PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER THEMSELVES: Wedding guest shamed for lengthy list of ‘rules’ for bridal party to follow.
Archive for 2019
April 22, 2019
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SARAH HOYT: Shhh… Someone Did Something to ‘Easter Worshippers’ in Sri Lanka.
It’s impolite to use the C-word, apparently.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities: Georgia Tech’s augmented-reality interface gives control over complex robots to the people who need them.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Earth Day Is About Being Scolded by Celebrities.
Correction: Celebrities with the biggest carbon footprints.
OH, MAXWELL. . . Thermodynamic magic enables cooling without energy consumption. Okay, no Maxwell’s Demon here, but still sort of cool.
BILL GERTZ: U.S. Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats. “John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump.”
AS GLENN GREENWALD SAYS, THEIR BRAINS ARE BROKEN: Byron York: For some Dems, breaking up with dossier is hard to do.
PRIVACY: That mental health app might share your data without telling you.
By intercepting the data transmissions, they discovered that 92 percent of the 36 apps shared the data with at least one third party — mostly Facebook- and Google-run services that help with marketing, advertising, or data analytics. (Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.) But about half of those apps didn’t disclose that third-party data sharing, for a few different reasons: nine apps didn’t have a privacy policy at all; five apps did but didn’t say the data would be shared this way; and three apps actively said that this kind of data sharing wouldn’t happen. Those last three are the ones that stood out to Steven Chan, a physician at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, who has collaborated with Torous in the past but wasn’t involved in the new study. “They’re basically lying,” he says of the apps.
The researchers don’t know what these third-party sites were doing with this user data. “We live in an age where, with enough breadcrumbs, it’s possible to reidentify people,” Torous says. It’s also possible the breadcrumbs just sit there, he says — but for now, they just don’t know. “What happens to this digital data is kind of a mystery.”
You don’t have to be a user of Facebook’s or Google’s services for them to have enough breadcrumbs to ID you.
PROSECUTORIAL BLACKMAIL: Karol Markowicz: Why Bob Kraft’s ordeal should alarm us all.
Of course, when the police admitted months later that no human trafficking had occurred, it was too late. They had tied Kraft to the despicable crime of sex trafficking and then simply moved on. No corrections were issued on any of these stories.
Having spread this vicious lie about Kraft, the state attorney moved on to other methods of torment. Because Kraft wouldn’t admit his guilt, which could lead to repercussions from the NFL, the state attorney has moved to release the videos law enforcers allegedly took of Kraft at the massage parlor.
Why would prosecutors want to do that? A prominent criminal defense attorney in New York told me: “Arguably, the district attorney’s announcement that it would release some of the Kraft tapes is rooted in gamesmanship. It’s been well publicized that Kraft turned down the initial [plea] offer, and this is likely an effort to get him to agree to a disposition.”
Kneel and confess guilt, or we will release embarrassing footage of you. That shouldn’t be how our justice system operates.
This is a breach of prosecutorial ethics. Someone should complain to the Florida bar.
OLD AND BUSTED: Democrat presidential candidates promising to ban coal mines.
The New Hotness? NYC Mayor de Blasio: ‘We Are Going to Ban’ Glass and Steel Skyscrapers.
“We are going to ban the classic glass and steel skyscrapers which are incredibly inefficient,” he continued. “If someone wants to build one of those things they can take a whole lot of steps to make it energy efficient, but we’re not going to allow what we’ve seen in the past.”
The mayor added that New York’s government is going to get all its energy from renewable sources “in the next five years.”
New York has already begun implementing some of those policies.
Last week, the New York City Council passed a bill enforcing strict new standards on large buildings with the goal of reducing their carbon footprint.
To be fair, de Blasio’s apparent goal of banning New York’s subway system also appears to be going remarkably well.
UPDATE: De Blasio tries to explain daily SUV trips amid pitch for his Green New Deal.
MARK ELLIS: Tea Party Memories: The Way It Was.
It was a noble movement, choked to death by hucksters, establishment Republicans, and Obama’s IRS.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Mueller report: Donald Trump collusion conspiracy theories are now exposed. Will they end? “After two years of what can fairly be described as mass hysteria afflicting a huge portion of our political class, the cognitive dissonance is painful. . . . It’s like a doomsday cult whose predicted apocalypse fails to appear on schedule: They just announce that they made a mathematical mistake, and doomsday will actually come next year. Then they ask for more donations. The trouble is, this time it’s a cult that’s running a significant part of our nation.”
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: U.S. Authorities Arrest Ex-Marine for Anti-Kim Raid on Spanish North Korean Embassy.
CRY ME A RIVER: Clintonworld stews over Mueller report.
I couldn’t find much of anything in Alex Thompson’s Politico report that wasn’t carrying water for the Clinton camp specifically or Democrats generally, so you can safely skip this one.
THEY TOLD ME IF DONALD TRUMP WERE ELECTED PRESIDENT, AMERICA’S INSTITUTIONS WOULD BECOME HOTBEDS OF RACISM AND HATE. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Black students explode in anger at white students in vulgarity-laced rant (VIDEO).
Plus: “We try to create space for us, it don’t work. We want some money to f***ing cook some fried f***king chicken and be n*****s for once, it don’t work. I just don’t get it.”
WEIRDLY DIFFERENT TREATMENT. A friend on Facebook comments, “Asymmetric warfare.”
“Easter worshippers” is a new term to me, but suddenly a bunch of Democratic politicians are using it in unison.
SABRE ESCORT: An F-86 Sabre jet flies in formation with an F-22 Raptor, F-35A Lightning II and an A-10C Thunderbolt II during the Thunder & Lightning Over Arizona air show at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 23, 2019.
WW2 HISTORICAL PHOTO: Doolittle Raiders’ B-25 bombers in transit, sometime in April 1942.