Humans Against Hate, a group of anonymous Portland activists, rails against the “oppression” of ideas being discussed – specifically, during a scheduled visit by Jordan Peterson. Naturally, they invoke neighbourliness, while also threatening to shut down other, unrelated events, thereby spoiling the evenings of thousands of random people.
May 26, 2018: Reader Tips
Thread open.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Baby, you can drive my car…
An “unlikely” string of events prompted Amazon’s Echo personal assistant device to record a Portland, Ore., family’s private conversation and then send the recording to an acquaintance in Seattle, the company said Thursday.
The woman told KIRO-TV in Seattle that two weeks ago an employee of her husband contacted them to say he thought their device had been hacked. He told them he had received an audio file of them discussing hardwood floors, she said.
h/t Captain Obvious
Galt, Incorporated
The president and chief executive of Cenovus Energy warns investor confidence in Canada will erode further if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion doesn’t get built.
“Canada really is at a crossroads,” Alex Pourbaix told BNN Bloomberg in an interview Thursday.
“This country has extraordinary oil resources, the third-largest resources in the world, and a track record for responsible development,” Pourbaix said. “And I think right now the international community – and particularly the investment community — is watching.”
But ‘going Galt’ isn’t just for pipelines anymore.
Car2Go, the prominent car-sharing company that claims 80,000 users in Toronto, will stop operations in the city on May 31, it announced Thursday in a release.
The company blames city hall, saying a new free-floating car-sharing pilot program passed by council in April after months of debate is overly restrictive and renders its service “inoperable.” Specifically, it called the parking permit fees of about $1,500 per vehicle “unprecedented.”
“City councillors have passed a heavily restricted pilot that ultimately weakens mobility options for Torontonians,” said Car2Go North America chief executive Paul DeLong in the release. […]
Mayor John Tory issued an email statement accusing Car2Go of choosing “confrontation over collaboration with city council.”
Maybe he should just sue them back into business.
h/t Raid, Dan T.
If You Build It
May 25, 2018: Reader Tips
Your belated tips thread.
Y2Kyoto: Those Po, Po, Poley Bears
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
When The Obama Administration Became The Deep State
In early January 2017, then-President Barack Obama, SHMOTUS Joe Biden, and a small sub-group of the national security team began their transition to what’s commonly called the “Deep State.” Based on the footprints they left behind we can tell that they took time from their real jobs of running the country, this proto-deep state planned, coordinated, and leaked a timed media burst of articles about Trump and Russia. Each of the stories was leaked to different outlets. Each story was published between the 10th and 12th of January. This was the turning point when the Obama Administration became the deep state.
At NRO on Tuesday, Andrew McCarthy came to an important conclusion about the Trump-Russia investigation. It has been increasingly clear that the investigation – to the extent we may call it that – started quite a while before 31 July 2016, the date long given for its formal launch. McCarthy suggests it began in the early spring, probably around the end of March.
Embrace Hollywood
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to shove a story down your throat.” *
h/t TimR
I Amuse Myself
He has everyone blocked. #WorldsEmptiestRetweet
— Katewerk (@katewerk) May 24, 2018
Embrace Hollywood
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
[Update: Erroneous link removed]
Move Along, Nothing Here To Step On
So basically, the Islamic terrorist attack that was threatened against Ontario cottage country beaches has been carried out, and Global is still quoting people musing over whether or not the threat was a hoax.
Sweet Christ, our media is so compromised.https://t.co/ncZt3112P7
— John Groves (@jfgroves) May 23, 2018
Y2Kyoto: The Planet Has A Fever
A spring storm that has buried cars in snow and closed a slew of schools in Newfoundland has prompted dismay — and disbelief — from residents along the northeast coast of the island.
Photos posted on social media show a barbecue entombed in snow and drifts that reached halfway up a front door.
Somewhat related.
Art Of The Deal
I think we are just days away from that magic moment when @realDonaldTrump gives Justin Trudeau a nickname. (I have long favored "Shiny Pony".) https://t.co/il1WV5kZC9
— Ezra Levant 🇨🇦 (@ezralevant) May 24, 2018
I’m not convinced Trump thinks he’s important enough for that.
If Women Ran The World
We’d all still live in caves, but with really, really fancy curtains.
Founded by the charismatic Stanford dropout in 2003, its promises to revolutionize blood-testing—and by extension, the vast industry of medical diagnostics—would be swallowed whole by most of the technology press, which would lavish Holmes with glowing coverage. (WIRED was not exempt). Only later—in October 2015—would the truth come out: Theranos was a fraud built on secrecy, deliberate fabrication, and hype. After I revealed that fraud, the company would begin an implosion that continues to this day.
h/t Steve from Rockwood
May 24, 2018: Reader Tips
RIP Clint Walker — The Man They Call Cheyenne.
Tips thread open.
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
…the public broadcaster’s repackaging of Lamoureux’s exclusive was far from the first time it had been accused of re-reporting another outlet’s scoop without credit. CANADALAND, through online searches and interviews with journalists at other outlets, has found that the CBC often appears to go out of its way to avoid crediting others’ scoops — by independently verifying information from another outlet, the CBC frequently sidesteps acknowledgement of the original source.
“They do it all the time. Just last week, [Globe and Mail reporter] Sean Silcoff had an exclusive on new IP policy two days ahead of the announcement,” Robert Fife, The Globe’s Ottawa bureau chief, said in a recent email. “The following day, it was ‘CBC has learned’ that same story that was published on the front page of Report on Business.
So, global warming is going to cause volcanos in Canada? Our state broadcaster literally broadcast that. They’ll say anything to please their political master, Justin Trudeau. They’ll look like utter fools. But they’ll get their $1.5B/year. https://t.co/EBUYbWGCy8
— Ezra Levant 🇨🇦 (@ezralevant) May 24, 2018
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The #BlueWave narrative — the media’s all-but-concluded assumption that Democrats would retake the House of Representatives from the GOP in November — has largely been based on the state of the generic ballot poll. So you might assume the media tasked with covering the 2018 midterm elections would immediately react to a sudden shift in the most important metric available for predicting the most important outcome of those elections.
Or, you might not.
Art Of The Deal
Indignant media elites and European toffs continue to scorn President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the official name of the “Iran nuclear deal,” but they are once again missing the big news: The Trump administration has launched another “maximum pressure” foreign policy operation, this time targeting the heinous religious dictators and Al Quds terrorists commanding the Iranian regime.
The phrase “maximum pressure” applies to both Team Trump’s JCPOA withdrawal and the administration’s North Korean denuclearization operation. In early 2017, the administration began using the term to describe the combined effect of its coordinated diplomatic, information, military and economic “elements of power” strategy on the Korean peninsula.
Related: America’s negotiator-in-chief