3rd October 2023
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3rd October 2023
Money managers are shifting their attitude to ESG as ‘realism’ sets in, says S&P’s Dan Yergin (CNBC)
Slow route to net zero will worsen global climate crisis, IPCC chief warns (The Guardian)
When Uncle Sam stops paying the childcare bill (NPR)
Cook County SA Kim Foxx speaks exclusively on National Wrongful Conviction Day: ‘often at a loss’ (ABC) I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a National Wrongful Conviction Day.
Michigan exoneree, Metro Detroit attorney raise awareness on National Wrongful Conviction Day (ClickOnDetroit)
Cooley Law to host panel discussion for Wrongful Conviction Day (WOOD Grand Rapids) Must be a Michigan thing.
Dallas man shares his story for National Wrongful Conviction Remembrance Day (NBC 5) Or maybe a blue city thing.
GOP lawmaker Issa demands answers from Newsom, Senate leaders on Laphonza Butler’s Maryland residency (Fox News)
Tensions flare as migrant buses ramp up (Politico)
Chicago city leaders host meeting for a temporary migrant shelter (CBS Chicago)
Hundreds of migrants live inside O’Hare Airport as Chicago grapples with how to house them (Fox 32 Chicago)
Meghan Markle considering run for Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, sources say (NBC Montana)
Senator Meghan Markle? Speculation mounts Duchess of Sussex will try to replace Feinstein (N.Y. Post)
Meghan Markle Was Never Going to Replace Dianne Feinstein. Here’s Why (Newsweek)
What the latest Meghan story tells us about the culture wars (The Guardian)
Can An ‘Independent’ Kennedy Destroy “The Whole Left-Right Demon-Driven Pyschodrama”
Philadelphia Journalist Who Mocked Concern Over Violent Crime In Democrat Cities Shot Dead In Home Well. There it is. (Scott Adams, of course, had a lot of fun with this one.)
Calif. Senate Appointment Eerily Echoes 1964 Pick
An Unexpected Consumer of Conservative Media: Gavin Newsom (The Foundry)
Democrats Weigh Whether to Rescue McCarthy From G.O.P. Ouster Bid (N.Y. Times)
Here’s the story of the portrait behind Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s postage stamp (NPR) She looks like a Bond villain.
NY Gov. Hochul Suddenly Shifts Gears On Illegal Immigration As Her State Is Overrun
“It’s Broken”: Bill Clinton Now Opposes NYC “Sanctuary City” Laws As Migrant Crisis Spirals Out-Of-Control
Rep. Cuellar unharmed in armed carjacking in DC (The Hill)
Philly Police Seek Biker Who Stomped Out Back Window Of Sedan Where Two Innocent Children Sat
Police Cuts Show ‘Real World Consequence’ of ‘Defund’ Movement
Kansas Police Chief Who Led Kansas Paper Raid Resigns
Blackstone’s Massive CRE REIT Records Eleven Months Of Outflows
Italian Court Stops Detention and Deportation of Illegal Migrants
On Lampedusa, the Left Blames Borders for Migrant Deaths
California’s Math Misadventure Is About to Go National (The Atlantic)
Does New York Have to ‘House the World’?
Driver hits woman in S.F., then Cruise driverless car runs her over We have the technology.
After Trashing Dr. Oz as Carpetbagger, Media Shrug at DC Fundraiser Taking California Senate Seat
International Fishing Group Bans Trans Women
NYC Becomes First US City to Offer ‘on Demand’ Phone Appointment for ‘Abortion Kit’
Taylor Swift Traded To The Jets (Babylon Bee)
Kimmel, Schwarzenegger Promote Leftism To Justify Remaining in GOP
‘Untenable’: Illinois Gov Joins List of ‘Sanctuary’ Dems Who Don’t Love Migrants So Much Anymore
Mexico Buses Migrants in South as Thousands Reach US Border
White feminists are finding new problems with motherhood
Google removes Reviews widget when you add the word ‘sucks’ to a company search
NYC Becomes First to Deliver Abortion Kits Available Via Telehealth Somebody is really opposed to New Yorkers reproducing. Can’t say that they’re wrong.
Los Angeles Enacts ‘Zero Bail’ System Time to leave.
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3rd October 2023
Civil rights leader criticizes ‘divisive protests,’ ‘rioting’ in the name of social justice (Fox News)
Capitol Police deliver new update on Bowman fire alarm incident (The Hill)
Dem Rep Jamaal Bowman’s Office: Yes, He Pulled Capitol Fire Alarm, But Republicans Are Nazis
Bowman disavows talking points attacking ‘Nazi members’ of GOP in office’s fire alarm messaging guidance (Fox News)
‘I Am Embarrassed To Admit That I Activated The Fire Alarm,’ Bowman
Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulled a fire alarm in Congress. Should he face jail time? (Fox News)
Did This ‘Squad’ Member Really Think There Would Be No Consequences to Pulling an Alarm as Congress Voted? Well, yes.
Capitol Police Corroborate Part of Rep. Bowman’s Story
Rep. Bowman Backtracks on Memo Calling Republicans Nazis
Nets Gush Over ‘Historic’ New CA Senator, Ignore Key Details
Laphonza Butler Once Backed Abolishing Bail in Calif.
ABC & NBC Drop Bowman Fire Alarm Coverage, CBS Runs Excuses
Fmr Detroit Police Chief Craig Joins Michigan Senate Race
What to Know About Laphonza Butler, Newsom’s Appointee to the Senate (N.Y. Times) Laying down the Narrative so you all will know what to think.
The Atlantic Monthly Is All Over World War Hair, by Steve Sailer
Rep. Bowman Explains
Howard Men
The lonesome death of Tyesha Edwards
The compleat Democrat
Nigeria: 8 killed on independence day in latest round of Plateau attacks
Media Desperately Try To Spin Rep Bowman’s Fire Alarm Stunt
DNC Officials Warn Delegates Could Be Too White
Newsom’s Diversity Pick for Senate Could Backfire, Create Awkward Showdown Between Two Black Female Dems
Justin Jones alleges Tennessee House Speaker violated Constitution with ‘disparate racial treatment’ (The Hill)
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3rd October 2023
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It’s a stiff competition. Democratic Party prosecutors who have brought frivolous charges against Donald Trump are certainly in the mix. Nevertheless, I would award that title to Mary Moriarty, the County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota. Hennepin is the state’s most populous county, and it includes Minneapolis along with a number of other high-crime towns. Nevertheless, Moriarty ran for office on a platform of not prosecuting criminals, and she is the rare politician who has kept her campaign promises.
The situation is so bad that it is now drawing national (the New York Post) and even international (the Daily Mail) attention. The Post headlines: “Fury as Minneapolis’ ‘woke’ DA Mary Moriarty allows accused rapists and killers to stay free.” The Daily Mail headlines: “Is this America’s wokest DA? Democrat Minneapolis prosecutor sparks fury by giving probation to murderers, pedophile and killer drug dealer, with even Soros-backed Minnesota AG blasting her.”
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3rd October 2023
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We’ve had many meetings with NAR execs to explore compromises on the policies that would let us continue our support. Since a Redfin-wide initiative to join NAR in 2017, we’ve paid more than $13 million in dues, in an effort to influence NAR to advocate for an open, technology-driven marketplace that would benefit consumers. We’ll now explore other ways to advance those goals.
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In the many marketplaces governed by its policies, NAR still blocks sellers from listing homes that don’t pay a commission to the buyer’s agent, and it blocks websites like Redfin.com from showing for-sale-by-owner listings alongside agent-listed homes. Removing these blocks would be easy, and it would make our industry more consumer-friendly and competitive.
‘Professional associations’, no matter what they claim, are all about protecting the financial interest of existing members rather than anything having to do with either the ‘profession’ or their customers.
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3rd October 2023
OffGuardian.
Here’s a story destined for urgent dispatch down the Memory Hole. In fact, if you listen closely, you can already hear it being sucked down through the ducts of the GloboCap Ministry of Truth toward the enormous mnemonic incinerator where all official “unstories” go to die.
Yesterday, it was an embarrassment. Tomorrow, it will no longer be of interest. By next week, it will have never happened.
So, let’s review it before that happens … and perhaps try to understand why it happened.
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3rd October 2023
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Junpeng Mi and his colleagues working at Donghua University, China, used CRISPR gene-editing technology to recode the silk-creating properties of a silkworm. First, they took genes from Araneus ventricosus, an East Asian orb-weaving spider known for its strong silk. Then they placed these complex genes – genes that involve more than 100 amino acids – into silkworm egg cells. (This description fails to capture how time-consuming, technical, and laborious this was; it’s a procedure that requires hundreds of thousands of microinjections.)
This had all been done before, and this had failed before. Where Mi and his team succeeded was using a concept called “localization.” Localization involves narrowing in on a very specific location in a genome. For this experiment, the team from Donghua University developed a “minimal basic structure model” of silkworm silk, which guided the genetic modifications. They wanted to make sure they had the exactly right transgenic spider silk proteins. Mi said that combining localization with this basic structure model “represents a significant departure from previous research.” And, judging only from the results, he might be right. They successfully synthesized “fibers exhibited impressive tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m3), surpassing Kevlar’s toughness 6-fold.”
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3rd October 2023
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3rd October 2023
Washington Free Beacon.
What happened: AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, a radical left-wing IndoLatinx artist whose work focuses on “justice” and “liberation,” was living the dream at her first solo exhibition in Washington, D.C., until a thief ran off with two of her paintings.
“I feel violated, and I’m grieving the lost art, but mostly I’m feeling shocked at the boldness and thoughtlessness of entering a community space, and stealing art that is all about justice and liberation,” Velasco-Sanchez wrote in an Instagram post announcing the theft.
One of the stolen paintings, valued at $200 each, was titled Bountiful: The Land of Thoughts and Prayers. It dealt with “gun violence and state sanctioned violence in the United States,” the artist said on TikTok, a Chinese spyware app and social media platform.
And oh, was it ever ugly….
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3rd October 2023
ScienceAlert.
The animal footprint carvings you can find in the Doro Nawas Mountains of western Namibia are quite something: the artists have captured the tracks so accurately, they can reveal plenty of useful information about the animals they represent.
A team from the Heinrich Barth Institute and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, and the Nyae Nyae Conservancy in Namibia, worked with Indigenous tracking experts from the Kalahari region to look at a total of 513 carvings.
For more than 90 percent of them, Indigenous experts could identify the species, sex, age group, and even which leg the carving was from. It’s like a wildlife compendium, written in rock.
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2nd October 2023
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2nd October 2023
The Spectator.
“In this country, no one is above the law” has become a rallying mantra of both our national media and increasing, the Democratic Party (but is there a difference, really?). Attorney General Merrick Garland used this phrase on 60 Minutes this past Sunday, as did President Joe Biden during a friendly kid glove chat with ProPublica reporter John Harwood.
As justification for pursuing more than ninety indictments on several fronts against former president Donald Trump, on everything from electioneering to housing classified documents, the left has pounded the tables on the rule of law being the most important foundational principal to the survival of the Republic itself. And it has been solemnly reported that way by several cable news infotainment, including Jake Tapper and Rachel Maddow.
Well now they get to put this claim to the test. This past weekend, as members of Congress were staying to vote on a continuing resolution to avert a possible government shutdown, Representative Jamaal Bowman, from New York, was captured on video camera in the federal Cannon Building appearing to pull a red and clearly-labeled fire alarm. Bowman’s excuse, per his office, was that he was in a hurry and the notion of a push-bar exit door confused and disoriented him at the time.
Triggering a false fire alarm in a federal building is a violation of 18 USC 1512(c) and can carry with it a punishment of up to $10,000 in fines and a prison sentence of up to six months. Bowman could, however, be in even deeper legal trouble for subverting an official government proceeding, which is a felony that can carry a maximum of twenty years in prison. This is, by the way, the same statue that DC prosecutors and Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice are using against citizen rioters who breached the capitol building on January 6, 2021.
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2nd October 2023
The Spectator.
A week from today, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to make an announcement in Philadelphia that will almost certainly entail running for president as a third-party candidate.
The signs have been there for months that RFK’s politically unique appeal would be crushed by the Democratic Party’s process, which is heavily skewed toward renominating Joe Biden by acclamation. The possibility of Biden debating Kennedy was always out of the question — not because they don’t take his challenge seriously, but because for all their dismissiveness, Democratic leadership takes it very seriously indeed.
The logistics of an RFK independent run would be the challenge — unless, given the unique changes that have taken place in their leadership over the past few years, he is able to run under the standard of the Libertarian Party. According to the New York Times, Kennedy already met with party chair Angela McArdle over the summer. Already on the ballot in all fifty states, the party would offer Kennedy the chance to skip a major challenge for outsider candidates, presuming that he can win the nomination over the objections of delegates who find him insufficiently libertarian.
Why would that bother them? The Democrats frequently run candidates who aren’t at all interested in democracy, and twice in my lifetime the Republicans have nominated Presidential candidates who were famous for being RINOs.
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2nd October 2023
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Sayyed Issa Tabatabai’s comments marked the first public acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the bombings: at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed; and the barracks of American and French members of the Multinational Force in October 1983, in which 242 U.S. Marines and 58 French troops were killed.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) interview with Tabatabai, who represents Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Lebanon.
MEMRI reported that the part of the interview in which Tabatabai acknowledged receiving then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s fatwa ordering attacks on American and Israeli targets in Lebanon was removed by IRNA from its website shortly after publication.
My, what a surprise.
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.
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2nd October 2023
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2nd October 2023
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It took firms decades to adjust to electricity by redesigning factories, products, and workflows to take full advantage of the new possibilities. Similarly, the benefits of work from home start to come most profoundly when expensive offices can be shrunk, employers can draw from a much larger pool of workers and workers can adjust when and where they work, including the location of their homes. It’s not surprising, therefore, that with little time for either the workers or the firms to adjust and with few options to choose how much to work from home, productivity fell when COVID sent workers home. But, with more time to plan and more options for hybrid but extensive work (e.g. work from home Mondays and Fridays), work from home has large benefits. We are also seeing management redesign to take advantage of work from home in the same way we saw factory redesign to take advantage of electricity. Management, for example, is shifting from input metrics–do you show up?–to output metrics–did the work get done? Designing and validating new metrics takes time, but these changes are helping to increase the benefits of work from home.
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2nd October 2023
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It has become painfully clear in recent decades that, more and more, the major stumbling block in weapon acquisition programs is software, rather than hardware.
The F-35, for example, has failed on the software side of things rather than the hardware. The all-encompassing, mission planning, parts inventory controlling, maintenance regulating, aircraft health assessing ALIS software has been a colossal, and to date, unrecoverable, failure. Further, the F-35 was planned to be fully combat capable only with the advent of the Block 4 software upgrade which is now hopelessly behind schedule and has had many of its planned features deleted or deferred to some undetermined future time.
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2nd October 2023
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Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” was a slogan of genius. While his supporters (and most Americans) instantly knew what it meant, Democrats hated it. They didn’t know whether to respond, “America is still great,” or “America was never great,” which is what most of them believe. It was a painful dilemma.
But times have changed. Now Democrats embrace Trump’s slogan, or at least its acronym. They constantly refer derisively to “MAGA Republicans.” A Google search for “MAGA Republicans” returns over 58 million hits.
MAGA is the New Nigger.
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1st October 2023
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1st October 2023
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It has taken me years to answer my father’s question — in the form of my new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. In it, I argue that our preferences are now shaped not by markets but by machine networks — what I call “cloud capital”. Amazon’s Alexa, for example, is the portal to a totalitarian, fully centralised system of preference creation and satisfaction. First, it trains us to train it to dictate what we want. Second, it sells us what we now “want” directly, bypassing any actual marketplace. Third, it succeeds in making us sustain this enormous behavioural modification machine with our free labour: we post reviews, rate products. Finally, it amasses huge rents from capitalists who rely on this network of cloud capital, usually 40% of sale price. That’s not capitalism. Welcome to Technofeudalism.
Another seemingly bright person led astray by word-salad. One of these days I’m going to write an essay on the various mythologies of ‘capitalism’, both left and right.
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1st October 2023
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“Nobody plays with Ken,” Ryan Gosling told Jimmy Fallon in an interview prior to the release of the Barbie movie. “He’s just an accessory and not even one of the cool ones.”
From the original advertising, it seemed that playing Ken was unusual for Gosling, who often portrays complex and troubled male characters. In Blade Runner 2049, for example, his role reflected the sensation of feeling not only lonely, but lost in a world and trying to find purpose within it.
This stands in stark contrast to Ken’s initial depiction as a clingy, unassertive simp who secretly harbours resentment about being in the friendzone. As the infamous Barbie poster says, “She’s everything. He’s just Ken.”
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1st October 2023
*sigh* These kids today….
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