CARS OF THE FUTURE: The BMW Vision iNext Is Autonomous and Frighteningly Intelligent. I like the front end, but the interior has a seventies vibe.

AT AMAZON, save on Office Supplies.

Plus, deals in Kitchen and Dining.

CIVILIZATIONAL SUICIDE: Norway Fetes Young Muslim Refugee Writer for Trashing Norway.

DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: NPR Wouldn’t Allow Advertisers To Call Kermit Gosnell An ‘Abortion Doctor.’

UNEXPECTEDLY: Outrage over Chinese-Canadian girl murdered by “refugee” shocks media.

HOME OF FORMER INSTA-COBLOGGER ELIZABETH PRICE FOLEY: July 2018 Florida Bar Exam Results: Florida International Is #1 For 5th Year In A Row.

PREP: How the Honda EU2200i Generator Is Getting Me Through Hurricane Florence.

I’m currently on day 4 of Generator Life and I’ve learned a few things along the way. Now that I have some authority on matters of portable power generation, allow me to enlighten you on the finer points of generator selection and operation.

Inverter generators can automatically increase or decrease rpm in response to load. So instead of sitting there chugging along the whole time at 3,600 rpm (the constant rpm that spits out 120-volt AC at 60 Hertz), they can ramp up when a fridge kicks on and then idle back down. That means they’re quieter, use less fuel, and produce much cleaner power. Because the power is essentially filtered through the inverter (AC to DC and back to AC), the sine wave is clean and constant.

Electric devices, especially microprocessors, like clean power. It’s not that a standard generator will fry your TV, but that big Samsung will be happier running off an inverter generator.

This little Honda EU2200i looks like it would fit in a carryon suitcase. From a sheer wattage perspective, it seems dinky. But how much electricity do you need to run, really? Turning on every LED lamp in your house might draw a couple hundred watts. A refrigerator kicking on will momentarily require a lot of power (say, 1,200 watts) but then settle into a constant 200-watt draw.

Depends on whether you want air conditioning.

Plus: “Every time there’s a big storm, people get killed by generators. The main culprit is carbon monoxide: People forget that generators are internal combustion engines and run them in enclosed spaces. The tricky part is that storms that knock out the power also tend to bring precipitation, and you can’t leave a generator out in the rain (see: high voltage).”

You want a battery operated carbon-monoxide detector.

And I have a whole-house generator, but I also have this little Yamaha as a backup.

And as the article says, the time to buy a generator is well before you need one.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Feminists Call New iPhone ‘Sexist’ Because Its Screen Is Too Big for Female Hands.

Apple’s PR department could always just go with it and hire a James Brown sound-a-like to sing “This is a Man’s Man’s Man’s Phone…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rq9OvaJyRc

MILESTONE: Tesla heading to 8000 model 3’s per week and production of $35,000 Model 3.

EVE FAIRBANKS: Well-Off Millennials Are All Julia Salazar. I Wish We Weren’t. “In a culture that lionizes survivors of challenging childhoods, many of us who grew up lucky have been embellishers.”

VIDEO: Project Veritas Unmasks the Deep State: ‘Resist Everything, Every Level. F*ck Sh*t Up!’

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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: “We are 10 steps behind”: Detroit students seek fair access to literacy.

21ST CENTURY HOUSING: Self-driving homes could be the future of affordable housing. “Honda recently announced the IeMobi Concept. It is an autonomous mobile living room that attaches and detaches from your home. When parked, the vehicle becomes a 50-square-foot living or workspace. Mercedes-Benz Vans rolled out an all-electric digitally-connected van with fully integrated cargo space and drone delivery capability, and Volvo just unveiled its 360c concept vehicle that serves as either a living room or mobile office. In other cases, some folks are simply retrofitting existing vehicles. One couple in Oxford England successfully converted a Mercedes Sprinter van into a micro-home that includes 153 square feet of living space, a complete kitchen, a sink, a fridge, a four-person dining area, and hidden storage spaces. For those who are either unwilling or unable to own a home, self-driving van houses could become a convenient and affordable solution.”

Hey, in Progressive meccas, lots of people are already living in their cars, so we’re halfway there already!

#METOO ALLEGATIONS SHOULD ALWAYS BE UNCRITICALLY ACCEPTED UNLESS THEY’RE DIRECTED AT DEMOCRATS: Keith Ellison Accuser, Karen Monahan, Says Democratic Party Doesn’t Believe Her.

THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CITIES: “Madison, Minneapolis, Austin, Portland, San Francisco. These are America’s most progressive, forward-thinking, open-minded, and social-justice-focused cities. They also have the worst racial disparities in the nation and some of the worst racial segregation.”

I guess that’s why they have to virtue-signal so hard.

NIKKI HALEY: ‘Russian Corruption Is Like a Virus,’ Could Sicken UN Security Council. “‘Lying, cheating, and rogue behavior have become the new norm of the Russian culture,’ she says of cheating on North Korean sanctions and covering it up.”

What’s new is having an American UN Ambassador willing to speak up so forcefully about it.

SPYWARE TO GO: In Major Auto Partnership, Google’s Android System to Power Dashboard Media Display.

Google is making a major push into the auto industry, partnering with the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to use the tech company’s Android operating system to power media display that will eventually be sold in millions of cars world-wide.

The auto-making alliance, which together sells more vehicles than any other auto maker, is picking Google to provide the operating system for its next-generation infotainment system, marking a major victory for the Silicon Valley tech giant, which has spent more than a decade trying to replicate the success it has had with the smartphone in the car.

The alliance, which last year sold a combined 10.6 million vehicles globally, will debut the new system in 2021, giving drivers better integration of Google’s maps, app store and voice-activated assistant from the vehicle’s dashboard, the companies said.

The move comes as other auto makers have been reluctant to cede control of this space to tech rivals, in part because they see the technology as generating valuable consumer data that can be turned into new revenue streams.

But can it be turned off, this traveling telescreen?

ANOTHER 2020 PRESIDENTIAL BID FLAMES OUT ON LAUNCH PAD: Joe Biden Downgrades Trump-Supporting ‘Deplorables’ to ‘Dregs of Society,’ Tammy Bruce’s co-blogger writes.

AND EVERYBODY BLAMES THE JEWS: Russian military aircraft downed by Syrian forces, killing 15; Moscow blames Israeli aggression.

RICK MORAN: WaPo’s Attempted Smear of Trump Administration Crashes and Burns.

This was easily WaPo’s most obvious and ham-fisted attempt until the next time.

Update: Link was wrong before, but is correct now. Sorry!

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Moritz Family Fights Ohio State Over Undisclosed 1% Annual Development Fee Charged Against Naming Gift To Law School, As Endowment Has Shrunk From $30m To $22m In 17 Years. Money drained to pay for administrators and their travel/dining? Go figure.

DISRUPTION: Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy.

The most dangerous aspect of the Google mindset, in Gilder’s view, is that security takes a back seat. Security “is the most basic and indispensable component of any information technology,” yet Google almost completely ignores it. Protecting and authenticating data are its users’ and customers’ problems, not Google’s. In a world in which the free exchange of information eventually erases borders and irons out all human differences, the company believes, serious threats to security will disappear anyway. Indeed, Google’s commitment to building an AI-research center in China — where Chinese scientists will be able to develop technologies to help the People’s Liberation Army — while Google employees publicly protest working with the Pentagon gives a clear picture of Google’s failure to take national-security concerns seriously.

So what’s the answer? Gilder is clear and unequivocal: Blockchain is the future, not just because it will protect user data but because it will allow every user safe and immediate access to that data. It will usher in a world beyond Google.

Looks like a good read. I just ordered a copy.