The sequence of events that led to this digital exile began innocuously enough. A package was delivered to my house on Wednesday, May 24, and everything seemed fine. The following day, however, I found that my Echo Show had signed out, and I was unable to interact with my smart home devices. My initial assumption was that someone might have attempted to access my account repeatedly, triggering a lockout. I use a fairly old email address for my Amazon account, and it’s plausible that an old password might have been exposed in a past data breach. However, I currently use strong, auto-generated passwords via Apple and employ two-factor authentication with an authenticator app, so unauthorized access seemed unlikely.
I swiftly checked my other accounts (social media, streaming apps, etc.) to ensure I hadn’t been compromised. All seemed normal, with no flood of notifications from Microsoft Authenticator that would indicate an attempted breach. Puzzled, I followed the advice of the Amazon app and dialed the customer service number it provided. That’s when things began to take a surreal turn.
Taste The Rainbow
Groom And Doom: Target Shares Mark Longest Losing Streak In Almost 5 Years
Go Blue, Boo Hoo
The move of the company’s sales and marketing hub from St. Louis to New York in 2015, several years after Anheuser-Busch was acquired by global giant InBev, has been a point of contention. Some wholesalers have pushed the brewer to move those marketers back to St. Louis, arguing that executives in New York are out of touch with the drinkers of the company’s flagship brands.
Tim Pool: Budweiser preparing to buy back unsold, expired beer
O, Great Spirit Of Cascadia
The co-chair of a King County Regional Homelessness Authority committee defended a registered sex offender’s appointment to a committee. But the committee includes one of his alleged victims. When the victim spoke up, she was loudly shouted down. And now the KCRHA is looking to remove the co-chair from her position.
Be Woke, Go Broke
Jonathan Kay: Toronto’s “Anarchist Cafe” is closing down in a blaze of bizarre hashtags, including “BeGayDoCrime”
It’s been an amazing experience, connecting with so many great community members, sparking desperately needed debate, raising the blood pressure of Conservatives (that includes you, “anarcho-capitalists” and “Libertarians”), fulfilling the dream of most service workers by not having to tolerate the presence of professional class-traitors (pigs and military), and experimenting with living and working in ways that don’t enthusiastically embrace the pure misanthropy of Capitalism. Unfortunately, the lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources left me unable to weather the quiet winter season, or to grow in the ways needed to be sustainable longer-term.
How’s That Marketing Plan Working Out For Ya?
Spotted in Saskatoon this morning.
Go Woke, Go Broke
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hsbc-downgrades-anheuser-busch-stock-over-bud-light-sales-crisis/
And the hits just keep coming: Bud Light Costume Guy Arrested For DUI
Central Bank Digital Slavery
Thread: The financial censorship of political enemies is something we’re used to seeing under authoritarian regimes. No one was surprised when Russia froze more than 100 bank accounts tied to opposition leader Alexei Navalny. But Canada did it too…
Go Woke, Go Broke
Sales of Bud Light have been plunging since the company enlisted the help of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in a marketing campaign a month ago.
In the week that ended April 22, the brand’s in-store sales plummeted more than 26%, according to figures reported by Bump Williams Consulting, a Connecticut-based firm that specializes in the alcoholic beverage industry.
And the decline is only accelerating. The week before, sales dropped by 21%. The week before that, it was 11%.
@Cernovich – Sheer brutality. Conservatives finally pull off a massively successful boycott. I’ve never seen it happen and didn’t think it would work. Shout out to Matt Walsh and others who made it happen.
Down The Primrose Path
Worth Asking: why is Tucker the only TV host (at least not on Fox) whom senior military leaders wanted off the air?
Tucker Up, Buttercup
In important ways, Carlson is extending Orwell’s famous maxim that “during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” And as others — including very recently myself — have done, he’s putting to words and voice his refusal to surrender to those very “new new things, poisonous things, silly things” that we’re being told, without hesitation, that we must and will conform to.
The Audacity Of Woke
Whether it’s a country music drag act, a trans-identified light beer, or a march for willing subjugation and a surrender of natural rights to the State, the memetics of cultural Marxism are performative — phony Maoist struggle sessions delivered in swarms to project strength and to dispirit opponents by displaying the inevitability of the mob and its power. It’s a cultural troll. It’s their way of telling you that they are in charge, and that you are helpless. You will conform. You must. What else is there?
Survey Says…
My Spidey sense is telling me Scott Adams has something up his sleeve.
Read The Literary Classics While You Still Can
The Groomer Kingdom
Disney Actually Just Laid Off 2.4 Million People — Including Me
Do you know who isn’t getting the boot? Disney+ producer Latoya Raveneau, who admits to pushing a “gay agenda” by “adding queerness” to children’s programming wherever she can.
Or Jim Morris, who heads up Disney’s Pixar division. Pixar has been slowly losing steam since Disney purchased the computer animation studio from Steve Jobs in 2006, and its last three films — Luca, Turning Red, and Lightyear — have all been massive flops. Lightyear might have been the worst of the lot. It took a beloved Toy Story bad-ass astronaut whose catchphrase was “To infinity and beyond!” and turned him into an all-too-typical clueless white male clod who couldn’t even successfully leave a single planet.
Or Kathleen Kennedy. She runs the Lucasfilm division, purchased from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 billion. Since then, she’s run the Star Wars franchise into the ground with a combination of bad scripts and “the Force is female” wokeness.
Gonna get broker.
Never Apologize
Daily Mail- Jeremy Clarkson will be dropped
Harry and Meghan have rebuffed an apology from Jeremy Clarkson over his column – as it emerges his Clarkson’s Farm and Grand Tour series will be dropped from Amazon Prime.
The Duke of Sussex branded the article about his wife ‘horrific, hurtful and cruel’ during an interview with ITV’s Tom Bradby to discuss his autobiography Spare earlier this month.
Go Woke, Go Broke
Victoria’s Secret brand CEO Amy Hauk announced that she will be leaving the lingerie giant after a brief stint at the company.
Let That Sink In
We got a 35yo guy working at Twitter since his late 20s. Swarthmore Political Science + Film & Media Studies, UPenn PhD in Communication. Aspen Institute’s “Commission on Information Disorder”; researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center’s “Dangerous Speech Project”, etc., etc.
He’s in position to shape the flow of speech in America at highest level, effecting the interactions and sightlines to information for millions of people. Has power to help cut off the President of the United States from his primary vehicle of digital communication to citizens…
Expiry Date: Best Before … Monsieur Blackface Came Into Power
Spotted in rural Massachusetts this past weekend. Technical explanation
Canada Celebrates Justin On Dec. 25th
Here on Trudeau’s Turtle Island, its called the Festival of Lights. Neil Oliver writes about the erosion of Christmas.