Daily Archive: August 8, 2012

David Ryan

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MON TIKI is Officially a Part of the US Merchant Marine Fleet!

We are still waiting on our engines from Honda, and still finishing up the deck installation, and still sitting in the Montauk Marine Basin shipyard instead of being afloat, but the above piece of...

Ryan Noonan

/// August 8, 2012

The Prize Tax

Eliminating taxes on the prizes that accompany Olympic medals is a terrible idea. In fact, as far as I can tell, there is quite literally no economic logic undergirding the argument. This is one...

Ethan Gach

/// August 8, 2012

What (New) Documentaries Should People Watch?

I haven’t watched one in a while, and though I lean towards the political type, or those documentaries which depict the worst kinds of social injustice, I’m willing to take a spin outside my wheel...

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Pardon Me, Sir

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The full list of pardons and commutations President Trump has issued on his last day in office, with a little help from Grey Poupon

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Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI

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While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.

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From Rolling Stone: What Happened to Promises to Disband the Minneapolis Police?

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How vows to reform public safety in the wake of George Floyd’s killing devolved into modest cuts to the city’s 2021 police budget

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From CNN Business: Sheldon Adelson, Republican kingmaker and casino magnate, has died at 87

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From CNN Business:

New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.

Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.

(Featured image is "Some birds hanging out at the Sands Casino in Atlantic City" by iirraa is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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From Gizmodo: Every Deleted Parler Post, Many With Users’ Location Data, Has Been Archived

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From Gizmodo:

In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.

The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.

(Featured image is "A radio tracking device on a Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug) at the Cotswold Falconry Centre" by Anguskirk and is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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Amazon Turns Out the Lights, The Parler’s Over

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First Apple kicked the app off the iOS app store, and now Amazon is ending their web services agreement citing breech of terms of service.

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From Twitter Safety: Donald Trump’s Twitter Account has been Permanently Suspended

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From Twitter Safety:

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021