Archive for 2017
November 28, 2017
I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Top Enlisted Leaders Push Back: There Is No Readiness ‘Crisis.’
It’s difficult to know whether to trust the worries of the brass looking for bigger budgets, or the assurances of the other brass who don’t want it to look like they’ve wasted the money we’ve already given them.
I WAS TALKING THE OTHER DAY ABOUT “SELF-REPORTING:” Does the United States Have the World’s Best Drivers? Sure, Just Ask Us.
RELIGION OF PEACE: Egypt’s Al-Sisi a Big Disappointment to Coptic Christians.
NORTH KOREA FIRES ANOTHER BALLISTIC MISSILE: The pause is over. At this point the type of ballistic missile fired is not known.
RELATED: Japan reports the missile crashed in its maritime Exclusive Economic Zone.
HEADLINES FROM 1992, 1998, 2001, 2006… Most Believe Sex Allegations Against Bill Clinton.
NO ONE WILL GO TO JAIL, AND PROBABLY NO ONE WILL BE FIRED: Government watchdog: VA didn’t report bad providers.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported.
Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how long it takes to send help.
Facebook previously tested using AI to detect troubling posts and more prominently surface suicide reporting options to friends in the U.S. Now Facebook is will scour all types of content around the world with this AI, except in the European Union, where General Data Protection Regulation privacy laws on profiling users based on sensitive information complicate the use of this tech.
This seems ripe for abuse.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: WHEN WOMEN SEXUALLY HARASS. I told my office buddy I have a crush on him (but I’m not single). “After some awkwardness, our friendship seemed to resume as normal. Then in recent months he noticeably stopped speaking to me. I apologized for mentioning my crush and asked if I did something new to upset him or if my continued presence at work makes him uncomfortable. He dodged both questions, and now will only speak to me when absolutely necessary to get work done using the bare minimum number of words.”
WELL, YES: Uber’s claim that hackers fully deleted stolen data is ‘nonsensical.’ “Uber’s been sued at least 11 times in just 1 week, faces new scrutiny from Senate.”
The broadly-similar proposed 10 class-action suits were filed in several federal courts across the country: in San Francisco; Los Angeles; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Portland, Chicago; and even Huntsville, Alabama.
On Monday, a group of senators, lead by Sen. John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), specifically asked for a “detailed timeline” of the incident, among other demands due by December 11.Similarly, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) also had an even more damning question.
“To the extent Uber had lawfully acquired information enabling it to identify the hackers who had compromised its systems, ensure they would abide by agreements to delete the data and not to disclose the breach, and transfer them $100,000, it conceivably had enough information at hand to assist law enforcement in the apprehension of these criminals,” he wrote.
“Why did Uber choose not to provide relevant forensic information to law enforcement and has this information been provided to law enforcement in the last week?”
Why indeed.
WELL, IT’S REALLY JUST THERE AS AN EXCUSE AND AN ESCAPE ANYWAY: Therapy for Sexual Misconduct? It’s Mostly Unproven.
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW: So what’s the dirt on Luis Gutiérrez?
THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE EDITORIALIZES: Franken’s apology fails the full candor test. “Franken’s apology is less a statement of accountability and more akin to ‘I’m sorry for what you think I did.’ Franken may just be trying to ride out the storm, as is the case too often these days.” It’s only meant to pass the “I want to stay a Senator” test.
Whatever role transgenders can or should have in the military, allowing civilian courts to determine military policy is never a good idea.
I THINK THAT WAS MOSTLY A COVER STORY, BUT YEAH: One reason liberals let Bill Clinton off the hook in the ’90s? They were afraid of looking like prudes. Ideas about European “worldliness” helped Clinton hold on to his liberal base. But the main reason was what is always the main reason: Power.
OTHER SHOE DROPS: Second ex-staffer accuses Conyers of sexual harassment.
UPDATE: John Conyers Is The Albatross That Democrats Deserve. “The controversy over Conyers arrives as some liberal Democrats now say that Bill Clinton should have resigned as president for his sexual misconduct. Of course, they could have said that 20 years ago, or even one year ago. The evasion over John Conyers makes it clear that if the Clintons had any political juice left, it would be a very different story.”
ED MORRISSEY: CBS News’ headaches may just have started with Charlie Rose rather than ending with him.
More:
Erin Gee worked for seventeen years at the network and claims that a systemic environment of abuse got so bad that one boss told her to sleep with an editor after complaining about his work.
According to Gee, Klug later followed up with a query to another male boss to see whether he had slept with his female subordinates, specifically Gee. Gee got demoted to the weekends after filing a formal complaint in 2015, according to the lawsuit, after being told that the network would investigate the issue. Klug, also a former director of the network’s flagship news program 60 Minutes, got a promotion not long afterward.
However, the Daily Mail notes that Gee’s complaint didn’t get too far with the EEOC, which prompted the lawsuit. CBS News denies the allegations.
The Rose case may make this a little more difficult to sustain.
The infotainment industry has been getting away with — even nurturing — all kinds of sexual manipulation and predation, while lecturing ordinary, non-predatory Americans about how awful they are.
Even after all these weeks of horrific revelations, the Democrat-Media complex seems to think they can offer up a few public sacrifices and circle the wagons around the rest. But I’m not convinced it’s going to work this time, given the scope and nature of allegations.