Let's not gloss over this part:

...that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

It's all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin's family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

Persona’s exposed code compares your selfie to watchlist photos using facial recognition, screens you against 14 categories of adverse media from mentions of terrorism to espionage, and tags reports with codenames from active intelligence programs consisting of public-private partnerships to combat online child exploitative material, cannabis trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, romance fraud, money laundering, and illegal wildlife trade

In the 1930's, IBM subsidiary companies were responsible for the census data and concentration camp cataloguing systems in Nazi Germany (and it's invaded territories). The numbers tattooed on prisoners were five-digit IBM Hollerith numbers, corresponding to their dedicated punch card. With an estimated 40k+ camps of different types, the machine leases would have been very lucrative for IBM. They won't say how lucrative, and they made sure they had complex financial setups through "neutral" countries.

IBM systems also underpinned the concentration "internment" camps in the US holding people of Japanese background. But of course, they're much louder about their 1930's history in winning the US Social Security contract - older SSNs were also Hollerith numbers.

It would be amusing that punch cards were a more secure system if history didn't look like it was rapidly repeating.

So he's originally from El Salvador.

1. He was going to be deported, so he designated El Salvador as the destination.
2. A judge blocked his deportation to El Salvador.
3. He was "by mistake" deported to El Salvador.
4. The courts told the administration to bring him back.
5. The administration said they couldn't find him. Repeat 4 and 5 up the court ladder.
6. The Supreme Court told them to bring him back.
7. He was "found" and brought back to the US to face charges.
8. He designated Costa Rica as a country he'd be willing to be deported to, because he couldn't be deported to El Salvador.
9. The Head of ICE says they have "decided to disregard" that, and they've negotiated to deport him to a completely different continent, because it would be "prejudicial to the United States" to deport him to Costa Rica. There is no indication he has any relation to Liberia.

ICE claims that preventing deporting him to Liberia is a "direct contradiction to established judicial norms" - as though it's normal to deport people to entirely different places to where they're from.

They're punishing him because the Supreme Court embarrassed the administration, and now they're reminding everyone that they were schooled by their own stooges. If they deported him to Costa Rica, the media might not have even picked this back up.

It's not the study that's the problem here, the study clearly examined it "as the primary treatment". This is a common science media failure, they've conflated "primary treatment" with "helps", and that is not the same thing at all.

Crutches aren't the "primary treatment" for a broken leg either, but they do assist recovery by allowing someone to not use the broken leg. I'd suggest cannabis plays a similar role, it gives people the distance from the pain and further injury that they need for actual recovery, which sounds like it could describe your experience.

People. They're people. Objectionable people with grotesque views, but people nonetheless.

"...a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military."

You know what US military targets an Iranian "shoulder-fired missile" can't hit? The ones in the US. The only place the US military should be. Invading forces aren't entitled to an easy time stealing another country's resources.

The NBC can fuck right off with this war crime apologia masquerading as a news article containing a mild warning. It's not a Saving Private Ryan reboot, it's modern exploitation colonialism.

Trump isn't the disease, he's just the most visible symptom.

Oh, that's very interesting. If that's true, someone should tell Kimberly-Clark's insurers that they deliberately shut off fire suppression during a fire. Maybe this will actually cost them a few dollars?

I'm not British but I'm also very surprised. I can't help but wonder if they would have dared had he still had his title?

on his birthday too.

The cops took the phrase "the icing on the cake" literally, and I think it was an excellent choice.

Unavoidable timers. For example:

1. Devices with low battery and the charger is out of reach.
2. Drinking a bunch of water.
3. Playing an album with nothing queued afterwards.

Along the same lines: incidental timeboxing. My toaster takes 2 mins, and leaving the kitchen means I'm likely to end up with sad cold toast, so I better stay and deal with some of the kitchen mess in those two minutes. The phrase "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean" has been strangely useful to me.

Allowing things to be partially done, but not in a state where is going to be a big problem. For example, the above kitchen mess.

• A cup and bowl with food left in it will be hard to clean and attracts bugs and grows mold, and that's a problem.
• An empty but dirty cup and bowl is better but still harder to clean.
• A rinsed cup and bowl filled with water left in the sink is easiest to clean, so that's the least problematic state to leave it in, and it's not much harder to do that than it is leaving the food-filled cup and bowl there to begin with.

Better quality of nutrition - more protein and vegetables. Much more vegetables. An absurd amount more vegetables.

They also fixed their zinc deficiency, which has long been known to affect height.

But seriously, the vegetables.

Graphs pictured:

• Daily supply of calories that are available for consumption, Measured in kilocalories per person per day. 1985 to 2023
• Estimated share of the total population in each country with zinc intakes below physiological requirements, 1990–2005
• Average daily per capita protein supply, measured in grams of total protein per day, 1985 to 2023
• Average per capita vegetable consumption, measured in kilograms per person per year, 1985 to 2023

I fell down a wild rabbit hole.

• Dev Forty Five LLC was created 2 weeks ago and lists Ty Nielson as the registered agent
• Ty Nielson is listed and at some point was described on LinkedIn as the Head of Engineering at Gemini (not the Google product) with location in St George, UT. Gemini lists an office in Ogden, UT on linkedin.
• His employment history says he started as a software engineer, but he may not be the head of engineering. I'm unsure if he lives in Utah at all. He did ask how to do authentication in a React Native app properly in stack overflow 7 months ago. Not a great sign.
• Gemini is a product of Blue Rocket, inc. and the primary address for both companies is listed as a thinkspace in Redmond, WA.
• Blue Rocket Inc. also has an office in Ogden Utah and one in West Palm Beach, Florida according to its linkedin - but withdrew their business registration in FL years ago
• A previous (?) head of product for Gemini and/or Blue Rocket is/was Ryan Petty, who was part of a Federal Commission on School Safety roundtable at the White House with Trump, and DeSantis made him the Chair of the Florida State Board of Education
• Jason Kap owns Blue Rocket inc. and was put on the board of Claritev last year, which is now a defendant in an antitrust lawsuit for conspiring with major health insurers to fix prices. The DoJ is currently siding against Claritev
• Jason Kap used to work at Microsoft, MS is also in Redmond WA.
• Kap may live or still have properties in Redmond WA, Belmont MA, Ogden Utah, and possibly others - through shell companies technically owned by his family, such as Player 85 LLC, for which he is an authorised agent
• Kap may have been an LDS bishop in Redmond during a case where the LDS leadership was accused of covering up child molestation by a former Microsoft employee, Buckland Darrell, who was sentenced again a few weeks ago
• According to floodlit there were victims in both Hartman Park Ward, Redmond and Sammamish Valley Washington.
• The registered agent listed for Blue Rocket and Gemini in WA is Kap's wife, with a Redmond WA address matching the charity "Sammamish Trails Youth".

I don't think I'll continue on. There's clearly a lot going on here and it is not looking good. Edit: I lied. But this is the end for me:

• Ryan Petty is currently the Chief Product Officer at XSponse
• Xsponse "is a comprehensive AI security ecosystem committed to enhancing detection, alerting, and mass notification." It lists a Florida virtual office as it address but it's registered in Delaware via Corporation Service Company.
• Corporation Service Company, specialises in being a DE address for companies to claim DE tax residency, and as separate services will act as an ICANN registrar, manage and deploy TLDs and do monitoring and enforcement as "brand protection". Amongst many other things they do.

Not good.

I read the linked transcript. It's mostly hypothesis about the increasing number of leaks and rumors that Trump is unhappy with the effect of mass deportation on his popularity, which is Miller's big thing. I can believe that, but it's a long way from anything actively throwing him under the bus. It wouldn't be surprising if he did soon though.

Pick Up That Can

Charlie Day was asked his “favorite Luigi in recent American history."

I just googled "Luigi American" because I was drawing a blank for any other possible answers, and the even Google featured section is Luigi Mangione's bio. The Wikipedia page for Luigi lists four people, and the only other American on the list died 11 years ago.

The hosts then hurried things along

I just watched it (10 mins in for anyone else interested). They got exactly what they wanted and just didn't ask any follow-up questions. There was nothing that seemed hurried. I will agree that Anya Taylor-Joy looked uncomfortable with the situation though.

The bottom half is a cropped section of the top, which unfortunately detracts from the very real tragedy of the far too many people pictured.

I'm glad nobody was hurt, he waited until after midnight to set it. But maybe someone needs to call the fire marshals on the Kimberly Clark warehouses. I can hear a fire alarm at the end, and I'm no fire safety engineer, but it doesn't look like there are signs of sprinklers or other fire suppression systems?

I don't doubt they hold ghoulish views, but it has nothing to do with their appearance. They look like older women fetishizing a revolting idol while subscribed to white supremacist ideals about youth and beauty. Describing them as "things" is dehumanizing in a similar way as they would likely dehumanize us. The more ideologically revolting members of our species are still people.

Imagine saying that in a Slack channel filled with journalists and thinking it wouldn't be leaked.

The findings mirror documented patterns of human sociocognitive bias.

Garbage in. Garbage out.