Archive for 2024

HOW CONVENIENT: Boeing “Overwrote” Camera Footage Of Work On MAX Jet Door That Blew Out, Can Not Identify Employee Who Worked On It. “Wednesday we learned that Boeing – in a pure coincidence that Jeffrey Epstein would approve of – “overwrote”, i.e. deleted, security camera footage showing work being done on a door that blew out on the Alaska Airlines MAX jet in January. It’s not just the footage however: NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said it is unclear ‘who performed the work to open, reinstall, and close the door plug on the accident aircraft,’ as Boeing is ‘unable to find the records documenting this work.’ In Homendy’s letter, she writes that despite requests to Boeing and interviews at the Renton, Washington factory where the panel was removed, the identity of the crew member that worked on the panel remains unknown. . . . It gets crazier: in her letter, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said she directly appealed to Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun for information on who worked on the faulty door plug, expressing frustration over Boeing’s claim of missing records and security footage. Even then, Boeing merely stonewalled and said it was ‘unable to provide that information and maintained that Boeing has no records of the work being performed.'”

Loss — excuse me, “loss” — of records in a case like this should be treated as an admission of wrongdoing. Because, you know, that’s what it is.

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.

WELL, YES: Big Tech’s Election Interference: Why Google and Meta Went Shopping for Former US Intelligence Officers. “The timing and staffing changes within tech giants like Google and Meta after the 2016 election raise important questions. It’s hard to believe it’s just a coincidence that several CIA officers were put in charge of content moderation departments in these companies. Given the increase in aggressive censorship, it seems unlikely these appointments were random.”

VERITAS? THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: Harvard’s Unscientific Consensus. My podcast with Martin Kulldorff, the eminent scientist fired by Harvard Medical School after he questioned Covid orthodoxy on lockdowns and vaccine mandates. (Transcript provided.)

ACE: LOL: Don LeMon Gets Fired Again, This Time By Elon Musk.

Still though, we’ll always have Flight #370:

UPDATE:

This is CNN — Lemon leaving the comfort zone of CNN for a taste of alternate media, only to go back to the network temporarily after reality intrudes feels like a repeat of Sanjay Gupta going on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2021:

Rogan asked, “Does it bother you the news network you work for out and out lied? Just outright lied about me taking horse dewormer?” Gupta responded, “They shouldn’t have said that.”

The very next day, Gupta appeared on Lemon’s CNN show and the two resumed bashing Rogan, pretending that Gupta’s admission to Rogan never happened. As for Musk:

JIM TREACHER: Neil Young Comes Crawling Back to Spotify.

Well, it’s been a couple of years since Mr. Young’s principled stand, and Joe Rogan is still on Spotify. Along with… guess who?

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone:

Neil Young is placing his music back on Spotify a little over two years after pulling it due to misinformation about vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience…

“My decision comes as other music services, Apple, Amazon, Qobuz, Tidal, all high res, have started serving the same disinformation podcast I had opposed at Spotify,” Young wrote to fans on The Neil Young Archives. “Because I cannot leave all those services like I did Spotify, because my music would have no streaming outlet to music lovers at all, I have returned.”

Are music lovers really looking for Neil Young’s music, though? Is that really what a music lover is?

Well, now we know where Young’s principles end: the same place as everybody else’s. He’s every bit as greedy as the people he hates.

It’s pretty funny that Rolling Stone started out as a place to find some far-out tunes when you were tripping balls with your old lady, and now they’ve been reduced to scolding people about vaccines. At least they’re consistently pro-drug, I guess?

Not if the “wrong” people are taking them — then the publication started by Jann Wenner morphs into a full-on Jack Webb impersonation.

SPYING: Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies. “In recent years, insurance companies have offered incentives to people who install dongles in their cars or download smartphone apps that monitor their driving, including how much they drive, how fast they take corners, how hard they hit the brakes and whether they speed. But ‘drivers are historically reluctant to participate in these programs,’ as Ford Motor put it in a patent application that describes what is happening instead: Car companies are collecting information directly from internet-connected vehicles for use by the insurance industry.”

The Internet Of Things really is hot garbage.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Colorado lawmakers pump brakes on keeping I-70 truckers from the passing lane from Morrison to Glenwood Springs.

Commercial vehicles such as semitrailers wouldn’t be able to use the left lane in certain sections of Interstate 70 through the mountains under an amended version of a bill being considered by the Colorado legislature.

The original version of Senate Bill 100 would have made it illegal for big-rig truckers to use the left lane in the entire mountainous portion of the interstate from Morrison to Glenwood Springs. But on Wednesday, lawmakers scaled it back to include only four segments.

You really don’t want to get stuck behind a semi on any of those stretches, even in good weather.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Neil Young Waves White Flag, Returns to Spotify. “The 78-year-old musician announced his music is returning to Spotify two years after he yanked it off the platform to protest Rogan’s content.”