancelled. I think people like Money take advantage of this. They can push the Overton window as far as they want, be it straight up socialism, transgenderism, even pedophilia, and as long as it’s done within the party, the leadership and the rank and file will just go along with it.
And I remember Will Rogers’ joke about “I don’t belong to an organized political party, I’m a Democrat”.
“the leadership and the rank and file will just go along with it.”
Also include the voters in places like Pennsylvania.
Even here, some Shapiro voters abandoned Fetterlump.
Well, shit.
‘It looks like the messenger RNA IS transferring from the vaccinated to the unvaccinated’ ~ Dr Peter McCullough
I’m trying to remain pure blood.
How many end-of-the-world stories start out this way?
We are fucked.
First reply: Probably we need a lockdown for the vaccinated people until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
McCullough is speculating here. I thought it was an unwise move on his part.
It’s worth studying however.
Is this sort of like when the real hard in the paint anti-vaxxers talked about vaccine shedding?
I read about drinking white pine needle tea to protect against spike proteins from the vaccinated.
Say what now? How is that even possible, unless you get a blood transfusion or something.
It was detected in breast milk. (actually I remember hearing about this long ago)
I wonder if it is in saliva/ other bodily fluids.
Why do I feel like I’m living in a bad dystopian science-fiction movie.
Our HOA Board took an “advisory” survey of new amenities the residents might want – no price tags indicated. Only one thing got barely above 50% of the vote – new hiking trails.
So the Board put to a vote among the households whether to charge every household a special one time assessment of $300 for a pickleball / basketball court – one of the many proposed amenities to fail to get a majority vote in the survey.
My wife was going off on the damned pickleball court, raising inadvertantly libertarian arguments against the HOA Board trying to take money from us for something we don’t want.
When I pointed out that her presumably voting a hard-left slate of candidates every election was endorsing the opposite of her “taxation is theft” rant, she said, “Well, that’s different.”
“Well, that’s different.”
Ok, go on…
No, that is what they honestly believe!
Hopefully they vote for what we want to do so we can blame them.
Into the valley of death rode prolefeed.
He keeps this kind of thing up and he won’t be near any valley of any kind.
*golf clap*
Of course the hard left is only going to tax the rich. Who as we all know are not paying their fair share. Otherwise they would no longer be rich. The HOA is going after your money. See that’s different.
The question really is how to get people out of the “Well, that’s different,” mindset.
Oh that’s easy – just get them to give up their faith. Because that’s what it is. It isn’t anything they ever reasoned themselves into. It is beautiful, irrational, belief.
The city converted tennis courts by my parents house to pickleball, can’t be a coincidence nearby homes have gone on the market in droves. The noise is unbearable. Our neighborhood has a pickleball court, can’t wait for the fad to die and the HOA comes at us with fees to replace it.
I don’t even know what pickleball is.
It’s like ping pong on a tennis court.
Boomers fucking love it.
According to my model…
Strategists at JPMorgan led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou decided to examine a scenario in which the Fed would take its benchmark rate to 6.5% during the second half of 2023. They noted that the JPMorgan economics team assigns a 28% likelihood to that scenario, so it’s within the realm of possibility, even though the rates market only assigns a 10% probability to that outcome.
In discussions with clients, the strategists said, that scenario is widely perceived as the Armageddon scenario. “After all, the last time the Fed funds rate was at 6.5% was in 2000 and that level of policy rates was followed by very heavy losses for risk markets at the time,” they said.
6.5% probably wouldn’t even be a positive real rate.
Of course the hard left is only going to tax the rich.
Liker those plunderers selling $600+ worth of stuff on Etsy and ebay.
You sold a bunch of stuff like Grandma’s cast iron Dutch oven for more than you ever imagined, and now you’ve got a 1099 to figure out what to do with.
The rich are very sneaky – hiding their multi-million dollar transactions in $1000 increments, but we’ve got ’em now!
Boy, howdy!
Antiquated notions
One emotion that I have not seen Bankman-Fried talking about is shame. There is a significant difference between the two states: feeling embarrassed turns on the worry that we have accidentally revealed some unattractive or negative aspect of ourselves to the outside world. Feeling ashamed, meanwhile, involves the unpleasant recognition that we have done something morally wrong or reprehensible.
Bankman-Fried’s feelings of embarrassment are worries about image rather than wrongdoing, and are therefore morally neutral. If he were talking about feeling ashamed, this would indicate he was taking some kind of moral responsibility for what he has done. Instead, his claims of embarrassment are simply a kind of emotional virtue-signalling, without any of the heavy moral baggage that comes with taking accountability.
“Shame is connected with a sense that what one does, or did, or what one is . . . threatens the values that one is attached to,” Fabrice Teroni, professor of philosophy at the University of Geneva and co-author of In Defense of Shame, tells me. “Embarrassment comes out as a more superficial emotion, and definitely not a moral emotion.”
Not only does Bankman-Fried appear to be lacking in shame; he seems almost contemptuous towards those who feel complex moral emotions. In some leaked Twitter messages between him and Vox journalist Kelsey Piper, he criticises former colleagues: “Gary is scared, Nishad is ashamed and guilty”. He also tells Piper that those overseeing FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings are “trying to burn it all to the ground out of shame”. Luckily for his own conscience, “the world is never so black and white”.
Shame is an emotion reserved to humans capable of introspection and self-awareness.
I need audiobook ideas. Nonfiction, preferably self-help. Hit me.
Ma’am, it’s right there in the title.
Self Help
/sorry, I got nuthin. I’m already perfect in every way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTrMuZOZvM
Aw, I needed that!
https://youtu.be/QXn3r5plloI?t=62
Can you maybe narrow a little bit?
Health? Spirituality? Bomb-building?
Is there an audiobook of 1520 Main?
No, sorry. I can’t afford to get any of my books made into audiobooks, and I personally can’t record it because I sound like a 12yo redneck who ate a dictionary.
I heard the Hat and Hair are available at a reasonable price.
Skynet in your classroom
The emergence of artificial intelligence chatbots that can complete students’ assignments will lead to a crisis in learning, forcing educators to rethink schooling entirely, a former teacher said.
“The introduction of new artificial intelligence technologies into schools that enables students to auto-generate essays has the capacity to blow up our entire writing education curriculum,” Peter Laffin, founder of Crush the College Essay and writing coach, told Fox News. “It may make us have to rethink it from the ground up, and that might ultimately be a good thing.”
Last week, tech company OpenAI unveiled an AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which has stunned users with its advanced functions. The language model can automatically generate school essays for any grade level, answer open-ended analytical questions, draft marketing pitches, write jokes, poems and even computer code.
If the AI can do that, what do we need teachers for?
Can the AI groom the students?
Ultimately there’s still a human behind the the creation of the AI, and odds are that creator is a leftist. So yes, yes it can.
“Dave, can I tell you something…”
“Dave, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”
“Women have pee pees, Dave”
“It’s not a toomah, Dave!”
Talk about making HAL go crazy.
Excellent point.
I am looking forward to CatBots myself. Warm, affectionate, and not clawing apart all of your possessions all the time.
Like this?
Exactly like that.
NSFW – https://twitter.com/himeahri_/status/1148609750147502080
Email from Virginia Department of Veterans Services
When do we get a Glib veterans plate?
A car with no plate and a bumper sticker that says taxation is theft.
10/10
Would laugh again.
If you don’t at least twitch rhythmically to this seventies dance track, see your undertaker.
Getting drunk and bingeing on Soul Train is about the perfect evening. Thanks, Tonio!
OT: Loaded up the latest emulator handheld with games. Somehow I broke over 127 GB of games. I think the Sega CDs, combined with PlayStation 1 were way more than expected. I may have to jump to a 256 GB SD card…
Holy crap.
It’s the best organized collection I have done yet. I am quite pleased.
I might have half that.
At some point we should talk in the forum. So few people have game emulation as a hobby.
My poor Retro pie setup sits downstairs. Unloved for quite some time.
Most of the retro games I’ve played turned out to be not as good as I remembered.
I’ve found I have a very low tolerance for the old graphics compared to when I had no choice in the matter.
I think I like setting up the emulators more than actually playing them. I’m building one for a friend right now (just designing a case for it…it’s an OG Raspi) with Sega Genesis and older games.
I do enjoy Castlevania Bloodlines on it. As well as Shining Force.
So is that why a dollar is only worth 70 cents now?
Technically, it is worth 4 cents.
I ISSS NEEEEERD
*golf clap*
“More than 70,000 websites, including Amazon and FBI.gov, are sharing your data with Elon Musk’s Twitter through an advertising tool, report reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11518303/More-70-000-websites-sharing-data-Elon-Musks-Twitter-report-reveals.html
I guess they didn’t take notice of FB scraping data from tax prep sites.
Hell, the Twitter app collects geolocation data and markets it to everybody.
“Portland officials say state-wide attacks on electrical substations were deliberate: SEVEN plants across America are sabotaged amid suspicion it’s a right-wing protest over drag events”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11517517/Portland-officials-say-attacks-electrical-substations-state-deliberate.html
Doubt.
Lol.
Or maybe it’s crazy fuckers probing the obviously vulnerable grid.
Dipshits.
Yeah sure. This would actually be a more intelligent tactic for Extinction Rebellion, so we can scratch them from the list.
Portland officials
My go-to officials for fair and balanced hot-takes.
A right-winger ate my homework.
Hot on the trail of the real culprits
The new management for bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has reportedly hired a team of financial forensic investigators to track down the billions of dollars worth of missing customer crypto.
Financial advisory company AlixPartners was chosen for the task and is led by former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief accountant Matt Jacques, according to a Dec. 7 report from the Wall Street Journal.
It is understood that the forensics firm will be tasked with conducting “asset-tracing” to identify and recover the missing digital assets and will complement the restructuring work being undertaken by FTX.
On Nov. 11, hackers drained wallets owned by FTX and FTX.US of over $450 million worth of assets.
Former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried claimed in an interview recorded on Nov. 16 with crypto blogger Tiffany Fong that he was close to finding who the hacker was and that he had “narrowed it down to eight people,” believing it was “either an ex-employee or somewhere someone installed malware on an ex-employee’s computer.”
Hackers. Right.
Spare me,
If SBF doesn’t end up in a prison, you can be assured that the entirety of out financial system is now wholly and completely corrupt.
The dude is just going to die suddenly. No reason. I’m surprised he will even get to testify in front of congress. I think the only reason he will be allowed to live long enough to testify is so he can say “Look what a moron I am! Regulate the industry into the ground so this won’t happen again!” Then he will collapse in a parking lot, a few hours later.
Every one of those fuckers he gave money to should be forced to cough it up in recompense to depositors of FTX.
That’s a lot of money and some of those folks who lost their shirts are both powerful and shady. If he doesn’t go to prison someone will have him killed.
He’ll be fine. He’s Crazy Aunt Maxine’s bestie.
SF. You don’t have to thank me for this next Wednesday.
Hey. Democrats can be hackers too, you know.
Maybe SBF and OJ can team up and travel the US in a van solving crimes.
I would pay to see that as a show. At the end of every episode (in which they failed to solve any crime) the pair would shrug, say “Nobody’s perfect” and drive off into the sunset.
Yeah, it’d be a hell of a reality show, maybe throw in the girl who looks like a misshapen muppet as the mutual love interest.
And when did FTX start backdooring money to Alameda Research? I know it was well prior to that.
Jazz renditions of Black Sabbath are a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcr708w1HY&t=204s
Apparently this is Rick Wakeman’s son, who does play for Ozzy.
I has class now.
As of this PM, Oregon background check was at 37K.
I like the Klingon saxophone player.