Sockpuppet Society
- [Offline] Operation: Puppet Live!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10541599
> Operation: Puppet Live! > Live Streams Direct from Operation: Puppet! > #owncast #streaming
- On this day in 1949, the Dutch gave sovereignty to Indonesia at the end of the Indonesian National Revolution
> The Indonesian National Revolution,[nb 1] also known as the Indonesian War of Independence, was an armed conflict and diplomatic struggle between the Republic of Indonesia and the Dutch Empire and an internal social revolution during postwar and postcolonial Indonesia. It took place between Indonesia's declaration of independence in 1945 and the Netherlands' transfer of sovereignty over the Dutch East Indies to the Republic of the United States of Indonesia at the end of 1949.[17]
Read more here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_National_Revolution
- On this day, Dec 21 1898, Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
Some more reading:
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200412/history.cfm
https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/who/our-history/marie-curie-the-scientist
- On this day in 1966, the UN General Assembly endorsed the Outer Space Treaty, an international treaty binding the parties to use outer space only for peaceful purposes
You can read more here:
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/outerspacetreaty.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
- On this day, 2006 Dec 06, NASA revealed photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/science/07marscnd.html
- [current events] There's a runaway kangaroo on the loose in Ontario, Canada
See story here:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10144283/search-for-kangaroo-continues/
> Questions began surfacing when local zoos confirmed all of their marsupials were accounted for. > > Durham police said while they were not involved in the hunt for the animal Friday, they knew where it came from. A driver delivering two kangaroos to Quebec on Thursday had stopped at Oshawa Zoo to let them “stretch their legs.” > > This is when the kangaroo allegedly made its escape.
- On this day in history, we had TWO famous heart transplants: first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967, and the first permanent artificial heart in 1982
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-42170023
> [...] on 3 December 1967 - the heart of a 26-year-old road accident victim, Denise Darvall, started to beat inside the chest of a 54-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky. > > News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world. > > Initial reports widely hailed the operation as "historic" and "successful", though Washkansky only survived a further 18 days. > > It became one of the most famous events of the 20th Century, on a par with the moon landing two years later.
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https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/2012/12/first-artificial-heart-30-years-later
> [...] on Dec. 2, 1982, in the darkest hours of the morning, cardiothoracic surgeon William DeVries, MD, carefully removed the ravaged heart of Dr. Barney Clark—a heart that tore like tissue paper due to years of treatment with steroids—and replaced it with the world's first permanent artificial heart. Known as the Jarvik-7 (named after former U of U physician and inventor Robert Jarvik, MD), this aluminum and polyurethane device was connected to a 400-pound air compressor that would accompany Clark for the rest of his life - all 112 days of it.
- On this day, November 29 1997, around 28,000 couples gathered at RFK Stadium (Washington, D.C.), for a satellite broadcasted “wedding” conducted by Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church
"wedding" is in quotes because > The New York Times referred to a 1997 ceremony for 28,000 couples as a "marriage affirmation ceremony", adding: "The real weddings were held later in separate legal ceremonies."
See also this article from the 1997 BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1997/unification_church/34821.stm
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This is also the same Unification Church from the assassination of Japan's Shinzo Abe. In more recent news: Japan asks court to strip Unification church of religious status
- [Current Events] Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/backlash-over-fake-female-speakers-shuts-down-developer-conference/
It wasn't limited to the conference, there are many more sock puppets among us:
> Orosz alleged that DevTernity's addition of Boyko to the lineup was "not a one-off." He posted what he said is evidence from past years of more fake speakers that were advertised at both DevTernity and other events organized by Sizovs, and 404 Media also claims that a hugely popular female tech influencer Instagram account called Coding Unicorn may have been secretly managed by Sizovs. > > According to 404 Media, Coding Unicorn bills itself as the “most popular coding account on Instagram." It's allegedly managed by a real woman named Julia Kirsina, but 404 Media found that IP logs, a YouTube video, social media posts, and other evidence seems to suggest Sizovs controls the account. > > Perhaps most glaringly obvious, coders revealed to 404 Media that "some of Kirsina’s Instagram posts are word-for-word copies of Sizovs’ LinkedIn posts, sometimes published more than a year later." In addition, "some of the images [Kirsina] posted on Instagram show computer monitors with code that show her logged in under Sizovs’ name." But perhaps most striking is the fact that an administrator told 404 Media that both Sizovs’ and Kirsina’s accounts were banned "multiple times" by the Lobst.ers coding forum for "sockpuppeting"—using a false identity to deceive others—in 2019 and 2020.
- On this day, November 27 1895, the Nobel Prize was established - Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, leaving much of his wealth for the prize
read more: https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/
- On this day, Nov 26 1917, the NHL (National Hockey League) was founded. It featured four Canadian teams, and the first American club (Boston Bruins) was added in 1924
More info: https://www.nhl.com/news/this-date-in-nhl-history-november-26-284067462
- Canadian and American Thanksgivings are held almost two months apart, and there is a mildy interesting story behind the dates that are currently used
An article if you're curious: https://globalnews.ca/news/4683426/canadian-thanksgiving-different-american-thanksgiving/
- Darius McCollum, one of the many times he was caught impersonating a transit worker
> TIL about Darius McCollum, a man who was arrested 32 times for impersonating a transit worker. He commandeered hundreds of buses and subway trains over the course of 30 years, staying on route and schedule without being paid. He attended Union meetings, even though he wasn’t a member.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_the_Rails_(2016_film)
- Shakespeare
So story time. Way back in the day I needed to have some more Math credits to get into culinary school (math was not my best subject in high school), and enrolled in the local CC. Now to round out my classes to qualify as being a full time student & take advantage of those benefits, I took a couple electives including Shakespeare. I took this class with my friend from HS, and we got up to the usual shenanigans in a class where everyone else were renfaire & thespian types so they took it very seriously. For our final, we were to present an act from a play. Everyone...and I mean every body else in the class came in dressed in the part they were going to act out (and remember, this was back in rhe day before cosplay was a thing). And then there was my buddy and I, presenting Othello in sockpuppetry.
Now, the kicker was, my friend had been failing and I really wasn't in to the class so I was averaging a C. Because of our originality and perfect presentation I got a 2 grade bump and an A, and my friend got a C.
BEST. FINAL. EVER!
- Bank of Australia robbery 1828 by William Blacksock, George Furrell, James Dingle, John Woolford, and Velveteen Rourke
> On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers—William Blackstone, George Farrell, James Dingle, John Wilford (alias "Creighton") and Valentine Rourke—tunnelled through a sewage drain into the vault of the Bank of Australia in George Street, Sydney, and stole some £14,000 in promissory notes and coins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Australia_robbery
- Dancing Plague of 1518
Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took part, dancing for weeks with some dying in the process
- Meeting during the early years of Reddit, where executives decided to fake engagement using sockpuppet accounts
Context from this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/9786100
