DNC Committee Throws Bound Jay Inslee Onto Melting Iceberg Before Pushing Him Out To Sea
[Consider the source.]
6.15.2019
Next, Facebook the Musical
In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Right to Privacy
…only months after Zuckerberg first outlined his "privacy-focused vision for social networking" in a 3,000-word post on the social network he founded, his lawyers were explaining to a California judge that privacy on Facebook is nonexistent.
6.14.2019
You can not make this stuff up
Lab-Grown Meat Will Overtake Plant-Based Alternatives By 2040, Study Says - Slashdot
This after a decade or so of telling me to not eat processed foods?
Could there be anything more processed than test-tube meat?
Still, if it tastes like SPAM…
The voting machine nightmare is now a regular feature of U.S. elections
Maybe we need to get Jon Stewart to work on this one too.
Seeing is not believing any more
In the race to detect deepfakes, AI researchers say they are "outgunned" - The Washington Post
…the researchers say they remain vastly overwhelmed by a technology they fear could herald a damaging new wave of disinformation campaigns, much in the same way fake news stories and deceptive Facebook groups were deployed to influence public opinion during the 2016 election.
6.12.2019
From now on your may have to drive with your elbows in Massachusetts (or your knees)
I am not your grammar guru, but I'm thinking they really mean hands-free Twittering and Facebooking, etc., so you are not hands-free driving but, like so much else about reading our local paper, that's just a guess.
Is that a snitch in your pocket?
Spanish soccer app caught using microphone and GPS to snoop | TechCrunch
To wit: La Liga, an app for fans of Spanish soccer which has been discovered using microphone access combined with the precise GPS location of Android users to listen in on people's surroundings during match times — in a bid to catch bars that might not have a license to broadcast the match being watched.
Now you can turn your whole neighborhood into a real-life video game
Turns out Jordan is auctioning off Chinese-built military drones, only slightly used although perhaps not very good to begin with, who knows. So you could have your very own drone squadron; also they could. They could.
Yikes,
I hope they're checking IDs.
Let's analyze a piece of paper that might be real or might not be real, but anyway we're not sure what it really says
A Post photographer snapped an image of Trump's alleged secret Mexico deal. Here's what it says. - The Washington Post
I'm feeling unusually grumpy today and I've barely finished breakfast.
Sort of like the odds of a Trump getting elected to something
Humans are probably safe from a catastrophic asteroid strike...for now
The good news, though, is that the odds of such an object hitting Earth in our lifetimes is close to zero.
Not meaning to be, you know, pessimistic or anything. Just pointing out.
6.11.2019
Like Brigadoon on steroids, Iowa will be there for about the next eight months
Democrats Campaign in Iowa, Fighting for Attention - The Atlantic
Former Representative Beto O'Rourke's campaign rented a taco truck and dished out free chorizo. Senator Amy Klobuchar's gang rattled little white bells. Former Representative John Delaney's team had a bagpiper and a mini blimp overhead. Some of Senator Elizabeth Warren's supporters wore bright feather boas, with a few women dancing up and down the street playing Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" on a portable speaker. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg hosted a barbecue at a park and played keys with a local band while wearing sunglasses. Senator Bernie Sanders marched from a McDonald's alongside striking workers and activists.
Mango alert
Philippines faces two million kilogram mango surplus - BBC News
The government has launched a marketing campaign in a bid to sell one million kilos of the fruit in June before they begin to rot.
Here's a career choice you may not have considered
The country's second-largest haunted house trade show is in Schaumburg. Where else will you find a 465-pound headless corpse? - Chicago Tribune
Liz Siegel, a haunted-house performer from Oak Lawn, picked up an oozing brain for a moment then moved on, the way you might quickly inspect a toaster at Target. She was dressed as a nurse, with one difference: her head was bandaged and a long syringe protruded from her right eye.
6.10.2019
Especially rotten apples
Rome is fed up with costumed characters and messy eaters
They came up with an anti-centurion decree because of a bunch of rotten apples," Daniele Di Porto, 44, told the Wall Street Journal after being chased away from the 2,000-year-old Colosseum after nine years.
$35,000 per night, "but it won’t come with any Hilton or Marriott points"
NASA invites tourists to space station - The Washington Post
No frequent flyer miles either, I suppose. But at least you won't have to change shuttles at O'Hare.
6.09.2019
Wherein I give up
There is NO WAY I'm ever going to get that little skinny piece of thread into that INVISIBLE hole in that needle. No way.
I don't need that button.
I don't need that button.
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