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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

It strikes me as a fair trade.

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I wonder what would happen if we were to drop an asteroid on the Strait of Hormuz.  (An Arabian peninsula full of trees?)

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GOP legislators in Michigan have abolished the law that allowed Democrat governor Gretchen Whitmer to continuously lock down the state since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

TheBlaze reports that the state House, which is led by the GOP, voted 60-48 Wednesday to repeal the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945, which granted Whitmer the authority she used in locking down Michigan indefinitely. The law gave extensive authority to governors in issuing emergency declarations and setting rules to “protect life and property or to bring the emergency situation within the affected area under control.”

The state Senate, also held by the GOP, voted 20-15 to repeal the law last week.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional last October.

Since the repeal proposal had been the result of a citizen-initiated campaign, Whitmer is powerless to veto it.

Disney to Unveil Animatronic Biden at ‘Hall of Presidents’  Who can tell the difference?

Biden’s Wild Murder and Jim Crow Accusations

Biden White House Admits Using Big Tech to Silence Americans

Disney’s Animatronic Biden Praised As ‘Incredibly Realistic’ After It Short Circuits, Has Speech Malfunction (Babylon Bee)

Pew Poll: Republican Voters Fear for Their Children’s Future Under Biden

Wild brawl breaks out between passengers on Frontier Airlines flight (Daily Mail)

Student killed after taking car she mistook for Uber was victim of ‘heinous’ acts, prosecutor says

Texas Dem Celebrated Volunteer Event With ID Requirements

Hannah-Jones: “All Journalism Is Activism”

California Appeals Court Overturns Anti-Misgendering Law On First Amendment Grounds

‘Lawlessness’: San Francisco’s shoplifting problem increasingly frustrates business owners, employees

De Blasio lugs out giant $15B check to stump for congestion pricing

D.C. Council votes to raise taxes on the rich (Washington Post) That’s one way to get rid of rich people.

Many Big-City Democrat Mayors Defunded Police While Spending Heavily On Their Security Details

Pentagon Reportedly Tracking “Extremist” Web Searches Including “The Truth About Black Lives Matter”

Inspiring: US Women’s Soccer Team To Boycott Scoring Goals Until Racism Is Defeated (Babylon Bee)

AOC Says How She Accidentally Glued Her Face To Her Coffee Table Is A Clear Failure Of Capitalism (Babylon Bee)

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: AOC Illegally Parks Tesla Near Whole Foods AGAIN

Whitmer Kidnapping Defendants Claim Entrapment After 12 FBI Informants Involved In Plot

ACLU: “Gov’t Cannot Be Trusted to Label ‘Truth’ or ‘Fiction’ Any More than Facebook or Twitter”  Nor, for that matter, can the ACLU.

To Improve Olympic Chances, US Women’s Soccer Team Replaced By 15-Year-Old Boys Team In Wigs

Rasmussen Poll: Majority Want BLM Protests Inquiry, More Than Jan. 6

Coastal California Towns Steal Top Spots in Luxury Segment of WSJ/Realtor.com Index I guess they haven’t heard about the Rising Sea Levels That Will Soon Drown Us All.

This butterfly was the first to go extinct in the US because of humans (CNN) Don’t you miss it already?

CNN Introduces Premium Subscription Service That Blocks All CNN Programming From View  Babylon Bee.

Stephen Colbert, Joy Reid Insist GOP Is a ‘Death Cult’

Virginia PTA Leader Ousted After Being Caught Wishing Death On Anti-Critical Race Theory Parents

Tom Brady Joins Biden to Laugh at Trump in Worst Day of Trump’s Life (New York Magazine)

Jeff Bezos roasted for thanking Amazon employees, customers for paying for spaceflight: ‘I’d like a refund’

White Alabama City Councilman Refers to Fellow Council Member as a ‘House N****r’ (Daily Beast)

The founding myth of Trumpism is a fake (CNN) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was something called ‘Trumpism’, and that CNN are the experts at defining it.

Texas Republicans are ramming through legislation to remove teaching about MLK Jr. in public schools (Salon) Except that they’re not.

Watching Jeff Bezos Go to Space Was More Depressing Than Inspiring At least to Variety.

Romaine Calm! Facebook Censors Discussion of Gardening Tool as ‘Hoe’ Is Offensive

Dems Hit McConnell, Who Says GOP Won’t Back Debt Limit Boost

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Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack in Norway. On July 22, 2011, a man named Anders Behring Breivik detonated a truck bomb in central Oslo next to government headquarters, killing eight people. While police and emergency services were dealing with the aftermath, Mr. Breivik drove to the island of Utøya, where a summer camp for Socialist Youth was being held. There he methodically shot and killed sixty-nine teenagers with a high-powered rifle. When police finally arrived at the island, he calmly surrendered.

And because of bleeding-heart liberalism he is still alive today, being maintained at taxpayer expense. “He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, in a form of preventive detention that required a minimum of 10 years incarceration and the possibility of one or more extensions for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. This is the maximum penalty in Norway.”

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When considering these privacy issues, we might draw parallels with another technology. Many colour printers add secret tracking dots to documents: virtually invisible yellow dots that reveal a printer’s serial number, as well as the date and time a document was printed. In 2017, these dots may have been used by the FBI in the identification of Reality Winner as the source of a leaked National Security Agency document, which detailed alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.

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Standard metadata is difficult enough to avoid – you have to scrub it afterwards, and the only piece of information you can stop from being created in the first instance is photo geolocation. Photo response non-uniformity, however, is far more difficult to extricate. Technically, it should be possible to suppress, for example, by reducing the image resolution, says Farid. But, by how much? This of course depends on many factors such as the type of device used for image capture, as well as the fingerprint matching algorithm employed. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to fingerprint removal.

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Human memory is fallible and malleable. In forensic settings in particular, this poses a challenge because people may falsely remember events with legal implications that never actually happened. Despite an urgent need for remedies, however, research on whether and how rich false autobiographical memories can be reversed under realistic conditions (i.e., using reversal strategies that can be applied in real-world settings) is virtually nonexistent. The present study therefore not only replicates and extends previous demonstrations of false memories but, crucially, documents their reversibility after the fact: Employing two ecologically valid strategies, we show that rich but false autobiographical memories can mostly be undone. Importantly, reversal was specific to false memories (i.e., did not occur for true memories).

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The researchers found that there was a positive correlation between higher penetration of Airbnb properties in an area – for example buildings containing multiple Airbnb lets – and a rise in violence. However, crime types associated with rowdy visitors, like drunkenness and noise complaints, as well as private conflicts, did not increase.

According to one study author, the correlation isn’t due to Airbnb tourists falling prey to pickpockets, but rather the way the short-term rental service can push long-term residents out of neighbourhoods.

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Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman (Ill.) acknowledged in court that she promised a six-figure job to a would-be political rival—an apparent bribe that may violate federal law.

Newman’s taxpayer-funded attorneys conceded to a federal judge that the Democrat promised a top job in her office to a local Palestinian activist, which he said aimed to keep him from running in a 2020 primary, legal filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. The admission came after the activist, Iymen Chehade, sued Newman for breach of contract when the Democrat did not follow through with the job offer.

If she were a Republican, of course, this would be all over the Narrative Media 24/7.

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Shane Sonderman, of Lauderdale County, Tenn. admitted to conspiring with a group of criminals that’s been “swatting” and harassing people for months in a bid to coerce targets into giving up their valuable Twitter and Instagram usernames.

At Sonderman’s sentencing hearing today, prosecutors told the court the defendant and his co-conspirators would text and call targets and their families, posting their personal information online and sending them pizzas and other deliveries of food as a harassment technique.

Other victims of the group told prosecutors their tormentors further harassed them by making false reports of child abuse to social services local to the target’s area, and false reports in the target’s name to local suicide prevention hotlines.

Eventually, when subjects of their harassment refused to sell or give up their Twitter and Instagram usernames, Sonderman and others would swat their targets — or make a false report to authorities in the target’s name with the intention of sending a heavily armed police response to that person’s address.

Yet another reason not to be on Twitter, Facebook, or other public-facing ‘social media’.

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For now, let’s use this stop to grab some popcorn and figure out how we got into this mess in the first place. We’re going to have to go back a bit to the post-war era. U.S. government spending fell from $93 billion in 1945 to under $35 billion by 1947. And by 1947, the U.S. was running a budget surplus of close to 2% of GDP to pay off the debt. Great money management.

But since that time, debt has been steadily rising and it really started piling up in the mid-2000s. So how does the government decide how much debt is too much? By agreeing on something called the debt ceiling—but Congress just keeps voting to raise or even totally suspend the debt ceiling. That would be like calling your bank and just upping your line of credit every time you’re close to maxing out a credit card.

Of course, the responsible thing to do would be to pay off your debt, not just hike the limit. Yet that’s exactly what Washington does when faced with a debt problem.

John Stossel turns over a rock.

Have you noticed how our language is changing?

At a congressional hearing on “Birthing While Black,” nearly every politician used the words “birthing people” instead of “women” or “mothers.” Asked why, Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, said, “Our language needs to be more inclusive.”

Activists have also changed “equality” to “equity” and “affirmative action” to “diversity.”

The Associated Press no longer uses “mistress.” It tells reporters to use “companion, friend, or lover.”

Worse, certain speech is now labeled “violence.”

Calling a transgender woman a man is “an act of violence,” says transgender actress Laverne Cox.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

On the other hand, I’m puzzled by the presumption that I ought to care — which I don’t.

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Rampaging cyber hoods will be using compromised machinery and systems to kill humans by 2025, according to cheerfully optimistic new predictions from research company Gartner.

The warning around what Gartner calls “operational technology (OT) environments” – which it described as “hardware and software that detects or causes a change, through the direct monitoring and/or control of industrial equipment, assets, processes and events”, so basically industry and infrastructure with moving parts – comes following an increase in assaults on such systems, frequently in connection to ransomware attacks or simple state-sponsored hooliganism.

While such attacks can be dangerous, any threat they currently pose is typically a secondary effect of the avarice of the perpetrators: a ransomware attacker shutting down a water company is not usually trying to cause customers of the affected company to die from dehydration, for example. They just want to inconvenience everyone enough for the company to pay up. There have been exceptions.

But Gartner then suggested that attempts to deliberately hurt humans will be the next logical step.

(Reminder that The Register, although a tech tabloid, is still a tabloid.)

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Project Narrative is the world’s leading academic think tank for the study of stories, and in our research labs, with the help of neuroscientists and psychologists from across the globe, we’ve uncovered dozens more literary inventions in Zhou Dynasty lyrics, Italian operas, West African epics, classic children’s books, great American novels, Agatha Christie crime fictions, Mesoamerican myths, and even Hollywood television scripts.

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Two misguided “Swedish” youngsters have reacted to years of discrimination and racism by taking two guards hostage in a prison in the Swedish city of Eskiltuna.

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“Tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet reports that they have offered to release one of the hostages in exchange for having 20 kebab pizzas distributed to other inmates.”

Yup, nothing more ‘Swedish’ than kebab pizzas….

Sarah Hoyt turns over a rock.

Frankly, if the numbers don’t convince you this insanity is an illegal take-over of our institutions (partly by corrupt traitors within. Hey, anyone know how many lampposts there are in the continental US? Asking for a pissed off We The People) look at it from the psychological side: the only way a major party would run Joe and the Ho from a basement, with virtually no appearances in public, and on a platform of “we’ll open the border so you’ll be invaded, and tax you till you teeth hurt, oh and take away your fossil fuels too” is if they knew, because they’d been cheating for years, that they’d finally achieved a level of cheating in which they didn’t need any input from We The People, and no matter how we voted, their side would win. It was a potemkin campaign leading up to a grand theft election. (Or do you think they’re fighting so hard against election reform because they care about the individual? Ah!)

Preach it, sister.

New York Slimes.

Of course, if he hadn’t, they’d be bitching and moaning about that.

There’s no pleasing some people.

UPDATE: Pipe down, Jeff. You’ve only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today  More SJW envy and spite.

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Its cloud seeding operations are part of an ongoing mission to generate precipitation in the Middle East country, which has an average rainfall of just four inches.

The enhanced rain is created using drone technology that unleashes electrical charges into clouds in order for them to clump together and form precipitation.

We have the technology.

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One of the biggest myths surrounding Cuban health care is the country’s low infant-mortality rate. Cuba is able to achieve what appears to be a remarkably low infant-mortality rate not through superior and widespread health care, as defenders of the system want to believe, but rather through forced abortions and falsified statistics.

Cuba has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. Women are regularly pressured into aborting babies that could have some sort of “abnormality,” and Cuban doctors are notorious for performing abortions without consent of the mother.

Moreover, Cuban doctors have admitted to regularly falsifying statistics about childbirth in an attempt to keep the country’s child-mortality rate artificially low.

ZMan turns over a rock.

Of course, the big lie to this point is that the measures the government imposed were rooted in science. Mask wearing was about preventing the sick from spreading the virus to the rest of us. Alternatively, it was about keeping healthy people from inhaling the virus as it buzzed around in the air. The social distancing stuff was also supposed to be science! None of the measures turned out to be rooted in anything more than superstition and a desire to abuse the population.

The reason that most people went along with these measures initially was that the official word about the virus was that it was Black Death. It is easy to forget, but the regime circulated images of bodies in the streets over in Wuhan. They used similar images when the virus hit Italy. Then they used images from horror movies claiming they were from overrun hospitals. They sold the virus as a potential extinction event, so even the most cynical prepared for the worst.

Corona has become the very definition of the big lie. The warnings about the virus were “lies so colossal that no one would believe that someone could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” One should take a minute to appreciate the amazing bit of irony in all of this. Hitler is credited with coining the term to describe the people he saw as his natural enemy. Today, the people relying on the big lie to sustain themselves are making themselves mad looking for Hitler.

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It’s ironic that the documentarian best known for a television series about the Civil War seems to have forgotten the Civil War. That is the only conclusion one would have to make about PBS filmmaker Ken Burns because on Friday’s The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, after briefly discussing Robert E. Lee and Woodrow Wilson, he declared that “this is the most fraught time I think in the history of our republic.”

Really, Ken? More fraught than the American Civil War that you chronicled in which over half a million died? Well, according to the sanctimonious lecture provided by Burns, these times are even worse because of “misinformation and paranoia and the lying voter suppression.”

He’s saying this to Brian Williams, who is known for misinformation. There’s a lecture about Critical Race Theory, and Burns cartoons the conservative (and common sense) opposition as usual.

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Brock Commons defies a century of high-rise construction norms. Since the dawn of the skyscraper age, cement, concrete and steel have molded our vertical urban realms. But the environmental consequences of these materials has led some in the construction industry back to wood, a material that’s more sustainable and, with each technological leap, an increasingly viable option for large-scale projects.

A very interesting idea.

You first.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Apparently Asians are ‘honorary White People’ and must be hidden away.

Twitter temporarily suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for vaccine misinformation (CNN)

Twitter suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for spreading covid-19 misinformation (Washington Post)

Covid-19 breakthrough infections are preventable, but it’s going to take a big effort to stop them (CNN)

California’s COVID surge would vault a dozen or more counties to restrictive purple tier (The Mercury News)

Parents Notch Victory in Effort To Recall School Board Member Who Opposed Reopening

Amazon to Stop COVID-19 Testing for Warehouse Workers

The Panic Pandemic

UK Government Advisor Admits Masks Are Just “Comfort Blankets” That Do Virtually Nothing

Review of Abutaleb and Paletta’s Nightmare Scenario

Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene Over COVID-19 Vaccine Tweets

Dr. Fauci: School COVID Shot Mandates Wouldn’t Be a Surprise

Vaccinated Pelosi Aide, White House Official Who Welcomed Fugitive Texas Democrats Test Positive For COVID  Yeah, I’m gonna run right out and get that vaccine….

CDC: Delta Variant Now Accounts for 83 Percent of US Cases

Poll: Unvaccinated Believe COVID Vaccines Riskier Than Virus  Gee, I wonder why?

“You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About” – Frazzled Fauci Erupts After Latest Rand Paul Grilling

North Carolina County Starts Offering Door-To-Door COVID-19 Vaccinations

Apple urging retail staff to wear masks again even if they’re vaccinated  STOKE THAT FEAR! STOKE THAT FEAR!

Following The Science: Texas Issues Travel Ban On Democrats To Prevent Dangerous COVID Outbreak  (Babylon Bee) Close the border! Don’t let these plague vectors back in the state!

“People think you’re a pedophile!” Matt Gaetz accidentally poses with prankster for beach photo (Salon)

Pentagon contractor investigating ‘extremism’ says BLM web search raises concerns about White supremacy

Report: Prosecutors Have Obtained Damning Information Allegedly Implicating Trump in His Company’s Crimes (Vanity Fair) Trump! Crimes!

Forget the Alamo? Woke iconoclasts come for Texas’ heroes

Super-Patriot Kristi Noem ‘Really Hates This America’ (New York Magazine)

The zombie claim that the 2017 tax cut gave ‘83 percent’ to the top 1 percent

Landslide by Michael Wolff review – Trump’s final days of delirium

Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire (NPR)

Democrat Introduces House Bill to Block Trump From Becoming Speaker

Hysterical CBS Warns GOP Voting Reforms Are Threat to ‘National Security’

Billionaire Tom Barrack Charged With Acting As Agent Of UAE To Gain Favor With Trump  I guess he’s not one of the Good Billionaires.

She was forbidden as a young woman from trying on her dream wedding gown because she’s Black. Now, at 94, she finally did it. (Washington Post)

A Segregation Wall Has Stood In Detroit For 80 Years. Residents Don’t Want it Taken Down. (NBC News)

DC Mayor Says BLM Plaza Will Stay

Democrats Introduce Bill To Rename “Racist” Place Names

Climate change to blame for monarch butterfly’s recent decline

California Weighs First Step in ‘Managed Retreat’ From Rising Pacific  I’ll believe that sea levels are rising when the price of property in Malibu starts going down rather than up.

Pharaoh Blames Plague Of Locusts, Water Turning To Blood On Climate Change  Babylon Bee.

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Iranian-backed militant groups claim to have launched at least 150 attacks against American forces in the region in 2021 alone.

A video posted on the social media site Telegram by the Kawthariyoun Electronic Team, a channel associated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq, indicates the United States faces immediate danger amid Biden administration efforts to pull forces from Afghanistan and decrease the U.S. footprint across the region. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a jihadi watchdog group that monitors these communications, translated the terrorist group’s latest propaganda film.

Notice how the Narrative Media were all over these incidents.

Babylon Bee — barely.

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee member who was targeted by a foreign spy during his early days in Congress, has met twice in the past nine months with a Hamas-linked charity that spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to influence U.S. universities.

Swalwell and four other House members visited the Qatar Foundation headquarters in April during a four-day trip hosted by the US-Qatar Business Council, according to an itinerary of the junket. The delegation met with Qatar’s emir, government leaders, and Qatar Foundation officials to discuss business opportunities for the members’ districts. The trip drew attention after photos surfaced of Swalwell and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) riding shirtless on camels in Qatar’s desert. Swalwell also visited Qatar Foundation headquarters with two fellow Democrats during a trip to Doha last October.

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The only time monopolies really exist is when they are enforced by government (see patent and copyright). The only time government attacks ‘monopolization’ is when some political crony is going to get its ox gored.

Parsing this NPR Narrative Media piece is left as an exercise for the reader. (Hint: you have to get a government license to practice medicine or build a hospital.)

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Government employees are suing Connecticut to avoid returning to work, arguing that commutes contribute to climate change.

Public employee unions in Connecticut are insisting their members continue to have the option to work full time from home, citing environmental and legal concerns. Democratic governor Ned Lamont allowed government employees to work exclusively from home during the pandemic and is now resuming pre-pandemic guidelines that allow government employees to work from home part-time. The unions are refusing to comply with the reopening plans and are demanding a new telework agreement with the government.

Climate change! Is there any scam it can’t do?

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It doesn’t say ‘Black Lives Matter‘ so you can’t have it.

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On the other hand, we will now have two new holidays for this new crusade being used to authenticate the regime. Juneteenth will now be the new Independence Day and January 6th will be the Passover. The former is in commemoration of when the good news reached the last of the magic people. The latter is when the tides of history protected the faithful from the raging mobs of systemic racism. Perhaps this will be published as the Gospel of Saint Jaffa, a new holy book.

This new enemy the system has created for itself is more natural and compelling for the regime, so it will be more durable that the crusade against Islam. That drama raised questions about certain subjects that no one is allowed to discuss. It also had religious overtones, which invited in Christians. The only thing that makes the regime more uncomfortable than Christians openly talking about their religion is a collection of white guys noticing they are the only ones without an identity group.

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The Bison Bridge proposes to repurpose the old bridge, which is slated for demolition, and turn it into a wildlife crossing so herds can roam freely between Iowa and Illinois.

Why? Why do we need to spend taxpayers’ money in a state that has millions of dollars in public pension liabilities to help fucking bison cross a fucking river? What did they do back when they had to depend on the Indians?

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A New Jersey woman faces daily monetary fines if she refuses to remove obscene signs critical of President Joe Biden, NJ.com reported.

Patricia Dilascio, who lives in Roselle Park, New Jersey, has displayed anti-Biden flags containing profane words on her fence. The signs belong to her daughter, Andrea Dick.

Of course, if she were a member of a Fashionable Minority and the obscenities were aimed at Trump or the police, she would be The Darling of the Media, and nobody would dare touch her.

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Researchers from France and Russia have published a study indicating that the use of AI-driven probabilistic text generators such as GPT-3 are introducing ‘tortured language’, citations of non-existent literature and ad hoc, uncredited image reuse into previously respectable channels for the publication of new scientific literature.

Perhaps of most concern is that the papers studied also contain scientifically inaccurate or non-reproducible content presented as the fruits of objective and systematic research, indicating that generative language models are being used not only to bolster the limited English skills of the papers’ authors, but actually to do the hard work involved (and, invariably, to do it badly).

Follow the science, even if it’s bogus!

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The animatronic presidency featured Remarks by President Biden on the Economy (the link is to the White House transcript). The remarks appear to be intended to allay concerns about inflation. If you have a modicum of common sense or even if you have only been listening to his Secretary of the Treasury, you would have reasonable concerns about inflation.

Speaking at the White House and staring vacantly into his prompter, our animatronic president argued that his alleged $4.5 trillion “infrastructure” spending blowout (even as downsized) will fund decades of economic growth and keep prices low. “My ‘Build Back Better’ plan will be a force for achieving lower prices for Americans looking ahead,” he said. “If your primary concern right now is inflation, you should be even more enthusiastic about this plan,” said the president. Indeed, it will do everything but prevent male pattern baldness.

And if anybody knows about male pattern baldness, it’s ‘Plugs’ Biden.

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Every time I write about the ghastly homicide toll in Chicago, our friend Dana Pico pipes up to remind me that the per-capita homicide rate in Philadelphia is actually worse. Do the math, says Dana, and the homicide rate in Chicago currently works out to about 27 per 100,000 population annually, while in “Kill-a-delphia,” the current rate is about 35 per 100,000 annually — about 25% higher. So while the forecast in Chicago continues to be “partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon and evening gunfire,” it’s always pouring down murder in Philadelphia.

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Senate Democrats took their push to nullify state election laws on the road Monday, holding a “field hearing” in Atlanta to attack Georgia’s recent election reforms and promote their bill to eliminate voter ID and other requirements.

Only Democrat members of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee showed up to question witnesses, also all Democrats.

Bias? What bias?

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell a whopping 725.81 points July 19 as “anxiety mounted over the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant and its potential impact on the global economy,” The Wall Street Journal reported. It was the “worst session since October” for the index.

But CNBC seemed to already know how it would spin the story at 10:42 a.m. when the market was in the heat of its nosedive: “Stock market volatility can be an opportunity for investors. Here’s why.”

CNBC pulled the nothing-to-see-here angle from its back pocket and pontificated how “[w]hile volatility can be troubling for investors, experts caution against any hasty selling when markets fall.” Really?

The outlet ran two subheadings in its piece that were just as absurd given the extent of the market collapse. The first was “Volatility is common.” The second was “Volatility can be your friend.”

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A member of the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors has sued over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin suspending the board, claiming it prevented vital oversight, including over the potential introduction of critical race theory in the university curriculum.

The board is one of 42 Defense Department advisory committees that Mr. Austin suspended to consider their “continued utilization,” according to a Pentagon memorandum.

The Air Force Academy board or AFA BOV remains shut down despite passing Mr. Austin’s April 30 deadline to complete the review.