FROM THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU MICROSOFT ‘BOB’: Bill Gates says cryptocurrency is one innovation the world could do without.

EMBARRASSMENT REQUIRES A SENSE OF SHAME: Cuomo Revelations Should Embarrass Media.

SHE’S THE BEST: Dolly Parton Gives America a Whole New Reason to Love Her.

BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: U.S. Capitol Police Suggest Leaving Razor Wire Fences Up Until Fall.

LEADERSHIP: Tom Cotton’s Bold Strategy to Fight the New ‘Cold War’ Against China’s ‘Evil Empire.’

RECOUPLING: How Oracle Sells Repression in China. “Oracle representatives have marketed the company’s data analytics for use by police and security industry contractors across China, according to dozens of company documents hosted on its website. In at least two cases, the documents imply that provincial departments used the software in their operations. One is the slideshow story about Liaoning province. The other is an Oracle document describing police in Shanxi province as a “client” in need of an intelligence platform. Oracle also boasted that its data security services were used by other Chinese police entities, according to the documents — including police in Xinjiang, the site of a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic groups.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump Derangement Syndrome Hits Pathetic New Low. “Now that the Democrats have failed to keep Trump from running for president again they’re living in abject terror of him returning in 2024 and ruining their long term ugly designs on the United States. Couple that with the fact that they can’t really sing Biden’s praises and it’s easy to see that we’re in for a few more years of this snot bubble toddler fit of theirs.”

OH: Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’ but blocked fixes over revenue impact, per court filing.

Some more internal emails Facebook really doesn’t want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may reach, per newly unsealed court documents.

The filing also reveals that a Facebook product manager for the “potential reach” tool warned the company was making revenue it “should never have” off of “wrong data”.

The unsealed documents pertain to a U.S. class action lawsuit, filed in 2018, which alleges that Facebook deceived advertisers by knowingly including fake and duplicate accounts in a “potential reach” metric.

Facebook denies the claim but has acknowledged accuracy issues with the “potential reach” metric as far back as 2016 — and also changed how it worked in 2019.

Read the whole, ugly thing.

UNITY! Democrats Introduce a Bill to Punish Trump When He Dies.

BRUCE CARROLL: S.C. Democrats Throw Tantrum as Fetal Heartbeat Bill Passes State House.

DAVID MARCUS: The Reform Party Roots Of The New GOP Are Its Future. “Republican voters will not go back to the neoliberal GOP of the past 30 years, and if that means losing some elections, it means losing some elections.”

“Trumpism,” for lack of a better word, is a fusion between conservatives tired of the do-nothing GOP Establishment, and blue-collar Americans without a home in the newly Woke Democrat party.

It can be a powerful combination, and it’s here to stay.

THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN TEXAS: Texas Electric Reliability Council Removes Board Members From Website as Their Residencies Are Questioned. “About a third of its members don’t even live in Texas.”

LIVE IN FIVE… FOUR… THREE… ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Biden Open To Considering Reparations Depending On Progress Congress Makes On Study.

Racial reparations is a widely unpopular proposal in the United States which, even immediately following the racially charged death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, only 20 percent of Americans supported.

Psaki made the remarks during an exchange with a reporter who brought up that Biden said during his campaign that he supported a study for reparations. “Does the President support the legislation?” the reporter asked. “He stopped short of saying that during the campaign. Would he sign that if it came to his desk?”

“Well, he’s supported a study of reparations, which is I believe is what’s being discussed, and studying the continuing impacts of slavery, which is being discussed in this hearing on H.R. 40, I believe it is,” Psaki responded. “And he continues to demonstrate his commitment to take comprehensive action to address the systemic racism that persists today. Obviously, that is — having that study is a part of that, but he has signed an executive order on his first day, which would begin to deliver on his commitment to having an across-government approach to addressing racial inequality and making sure equity is a part of his entire policy agenda.”

I’ve noticed in recent weeks that Democrats have been using “equity” where they usually use “equality.”

A WORTHY CAUSE: Donate Ammunition for the FASTER Program.

Independence Institute’s FASTER (Faculty/Administrator Safety Training and Emergency Response) program trains armed school staffers to stop school violence quickly and administer medical aid immediately.

In order to maintain their certification, these staffers need to meet annual training requirements, and in order to do so, they need ammunition. In fact, depending on the level, FASTER classes require between 500-800 rounds of ammunition for each class member.

Economic uncertainty and the real threat of anti-gun action by the federal and state government has made ammunition scarce and unaffordable.

So, we are asking for your help to give ammunition via a first-of-its-kind Ammo Drive. Our goal is 50,000 rounds—enough to get us through the 2021 FASTER Colorado training season.

Details on how to give at the link.

PROCUREMENT: How Colombia’s drug cartels almost bought a Soviet submarine.

In 2019, footage of a U.S. Coast Guard interdiction of a homemade drug smuggling submarine took the world by storm, and for good reason. As we watched one of the baddest dudes we’re ever apt to see anywhere outside of a movie pounding on the hatch of the mostly submerged sub, many of us were shocked to learn that drug cartels actually have their own submarines.

What may surprise you more is that these amateur submarines were really a consolation prize for drug smugglers out of Colombia. Their first choice? An actual Soviet Foxtrot-class submarine. What’s even crazier, however, is that the Russians seemed to be more than happy to sell them one.

None of this is at all surprising to anyone who’s been paying attention, but many of the details are new and interesting.

CHARLES LIPSON: Earmarks rise from the dead in the Democratic Congress.

THE NEW ANTI-RACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: NYC Principal Urges Parents to Become ‘White Traitors,’ ‘White Abolitionists.’

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATORS: Open schools or give the money to parents. “If a district offers only remote classes, parents could use public-school funds to move their children to a school of their choice, according to legislation introduced in Maryland, Illinois, Utah and Georgia, reports Patrick Hauf of Capitol News Service.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Is That a Mask in Your Pocket Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is there a point where the public’s right to know and the public’s desire to know could collide like one of those Extinction Level Event asteroids into the Earth?

Answer: Yes, and the only thing we’re missing is Bruce Willis.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• CNN gently factchecks “four false statistical claims” by Joe Biden
• Rahm Emanuel to go from CCP booster to ambassador to the CCP?
• The true threat: “Super-sized” carnivorous mice

Bonus Sanity: The disastrous truth about Texas.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

BECAUSE HE’LL SAY ANYTHING. NEXT QUESTION? Why Did Biden Say ‘We Didn’t Have’ a COVID-19 Vaccine When He Took Office?

SO VERY WOKE: Amazon changed traffic light timing during union drive, county officials say. “As part of its ongoing fight over an Alabama warehouse’s efforts to unionize, Amazon reportedly changed the timing of a traffic light outside the warehouse, according to reporting by More Perfect Union. Union organizers at the site had previously accused the company of altering the timing so that pro-union workers would not be able to canvass workers while stopped at the light.”

BIDEN’S RETURN TO NORMALCY: Nearly 5,000 National Guard troops to stay in DC over concerns of potential violence in March.

QUESTION ASKED: Will Boeing Become The Next McDonnell Douglas? “It has been nearly 25 years since Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged. Given Boeing’s significant engineering cuts, program execution problems, clear prioritization of shareholder returns, extremely uncertain product development road map and deteriorating market share outlook, it is time to consider whether Boeing Commercial Aircraft (BCA) is destined to share Douglas’ fate. Three criteria are key.”

Put the engineers back in charge.

OUCH: Ex-Stadia developers dish on Google’s mismanagement and poor communication.

Google recently killed its only in-house Stadia game development studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment (SG&E), after building up the studio for only two years. In an industry where even established game studios take several years to ship a product, this was a breathtakingly fast pace for building and tearing down a game development studio. Kotaku got in touch with some of the 150+ staffers who were dismissed from Google’s studio, and they paint a picture of a dysfunctional work environment plagued by dishonest communication and mismanagement.

According to the report, developers at the studio were “shocked” by the sudden shutdown, since, only a week earlier, Stadia’s leading executive, game industry veteran Phil Harrison, told the group “[SG&E] has made great progress building a diverse and talented team and establishing a strong lineup of Stadia exclusive games.” The one-week flip-flop was “part of an apparent pattern of Stadia leadership not being honest and upfront with the company’s developers,” according to Kotaku, adding that many developers “upended their lives and careers to join the team.”

The report says Stadia’s developers found out about the studio closure at “almost the same time as everyone else.” Stadia’s developers had to wait three days before Harrison was available for a Q&A conference call, which the report describes as “contentious.” The most chilling line in the report details Harrison’s response to a question asking why the Studio was “making great progress” one week and then fired the next: “When asked what changed from the week prior, Harrison admitted nothing had and told those on the call, ‘We knew.'”

Nobody should be shocked when Google cancels anything out of the blue.