Julian Assange, Eclipse Truther. Astronomers, doctors and other experts alike are in total agreement on one point—don’t stare at a solar eclipse without eye protection unless you want to damage your vision or go blind, you goddamn idiot. This warning was in large part heeded by all but the very uninformed or the very impulsive, categories which both naturally included President Donald Trump, who soaked in as much luxurious unshielded eclipse viewing as he could on Monday. Now Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, whose behavior and vaguely pro- Trump leanings have grown more concerning in direct proportion to the amount of time he has spent locked inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, is warning the public not to fall for Big Safety Glasses’ grift.

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Early Monday evening, Assange tweeted “There’s no danger staring directly at the moon during a total eclipse. Before/after, the moon only partly covers the sun = usual sun danger.”He added, “You look away when you see it ending. Eyes also move to protect themselves. The hysteria seems to be sustained by glasses company profits.”In fairness to Assange, he’s not wrong that a total solar eclipse is, in theory, safe to look at during the very short period of time that the main body of the sun is covered entirely by the moon. In that extremely limited circumstance, only parts of the the sun’s corona which do not emit enough energy to damage the eye are visible. But the vast majority of people viewing an eclipse never see a totality.

They’ll see a partial eclipse, which is when only a significant percentage of the sun is covered (as in New York today, where only 7. Because so much of the sun is covered during a partial eclipse, one’s eyes may not “move to protect themselves.” Instead, the sun will dim enough that one could get fooled into staring at it, even as it’s frying the interior of their retinas. As NASA noted, the reason one should still use protective glasses or other equipment during a total solar eclipse is because as the moon rotates in front of the sun, it’s very difficult to determine the exact window of time someone might have to look at it. Again, since the vast majority of people are not in the path of the totality—though may believe they are, especially if they’re close to it—it’s really, really for the best that everyone just wears the damn safety glasses. For both of these reasons, advocating otherwise sounds an awful lot like a teenage boy arguing he doesn’t need to wear a condom because he knows when to pull out.

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There was no safe time for Trump to look at the eclipse, because the sun was only 8. Washington, D. C.“Glasses company profits” seems a little naive, considering high demand took retailers by surprise and the rarity of major eclipses does not really seem all that conducive to the formation of an astronomy- industrial complex, but hey—the next time Assange wants to take a cake out of the oven or something, he’s free to defy Big Oven Mitts too.

Alt- Light Goons Humiliated After Boston 'Free Speech' Rally Swarmed With Counter- Protesters. Last week’s violent, unhinged white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which culminated in a terror attack which killed Heather Heyer and wounded dozens of others, seems to have left the digital far- right in a sorry state indeed.

A “Free Speech Rally” in Boston which days ago was making city officials nervous it could be a repeat ended in total embarrassment on Saturday. CNN reported just a few dozen attendees faced off against thousands upon thousands of counter- protesters; the right- wingers found themselves so outnumbered they canceled the rally early and left under police guard. Participants didn’t realize “how unplanned of an event it was going to be,” congressional candidate Samson Racioppi told WCVB- TV.

I really think it was supposed to be a good event by the organizers but it kinda fell apart.”As the Anti- Defamation League noted, the organizers behind this particular rally were not quite the horde of “alt- right” Klansmen, Nazis, white supremacists and neo- Confederates that wrecked Charlottesville. Instead, it was a bevy of crypto- fascist “alt light” social media personalities including Proud Boys “military wing” member Augustus Invictus, “Hip Hop Patriot” Jeremy Herrell and former Info. Watch She Online Fandango here. Wars contributor and Pizzagate ringleader Joe Biggs. Also on the list was Kyle Chapman, who became pseudo- famous after a video of him beating an anti- fascist activist with a stick went viral. These people can no longer show their faces offline anymore without being mobbed—they’re all either too scared of getting doxxed or busy furiously backpedaling now that their entire movement is associated with the naked terrorism on display in Charlottesville. Far- right digital personalities like Tim Gionet (Baked Alaska) and Millennial Matt are no longer able to get away with explaining away shouting neo- Nazi slogans and carrying torches as irony- laden trolling, certainly now that the movement has smashed into reality.

Frankly, it looks like the alt- light people are now also being recognized for what they are: If not racists themselves, a gaggle of yelping fanatics that serve as their de facto collaborators. At least for today, that means both the hardcore alt- right white supremacists and their alt- light camp followers are being driven back online to 4chan, 8chan, Breitbart- style media knockoffs and the seedier wings of Twitter. Watch Searching For The Elephant Online Mic. Coupled with numerous crackdowns on the far- right movement’s ability to organize and fundraise online, this will also damage the small cottage industry in grifting it’s spawned. It’s not the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but things just got a lot harder for these folks.[CNN].

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