Notices by Jamie McCarthy (jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social)

@skinnylatte Oh wow really? The version from the can I couldn’t drink, I poured it out. I’ll try it on tap if I see it

@briankrebs What I haven’t (yet) seen mention of, is that this sets back the US intelligence community a generation.

Goldberg says it twice: once that they were texting “related to actual and current intelligence operations,” and once that their texts if read by an adversary could “harm American … intelligence personnel,” in “shocking recklessness.”

Who would risk serving their country in HUMINT overseas, knowing these asswipes are burning agents in group chats with randos?

It’s a weird day when @skinnylatte is looking for pickup artists who are good at negging

@inthehands Ah, I see. Yes a comparison to the shameful case of the St. Louis is not inappropriate. About half of the passengers who could not find refuge before being returned to Germany were killed by the Nazi regime.

But in the OP, “deported from Drancy to Auschwitz” is not meant in the sense of ICE deportations. They may have meant “transported.” Drancy was a Nazi camp in occupied France.

@inthehands

Henriette Rosenthal was not "deported" by France.

The US refused arrival to many Jewish people fleeing Hitler (and also accepted many). It did not deport Jewish refugees. "Refugee" was not even a category recognized by US immigration until 1948. In any case the US was not rounding up Jews and shipping them to Germany.

So I'm still not sure what comparison you're drawing.

@inthehands What ICE is doing is terrible, without question. And innocent people are going to suffer, and as you say some will surely die at the hands of foreign gangs.

This is still different than Nazis invading France, rounding up French Jews, shopping them to a Nazi camp, forcing the healthy to work as slaves until they die, and killing the rest in death factories built for that purpose.

That’s something different.

@nazokiyoubinbou @inthehands @violetblue The key part is: the baseline is the 10th percentile of the past 12 months of data.

When comparing to the previous year, using the 10th percentile is a good approximation to the lowest amount that's reasonable to find. Especially for data that's as flaky as wastewater. It's hard to measure viral load in wastewater.

So, this year's baseline is last year's 10th percentile. Seems reasonable.

@inthehands @violetblue That’s not what the CDC says. That’s what someone who didn’t read assumed.

Go see for yourself on the CDC page: see “About the Data” and “Data Methods.” The baseline is the 10th percentile of previous timeframes. Which seems reasonable to me.

Not everything you read online is true.

@cwebber We don’t need high-fives, we need cow, pig, and chicken farms to be taxed at a rate sufficient to fund in escrow the harm they will collectively cause society (trillions)

@inthehands @pluralistic This has been the case for over half a century: National Review, the vanguard publication of capitalism and self-reliance, lost money year after year. It didn’t matter one smidge. The deep-pocketed robber barons and Commie-haters who propped it up financially knew what a good investment it was. And they were right

@inthehands That is a great contrast to draw, and great analysis.

Media coverage, when it’s not looking for shocking footage to rerun a hundred times, just wants to find a narrative. It has to be one sentence long. Whether it’s accurate doesn’t much matter.

The goal is to make viewers think “I understand this thing now” so they can view ads, and talk to their friends about what they saw, without being distracted by nuance or cognitive dissonance.

@ATLeagle @anildash Yes, that’s true. But resistance to fascism can and should manifest at any level

@anildash Jeff Bezos doesn’t have the CMS, AWS, and CDN passwords. Human beings have the CMS, AWS, and CDN passwords

@cstross @debcha Was it Niven’s Known Space series that called manufactured food CHON, after the four elements used to make it?

I spent over a year reporting hateful content and carefully documenting my reports. I have quite a few of these emails explaining no action will be taken against openly pro-Nazi accounts. The difference is that this username isn’t coy about its purpose, so it makes a good screenshot, but I promise you, pro-Nazi and pro-Holocaust content had been tolerated on Twitter well before its current owner took over.

From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/110902167626261938

Republicans have built a second justice system for their wealthy conservative backers, a shadow American court system.

If you try to assert the rights you thought you had as a US citizen, you will be forced into it, and you will find that they decide what rights you’re allowed

From: @tchambers
https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/113325838797385248

@GossiTheDog @DaysOfFuturePast Hezbollah has spent weeks firing hundreds of low-accuracy rockets into Israel, including barrages on Sunday and Monday.

I have a genuine question about yesterday's response: in the history of warfare, has there ever been a large-scale kinetic attack that has been *more* highly targeted?

@GossiTheDog @DaysOfFuturePast That video shows literally nobody wounded except the presumed terrorist. The guy standing inches from him was startled

@GossiTheDog …was that not obviously what happened?

@mcc Where can I learn more about imparting classical angular momentum?