MICHELLE MALKIN: Dear Oberlin: You had it coming…and you still don’t get it!
The jury voted. Now it’s time for more parents, alumni and donors of ideological insane asylums like Oberlin to vote with their own feet and pocketbooks. De-fund the divisive defamers of American higher education. It’s the only way they’ll learn.
That radical chic colleges are now chum in the water for trial lawyers might help as well.
AT AMAZON, deals in Men’s Accessories.
DIGITAL DEFAMATION: How Secret Algorithms Are Crushing Conservative Media. “Where do I go to get my reputation back, even though nobody knows I lost it?”
DON’T GET COCKY: Why the polls will be wrong about Trump – again.
MICHAEL TOMASKY: The Democratic Civil War Is Here. “If one of these two quarrels is going to metastasize into something ugly, it’ll be Sanders, who remains apart from the party whose nomination he’s running for.”
I dunno — the sniping at Biden is already getting ugly.
FLASHBACK: The Coming Democrat Civil War.
WELL, TO SKYNET, MAYBE: This Video of a Robot Beating Up Humans Is Extremely Satisfying.
HMM: Introducing Guardian Firewall for iOS.
This is from the developer’s press release:
Starting over 2 years ago, we embarked on an ambitious mission: Build a tool that allows any electronic device owner in the world to take back control of their digital privacy. This tool needed to be incredibly easy to use, straightforward, and must allow a user to “set it and forget it” if they did not want to apply any customizations.
We could have cut plenty of corners and shipped an acceptable tool. Instead we took our time and did things right, putting together the most powerful tool and dataset we were capable of building. Why? Because we are working towards a broader set of goals: Make surveillance capitalism an untenable business model. [Emphasis added] Degrade the quality of shadow profiles maintained on every user of an internet connected device. Methodically expose every bad actor we can find. The electronic devices you bought and own should not be snitching on you at regular intervals. Something has gone very wrong, and the course must be corrected to prevent pervasive data collection from becoming an acceptable norm. It’s time for war. No stone will be left unturned.
Thousands of hours and a 5 month back-and-forth with Apple’s App Review team later, this mission has resulted in our creation of the first real firewall for iOS devices. Managed by a unique dataset that is the result of our continuous and exhaustive in-house research, Guardian Firewall updates instantaneously as we discover new threats to ensure that you don’t have to do any work at all. We will find threats before they can find you.
They promise continuing updates through the life of the company, presumably to block new snoops and the inevitable workarounds.
The company says their model allows for “easily portability” to other platforms, so I’d expect an Android version to follow sometime after the full iOS rollout next month.
At $9.99 a month ($99.99/year), Guardian Firewall isn’t cheap — about the top price even the best VPNs charge. But if their service does what they say, this is much more than just another VPN. I’ll test it out for a month after it goes public and report back.
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE DEAD: Supreme Court Upholds A War Memorial Cross On Public Land In Maryland.
Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion for the Court, with a total of seven justices finding that the memorial — known colloquially as the Peace Cross — should be upheld. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the two dissenters.
“After the First World War, the picture of row after row of plain white crosses marking the overseas graves of soldiers who had lost their lives in that horrible conflict was emblazoned on the minds of Americans at home, and the adoption of the cross as the Bladensburg memorial must be viewed in that historical context,” Alito wrote.
“It has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of ‘a hostility toward religion,’” he added.
HMM: Rush Limbaugh Has A Nasty Reality Check For Joe Biden.
“Imagine if you’re Joe Biden last night,” said Rush (transcript via RushLimbaugh.com). “You’re Joe Biden last night, and your advisers come in, and they say, ‘Joe, don’t sweat it, don’t sweat anything that happened last night. What happened last night doesn’t mean anything, Joe. The debates are the only thing that matter, Joe, and you’re gonna wipe the floor with this guy, Joe. You’re gonna wipe the floor about him in the debates, and you got the big money behind you, Joe. You got fundraisers, you’re setting records all over. Joe, don’t sweat this stuff last night.’”
But then came a tweet from Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel early Wednesday morning: “Donald Trump has raised a record-breaking $24.8 million in less than 24 hours for his reelection,” she announced. “The enthusiasm across the country for this president is unmatched, unlike anything we have ever seen.”
Don’t get cocky.
MAKE TEXAS GREAT AGAIN… ER, MORE GREAT: New Texas law will allow handgun owners to carry weapons in church.
ROGER SIMON: Why Are There So Many Homeless in Los Angeles?
I left Los Angeles for Nashville slightly over a year ago. When I call friends back in my former home (for 50 years), most of them tell me I got out just in time.
Actually, they’re wrong. I should have gotten out ten or even fifteen years before. The handwriting was on the wall. “California dreamin’: pace Mama Cass, ‘was no longer a ray-al-it-tee.” It hasn’t been for a long time.
Now everybody knows about 36,000 homeless on the streets of LA, over 60,000 in the county, replete with human feces and syringes littering the sidewalks, along with rats, typhus and even rumors of Bubonic Plague.
And those figures are what we’re told. No one, if you can trust the comments sections in the LA Times or the Next Door app for my old Hollywood neighborhood, remotely believes them. They could three or four times the number. And how do you take a census of the homeless anyway? They are inherently nomadic.
Read the whole thing.
SUMMER CAMP WAS MUCH MORE BENIGN WHEN I WAS A KID: Portland Church Hosts Summer Camp to Train Grade School Kids to Be Antifa Activists.
NEO-FEUDALISM: Joel Kotkin: What Do the Oligarchs Have in Mind for Us? “What kind of world do they have in mind for us? Their vision of what our society should look like is not one most people—on the Left or Right—would like to see. And yet, unless unchecked, it could well be the world we, and particularly our children, will inhabit. . . . The oligarchs are creating a “a scientific caste system,” not dissimilar to that outlined in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1932 novel, Brave New World. Unlike the former masters of the industrial age, they have little use for the labor of middle- and working-class people—they need only their data.”
Plus: “For an industry once known for competition, the level of concentration is remarkable. Google controls nearly 90 percent of search advertising, Facebook almost 80 percent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about 75 percent of US e-book sales, and, perhaps most importantly, nearly 40 percent of the world’s “cloud business.” Together, Google and Apple control more than 95 percent of operating software for mobile devices, while Microsoft still accounts for more than 80 percent of the software that runs personal computers around the world.”
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: The Mother-In-Law From Hell In The Dan Markel Murder Case.
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Judge rips into University of Michigan for evasion, bad faith in accused student’s lawsuit.
CHANGE: In Response To Trump’s Tariff Threat, World’s Top Bicycle Maker Says the Era of ‘Made in China’ Is Over. “The world is no longer flat.”
AND SO IT BEGINS: Kamala Harris accuses Biden of cozying up to segregationists.
That’s pretty poisonous stuff.
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