Another Glen Campbell performance I happened across in my travels — Amazing Grace
And via WalterF – Alice Cooper interviewed on passing of his friend.
Thread open.
CFL Picks Week 8
Thur: Edmonton beats Ottawa. Until the Esks lose, they win.
Fri: Montreal wins over Toronto. Toronto has no QB now with Ray hurt.
Sat: Hamilton takes Winnipeg. Hamilton can beat the Bombers at home
Sun: BC over Saskatchewan. Until Saskatchewan wins against the West, they lose.
Premier Brad
Announcement at 10am: Speculation is that he’s announcing a departure from politics.
You can listen live here.
Speculation is confirmed: Brad Wall retiring from politics and will continue in his role until a new SaskParty leader is in place. Open thread!
“He broke the back of the New Democratic Party in Saskatchewan, and that is no small thing“ – Colby Cosh
Oh, Shiny Prime Minister!
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on… umm.
[LONG PAUSE]
North Korea.
Umm. pic.twitter.com/kcfapOGZj7
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) August 10, 2017
From the responses — “You’d think a substitute Drama Teacher would have a better vocabulary”
What Would We Do Without Authorities?
Google’s rejection of Symantec’s SSL certificates never made the major headlines but illustrates the role trust plays in society. If you’re connected to a bank or the Belmont Club chances are you are reassured by the little lock icon and https indicator in the address bar certifying you are logged into the real McCoy. The site sends your browser its SSL certificate, signed with the private key of a trusted certificate authority and the browser uses public key of the authority to verify if the certificate is real. Then it displays the lock. If the browsers mistrust the certificate it emits a warning instead. When Google determined Symantec’s Latin American partners had issued 30,000 certificates without proper verification Chrome developers degraded the certificates, potentially displaying “not secure” instead of a lock and a big red slash drawn through the “https”. Within days Symantec sold its business. Lose the trust, lose a billion dollar business.
The collapse of Symantec’s trust certificates underscores the weakness of authority systems. Who guards the guardians? Google checked Symantec but who checks Google? Today authority is under question as never before. When authority systems are mistrusted even the physical facts become doubtful.
On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server.
The operation took 87 seconds.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Uproar! … as scientist urges us to eat more salt
Reader Tips
For Glen Campbell fans, may he Rest In Peace — Galveston
Photoblogging
The skies over, and west of town yesterday. No good reason — just thought I’d share.
Not Waiting for The Asteroid
Recently terminated Google engineer James Damore chooses Dr. Jordan B Peterson to give his first interview, ahead of any cable news outlet.
On Google’s own YouTube platform no less.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
“They are two of the 40,000 children working daily in the mines, checking rocks for cobalt,” the “tell-tale chocolate-brown streaks of cobalt — the prized ingredient essential for the batteries that power electric cars.”
When The Democrats Do It, That Means That It’s Not Collusion
In short, it appears Fusion GPS was simultaneously on the payroll of Democratic interests seeking to discredit Trump on the basis of his ties to the Russian government even as it was working on a lobbying effort whose beneficiaries would be Vladimir Putin and his billionaire cronies.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The Children Are Our Future
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To fling itself into the abyss.
It’s Probably Nothing
Reader Tips
That’s right — it’s Phantom of the Paradise Week. So, without further ado — Somebody Super Like You.
And Life At Last, and finally – The Hell of it.
If you were in Winnipeg in 1974, you’ll know all these songs — trust me.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Here Are All The Media Outlets Blatantly Lying About The Google Memo
I sincerely doubt that it’s “all”.
Related: Women at Google defy stereotype by getting super-emotional and calling in sick over a man saying something they don’t like.
The Trudeau Invasion
Renegade Regulator
Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a ‘bozo explosion,’ by which a company’s mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos. As Guy Kawasaki, who worked with Jobs at Apple, puts it; ‘B players hire C players, so they can feel superior to them, and C players hire D players’.”
I, Napoleon
The camp in the San Francisco Bay Area city of El Cerrito caters to transgender and “gender fluid” children, ages 4 to 12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say. Enrollment has tripled to about 60 young campers since it opened three summers ago, with kids coming from as far as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. — even Africa. Plans are underway to open a branch next summer in Colorado, and the camp has been contacted by parents and organizations in Atlanta, Seattle, Louisiana and elsewhere interested in setting up similar programs.
I’m old enough to remember when they called it “grooming”.