Diary (December 7, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Monday December 7, 2020.

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Green Poisonous Gas Used by Federal Agents on Portland Protesters

Scientists Identified a Green, Poisonous Gas Used by Federal Agents on Portland Protesters

The toxic chemical is more than an alternative type of tear gas

Juniper L. Simonis, PhD, a volunteer protest medic whose pronouns are they/them, scanned Portland’s storm drains for clues. Simonis, who is also a quantitative investigator with a doctorate in aquatic ecology, knew that identifying the new substance would be essential to protecting protesters and the environment from its effects. In lieu of information from the government, they hoped for harder evidence: the cast-off gas canisters, which might contain traces of the chemicals.

They didn’t expect to read the evidence right on the label. Simonis and other volunteers eventually collected dozens of canisters they traced to the new weapon. Several still bore the logo of their manufacturer, Defense Technologies, and the label “HC,” indicating that these canisters had once contained a chemical agent that was unlike anything Black Lives Matter protesters had seen in Portland or elsewhere.

• [1] by Lynne Peskoe-Yang @ Medium

Globe-Holders

The Globe-Holders

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Painting_of_Karl_von_Nassau-Siegen.jpg

Painting of Karl von Nassau-Siegen, Russian admiral] @ Wikipedia

Human chimera

Trick question

One or more of the people is a genetic chimera — conjoined twins *joined into one body*

E.g. blood test may indicate that "the mother is not the mother"

So these "five people" could represent six or more genetically distinct organisms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

• Post @ Twitter

Azerbaijan

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  "Azerbaijan" - web search results (7 December 2020)

• Post @ Facebook

Snap.svg

SVG sample image.

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• Snap.svg - JavaScript SVG library
• Scalable Vector Graphics - an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) since 1999. SVG images and their behaviors are defined in XML text files. This means that they can be searched, indexed, scripted, and compressed. As XML files, SVG images can be created and edited with any text editor, as well as with drawing software.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles