CHANGE: Apple announces switch from Intel to its own silicon chip in future Macs.
Intel won’t miss the Mac very much since Apple only sells about 16-20 million desktop and laptop computers a year. And Intel’s big moneymakers are server-class Xeon CPUs, which represent a small fraction of total Macs sold.
But it is telling that Apple has grown frustrated enough with Intel’s roadmap delays and fabrication issues that they’re putting the Mac through yet another platform change.
THEY HAVE TO PASS THE BILL TO SEE WHAT’S IN IT: Full draft of Hong Kong national security law will only be made public after it is passed by China’s top legislative body.
I’M TIRED OF BEING PLAYED FOR A SUCKER: Tech Company Tied to China Cashes in on Small Business Relief. “Ideanomics, a U.S.-based tech company founded by Chinese billionaire Bruno Wu, was valued at more than $50 million based in part on its collaboration with Chinese provincial governments and state-owned enterprises dating back to its 2017 founding. The company, which specializes in financial technology and electric cars, collected $400,000 in forgivable loans from the taxpayer-funded Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) designed to aid small businesses hurt by the coronavirus, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.”
Presumably, Joe Biden is fine with these kinds of mistakes.
HE COULD USE MORE SMACKING DOWN, TO BE HONEST: Paul Krugman Gets the Smack Down He Deserves After Tweet Ridiculing Florida’s Handling of Wuhan Virus Outbreak.
MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Escape from New York: Giuliani’s NYC Is All But Dead, Dems Killed It. “The lockdown might be ending, but New York City’s woes have just begun.”
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OBSESSED: California Democrats Want Another $20 Million to Enforce Job-Killer AB5. “What California workers and employers need more than ever right now is increased flexibility in order to reignite the state’s job-creation engine. What they’re getting instead is another $20 million in debt so that unelected bureaucrats can wage war on the type of work preferred by nearly 25% of the workforce.”
TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME: Russia Sent Three Types Of Fighters To Intercept B-52s Flying Rare Mission Into Sea Of Okhotsk. “The Russian military sent Su-30 Flanker and Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets and MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors to monitor two U.S. Air Force B-52H bombers that flew over the Sea of Okhotsk yesterday. This the first time B-52Hs have flown into this body water, which is surrounded on three sides by Russian territory and where American combat aircraft typically have not ventured in the past, in recent memory.”
Last week: US fighters have rushed to intercept 8 Russian bombers approaching Alaska in the past week.
THIN BLUE LINE: The side of policing you don’t see in the news.
We get to work with some amazing local service organizations, who help those in greatest need, to feel valued, as members of our community. We mentor young people who sometimes just want an adult to chat with. We share a cup of coffee with neighborhood families and talk about their hopes and dreams and introduce them to others they may not yet know. We joke with kids in school hallways so that if they ever feel endangered, they have somewhere to turn. These are the things that warm our hearts and feed our souls.
There are, naturally, challenging aspects to our job, as well. A few of those scenarios are detailed below and will give you a view through the lens of law enforcement.
We often encounter people at their lowest points; they are scared, depressed, injured, or simply feeling powerless over something that has occurred. Emotions are often heightened, which can easily cause people to behave out of character. Good people can have bad days.
A call comes in. There is a scream on the other end: “Help, hurry!” The phone drops, shouting and crying can be heard on the other end. The phone is grabbed, and an address is given, followed by a simple desperate, “please” and the call ends.
We don’t know what’s happening, but it is clear that every second counts.
Every second counts inside CHOP, too, but they’ve decided they neither want nor need police there.
ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are we doomed? Not with good people, good dogs & good bourbon.
WHO? BidenWatch for June 22, 2020. “Exploring the enthusiasm gap between Trump and Biden (plus the equally huge campaign technology gap), some fundraising analysis, more Veepstakes, and a majority of Americans think Biden is a few tacos shy of a combo plate.”
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: China, Seattle and the Frankensteins of History. “It follows that the only way an elite can regain a semblance of control is to rebuild the devastated political consensus. But that is impossible while America’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is underway. If Washington’s elites envy China they would do well to note that the foundational moment for the current regime in Beijing was when they crushed their own Woke movement in a last ditch effort to save China.”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
DAVID MARCUS: Americans Disagree About What Racism Is, And It’s A Big Problem.
There are two basic definitions of racism in the United States, one roughly associated with progressives and one roughly associated with conservatives. The former describes racism as the failure to acknowledge and seek to redress systemic discrimination against select disadvantaged minority groups. It is very broad and captures everything from unconscious bias to white supremacy. The latter views racism as making assumptions about, or taking action towards, an individual or group on the sole basis of their race. It is narrow and generally requires belief, intent, and animosity.
These definitions don’t simply differ; to a great extent they actually contradict each other. Much of the contradiction stems from the fact that the progressive definition of racism requires that an advantaged individual or group must be attacking the less privileged. The more conservative and narrow definition of racism requires no appeal to power structures, only to bias, and can be committed by anyone towards anyone.
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Sorry, Brett Favre—Colin Kaepernick Is a Failed Quarterback, Not an Activist Hero. “He’s a good running quarterback, but not a great passer. He’s out of the NFL because he sucked at it. That’s what people need to bring up every time this ‘Hero of the People’ nonsense narrative starts up.”
OOPS: Libya: A Catastrophe for Russia’s Pantsir S1 Air Defense System. “Believed to have been supplied to the Libyan strongman as early as last year by his backers in the Gulf, the Russian system was meant to be used as a trump card against Turkey’s combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) air interdiction operations. Yet, after a major GNA counteroffensive last month, and the retaking of the strategic Al-Watiya airbase and key suburbs in Tripoli, it became clear that the system had been trounced. Analysis of open source data has estimated that up to 9 Pantsir units were lost in quick succession to UAV strikes during May, with footage of the strikes going viral on social media. To add insult to injury, a tenth Pantsir system was dramatically captured by GNA forces, and to great fanfare paraded through Tripoli as a war trophy. It is speculated that the captured Pantsir’s final fate is to be picked apart for intelligence purposes.”
Usually, the best reason to buy Russian gear is that you can’t afford the good stuff.
TONY KATZ: AOC Admits: We Have To Lie To Beat Trump.
That’s true about a lot of things.
JOANNE JACOBS: Noah’s Ark goes to college. “Michael Goldstein imagines a new liberal arts college for students and professors who like to argue about ideas. He calls it Noah’s Ark College, because he’d insist that students and faculty be admitted or hired in pairs with one liberal and one conservative.”
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK OF STALIN: Seattle’s Breakaway CHOP Now Also a Sexual Assault Crime Scene.
Maybe it was just an unplanned sexual encounter.
THIS MEANS WAR: Democratic ‘Dirty Tricks’ Sabotage Trump Tulsa Rally.
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