Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
The Third Mustache Of Enlightenment
I can never get through a whole Tom Friedman column without finding something I seriously object to, but on the whole..
Indeed, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has made eight trips to Israel since Oct. 7, should not make another without Israel and Hamas agreeing to a clear war-ending plan. He is debasing his and U.S. power. This is ultimatum time. Biden should be telling Israel that it should accept Hamas’s key demand: Totally end the war now and withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages. Israel cannot think straight while Hamas holds its people.BIDEN, TELL BIBI TO SUCK ON THIS
Who Is The Superpower
Amazing stuff.
"But I also said something else," Netanyahu added. "I said it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel."
"Secretary Blinken assured me that the administration is working day and night to remove these bottlenecks. I certainly hope that's the case. It should be the case," Netanyahu further stated.
Lock Him Up!
Great stuff.
A Texas doctor who leaked "whistleblower" documents to conservative activist Chris Rufo has been indicted by a federal grand jury for wrongful disclosure of private health information, according to court documents unsealed Monday.The allegation isn't just that he leaked the information but that he wasn't authorized to have it in the first place. There wasn't anything unlawful about what he "uncovered" either. Just "trans care is happening, legally."
Houston surgeon Eithan Haim, 34, is accused of sharing information without authorization about patients at Texas Children’s Hospital, where he completed rotations during his time as a resident at Baylor College Medicine.
Haim "allegedly obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to" Texas Children’s Hospital, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas wrote in a Monday afternoon news release. Haim is charged with four counts of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information, court filings show
America's Deadbeat
The thing about Rudy is that everyone knew what a piece of shit he was even as they were hailing him as the greatest man in America.
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s creditors and the judge overseeing his bankruptcy case aired their frustrations with him in court on Monday after months in which he has provided incomplete information about his finances, missed filing deadlines or failed to have his lawyers respond at all.There were many messed up things about the post-9/11 era, and one was the willingness of our media industrial complex to add heroes to the script.
The Hard Problem
I know "replacing low age workers with machines" is not a new thing, but it works well (everywhere) for processes which can be standardized. Even in the genre of tasks requiring understanding of natural speech, parising a food order shouted from a car window as the occupants are disccusing their order is incredibly difficult! This isn't a simple problem, this is the hardest problem! How was this not obvious?
McDonald’s is changing course on its artificial intelligence plans.Even if it in some sense worked, it's hard to imagine it working faster, and speed is pretty important when there is a line of cars.
The fast-food giant will end a test run of its AI drive-through technology partnership with IBM in more than 100 restaurants. The so-called Automated Order Taker will be shut off no later than July 26, according to a memo sent to franchisees late last week, obtained by CNBC.
Monday, June 17, 2024
America's Worst President
Joe Biden.
(if this makes you mad, he's also the best one! there's only one!)
Ha Ha
Amazing stuff
South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III and key figures in his Democratic political machine were charged Monday in a sweeping racketeering indictment, alleging that they used their influence over city government to corruptly acquire lucrative waterfront real estate and development rights in Camden.They're Dems because that's what you do to get ahead there, not because they're committed to social justice or whatever. It's really irrelevant. (Platkin is also a D, as is the governor).
Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin unveiled the 13-count indictment at a news conference in Trenton, with Norcross, 68, sitting in the front row.
Struggling With The Story
Tough to do journalism - especially about conflict - when it is difficult to shoehorn it into a narrative.
The heroes and villains framework is not working very well!
Everything Is AI
I knew it was ridiculous at the time, but do you remember awhile back when all those tech geniuses were "freaking out" about the coming singularity that they were creating and "worrying" that they were about to activate Skynet?
The hype machine worked, and everything is AI now.
The hype machine worked, and everything is AI now.
About Our New Boss
Funny stuff from the Post.
LONDON — The alleged offense was trying to steal a soon-to-be-released copy of former prime minister Tony Blair’s memoir.
The suspect arrested by London police in 2010 was John Ford, a once-aspiring actor who has since admitted to an extensive career using deception and illegal means to obtain confidential information for Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper. Facing potential prosecution, Ford called a journalist he said he had collaborated with repeatedly — and trusted to come to his rescue.
That journalist, according to draft book chapters Ford later wrote recounting his ordeal, was Robert Winnett, a Sunday Times veteran who is set to become editor of The Washington Post later this year.
Also Associated With "Popularism"
Eugenics cult.!
Multiple events hosted at a historic former hotel in Berkeley, California, have brought together people from intellectual movements popular at the highest levels in Silicon Valley while platforming prominent people linked to scientific racism, the Guardian reveals.A Real Journalist (not me) needs to do the deep reporting about how many people (some of your faves!) were corrupted by Sam and the gang before FTX imploded.
But because of alleged financial ties between the non-profit that owns the building – Lightcone Infrastructure (Lightcone) – and jailed crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, the administrators of FTX, Bankman-Fried’s failed crypto exchange, are demanding the return of almost $5m that new court filings allege were used to bankroll the purchase of the property.
During the last year, Lightcone and its director, Oliver Habryka, have made the $20m Lighthaven Campus available for conferences and workshops associated with the “longtermism”, “rationalism” and “effective altruism” (EA) communities, all of which often see empowering the tech sector, its elites and its beliefs as crucial to human survival in the far future.
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