Happy New Year

tie

Trump, Obama tie for Americans' most-admired man - yahoo

read comments and @juliaioffe - Curious how many of those surveyed reside in a server room in some Russian office building.

Demand Voter ID Now!

@JackPosobiec

becoming an atheist

The likelihood of becoming an atheist was overwhelmingly driven by low exposure to credible cultural cues of religious commitment, with little effect of individual differences in cognitive style.

@DegenRolf

bedbugs &c

странно, похоже я не записал сюда историю про David Karpf calling Bret Stephens a bedbug, нужно наверстать. во-первых несколько ссылок за август и начало сентября:

. The Internet Saga That Followed A Tweet Comparing Bedbugs And A Columnist
. Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.
. Opinion: Bret Stephens and David Karpf: A pox on both their beds

ну и так далее. это тот Stephens, что написал апологию Хандке.

но вот борьба титанов разгорелась с новой силой:

"Ashkenazi Jews might have a marginal advantage over their gentile peers when it comes to thinking better. Where their advantage more often lies is in thinking different," says Bret Stephens. @nytopinion

David Karpf там активно возражает. похоже, им вдвоем нет места на земле. дуэль?

@nytopinion thread is priceless

a few relevant tweets: @NoahCarl90 / @jodyrosen / @NoahShachtman / @ashleyfeinberg / @Shteyngart

and finally has been edited

see also Henry C. Harpending - A Biographical Memoir by Alan R. Rogers at National Academy of Sciences.

and a hit piece Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics? by one Sarah Jones

also 35 Myths About Human Intelligence by Russell T. Warne and Vocabulary IQ Test

Stephen Pinker et al вдруг опомнились 05/14/20: The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It

про Улицкую

Улицкую можно больше не читать:

Хотя я и так не читаю эту местечковую макулатурку литературку.. Но текст порадовал, короткий и полный обзор произведений всяческих улицких от polenova

я, впрочем, и раньше не читал

аутизм

по шкале аутизма у меня 24 из 50

хотя бы этим я не страдаю

Autism Spectrum Quotient

via

ветер в голове

Молодость - это пока ветер в голове свежий. - народ

a matter of opinion

a topic of any discussion with more than a few replies is a matter of opinion and cannot be decided as such © yhs

Trump cut

. CBC removes Donald Trump's scene from 'Home Alone 2' broadcast: report - FOX
. Trump 'Home Alone 2' scene reportedly cut from Canadian Christmas broadcasts - The Hill
. Donald Trump said he was honored to be in 'Home Alone 2.' The same day, his cameo in it was cut from a Canadian TV broadcast - CNN

ну и далее со всеми остановками

via CBC deletes Trump scene from Home Alone 2 broadcast & Watch how they cut Trump out of Home Alone. This is 1984 level @JackPosobiec

"As is often the case with feature films adapted for television, 'Home Alone 2' was edited for time. The scene with Donald Trump was one of several that were cut from the movie as none of them were integral to the plot," Chuck Thompson, head of CBC Public Affairs, said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY. "These edits were done in 2014 when we first acquired the film and before Mr. Trump was elected president." - USA Today

LOL! Trudeau’s CBC state broadcaster is in full damage control mode. They say they cut the three second cameo featuring Donald Trump to save time. They think we’re really that stupid. @ezralevant

Forget Stock Market Forecasts

Forget Stock Market Forecasts. They’re Less Than Worthless.
Wall Street strategists are issuing predictions for 2020. Ignore them, our columnist says, and invest with cheap, diversified index funds.

это nyt предупреждает

Great Unwashed

He doesn't understand why "facts don't penetrate" the Great Unwashed. Imagine the unbearable burden of having to carry around "facts" that won't "penetrate." The sheer immensity of it. @a_centrism

By the way, David Remnick turned the New Yorker into the airless repository of fashionable left-wing politics that it is today. Prior to that, it was a reasonable (if staid) liberal magazine that cared more about fiction, poetry, and culture than pamphleteering.

he's commenting on this:

David Remnick to @brianstelter: "We have a country that's split. And to the great frustration of people like you and people like me, we don't somehow understand why the evidence of things, why facts, don't penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in #America."

deplorables... here... или иначе говоря ватники

see also on Gopnik, very relevant

I love Justin Trudeau

My son is taking part in a social experiment. He has to wear an "I love Justin Trudeau" hat.

So far he's been punched, kicked, spit on and slapped. He's also had a bottle thrown at him.

I'm curious to see what the reaction will be when he wears it out of the home.

@Modster99

impeachment choir

Trump impeachment inquiry sung by a Christmas choir: The Washington International Chorus performs the 12 Days of Christmas carol, with specially adapted lyrics by BBC News, to explain how the impeachment inquiry unfolded.

embarrassing

@MsBlaireWhite

Lawless

Lawless, 2012 American crime drama film - a family of hillbillies (good guys, like those in Sanctuary) are brewing moonshine and bootlegging on the industrial scale somewhere in the hills of Virginia. US Federal agents from Chicago together with the local police (bad guys) want a cut in the profits. Killings, mutilations, some sex and a very happy ending (no shit).

слагаемые успеха: based on true story + right proportion of graphic violence + some very moderate sex scenes + very american (Trump electorate) badass hero (Forrest Bondurant [Tom Hardy]) = 2,184 (!) ratings and 4.5 stars (no shit) at amazon. When i say Trump electorate - i am not kidding. Here's one of the 5 star reviews:

GCH2124: I feel comfortable saying this from a position of staunch heterosexuality: Tom Hardy...Sigh.

Centre-left at latest election

UK Labour
Lowest seats since 1935

Austria
Lowest since 1945

Germany
2nd lowest since 1949

France
Lowest ever

Italy
Lowest ever

Netherlands
Lowest ever

Sweden
Lowest since 1908

Finland
2nd lowest since 1962

Maybe it's not just about Brexit?

@GoodwinMJ

Marius van Dokkum

Marius van Dokkum / mariusvandokkum.nl

Scum

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Scum - живенько. Nobel? why not.

в русском переводе - Пена

местами напоминает Мелкий бес, когда Передонов схватывается и начинает всех подозревать, что на него наслали порчу или проклятие.

еще по стилю (вернее по его отсутствию) напоминает Ежи Косинского

after you

@realDonaldTrump

329.6K Likes so far

the answer was both no and yes

“Are we a nation?” they asked the rabbi.
Like many good Jewish questions, the answer was both no and yes.

Is Judaism an ethnicity? A race? A nationality? Trump signs an order and provokes an identity crisis. - WaPo разъясняют

local copy

. Did President Trump Redefine Judaism as a Nationality? - Snopes
. Many American Jews are worried Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism would do more harm than good - Business Insider
. No, the Trump Administration Is Not Redefining Judaism as a Nationality - Slate
. Jewish groups praise and decry Trump’s executive order to protect Jewish college students - jweekly.com

планируй свой день

Мир большая параша

Мир большая параша
И реальность сурова
Где-то гробят погоду
И пугают жарой
Только Женя Лукашин и мадам Пугачёва
Защищают природу
И общественный строй

- Саргей

о Трампе

республиканцы будут всегда поддерживать Трампа, хотя бы только потому, что он говорит демократам то, что республиканцы всегда хотели им сказать, но не решались. © впс

gaze of raccoons

A group of raccoons is called a "gaze"

@41Strange

Xinhua

Chinese, Norwegian FMs meet in Madrid

Николай Моршен

Смеется тощий итальянец,
Базар гогочет вместе с ним:
Ботинки продал он и ранец
И вопрошает путь на Рим.
...
Николай Моршен, 1943

Пуще неволи [pdf]

Deep Purple

вот она, настоящая музыкальная ностальгия: Machine Head (album), 1972

also The Very Best of Deep Purple, Recorded 1968-1974, 1984

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile
We didn't have much time

это в 1972-м

жж

лучшие строчки

But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground

Genes, geography and social class

Genes, geography and social class

also Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income

The inconvenient truth that some of us have been trying to get people to understand for decades: The more that opportunity is open to all, the more important the role of genes becomes. @charlesmurray

Sex Differences in Personality

Taking Sex Differences in Personality Seriously - this is in Scientific American, date is 12/12/19, so far no comments. see @sbkaufman

. Eight Things You Need to Know About Sex, Gender, Brains, and Behavior
. Sex Differences in Brain and Behavior: Eight Counterpoints

defund the BBC!

via

this is very sweet, really

see also Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack

Смирнов Сергей Иванович

Снег на Ордынке                            Сочельник. Час первой звезды

Смирнов, Сергей Иванович

via

New pronoun guidance

New pronoun guidance (“Inclusive Language Tips”) from the city’s regulator.



that's from this guy: "Used to cover crime. Now I cover politics. Trying to learn the difference."

see also @jessesingal

Bo-ris mo-lo-dets!

а почему никто не пишет про русское вмешательство?
где поздравления злому путену?
завидуют, бляди.


see also @freddoso Jeremy Corbyn’s success is a model for American progressives - WaPo June 9, 2017


@washingtonpost

как там было, если бы у бабушки был хуй...

Cantatas 169 & 82

хорошо выпив рюмку водки захерачить на полтора часа кантаты 169 & 82

спасибо Amazon Music

снег на ветру

Эта походка как старая лента
Синематичных директорских лож
Что вызывает в душе импотента
Не до конца позабытую дрожь

Перебирай же худыми ногами
Грубый асфальт каблучками дави
Секс это выжимка всех моногамий
Вместе с глотком коллективной любви

Ты неприлична и я безразличен
Оба мы старимся в русской грязи
Страх перед пошлостью преувеличен
Выпьем-ка водочки в этой связи

Боги событий партийные боссы
Организаторы массовых драк
Сунут в ответ на любые вопросы
К нашим ноздрям волосатый кулак

Что ж помолчим будем жить по старинке
В мелких грехах в деловой суете
И разрешим патефонной пластинке
Ряд бесконечных ее фуэте

Странная женщина ваша походка
Что-то напомнила или скорей
Это знакомо как бухта Находка
Или как вышки вокруг лагерей

Милая женщина встретиться с вами
Прорубь на полюсе я не совру
Отдохновенно как пауза в драме
И безнадежно как снег на ветру

Сергей Иванович Чудаков

еще стих Игоря Караулова. сколько там идиотских комментариев...

F*** Harvey

Harvey Weinstein Reaches Tentative $25 Million Deal To Settle Sex Claims: If approved by a judge, the settlement would not require Weinstein to either admit to wrongdoing or pay anything personally.

ну вот, а разговоров-то было...


@emrata

Emily Ratajkowski writes 'F*** Harvey’ on her arm in protest of Weinstein's $25m civil settlement deal - @Independent

looks like fucking advertisement/self promotion to me. надо ей было голышом сфотографироваться с надписью на лобке.

Sympathy

Sympathy (Rare Bird song)

The cover art features a painting by Marc Harrison titled The Birdwoman Of Zartacla

youtube

pixels are cheaper

глядя на бесконечные ряды Netflix Originals добавлю от себя:

Words are cheap, but pixels are cheaper.

Лодейников

Не обольщайся призраком покоя:
Бывает жизнь обманчива на вид.
Настанет час, и утро роковое
Твои мечты, сверкая, ослепит.

Otani Oniji III

The Actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei, 1794

By Toshusai Sharaku

Sonny Clark Trio

Sonny Clark Trio - Blues in the night

Sonny Clark - Softly as in A Morning Sunrise

задурил стихами

«Бродский нас совершенно задурил своими стихами» - интервью одного (покойного) Славинского одному Юрию Левингу, уж не знаю кто такой.

— Как вы относитесь к его Римским стихам?

— «Пьяцца Маттеи» — местами гениальные, но испорченные похабенью. «Я ставил Микелину раком» — так нельзя делать.

как трогательно. интересно, именно делать так нельзя? или писать? или и то и другое?

Свое пребывание в Риме он воспринимал через фразу Гете «Остановись, мгновение, ты прекрасно». При этом Гете он не читал, но вот это ощущение есть в его римских стихах: в стихотворении «Пьяцца Маттеи» прямо целиком приведена эта фраза.

это Славинский пишет. что-то я не вижу в Пьяцца Маттеи этой фразы.

— Он любил Нью-Йорк?

— Да, он кое-что понимал в Америке.

via

крыша съехала

$300, однако

тем временем по SiriusXM передают Волшебную флейту

три нуара etc

забавная сцена в баре Woman on the Run, нуар плюс семейная драма. отличные съемки в городе, американские горы - супер.

Scarlet Street - лишний раз убедился, что я не поклонник Фрица Ланга. фильм затянут, финал - шекспировская трагедия, но для нуара это перебор. смотреть можно, конечно.

The Blue Dahlia - начало хорошее, потом становится скучно. зря они убили Doris Dowling в самом начале, актриса отличная, да и роль у нее что надо, мечта мизогиниста.

начал смотреть Irishman, но бросил. сколько можно, одно и то же. Only 18% Of "The Irishman" Viewers Made It All The Way To The End

и Тарантину новую про Голливуд бросил, когда понял, что полфильма Мэнсон будет резать Тэйт во весь экран. ну его на хер.

зато American Gigolo досмотрел до конца. Richard Gere очень картинно глазки закатывает, вот уж кто пиздострадалец и борец за право женщин на оргазм. про три часа он загнул, конечно.

сельские почтальоны

1960-е

За вязанием

Большакова Ирина Ивановна (1936 - 2011). «За вязанием», 1975 год / via
















Ирина Ивановна Большакова родилась в 1936 году в г. Ленинграде.

yandex

Room in New York

Edward Hopper, Room In New York, 1932

купил из-за этой картины набор его открыток, теперь она у меня на столе прямо перед носом

поза женщины гениальна

и бантик трогательный на правом плече

на улице Мулен

creating fake newspapers

. The Left’s Plan to Slip Vote-Swaying News Into Facebook Feeds
. Democrat strategist creates ‘fake’ local news sites in key states to sway votes away from Trump
. A new progressive media group is creating fake newspapers to try to undermine Trump in swing states

and more and more on fake news from tara mcgowan

see also somewhat related jessica kwong:

. Newsweek Claims Trump Busy ‘Tweeting’ and ‘Golfing’ on Thanksgiving–He Was Visiting Troops in Afghanistan
. Newsweek Fires Anti-Trump Reporter Behind False Thanksgiving Story
. Jessica Kwong Fired For Donald Trump Thanksgiving Story, Says She Filed It Wednesday, ‘Newsweek’ Didn’t Update

ну и так далее

water is still wet

Among both men and women, unsolicited sexual advances were considered more disturbing and more discomforting when perpetrated by an unattractive opposite sex colleague than when perpetrated by an attractive opposite sex colleague. @ImHardcory

some comments:

- Well, duh.....
- Rocket science
- Science once again proves the obvious
- Who woulda thunk it?
- In other news water is still wet.

and, finally: Reminds me a Sarah Silverman joke that still makes me cringe-laugh: “I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.”

может быть

Осень. Я занемог.
Но, может быть, нынешний вечер
Завтра мне станет мил.

- Мацуо Басё

пессимизм или оптимизм?

- Хуже быть не может.
- Может, может.

и еще

На миру́, на юру́
Неприютно мне и одиноко.
Мне б забиться в нору,
Затаиться далёко-далёко.

- Мария Петровых

Nigel Van Wieck

Q Train by Nigel Van Wieck

очевидное подражание Хопперу. успешное.

ср. Kyoto Amada

Гамлет Щигровского уезда

Кажется, чего бы еще? Одно меня смущало: в самые, как говорится, мгновения неизъяснимого блаженства у меня отчего-то всё под ложечкой сосало и тоскливая, холодная дрожь пробегала по желудку. Я наконец не выдержал такого счастья и убежал.
...
Притом — странное дело! Софья мне более всего нравилась, когда я сидел к ней спиной или еще, пожалуй, когда я думал или более мечтал о ней, особенно вечером, на террасе.

- Гамлет Щигровского уезда, Иван Сергеевич Тургенев

ср. не удавиться ли мне?

Гамлет Щигровского уезда (1975) - в главной роли Олег Борисов

better than average

@hbdchick

also (tangentially related)

Self-control, aka willpower, is about 60% heritable, with virtually no influence from shared family environment. New meta-analysis of 31 studies, with total sample over 30,000 people. - @primalpoly

We've been lied to

As pretty much everyone on the dissident right said when it happened. The idea that Assad on the verge of winning used gas which would trigger the Washington foreign policy establishment to declare war was preposterous. - @TOOEdit

Must Watch @TuckerCarlson Segment Tonight: New Evidence Shows Syria's Assad May Have Been Falsely Blamed for 2018 Chemical Attack

"We've been lied to, we've been manipulated, we knew it at the time." - @ColumbiaBugle

see also Tucker Carlson Roots for Russia on Air, MSM Heads Explode

German 'insult' on spying angers US

The row flared up over Germany's decision not to ban Chinese tech giant Huawei from participation in the German 5G mobile phone network.

"There is no moral equivalency between China and the United States and anyone suggesting it ignores history," US Ambassador Richard Grenell said.

During a TV debate on Huawei on Sunday, Mr Altmaier recalled the 2013 scandal over US surveillance of Nato allies via the National Security Agency. It emerged that the NSA had even spied on Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Mr Altmaier said that "Germany still did not impose any boycott" on the US despite the NSA scandal.


- Huawei affair: German 'insult' on spying angers US

undesirable behavior

“When someone applies a machine learning algorithm, it’s hard to control its behavior,” said lead author Philip Thomas from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
...
The team came up with a framework they called ‘Seldonian’ algorithms, named after a character created by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov, with which users can specify undesirable behavior as per their own needs.

- Is this the way to prevent the RISE OF THE MACHINES?

here you are, Scientists developed a new AI framework to prevent machines from misbehaving

дело за малым: решить, кто будет определять, что является undesirable

И проработала эта машина ровно четыре минуты. Ее выключили, зацементировали все входы и выходы, отвели от нее энергию, заминировали и обнесли колючей проволокой. Самой настоящей ржавой колючей проволокой — хотите верьте, хотите нет.

— А в чем, собственно, дело? — спросил Банин.

— Она начала вести себя, — сказал Горбовский.

все как учили

Fanny Gordon

по wqxr - Bleeding Heart by Fanny Gordon:

Fanny Gordon , (Polish:Faina Markowna Kwiatkowska Russian: Фаина Марковна Квятковская (Faina Markovna Kvyatkovskaya) - (also known as Faiga Jofé, Fayge Yoffe or Fayge Yofe; 23 December 1914 in Yalta – 9 July 1991 in Leningrad) was Polish-Soviet composer. She was only female laykhte-muzik ("light" i.e. pop music) composer in Poland.

...

Before World War II Gordon lived alternately in Warsaw and the USA. She was trapped in Warsaw at the outbreak of the war but escaped to Wilno and eventually to Leningrad, where she continued to compose under the names Fania Markovna Kviatkovskaya and Fania Kwiatkowski. She died in Leningrad in 1991.

Skrwawione Serce [youtube]

автор фокстрота «У самовара я и моя Маша»

ну и еще кстати А брив дем хавер Ворошилов / mp3

stereotype inaccuracy

An example of stereotype inaccuracy: Among white women, there is no evidence that blondes have lower IQs than other hair color groups (brown, red, black). If anything, blondes have slightly higher IQs. @ImHardcory

@dklndt Replying to @ImHardcory:
This particular stereotype is inaccurate because it is recent and manufactured on purpose. "Shiksas bad", basically.

confirmed at Blonde jokes aren't funny, very enlightening article.

The current blonde stereotype began in the U.S. of the early 20th century. It was a product of ethnic contact between the native-born population and darker-haired immigrants (Italians, Jews, Greeks, etc.) who were often shocked by the relative sexual freedom of ‘American’ women. This attitude existed in different communities, but it entered the mainstream culture primarily via Jewish immigrants and specifically through their contributions to art and literature. It is a common theme in Jewish-American novels:

The exotic female in Jewish life is the sexy shiksa, frequently a blue-eyed blonde who offers gratifications withheld, at least until marriage, by proper Jewish girls. […] A blend of arrogance and defensiveness prompts many Jews to claim that shiksas are more carnal and promiscuous than women of their own faith because Christians are less intelligent, refined, and clean than themselves. Goyishe Kopf (literally translated as gentile head), the Yiddish colloquialism for stupidity, exemplifies the traditional contempt for Christians. - The Quest for the Ultimate Shiksa by Frederic Cople Jaher

at the end of this article are very relevant examples of hair color stereotyping in modern time Sweden.

see also Peter Frost @unz

не Малевич

Negroes Fighting in                       First Communion of Anaemic
a Tunnel at Night (1882)               Young Girls In The Snow (1883)

Alphonse Allais

Handel Concerto grosso No. 7

George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 6, HWV 325

Aradia Ensemble
Kevin Mallon, conductor

wqxr

hilarious correction

GQ had to issue a hilarious correction when it screwed up how Alexander Vindman got his Purple Heart

@jneeley78