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в тексте кругом сплошной Талибан, но на картинке - Кремль. искусственный интеллект в действии

Rockefeller Center this Spring

Monumental ‘Oracle’ Statue

это Camden, дружок

Jayliani Cruz, 4, in Camden’s Pyne Point neighborhood. As violent crime has decreased, more children have ventured outside to play.

Could This City Hold the Key to the Future of Policing in America?

перевод / жж

см. также США очень быстро и целенаправленно превращают в страну третьего мира.

also ‘A Slap in the Face’: N.Y. Town Rejects Black Lives Matter Painting

just fine

People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine - nyt





тем временем lenta.ru сообщает на главной странице: Голая женщина станцевала на машине и укусила полицейского. это - в Теннесси если чо

confidential human source

A declassified transcript published on Tuesday revealed a “confidential human source” (CHS) from the FBI deriding Israelis as “fucking spies” and “fucking cocksuckers” who should be “executed” while surreptitiously surveilling George Papadopoulos two weeks after the 2016 presidential election. - breitbart.com

нет ли тут антисемитизма

market

8 in 10 French people believe a conspiracy theory

8 in 10 French people believe a conspiracy theory: survey

One of the best-known conspiracy theories -- that the CIA was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 -- was believed by 54 percent of respondents, while 16 percent thought America had faked its moon landings.

see also A fifth of Europeans believe a secret Jewish cabal runs the world, damning report into anti-Semitism reveals

посещают

Герцог и герцогиня Виндзорские посещают канцлера Германии Адольфа Гитлера в его доме в Берхтесгадене в Баварских Альпах


Германия в 1937. Герцог и герцогиня Виндзорские в Германии

герцог, правда, уже отказался от престола к этому моменту

см. также Марбургские файлы (Marburg Files), Эдуард VIII (Edward VIII) и München etc

fighting integration

Democratic presidential candidates have embraced school desegregation. But in this heavily Democratic suburb, parents are fighting an integration proposal, showing such efforts remain deeply divisive when it comes to liberals' own children. @nytpolitics

via @TOOEdit

desegregation my ass

it's funny to see articles like this in nyt. comments are worth reading too. жж

еще одна отчасти связанная ветка

One striking thing about The Federalist Papers is how skeptical the authors were of human nature. Hamilton, especially, has a dark view of his fellow creatures. @EPoe187

комментарии там хорошие, хотя и предсказуемые.

музей стрелков

А музей Красных латышских стрелков стал музеем "оккупации и геноцида"...

Кстати, памятник стрелка́м так и не снесли, потому как они хоть и красные, но свои, родные!

- visualhistory

и стреляли ведь в русских, чего сносить-то

meaningful and gratifying

The work could be meaningful and gratifying. But it was hard, for many of us, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam. - The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center by Bob Moser

see also misconduct played a role

meaningful and gratifying my ass

New Yorker style hit piece, quickly released to control damage

The S.P.L.C. has since appointed Tina Tchen, a former chief of staff for Michelle Obama, to conduct a review of its workplace environment. - see also Хина Члек в FBI

жж

как известно, в английском языке нет слова злорадство, так что это как раз тот случай: жопа есть, а слова нет.

right social class

An old friend of mine, who taught political science for 25 years at the University of Colorado, was known to tell his students that the real reason they were there was to marry people from the right social class. - A College "Education" Has Little To Do With Education

особенных новостей там нет, просто с похвальной прямотой написано, что происходит (и всегда происходило):

As ridiculous as it sounds, there are still people in higher education who spout quaint theories about "liberal education" and how college is a time for self-reflection and becoming "immersed in the great books of the Western Tradition," and so on.

anonymous donor

As soon as someone starts looking for a sperm donor they suddenly stop pretending to be believe in the blank slate: "She is seeking an anonymous donor with extremely good looks, high IQ, and from a family with a top pedigree." - @wrathofgnon

predictable answer: She’s likely to be disappointed if the child ends up with the donor’s looks and her IQ.


это по поводу Paris Hilton Is Ready To Be A Mom

войны блокеров

Когда фейсбук пишет слово "Sponsored" в рекламных постах, он маскирует его, добавляя дополнительные невидимые буквы в середине, заворачивая все это в девять уровней бессмысленных HTML-тагов итд. - все для того, чтобы тяжело было отфильтровывать с помощью реклам-блокеров.

Особенно пикантным мне показалось, что начиная с недавнего времени такое же искаженное-извращенное-замаскированное слово "Sponsored" фейсбук добавляет к *обычным*, не-рекламным, постам, а затем делает его полностью невидимым.

- войны блокеров @ avva

казалось бы, невозможно уже ничем удивить, а вот... ахуеть, не побоюсь этого слова

вот странно, что всех ad-blockers еще не купили всякие фейсбуки и гугли. а может - купили давно?

в общем, и так было понятно, почему так медленно работает все, но теперь...

Man wants to sue his parents

Man wants to sue his parents for giving birth to him 'without his consent' as part of 'anti-natalist' movement that says having children is morally wrong

if you are not misanthropic enough yet - spend a few minutes reading comments to this article

upd: There’s a serious philosophical argument supporting the man suing his parents for giving birth to him

like Trotsky’s

In the fall of 2011, a few pieces arrived at the laboratory of Pier Giorgio Righetti, a tall, slender chemist in his seventies, with a neat beard, like Trotsky’s.

- из статьи в New Yorker Do Proteins Hold the Key to the Past

а если бы у него были усы, написали бы они like Stalin's? или like Hitler's?

отвлекаясь от историко-политической стороны, это описание - отличный пример того, как New Yorker разукрашивает любую статью на самую абстрактную тему, добавляя "человеческий фактор" в виде никому не нужных и совершенно не относящихся к делу подробностей.

nyt и прочая тоже этим грешат, но the parish magazine of East Coast liberalism особенно этим отличается.

забавно, что в середине статьи читателю предлагают видео James Comey on His Infamous Dinner with Trump. no shit.

еще одна интересная фраза: At the end of the restoration project, Melloni flew to Beijing and presented the Bible to an audience at the library of Peking University. значит Пекинский унверситет находится в городе Бейджинг... вас понял.

Pakistani backlash

UK has denied asylum to Asia Bibi’s amidst fears of Pakistani backlash

Asia Bibi 'not offered UK asylum amid concerns of unrest and attacks'

propagandists

@primalpoly

withdraw ads

“The thing that especially upsets me is that apparently there was all this pressure from university presses who said they were going to withdraw their ads from the Review because of publishing this piece, which just makes steam come out of my ears.” - Gerald Howard, an executive editor at publisher Doubleday as quoted in How one article capsized a New York literary institution

Buruma spoke with detached fatalism of how he’d been “convicted on Twitter,” a victim of the Review’s “capitulation to social media and university presses.” He said Hederman had told him university press publishers, driven by campus politics, were threatening a boycott. - The Backlash to the Backlash at The New York Review of Books [see the paragraph starting with Fear of protest from university presses may have played a part in Hederman’s decision]

see section Advertising in Propaganda model

startup financing howto

ex libris

To raise the money she needed, she leveraged her family connections. She convinced Tim Draper, the father of her childhood friend and former neighbor Jesse Draper, to invest $1 million. The Draper name carried a lot of weight and helped give Elizabeth some credibility: Tim’s grandfather had founded Silicon Valley’s first venture capital firm in the late 1950s, and Tim’s own firm, DFJ, was known for lucrative early investments in companies like the web-based email service Hotmail.

Another family connection she tapped for a large investment, the retired corporate turnaround specialist Victor Palmieri, was a longtime friend of her father's. ... In addition to Draper and Palmieri, she secured investments from an aging venture capitalist named John Bryan and from Stephen L. Feinberg, a real estate and private equity investor who was on board of Houston's MD Anderson Cancer Center. She also persuaded a fellow Stanford student named Michael Chang, whose family controlled a multibillion-dollar distributor of high-tech devices in Taiwan, to invest.

- Bad Blood, pg 16

это напоминает старый анекдот про парня, который продавал карандаши, а потом дядя завещал ему миллион. и еще историю про финансирование одной из первых bitcoin exchanges, там тоже парень сидел в подвале без денег со своими компьютерами, а потом один из его приятелей уговорил другого приятеля вложить 20 миллионов.

еще там познавательно, особенно учитывая, что это 2007-й год и речь идет о Калифорнии

...when Matt called the second moving company and explained the situation, a person there strongly advised him to drop the idea. Unionized moving companies were all mob controlled, the person said. What Theranos was proposing to do risked devolving into violence. - Ibid., p. 42

[John Careyrou on San Fransisco-area biotech company Theranos risking organized crime violence by dropping a contract with a unionized moving company.]

ну и Theranos board [Wiki]:

In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former Secretary of State George Shultz, who joined the Theranos board of directors that month. Over the next three years, Shultz helped to introduce almost all the outside directors on the "all-star board," which included William Perry (former Secretary of Defense), Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State), Sam Nunn (former U.S. Senator), Bill Frist (former U.S. Senator and heart-transplant surgeon), Gary Roughead (Admiral, USN, retired), James Mattis (General, USMC), Richard Kovacevich (former Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO) and Riley Bechtel (chairman of the board and former CEO at Bechtel Group). The board was criticized for consisting "mainly of directors with diplomatic or military backgrounds."

еще из книги:

He said she wasn't the one running Theranos day-to-day. A man named Sunny Balwani was. Alan didn't mince his words about Balwani: he was a dishonest bully who managed through intimidation. Then he dropped another bombshell: Holmes and Balwani were romantically involved. ... If what Alan was saying was true, this added a new twist: Silicon Valley's first female billionaire tech founder was sleeping with her number-two executive, who was nearly twenty years her senior. - pg 227

My source said it was hard for the agency to take any adverse action against a company that portrayed itself as the lab world's biggest advocate of FDA regulation, especially one as politically connected as Theranos. At first, I thought he was referring to its board of directors, but that was the least of his concerns. He pointed out how chummy Holmes had gotten with the Obama administration. He had seen her at the launch of the president’s precision medicine initiative earlier in the year, one of several White House appearances she’d made in recent months. - pg 260

see also Why wasn't Theranos's board or its investors able to see that Elizabeth Holmes was continuously demonstrating unethical behavior?