Italian Space Lasers

What I Learned Today – Wednesday, June 16th

A man who has been charged for his involvement with the January 6th insurrection has decided to enter politics and run for a state seat. He is interviewed about his candidacy where he finds out  mid-interview that he is running for the wrong seat:

Anjan @HeyAnjan

I have found the cure for Impostor Syndrome. All you need to do is watch this 87-second video.

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It’s a bit tricky trying to decide which GQP congressperson is the most despicable these days. Rep. Paul Gosar, who is even hated by his own family, makes a strong move to take the lead:

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Rep. Paul Gosar said rioter Ashli Babbitt was “executed” by a Capitol police officer, before voting against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who responded in the Jan. 6 attack

wapo.stPaul Gosar demands name of Capitol officer who killed rioter Ashli Babbitt, saying she was ‘executed’Rep. Paul Gosar said on Tuesday that Ashli Babbitt was ‘executed’ by a Capitol police officer who was ‘lying in wait,’ before voting against awarding Congressional Gold Medals to police officers who responded on Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

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Rep. Jim Jordan, an odious puddle of sludge that somebody squeegeed into a dress shirt and put on a congressional committee, is upset that the Dept of Justice didn’t listen to Trump’s theory that Italian space lasers altered the votes to give Biden the win.

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Headline of the day:
Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients have one thing in common: They’re unvaccinated

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I don’t use or have TikTok. I’ve been weening myself off of most social media platforms because they are so terrible at just about everything. For example:

TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’

A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information” from its users’ content. This includes things like “faceprints and voiceprints,” the policy explained. Reached for comment, TikTok could not confirm what product developments necessitated the addition of biometric data to its list of disclosures about the information it automatically collects from users, but said it would ask for consent in the case such data collection practices began.

The biometric data collection details were introduced in the newly added section, “Image and Audio Information,” found under the heading of “Information we collect automatically” in the policy.