Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

https://youtu.be/DLQeqMaHVYs

"From the Earth to the Moon - capsule problem"

After man's death, Quebec premier says no to curfew exception, claiming others would pose as homeless | CTV News
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/mobile/after-man-s-death-quebec-premier-says-no-to-curfew-exception-claiming-others-would-pose-as-homeless-1.5272986

A homeless mass froze to death trying to sleep in a portapotty, possibly while trying to hide from police enforcing curfew.

Curfew is already ridiculous and unscientific; applying it to the homeless is just cruel.

Montreal police ticket HOMELESS person for breaking curfew | The Post Millennial
https://thepostmillennial.com/montreal-police-ticket-homeless-person-for-breaking-curfew

A $1550 ticket for a man who was by himself, on his way to a shelter after looking in garbage bins to find food (he was probably waiting for restaurants to close and put out their trash).

With OTS timestamps this product would let you prove that a container had been sealed for a certain amount of time.

https://www.entropyseal.com/

Neat tamper-evidence packaging concept: a random pattern of beads that's modified when you open the package, along with a smartphone app to automatically verify the pattern is correct.

Reusable glitter basically: to fake a seal, you need to make the significant effort of positioning each bead in the right place. Possible. But very time consuming.

I'd buy one!

"provide a photo that proves it really is your [Bitcoin] address"

I'm really curious what type of photo Bitstamp thinks constitutes proof that a given Bitcoin address belongs to you...

https://twitter.com/plan_marcus/status/1350951664258322439

So Biden is going to have 200,000 flags instead of people at the inauguration.

Interesting question: how far in advance do you have to order 200,000 flags? Because I'm guessing they've been planning on no-one attending in person for months.

Official FDA reports:

https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

...the original garbage article: https://web.archive.org/web/20210119021422/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html

Typical journalism: "OMG OUT OF 32,000 PEOPLE VAXED, JUST ONE GOT SEVERE COVID!"

...leaving you to imagine hundreds of unvaxed getting terribly sick and dying.

Reality: only 10 people got severe covid in the Pfizer trial, _in total_. 9 with placebos, 1 with the vaccine. For Moderna, the numbers are 11 severe cases with placebos, 0 or 1 with vax (possible false positive).

...and severe didn't even mean hospitalization! Out of 21 "severe" cases, just 8 were hospitalized. No deaths.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01042-z

"Increase in suicide following an initial decline during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan"

For children and adolescents specifically, suicides increased by 12% in the first five months, then 49% in the next five months.

The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in healthy children/adolescents is ~0.4/million infected. Over the ten months studied, the suicide rate in children increased by ~9.0/million.

23x more suicides than covid deaths, even assuming 100% infected. Nuts.

There's also self-described anti-fascist John Sullivan, who was arrested for leading the charge during the insurrection at the Capitol.

Good thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1349865669383356419

It's almost like the real world is more complex than the neat little boxes journalists and politicians want to put you in.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/18/tx-man-busted-in-threat-to-return-to-capitol-with-weaponsd/

“Prepare our weapons, and then go get’em. Lets hunt these cowards down like the Traitors that each of them are”

The face of the <checks notes> right-wing white supremacy movement.