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.
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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.

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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

не выиграл, а проиграл

@IvankaTrump

об этом сегодня не написал только ленивый. все обвиняют Иванку в том, что цитата - вранье, и вовсе не из Токвиля, и вообще, как в старом анекдоте, не выиграл, а проиграл.

однако вот статья про импичмент, написанная в 1939-м году автором из University of Minnesota Law School, и к ней эпиграфом - дословно та же самая цитата из Токвиля, что привела Иванка.

вот несколько ссылок на обвинения Иванки в том, что она привела фальшивую цитату: newsweek / msn / salon

а вот в National Review разъясняют популярно: Tocqueville’s Fears about Impeachment

Unclean Lips

In 1887, nine out of nineteen (47%) of the people arrested for obscenity whose religion was noted in the society's records were Jewish. - Unclean Lips by Josh Lambert

He's not letting us know, though, what was the total percentage of obscene books published by Jews.

Acknowledgements section ends with the following sentence: "And Sara and Asher? What else can I say but that I owe you both so fucking much?"

очень трогательно

Unclean Lips is from Isaiah 6:5: "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty."

art of mouse-catching

Cats being instructed In the art of mouse-catching by an owl
Lombard School, circa 1700

Looks more like: A cat orchestra/choir directed by an owl, with sheet music made of little drawings of mice

Oil on canvas, within a painted lunette, 83.5 by 110.5 cm

справа - современная вариация

над чем он работает

Я хотел бы познакомиться с человеком, придумавшим секс, и узнать, над чем он работает сейчас.

- Продолжая тему

dog that I know

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

—Samuel Johnson

Невский проспект

Невский проспект, 1963 год. Михаил Николаевич Скуляри

via

переход не помню

The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now - британский минисериал по Троллопу, посмотрел все шесть эпизодов. довольно убедительно и познавательно. снято отлично.

интересно, что поиск в Google melmotte trump возвращает About 1,750 results.

еще La mécanique de l'ombre, в русском прокате - Механика теней, что-то среднее между Кафкой и roman dur Сименона. не дотягивает ни до того, ни до другого, смотрится неплохо, но в конечном счете впечатление такое, будто чего-то недодали.

еще Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) - про то, как французские тинэйджеры культурно проводят время. в основном - ебутся, курят дурь и нюхают кокаин. по ходу заражают друг друга вензаболеваниями, но французская карательная медицина быстро колет им пенициллин и все кончается хорошо. можно сравнить с Six Acts, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, и далее со всеми остановками.

Pizza Express

You really are not going to believe this but I am not making it up.
The Pizza Express Wikipedia entry was this morning being edited to remove all references to Prince Andrew by - Philip Cross.
Honestly

@CraigMurrayOrg

очень познавательное чтение, по ходу дела упоминается один Piers Robinson [The CNN effect/amazon], ну и всякое другое познавательное.

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman: Always Wrong, Never in Doubt @NRO / @brithume / жж

In 1988 economist Paul Krugman wrote that by 2005, it would become clear that the Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's.

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable” - John Kenneth Galbraith

Fred Calleri

google/yandex

вспоминается Svetlana Kurmaz

Surgery Often Unwarranted

Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find

Drug therapy alone may save lives as effectively as bypass or stenting procedures, a large federal study showed.

- nyt

reliable sources

Far from being autonomous computer programs oblivious to outside pressure, Google’s algorithms are subject to regular tinkering from executives and engineers who are trying to deliver relevant search results, while also pleasing a wide variety of powerful interests and driving its parent company’s more than $30 billion in annual profit.

A Google spokeswoman disputed the Journal’s conclusions, saying, “We do today what we have done all along, provide relevant results from the most reliable sources available.”

- How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results [WSJ, paywall]

Mr. Brin still opposed making large-scale efforts to fight spam, because it involved more human intervention. Mr. Brin, whose parents were Jewish émigrés from the former Soviet Union, even personally decided to allow anti-Semitic sites that were in the results for the query “Jew,” according to people familiar with the decision.
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Finally, in 2004, in the bathroom one day at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Mr. Page approached Ben Gomes, one of Google’s early search executives, to express support for his efforts fighting spam. “Just do what you need to do,” said Mr. Page, according to a person familiar with the conversation. “Sergey is going to ruin this f—ing company.”

“It’s very convenient for us to say that the algorithms make all the decisions,” said one former Google executive.

interestingly, there're at least three separate instances in the article where they talk about filtering search results, related to the Jews. talk about proportional representation...