Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Newly released records show top DeSantis adviser used private email and alias to coordinate migrant flights - POLITICO https://apple.news/Azgu2EOFeR1mSnEuODT2iOw

Dionne Warwick Has Some Big Questions for Elon Musk Over Twitter Changes: 'Where's Your Head?' - Billboard https://apple.news/A5BP8pccOQ_2HagIHGyzyJQ

To be clear, Ukraine's alleged "hard line position" is "please leave our territory, which you're illegally occupying, and stop killing our people."

The January 6th Committee shut down after delivering an 845-page report about how Donald Trump was blindingly guilty of sedition, conspiracy and obstruction of justice, which they backed up by referring him to the DOJ for prosecution.

Regardless, this Dunning-Kruger poster child thinks they withdrew their subpoena because they CHANGED THEIR MINDS. 😂
h/t @Clay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

@notjustbikes Tesla Stops Putting Radar Sensors in New Model S and Model X EVs:

These Teslas are now 100% dependent on camera footage and AI trying to figure out what's happening. Read: Tesla removed radar sensors to save on manufacturing costs. Safe driving:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39250157/tesla-no-radar-sensor-model-s-model-x/

The Hunter Biden Laptop Obama Birth Certificate Clinton Email George Soros crowd is being very quiet about George Santos.

Twitter allowed antivax grifters and charlatans to build and monetize massive followings while pumping out conspiracy theories that measurably aided the spread of covid and caused untold deaths. Now Musk and his PR team want you to think even the cursory measures the site took to curb disinformation were odious censorship on par with a dictatorship.

On her birthday, we remember Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, one of the greats the world lost in 2022. 🖖

Learn more about Nichols' contributions to helping build a more diverse workforce at NASA: https://go.nasa.gov/3jsFcnr
#NASAhistory

Landed in Hawthorne, California, US. Apx. flt. time 11 Mins.

Among the many modes of attack on social media, among my most-loathed is responding to someone doing something good with the criticism that they should've done more.

This is trolling, whether the person would admit it or not, because (a) it's unnecessary, (b) it's unappreciated, and (c) it's unreasonable, as there's literally no defense against it. It's classic "moving the goalposts."

"Oh, so you gave the struggling, single-mother waitress a tip of $1000? Why not $2000, you selfish asshole?"

Ukraine’s representative to the Miss Universe pageant was a little different this year.

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L

Happy 451st Birthday to Johannes Kepler! Elliptical orbits FTW! 🪐💫
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler #kepler #science #histsci

Yep, Santos.

Russian Oligarch’s Cousin Funneled Cash to N.Y. Politician https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg?source=twitter&via=desktop via @thedailybeast@twitter.com

Looks like George Santos created a fake pet charity and then kept the money people donated to help save animals.

Yeah, this is the Republican criminal mind that the GOP base loves and votes for.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/12/27/george-santos-resume-embellishments-false-statements-act-cnntm-vpx.cnn

Airlines are understaffed because of COVID.

Airline infrastructure is buckling due to climate change.

Travel chaos is a symptom of ignoring global crises.

#COVID #ClimateChange

~ Guidelines Must Change, Because The Social Security Administration Will Have Millions of Men, Women and Children Applying For Permanent Disability Who Now Have "Long Covid" ~ #politics https://www.rsn.org/001/social-security-denies-disability-benefits-based-on-list-with-jobs-from-1977.html