Afternoon Tea 10.26.2020 - Random Bullshit

The VP's office developed more COVID-19 than the country of Thailand over the weekend...

October 26, 2020

COVID sweeps across NY State prisons and the Vice President’s office, lead paint was found in 3x the reported number of NYCHA apartments with kids younger than 6, Oscar Isaac reported to be cast as Moon Knight, and the Crooked Postmaster General’s company got a contract. It’s Monday, October 26th 2020, and this is the Tea.

At least 5 of Vice President Pence's aides test positive for coronavirus (CNN) No confirmation on VPence’s status, but I assume he’s under the watchful care of Mother. When 5 aides to the chair of the taskforce spun up to stop a deadly pandemic, get the disease, I think we can conclude quite a bit about the effectiveness & dedication of said taskforce. Also, Mike Pence is a villain from X-Men.

 COVID-19 Sweeping Across Two New York State Prisons (Spectrum Local) 100 inmates & 26 employees. And we’re on the doorstep of flu season.

NYPD officer suspended for saying 'Trump 2020' over patrol vehicle speaker (NBC News) In case you were wondering whether it’s legal/appropriate for a law enforcement officer to blast “Trump 2020. Put it on YouTube, put it on Facebook. Trump 2020.” in a minority-filled neighborhood late at night…It’s not.

Postal Service awards $5 million contract to Postmaster DeJoy's former company, XPO (CBS News) Crooked Postmaster General’s old company gets contract to handle US Mail. And a grand total of zero people are shocked.

NYCHA’S Lead Paint Crisis Explodes as Known Number of Apartments Where Kids Risk Exposure Triples (TheCity) Given the stunningly concrete connection between lead consumption by children and aggression & violence, this should result in the immediate dismissal of everyone even tangentially related.

Area 51 Has A Huge New Hangar Facility That Points To A Drone Swarm Future (TheDrive) Someone tell the meme groups, there’s a new reason to raid Area 51.

Questions and Answers About the Bidens and a Deal in China (New York Times) Do the Bidens have business interests in China? Bank accounts? Dozens of Copyrights and marks like Ivanka does? Short answer, No. Long answer, Noooooooooooo.

As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place (New York Times) As numerous outlets have reported, local news outlets are dying. An insidious side-effect of this is that their replacements are wholesale partisan/GOP-funded domains.

Resetting online commerce (Benedict Evans) Ben Evans is one of the smartest, albeit coldly pro-tech/capital, investors, thinkers, and writers on the planet.

Report: Oscar Isaac Cast As Marvel’s Moon Knight (SuperheroHype) I don’t usually mention dork news, but Oscar Isaac as the ketamine-infused, God of the Moon worshipping lunatic is going to be…spectacular. I can’t wait for the buddy comedy with him & Ryan Reynolds.

What You'll Need to Know In 2020 That You Don't Know Now (Discover Magazine, written Sept. 30, 2000) Man, we were obsessed with retinal/iris scans. I do like how so much biometric and l33t hax were made obsolete by us just giving all of our data to mega corporations for free and with no conditions. But boy oh boy did this hit home:

You're going to have to somehow live while you watch a billion people starve, which is going to be a new human experience. How will we do that? Good question. And just one of many difficult questions waiting. How can I choose between two genetic scripts for a child I have yet to know? How much of myself should I reveal on the Web...In our zeal to be happy little technologists, we'll turn, much as we do today, to the Web for answers. And we'll perfect the art of being disappointed.

Song of the Tea: Blue Monday, the seminal work by New Order but by Above & Beyond. Play this on something with a subwoofer.

Stay dryStay flyStay Batman

Yours,T