anne witkowski

Buffalo - Ithaca - San Antonio - here___
Posting books from my collection, various points of view.

[anne witkowski @anwit07]

Just to clarify: I post books and observations that I think might help some people understand more about what they are interested in. I am not on a mission to convince anyone of my personal views. 📚 📖 📜 🕯 💡

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

Re the Calif vote:

There are statistical models run by computer system that track vote counts from specific precincts, then compare those vote counts to party registration in those precincts, and then the percentage of voters from those precincts who cast ballots.

If a particular precinct has a historical vote of 55%-45% in favor of Dems, typically 60% of all registered votes in that district show up to vote, and typically 65% of all registered Dems turn out to vote ...

If early vote totals are projected to be 60-40% in favor of Dems in that precinct, with a 65% turnout of all voters, and a 75% turnout of Dem voters, computer models will predict a blowout statewide if that precinct has a history of tracking statewide results very closely.

This is what election return analysts do -- they have "bell weather" precincts with a history of being close to the final vote total because of the demographics of the precinct. How those bell weather precincts go is what allows winners to be projected. It is simply a matter of math based on historical results and statistical sampling of the current election.

That's why Newsom's survival in 2021 was called very early -- the final was 62-38 and analysts were able to see very early in the reported results that votes against him in bell weather precincts weren't high enough.

The use of millions of mail-in ballots now complicates those models because you no longer have an accurate predictor of voter participation levels. A "Did Not Vote" on election day isn't necessarily a "Did Not Vote" until 7 days after.

But the statistical scientists have found a way to model around that.

Bacerra has been called likely because some of the best districts for him are still not completely counted -- so his vote total will grow. For example, if East LA is only 50% in, but Fresno is 85% in, Bacerra is going to get a lot more votes from what is still to be counted than will Hylton. Fresno is the most GOP friendly population center in the state. Because party registration in Calif is a public record, and voters tend to vote according to their party registration 90%+ of the time, if areas with heavy Dem registrations have lagging vote counts, the votes still to be counted will be heavily titled towards Dems.

It's not that complicated.

Party Reg. in Calif is low 40s for Dems, high 20s for GOP, and 30s for "No Party Preference". Because registration can be studied on a map, knowing the communities that are slow to update totals is the clearest indicator of how the vote is going to shift over days as the votes get counted.

I think the system sucks and elongated the collection of ballots only introduces a longer period for fraud to be introduced.

But it is not hard to understand how it is in a 55-35 state the Dem candidates vote totals improve as more votes are counted.

It's math.

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

There was a claim circulating on social media about an election night ballot update at the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters where one candidate received zero votes.

We reviewed official county records. The claim is false. Each candidate received votes in every update.

My office will continue monitoring the election counting process and will follow the evidence wherever it leads.

If anyone has credible information concerning election fraud, please send it to:

[email protected]

[Tony Uluadluak @AniUluadluak4]

Chicken of the North 😀

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

By artist Annie Glass

[Tony Uluadluak @AniUluadluak4]

I’m at my wife’s camp with my wife and we can see caribou from the porch 😀 no bull so I’ll let them go, we are here for the weekend

[Steve_Wilbur.TN @TnWilbur91976]

New Mexico
"...thanks to carbon dating analysis on collagen extracted from the mammoth bones, the site also comes with a settled age of 36,250 to 38,900 years old, making it among the oldest known sites left behind by ancient humans in North America."

[Michael Bradbury @MrMBB333]

THIS COMET JUST ERUPTED 10,000 TIMES BRIGHTER THAN NORMAL

No one knows why this comet suddenly erupted.

A comet that was barely visible suddenly shocked astronomers after erupting in brightness by an estimated 10,000 times in less than 72 hours.

The comet, known as 220P/McNaught, is now racing toward the Sun at more than 50,000 mph and will make its closest approach in less than 10 days.

The outburst was unexpected.

And with the comet rapidly approaching the Sun, the possibility remains that more changes could still be ahead.

☄️ A mysterious outburst.
☀️ A close encounter with the Sun.
🌎 Another reminder that our solar system is anything but quiet.

👇

Have you ever seen a comet through a telescope?

#MrMBB333 #Comet #Astronomy #SpaceWeather

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Two years ago, I published my first children’s book, based on my real-life story but reimagined as if I were a child carrying out the same mission of serving others. Today, that one book has grown into a collection of four children’s books. Throughout the school year, I travel to schools across the country, primarily visiting Pre-K and kindergarten classes. During these visits, I read my books, host fun Bubble Mowing Days with toy bubble mowers, and give each child a copy of one of my books along with their own bubble mower. As we look ahead to the next school year, I’d love to visit even more schools and share the message of kindness, service, and helping others. If you know of a school in your area that may be interested, please let me know! Link in bio to learn more about books

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Hummingbird made from repurposed eating utensils by Matt Wilson.

[anne witkowski @anwit07]

@IJ Good job for Laura.
Unfortunately for me growing plants that are not food isn't covered.

[Institute for Justice @IJ]

Laura's garden is safe!

After the Institute for Justice stepped in, the village of Millstadt, Illinois has agreed not to pursue enforcement action against resident and botanist Laura Schaefer over her garden. 🌱

After 5 years of transforming a vacant lot into a flourishing garden of native plants, flowers, and vegetables, Laura was shocked when the village hit her with a citation for ‘high grass and weeds.’

She was given 7 days to rip out her garden before the village sent employees to destroy the garden—at Laura's expense.

But after IJ informed village officials that the Illinois Garden Act protects residents' right to grow food at home, the village confirmed it would take no further action against Laura or her garden.
🧵

[anne witkowski @anwit07]

File under: Yer Not Gonna Believe This

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: The CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars allegedly invented an entire fake top-secret spy program to steal the money.

As if this story couldn't get and wilder:

-David Rush allegedly built a sham "special access program," the blackest box in U.S. intelligence, so secret even top-clearance officials couldn't look inside without authorization

-The fake program posed as "continuity of government" work, the doomsday planning that keeps Washington running after a nuclear war

-He allegedly read in two colleagues as unwitting accomplices and used a made-up government contract to funnel millions, persuading a defense contractor to buy huge amounts of gold

-The FBI raid on his home seized 303 gold bars worth roughly $40 million, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches

-Investigators say he lied about his college degrees, faked being a Navy pilot, and still sailed through the CIA's notoriously brutal vetting

-A judge ordered him held as a flight risk, and several CIA officials are now on leave as the probe widens

The scheme worked because of the system, not in spite of it.

The secrecy walls built to hide operations from China and Russia hid the fraud from the CIA itself.

A man with a fake résumé ran a fake doomsday program inside the most paranoid institution in America, and for years nobody noticed...

Source: Washington Post

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink connecting schools in Bolivia

[Small Town Monsters @SmlTownMonsters]

Have you ever had a UFO encounter or witnessed something in the sky you still can’t explain?

On the Trail of UFOs: The Disclosure Era is a new premium documentary event series from Small Town Monsters exploring the sightings, witnesses, and mysteries that continue to fuel the UFO phenomenon across America. Beginning June 21, new episodic installments premiere monthly on the Small Town Monsters and Unexplained TV YouTube channels in partnership with Beacon TV before the complete collection arrives on major streaming platforms this winter.

@streambeacontv @ShannonLegro

[Criminal Division @DOJCrimDiv]

Union Leaders Convicted of Racketeering, Fraud, and Embezzlement of Union Dues

“The Boilermakers Union members were supposed to get representation out of their hard-earned money used to pay union dues,” said @AAGDuva. “What they got instead is their money wasted on lavish trips and dinners, and unearned vacation payouts for the union leadership. Union dues must be handled with care and used for the benefit of the dues paying members. Union leadership that steals from the American worker will face prosecution, conviction, and prison time.”

The picture below is the hotel in Paris, France, where the defendants held an executive council meeting for the Kansas-based Boilermaker Union.

🔗: https://t.co/M6Prt25cY0

[anne witkowski @anwit07]

@AwakenedOutlaw Narrow things down with "she".
Then "was an" ... use of "an" indicates a word beginning with a vowel ...a word longer than the "therefore" following the redaction, or more likely short phrase/two words

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Baltimore, Maryland. returning home on a trolley at 5 p.m. April, 1943

[anne witkowski @anwit07]

@ChiefEngineerCE To get a fuller picture of Boomers, you have to look at our parents and grandparents. They had lives nothing like it is now. Both my grandmothers lost infants. My grandfather had three siblings die in childhood.

[New Mexico Magazine @NMMagazine]

Traditional New Mexican string band Lone Piñon debuts its new album tonight during Winrock Park’s free summer concert series in Albuquerque. The concert starts at 6:30 p.m., with openers Henry Cortez y Los Heartaches warming the crowd up. https://t.co/qvRFdVZqoV

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

10 August 1937: The Hidden Sparks That Ignited the Digital Age and Rocked the World

On that Tuesday in 1937, while the world teetered on the brink of global chaos, Stalin’s purges devouring souls, Japan’s shadow lengthening over China, and the drums of war echoing across continents, quiet revolutions were born in garages, labs, and workshops that would forever shatter the old world and forge the new.

Claude Shannon the 21-year-old visionary at MIT, submitted his master’s thesis: “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits.” This wasn’t just a paper. It was a thunderbolt.

Shannon fused Boolean algebra with electrical relays, laying the unbreakable mathematical foundation for digital circuits, computers, and the entire information age.

Howard Gardner later called it possibly the most important and famous master’s thesis of the century. In one stroke, a young mind proved that logic itself could be electrified, turning switches into the language of machines. The computer revolution? It began here, in the shadows of 1937.

The electric guitar roared into existence. U.S. Patent No. 2,089,171 was awarded to George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker for the “Frying Pan”, the first commercially viable electric guitar.

Music would never be the same. Jazz, blues, rock ’n’ roll, all of it amplified, electrified, and unleashed.

A simple invention that gave voice to rebellion, emotion, and raw human power through the wires. The soundtrack of modernity plugged in on this day.

Canon was born in Tokyo. Precision Optical Industry Co., Ltd. (later Canon) was officially founded. From humble beginnings chasing Leica’s dominance, these Japanese innovators would democratize photography, capture history, and arm creators worldwide with tools to freeze moments in time.

A garage-lab spirit that echoes the very ethos of bold experimentation.
Meanwhile, darker currents surged: the Spanish Civil War claimed more lives at sea, Soviet arrests accelerated the Great Purge, and global tensions simmered.

But history’s true undercurrents, the ones that endure, are often the silent breakthroughs of thinkers, tinkerers, and dreamers.

This day reminds us: in the furnace of uncertainty, the real heroes are those who build the future with code, circuits, strings, and lenses. The Abundance Interregnum was already whispering its arrival through these sparks.

The machines were learning to think. The music was learning to scream. The images were learning to endure.

The lesson? Never underestimate the quiet forge on August 10th, or any day. The future is hammered out by those who dare to connect the unseen. Boldly onward.