#v. contreras

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 26, 2024

Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons. Amo, R., Uchida, N., & Watabe-Uchida, M. (2024). Neuron, 112(6), 1001-1019.e6.

Efficient coding of natural images in the mouse visual cortex. Bolaños, F., Orlandi, J. G., Aoki, R., Jagadeesh, A. V., Gardner, J. L., & Benucci, A. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 2466.

Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates? Carter, F., Cossette, M., Trujillo‐Pisanty, I., Pallikaras, V., Breton, Y., Conover, K., … Shizgal, P. (2024). European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(6), 1260–1277.

Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test. Chinn, L. K., Noonan, C. F., Patton, K. S., & Lockman, J. J. (2024). Current Biology, 34(6), 1370-1375.e2.

Comparison of head direction cell firing characteristics across thalamo‐parahippocampal circuitry. Clark, B. J., LaChance, P. A., Winter, S. S., Mehlman, M. L., Butler, W., LaCour, A., & Taube, J. S. (2024). Hippocampus, 34(4), 168–196.

Context memory formed in medial prefrontal cortex during infancy enhances learning in adulthood. Contreras, M. P., Mendez, M., Shan, X., Fechner, J., Sawangjit, A., Born, J., & Inostroza, M. (2024). Nature Communications, 15(1), 2475.

Retinal origin of orientation but not direction selective maps in the superior colliculus. de Malmazet, D., Kühn, N. K., Li, C., & Farrow, K. (2024). Current Biology, 34(6), 1222-1233.e7.

Memory-specific encoding activities of the ventral tegmental area dopamine and GABA neurons. Glykos, V., & Fujisawa, S. (2024). eLife, 12, e89743.3.

Cholinergic-Sensitive Theta Oscillations in Memory Encoding in Mice. Gu, Z., Stevanovic, K. D., Cushman, J. D., & Yakel, J. L. (2024). Journal of Neuroscience, 44(12), e1313232024.

Neural correlates of confidence during decision formation in a perceptual judgment task. Ko, Y. H., Zhou, A., Niessen, E., Stahl, J., Weiss, P. H., Hester, R., … Feuerriegel, D. (2024). Cortex, 173, 248–262.

Emergence of co-tuning in inhibitory neurons as a network phenomenon mediated by randomness, correlations, and homeostatic plasticity. Lagzi, F., & Fairhall, A. L. (2024). Science Advances, 10(12).

Differences in the expression of cortex-wide neural dynamics are related to behavioral phenotype. MacDowell, C. J., Briones, B. A., Lenzi, M. J., Gustison, M. L., & Buschman, T. J. (2024). Current Biology, 34(6), 1333-1340.e6.

Tracking subjects’ strategies in behavioural choice experiments at trial resolution. Maggi, S., Hock, R. M., O’Neill, M., Buckley, M., Moran, P. M., Bast, T., … Humphries, M. D. (2024). eLife, 13, e86491.

A septal-ventral tegmental area circuit drives exploratory behavior. Mocellin, P., Barnstedt, O., Luxem, K., Kaneko, H., Vieweg, S., Henschke, J. U., … Remy, S. (2024). Neuron, 112(6), 1020-1032.e7.

Learning high-level visual representations from a child’s perspective without strong inductive biases. Orhan, A. E., & Lake, B. M. (2024). Nature Machine Intelligence, 6(3), 271–283.

MTL neurons phase-lock to human hippocampal theta. Schonhaut, D. R., Rao, A. M., Ramayya, A. G., Solomon, E. A., Herweg, N. A., Fried, I., & Kahana, M. J. (2024). eLife, 13, e85753.

A cerebro-cerebellar network for learning visuomotor associations. Sendhilnathan, N., Bostan, A. C., Strick, P. L., & Goldberg, M. E. (2024). Nature Communications, 15, 2519.

Learning environment-specific learning rates. Simoens, J., Verguts, T., & Braem, S. (2024). PLOS Computational Biology, 20(3), e1011978.

A generative model of memory construction and consolidation. Spens, E., & Burgess, N. (2024). Nature Human Behaviour, 8(3), 526–543.

Functional specificity of recurrent inhibition in visual cortex. Znamenskiy, P., Kim, M.-H., Muir, D. R., Iacaruso, M. F., Hofer, S. B., & Mrsic-Flogel, T. D. (2024). Neuron, 112(6), 991-1000.e8.

[fragwuerdiger-episodenguide]

(033) Die drei ??? und die bedrohte Ranch

Klappentext

Der Zufall vermittelt Justus, Bob und Peter die Bekanntschaft mit dem exzentrischen Ehepaar Barron, und unerwartet finden sie sich auf Rancho Valverde eingeschlossen, ohne Kontakt zur Umwelt! Geht der Kampf nun gegen außerirdische Wesen oder gegen kriminelle Betrüger und Diebe? Unsere drei klugen Detektive werden die Wahrheit herausfinden – wetten?

Veröffentlichungshistorie

Buch (Random House): 032, 1981, M. V. Carey, The Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs Buch (Kosmos): 032, 1983, Leonore Puschert (aus dem Amerikanischen übertragen) Hörspiel (Europa): 033, 1983

⁉️ Allgemein

Handlungsort

Rocky Beach

Kategorie

Betrug

Figuren

Justus Jonas

Peter Shaw

Bob Andrews

Patrick O' Ryan

Titus Jonas

Charles Barron

Ernestine Barron

Kenneth O'Ryan

José, Helfer auf der Ranch (keine Sprechrolle)

Pedro, Helfer auf der Ranch (keine Sprechrolle)

Hank Detweiler, Verwalter der Ranch

Elsie Spratt, Köchin (😈)

Stanford, Soldat (😈?)

Ferrante, Lieutenant (😈)

Präsident der USA

Simon de Luca

Bones, Verbrecher (😈)

Al, Verbrecher (😈)

Kommissar Reynolds

🏖 Rocky Beach Universum

Orte

San José

Fort Worth

Dallas

Taos

San Fransisco

Einrichtungen

Schrottplatz

Ranch, nördlich von Rocky Beach

Sonstiges

»Sie sind an unserer Seite«, Buch von Vladimir Contreras über die Retter von Omega

ÜBELSTE DUBSTEP MUCKE (Spotify: Teil 04, 0:24–0:55)

»Das Saturn-Syndrom«, Science Fiction Film

🛼 Sonstiges

Lustige Dialoge

Elsie: "Redest du immer so?" Peter: "Justus hält nichts von einfachen Ausdrücken, wenn es sich ebenso kompliziert sagen lässt."

Peter: "Mmh, der ist ganz schön wütend Leutnant. Ich würde mich auf noch mehr gefasst machen." Leutnant Ferrante: "Halt die Klappe, sonst setzt es was!"

Mrs. Barron: "Wenn sich die Retter von Omega in unserer Atmosphäre befinden, stören sie unser elektrisches Feld." Mr. Barron: "Ernestine, du weißt doch noch nicht einmal was ein elektrisches Feld ist." Mrs. Barron: "Nein, das weiß ich wirklich nicht, aber es ist ungeheuer wichtig, nicht wahr?"

Phrasenschwein

Fat shaming Justus wird beleidigt

🏳️‍🌈 Queer/diversity read

Shippy moments

Bob: "Eigentlich schade. Ach und ich dachte schon, dass endlich mal was tolles passiert." Peter: "Du spinnst ja, Bob! Ich jedenfalls möchte keinen Weltuntergang erleben."

Bob: "Ja, na schön! Bis dahin möchte ich aber noch was essen. Kommt, wir gehen in die Küche!" Peter: "Mensch Bob, du hast ja noch bessere Ideen als Justus."

Diversity, Political Correctness and Feminism

"Lassen Sie nur, Elsie. Gehen Sie wieder in die Küche!"

[matthewliberatore]

august 11th stl cards v kc royals

waino buddy.. 8 runs in 2 innings...

idk what to say anymore bc he genuinely fell off so bad this season. like he's been bad but not like THIS

why was goldy dh'ing. bro u suck rn. burleson can't play 1st either.

o'neill and contreras homers tho

nootbaar kinda went off (he shouldn't have been called out on that play at 3rd but whatever)

how did a team with 33 wins beat us..

defense kinda sucked for us. pitching was trash. (except z. thompson he shut it down for awhile 💪)

anyways matz pitching tmr so hopefully a good game is to come 🥰

[musicnewsweb]

ICYMI: V. Contreras 'Done Playing Small' video premiere - #VContreras #DonePlayingSmall #Musicofv http://dlvr.it/TDwSHK

[entertainmehub]

ICYMI: V. Contreras 'Done Playing Small' video premiere - #VContreras #DonePlayingSmall #Musicofv http://dlvr.it/TDwLjY

[toddcoburn]

MLB catcher William Contreras making great knee throw from a right knee down set up! #mlbbshorts

🔥 MLB catcher William Contreras making great knee throw from a right knee down set up! #mlbbshorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnzxAu166A via Todd Coburn - The Catching Guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaDzCs-NgHHZspbEwLy7JAA July 19, 2024 at 04:41AM

[popmusicu]

GHOST IN THE RADIO

By Gabriel Salvador Contreras

“It’s ghost-like, isn’t it? That period between the ‘30s and ‘40s is between wars. And a lot of people had went to wars and never come back so there was a lot of uncertainty. It’s about ghosts, loss, and all these incredible lyrics. The weight of these tracks is incredible sometimes. Like one of the main guys I’ve sampled over the years, Al Bowlly, died in the war because a bomb landed on the house he was in. They say he would have been bigger than Bing Crosby, that he had a better voice. It’s very sad.” - Leyland Kirby (x)

The relationship within music and horror is quite as long as the history within humanity itself. When it comes to pop music though, we wouldn’t immediately assume there’s something sinister about it at first glance. The Caretaker is a solo project by Leyland Kirby, debuting in 1999 with “Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom”. The whole vibe from Caretaker is strongly nostalgic, moving, even anxiety inducing at times. One wouldn’t imagine such an artist would become extremely popular even with a younger generation, but this is proven wrong by the massive acclaim his LP, “Everywhere at the end of time”. From it’s terrifying yet realistic premise —a mind going through dementia, slowly forgetting everything about their lives, knowing as well the impact music makes in people’s memories and positive effects on dementia patients — to it’s atmospheric, slow progression into nothingness, nothing could predict its popularity in the internet sphere. The prevalence of this EP is so vast that it can be easily found — especially the first track, “A1 - It’s just a burning memory” — all over TikTok, YouTube memes, and with over four and a half million plays on Spotify. Considering it’s niche and artistic intent, one could easily forget about the music he’s sampling: ballroom, pop music from the 30’s and 40’s, as he says himself.

Was this music supposed to sound this eerie? Has pop music terrified listeners before like this? Could this be considered something undesired by the industry, would it stop it from be pop at all? In this text I’ll present my point of view about this matter. As I would love to make it longer, I’ll try to keep as concise as possible while I go through some examples of what I would consider some interesting cases of Pop turning a scare to the audience, songs being inspired by catastrophes that scarred the artists, or musicians that are just looking for a spook. PART 1: EVIL (IS GOING ON) - Before the 60s Fear has plagued the human mind since before history can reach itself. Therefore, we can assume that fear and the terrifying has been a common theme since folklore music. It’s deeply rooted in our brain, but when it comes to pop culture we might not notice at first how big of a theme it is. Here are some examples from various media where this phenomenon can be seen, usually songs with some religious subtext, Halloween, and “contemporary” witches, zombies and other spooks. Anatoly Liadov - Baba Yaga, Op. 56 (1904) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17szhwbiw_o   The House is Haunted by Roy Fox (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoJj7dCbEX8

Howlin' Wolf - Evil (Is Going On) (1958) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osnDVXlhxPw

Playlist with more Examples -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SisxwnlEiq0

There's something interesting I notice at this time, in contrast to our first example, on how nostalgia is not really an horrific thought, or at least not a popular one, and, pretty common when it comes to popular music, it's mostly lighthearted. Usually, folk horror and creatures born from pop culture are the ones in the front of the stage most of the time. However, things slowly take some interesting turns, as we will see...

(Coming Next: PART II: REVOLUTION 7 - 60’s, 70’s and 80’s)

[wedoartblog]

Group show: Woman Portrait Gallery V.2 April & May 2024 at Kaffeemitte

01 Altea Federico “Give me more” 2023 / Polaroid XS-70

02 Paul Rosenbauer "Simple.Woman" 2024 / Acrylic wall painting

03 Vassilis Konstantinou "Persona" 2012 / digital photography

04 Tony Federico “Donatella Versace" 1999 / Polaroid i-Type 600

05 Martin Krusche "Madame" 2020 / Stencil printing

06 Casa De Balneario "Quiero otro" 2021 / Ink on paper

07 Dared "Faye - Its been a long time" 2024 / Acrylic PasteUp

08 Liliana Rasmussen "Free Palestine" 2023 / Digital Gouache on Paper

09 Lou Held "Carmen" 2024 / Acrylic on paper

10 Lucille Guder "Steffi" June 2022 / Dry flowers & felt pen on paper

11 Macarena Cox "Safe Place" 2024 / Linocut Print

12 Pongsuang Choop "The Woman in Nighthawks" 2024 / Acrylic on wood

13 Sunny Strange "EpigeneticS" 2024 / AI generated

14 Alex Zika "Feeding Grapes" 2005 / Watercolor on paper

15 Eva Contreras "A hard night's day" 2020 / Analogue photography

All artworks, artists and contacts

[eesee-relo]

03/03/24

-llamada de E. Contreras al Inspector Calzonzin, donde acusa de recibo su mensaje, y discuten detalles de los avances de la investigación siguiendo el zarape que le dejó-

(CARGANDO) -video del zarape de investigación

(CARGANDO) -apuntes y reflexiones de Elías:

...

Escuché tus grabaciones, esos tres pendejos me ahorraron la tarea como de un mes! :D De milagro siguen vivos. Me resumieron los capitulos, referencias, se les escaparon tres nombres, tengo sus huellas de voz... Incluso se descubrió quien de los tres sabe más que los otros. Luego inventan coartadas bien pendejas, sus vocecitas cambian, sus risas se escuchan más nerviosas... Y, después de pensarlo un momento, creo que definitivamente NO

no

NO habrá Walten F. me tomé un caballito de charanda cada vez que Kyle intenta defender su propio WaltenFiles y explicar sus chistes... y...

nada. __ no, de verdad, porque siguen vivos?

vi que alguno es actor de voz...

hasta hicieron por turnos tratando de mejorar sus interpretaciones.

hmmm interesante.

Espera incluso antes de todas las partes importantes dicen "no creo que ésto que voy a decir sea blablabla...," TELEGRAMA: Avisale a aquel, nos encargaremos HOY, se localizó uno muy cerca.

Lástima que está en M de Mudo, tendrémos que encargarnos en persona? Quiere que vayamos a la convención? O que tal si aprovechando que están en la convención... hmm...

y como tres veces les dijeron que se cayaron y no se aguantan jaja

Así son siempre? les escurre lo

incel

homofóbicos

racistas

blanquitos...

hasta tienen ensayadas sus disculpas jajaja Sus papás le dijeron: .- ya los regañamos, y no va a volver a pasar

-y si pasa? .-si pasa, yo mismo le doy autorización de que usted se los chingue...! Jajaja que ricardoso! Bueno, autorizado, y avisados.

;) Según sus propias reglas...

aún respira?

ah entonces le da credito al creador? No ah entonces es un mentiroso? no... pff

y básicamente lo que hacemos es ctrl+c ctrl+v y después lo más difícil, incluson gracias a la chica que se lo ocurrió solo hay que escribi: multiples poses action poses

listo, a comeeeeeer!

Wow!

Híjole mi Benny, se me hace que hoy le vamos a dar piso a varios...

Hay que revisar porque creo que algunos con puro miedo tienen XD Error tras error... veo que hay cosas que no entienden 1.- no les han contado todo, ya les dije y no creen 2.- creen que están a salvo... pfff 3.- también están siendo utilizados 4.- yo gané, porque le adiviné las cartas al hechicero, punto. Pero vuelven y vuelvo a ganar, que al final van a venir a darme un tiro y seguirse riendo? o a quien hay que ir a sacarle un ojo? Erick? 1, 2, 3, 4 ? Doc?

lo que todés desean? que pasa si no se muere? no quieren saber? XD

[wingedcloudsalad]

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555959775687&mibextid=ZbWKwLhttps://fb.watch/p_Et3jDPu5/?mibextid=Nif5ozhttp://www.youtube.com/@kyliejennerhttps://www.facebook.com/share/v/YgBwsM8ryfEYE98c/?mibextid=qi2Omg

[compneuropapers]

Interesting Papers for Week 45, 2023

Interplay between external inputs and recurrent dynamics during movement preparation and execution in a network model of motor cortex. Bachschmid-Romano, L., Hatsopoulos, N. G., & Brunel, N. (2023). eLife, 12, e77690.

Distinct neural activations correlate with maximization of reward magnitude versus frequency. Balasubramani, P. P., Diaz-Delgado, J., Grennan, G., Alim, F., Zafar-Khan, M., Maric, V., … Mishra, J. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 6038–6050.

Modulation of ventromedial orbitofrontal cortical glutamatergic activity affects the explore-exploit balance and influences value-based decision-making. Barnes, S. A., Dillon, D. G., Young, J. W., Thomas, M. L., Faget, L., Yoo, J. H., … Ramanathan, D. S. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 5783–5796.

Long-range inhibition synchronizes and updates prefrontal task activity. Cho, K. K. A., Shi, J., Phensy, A. J., Turner, M. L., & Sohal, V. S. (2023). Nature, 617(7961), 548–554.

Accelerating Maturation of Spatial Memory Systems by Experience: Evidence from Sleep Oscillation Signatures of Memory Processing. Contreras, M. P., Fechner, J., Born, J., & Inostroza, M. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(19), 3509–3519.

Intrinsic Neural Timescales in the Temporal Lobe Support an Auditory Processing Hierarchy. Cusinato, R., Alnes, S. L., van Maren, E., Boccalaro, I., Ledergerber, D., Adamantidis, A., … Tzovara, A. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(20), 3696–3707.

Humans plan for the near future to walk economically on uneven terrain. Darici, O., & Kuo, A. D. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(19), e2211405120.

Bistability of prefrontal states gates access to consciousness. Dwarakanath, A., Kapoor, V., Werner, J., Safavi, S., Fedorov, L. A., Logothetis, N. K., & Panagiotaropoulos, T. I. (2023). Neuron, 111(10), 1666-1683.e4.

Schema formation in a neural population subspace underlies learning-to-learn in flexible sensorimotor problem-solving. Goudar, V., Peysakhovich, B., Freedman, D. J., Buffalo, E. A., & Wang, X.-J. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(5), 879–890.

A Learned Map for Places and Concepts in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Herweg, N. A., Kunz, L., Schonhaut, D., Brandt, A., Wanda, P. A., Sharan, A. D., … Kahana, M. J. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(19), 3538–3547.

Counterconditioning reduces contextual renewal in a novel context but not in the acquisition context. Keller, N. E., Cooper, S. E., McClay, M., & Dunsmoor, J. E. (2023). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 201, 107749.

The human cerebellum in reward anticipation and outcome processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Kruithof, E. S., Klaus, J., & Schutter, D. J. L. G. (2023). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 149, 105171.

The Representational Similarity between Visual Perception and Recent Perceptual History. Luo, J., & Collins, T. (2023). Journal of Neuroscience, 43(20), 3658–3665.

Age-related differences in prefrontal glutamate are associated with increased working memory decay that gives the appearance of learning deficits. Rmus, M., He, M., Baribault, B., Walsh, E. G., Festa, E. K., Collins, A. G., & Nassar, M. R. (2023). eLife, 12, e85243.

Functional brain networks reflect spatial and temporal autocorrelation. Shinn, M., Hu, A., Turner, L., Noble, S., Preller, K. H., Ji, J. L., … Murray, J. D. (2023). Nature Neuroscience, 26(5), 867–878.

Peripheral targets attenuate miniature eye movements during fixation. Watamaniuk, S. N. J., Badler, J. B., & Heinen, S. J. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 7418.

Emergence of time persistence in a data-driven neural network model. Wolf, S., Le Goc, G., Debrégeas, G., Cocco, S., & Monasson, R. (2023). eLife, 12, e79541.

Intrinsic excitability of human right parietal cortex shapes the experienced visual size illusions. Wu, B., Feng, B., Han, X., Chen, L., & Luo, W. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 6345–6353.

Neurocomputational mechanisms of young children’s observational learning of delayed gratification. Zhao, H., Zhang, T., Cheng, T., Chen, C., Zhai, Y., Liang, X., … Lu, C. (2023). Cerebral Cortex, 33(10), 6063–6076.

Do needs always come first? Children’s allocation decisions in a necessary resource distribution task. Zhou, S., Peng, Q., Liu, T., & Zhang, J. (2023). Current Psychology, 42(11), 9372–9381.

[copblaster]

LAPD Detective Martin V. Contreras https://copblaster.com/blast/57664/lapd-detective-martin-v-contreras?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

[masterofd1saster]

CJ current events 21sep23

Hunter Biden indictment

Case is United States v. Biden, 23 cr 61 (D. Del.). The indictment is at https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23977706/hunter-indcitment.pdf

There are three counts. The first two are for lying on the ATF Form 4473 you must complete and sign in order to buy a firearms from a licensed dealer. You can download a 4473 from https://www.atf.gov/firearms/atf-form-4473-firearms-transaction-record-revisions

The third count is for possession of a firearm by a crackhead.

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speaking of tax evasion

Two Florida businessmen, David Aaron and Russell Ultes, were sentenced today to 18 months and nine months in prison, respectively, for a scheme to evade over $1.1 million in income taxes. ***  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fort-myers-roofing-contractors-sentenced-prison-evading-over-11-million-taxes

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excellent 54 sec video

DALLAS - A man police believe was involved in a dramatic shootout while attempting to break into an Oak Cliff apartment has been arrested and charged. The incident, which happened on Saturday, August 19th around 6 p.m., was captured by a doorbell camera. A man claiming to be a maintenance worker shows up outside the apartment door at a complex off of Gannon Lane. In the video, Ethan Rodriguez can be heard talking to the man through his doorbell camera.*** maintenance worker as 30-year-old Aaron Contreras.*** Dallas County Sheriff's Office records show Contreras' criminal history dates back to 2013.*** https://www.fox4news.com/news/video-oak-cliff-apartment-shootout

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Maybe able to use dad's VISA for your next high

A key Senate committee is planning to vote on a bipartisan bill to expand banking services for legal marijuana businesses by the end of September, sources familiar with the plans, confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Friday. The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee intends to hold a markup session for the bill during the last week of September, which was first reported by NBC News. The legislation is intended to give federally regulated banks and credit unions legal cover to take cannabis dispensaries and growers as customers. Currently, banks and credit unions still face federal prosecution and penalties if they provide services to legal cannabis businesses because it is still considered a Schedule I substance, which is defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and has a high potential for abuse, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. As a result of not having access to financial services, many state-legal cannabis businesses are forced to operate their businesses only using cash.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/cannabis-banking-bill-end-of-month

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Gov Whitmer kidnapping plot

Three men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 were acquitted Friday.  William Null, twin brother Michael Null, and Eric Molitor were found not guilty of providing support for a terrorist act and a weapon charge. Deliberations began Thursday.  "You gentlemen are free to leave," Judge Charles Hamlyn said. The trio is the last of 14 men to face charges in state or federal court. Nine were convicted and now five have been cleared.*** A juror approached Molitor outside the courthouse and "said he was very sorry for all he had gone through," defense attorney William Barnett told The Associated Press. "The man shook his hand and gave him a hug." "They went after three peoples’ lives and destroyed them for three years," Barnett said of the attorney general’s office. "I’m just lost for words. This is an emotional moment."*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-jury-acquits-three-men-in-plot-to-kidnap-gov-gretchen-whitmer

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other CJ systems

Last year, Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the town of Saqqez in northwestern Iran, came to visit family in Tehran—a stranger in a strange land.  On September 13, she was exiting a subway station with her brother when she was stopped by the morality police for wearing an “inappropriate hijab.” It’s unclear what she was actually wearing that day—her mother says it was a “long, loose robe”—but she was locked up and beaten for this so-called crime. Three days later, on September 16, Mahsa Amini was dead.  At first, photographs circulated showing her lying in a coma in a hospital bed with tubes in her mouth and nose. Security forces claimed that Mahsa had suddenly collapsed in detention and suffered a heart attack. But a doctor from the hospital told me via encrypted message that Mahsa had died before she ever arrived. Leaked medical scans revealed that her skull had been fractured. The hospital photos, it turned out, were part of a regime cover-up—a fact that spread like wildfire throughout the country thanks to the reporting of fearless Iranian journalists.*** [protests] The regime sent in troops to crush the revolt. During the crackdown, more than 500 protesters have been killed, a quarter of them women. Another 20,000 have been jailed. At least seven were executed after brief show trials. UN experts estimate that at least 5,000 children have been poisoned in what they describe as “targeted chemical attacks against girls’ schools” that have been reported in “91 schools located in 20 provinces across Iran.” ***

Take the case of Zeinab Kazemi, who removed her hijab in February at an engineers’ gathering in Tehran. This month she was sentenced to 74 lashes. After she was sentenced, she wrote on Instagram, “I have never regretted raising my voice for justice and against oppression, and I still don’t.” Iranian journalist Nazila Maroufian was thrown in jail for interviewing Mahsa Amini’s father last year. After she was released, she posted a photo of herself without a headscarf and the message, “Don’t accept slavery, you deserve the best!” She is currently detained in an Iranian jail, and is now on a hunger strike, in protest against the sexual assault she has reportedly endured behind bars. ***

https://www.thefp.com/p/mahsa-amini-murder-iran-revolution

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quick thinking

***Five people were about to enter a home on the 8900 block of Pebble Beach Circle in Westminster, California, when four masked men forced their way inside with them. The victims included an older woman, a 14-year-old boy, a seven-year-old girl, an adult man, plus the woman who was able to hide in the closet. It was about a quarter to 11 p.m. on Sept. 11 when police received a call. "Officers arrived at the residence in under three minutes and observed four males running out of the front door. All of the male suspects were observed wearing masks and armed with handguns as they ran from the residence," the Westminster Police Department said in a statement. "A male suspect pushed the adult male victim to the ground and used a stun gun to gain compliance. Four of the victims were tied up in the living room as the suspects demanded to know where the valuables were kept." Police arrived within three minutes of receiving the call, but by the time they arrived, the four suspects were already running out of the house. Officers on the scene could see they still wore masks and had handguns. One of the suspected burglars, Danny Sommay, 29, was apprehended and arrested on charges of kidnapping, robbery, conspiracy to commit a felony, and armed criminal action. Sommay's 9mm handgun was revealed to have been stolen, so he was also charged with possession of a loaded stolen firearm. He is currently being held at the Orange County Jail on $1,000,000 bail. The other three suspects are still at large. *** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/california-woman-home-invasion-hiding-closet-call-9-11

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don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Three pro-life activists who took part in an October 2022 “rescue” in a Washington, D.C., abortion facility were each found guilty of felonies that could land them up to 11 years in prison and fines as much as $350,000. The verdict follows a separate trial in which five other pro-life activists were also found guilty. The activists — 74-year-old Joan Bell, 73-year-old Jean Marshall, and 41-year-old Jonathan Darnel — were indicted on felony conspiracy against rights and violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, also known as the FACE Act. The FACE Act increased penalties for people who accost or obstruct women who are seeking abortion at clinics or pregnancy resource centers.*** https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255394/three-more-pro-lifers-guilty-on-face-act-charges-face-up-to-11-years-in-prison

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earned every second

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for manufacturing and attempting to manufacture child sexual abuse material (CSAM). According to court documents, David Dunn, 57, of Red Hill, used the mobile applications Snapchat and Likee to coerce and entice a 10-year-old female to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Dunn told the victim he was 11 years old and sent the minor female CSAM depicting minor boys, which he had downloaded from the Dark Web. Dunn captured the CSAM he coerced the victim to create and sent it to another individual via Telegram. Two cell phones seized from Dunn’s home contained thousands of images and videos of CSAM. Dunn pleaded guilty to one count of sexual exploitation of children. *** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-sentenced-sexual-exploitation-child

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really must think there are no consequences A laughing teenager appears to deliberately plow a stolen car into a retired police chief, Andreas Probst, in a fatal Las Vegas hit-and-run that has left his widow furious, according to a now-viral video of the collision.*** Probst, 64, was on his morning bike ride when the teenager struck him Aug. 14 about 6:04 a.m. on North Tenaya Way near West Centennial Parkway, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.*** In the footage, the driver asks, "Ready?" as the giggling passenger records the collision on his iPhone. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, hit his a--," he tells the driver, who then veers the Hyundai Elantra into the bike lane behind Probst, who is wearing a red shirt and shorts as he pedals. The driver can be heard honking three times before he rams into Probst's back wheel, sending him flying over the hood of the car. The passenger turns, points his iPhone out the window and records Probst roll to a stop on the side of the road. "Damn, that n---- got knocked out!" the passenger says in the 31-second clip.   "Oh, sh--, we need to get out of here," the panicked driver replies as he steps on the gas. Police tracked down the driver, who has not been named due to his age, and booked him into Clark County Juvenile Hall on charges related to the hit-and-run.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/teen-driver-appears-intentionally-hit-kill-retired-police-chief-viral-video

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"You’re going to have to kill me." "Bang."

An Ohio man wanted for the murder of a 77-year-old woman was shot by a man defending his family during a home invasion on Thursday, according to the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. Michael James Brooks II, of Columbus, Ohio, was hospitalized Friday for injuries sustained during the home invasion. When he is released from medical care, he will face charges for burglary, home invasion and theft by receiving in Georgia and murder charges in Ohio, police said.  Investigators said Brooks has an extensive criminal history. He is wanted in connection with the fatal stabbing of Emily Foster, which occurred on September 9, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio, and also for the carjacking of a red Ford F-150 truck in Kettering, Ohio, which was later found outside the burglarized home in Georgia.*** the homeowner was armed with a gun and confronted the intruder, who was wielding a knife, in his basement.  The homeowner reportedly warned the suspect before shooting him. Police said the homeowner then left the basement and took up a defensive position on the second-floor staircase to protect his family. "There, he took his stand as the subject made his way up to the second floor. [He] made the comment, something to the effect of, ‘You’re going to have to kill me,’ when the resident fired a second shot. *** https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-murder-suspect-breaks-georgia-home-meets-family-man-firearm

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Something wrong w/ tweaking?

A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly left her 11-year-old son in a hotel room with a dead man following her drug-filled sexual encounter with two men. Amy Kemper, 32, admitted to authorities last week that she used drugs and had a ménage à trois in a room at the Hammock Beach resort in Palm Coast, Florida, before she decided to leave her son there with the 60-year-old man while she left with the other man overnight Sept. 9, the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.  She told deputies she thought the man was snoring strangely and when they returned they found him unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead in the room by medical personnel after CPR was attempted. *** https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-arrested-leaving-son-11-hotel-room-dead-man-following-menage-a-trois-2-men

***after tues

If you're looking for the worst person in West Virginia....

Hardy Carroll Lloyd, 45, of Follansbee, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today to obstruction of the due administration of justice.*** “It is absolutely reprehensible that the defendant threatened witnesses and jurors in the Tree of Life case, a tragedy that claimed innocent lives and emotionally scarred many in the Jewish community,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The FBI will not tolerate the intimidation of citizens participating in our criminal justice system, and we will work with our partners to hold legally accountable anyone who threatens or carries out acts of violence against them.” According to court documents and statements made in court, Lloyd admitted to making online threats to jurors and witnesses involved in the federal hate crimes trial in Pittsburgh of Robert Bowers, the Tree of Life Synagogue mass shooter. Lloyd, a self-proclaimed “reverend” of a white supremacy movement, distributed threatening social media posts, website comments, and emails during the trial. As part of his plea agreement, Lloyd stipulated that he intentionally selected the jury and government witnesses in the Bowers trial as the targets of his offense due to the actual or perceived Jewish religion of the witnesses and the Bowers victims. *** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/west-virginia-man-admits-obstructing-tree-life-trial

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What's wrong w/ you????

A criminal complaint was unsealed today in Manhattan, New York, federal court charging Grei Mendez, 36, and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, 41, both of the Bronx, New York, with narcotics possession with intent to distribute resulting in death and conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death in connection with the poisoning of four children under the age of three, one of whom died, at a daycare facility in the Bronx. Mendez and Acevedo Brito are both in custody and will be presented today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jennifer E. Willis.   *** As alleged in the complaint, from at least in or about July 2023 through at least in or about September 2023, Mendez and Acevedo Brito and others conspired to distribute fentanyl, including at a children’s daycare center in the Bronx (the Daycare). There, despite the daily presence of young children, the defendants maintained large quantities of fentanyl, including a kilogram of fentanyl stored on top of children’s playmats. In addition, the defendants maintained in the Daycare items purpose-built for the distribution of large quantities of narcotics, including three so-called “kilo presses,” which are designed for the recompression of drugs in powder form commonly used by narcotics traffickers at “mills” or other locations where narcotic drugs are broken down, combined with fillers, and portioned for sale. The narcotics and one of the kilo presses recovered are pictured below.*** As a consequence of the defendants’ drug conspiracy, on or about Sept. 15, at the Daycare, four children, who were all under three years of age, appear to have experienced the effects of poisoning from exposure to fentanyl.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-charged-federal-narcotics-offenses-resulting-death-connection-poisoning-four-children

Presumed innocent, etc....

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about that anti-social personality disorder thing...

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Really, FBI?

The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that they lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many “Confidential Human Sources” run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers. At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office. D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.*** Defense lawyers at the trial of five “Proud Boys” recently asserted that the FBI had as many as eight informants spying on the organization and that at least one was with them at the Capitol that day. Former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund has said that, in addition to the paid informants, the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd plus an estimated 20 from the Department of Homeland Security.

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the road to hell is paved is paved with what?

Attorneys are expected to give opening statements Wednesday in the jury trial for the first two Aurora police officers criminally charged in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.

Aurora officer Randy Roedema, 41, and former officer Jason Rosenblatt, 34, each are charged with reckless manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault in connection with McClain’s death.

They are the first to stand trial of the five people indicted in the 2019 killing. Jury selection began Friday and is expected to be completed on Wednesday, Shelly Bradbury reports.

RELATED

All eyes on Aurora courtroom as first of three trials begins in Elijah McClain’s death.

Elijah McClain died of ketamine toxicity, updated autopsy report says.

Elijah McClain’s mother says Biden’s police-reform order doesn’t do enough, urges Congress to go further.

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IJ's work on civil forfeiture is cool & important

More than three years ago, the FBI aimed a dragnet raid at a Los Angeles private vault company. In the process, the FBI took more than $100 million from customer safe deposit boxes—including $40,200 from Linda Martin. The FBI had no idea who Linda was when it seized the cash. It didn’t know that Linda and her husband, Reggie, were saving to buy a home. And when the FBI decided to forfeit and keep her life savings, the agency never told Linda what it thought she had done wrong. So, earlier this year, IJ launched our second class-action lawsuit against the FBI—this time for keeping Linda and other property owners in the dark during so-called administrative forfeiture proceedings. Barely a month after Linda and IJ filed suit, the FBI decided to return the money (with a modest amount of interest).   This is a tremendous win and long-awaited relief for Linda. But the FBI didn’t do it out of the goodness of its heart; its motives were much less wholesome. When it decided to return Linda’s savings, the FBI asked the court to dismiss her claims, arguing there’s no longer a dispute for the court to resolve. As Liberty & Law readers likely suspect, the FBI is wrong about that. IJ filed Linda’s case as a class action so that we could obtain justice not only for Linda but also for potentially thousands more like her.*** https://ij.org/ll/fbi-returns-life-savings-in-bid-to-get-out-of-lawsuit

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When a dad calls you about his 11 y/o daughter being groomed, don't blame the girl

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safer in Iraq? kill someone for a 2012 Hyundai?

A refugee family who had been in the U.S. for less than a year is “utterly heartbroken” after their son and brother was shot and killed in a carjacking Tuesday night. Ahmed Zainuldeen, 23, identified Wednesday by his employment caseworker, Anna Hanel, with refugee resettlement organization African Community Center, was a refugee from Iraq who had been living in Egypt before coming to the U.S. with his parents and younger brother in November 2022. He was killed in the parking lot of his family’s apartment complex overnight Tuesday in the 7400 block of East Harvard Avenue, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies are still searching for four suspects, who may be teenagers, in connection to the shooting and carjacking.*** “His parents have seen plenty of violence in their lives,” she said. “Now they had to see it here in the United States, where you’re supposed to feel safe. That’s what you came here for.” Zainuldeen and his younger brother were working to provide for their family, who fled Iraq due to persecution, Hanel said, and Zainuldeen had only saved up enough money to buy the car that was stolen, a 2012 Hyundai Sonata, a few months ago.*** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/victim-in-fatal-arapahoe-county-carjacking-was-iraqi-refugee-in-u-s-less-than-a-year/ar-AA1h14Va

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excellent column about democracy at https://www.thefp.com/p/laurie-schlegel-stood-up-to-porn

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07.24.23 - 07.30.23

louise gluck: At the end of my suffering, there was a door

marcelo hernandez castillo: The lamps that wait inside me say come, the gift is the practice, the price is the door.

poets are such sweetly, necessarily, strategically useless beings; i like glancing at the menu even if i get an iced oat latte each time, the gesture of considering the other possibilities even if i may chose the same thing.

the spring that i unfolded back into its narration. i slipped in through the twist, look here, a mirror where i disappear.

me at grace cathedral: At the center of the labyrinth, there was a flower

??????????? ok wow this week was so intense but for the purposes of keeping up with some kind of update i'm uploading this lolol

things feel so full, and i feel myself really moved by each things that happened this week

i don't entirely know how i feel about all these things except that i'm wanting to pause to try to process all of these things - at the moment they feel like bits and pieces of images and feeling that each matter to me in different ways but i don't really know how they connect to one another (maybe they don't because time doesn't have to be teleological and it's fine) (i will note here i've been falling asleep on the couch most days...)

07.30.23 (sun)

pensive this morning but also happy cried - "i'm really happy you're in my life and through means that are of both of our accords / wishes" <3

picked up some pretty chairs (green, blue) from someone emptying their apartment near alamo square park

sat at automat for a lil w f & l then went to j's

saw t for the first time in a long moment and met v, set to a backdrop of jazz in a backyard, everyone was so familiar and comfortable w one another and it feels like a gift to get to step into a space like that

barted to east bay to catch a reading with marcelo hernandez castillo & ingrid rojas contreras that i'm still thinking about

late night shooting star cafe hangs with z, k, m 💭 many schemes underway

stayed up waaaay late w s, got crazy eyed because my working theory at the moment is that desire is at the core of Everything, it is Everywhere (My Obsessions Do Not Keep Me Up however i did stay up til 4 saying many many half sentences)

07.29.23 (sat)

so out of breath trying basketball this morning, "otherwise known as inequality ball" w v, d, s

"getting hit on and hit by a car - the two occupational hazards of running in san francisco"

getting crazy eyed talking about oppenheimer, as one does, it's funny to also remember that joyride is a piece of propaganda as well

wandered around destore, got hella sunburnt, etc

laid on j's couch to sift through all of my notes.....! from the last half year! j/me/s/n where sitting in different corners of the living room such that we saw each other through the frame of the window, or the bookshelf

carried a door home w s.. LOL

thai iced tea delivery to i

a devastating but necessary review of chen chen’s book, by angie sijun lou

07.28.23 (fri)

tab spacing has entered the chat... reading my own poems and wanting to hear the same cadences that i admire of others' poems

blick pickups; pier strolls with savory crepes; picked up "portrait of a ghost" to read on the pier for a little

theorizing interfaces with lil; "yeah my dad was a vc"

music and literature links ++ w f & c

powervixen afterwards; walked out at the end of the show to a misty lamplit stroll

07.27.23 (thurs)

spiraled w k at sfmoma….! don't even know where to begin here but fascinations w self help, sororities, appropriating vehicles towards others ends; turning over the model minority; bangh - speculative fictions, speculative instruments; native theories of mind +++++

undergrads from florida leaned over to tell us we should start that podcast we were talking about oh my gosh <3 it was so tender

we all went to a ksw reading and heard s read! z also came through, what a treat to sit in a room full of people at arc gallery

late night hangs w zzsskj hahaha at kowloon tong :) mango sagoooo +++

in a moment after the reading i thought, imagination and capacity are at stake

recognizing the mechanics of careerism, hope i can appropriate the structured choreography up until the point i dream of improv, remembering once again none of us are mere mechanism

07.26.23 (wed)

finished megan fernandes' "i do everything i'm told" -- "pound and brodsky in venice"; "phoenix"; "may to december"; "love poem"

re/read a.r. ammons' "modes against too much"

shuffled around my poetry books, and marveling at the books that have changed me, the poems in january of this year that have changed me & essays on poetry, like those in mary ruefle's "madness, rack, and honey," and "a poem as a machine?" by margaret rhee

texting lil plans for the thurs/fri/sat weekend! I Am A Social Creature

hung out at bpt and heard about a "political fellowship" started by a local entrepreneur / "you can tell irish people in new york because they're the ones just looking up and around" / bay area things: moving into an apartment complex and grilling together

suddenly blurting out: i don't want to do something stupid / there are plenty of things that are not stupid, like working at a bank, though they may be dry / i think i can stand drudgery, i can’t stand an apparatus that is doing something stupid

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stone fruit

07.25.23 (tues)

thinking about how experimental stories teach the reader how to read them as the story progresses, finds the form as it unfolds; wonder what it means to teach one another how to "read" or care for or love you as you begin to relate to one another

ran into s at the cafe, where i went to send a lil letter about rent raises (if you live in a rent-controlled unit in sf, check if your landlord has a license to raise your rent), thinking about butterflies and our friend whose name means butterfly

looping newjeans until it’s not longer possible to

read a bit of megan fernandes' "i do everything i'm told"

being a mild hater about [redacted] to c, who really liked it; appreciated the generosity of that convo which felt like an active practice in meeting someone in-our-differences (which has a slightly different feeling from Both Sidesism)

starting? continuing? what feels like a weird daunting process of decluttering; unearthed some corners of my room that may not have seen the light of day since i moved in ("i feel like i've been moving in for the last two years" between my own disorganization and rotating housemates) ~ it's finite but it's so long

i rotated my desk so that my back is to the wall, and cleared some floor space shuffling things into piles and filing away paraphernalia, and felt like i finally had a tenable workspace in my room (i'm going to look back on this whole house business and laugh at how deranged this all is...... but i'm currently In It)

sitting with the mild feeling of "i am drowning in books, i think" followed up with "i want to spend as much of my time catching up on them"

thinking about thich nhat hanh again and washing dishes; how ocean vuong said, "i spend more time washing dishes than i do writing poetry"

by eve i felt a natural close to the day, which i don't often feel -- it possible to do the little bits of work (breaking down boxes), however futile they feel, it feels like those little bits are, in that present, what is to be done (the usual worry about if i should be doing something else fades away, for a moment)

wellbutrin is working great <3 one step at a time

07.24.23 (mon) brain brrr like an overheating laptop fan; probiotics & pals

thinking about times people learn to drive from figures other than their parents, which for some reason makes me think of propagating plants; a propagation of drivers (l&f going to practice driving with f's sib!)

beginning living, or something which is to say, taking out the kitchen trash recycling compost, bathroom trash at the beginning of the week; sweeping up the fallen succulent; going mildly catatonic Thinking on the couch before managing to move to the bed to do the same

read alice sola kim's "now wait for this week" and in awe

a migraine set in (me, experiencing migraine & nausea - is my life falling apart / am i having an emotional breakdown)

my brain went brrr like an overheating laptop fan and then at the end of the day it was eased a bit with a voice hugs podcast / shuffling around my room to clean it / pickled goodies and probiotic drinks and a lil circle around the fire (coffee table candle) very thankful for my housemates ❤️‍🩹