ARTHUR CHRENKOFF ON AUSTRALIA’S EARTHQUAKE: The autumn of our minor discontent: or 24 thoughts about the election.
UPDATE: Australia’s shock election results are drawing comparisons to Trump’s 2016 win.
Archive for 2019
May 18, 2019
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“REMEMBERING NOTHING, LEARNING NOTHING:” How the FBI Broke the Rules Using Christopher Steele.
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YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Fran Lebowitz: ‘We Should Turn Trump Over to the Saudis’ Who Killed Khashoggi.
Look, I’m fine with people joking about whatever they want to joke about. But if I’m “inciting violence” by merely criticizing a Democrat — hi, Ilhan! — then something like this is definitely “inciting violence.” And if you say it, just own it. Don’t claim you were “misinterpreted.” You weren’t.
Earlier: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
THE GOOGLE CITY THAT HAS ANGERED TORONTO:
It was meant to be a vision of how we will all live in future — a smart city built from the internet up — offering citizens the chance to experience the very latest technology.
That would include autonomous cars, innovative ways to collect rubbish and shared spaces for communities to come together in new ways.
Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, had acquired disused land in Toronto, Canada for this bold urban experiment, which it hoped would become a model for other cities around the world.
The fact that it would be collecting a lot of data from sensors placed all around the harbourside development unsettled some.
Now many are asking whether a private firm should take charge of urban improvement at all.
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“We have not been talking about the fact that it is normalising massive data collection or even asking whether anyone wants this thing at all. No-one here has asked for a sensor-laden neighbourhood,” she said.
“Our waterfront must be developed for the benefit of the citizens of Toronto, not the shareholders of a Google-affiliate.”
Related: Alphabet’s smart neighborhood could have shape-shifting ‘superblocks.’
Too many cities are built around cars rather than people. Sidewalk Labs, an offshoot of Google’s parent company Alphabet, wants its smart neighborhood in Toronto to be different. It’s considering a so-called superblock concept, modeled after Barcelona’s, that bundles smaller streets together and limits vehicles to the perimeter. The smaller lanes inside each superblock would then become safer, quieter spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. Sidewalk Labs wants to go a step further, though, with real-time traffic monitoring and movable street furniture. These would allow the company to create smart, dynamic superblocks that subtly change with the time of day and needs of its residents.
So it’s the spying and data collection of 1984 meets the urban “tuning” of the 1998 film Dark City. That’s not creepy at all.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Onion editor regrets portraying Joe Biden as skeevy yet loveable uncle.
RIP: The famous architect I.M. Pei has died at the age of 102.
To get a sense of what Pei’s architecture could do to an American city, check out the early 1970s video of an Oklahoma City urban renewal project embedded in this 2016 Bleat by James Lileks: “Rah-rah as you’d expect. A local booster takes a money-man and his wife around town to show what they’re doing, and when he mentioned ‘The Pei Plan’ I stopped the video. That would be I. M. Pei. That would be the last guy I wanted designing my downtown.” As Lileks writes, “This is about building things, yes. But more about destroying them.”
GERMAN CROSSBOW VICTIMS WERE PART OF MEDIEVAL SEX CULT.
Ayn Rand beabsichtigte nicht, dass die Rückkehr des Primitiven eine Anleitung sein sollte.
INSTANT KARMA’S GONNA GET YOU: College Student Shocked to be Arrested for Stealing Pro-Life Sign (Video).
PRIVACY IS NOT A PRIORITY: 33 Linksys router models leak full historic record of every device ever connected.
JULIETTE “BALDILOCKS” OCHIENG COULD USE SOME HELP. I donated.
FEDERAL FUNDING FOR CALIFORNIA BULLET TRAIN BOONDOGGLE FORMALLY CANCELED: “The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday formally terminated a $929 million grant to help pay for the construction of a high-speed rail line that was originally supposed to link Los Angeles and San Francisco… The feds are also still seriously considering trying to force California to pay back $2.5 billion of federal funds that have already been spent. So the skyrocketing costs of this trainwreck may eventually include repaying $2.5 billion to Washington.”
Earlier: California’s High-Speed Rail Disaster Is a ‘Shot Across the Bow for the Green New Deal.’
CHANGE: Feds Announce They Will Stop Regulating the Number of Cherries in Cherry Pies.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
WHY ARE LEFTIST-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF ABUSE? Ohio State Finds 177 Cases of Abuse of Former Students: Report finds that university employees knew about the abuse by a doctor and failed to act.
QUESTION ASKED: Why progressive anti-Semitism and why now?
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