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.

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“REMEMBERING NOTHING, LEARNING NOTHING:” How the FBI Broke the Rules Using Christopher Steele.

LIFE CHANGE: This Guy Changed His Diet and Workout Routine and Lost 50 Pounds in 10 Months.

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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.

GREAT AGAIN: Trump has made America less racist: Anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice has declined since 2016, new study shows.

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).

FAILED JUSTICE: John Paul Stevens Is Still Trying To Defend the Kelo Debacle: In his new memoir, the retired justice seeks to justify his awful eminent domain ruling.

R.I.P. GRUMPY CAT: 2012-2019. You Will Live Forever in Our Memes.

HUGH HEWITT: Sorry, Mr. Vice President, it’s Kamala Harris’s race to lose in 2020.

UGH: Colon cancer striking the young in increasing number worldwide.

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.

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