ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: Apple’s Siri says Israeli president is ‘President of the Zionist occupation state.’ I saw this on Facebook last night, and several of my friends confirmed it, though by the time I got there it had been “corrected.”
It’s a difficult world, where you can’t be sure that your devices actually work for you. In this case the weakness wasn’t Siri itself, but Siri’s reliance on the unreliable Wikipedia.
APPLE’S SIRI TELLS YOU ISRAEL IS A “ZIONIST OCCUPATION STATE“: As of 10am, only i24News and The Post-Millenial have covered this at all. Apple’s Siri scrapes Wikipedia for “answers” about public figures. So it appears that last night one of the SJW crusaders who call themselves Wikipedia editors decided to change the entry for Israeli President Rivlin as follows:
The entry was fixed about an hour after it was noticed. The Post-Millennial news blog dug into the story and asserts that the vandalism (not a “hack”) occurred in the SJW world of Wikipedia editors.
Not a word from “major” legacy media as of 10am. You can bet your bottom dollar if they called Nancy Pelosi a pedophile or called Oprah a drug addict, this would be a much more “important” story.
Yes, most of us know that usually only stupid people rely on Wikipedia as the central foundation for a theory or factual statement. Yet, others make a career of it. AOC used Wikipedia to smear Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller in public, relying on Wikipedia to slanderously describe the publication as “White Nationalist.” It’s not. Not even close. (Disclosure: I provide media law advice to TDC).
There ought to be a full investigation, but major legacy media is fixated on whether or not Prince Harry can continue to call himself “Prince.”
**UPDATE: At least Newsweek catches up.
CLARICE FELDMAN: The “Trump Grabbed Schrodinger’s Pussy” Theory. “He is not only the cause of all known phenomena in the universe but the cause of all potential phenomena as well.”
ROGER KIMBALL ON THE PRIMARY: Democrats Consume Themselves.
WHEN HACKS CAN’T EVEN HACK RIGHT.
Trump campaign pointing out sad, prayerful, heavy-hearted impeachment moment between Nancy Pelosi and Bill Maher. https://t.co/CG4jLxXDmh
— Byron York (@ByronYork) January 19, 2020
DUMBEST HOT TAKE OF 2020: Trump voters motivated by racism may be violating the Constitution. Can they be stopped? Of course, the year is still young. But the nonstop desire of lefties to beat Trump by doing anything other than simply winning an election speaks volumes.
OF COURSE HE DOES: Senator Biden Paid Men More Than Women, Now Blames Pay Gap on White Men.
BUT IT WAS NICELY AUTOGRAPHED: Pelosi’s Pen not Mightier than Trump’s Sword.
BUT I’M SURE IT’S TRUMP’S FAULT SOMEHOW: Puerto Rico governor fires emergency director after aid is found sitting in warehouse. “Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced fired the island’s emergency management director on Saturday, after a video showing aid sitting unused in a warehouse went viral on social media. Some of the aid has allegedly been sitting in the warehouse since Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.”
OPEN THREAD: This is your time.
“STUMBLES.” Donald Trump Stumbles Into a Foreign-Policy Triumph.
UPDATE: From the comments: “We musn’t underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.”
THEY WEREN’T “MISTAKES,” THEY WERE CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT AND PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL: The FBI Wants To Treat Carter Page Warrant Mistakes Like Training Problems. A Court Adviser Says That’s Not Enough.
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LEARN TO CODE: Harry and Meghan drop royal duties and HRH titles. “The couple will also no longer formally represent The Queen. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex intend to repay £2.4m of taxpayer money for the refurbishment of Frogmore Cottage, which will remain their UK family home, the statement added.”
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