Thursday, January 27. 2022
Wednesday, January 26. 2022
Tonga eruption was 'hundreds of times' more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA says
Bars and gyms are bustling as Americans learn to live with COVID
Why shoplifting is soaring across the US — and will only get worse
University slaps a trigger warning on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
WOKE BALLET AT PRINCETON
Hollywood Wokeness Is Becoming a Parody of Itself
An Unhealthy Obsession - One of the nation’s top schools for public health puts “antiracist” instruction at the center of its curriculum.
Chicago Public Schools Receive $2.8 Billion While Kids Still Stay Home
John Durham Puts Hillary Clinton On Notice In New Filing: ‘Active, Ongoing Criminal Investigation’
A Conversation With the Last Liberal Interventionist. Bernard-Henri Lévy on cultural relativism, isolationism, Pax Americana, the Enlightenment, Greta Thunberg, Eric Zemmour, Derrida, Covid and much more.
Biden Needs a War. Don’t Give Him One. The Wag The Dog scenario looms larger as the Biden vortex deepens.
That's not the point
‘We have a sacred obligation’: Biden threatens to send troops to Eastern Europe
What?
What the Right Gets Wrong about Ukraine, Russia, and American Hegemony
After Keystone XL cancelation, we're now importing more oil from Russia
Tuesday, January 25. 2022
I do not find the case highly persuasive, but it seems to come down to geopolitical games.
The Criminalization of Christianity in Finland
The Left Doesn't Like School Choice. The Right Doesn't Need Them To.
Why is this political?
Antifa thugs win again as Dartmouth cancels my event on far-left violence
Althouse on the Supremes' college diversity case
CBS Host Stunned NOT ONE Participant in Face the Nation’s Focus Group Believes America is in a Better Place After One Year of Joe Biden (VIDEO)
Jen Psaki Can’t Answer Why Americans Should Spill Their Blood in Ukraine if Europeans Aren’t Willing to Spill Blood and Treasure in Ukraine
What American national interest depends on Ukraine (other than Hunter Biden's deals)?
Saturday, January 22. 2022
Was talking to a client yesterday and our conversation revolved around their mobile phone number, which indicated a South Jersey area code. They are in California. Another client is moving to California and has an NYC area code. Yet another is in Florida and has a North Jersey area code. I'm in NJ and have an NYC area code.
I imagine we're reaching a moment when location will be less discernible via area codes. This is an issue which began developing as people have switched from letter writing (street address/town/zip) to email (ISP provider, which can be anywhere).
The nature of my work allows me to find out a lot of online information easily, if I choose to. I'm not particularly nosy, so I don't. I have, on occasion, when the spirit drives me (I remember one of my jobs, at lunch, listening to people talk about ex-boyfriends or ex-girlfriends they did searches on. Creeped me out a bit, then I went and looked up one that afternoon, so who am I to judge?). To be honest, it's not that hard for anyone who puts their mind to it (or has the money to buy the data).
In some ways, the "anonymization" of life was one of the original draws of the internet. The classic New Yorker cartoon "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" was accurate, if not precise, at the time. It's absolutely NOT true today. It is this fact that keeps me working. In a panel discussion, I once pointed out to a college student, who said my company had "sold her data" (we do not, ever, sell data), I pointed out to her that many corporations do sell the data of their site visitors, but good corporations recognize the problems inherent in that behavor, so there are roles in my industry which exist precisely to keep that data safe - or as safe as it can be.
Maintaining a level of anonymity is important for the best parts of the internet to work as they were intended. Anonymity is often important to make meaningful commentary and points (Silence Dogood would approve). The fact the blockchain exists today is, in part, to solve some of these issues (the internet was not meant to be driven by advertising, but the lack of a good payments and anonymity system led to its development as one).
The days of knowing a location based on an area code may be coming to an end. In a lot of ways, that may be a good thing. Hopefully, the days of online anonymity will soon be back, though with some major revisions. It's hard to go back from where we are today. (Personal note - the EU's GPRA and California's CCPA do NOT provide you the protection you think they do, or that politicians have promoted)
Thursday, January 20. 2022
Wednesday, January 19. 2022
Tuesday, January 18. 2022
At Commentary, The Atlantic’s Nervous Breakdown. Yes, read the whole thing.
Monday, January 17. 2022
Volcanic Eruption May Be Biggest Ever Seen From Space (video)
University of Michigan president,64, is fired from $927,000-a-year job over affair with female subordinate under zero-tolerance rules he created
VDH: Politicizing COVID-19 From the Start
BUSTED: Many of the ‘270 doctors’ who signed a letter urging Spotify to censor Joe Rogan ‘are not medical doctors’
Boston students freezing in classrooms due to COVID requirements
The Post-Pandemic World
NY Times weighs in on the debate over trans teens
Traffic cameras are racist
What It’s Like In Big Tech Today: An Insider’s Twitter Thread
The Likely Cause of the Media Blackout on Imploding Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
MATT TAIBBI: What Happened to the “Question Authority” Era?
Is Biden politically kaput?
You Have Been Warned: Hillary is Back
It's Official. Democrats Say Gov DeSantis Is The New Hitler
Saturday, January 15. 2022
Thursday, January 13. 2022
Wednesday, January 12. 2022
But I think the system is getting better and is no longer infectious.
Tuesday, January 11. 2022
Saturday, January 8. 2022
Friday, January 7. 2022
Cull of 150,000 deer aims to save Scottish forests
Restoring forests can be difficult
For the First Time Ever, the Best-Selling Carmaker in America Isn't an American Carmaker
Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months
Why the Science of Teaching Is Often Ignored. There’s a whole literature on what works. But it’s not making its way into the classroom.
The combination works best: A lecture plus small groups to work it out
'Go Get Another Job': Democrats and Republicans Lambaste Teachers' Unions
Sorry, but online teaching is of limited value in many subjects
NYT wonders: Why is highly vaccinated China locking down again?
So long, heroes: Mayo Clinic fires 700 workers over vaccination mandate
Professor Gets Mad After People Notice Rather Significant Error About Rittenhouse in Her Book
No, he did not shoot 3 black guys
Unions shut record 4,783 schools across US this week despite assurances classrooms are safe: Arizona Governor offers long-suffering parents up to $7,000 to send kids to private schools or pay for tuition
Sullivan: The Woke: On The Wrong Side Of History - We need a racial politics for 2119, not 1619. Latinos will lead the way.
... in the 21st Century, it’s been hopelessly compounded by layer upon layer of mass immigration from every conceivable corner of the planet. The Latino population in the US is now larger than the African-American one; and Asians, of many different varieties, are now immigrating in higher numbers than Latinos. Before too long, the black/white dynamic may disappear into the multi-colored, multi-hued background entirely.
"as the Big Tech giants continue to push the envelope to see how far they can get in suppressing conservative dissent, at some point they could start to lose market share very quickly."
In that, MC linked this: Disrobing the Aboriginal Stalinists on a Canadian Campus
Kachelman: I Am Beyond Disgusted at Just How Quickly We’ve Been Gaslighted into a Narrative That Is. Just. Not. True.
DeSantis Derangement Syndrome a Boon for Florida GOP
Turley: Destroying a Democracy to Save it: Democrats Call for the Disqualification of Dozens of Republican Members
What’s behind unrest rocking oil-rich Kazakhstan
Why President Biden Will End Up Giving Putin What He Wants In Ukraine
How can the US "give" something it doesn't own?
What Joe Biden can learn from Trump’s Iran policy
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