Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

Turns out the Klein Bottle guy is famous for something else. 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTx9h3Sm29I

"LIVE in Toronto: Police attempt to block the path of anti-lockdown protestors, who simply walk around them" https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1350513187087638530

@verretor Looks like they weren't even trying. 😂

Figures that the most active thread I've seen on the fed so far has been about window managers: https://x0f.org/@orionwl/105566031658677587

"I think the
@signalapp
apps DDoS'ed the server. Servers ran over capacity due to influx of users and started to return HTTP 508 which was not handled by the app and millions of apps started retrying the connection at once. Judging from recent commits in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/master" https://twitter.com/NovakDaniel/status/1350471722034745348

Easy failure mode to overlook.

"Fact Sheet: Activity at the Wuhan Institute of Virology" https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/

_Very_ strongly worded, official US government document. Makes crystal clear that they believe:

1) Researchers got sick with COVID symptoms, in autumn 2019
2) Chinese bio labs have had leaks
3) China is stonewalling investigation
4) They were doing gain-of-function research on the closest known relative to covid
5) The Chinese military may be involved (!!!)

People got banned on social media for saying this...

"AOC’s Comms Director Asks Twitter To Ban Users From Citing AOC’s Support For Violent Riots" https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/07/aocs-comms-director-asks-twitter-to-ban-users-from-citing-aocs-support-for-violent-riots/

The hilarious part is the staffer retweeted the thread in question herself: https://twitter.com/LaurenHitt/status/1346948829950705667

"uncomfortable" is a much more clear incitement to violence than the ridiculous official rational Twitter gave for banning Trump...

http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/123880/Supreme-Defense-Council-declares-state-of-health-emergency-to-confront-dangerous-situation-resulting-from-Coronavirus-outbreak

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/lebanon-covid-lockdown-b1787450.html

Lebanon has imposed 24/7 curfew. You read that right: you are not allowed to leave your home at all, for almost any reason. Even supermarkets are delivery only.

Of course, there isn't enough delivery capacity to feed everyone, and a huge % of the population has no way to order online:

"The United Nations has said that now over 50 per cent of the population live under the poverty line, meaning they live off just a few dollars a day."

#foodriots