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Redefining 'Drug Bust': German Police Seize 5,000 Pills In Shape Of Trump's Head

'Donald Trump-shaped' ecstasy pills seized by German police

German Police Seize Thousands of 'Trump' Ecstasy Tablets

Germany’s orange ecstasy pills have Trump’s name — and face — all over them

Molly!

Joss Whedon fan site shuts down after ex-wife's critical essay

Joss Whedon's Ex-Wife Warns He's A Hypocrite 'Preaching Feminist Ideals'

Joss Whedon Is a 'Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals,' Ex-Wife Kai Cole Says (Guest Blog)

Five times Joss Whedon, self-proclaimed 'woke bae', blew his feminist credentials

So farewell then.

An external SSD has become Samsung's first drive to hit the market with 64-layer V-NAND. It includes a 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connection and capacities ranging from 250GB to 2TB:

Moving on to the pricing aspect, it must be remembered that the Portable SSD T5 is a pilot vehicle for Samsung's 64-layer V-NAND as its production ramps up. Samsung naturally expects this to be a low-volume, high-margin part. Therefore, despite the higher density, consumers should not expect much difference in the cost per GB compared to other external SSDs in the market. The 2TB variant will have a MSRP of $800 and the 500GB will retail at $200. At 40 cents/GB, it is priced close to other such products currently in the market.

Also at Samsung, PCWorld, The Verge, PCMag, and YouTube.

Not a submission because: Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs

You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf

It's hard to believe that my daughter (it still feels weird saying that) is 7 months old now.

When I wrote my last entry, I'm pretty sure I had paternal postpartum depression. It's relatively rare (I think single digit %, although it's likely it's under reported), but it really hit me hard. Everyone knows that becoming a parent is a life changing experience, but until it happens to you, you just can't know what it actually means.

I had a real tough time for the first five-ish months. The baby was, for the most part, pretty unpleasant. You know how they play soundtracks of babies crying as a torture tactic? I was acutely aware of this, and I felt like I was in my own little part of hell. Both of us were exhausted. It felt like every day we were just surviving. We were just trying to make it to the next day. I felt dead on the inside. Some days I would sit in the car wishing I could cry just to release some of the sadness that I felt inside.

Also at that time, I hadn't had sex in months. I had assumed that because my wife had had a c-section, that she would be good to go pretty soon after the baby came. That was not the case. We tried to have sex after 6 weeks. The doctor said that the incision had healed well, and we could try sex when my wife felt up for it. We tried, and she did not enjoy it. She said it was like she was a virgin again, but worse. Things were super tight down there, and burned badly. Turns out, painful sex after c-section is quite common. Who knew? Anyways, between having almost no free time, no sex, little sleep, and really nothing to look forward to, I was pretty depressed.

Until I had my own baby, I never cared about babies. At all. Over the last several months, my daughter has transformed from an infant to a baby. What used to be an annoying, crying, pooping, needy, blob, is now a tiny little person. She can sit on her own. She can manipulate objects. She likes some food and dislikes other foods. She likes to play with my beard. When I come home, she gets excited. She could crawl for the first time any day.

Over the last couple months, my depression has passed. Now that my girl is older, I get more reward from her. Little things like when I pick her up, she holds on to me or when I talk to her, I see her little lips move slightly as she tries to figure out the mouth movements. She watches everything I do. I now feel like I can actually make a difference, and I think that has helped. I am also sleeping better at night, which again helps, and we are also forming new routines which helps set the new 'normal'.

I'm still not getting sex often. Maybe once per month. Last time we tried, it was the best we have had since the c-section. I was able to get maybe 1/2 way inside her, which was a big improvement from previous attempts. Things are slowly getting better on that front, but I think that the breastfeeding is messing with her hormones. I'm not a doctor, but it makes sense that her body is telling her to hold off on having another baby.

I've started dating again. I started looking again maybe 4 months ago. I got a date a couple weeks ago with a really attractive woman I met on Bumble. She was a PhD candidate too, so really smart. I really liked her, so naturally, it didn't work out (just my luck). I had another date just last night with another girl I met on Tinder. We had a good date, but I'm kinda on the fence about her. I wasn't all that attracted to her, although we got along well.

When I have a date like that, I'm never sure what to do. Should I have a second date to see if a spark develops, or do I move on? There have definitely been people that I was not attracted to until I got to know them better, and then I would form a crush on them. I also put in a lot of effort to even get a date, so it's tempting to see someone again just to make sure there is nothing there.

So, all in all, things are coming along. I'm still adjusting to my new life, but I no longer feel depressed. For me, that is a major win.

-- Snow

Last of Secret JFK Files Slated for Release This Fall

Fresh Air interview with Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, airing now. Will edit link in later.

Walmart is apologizing after a display seemed to market guns as back-to-school items

Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items

Did Walmart Place a Sign Over a Gun Display Urging Kids to 'Own the School Year Like a Hero'?

The official Kek cult attire is now a trenchcoat.

FBI agents raided Manafort's home in July

Model says she was freed after 'deep web' kidnapping in Italy: Police

The alleged abductors used encrypted accounts to ask the model’s agent for $300,000 to stop the auction from taking place, claiming to work on behalf of something called the "Black Death Group," which operates within the so-called deep web, police said.

The deep web, or "dark web," is a network of websites that cannot typically be found by search engines, and are often protected through encryption. Billions of dollars in drugs, weapons and other items have been illegally traded on the sites.

Investigators discovered evidence that the suspect, Herba, may have previously organized several online auctions of abducted women, through ads he allegedly described the women and set starting prices. Police said it is unclear whether he actually abducted the women or whether they had ever really been for sale.

Italian police described Herba as a "dangerous subject with aspects of mythomania," which is a pathological inclination to exaggerate.

"It is unclear ... whether the young people were really kidnapped or whether the man invented everything," Deputy Prosecutor Paolo Storari said at a press conference. "The man also presented himself as a professional killer."

Mythomania, they say.

Update: Milan kidnap case: Chloe Ayling 'held to pay for cancer treatment'

Is There a Giant Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto?

Not much new here, but this looks promising:

Michael Medford and Danny Goldstein, graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, think they have a solution to that problem. Drawing on hundreds of thousands of images covering the search area for Planet Nine—all shot from 2009 to 2016 using a 1.2-meter telescope in the mountains north of San Diego—their system will combine multiple images in an ingenious way that should brighten the faint flickers of light from Planet Nine enough to distinguish them from background noise.

“Because the planet is moving with respect to the background stars, you can’t just add overlapping images together,” Medford points out. Instead, their software selects each of the many distinct plausible orbits for Planet Nine, projects the planet’s movement onto the relevant patch of sky, and then offsets successive images to superimpose—and brighten—any pixels corresponding to the planet. A pipeline of software written with Peter Nugent, their faculty advisor, performs the overlapping and subtracts known objects such as stars.

The computational task is enormous because the planet’s orbit is still so uncertain. To do a 98 percent complete search, Medford estimates, they will need to perform 10 billion image comparisons. Fortunately, Nugent has time allocated on the Cori supercomputer, a new Cray XC40 system that recently ranked as the fifth most powerful in the world.

False positives are unavoidable. “Even if we get only one false hit for every million searches, we’ll still get 10,000 fake planets,” Goldstein says. “So we will be passing all detections through a machine-learning system trained to catch and reject artifacts: satellite trails, hot pixels, cosmic rays, and other spurious sources.”

With the data already in hand, the two expect the system, running in parallel on hundreds of Cori’s CPU nodes and 278 hyperthreads per node, to finish the work in just a few days when they flip the switch in August. “We’ll be sitting on the edge of our seats,” Goldstein says. “And whether we find P9 or not, this method can be used to detect other TNOs.”