SOME AD AGENCY’S VP OF DIGITAL MARKETING IS GETTING FIRED:
This is the ad you make if you want people to think you've never pumped gas before. https://t.co/6okHehcywN
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 8, 2023
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August 8, 2023
JEFF GOLDSTEIN: A Corrective Theory of Everything.
WAS RICARDO MONTALBAN IN THE WRATH OF CANADIANS? Piers Morgan earns the (giggle, snort) wrath of Canadians.
Piers Morgan has made a bunch of Canadians angry.
Stop laughing.
According to the Toronto Star:
English broadcaster and political gadfly Piers Morgan is feeling the wrath of Canadians after he took a shot at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The crime? Well, just look for yourself:
The horror. The horror.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden calls Grand Canyon one of world’s ‘nine wonders’ full of ‘ironic’ species.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Zoom demands workers return to the office.
MICKEY KAUS NOTICES A HOLE IN THE NARRATIVE:
Still don't understand why it's illegal for Trump to have "pressured state election officials," especially if he thought he'd actually won. Levinson analogizes it to breaking into someone's house. It is not at all like breaking into someone's house. https://t.co/yZWUtOTpyz
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) August 8, 2023
CATHOLICS NEED NOT APPLY: Meet Mike and Kitty Burke, traditional Catholics who were rejected by Massachusetts officials as foster parents because they are … traditional Catholics and don’t affirm the LGBQT+ agenda to legalize the mutilation of children who don’t begin to grasp the concepts of sex and gender. My latest PJ Media column has the details.
A SETBACK FOR BIGOTRY AND HATE: Racist Texas teacher who openly bragged about wanting to kill white men has LOST her job.
Related: NYT: calling for genocide is “mostly peaceful” murder. “There are so many problems with the argument that chanting ‘Kill the Boers’ is an anodyne sentiment, not the least of which is that members of the EFF have indeed been killing the Boers. As in massacres of White farmers.”
WAIT, THEY HAD SUVs BACK THEN? Climate Change: The Unseen Power Behind the Rise and Fall of the Tibetan Empire.
WE MIGHT ALSO CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, BUILDING MORE POWER PLANTS: Supercomputer simulation seen as tool to guard against U.S. power grid failures.
YES, MANY PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW THIS, BUT A SURPRISING NUMBER DON’T. IT’S NOT YOUR SON. YOUR SON ISN’T DEFECTIVE. REACH OUT TO THE BOYS: Destroying the Future.
Even if you don’t have a son, reach out to the boys. There is an ocean of silent, suppressed pain out there. And it’s setting our civilizational seed corn on fire. For no good purpose.
GRAY LADY REALLY TAKING THAT WHOLE “DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES” MEME TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL: Emails Show New York Times Collaborating with State Government to Target Orthodox Jews.
A DEEP DIVE FROM GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: And the Strike Dragged On…
The confusion over the WGA A.I. fight is best described by a question I got on Twitter… “is the WGA actually worried that they will be replaced by A.I.?”
The answer is… sort of.
And whether or not you agree depends on whether you think it’s a short-term problem or a long-term one.
In the short-term, I believe the answer is no, with a but.
There is some concern in the short-term that some of the writing steps that are currently done by humans, and which generate significant fees, could be taken over by A.I.
Imagine a long-running formulaic show like a police procedural that has been airing 22 episodes every season for ten years. It is possible that for a show like this, the Network might be able to put all of the previous episodes into an AI program and ask the system to generate new scripts featuring ripped from the front page crime stories. And then even if the scripts are bad, a room with just a couple of human writers in it could revise those scripts and get them into production shape without the need for a full-sized room of ten or more writers.
This is a long piece but, if you’re interested in the writers’ strike, you’ll come away with quite an education.
CORUSCANT’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Megan Rapinoe Gets New Job With Galactic Empire Training Stormtroopers To Shoot. “At publishing time, Rapinoe was already in hot water with imperial leadership as she demanded to be paid as much as Darth Vader.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
CNN'S DANA BASH TODAY:
"I have not talked to a Democrat who wants abortion on demand until time of birth…"
CNN'S DANA BASH JUST LAST SEPTEMBER:
"Your fellow Democrat running for Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, has said that he does not believe that there should be… pic.twitter.com/pW0dUS1FSM
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 8, 2023
THERE ARE CERTAIN HOMES IN PHILLY I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND YOU INVADE: Try That In a Small Town: 5 Armed Would-Be Home Invaders Caught on Philly Neighborhood Doorbell Cam.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Moody’s downgrades US banks, warns of possible cuts to others. “Many banks’ second-quarter results showed growing profitability pressures that will reduce their ability to generate internal capital.”
UNEXPECTEDLY: Beyond Meat cuts annual revenue forecast as faux meat demand dips.
Bogged down by inflationary pressures, customers are opting for lower-priced animal protein over alternatives such as plant-based products.
The ambiguity around the health benefits of plant-based meat is also weighing on growth, said CEO Ethan Brown in a post-earnings call.
“This change in perception is not without encouragement from interest groups who have succeeded in seeding doubt and fear around the ingredients and process used to create our and other plant-based meats,” he added.
It costs more, doesn’t taste as good, has less nutritional value, and isn’t any better for the environment — but other than that it’s far better than actual meat.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: The Queering of Tudor History Continues Apace.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Gay, bisexual men can donate blood as revised FDA rules take effect.