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“Diet can be used like acupuncture needles to elicit exact health goals and treatments…”

…or maybe just go for the macro view and eat, to quote our friends at Thug Kitchen, like you give a fuck. 

“Vegan Shui” in the War on Cancer

The Tao of Prevention and Cure.

You watched the entirety of Season 8 in a single sitting the other daaaayyyy…

May have to go to the live show in Milwaukees with the other degens. March 29. Pitter patter.

Letterkenny

There are 5000 people in Letterkenny. These are their problems.

How awesome is this going to be? Incredibly awesome.

…she took action.”

When the call came, I was happy and honored to contribute to the building of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III. There’s a section of rail in the bow, and a bench in the conference room behind the bridge, named in my father’s and grandfather’s honor. One of them was born at sea, the other was a son of the sea, also a protector in his own way.

That was almost 10 years ago and the world hasn’t moved at all. In fact, we’ve made things worse. The oceans have become greatly acidified and are almost dead. The results we need will only come with massive change, and massive change only comes with radical action. 

The earth needs a new warrior. She needs you. Please join in the fight. Donations through the end of the year will be matched.

Donate to Greenpeace

We’re fighting for our environment, and we can’t do it without you.

Re-upping this one because it is more true every day. To understand Trumper beliefs, motivations, and behaviors, the closest model is the ethic of total retaliation, built out of resentment and famously deployed by the Hell’s Angels, people who felt left behind in the era immediately following WWII.

This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.

In Hell’s Angels, the gonzo journalist wrote about left-behind people motivated only by “an ethic of total retaliation.” Sound familiar?

Abuse of power. Obstruction of Congress.

Impeachment is the only option.

Trump and Impeachment

The facts are clear: Trump asked a foreign power to interfere in the 2020 election for his own political gain.

Seven years ago today, and although there’s been some progress, it hasn’t been near enough. Remember. Honor. Act. Please donate to Sandy Hook Promise.

Tabletop Whale is a science illustration blog with some incredible infographics and animations, like this one.  Go here and you’ll lose an hour.

An Orbit Map of the Solar System

This week’s map shows the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the solar system. This includes everything we know of that’s over 10km in diameter - about 10000 asteroids - as well as 8000 randomized objects of unknown size. This map shows each asteroid at its exact position on New Years’ Eve 1999.

Excellent series on climate change, from The Washington Post. 

• Extreme climate change has arrived in America
• Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world
• Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground
• Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun air-conditioning the outdoors
• These Canadian islands, once protected by ice, are collapsing into the sea
• How climate change is triggering a chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific
• A crisis in the water is threatening this once-booming fishing town
• Lives adrift in a rapidly warming world: A photographic portrait

2°C: Beyond the Limit

Extreme climate change has arrived in America

The call is coming from inside the house.

[from ABC News]

Ring security camera hacks see homeowners subjected to racial abuse, ransom demands

A spate of incidents has seen homeowners in four states fall victim to hackers.

Anyone who has been paying attention the last 20+ years already knew this.

[from WIRED]

Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security

The network’s furthering of lies from foreign adversaries and flagrant disregard for the truth have gotten downright dangerous.

Like so many other source documents–the Justice Department’s Mueller Report, the SSCI report on Russian Actives Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 US Election–these Articles of Impeachment will go unread by most Americans, who can’t find the time to read even the executive summaries.

Those people have no opinions. All they have is what someone else told them to think. All they have is something they heard on TV that sounds like they’d want to repeat it. But what they don’t have is their own informed opinions.

Annotated version here, or for deeper reading, try the House Judiciary Committee’s report on Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment.

[from The New York Times]

Read the Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump

House Democrats released two articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. See them with context and analysis by The Times’s chief White House correspondent.

Speaks truth to power.

Or, Afghanistan since the beginning of time. Honestly, can we say that anyone was fooling anybody about this? It was apparent almost right from the moment we took Kabul.

“We don’t invade poor countriesto make them rich. We don’t invade authoritarian countries to make them democratic. We invade violent countries to make them peaceful and we clearly failed in Afghanistan.”

[from The Washington Post]

Confidential documents reveal U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan

For nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan, U.S. leaders have sounded a constant refrain: We are making progress. They were not, documents show, and they knew it.

Solid home network security advice from the FBI and others. Your anti-virus and anti-malware software is essentially useless.

[from ZDnet]

FBI recommends that you keep your IoT devices on a separate network | ZDNet

The FBI also recommends changing factory-set (default) passwords and not allowing an IoT device’s accompanying mobile app to gain access to too many smartphone permissions.

As usual, we do this upside down.

[from Medium]

Interesting data: what’s important to Republicans and Democrats.

Republicans have only ONE issue that 90 percent of them agree on, and that crosses a 25% threshold of revealed importance. Know what it is? Universal gun background checks.

Democrats, on the other hand, have 5 such issues: universal gun background checks, of course, plus not separating immigrant children, dreamer path to citizenship, big environmental program,  and a low-income health care subsidy.

No socialism, and common ground on guns.

[from the New York Times]

What Is Voters’ Highest Priority? There’s a Way to Find Out

Peeling away preferences, a study shows impeachment is at the top of the list for Republicans, and is the second choice for Democrats.

“Is abomination impeachable? No. But the abuses of office of which the President now stands accused are the very definition of impeachable.”

[from The New Yorker]

The Impeachment Hearings and the Coming Storm

The madness of the moment lies in looking at how this came to pass, at how many people had to give up on the idea of democracy for things to come to this.

Daniel Craig is the best James Bond, by a wide margin.

Absolutely fascinating and well-written article about the unintended and serious consequences of our actions, and our unwillingness to address them even with simple solutions.

“Collisions may be road ecology’s most obvious concern, but fragmentation is roadkill’s pernicious twin.”

[from The Atlantic]

How Roadkill Became an Environmental Disaster

To save Brazil’s giant anteaters, scientists are grappling with one of the planet’s most transformative forces: roads.

It’s not just Facebook, it’s not just memes, it’s not just trolling.

“The Russians know that, in political warfare, disgust is a more powerful tool than anger. Anger drives people to the polls; disgust drives countries apart.”

That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It

Here’s what Russia’s 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda.

On the heels of deleting my Facebook account this weekend, it’s worth bringing this back to the top again.

“What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.”

“The process of demoralization is complete and irreversible…then it only takes 2-5 years to destabilize a nation…the next stage is crisis, and it may only take 6 weeks…and after crisis, with a violent change of power, structure and economy, you have the period of normalization. That lasts indefinitely.”

Another dangerous new phase for the news industry. No indication publishers will be any smarter this time around. “Regardless of labels, what remains constant is the distribution of power. There are those who make the rules and those who adapt to them.”

[from the Columbia Journalism Review]

Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This research is generously funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open S…

And they’re probably much better at it than most adults.
[from Nieman Lab]

“Troubling”: High school students (like most people) are not good at evaluating misinformation

Sad non-surprise: Young people are not great — actually are kind of terrible — at evaluating digital sources on the internet, new research from Stanford found. But remember, this isn’t just young people, as some of the same Stanford researchers discovered that highly educated people are pretty …

You have no rights here. Neither does anyone who passes within view, including children.

[from The Washington Post]

Police can keep Ring camera video forever and share with whomever they’d like, Amazon tells senator

“The lack of privacy and civil rights protections for innocent residents is nothing short of chilling,” Sen. Edward J. Markey said.

Slow down and eat right.

[from Thrillist]

Burger King Hit With Lawsuit for Cooking Impossible Whoppers With Meat

Burger King is getting a little loosey goosey with the rules.

Had only been to one, and only had one other on the list. The rest don’t matter to me.

[from Fodor’s Travel]

Fodor’s No List 2020: 13 Places to Reconsider in the Year Ahead

As responsible and ethical travelers, we have to face many decisions about where to spend our hard-earned vacation dollars. Considering the following goes into many travelers’ decisions on where to go: safety, politics, treatment of animals, treatment of civil liberties, and local feedback. Each yea…

There was an even stronger article in Financial Times a couple of days ago, but it’s behind a paywall. This one is fine as far as it goes.

[from Tim Karr on Medium]

Why Facebook Filtering Will Ultimately Fail

In its content-moderation report released this week, Facebook revealed that it had removed a whopping 3.2-billion fake accounts from March through September 2019. That’s a lot of disinformation…

The Electoral College should have ended with the Civil War. That it didn’t haunts us today.

“What’s clear is that, more than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern whites, the Electoral College continues to do just that. The current system has a distinct, adverse impact on black voters, diluting their political power. Because the concentration of black people is highest in the South, their preferred presidential candidate is virtually assured to lose their home states’ electoral votes.”

[from The Atlantic]

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.

They put the public at great risk because they’re too afraid to do their jobs and they refuse to enforce the laws designed to protect the public.

[from CBS 60 Minutes Overtime]

Several Colorado sheriffs say they won’t enforce red flag gun law

Several sheriffs in the state of Colorado are digging in their heels against a gun law that will go into effect January 1, allowing for the temporary confiscation of firearms if a gun owner shows dangerous or threatening behavior. 60 Minutes reports on red flag laws being adopted across the country,…

Your holiday guests will never know.

Miniature Corn Dogs | Field Roast

Our award-winning Miniature Corn Dogs harken back to county fairs, amusement parks and summertime fun. We begin with our Field Roast Frankfurters, dunk them in a traditional sweet cornbread batter and…

“America is addicted to hurting black people. America is addicted to watching itself hurt black people. The internet didn’t invent this kind of spectacle, nor is it the source of the disease, but rather collaborates with the country’s disregard for the black lives without which it wouldn’t exist. Black people taught the internet how to go viral. But when virality became enterprise, black people were seldom to be found.”

[from The Paris Review]

Trending Trauma

Black people taught the internet how to go viral. But when virality became enterprise, black people were seldom to be found.

Long, worthwhile read if you have some time.

“We all hate our parents for not acting as we would, and my hatred in this moment is particularly intense. When she plays the victim, I end up playing the parent, and I am boxed into the role of keeping up appearances. I can’t figure out how to break out of it—to authorize myself to not function—to be sad in a way that is disruptive. To do that would be to take the starring role in my mother’s sickness. I want someone to recognize that what I need is a dog bed to loll in, day in and day out. At another time, the person who would have bought me the dog bed was my mother—the witness to the child’s suffering. Now, she is the star, and I the coddler. When our food comes, she gets exactly her order and they fuck mine up.”

[from N+1 Magazine]

Holding Patterns

My grandmother calls me every Saturday around the same time, between ten o’clock and eleven o’clock in the morning. Actually, she should be calling me soon, but this time I’m not going to answer—my phone is in the other room. My grandmother lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, so far north she’…

If it’s gonna be Chiberia this early, I’m at least gonna keep my feet warm.

Oboz Men's Bridger 10" Insulated Waterproof

Keep old man winter at bay with 400 grams of foot-toasting Thinsulate™, DWR treated nubuck leather, waterproof B-DRY Lining, and supportive TPU Chassis. While the winterized Granite Peak Outsole prevents a slide back down that slippery slope.