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March 11, 2024
“EMBRACE THE STUPID”: U.S. Prepares to Take a Long Walk Off Biden’s Short Gaza Pier.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY? Tufts Jewish students report being ‘spat’ on during student gov meeting: ‘Go back to Israel.’
GAZA WAR: Hamas Bets on Ramadan to Help It Survive Israel’s Assault.
Hamas’s chief in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is also calculating that Ramadan, which begins with the new-moon sighting expected Monday or Tuesday, could spark violence near religious sites in Jerusalem, expanding the conflict beyond Gaza and drawing Iran and Hezbollah deeper and more directly into his war against Israel, according to political analysts.
Israel has warned that unless a deal is reached by Ramadan to release hostages and pause the fighting, its military will push ahead with plans to attack Hamas in its last stronghold of Rafah on Gaza’s southern border, where an estimated 1.5 million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
Cease-fire talks are expected to resume Sunday. But their halting progress is increasing the likelihood of an Israeli assault against Hamas in Rafah, the last major city in Gaza that Israeli forces haven’t taken.
“Hamas thinks the month of Ramadan will serve its interests,” said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political scientist at Al-Azhar University in Gaza who is now based in Cairo. Hamas leaders’ belief that the holy month will increase international pressure on Israel to end the war is “why they keep saying they are in no rush” to agree to a cease-fire, he said.
Joe Biden agrees that a ceasefire — which he is pushing — helps Hamas:
Biden makes the blunder of answering whether and why Hamas would want a ceasefire.
He then notices his terrible blunder in saying the truth, and goes off on a tangent. pic.twitter.com/ypqX7H8D6o
— David Shor (@DYShor) March 10, 2024
Biden clearly did not mean to admit the truth but that’s OK because the press will cover for him.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kamala Harris Is Dumber and Closer to the Presidency Than Ever. “To the surprise of no one, there was a lot of ceasefire/Gaza nonsense at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony. We expect that from vapid, uninformed actors though. It is an entirely different thing when the Vice President of the United States of America is throwing an ally under the bus and publicly propping up the bad guys.”
CHANGE: Why Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search should have Google worried.
Walmart is talking up its ability to use generative AI as a one-stop shop to search when you need to plan an event, rather than online destination to search for individual items. During a call with analysts after its February earnings, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon talked about the gen AI search capabilities in its app.
“The thing we’re most excited about that’s already happened is the way search has improved, and the way generative AI helped us really improve a solution-oriented search experience for customers and members,” McMillon said on the earnings call. “And it happened pretty quickly.”
It also adds to the questions about future use of a search engine like Google.
Walmart long ago established itself as a major tech player, successfully fending off years of anxiety over Amazon and remaining a leader in the retail space whose shares are now trading at an all-time high. The tech narrative is one the company has been spinning since it bought Jet.com, started by a former Amazon executive Marc Lore, noted Forrester vice president, principal analyst Sucharita Kodali. As a technology company, Walmart has to experiment a lot, and in the case of adding generative AI search capabilities, there’s a very low cost for failure, she said.
“It establishes them as an innovator in the space,” Kodali said. “They’re better to be a leader than a follower in their shoes. They’re operating from a position of strength.”
Google’s worst enemy is actually Google: “Experiments can go wrong, though, as happened to Alphabet recently when it launched the Gemini gen AI into the market before it was ready.”
Except that isn’t true. Gemini was ready and performed exactly as it was designed to perform.
Google created a trust issue that search upstarts like Walmart don’t have.
DON’T GET COCKY: LOL! CNN Is Too Afraid to Update Its Election Projection Map.
HE SHOULD KNOW THAT ONLY LEFTIES ARE PRIVILEGED TO DISRUPT EVENTS: Gold Star Father Arrested After Heckling Biden at State of the Union.
HMM: BRICS Nations Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Blockchain Payment System In The Works.
This system, fueled by the cutting-edge technology of blockchain, promises to disrupt the current dollar-dominated landscape, potentially altering the course of international trade and finance.
Fueling speculation about a potential paradigm shift, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov recently announced plans for a BRICS-led payment system based on blockchain technology. This move is widely seen as a push towards de-dollarization, aiming to reduce reliance on the US dollar in international transactions.
Ushakov emphasized the system’s goal to be “convenient for governments, businesses, and common people to use, as well as cost-effective and free of politics,” implying a clear break from the current dollar-centric system.
BRICS is made up of countries you wouldn’t trust to walk your dog, much less hold sway over international trade. The only reason BRICS hasn’t been laughed off the world stage is us.
When the Boomers leave the stage, there will be nothing left.
A complete squandering of the legacy their parents’ gave them, and the plate of bounty that fell in their lap when the Cold War ended.
History will judge the last quarter century harshly. https://t.co/xVgFsw6BZF
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) March 9, 2024
All we had to do was show a little fiscal restraint, and maintain the naval and air forces we had 30 years ago — but apparently that was too much to ask.
BECAUSE THE LEFT HATES THE IDEA OF ORDINARY PEOPLE DEFENDING THEMSELVES: Why Will Daniel Penny Still Stand Trial When Hochul Has to Send in Natl Guard?
ATHENA THORNE ON DARK BRANDON: You Know, This Guy Actually Scares the Heck Out of Me.
FLASHBACK: Backyard Filmmakers Are Hollywood’s Greatest Fear. The distribution mostly turned out to be TikTok, etc., but it turned out true. AI video will make it much, much moreso.
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR MOSTLY INDIE BOOKS. THERE IS ALSO A FUN VIGNETTE CHALLENGE: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
Today it was unholy late because Daylight Savings Nonsense. Grumble grumble grumble.
I’D FEEL MUCH BETTER ABOUT THIS IF EVERYTHING THIS PEOPLE SAID WASN’T A LIE: No Boots On Ground At Biden’s Gaza Pier, Pinky Swear.
OH NO, KIM. YEAH, IF COKE ANNOYS TERRORSYMPS, I’LL NOW HAVE TO DRINK COKE. THIS WON’T BE GOOD FOR THE BUDGET OR THE ETERNAL ATTEMPTS AT DIET, BUT NEEDS MUST WHEN THE DEVIL DRIVES: Time To Step Up.
Or this case, when the devils throw tizzies.
POLICE DON’T PROTECT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS FROM CRIMINALS. THEY PROTECT CRIMINALS FROM A POPULACE THAT HAS HAD ABOUT ENOUGH. IS IT TIME FOR THAT LESSON AGAIN: Armed citizen patrols start in Hartford amid violence concerns.
AND IT WILL KILL THE NATION, IF WE DON’T KILL IT FIRST: DEI killed the CHIPS Act.
Also, the proper way to acronym that abomination is DIE or perhaps IED. In the spirit of the thing, you know?
APPARENTLY MASS MURDERERS AND RAPISTS LIE. I KNOW. LOOK HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS: Wharton statistician looks at Hamas’ casualty data and concludes they are likely falsifying to maintain a rolling mean & linear growth — and they don’t know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts.
JUST A SLIGHT CORRECTION OF -484k JOBS: 11 out of the last 13 jobs reports have been revised down from the original headline-generating numbers.
Biden is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies, and we can’t believe a word the Junta’s apparatchiks say and that includes and and the.
I BELIEVE HIS WIFE WASN’T BORN A MAN. NEITHER WAS MACRON. AT BEST HE’S A WORM PLAYING THE MAN: Macron Furious Over Persistent Rumors His Wife Is Transgender.
DON’T THEY KNOW THEIR ROLE IS AS PROPS FOR THEIR BETTERS? NYC’s ‘Fascist Pit Bulls’ Hunting Down Firefighters Who Booed AG Letitia James.
SPEAKING OF PYRRHIC VICTORIES: Florida Sheriff Blasts Border Policies After 21 Charged In Sex Trafficking Ring.
CHASER: Biden Mulls Sending Troops Into Haiti To Quell Violence As Gangs Vow To ‘Break System’.
To democrats the US Army is sort of an armed charity organization. They can be sent anywhere, so long as they don’t benefit the US in any way. This is their use for American treasure and blood. And they wonder why recruitment is down.