Wait…wizard??

New Zealand government wizard fired over joke about hitting women: ‘I don’t like being canceled’

More like make or ding a little, then?

The AP Interview: Kerry says climate talks may miss target

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry is tempering expectations for a U.N. climate summit sometimes billed as make-or-break for the Earth’s future…

Kerry is an expert in target-missing, so pay attention here. 

Light in the afternoon

River Runner

Go with the flow.

https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

These guys (and a few of their friends) dropped by for a visit this afternoon

Finally starting to get the idea

Noted

No wonder the air is so bracing

The Amount of Scotch Lost to the Angel’s Share Every Year is Staggering

Approximately 440,000 barrels of whiskey are lost to evaporation in Scotland each year.

Maybe that's what makes the bagpipes sound good. 

Too much "ethics," and, of course, the state

China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says 

Chaillan blamed sluggish innovation, the reluctance of U.S. companies such as Google (GOOGL.O) to work with the state on AI and extensive ethical debates over the technology.

Part of the Facebook conversation

"Publishers churn out partisan and hyperpartisan content because it pays to do so. Social media favors highly partisan content. It is shared more than mainstream news, and once shared, it is more likely to be clicked on. Deepening the ideological divide has become a lucrative business."

— Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
https://a.co/bcmsy4z

Even worse than "gentrification"…

 …ia "pedestrianization."

Here from the New York Post:

Borough President Gale Brewer and Councilman Keith Powers have asked the city Department of Transportation to consider “permanent pedestrianization” of the streets around Rockefeller Center.…

The current streetscape around the Art Deco office complex “unnecessarily overprioritizes vehicles,” Brewer and Powers wrote to city transport chief Hank Gutman in a letter shared with The Post.

Meanwhile, overprioritizing is just, well, silly.