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Archive for 2018
July 17, 2018
THEY CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES: Bobcat Goldthwait Swings, Misses with Trump Attack.
WHEN ART BECOMES A LONG CON, SOMEONE WILL PLAY IT: Jeff Koons and the Establishment Art World’s Condescending Cult.
ROLL LEFT AND DIE: A New Low In Corporate Virtue-Signaling.
SHE USUALLY IS: Go home, Hillary. You’re drunk.
THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: Ocasio-Cortez Repeats Anti-Israel Script, Knows Nothing.
OF COURSE THEY ARE! THE NYT IS THE VOICE OF THE LEFT AND THE LEFT PROJECTS MORE THAN AN IMAX: The NY Times is homophobic.
IT’S NOT LIKE TRUMP GAVE PUTIN 20% OF OUR URANIUM… OR SAID HE’D HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY LATER, SPEAKING OF PUPPETS: Trump and Putin and the fear-mongering MSM.
July 16, 2018
HUH – HOW DID HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF “BAD LUCK” START TO END? Ocasio-Cortez Credits Prosperity Under Capitalism to ‘Course of Human Evolution.’
She granted that capitalism was temporarily the “most efficient and best” system, but that it must change “as we evolve.”
“We’re starting to see that the people who create value in society are not experiencing any portion of the value that they are creating. So I do think that, absolutely, capitalism was the most efficient and best economy, perhaps, for the time that it was at, perhaps. But as we evolve, as automation begins to take out extremely large industries, we have to say that we aren’t going to throw those people away,” she said.
On whether democratic socialism calls for an end to capitalism, the candidate expressed openness to the idea.
“Ultimately we are marching towards progress on this issue. I do think that we are going to see an evolution in our economic system of an unprecedented degree. And it’s hard to say what direction that that takes,” she said.
Hoover pressed on whether she though capitalism would be the dominant system in the future, and Ocasio-Cortez said, “it’s absolutely a question.”
Jonah Goldberg didn’t intend for the title of his new book, Suicide of the West, to be misunderstood as a how-to guide.
PRIME DAY: Makita Cordless Drill Kit $50 off.
OPEN THREAD: Bring Monday to a rousing close.
“TURNING?” Forget those other countries. It’s San Francisco that’s turning into a s***hole.
Related: Life after the Bay Area: Fleeing residents feel heartbreak, joy.
GOP donors really need to get going on Glenn’s “welcome wagon” idea.
HMM: U.S. Army to introduce new physical fitness test. “The new test, announced this week, changes the name from the Army Physical Fitness Test to the Army Combat Fitness Test and is planned to become gender and age neutral. It will include a series of physical events, while the APFT was a series of pushups, situps and a 2-mile run. The new standards call for deadlift tests, throwing ten-pound balls for distance backwards, and hand-relaese pushups that require hands to be taken off the ground for greater muscle tension. It also includes sled drags to simulate casualties, sprints with 40-pound kettle bells, hanging from a pull-up bar with legs up and the standard 2-mile run.” The “gender neutral” bit worries me, but this doesn’t sound bad.
PRIME DAY: 20% off Gerber Multitools.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Democrats Dump Moderates, Move Far Left.
I NOTICE A LOT OF FOLKS IN THE PRESS HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBERING EVENTS FROM 2009-2016: CDC: 1 in 9 U.S. adults over 45 reports memory problems.
JACK WELCH SUCCESSOR DESTROYED GE HE INHERITED:
Within Welch’s GE, there was an accepted belief that GE Capital, the company’s highly successful financial arm, should never exceed 40 percent of GE’s profits or revenues. This was thought to be a delicate balance, the ideal level to enhance the industrial businesses and to retain the company’s once pristine Triple-A credit rating. Undaunted, Immelt grew it to 55 percent of the company’s portfolio, just at the onset of the Great Recession, ignoring this long-held belief. It didn’t work all that well.
[Jeff] Immelt was more of an outside CEO, eager to play public statesman in Washington, advising President Barack Obama, giving speeches and collecting awards, and not enough like Jack Welch, who was a roll-up-your-sleeves CEO who reveled in operational details, asked the hard questions, cultivated deep engagement with his leadership team, and never suffered fools gladly.
SO AFTER OBAMA WON IN 2012, WE WERE TOLD THAT THE DEMOCRATS’ MASTERY OF DATA AND SOCIAL MEDIA LEFT THE REPUBLICANS IN AN IMPOSSIBLY DEEP HOLE. But now: “Tech for Campaigns has focused on a particularly challenging assignment: dragging Democratic campaigns into the digital age, before it is too late.”
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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education.
In a corner of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company’s usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon Musk, they are tackling ambitious projects involving flamethrowers, robots, nuclear politics, and defeating evil AIs.
Those at Ad Astra still find time for a quick game of dodgeball at lunch, however, because the average age within this group is just 10 years old.
Ad Astra encompasses students, not employees. For the past four years, this experimental non-profit school has been quietly educating Musk’s sons, the children of select SpaceX employees, and a few high-achievers from nearby Los Angeles. It started back in 2014, when Musk pulled his five young sons out of one of Los Angeles’ most prestigious private schools for gifted children. Hiring one of his sons’ teachers, the CEO founded Ad Astra to “exceed traditional school metrics on all relevant subject matter through unique project-based learning experiences,” according to a previously unreported document filed with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
“I just didn’t see that the regular schools were doing the things that I thought should be done,” he told a Chinese TV station in 2015. “So I thought, well let’s see what we can do. Maybe creating a school will be better.”
Hmm.