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[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

We spend a lot of time cataloguing surveillance welded onto things you can't opt out of.

RSS is the rare counter-example: the private option that's also free, older, and just nicer.

Pick a reader. Subtract the rest. That's, well... Really Simple Syndication.

9/9

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Thanks, Prof. Unfortunately for you, the "Hockey Stick" graph of Michael Mann and the various "Hockalikes" were falsified years ago.

The original Hockey Stick was falsified by the endless work of Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. You can read all about it at Steve's blog. Here's the link.

https://t.co/pIIFbWDHm4

The graph you posted appears to be one of the Hockalikes, PAGES 2000. It suffered from the same problems the Mann study had, plus a hilarious upside-down use of one of the proxy datasets. Information about that one is here.

https://t.co/vIQj5b3KBi

Mann tried reanimate his dead horse in 2008 with a paper called "“Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia”. I deconstructed that paper in my post below. I used cluster analysis, it's an interesting bit of research.

https://t.co/ZHJbaPkpWk

One of the many flaws in Mann's paper is that the method used actively mines for hockeystick results, and it will generate them out of red noise. See my paper showing how the PAGES2000 graph you present above uses that method. It will happily churn out hockeysticks out of any red noise you give it.

https://t.co/DPgoWR9BfJ

Frankly, I'm shocked that you are not aware of this quarter-century of the repeated falsification of the hockey stick/PAGES2k methods and data …

Best regards,

w.

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Colombia threw out failed socialist party of terrorist Gustavo Petro and elected a real President.

[President Elect Abelardo De La Espriella]

“I am going to issue the order on August 8 to begin fumigating the more than 330,000 hectares of coca crops, which are the original source of all forms of violence.

I am also going to give the order to bomb all narco-terrorist camps, using the available technology to minimize the impact on the civilian population. But the bombings are coming back.

I will also instruct the commanders of the Air Force, the Army, and the Police to shoot down any aircraft loaded with drugs that leaves Colombia. I take responsibility for that.

In addition, I will order the sinking of all boats that leave through the Caribbean, the Pacific, or the Gulf of Urabá.

Peaceful protest is protected by the Constitution. Anyone who wants to protest peacefully may do so. But whoever blocks roads, attacks infrastructure, tries to attack the public security forces, or harms the life, honor, or property of the Colombian people will find out how hard the tiger bites.

This is not about whether someone is Indigenous, Black, White, or anything else. Anyone who goes out to cause chaos and attack members of the public security forces will face my iron fist.”

[spackardwork @spackardwork]

Turner: What does Operations care about a bunch of damn books? A book in Dutch. A book out of Venezuela. Mystery stories in Arabic.
Atwood: Wait!
Turner: What the hell is so important about… [realizes] Oil fields. Oil. That’s it, isn’t it? This whole damn thing was about oil! Wasn’t it? Wasn’t it?
Atwood: Yes, it was. The book was fictional, but it hit too close to the truth and the story had to be eliminated… and those who had read it.

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

BREAKING: Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi appears to have launched a coup d'état against elements within the Iraqi government in an effort to purge and arrest government officials with ties to the Islamic regime of Iran. Iraqi news media are claiming that the U.S. government is behind this coup d'état.

Tens of Iraqi government officials, politicians, and influential figures believed to have supported Iran have reportedly been arrested by Iraqi Special Forces and the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), allegedly with the support of the United States. The operation is widely claimed to have been backed by the U.S. government.

Reports indicate that tanks from Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service have entered Baghdad's Green Zone and sealed off all access points. Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service units have also reportedly clashed with the 4th Regiment assigned to the Government Palace inside the Green Zone.

Heavy arrests have been reported inside Baghdad's Green Zone, including:

- Bahaa Al-Nouri
- Ziad Al-Janabi
- Muthanna Al-Samarrai
- Alaa Sukkar
- Mohammed Al-Karbouli
- Hassan Al-Khafaji
- Abdul Karim Al-Sudani
- Abbas Al-Sudani
- Mohammed Al-Sayhoud

There is no official confirmation yet of these reports. However, they suggest that a broad purge under Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi may be intensifying.

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@alexdatig 3/2 🧐

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@alexdatig 2/

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@ianzelbo Windows programmers: I don’t have a coding problem I just need more RAM. Look at shelf. Realize I’ve had a coding problem for a very long time. Time to check in to rehab.

[spackardwork @spackardwork]

Tip into the hole one side. With the proper narrow-blade flat screwdriver, wedge the tip against the wing of the other side. Push and pry, maybe even a quick little hit. *snap*, you’re in without chewing up your fingertips. (Any tool you may need you have to put into next year’s budget, so that’s 18 months before it arrives. If it’s a good tool it grows legs.)

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@SkrzSecurity I used to carry a narrow-blade flat screwdriver for such an occasion. Insert tip, rap the back of the handle with just the right amount of flesh, and I’d trade a sore palm for painful fingers and broken fingernails. I got pretty good at it.

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@johnkonrad “I do.”

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@ABC7 Someone has clued him in about the need for the organic vapor filter cartridges mask. You must have those. N95 or KN95 won’t do anything to filter the nasty odors.

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@TexanQueenB @johnkonrad Worth it!

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@johnkonrad Remember how Ralphie stared/fantasized about a Red Ryder? He didn’t oogle BB’s.

[Institute for Sound Public Policy @ifspp]

4/8 Unauthorized immigration explains:
▸ 30% of home price growth
▸ 20% of rent growth
▸ 30% of total employment growth

...at the average American metro. 2021–2024.

This is not a footnote. This is a structural reshaping of the American economy.

[Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ @mercoglianos]

Evergreen boxship hit in Strait of Hormuz

Incident occurred off the Omani peninsula on the southern route through the strait 

Probably Ever Lovely

https://t.co/DmVJ4jyzgd

[Watts Up With That @wattsupwiththat]

𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲
A London conference on adapting to extreme heat was cancelled when the heatwave made the venue too hot to use.

The building had no cooling system.

Britain's renewable grid is so overloaded they're paying £10 million to run gas plants tonight just to keep the lights on.

Read the full article:
https://t.co/KJbYDE8Qh8

[spackardwork @spackardwork]

@is_OwenLewis We (LA area) some years back had a very high dy+nt temp, wind stopped blowing so lost all wind pwr. The Tesla powerwalls will immediately charge to 100% when they receive a severe weather alert, for the cherry on top.

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@Fohni_Only At least the building down the street from you doesn’t have 85 million pounds of meat slurry going ripe.

https://t.co/lbYG69Rvt7

[California Post @californiapost]

Rodents were seen outside the Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse in the aftermath of a fire that engulfed the facility. There is concern that the site will become a biohazard now that the 85 million pounds of food within the facility is starting to rot. https://t.co/7aF2LPdHGR