I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THERE’S ANYTHING THEY WANT TO PROTECT: Kenosha Rioters Destroyed ‘the Very Neighborhoods That They Want to Protect.’
Archive for 2020
September 11, 2020
DISPATCHES FROM THE NATIONAL FELONS LEAGUE: NFL player falsified pandemic loan applications, used proceeds to buy Dior, Gucci luxury goods: DOJ.
DECOUPLING: Huawei closing enterprise hardware division in the UK. “ Huawei has been on the US ‘non-entity’ list since last year, a status that prevents US companies from doing business with it without a licence. This effective blacklisting has limited Huawei’s access to key US technologies such as the Android operating system, with Samsung recently revealing it would end sales of smartphone components to Huawei.”
Even if Huawei weren’t a Communist front corporation, it is certainly a vampire corporation that gained its strength by sucking Nortel dry via corporate espionage.
I’D RATHER NOT HAVE CCP-APPROVED ALGOS ON MY PHONE: Inside TikTok’s killer algorithm. “TikTok concedes that its ability to nail users’ preferences so effectively means that its algorithm can produce ‘filter bubbles,’ reinforcing users’ existing preferences rather than showing them more varied content, widening their horizons, or offering them opposing viewpoints.“
On second thought, there doesn’t appear to be anything all that special about TikTok’s algo, which seems to operate just like any other social media algo.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The president of the University of North Texas tweeted that the college is “looking into” a conservative student group after a student tweeted that she feels “unsafe” by the group’s affiliation with UNT. Somebody needs to “look into” how UNT got such an awful president as Neal Smatresk.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Memories of 9/11 During A Different Kind of Painful Time for America. “As I look around America in 2020 I wonder how we would react to another 9/11 if, God forbid, something like that happened again soon.”
19 YEARS AGO TODAY, WE SAID “NEVER FORGET,” BUT WE MOSTLY HAVE. Maybe that’s okay, in a way. As hardly anyone has noticed, Trump’s mideast peace deals have pulled the teeth of Islamic terror — without funding from the Saudis and the other rich Arab states, these “grassroots” terror movements miraculously disappear, just as the “people-based” communist revolutions vanished as soon as the Soviet Union went belly-up and quit funding them. And also, with fracking, there’s not as much Arab money lying around to begin with.
No one who was alive and aware that day will forget it, but my law students are already mostly young enough not to really remember it.
But look at it this way: The Bush presidency was basically all about reacting to 9/11. The Obama presidency was mostly about reacting to the Bush presidency’s reaction to 9/11. Trump’s presidency has been about putting the United States in a position where things like that won’t happen. I’ll take it.
SOMETHING I WROTE IN 2002: American Dunkirk.
People at Ground Zero, the Manhattan Waterfront, nearby New Jersey, Staten Island and Brooklyn waterfronts, and crews on the numerous vessels repeatedly used the phrases “just amazing,” “everyone cooperated, and “just doing what it took” to describe maritime community responses. Individuals stepped up and took charge of specific functions, and captains and crews from other companies took their direction. . . . Private maritime operators kept their vessels onsite and available until Friday, Day Four, when federal authorities took over.
“Day Four, when federal authorities took over.”
CARING: Dems Block GOP Covid Aid Package. Hey, you can’t expect them to help Americans when there’s a GOP president and an election just weeks away.
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO DOWNLOADED! My Rethinking Libel for the 21st Century is now #1 on SSRN’s recent downloads list.
FLASHBACK: The Falling Man.
JUST, YOU KNOW, SPITBALLING HERE — BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED BEING LESS RIDICULOUS? Woodward whines Trump ‘was ridiculing me.’ I mean, it’s worth a try.
COLD CIVIL WAR TURNING INCREASINGLY HOT: Has the Second American Civil War Already Started?
STRATEGYPAGE’S LATEST ISRAEL UPDATE: Peace Deals, Ceasefires And Stalemates.
BETTER, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH; END THE LOCKDOWNS: 884,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week.
LAUNCHED OVER THE PHILIPPINE SEA: An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. Photo taken Sept. 6, 2020.
AT THIS POINT THE NFL WOULD HAVE TO GENERATE FAKE ENTHUSIASM EVEN WITHOUT THE COVID RESTRICTIONS: NFL games will have artificial crowd noise specific to each stadium.