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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1978 - "You Don't Vote For Kings!" - Weekly Hodge Podge 2007.18
So many assholes... there's just too many assholes in the world, but most of them seem packed into the sardine can that is the United States of America.
If we have a surplus of assholes, can we ship some to other countries as asshole relief aid?
Or is it an illusion that we have too many assholes, and it's just that we have powerful media that instantly alerts us to asshole behavior, especially when we have an Asshole in Chief occupying the White House against the will of many of us who believe ourselves NOT to be assholes and try very hard to not be assholes in a world in which being an asshole is the only defense to preserve sanity.
Or maybe it's just that the real assholes, those who own it, are just louder than those of us trying not to be assholes.
So many great things this week.
Get ready to be angry at the assholes.
Thanks for tuning in. Leave me a comment.
https://www.wonkette.com/donald-trump-invades-portland
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53453077
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has accused US federal agents in unmarked cars who apparently detained protesters in Portland of a "blatant abuse of power".
Federal officers, deployed by President Donald Trump, have also fired tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of demonstrators.
Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf called the protesters a "violent mob".
Activists have been protesting against police brutality since George Floyd's killing in police custody on 25 May.
- This police-free protest zone was dismantled - but was it the end?
- Seattle police clear out protester-occupied zone
- Why US protests are so powerful this time
On Friday evening local time, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said that the state justice department was filing a lawsuit against the federal government over the detention of protesters "without probable cause".
"These tactics must stop," Ms Rosenblum said in a statement. "They not only make it impossible for people to assert their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully, they also create a more volatile situation on our streets."
What happened?
A report from Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) contained detailed accounts of witnesses who had seen federal law enforcement officers dressed in camouflage emerge from unmarked vehicles, grab protesters without explanation, and drive off.
The last week has seen a violent escalation between protesters and federal agents, deployed two weeks ago by Mr Trump to quell civil unrest.
Since at least 14 July, OPB reports, federal agents have been jumping out of unmarked vehicles throughout the city, and grabbing protesters seemingly without cause.
Video checked by the broadcaster shows a protester, Mark Pettibone, describe how on 15 July he was "basically tossed" into a van containing armed people in body armour.
Mr Pettibone said he was taken to a holding cell in a federal courthouse, where he was read his arrest rights. After he declined to answer questions, he was released without any citation or arrest record.
According to OPB, federal officers have charged at least 13 people with crimes related to the protests so far.
Some have been detained around the federal courthouse that the agents were sent to protect, but others were seized streets away from federal property, reports the Associated Press.
What has the Trump administration said?
Arriving in the city on Thursday to meet federal law enforcement, the acting secretary of homeland security defended the agents against the assembled "anarchists".
In a nearly 1,700-word statement, Mr Wolf blamed state and city authorities for failing to "restore order". He said their response had "emboldened the violent mob as it escalates violence day after day".
"The city of Portland has been under siege for 47 straight days," he wrote.
"Each night the violent anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it."
Mr Wolf's comments echo those of Mr Trump. This week, the president applauded the efforts of federal agents in Portland, saying officers had done a "great job".
"Portland was totally out of control, and they went in, and I guess we have many people right now in jail," he said at a press conference on Monday. "We very much quelled it, and if it starts again, we'll quell it again very easily."
What's the reaction?
Oregon's Democratic governor accused the president of using heavy-handed tactics to score political points.
Arresting people without probable cause, Ms Brown's spokesman, Charles Boyle, said on Friday, was "extraordinarily concerning and a violation of their civil liberties and constitutional rights".
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local officials have said they did not request assistance from federal agents and have asked them to leave.
"Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city," Mr Wheeler said on Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also condemned the reported actions of the agents.
"Usually when we see people in unmarked cars forcibly grab someone off the street, we call it kidnapping," the organisation wrote on Twitter. "These actions are flat-out unconstitutional and will not go unanswered."
Meanwhile, the most powerful elected Democrat, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, accused the Republican president of deploying "stormtroopers".
Who are the federal agents?
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a law enforcement agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), confirmed it was responsible for at least one of the detentions.
The agency told the Daily Caller it had reason to believe the individual had assaulted officers at the protests and vandalised federal property, so its officers "quickly moved the suspect to a safer location for further questioning".
"Violent anarchists have organized events in Portland over the last several weeks with willful intent to damage and destroy federal property, as well as injure federal officers and agents," a CBP spokesman told US media. "These criminal actions will not be tolerated."
The Nation magazine reports that the CPB cited its authority under the Protecting American Communities Task Force (Pact).
Pact was set up last month by DHS in response to Mr Trump's executive order on protecting American memorials, which called for heavy penalties on anyone who damages a monument.
LET'S NOT FORGET... THE FOLLOWING:
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #839 - Island of Terror: Spectre of Hauntology - Musical Monday 1710.23
ust a quick share of a cool blog that has not had new postings in over two years, but in 2013 (around the time I started the T-shirts blog) had this post on Ghost Box records and Hauntology.
There's Ghost Box music here.
I love the whole idea of hauntology.
But what this post lacks is a video from MOON WIRING CLUB.
For shorter explorations of MOON WIRING CLUB than that 29 minute episode.... there's this...
ANYWAY, here's the blog link:
http://islandofterror.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-spectre-of-hauntology.html
IT'S HAUNTOLOGY.
WE ARE CAUGHT UP IN THE GRAVITY OF A HAUNTOLOGY SINGULARITY.
BECAUSE...
ASSHOLES.
http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/ayshames/Python/PEASANT.PYTHON
The short story is, Donald Trump is wildly unpopular, and he's killing the GOP in the suburbs. The long story is HAFUCKINGHA, YOU GOP ASSHOLES TIED YOURSELF TO THAT DEMENTED DEMON, AND NOW'S HES DRAGGING YOU DOWN TO HELL WITH HIM. REMEMBER WHEN LINDSEY GRAHAM SAID "IF WE NOMINATE TRUMP, WE'LL GET DESTROYED, AND WE'LL DESERVE IT"? YOU ARE, AND YOU DO, EAT SHIT.
Ahem.
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THE LINCOLN PROJECT TO DEFEAT TRUMP
https://lincolnproject.us/
The Lincoln Project is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by several prominent Republicans and former Republicans. The goal of the committee is to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.[1] In April 2020, the committee announced their endorsement of Joe Biden, a Democrat, after Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee.[2]
Leave Lincoln Out of It
The Lincoln Project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president—but he’s not its namesake.
The ads’ intended audience may be a surprise. In December, the PAC’s organizers published a manifesto in The New York Times, to mark their group’s launch. The headline read: “We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated.”
“The 2020 general election, by every indication, will be about persuasion,” the organizers wrote. “Our efforts are aimed at persuading … disaffected conservatives, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts.” As for the name, they said, “We look to Lincoln as our guide and inspiration.”
The claim to the mantle of Abraham Lincoln was truer than the organizers knew. Long before he was made a martyr and then a myth, Lincoln was a small-time politician on the Illinois prairie, with a talent for what one of his biographers, Douglas Wilson, called “attack journalism.” Throughout his early career, he filled the columns of party newspapers with scurrilous, usually anonymous assaults on his political adversaries. Lincoln used every tool in the demagogue’s kit—slander, innuendo, mockery. Factual accuracy didn’t restrain him, on those rare occasions when facts were at issue.
Lincoln knew his audience. His readers, Wilson wrote, were “basically partisan.” “They tended to take delight in any and all hits against their political opponents. The seductive appeal of demagogy is, of course, that meanspirited and unfair arguments do score points.”
..... and....The uneven pedigree of this motley crew hasn’t kept mainstream publications from referring to the Lincoln Project as a “conservative PAC.” This misnomer affords the group the privilege of having their cake and eating it too: Coming from Republicans, their attacks may appear fresh, principled, and transpartisan, while remaining stale, unprincipled, and partisan. Like many unhappy former Republicans, the leaders of the project have crossed over from being “never Trump” to being “never Republican,” taking aim even at such GOP moderates as Cory Gardner and Susan Collins. Their most recent ad, called “How a President Leads,” is an unabashed valentine to Joe Biden.
Which is fine! But they’d do better, for the sake of history and intellectual honesty, to leave Lincoln out of it. Lincoln ripened, history shows us, and grew away from the young pol he’d been on the Illinois prairie. The circle of his sympathy expanded, his soul deepened. Such growth is unlikely to overtake the Lincoln Project while it peers obsessively at the object of its hatred. This is an old story: We become what we behold. The project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president, all right. But he’s not Lincoln.
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What the Lincoln Project AdMakers Get About Voters (and What Dems Don’t)
The
Republicans of the Lincoln Project might have an advantage over Trump’s
left-leaning opponents.
The group’s most memorable ads, though, are the ones that are self-serious and brutal. Within days of news that Vladimir Putin paid the Taliban to target American soldiers, the Lincoln Project released two ads that hammer Trump as a lackey of foreign enemies, using language that, in another year, Republicans might have used to make Democrats look weak. “Betrayal” features Dan Barkhuff, a former Navy SEAL who declares that “any commander in chief with a spine would be stomping the living shit out of some Russians right now—diplomatically, economically, or, if necessary, with the sort of asymmetric warfare they’re using to send our kids home in body bags.” “Bounty” starts with images of flag-draped coffins and the sound of tapping drums, then pivots to a standard attack-ad trick: carefully spliced clips of Trump and Putin at joint news conferences, the action drawn out so that every smile and handshake looks doubly sinister.
“What a terrible question to ask” — Donald Trump reacts to George Floyd’s killing by suggesting to CBS that systemic racism is a myth because more white people are killed by cops than blacks people (nevermind that a much higher percentage of black people are) pic.twitter.com/dhnHNh4irS— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2020
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As the Trump disaster gets worse, a new political theory helps explain it
The spiraling disaster of President Trump’s handling of coronavirus — which is helping produce a new surge of cases and a forecast of worsening economic misery this fall — should prompt a rethink of some core assumptions about Trump’s pathologies, both personal and political.
The shorthand version of this: Imagine the damage a competent and effective Trump could do!
But a new paper that develops a theory of leadership amid pandemics — combined with an alarming report on our looming economic catastrophe — point toward a more coherent narrative of Trumpian failure, one that undermines the shallow understanding of those impulses and traits as necessarily in conflict.
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TAKING BEING AN ASSHOLE TO WHOLE NEW LEVELS...
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden expanding his lead over President Pandemic. With just three and a half months remaining for more people to die from Donald Trump's bungling, 51 percent of voters said they would vote for Biden, who speaks in sentences. Forty percent of voters are still ride or die with Trump, but they also are more likely to not wear masks and attend COVID-19 parties so they're really leaning into the “die" part, which could impact turnout.
Trump's job approval has sunk to 42 percent, a low not seen since April 2018, just prior to the Blue Wave that helped congressional Republicans “Find Something New." A majority of voters — 54 percent — still prefer Trump on the economy, but that's not their number one priority. Voters are most concerned about COVID-19 and Trump has nothing to offer but tax cuts, Confederate statue preservation, and suggestions for bleaching away the virus.
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Trump is also struggling with seniors, a demo that normally votes for Republicans in big numbers while shaking their fists at rap music. That's a down-ballot death knell for GOP candidates.
Quinnipiac University released the hounds on Trump with a poll that showed Biden stomping the president by 15 points. (It's 52-37.) Biden was ahead “only" eight points a month ago. Biden's lead has grown to 17 points among independents. He's up 28 points on addressing racial inequality and 24 points on managing the COVID-19 outbreak. Voters prefer him by 19 points when it comes to handling a crisis. Quinnipiac even has Biden is up five points on the economy, which makes sense because economic activity is known to stall when everyone's dead.
However, the poll didn't didn't survey voters on which candidate they believe is best equipped to pitch Goya beans, so the results are inconclusive.
"President Trump has hit the trifecta in the misery market. The three key indicators—job rating, personal feelings, attitudes on re-election—are all deeply submerged underwater," [Democratic pollster Peter] Hart said. "They represent the best measure of the standing and political strength of an incumbent president."These are stunning numbers that an incumbent has only recently seen in 1968 (Lyndon B. Johnson) and 1980 (Jimmy Carter). It didn't end well for either president. It's not much of a surprise, though, when you consider how fundamentally wrong Trump has been on everything. He's pushed to reopen the economy when most voters would rather stay alive. He's wrapped himself in the Confederate flag during a national reckoning on race. When Mitt Romney attends a Black Lives Matter march, a wise president might pay attention.
But Trump isn't wise. He's dumb as shit that got left back in the first grade. He can't course correct because he refuses to believe he's on the wrong course. He insists the jazz funeral of polls showing him losing badly are all “fake," because the "fake poll" industry is real and thriving even during a recession.
The other day, he rambled on about how he couldn't possibly lose because he still dominated the “rich assholes with boats" demographic.
A CNBC/Change Research poll has Biden up seven points over Trump in Florida. They must've forgotten to count the boats. A Monmouth University Poll has Biden beating Trump by 13 points among registered voters. When adjusted for likely voters in a high turnout election, it's still a 10-point TKO. Trump is toast even with low turnout: Biden's up seven points. This isn't that crazy. Barack Obama beat John McCain by 10 points. Obama's margin narrowed to about five points in 2012 but he generally performed much weaker among white and older voters than Biden is.
Perpetually wrong pundit Hugh Hewitt, who actually thinks voters' number one issue in November is going to be China, dismissed this voodoo data on MSNBC last night. He sticks with his gut, and his gut says he "grew up seven miles from Pennsylvania." I'm guessing he didn't spend much time in West Philly. (Peggy Noonan predicted an Obama loss in 2012 — damn the polls — because of the number of Romney yard signs she'd seen.)
These polls clearly reflect an electorate coping with double-digit unemployment, an unchecked pandemic, and a president with no constructive solutions for either.
Trump might be slowly waking up to reality. Last night, he sent a break-up text over Twitter to his campaign manager Brad Parscale, who wasn't able to make Trump less repulsive than whatever was growing on his neck. We'll laugh derisively at him in a separate post.
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LAURA BARRON LOPEZ
ALSO, not an asshole...
https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez
https://www.politico.com/states/staff/laura-barron-lopez
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msn.com — © Provided by POLITICO Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley issued a letter to the Department of
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday requesting a report
detailing the Trump administration's response to racial health disparities
exacerbated by the Covid-19 outbreak.
politico.com — Latino supporters of former Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders attend a May 2016 campaign rally in East
Los Angeles, Calif. | David McNew/Getty ImagesA former senior adviser to Bernie
Sanders' failed presidential bid has a forthcoming book detailing the
campaign’s strategy to win over Latino voters — and his own excruciating
decision to turn down an offer to run the campaign.
msn.com — © AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews People wait for a
distribution of masks and food in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. The
story of Covid's trajectory isn’t blue to red. It’s Black and brown. As the
virus has shifted from coastal big cities to conservative states, political
pundits and analysts have declared that “Trump country” is under siege.
msn.com — © AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Progressives
celebrated Wednesday after pushing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden
left on climate change, immigration and economic policy. But they struggled to
persuade Biden’s team on criminal justice policy beyond what he has already
embraced. Joe Biden’s “unity” task forces were created to bring the progressive
wing of the Democratic Party into the fold after the sting of Bernie Sanders’
defeat.
politico.com — “My administration is going to look like
America — not just my staff; the administration, from the vice president
straight down through cabinet members to major players within the White House
and the court,” Joe Biden said on Saturday. | Scott Olson/Getty ImagesJoe
Biden's campaign released diversity statistics for its staff Saturday,
revealing that 35 percent of its full-time members are people of color.
politico.com — “The police,” he was told. “Oh, great, I
just won the election!”The data suggest otherwise. In fact, since the killing
of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer on May 25 and the rise
of protests against police brutality and systemic racism, including activist
calls to defund the police, Joe Biden’s average polling lead over Trump has
doubled from five to 10 points. The day after Trumps’s Arizona event, the New
York Times published a poll showing Trump down by a staggering 14 points.
politico.com — The pandemic has led to millions of
unemployment claims and struggles to pay rent. We're approaching a moratorium
deadline where there could be mass eviction notices sent to people. What
actions are you pushing to address that? This country really is headed for this
perfect storm of misery in the next few weeks. All of the job losses, the
health impact of Covid-19, the country grappling with the continuing legacy of
discrimination following the tragic murder of George Floyd.
politico.com — People waiting to enter a store | AP
Photo/Bebeto MatthewsCoronavirus infections have rapidly increased among
Latinos in the last two months, outpacing other racial and ethnic minorities.
Latinos make up a disproportionate share of the cases in nearly every state,
and are more than four times higher than their share of the population in some
states. That’s raising alarms for doctors and public health officials as they
see hospitalizations on the rise.
politico.com — “Unless we use data and focus concretely
on race, we are going to let Covid-19 bake in a whole new generation of
disparities," said John Kim, executive director of the racial justice
research and policy organization Advancement Project California, which has
documented the virus' spread in Los Angeles County, the country's most
populous.
msn.com — © Spencer Platt/Getty Images Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden. In late January, Black Lives Matter
commissioned eight focus groups of young black voters in swing states to drill
down on a problem for Democrats since Barack Obama left office: why they
weren’t excited to vote. One black man from Philadelphia told a pollster that
his mother and grandfather had voted over the years, and “all of them got
nothing. So why should I participate in the same process?"
WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT
Anyway, as usual, here's the weekly links to the data about cases (lower than reality) and deaths (lower than reality, also) due to COVID-19.
Data can be found here, as always:
This is also a good data site:
Last updated: July 19, 2020, 14:15 GMT
United States
Coronavirus Cases:
3,835,430
Deaths:
142,883
Recovered:
1,775,491
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/07/19/042214/washington-post-asymptomatic-superspreaders-may-be-propelling-the-pandemic
Washington Post: Asymptomatic 'Superspreaders' May Be Propelling the Pandemic (stripes.com)
Saturday the Washington Post (in an article republished in Stars and Stripes) took a closer look at what's known as "superspreading events":Many scientists say such infection bursts — probably sparked by a single, highly infectious individual who may show no signs of illness and unwittingly share an enclosed space with many others — are driving the pandemic. They worry these cases, rather than routine transmission between one infected person and, say, two or three close contacts, are propelling case counts out of control...
Transmission, it turns out, is far more idiosyncratic than previously understood. Scientists say they believe it is dependent on such factors as an individual's infectivity, which can vary person to person by billions of virus particles, whether the particles are contained in large droplets that fall to the ground or in fine vapor that can float much further, and how much the air in a particular space circulates. Donald Milton, a professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland, and other experts have wondered if superspreading events could be the "Achilles' heel" of the virus. If we could pinpoint the conditions under which these clusters occur, Milton argued, we could lower the transmission rate enough to extinguish the spread. "If you could stop these events, you could stop the pandemic," Milton said. "You would crush the curve..."
Some people will not transmit the virus to anyone, contact tracing has shown, while others appear to spread the virus with great efficiency. Overall, researchers have estimated in recent studies that some 10 to 20 percent of the infected may be responsible for 80 percent of all cases... An infected person's viral load can impact how much they "shed"; the differences have been shown to be on a scale of billions of virus particles... A growing body of evidence suggests that SARS-CoV2, like other coronaviruses, expands in a community in fits and starts, rather than more evenly over space and time....
While it's often impossible to identify the person who triggered an outbreak, there have been some commonalities among those who have been pinpointed as the likely source in studies. They tend to be young. Asymptomatic. Social. Scientists suspect these "super-emitters" may have much higher levels of the virus in their bodies than others, or may release them by talking, shouting or singing in a different way from most people... In a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases by Japan's Hitoshi Oshitani at Tohoku University of 22 superspreading individuals with the coronavirus, about half were under the age of 40, and 41 percent were experiencing no symptoms.
Transmission, it turns out, is far more idiosyncratic than previously understood. Scientists say they believe it is dependent on such factors as an individual's infectivity, which can vary person to person by billions of virus particles, whether the particles are contained in large droplets that fall to the ground or in fine vapor that can float much further, and how much the air in a particular space circulates. Donald Milton, a professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland, and other experts have wondered if superspreading events could be the "Achilles' heel" of the virus. If we could pinpoint the conditions under which these clusters occur, Milton argued, we could lower the transmission rate enough to extinguish the spread. "If you could stop these events, you could stop the pandemic," Milton said. "You would crush the curve..."
Some people will not transmit the virus to anyone, contact tracing has shown, while others appear to spread the virus with great efficiency. Overall, researchers have estimated in recent studies that some 10 to 20 percent of the infected may be responsible for 80 percent of all cases... An infected person's viral load can impact how much they "shed"; the differences have been shown to be on a scale of billions of virus particles... A growing body of evidence suggests that SARS-CoV2, like other coronaviruses, expands in a community in fits and starts, rather than more evenly over space and time....
While it's often impossible to identify the person who triggered an outbreak, there have been some commonalities among those who have been pinpointed as the likely source in studies. They tend to be young. Asymptomatic. Social. Scientists suspect these "super-emitters" may have much higher levels of the virus in their bodies than others, or may release them by talking, shouting or singing in a different way from most people... In a study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases by Japan's Hitoshi Oshitani at Tohoku University of 22 superspreading individuals with the coronavirus, about half were under the age of 40, and 41 percent were experiencing no symptoms.
Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data
Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington, raising questions about transparency.
EXCERPTS:“How will the data be protected?” she asked. “Will there be transparency, will there be access, and what is the role of the C.D.C. in understanding the data?”News of the change came as a shock at the C.D.C., according to two officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. Michael R. Caputo, a Health and Human Services spokesman, called the C.D.C.’s system inadequate and said the two systems would be linked. The C.D.C. would continue to make data public, he said.
Public health experts have long expressed concerns that the Trump administration is politicizing science and undermining its health experts, in particular the C.D.C.; four of the agency’s former directors, spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations, said as much in an opinion piece published Tuesday in The Washington Post. The data collection shift reinforced those fears.
“Centralizing control of all data under the umbrella of an inherently political apparatus is dangerous and breeds distrust,” said Dr. Nicole Lurie, who served as assistant secretary for preparedness and response under former President Barack Obama. “It appears to cut off the ability of agencies like C.D.C. to do its basic job.”
The shift grew out of a tense conference call several weeks ago between hospital executives and Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator. After Dr. Birx said hospitals were not adequately reporting their data, she convened a working group of government and hospital officials who devised the new plan, according to Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief health care officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, who participated in the group’s meetings.
EXCERPT:
We ran the CDC. No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has.
The administration is undermining public health
The CDC is home to thousands of experts who for decades have fought deadly pathogens such as HIV, Zika and Ebola. Despite the inevitable challenges of evolving science and the public’s expectation of certainty, these are the people best positioned to help our country emerge from this crisis as safely as possible. Unfortunately, their sound science is being challenged with partisan potshots, sowing confusion and mistrust at a time when the American people need leadership, expertise and clarity. These efforts have even fueled a backlash against public health officials across the country: Public servants have been harassed, threatened and forced to resign when we need them most. This is unconscionable and dangerous.
We’re seeing the terrible effect of undermining the CDC play out in our population. Willful disregard for public health guidelines is, unsurprisingly, leading to a sharp rise in infections and deaths. America now stands as a global outlier in the coronavirus pandemic. This tragic indictment of our efforts is even more egregious in light of the disproportionate impact we’ve witnessed on communities of color and lower-income essential workers. China, using the same mitigation tools available to us and with a far larger population, has had just a tiny fraction of the 3.1 million cases reported here. The United States now has more cases and deaths than any other country and the sixth-highest rate of any large country in the world — and we are gaining on the other five. The United States is home to a quarter of the world’s reported coronavirus infections and deaths, despite being home to only 4.4 percent of the global population.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/07/14/2145250/baby-was-infected-with-coronavirus-in-womb-study-reports
Baby Was Infected With Coronavirus In Womb, Study Reports (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times:Researchers on Tuesday [reported in the journal Nature Communications] strong evidence that the coronavirus can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to a fetus. A baby born in a Paris hospital in March to a mother with Covid-19 tested positive for the virus and developed symptoms of inflammation in his brain, said Dr. Daniele De Luca, who led the research team and is chief of the division of pediatrics and neonatal critical care at Paris-Saclay University Hospitals. The baby, now more than 3 months old, recovered without treatment and is "very much improved, almost clinically normal," Dr. De Luca said, adding that the mother, who needed oxygen during the delivery, is healthy.
Dr. De Luca said the virus appeared to have been transmitted through the placenta of the 23-year-old mother. The testing indicated that "the virus reaches the placenta and replicates there," Dr. De Luca said. It can then be transmitted to a fetus, which "can get infected and have symptoms similar to adult Covid-19 patients." [Dr. Yoel Sadovsky, executive director of Magee-Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh] said, it is important to note that cases of possible coronavirus transmission in utero appear to be extremely rare. With other viruses, including Zika and rubella, placental infection and transmission is much more common, he said. With the coronavirus, he said, "we are trying to understand the opposite -- what underlies the relative protection of the fetus and the placenta?"
Another study published on Tuesday in eLife, an online research journal, may help answer that question. It found that while cells in the placenta had many of the receptor proteins that allow viruses to propagate, there was evidence of only "negligible" amounts of a key cell surface receptor and an enzyme that are known to be involved in allowing the coronavirus to enter cells and replicate. The study was led by Dr. Robert Romero, chief of the perinatology research branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. De Luca said the virus appeared to have been transmitted through the placenta of the 23-year-old mother. The testing indicated that "the virus reaches the placenta and replicates there," Dr. De Luca said. It can then be transmitted to a fetus, which "can get infected and have symptoms similar to adult Covid-19 patients." [Dr. Yoel Sadovsky, executive director of Magee-Womens Research Institute at the University of Pittsburgh] said, it is important to note that cases of possible coronavirus transmission in utero appear to be extremely rare. With other viruses, including Zika and rubella, placental infection and transmission is much more common, he said. With the coronavirus, he said, "we are trying to understand the opposite -- what underlies the relative protection of the fetus and the placenta?"
Another study published on Tuesday in eLife, an online research journal, may help answer that question. It found that while cells in the placenta had many of the receptor proteins that allow viruses to propagate, there was evidence of only "negligible" amounts of a key cell surface receptor and an enzyme that are known to be involved in allowing the coronavirus to enter cells and replicate. The study was led by Dr. Robert Romero, chief of the perinatology research branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The Trump administration is now ordering hospitals to send coronavirus patient data to a database in Washington, DC as part of a new initiative that may bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a report from The New York Times published on Tuesday. The Verge reports:As outlined in a document (PDF) posted to the website of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), hospitals are being ordered to send data directly to the administration, effective tomorrow, a move that has alarmed some within the CDC, according to The Times. The database that will collect and store the information is referred to in the document as HHS Protect, which was built in part by data mining and predictive analytics firm Palantir. The Silicon Valley company is known most for its controversial contract work with the US military and other clandestine government agencies as well as for being co-founded and initially funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel.
"A unique link will be sent to the hospital points of contact. This will direct the [point of care] to a hospital-specific secure form that can then be used to enter the necessary information. After completing the fields, click submit and confirm that the form has been successfully captured," reads the HHS instructions. "A confirmation email will be sent to you from the HHS Protect System. This method replaces the emailing of individual spreadsheets previously requested." While the White House's official reasoning is that this plan will help make data collection on the spread of COVID-19 more centralized and efficient, some current and former public health officials fear the bypassing of the CDC may be an effort to politicize the findings and cut experts out of the loop with regard to federal messaging and guidelines, The Times reports.
"A unique link will be sent to the hospital points of contact. This will direct the [point of care] to a hospital-specific secure form that can then be used to enter the necessary information. After completing the fields, click submit and confirm that the form has been successfully captured," reads the HHS instructions. "A confirmation email will be sent to you from the HHS Protect System. This method replaces the emailing of individual spreadsheets previously requested." While the White House's official reasoning is that this plan will help make data collection on the spread of COVID-19 more centralized and efficient, some current and former public health officials fear the bypassing of the CDC may be an effort to politicize the findings and cut experts out of the loop with regard to federal messaging and guidelines, The Times reports.
Wonkette photoshoop; background by Vecteezy, attribution license
In a triumph of propaganda over transparency, the Trump administration's move to require American hospitals to send daily coronavirus data to a server at the Department of Health and Human Services instead of to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already seen results: As of Thursday morning, just one day after the new reporting requirement went into effect, the CDC's dashboard for reporting of hospital capacity looked like this, as ProPublica deputy managing editor Charles Ornstein tweeted.
https://twitter.com/charlesornstein/status/1283754463086481410
But don't worry! Go to the CDC dashboard now and you'll find a much friendlier message that includes data through Tuesday, along with a note telling you the information will no longer be updated ever again, and a link to the HHS guidance telling hospitals to stop submitting daily reports to the CDC. But it's definitely friendlier than a blank screen!
(red underlines added)
Another healthcare data nerd, Ryan Panchadsaram of the site Covid Exit Strategy, told CNBC the data on available hospital beds and ICU capacity was already gone by Tuesday.
Covid Exit Strategy screenshot July 16, 2020
Even with the CDC reports gone, there's still a lot of data out there that doesn't reflect well on Donald Trump, so clearly the White House needs to get to work hiding that stuff too.
The vanishing act alarmed many public health experts and researchers, especially since the change was imposed with so little warning, in the middle of a new surge in cases. Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo said the HHS change won't affect the popular JHU coronavirus dashboard because the project gets information directly from states.
In response to the anxious squawks from medical researchers and public health folks, HHS sent Roger Stone's political protégé, Michael Caputo, to do the spokesperson thing he does; Caputo issued a statement saying there was nothing to worry about, OK?
Thursday saw a litany of not-very-reassuring reassurances coming from others, too. CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a press call that the change to the HHS system won't mean that CDC will be shut out of access to hospital data that's now going to HHS, explaining, "No one is taking access or data away from the CDC. [...] This has no effect on the CDC's ability to use data."
We like the part where he said absolutely nothing about public access to the data, which in our case we have no longer got.
Similarly, HHS chief information officer Jose Arrieta explained that the agency might make the data available to Congress, and is also "exploring the best way to make this information available to the public," which sure as hell doesn't sound like a commitment to restore or replicate the open access that the CDC system had prior to Wednesday.
For more on how all this data fuckery — the scope of which still hasn't been determined, even — may impact efforts to bring the pandemic under control, see this remarkably good overview at the medical news site Stat. The story points out that, yes, the CDC system was originally designed simply for "tracking hospital-acquired pneumonias and urinary tract infections," while the new HHS system, from an outfit called TeleTracking, was purpose-built for gathering COVID-19 data.
[CNBC / Covid Exit Strategy / Stat / The Hill / Photoshoop background by Vecteezy, attribution license]
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But don't worry! Go to the CDC dashboard now and you'll find a much friendlier message that includes data through Tuesday, along with a note telling you the information will no longer be updated ever again, and a link to the HHS guidance telling hospitals to stop submitting daily reports to the CDC. But it's definitely friendlier than a blank screen!
Another healthcare data nerd, Ryan Panchadsaram of the site Covid Exit Strategy, told CNBC the data on available hospital beds and ICU capacity was already gone by Tuesday.
"We were surprised because the modules that we normally go to were empty. The data wasn't available and not there," he said. "There was no warning."Well that's probably not a big deal, considering that the site Panchadsaram works for seems determined to make Donald Trump look bad, what with its colored maps showing much of the nation "trending poorly" or experiencing "uncontrolled spread." Make the data go away and everything will be just fine!
Even with the CDC reports gone, there's still a lot of data out there that doesn't reflect well on Donald Trump, so clearly the White House needs to get to work hiding that stuff too.
The vanishing act alarmed many public health experts and researchers, especially since the change was imposed with so little warning, in the middle of a new surge in cases. Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo said the HHS change won't affect the popular JHU coronavirus dashboard because the project gets information directly from states.
She added, however, that the policy change raises questions about the transparency of the data and the role of the CDC in the ongoing U.S. response.We really liked this paragraph from CNBC for its apparent surprise at Team Trump's standard way of doing goddamned everything, through its strategy of weaponized incompetence.
"What worries me is that we seem to be pushing rather suddenly in the midst of what feels like a very urgent time in terms of surging cases that we're seeing across the country," she told CNBC. "The question is, what are we going to lose in this transition, and in particular at a moment where we really don't want to lose any ability to understand what's happening in hospitals."
Nuzzo expressed concern that the administration didn't appear to fully plan out how the transition in data reporting would work and didn't give hospitals or researchers a warning about the change or how it might affect them.Is there anything this administration has done that was carefully thought out? One policy change, ever? Maybe some of the efforts to roll back environmental regulations, where rewriting rules requires some planning to finalize, but even there, chaos and improvisation are the norms.
In response to the anxious squawks from medical researchers and public health folks, HHS sent Roger Stone's political protégé, Michael Caputo, to do the spokesperson thing he does; Caputo issued a statement saying there was nothing to worry about, OK?
HHS is committed to being transparent with the American public about the information it is collecting on the coronavirus. Therefore, HHS directed CDC to re-establish the coronavirus dashboards it withdrew from the public on Wednesday.And lo, the very last tranche of information, through July 14, went back on the dashboard, as we noted above, along with that note pointing out no more updates will be made, ever, because that info is at HHS and you can't have it. HAPPY, NERDS? Caputo also said the new HHS system would deliver "more powerful insights on the coronavirus," although you'll note that his statement didn't say squat about those insights, or the data, being made available to the public.
Thursday saw a litany of not-very-reassuring reassurances coming from others, too. CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a press call that the change to the HHS system won't mean that CDC will be shut out of access to hospital data that's now going to HHS, explaining, "No one is taking access or data away from the CDC. [...] This has no effect on the CDC's ability to use data."
We like the part where he said absolutely nothing about public access to the data, which in our case we have no longer got.
Similarly, HHS chief information officer Jose Arrieta explained that the agency might make the data available to Congress, and is also "exploring the best way to make this information available to the public," which sure as hell doesn't sound like a commitment to restore or replicate the open access that the CDC system had prior to Wednesday.
For more on how all this data fuckery — the scope of which still hasn't been determined, even — may impact efforts to bring the pandemic under control, see this remarkably good overview at the medical news site Stat. The story points out that, yes, the CDC system was originally designed simply for "tracking hospital-acquired pneumonias and urinary tract infections," while the new HHS system, from an outfit called TeleTracking, was purpose-built for gathering COVID-19 data.
But there are major drawbacks, too: Hospitals are being asked to learn a new data system as they're struggling to keep up with a raging pandemic. Streams of data that the CDC was making available to researchers and the public have suddenly been cut off, exacerbating fears that the Trump administration is trying to stomp out any evidence that the pandemic is worse than ever.One detail that jumped out at me: Even if there's no fuckery afoot (which is a pretty big if), the TeleTracking system is going to create a lot more work for many hospitals, especially those which will have to "abandon systems programmed to auto-load data into the CDC portal and now manually enter that data into the new HHS system." But then, chaos is the new normal, so like the pandemic, we'll just need to learn to live with it.
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-social-distancing-is-a-lesson-in-geometry-20200713/
3. Here’s the start of a packing of the plane using regular octagons.
What is the density of this packing?
Each hexagon is about 90.69% covered by circles, making this a much more efficient packing than the square arrangement. (Notice how the radius of the circle again dropped out, as we should expect.) In fact, no arrangement is more efficient.
Proving this wasn’t easy: Famous mathematicians like Joseph Louis Lagrange and Carl Friedrich Gauss started the work in the late 18th and early 19th century, but the problem wasn’t completely solved until the 1940s, when all the possible arrangements — both regular and irregular — were rigorously dealt with. That it took so long to handle the problem in two dimensions, where things are relatively easy to visualize, is a warning of what’s to come in higher dimensions.
Is Our Solar System's Ninth Planet Actually a Primordial Black Hole? (forbes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Forbes:Conventional theory has it that Planet 9 — our outer solar system's hypothetical 9th planet — is merely a heretofore undetected planet, likely captured by our solar system at some point over its 4.6 billion year history. But Harvard University astronomers now raise the possibility that orbital evidence for Planet 9 could possibly be the result of a missing link in the decades-long puzzle of dark matter. That is, a hypothetical primordial black hole with a horizon size no larger than a grapefruit, and with a mass 5 to 10 times that of Earth.
In a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the co-authors argue that observed clustering of extreme trans-Neptunian objects suggest some sort of massive super-earth type body lying on the outer fringes of our solar system. Perhaps as much as 800 astronomical units (Earth-Sun distances) out...
If they exist, such primordial black holes would require new physics and go a long way towards solving the mystery of the universe's missing mass, or dark matter.
Their argument also constitutes a "new method to search for black holes in the outer solar system based on flares that result from the disruption of intercepted comets," according to a statement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The paper was co-authored by Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard's astronomy department, who points out that "Because black holes are intrinsically dark, the radiation that matter emits on its way to the mouth of the black hole is our only way to illuminate this dark environment."
And in an explanatory video, Mike Brown, a planetary astronomy professor at CalTech, suggests another way it could be significant. "All those people who are mad that Pluto is no longer a planet can be thrilled to know that there is a real planet out there still to be found."
In a paper accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the co-authors argue that observed clustering of extreme trans-Neptunian objects suggest some sort of massive super-earth type body lying on the outer fringes of our solar system. Perhaps as much as 800 astronomical units (Earth-Sun distances) out...
If they exist, such primordial black holes would require new physics and go a long way towards solving the mystery of the universe's missing mass, or dark matter.
Their argument also constitutes a "new method to search for black holes in the outer solar system based on flares that result from the disruption of intercepted comets," according to a statement from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The paper was co-authored by Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard's astronomy department, who points out that "Because black holes are intrinsically dark, the radiation that matter emits on its way to the mouth of the black hole is our only way to illuminate this dark environment."
And in an explanatory video, Mike Brown, a planetary astronomy professor at CalTech, suggests another way it could be significant. "All those people who are mad that Pluto is no longer a planet can be thrilled to know that there is a real planet out there still to be found."
Placing these here to remember to do more reading. And they came up in conversation this week...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock
And.... this is an actual website! I love it.
https://badsciencewatch.ca/
IMPORTANT ISSUES. SOUND SCIENCE. REAL CHANGE.
Bad Science Watch is an independent non-profit consumer protection watchdog and science advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of Canadians by countering bad science. We are driven by a vision of a safer, healthier, and more prosperous Canada where critical thinking and sound science are paramount in the making of important societal decisions.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/12/2241244/cancer-patient-complains-my-facebook-feed-is-full-of-alternative-care-ads
Cancer Patient Complains: My Facebook Feed Is Full of 'Alternative Care' Ads (nytimes.com)
The author of an opinion piece in the New York Times describes what happened after sharing their cancer diagnosis on Facebook:Since then, my Facebook feed has featured ads for "alternative cancer care." The ads, which were new to my timeline, promote everything from cumin seeds to colloidal silver as cancer treatments. Some ads promise luxury clinics — or even "nontoxic cancer therapies" on a beach in Mexico.
There's a reason I'll never fall for these ads: I'm an advocate against pseudoscience. As a consultant for the watchdog group Bad Science Watch and the founder of the Campaign Against Phony Autism Cures, I've learned to recognize the hallmarks of pseudoscience marketing: unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments, promising simplistic solutions and support. Things like "bleach cures" that promise to treat everything from Covid-19 to autism.
When I saw the ads, I knew that Facebook had probably tagged me to receive them. Interestingly, I haven't seen any legitimate cancer care ads in my newsfeed, just pseudoscience. This may be because pseudoscience companies rely on social media in a way that other forms of health care don't. Pseudoscience companies leverage Facebook's social and supportive environment to connect their products with identities and to build communities around their products. They use influencers and patient testimonials. Some companies also recruit members through Facebook "support groups" to sell their products in pyramid schemes...
It was only last April that Facebook removed "pseudoscience" as a keyword from its categories for targeted advertising, and only after the tech publication The Markup reported that 78 million users were listed in Facebook's ad portal as having an "interest" in the category... Facebook pledged that it would add a warning label to Covid-19-related ads and would remove pseudoscience ads that were reported by its users. The problem, which even Facebook acknowledged, is that pseudoscience content can run for months before being flagged by readers. Facebook's main ad-screening system is automated. While we wait for its artificial intelligence system to catch up with the discernment abilities of human reviewers, a steady flow of pseudoscience advertising has already slipped through on a platform with billions of users.
Could it be that Facebook has gotten too big to adequately regulate its content?
The article also suggests one way that individuals can join a movement to pressure Facebook to change: "suspend, delete or even just spend less time on Facebook (and on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook)."
"My retreat from Facebook may mean fewer online connections, perhaps at a time when I need them the most. But I'd rather leave than see what another friend with cancer calls the 'slap in the face' ads."
There's a reason I'll never fall for these ads: I'm an advocate against pseudoscience. As a consultant for the watchdog group Bad Science Watch and the founder of the Campaign Against Phony Autism Cures, I've learned to recognize the hallmarks of pseudoscience marketing: unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments, promising simplistic solutions and support. Things like "bleach cures" that promise to treat everything from Covid-19 to autism.
When I saw the ads, I knew that Facebook had probably tagged me to receive them. Interestingly, I haven't seen any legitimate cancer care ads in my newsfeed, just pseudoscience. This may be because pseudoscience companies rely on social media in a way that other forms of health care don't. Pseudoscience companies leverage Facebook's social and supportive environment to connect their products with identities and to build communities around their products. They use influencers and patient testimonials. Some companies also recruit members through Facebook "support groups" to sell their products in pyramid schemes...
It was only last April that Facebook removed "pseudoscience" as a keyword from its categories for targeted advertising, and only after the tech publication The Markup reported that 78 million users were listed in Facebook's ad portal as having an "interest" in the category... Facebook pledged that it would add a warning label to Covid-19-related ads and would remove pseudoscience ads that were reported by its users. The problem, which even Facebook acknowledged, is that pseudoscience content can run for months before being flagged by readers. Facebook's main ad-screening system is automated. While we wait for its artificial intelligence system to catch up with the discernment abilities of human reviewers, a steady flow of pseudoscience advertising has already slipped through on a platform with billions of users.
Could it be that Facebook has gotten too big to adequately regulate its content?
The article also suggests one way that individuals can join a movement to pressure Facebook to change: "suspend, delete or even just spend less time on Facebook (and on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook)."
"My retreat from Facebook may mean fewer online connections, perhaps at a time when I need them the most. But I'd rather leave than see what another friend with cancer calls the 'slap in the face' ads."
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https://yro.slashdot.org/story/20/07/14/234253/google-faces-lawsuit-over-tracking-in-apps-even-when-users-opted-out
Google Faces Lawsuit Over Tracking In Apps Even When Users Opted Out (reuters.com)
Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company's recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday. Reuters reports:The new complaint in a U.S. district court in San Jose accuses Google of violating federal wiretap law and California privacy law by logging what users are looking at in news, ride-hailing and other types of apps despite them having turned off "Web & App Activity" tracking in their Google account settings. The lawsuit alleges the data collection happens through Google's Firebase, a set of software popular among app makers for storing data, delivering notifications and ads, and tracking glitches and clicks. Firebase typically operates inside apps invisibly to consumers.
"Even when consumers follow Google's own instructions and turn off 'Web & App Activity' tracking on their 'Privacy Controls,' Google nevertheless continues to intercept consumers' app usage and app browsing communications and personal information," the lawsuit contends. Google uses some Firebase data to improve its products and personalize ads and other content for consumers, according to the lawsuit.
"Even when consumers follow Google's own instructions and turn off 'Web & App Activity' tracking on their 'Privacy Controls,' Google nevertheless continues to intercept consumers' app usage and app browsing communications and personal information," the lawsuit contends. Google uses some Firebase data to improve its products and personalize ads and other content for consumers, according to the lawsuit.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/07/14/2311227/your-car-is-spewing-microplastics-that-blow-around-the-world
Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the World (wired.com)
rmdingler shares a report:When you drive, tiny bits of plastic fly off your tires and brakes. Now scientists have shown how all that road muck is blowing into environments like the Arctic. When the world fully transitions from cars that run on dinosaur juice to cars that run on electricity, humanity will have eliminated a major source of planet-warming carbon dioxide and a major threat to human health -- air pollution kills nearly 550,000 children under age 5 each year. But a hidden environmental threat from cars will persist, and perhaps get worse as more of the world enters the middle class, putting more vehicles on the road: the microplastics that shear off cars' tires and brakes. Tires are made of rubber but also contain synthetic elastomers and fibers to improve stability; brakes are a mixture of metal and plastic. Little fragments of these materials erode with friction whenever rubber meets the road or you hit the brakes, and these pieces end up in the gutter. Later, they wash out to sea in rainwater, or get caught up in the wind.
Today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers model how microplastics from our cars are traveling from densely populated regions into the environment. These little automotive bits pour from the cities of Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and settle out in the Arctic, Greenland, and the world's oceans. The researchers find that the mean lifetime for the smallest particles, which more easily get caught up in winds, is nearly a month. Their modeling calculates that 52,000 tons of the smallest particles end up in the sea each year, and 20,000 tons end up in remote snowy and icy regions. "Small particles are lofting higher, of course. But they also weigh less than larger ones and can easily reach remote regions under favorable meteorological conditions," says Nikolaos Evangeliou, senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research and lead author of the new paper. "Larger particles are usually deposited near the sources."Slashdot reader rmdingler adds: "Reducing CO2 emissions and other airborne pollutants are certainly steps in the right direction, but it seems like there's a new environmental toxin around every corner."
Today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers model how microplastics from our cars are traveling from densely populated regions into the environment. These little automotive bits pour from the cities of Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and settle out in the Arctic, Greenland, and the world's oceans. The researchers find that the mean lifetime for the smallest particles, which more easily get caught up in winds, is nearly a month. Their modeling calculates that 52,000 tons of the smallest particles end up in the sea each year, and 20,000 tons end up in remote snowy and icy regions. "Small particles are lofting higher, of course. But they also weigh less than larger ones and can easily reach remote regions under favorable meteorological conditions," says Nikolaos Evangeliou, senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research and lead author of the new paper. "Larger particles are usually deposited near the sources."Slashdot reader rmdingler adds: "Reducing CO2 emissions and other airborne pollutants are certainly steps in the right direction, but it seems like there's a new environmental toxin around every corner."
https://www.wonkette.com/trump-run-for-your-lives-white-people-aiyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
#Coronavirus: Banksy sprays Tube with COVID-19 face mask message.— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 15, 2020
The street artist was filmed stencilling a London Underground train with a message encouraging people to wear face coverings.
More here: https://t.co/EaEPV5v1mz pic.twitter.com/uTmlbEC1Yp
"I get lockdown, but I get up again."— AJ+ (@ajplus) July 14, 2020
Banksy created a Chumbawamba-themed #COVID19 display in the London underground. The title is an apparent reference to people fighting against mask policies: "If you don't mask - you don't get.”
(📷: Banksy) pic.twitter.com/6auFhUibIA
AND MORE ASSHOLES...
https://www.wonkette.com/michigan-judge-sends-kid-with-learning-disabilities-to-juvie-for-not-doing-online-classes
Hey, what's the difference between convicted felon Paul Manafort and a 15-year-old girl in Michigan who complied with all conditions of her probation except keeping up with her online schoolwork? Easy! The girl is the one who was deemed by a judge to be too dangerous to be allowed out of detention during the coronavirus pandemic. Manafort was released in May because of fears he might get the Rona. Then again, he hadn't been assigned any homework, as far as we know.
As ProPublica reports, in a report co-published by the Detroit Free Press and Bridge Magazine, the girl, who's being identified only by her middle name, Grace, was confined at the Children's Village juvenile detention center in the Detroit suburbs because a judge found Grace had violated the terms of her probation and needed the close supervision she'd get in juvie. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had issued an executive order in March suspending confinement of juveniles for violating probation, unless a judge ordered it, and also said minors should only be placed in detention or residential centers if they present a "substantial and immediate safety risk to others."
AND JUST BECAUSE I LOOKED IT UP THIS WEEK AND FOUND A FREE SCRIPT ONLINE:
AND EVEN BIGGER AND MORE ASTOUNDINGLY STUPID ASSHOLES...
https://www.wonkette.com/fox-news-idiot-lady-so-mad-online-schooling-pretty-much-all-sexting-and-porn-watching
https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/blog/sexual-health-covid-19/
Healthy Teen Network » Under The Currents » 5 Tips for Your Sexual Health During COVID-19Date: April 23rd, 2020
By: Ella Dorval Hall
You may be a young person or adult experiencing these thoughts.
Or you are the partner, parent, or caregiver of someone feeling this way. How
do you support yourself or loved ones with this? COVID-19 may be making all
sorts of relationships challenging, but particularly our sexual relationships.
Here are five resources (for both young people or adults) to help with mental
and sexual health during the global pandemic.
1. Sexting
Did you know, one study found “women were four times more likely
to say they sent a sext to feel empowered and twice as likely to say they did
it to feel confident”? Read more in Why do people sext? Not sure how to
sext? Here are some ideas on how.
2. Solo Sex
While social distancing, we can practice solo sex (aka
masturbating) to get to know our own bodies and pleasure. Unsure how? Have
questions? (You’re not alone). Here is how to masturbate, and these are some extra tips if you are
someone with a clitoris. Are you asking yourself, “Is it OK for my child to
masturbate”? See what experts say the answer is.
3. Porn
Despite mixed messages out there about porn, it is often a very
healthy part of people’s sexuality. Find out why young people watch porn and
what they learn from it. Interested in watching porn? Check out this “Fact or
Fiction” video and try this porn literacy toolkit.
4. “Date yourself”
Yes, relationships during COVID are still extremely important,
but what does it mean to truly be in a relationship with yourself? This can be
an opportunity to explore that question, and Scarleteen has some ideas.
5. Go Online
Social media is full of sex experts who are sharing resources on
mental health, how to use sex toys, tips for dirty talk, communication and
consent, or how race, class, gender, and power show up in sexuality. Check out
some of these amazing educators: @odotschool, @sexpositive_families, @vagesteem, @iheartericka, and @pphphealth.
About the Author
Ella Dorval Hall graduated from Saint Michael’s College in 2018 with a degree in environmental studies. Her work in the field of sex education stems from her senior thesis on Ecofeminism that uncovered some systemic forces that perpetuate environmental, gender, and public health injustices. Since then, she has researched human sexuality and worked in academic settings with young adults to foster health, well-being, and skills to succeed academically. Ella is excited to be working with Healthy Teen Network because of the social-ecological model we use to approach youth’s sexual health and the innovation we utilize to achieve this. Ella believes that all young adults should have access to resources and information necessary to make healthy decisions, and is excited to be working with an organization providing this across the nation.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/07/17/2057205/the-entire-worlds-carbon-emissions-will-finally-be-trackable-in-real-time
The Entire World's Carbon Emissions Will Finally Be Trackable In Real Time (vox.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vox:There's an old truism in the business world: what gets measured gets managed. One of the challenges in managing the greenhouse gas emissions warming the atmosphere is that they aren't measured very well. The ultimate solution to this problem-- the killer app, as it were -- would be real-time tracking of all global greenhouse gases, verified by objective third parties, and available for free to the public. Now, a new alliance of climate research groups called the Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-Time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) Coalition has launched an effort to make the vision a reality, and they're aiming to have it ready for COP26, the climate meetings in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021 (postponed from November 2020). If they pull it off, it could completely change the tenor and direction of international climate talks. It could also make it easier for the hundreds of companies, cities, counties, and states that have made ambitious climate commitments to reliably track their process.
In addition to [Al Gore, who had been looking for more reliable ways to track emissions] and WattTime, [which intends to create a public database that will track carbon emissions from all the world's large power plants using AI], the coalition now contains:
-Carbon Tracker uses machine learning and satellite data to predict the utilization of every power plant in the world;
-Earthrise Alliance aggregates and organizes publicly available environmental data into a format meaningful to journalists and researchers;
-CarbonPlan uses satellite data to track changes in aboveground biomass (especially forests) and the associated carbon emissions, down to a spatial resolution of 300 meters;
-Hudson Carbon uses satellite data to track changes in agricultural cover, cropping, and tilling, down to the level of the individual field, and compares that data against ground-level sensors;
-OceanMind uses onboard sensors to track the global movement of ships in real time and combines that with engine specs to extrapolate carbon emissions;
-Rocky Mountain Institute combines multiple sources of data to quantify methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure;
-Hypervine uses spectroscopic imagery to track vehicle usage and blasting at quarries;
-Blue Sky Analytics uses near-infrared and shortwave infrared imagery from satellites to track fires.
The coalition will also be gathering data from a variety of other sources, from power grid data to fuel sales, sensor networks, and drones. Gore acknowledges that "this is a work in progress," but says the coalition is aiming big: "everything that can be known about where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from will be known, in near-real time."
In addition to [Al Gore, who had been looking for more reliable ways to track emissions] and WattTime, [which intends to create a public database that will track carbon emissions from all the world's large power plants using AI], the coalition now contains:
-Carbon Tracker uses machine learning and satellite data to predict the utilization of every power plant in the world;
-Earthrise Alliance aggregates and organizes publicly available environmental data into a format meaningful to journalists and researchers;
-CarbonPlan uses satellite data to track changes in aboveground biomass (especially forests) and the associated carbon emissions, down to a spatial resolution of 300 meters;
-Hudson Carbon uses satellite data to track changes in agricultural cover, cropping, and tilling, down to the level of the individual field, and compares that data against ground-level sensors;
-OceanMind uses onboard sensors to track the global movement of ships in real time and combines that with engine specs to extrapolate carbon emissions;
-Rocky Mountain Institute combines multiple sources of data to quantify methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure;
-Hypervine uses spectroscopic imagery to track vehicle usage and blasting at quarries;
-Blue Sky Analytics uses near-infrared and shortwave infrared imagery from satellites to track fires.
The coalition will also be gathering data from a variety of other sources, from power grid data to fuel sales, sensor networks, and drones. Gore acknowledges that "this is a work in progress," but says the coalition is aiming big: "everything that can be known about where greenhouse gas emissions are coming from will be known, in near-real time."
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Jeaune Tom by Wonkette operative 'Hoovervilles'
Thank Crom for the Weekend Decompression Period, which we need more and more these days. Yr Dok Zoom and noted political pundit Our Girlfriend drove well outside the lights of town the other evening, and got a look at Comet NEOWISE, which is named for the NASA spacecraft that discovered it. (More on NEOWISE and how to see it in last week's Nice Things.)
It has faded since its peak brightness a week or so back, so there was no hope of getting a photo (you could if you had a good telescope!), but it was still an amazing sight, and once the sky was completely dark, it was visible to the naked eye. Much "Holy shit, that's a comet!" Get out and catch it if you can; it should still be visible for a few more nights, an hour or so after sunset, in the north-northwest — you'll need binoculars to see it fairly well. But hurry; it's on its way out of our solar system, and won't be back for 7,000 years. I hope to have been reincarnated as a spoiled housecat several times by then. If you can't see NEOWISE in person, there are loads of cool photos on the interwebs. Cosmic visitors — as long as they aren't on a collision course — are very nice things indeed.
Photo by Giuseppe Donatiello, Public Domain
It started out with a blunt declaration: "Drunk." That was followed with a disclaimer: "Thank you for your support duri t this difficult time all misspellings are mine totally" (We'll be embedding the tweets and also copy-pasting the text, on the off chance that Orlean deletes them, which seems unlikely.)
Also, content warning: If you have substance use issues, I recognize that a writer tweeting drunkly may be more ominous and triggering than amusing, and I won't at all be offended if you skip to the next heading, just below the tweet with the (spoiler warning) orange kittycat in it.
Orlean went to see the neighbors' newborn colt, and wondered if they noticed she was sloshed. She got existential and stuff:
Twitter was with her, and it was good:
Today we are all Susan Orlean.
There was much more. The recycling? Fuck the recycling. Doubts that there was any candy anywhere in the world, or her house. The discovery and consumption of "stupid fennel seed candy because I ha e no options[.]" A reminder: "I have SO NOT BEEN HACKED"
And finally, a successful resolution to one part of the night's dramatic arc:
If you don't do the Twitters, the full unthreaded thread is collected at NJ.com. It's very good.
Photo: Top Shelf Productions
Like everyone, I was heartbroken by the news that John Lewis died. Stephen has written a lovely Wonkette remembrance, so I'll just add a couple of my own favorite John Lewis moments here. And can I also just mention this lovely note by Charlie Pierce, who reminded us that, in addition to being a moral beacon and icon of the very best of what being an American is, Lewis was also "Very funny. Sneaky funny." Because as Amber Ruffin said on the Twitter machine last night, "My goodness, he lived the hell outta that life."
In 2015, Lewis went to San Diego's Comic-Con to cohost a panel on his comics memoir March, along with his co-author, former campaign aide Andrew Aydin, and artist Nate Powell. If you haven't read March because it's a comic book (or because you just missed it), that's a gap in your reading you need to correct toot sweet, you.
While he was at the convention, Lewis did what people do at Comic-Con: he dressed up as a character from a comic book. In this case, that would be his 25-year-old self, as the Washington Post reported.
It's a beautiful story, and worth a reread if you want to burn one of your WaPo free articles.
As we've mentioned previously, March was itself a nod to Lewis's own history of finding inspiration in comics:
Also, from Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox, this reminder that in addition to being a hero, John Lewis was a cat dude:
Finally, here's John Lewis dancing and giving us all life on the eve of the 2018 election, when we started to take America back from the bullies (and please, do reread Evan's beautiful post that went with it.) May we all try to be as joyous. We'll all dance for you this fall, Rep. Lewis, and then by God we will vote.
UPDATE: It works better when the damn tweet loads, lol.
We'll close with your sun-absorbing Thornton on a quiet morning, with completely-ignored new mousie toy. Thorntoncles cares not for mousie.
And now, your open thread!
[NJ.com / The Orchid Thief / WaPo / March]
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It has faded since its peak brightness a week or so back, so there was no hope of getting a photo (you could if you had a good telescope!), but it was still an amazing sight, and once the sky was completely dark, it was visible to the naked eye. Much "Holy shit, that's a comet!" Get out and catch it if you can; it should still be visible for a few more nights, an hour or so after sunset, in the north-northwest — you'll need binoculars to see it fairly well. But hurry; it's on its way out of our solar system, and won't be back for 7,000 years. I hope to have been reincarnated as a spoiled housecat several times by then. If you can't see NEOWISE in person, there are loads of cool photos on the interwebs. Cosmic visitors — as long as they aren't on a collision course — are very nice things indeed.
Susan Orlean Was Drunk And Fed Up With 2020, And It Was Wonderful
Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer and author of the brilliant book The Orchid Thief (which was adapted into the brilliant movie Adaptation), was drunk on Twitter Friday night, and we have to agree with the judgment of NJ.com's Amy Kuperinsky: "Forget your crummy song of the summer. Susan Orlean just claimed that mantle for herself ... and all of us."It started out with a blunt declaration: "Drunk." That was followed with a disclaimer: "Thank you for your support duri t this difficult time all misspellings are mine totally" (We'll be embedding the tweets and also copy-pasting the text, on the off chance that Orlean deletes them, which seems unlikely.)
Also, content warning: If you have substance use issues, I recognize that a writer tweeting drunkly may be more ominous and triggering than amusing, and I won't at all be offended if you skip to the next heading, just below the tweet with the (spoiler warning) orange kittycat in it.
Seriously we went to my neighbors to see their newborn colt who was born like five mi utes ago and we had some wine
Ok a newborn colt rocks it totally and he thought my hand was his mom. It was not. He has tasted life's infinite tragedy. As I mentioned Earlier I am inebriated
"Maybe I am drinking too much during THE FUCKING PANDEMIC"Orlean wanted her cat, and she wanted candy. And also her cat.
Buehler? Yes I am
I'm falling down drunk. First time in ages. Where is my kitty? He is my drunk comfort animal.
I would like some candy
BTW where exactly Is my fucking cat whe I need him
Today we are all Susan Orlean.
WHO IS SICK AND TIRED OF EVERYTHING
I mean SERIOUSLY
And finally, a successful resolution to one part of the night's dramatic arc:
That Time John Lewis Went To Comic-Con And Cosplayed As A Superhero: Himself
Like everyone, I was heartbroken by the news that John Lewis died. Stephen has written a lovely Wonkette remembrance, so I'll just add a couple of my own favorite John Lewis moments here. And can I also just mention this lovely note by Charlie Pierce, who reminded us that, in addition to being a moral beacon and icon of the very best of what being an American is, Lewis was also "Very funny. Sneaky funny." Because as Amber Ruffin said on the Twitter machine last night, "My goodness, he lived the hell outta that life."
In 2015, Lewis went to San Diego's Comic-Con to cohost a panel on his comics memoir March, along with his co-author, former campaign aide Andrew Aydin, and artist Nate Powell. If you haven't read March because it's a comic book (or because you just missed it), that's a gap in your reading you need to correct toot sweet, you.
While he was at the convention, Lewis did what people do at Comic-Con: he dressed up as a character from a comic book. In this case, that would be his 25-year-old self, as the Washington Post reported.
"We went looking for the [type of] trench coat I wore 50 years ago," Rep. Lewis tells me over the weekend. They found, too, an accurate backpack.
"In his backpack were two books, an apple, a toothbrush and toothpaste," Aydin tells The Post's Comic Riffs. "He carried that in Selma 50 years ago in case he got arrested."
Also in John Lewis's backpack on that day in Selma was an orange. "We tried but couldn't find an orange," Rep. Lewis tells me of completing his new weekend costume. "In Southern California, of all places."
And there, as the three "March" collaborators arrived at their Saturday panel, was not just a large, eager audience, but a grouping of schoolchildren down in front ... Now, sitting here, were young fans of "March" — including about two-dozen bright-eyed third-graders from nearby Oak Park Elementary, a Title I school. Their teacher, Mick Rabin, had shown the wisdom to bring them to meet history in the flesh. [...]
And then, after the talk, Lewis needed to get back to the booth of his publisher, Top Shelf Productions, to sign books. Yet how to handle having so many young fans in tow?
The only true answer, of course, was to march.
Rabin says he proposed that his students walk with their living hero. "So we marched through the Convention Center to the showroom floor and the Top Shelf booth," Aydin recounts. And as they did, the procession swelled, as some attendees joined in the parade of purpose.
As we've mentioned previously, March was itself a nod to Lewis's own history of finding inspiration in comics:
In 2008, when Lewis's co-author and former press aide Andrew Aydin mentioned he was going to a comics convention, Lewis told Aydin that he had originally become interested in the Civil Rights Movement after reading a comic book as a teen in 1958: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story, which told the story of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and provided a basic primer in the methods of nonviolent resistance. Nerds, please remember this anecdote for whenever people say comics are garbage (then nonviolently whack 'em over the head with a copy of Maus).More on the publication of that MLK comic here; I guess I know what three-volume comics memoir I'll be rereading this weekend..
Also, from Wonkette founder Ana Marie Cox, this reminder that in addition to being a hero, John Lewis was a cat dude:
Finally, here's John Lewis dancing and giving us all life on the eve of the 2018 election, when we started to take America back from the bullies (and please, do reread Evan's beautiful post that went with it.) May we all try to be as joyous. We'll all dance for you this fall, Rep. Lewis, and then by God we will vote.
We'll close with your sun-absorbing Thornton on a quiet morning, with completely-ignored new mousie toy. Thorntoncles cares not for mousie.
And now, your open thread!
[NJ.com / The Orchid Thief / WaPo / March]
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And to close, my next installment in a year of my life that matches the number of this blog entry post.
What happened in 1978
Major News Stories include Space Invaders Launches Craze for Computer Video Games, Gold reaches $200.00 per ounce, Roman Polanski flees to France, First Test Tube Baby is born, Cult leader Jim Jones tells 900 members of his church, "People's Temple", to commit suicide in Guyana, Susan B. Anthony Dollar is minted, Following on from the oil crisis Japanese car Imports account for half the US import market. The first first ever Cellular Mobile Phone History of Mobile Phones is introduced in Illinois. Sweden is the first country in the world to recognize the effect of aerosol sprays on the Ozone Layer and bans the sale. The Serial killer David Berkowitz, "Son of Sam," is convicted of murder after terrorizing New York for 12 months. 1978 is also a great year for movies with Grease summer opening on June 16th , Saturday Night Fever and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all showing in Movie Theatres around the world.Jump To 1978 Fashion -- World Leaders -- 1978 Calendar -- Technology -- Cost Of Living -- Popular Culture -- Toys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978
- June 1 – The 1978 FIFA World Cup starts in Argentina.
- June 6 – California voters approve Proposition 13, which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.
- June 9 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends the priesthood and temple blessings to "all worthy males", ending a general policy of excluding "Canaanites" from priesthood ordination and temple ordinances.
- June 10 – Affirmed holds off Alydar to win the Belmont Stakes and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015.
- June 12 – Serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
- June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- June 16 – Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John is released.
- June 19
- Cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
- Garfield, which eventually becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut nationwide.
https://numeroscop.net/numerology_number_meanings/four_digit_numbers/number_1978.html
What Does 1978 Mean?
1978
If you see angel number 1978, the message relates to the field of personality development and creativity and says that Your personal growth, expressed in the ability to feel and understand people, is gaining strength. It is possible that in the foreseeable future this skill will become your second job (psychology, spiritual mentoring). Moreover, this job will represent no material interest for you. Whatever you do, you will do it solely for the good of others. Their gratitude will be your only "profit".
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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1155 - 1978 Magic Act - THROW for 1903.07
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1156 - Magic at Band Follies 1978 - the WOUND - Throwback Thursday for 1903.14
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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