Some thoughts: The great paradox of 1/6 is that so much of the planning happened out in the open (both in the immediate run-up and over the past 4+ years), which actually made it less effective. There were too many disparate and undisciplined groups, effectively tourists.

This part of Trumpism will continue. To the extent the Trump family is able to operate in the open, they will become the Grateful Dead of right-wing politics, which Trump rallies already embody, and followers will go on tour, chanting "Lock Her Up" for the coming decades.

The key question is whether the Far Right will break from this. Some indications show that Trump's efforts at self-preservation by weak denunciation will fuel a break and also further a pervasive "stabbed-in-the-back" narrative that the Far Right uses everywhere.

What made 1/6 more effective was the obvious underpreparation by the Capitol police, in coordination with DOJ and DOD. Some indiv officers assented but some did their job a little too effectively--incl. by shooting the woman in the bldg as much as not shooting entrants at first.

It's clear that some people entered the Capitol with the intent to kidnap/lynch specific members of Congress (you can figure out who), and some of those people basically fantasized about doing that for the likes while live-streaming (insert analogy to Zetas/ISIS/whatevs).

Hearing coming up at the top of the hour on the USPS lawsuits over possible delayed delivery of mail-in ballots.

Yesterday, Judge Sullivan indicated Postmaster DeJoy was not "off the hook" for failing to follow an Election Day order to sweep facilities for misplaced ballots.

Note that court staff have set up two more public lines after hundreds of people dialed in yesterday:

We also got a dump of data from USPS in the last hour or so on:

Extra and late trips
On-time delivery percentages
Number of inbound/outbound ballots processed

(all stats the agency has been sharing/updating daily over the last week)

DOJ has brought with today several USPS processing facility managers, per Sullivan's request yesterday, including from Philly, Central Penn, Greensboro and the Mid Carolinas.

Vote Forward attorney says the data USPS filed this morning suggests that 150K ballots were delivered yesterday, including 604 ballots in Atlanta and 7K in Pennsylvania.

A thread of #digitalart drafts, inspired by optical ring resonators:

It started with #Neff:

And then Neff ring matters:

And alas I digress:

And moreso

And even more

i see the "they only gave us $1200" discourse has, unfortunately, returned. if everyone keeps forgetting about the superdole UI, we're never going to see it again, so please don't say that.

it's totally fine to blast senate republicans for being cheap fucks who'd rather 100,000 go hungry than 10 people pay more in taxes, but we got more than $1200, we got, for the briefest of moments, a glimpse of how we could genuinely end poverty in this country, don't ignore it.

there's a very good reason mcconnell is reportedly willing to look like he will cave on stimulus, and it's because he's taking it out of unemployment, which is a terrible trade-off, and everyone grumbling about $1200 is helping him sell it.

if you only got $1200, congratulations, you kept your job! tens of millions of people didn't, and as bad as things are right now, they'd be *significantly* worse if house and senate democrats hadn't written a genuinely visionary UI package into law.

so, definitely demand stimulus, but keep pushing for better unemployment and social stability programs, too, because if you find yourself unemployed (as i suspect many will in the year of disaster management to come), you're going to hope things look better then than now.

Still awaiting Mr #Assange appearing in the glass fronted dock.

Aasange enters the dock, is wearing a blue suit and tie.
We now await the judge

Judge enters

Thinking about my appointments at the Children's GIC where they were super careful and explored all my issues and encouraged me to consider other options before transition...

Just Kidding, that never happened! This has turned into a thread on part of my experience there. (1/12)

All that's written down in my notes are descriptions of me telling them how much I hated my body. There was no questions to why I felt like that or how I came to feel like that.

There is nothing saying "We have explored 'his' dysphoric feelings and tried to find the root of it".

This is what is written: "The sessions at GIDS have focused on understanding the intensity of conviction that he is male and the strength of his determination to transition to living fully as male and pursuing physical treatment."

It's like they only assessed how much I hated myself. Here's some more bits from my records below.

"He made it clear that he feels his female body is utterly wrong, especially with regards to height and shape, and he revealed a very intense and unrelenting preoccupation with this."

@lexfridman 12:37 This guy has too many brains for a place like Harvard, mentioning God right outta the box.

15:10 This guy gets it with the scales of ants, grains, lifespans and gratitude.

18:34 What it is, is here. #OumuamuaPropulsion

22:00 It's a light-pumper. They tend to **reflect** because it's how they move.

24:40 Yeah, "ice". Baby to go. Turn off the lights and I'll glow.

Well. #Bridgerton has already started off on the wrong foot with the underpinnings.

Megaphone Report for the Evening of January 4, 2021.

Morrison and the Liberal Party have already gone to the bunker.

Morrison continues to withhold the vaccine, according to Trotsky’s 2nd Lovechild.

Australia’s media continue to be utterly trash, according to the 256 people who liked this tweet today.

There is great unhappiness about ABC 730s interview with a family who went into NSW for a holiday.

@johnkoetsier @LarryRosenthal @John_Westra True, but I only get 140 characters at a time and I’m trying to cover a lot.

“The media” meaning the primary outlets of information and opinion in America: news, TV shows, movies, magazines. Nearly all follow and promote whatever the dominant cultural values are at the moment.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra It used to be that there was civility in the media. But that came from a more civil society, where traditionally correct behavior was deemed important. That’s been erased by modernism. Today political correctness has replaced civility, and the media parrots that instead.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra The moral distortion becomes evident when you read the words Trump speaks. Consider what he might be referring to without PC bias, and then watch how those media outlets speak about those same words. The presumption of guilt starts, fills and ends nearly every message.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra Charlottesville is a perfect example. “There were good people on both sides” was entirely referring to those for and against removal of statues - NOT about “good white supremacy”
or “good Antifa counter-protesters”. He clarified this exact point at the time. That’s the “truth”.

@LarryRosenthal @John_Westra But to this day that’s not what the “media” gave to the world to chew on, now is it? Instead there is the deliberate and persistent lie that he meant to defend white supremacy because that narrative sells better to a PC public: half of America now thinks he’s a racist for sure.

Since we’re talking about the King James Bible, I’ll just point out a few places where it’s clear how there’s always loss in translation. Like, if you’re only relying on the English there are things that just plain don’t make sense. But in the original? Lots clearer. 1/x Thread.

“And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.”

I mean, what??

In the Hebrew her name is Hava /חוה because she is the mother of all living/haye/חי (and you need enough Hebrew to understand what the vavs and yuds are doing here).

“And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”

Again, this makes no sense and honestly is a bad translation, I know how they got “prince” but שרית should be “you have striven +

Or “contended” or “struggled” or “wrestled” with God /Elohim/aka the “El” suffix and the word for wrestled I didn’t transliterate, in the past tense it’s “sarita” so even if you don’t know conjugation you can already figure out how sr + el gets you close to Israel, yes?

None of this is clear in the KJV.

Or a third example.

“And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you... Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God... +

In the spring of 2001, I was going to a meeting at the place where I worked then and still work now. Another of the people at the meeting was an academic dean of our school. She was perhaps the purest expression of academia *at* that school.

1/

That day she was literally wearing a tweed blazer. Before she'd become a dean she'd been an English teacher. Now, the epitome of English Teachers, in my brain, was and remains my father. That day she was a close second.

2/

That day I said hello and asked how she was or somesuch.

She gave me a slightly wry smile. "Oh, you know. Measuring my life in coffee spoons," she said. I chuckled, and we may have traded a couple more lines of 'Prufrock.' I'm not sure.

3/

And I've always been a fan of T.S. Eliot, so it felt natural enough to come to and fro, talking of Michelangelo, and otherwise it seemed a clever turn of phrase just before a meeting about school management systems and database development.

4/

It is a couple of days before 2021, and I am 20 years older, and that memory has taken on a very different shade and tenor. We have all seen too much since then, over and over again.

5/

*rubber duck thread* Using the Sega CD subcpu in mode 1 is very doable but the larger problem is: what kind of tasks can we hand off to it, and are they asynchronous?

We can't run code directly off the cart from the subcpu. We can't simply make the faster cpu run the game. So it makes more sense that we'd have subroutines running on the subcpu to accelerate common operations that can be called from the MD main cpu.

But we run into a problem here. First is defining what "common operations" would really be. Since the subcpu is another 68k with a roughly 50% higher clock, it wouldn't make much sense to run very small or atomic operations on it. There is overhead in passing arguments...

... because it has to be done in shared memory. Overhead could kill the gains. We'd get more benefit from a larger, more complex function to really take advantage of that higher clock speed. This adds another layer to the problem, synchronicity.

If the MD cpu has to block (stop and wait for a result from the subcpu) we're losing a lot of potential throughput. The effect is similar the other way around in that we also waste resources on the subcpu waiting for a command from the MD.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the lekki toll gate incident because my mind won’t shut up with the questions.

I also couldn’t find any objective or logical answers, so for the sake of my sanity I created a theory about what might have transpired that night

#Thread

Choking on meat: A Thread

But what do the 'Mormons' really, Really, REALLY believe!?

Recently I participated in a discussion with two very courteous and well intentioned men of another Christian faith who were trying to expose the challenges the church faces today. In our discussion we covered only two topics, but in a previous discussion they covered a number.

There was in insinuation that the church has secret teachings and a checkered past that its tried to hide for far too long, and that the jig is coming up - the truth is coming out - and members of the church are checking out.

Let me start by acknowledging there's some truth to that. There are elements of our history that are controversial. The church has been very guarded with elements of its history because of treatment we've faced in the past over them. So let's look at the merits of this case.

First, I think we should ask if there are ever times it's appropriate to withhold information.

To me, the scriptures and God's actions as a whole form a resounding yes.