Wednesday, May 09, 2018
Breaking News From the Halifax Examiner
Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure.
This story would never have come to light without a dogged, independent press. We need so much more of that, not just in Halifax, but all over the entire world. Kudos to Tim for sticking with the story and spending lots of money to get to the truth.
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This story would never have come to light without a dogged, independent press. We need so much more of that, not just in Halifax, but all over the entire world. Kudos to Tim for sticking with the story and spending lots of money to get to the truth.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2018
I Can't Wait
The grift in American politics is you do your time in "service" [god i hate that] and then you cash out. If you think this is not corrupt, America politics is surprisingly not corrupt!
No one explained this to the Trumpkins. Or maybe they did and they didn't care.
No one explained this to the Trumpkins. Or maybe they did and they didn't care.
Follow The Money
I've been a bit of a Russia "skeptic" and that I sorta thought My President was a bit right about one thing - going after election "collusion" was legally and politically not especially helpfully. What exactly is he being accused of?
But I also thought that if there's anything there...it's the money laundering.
But I also thought that if there's anything there...it's the money laundering.
Good Dumb Movies
There is an ur-Bill and Ted Movie that we all imagine that is much better than the actual Bill and Ted movies, but that we can imagine it means there was something there.
Once I wondered out loud on this sucky blog, as I do, why Keanu got so much work. I actually like Keanu but he wasn't *obviously* a box office draw based on numbers at the time I wondered this. Someone who said they were in the biz (probably true! can't verify) responded, basically:
He's nice to everybody, shows up on time, learns his lines, doesn't problematically drink or do drugs.
Following 1989's Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and 1991's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal that a much-discussed third Bill & Ted installment – Bill & Ted Face the Music – is now firmly in the works some 27 years later. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to reprise their iconic roles as time-traveling metalheads "Ted" Theodore Logan and "Bill" S. Preston Esq.
Once I wondered out loud on this sucky blog, as I do, why Keanu got so much work. I actually like Keanu but he wasn't *obviously* a box office draw based on numbers at the time I wondered this. Someone who said they were in the biz (probably true! can't verify) responded, basically:
He's nice to everybody, shows up on time, learns his lines, doesn't problematically drink or do drugs.
Rings
Having spent some additional time in the suburbs lately I can say - holy hell what the fuck have we created?
I spent my late growing up years (after some stints in Australia and Switzerland and elsewhere) in what we would now call the exurbs but they aren't exurbs anymore. I mean, they are, sort of, but now they're more suburbs of the suburbs, which is to say suburbs without an urb.
The traffic is...intense. I don't mean rush hour traffic on the commute to the urb. That has long been true. I mean everywhere. All those country lanes that grew up to be paved roads and then...couldn't grow up anymore. They're just clogged. That cute bridge is now backed up constantly. No one seems to understand that maybe an additional traffic light would be good? Those 4 way stops are not.
I laugh at people who say driving in the city is hard. First, you don't have to drive. Second, yes, driving in and out of the city is a nightmare. Driving in it? Eh, don't do it, but it isn't hard.
I spent my late growing up years (after some stints in Australia and Switzerland and elsewhere) in what we would now call the exurbs but they aren't exurbs anymore. I mean, they are, sort of, but now they're more suburbs of the suburbs, which is to say suburbs without an urb.
The traffic is...intense. I don't mean rush hour traffic on the commute to the urb. That has long been true. I mean everywhere. All those country lanes that grew up to be paved roads and then...couldn't grow up anymore. They're just clogged. That cute bridge is now backed up constantly. No one seems to understand that maybe an additional traffic light would be good? Those 4 way stops are not.
I laugh at people who say driving in the city is hard. First, you don't have to drive. Second, yes, driving in and out of the city is a nightmare. Driving in it? Eh, don't do it, but it isn't hard.
Your Liberal Media
Just thought these tweets by NYT reporters that I saw moments apart should be preserved in baby blue amber.
My take on this, is it reflects the rise of Eric and Don Jr as executives at the company, who were more debt averse, having watched their dad go bankrupt by overextended himself. They shifted to a more cash-based business. https://t.co/c0nKhcGiv2
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) May 7, 2018
Great piece by @bariweiss https://t.co/JKqe2tvcxI
— Sabrina Tavernise (@stavernise) May 8, 2018
So Basically Murder
I've long said I don't think "safety" is really the concern about self-driving cars in that if they work in a useful way they'll be safe, but that view didn't address the "actually they don't work but they're on the streets anyway" issue.
This isn't some trolley problem wank, this is just what happens when your concept doesn't work. You have to dial down the safety provisions because otherwise your dumb car is going to be bad. I mean bad in the sense of not being very useful. Killing people is, also, too, bad.
Uber has concluded the likely reason why one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian earlier this year, according to tech outlet The Information. The car’s software recognized the victim, Elaine Herzberg, standing in the middle of the road, but decided it didn’t need to react right away, the outlet reported, citing two unnamed people briefed on the matter.
This isn't some trolley problem wank, this is just what happens when your concept doesn't work. You have to dial down the safety provisions because otherwise your dumb car is going to be bad. I mean bad in the sense of not being very useful. Killing people is, also, too, bad.
He Died On Teevee
Another funny thing about Trump (ok he is president so nothing can really be funny) is that he likes really awful TV characters, like the equivalent of C-list Love Boat guests. Rudy has less charisma than I do.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly irritated with lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s frequently off-message media blitz, which has included muddying the waters on hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels and making claims that could complicate the president’s standing in the special counsel’s Russia probe.
Trump has begun questioning whether Giuliani, an old friend and former New York City mayor, should be sidelined from television interviews, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking but not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.
Time For Another Blogger Ethics Panel
There really is just this 'lol of course conservatives all corrupt nothing matters" attitude these days.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt placed a polluted California area on his personal priority list of Superfund sites targeted for “immediate and intense” action after conservative radio and television host Hugh Hewitt brokered a meeting between him and lawyers for the water district that was seeking federal help to clean up the polluted Orange County site.
Monday, May 07, 2018
I'm So Behind On Nerd Things
I did not see the last guy with a hammer movie so I haven't yet seen the 300 superheroes save the universe movie. I hope that Deadpool movie is good because I am horrible and really loved the first one.
There Are No Options
And certainly not if these incompetents are in charge of "Brexit".
I was going to excerpt a bit of this article but it's gibberish because the whole process is gibberish.
I was going to excerpt a bit of this article but it's gibberish because the whole process is gibberish.
DFW
I liked Infinite Jest but it was the only David Foster Wallace book I ever read. It was clever and different and this sucky blog's name is a reference to/from it. Now that I am older and wiser (two steps forward, 1.9 steps back as always) I get a bit more how it is, despite its additional cleverness, another entry in the "justifying why men suck" genre. That doesn't make it bad, but I do know now that my life would have been better spent reading good novels about other subjects by people who were interested in other subjects. Of course the exploration of human frailty is a standard thing in fiction, but "because boners" has maybe been done enough.
Also he was bad.
Also he was bad.
Impeach
Trump is never going to be impeached. This is not a comment on what should happen, just on what will. I don't know why people perpetuate this fantasy.
Dems in the House with subpoena power will make things interesting, but impeachment will never happen (neither the House trial nor certainly not the Senate conviction).
Dems in the House with subpoena power will make things interesting, but impeachment will never happen (neither the House trial nor certainly not the Senate conviction).
Rudy
The fetishes of our political press are...weird. I know everybody says "oh, well, Rudy made us feel better when he walked around on camera on 9/11" and fine I don't have any interest in arguing about that. But he was always an absurd character and he never deserved to be treated as he was.
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