It’s sad when a comedian decides they are old enough to step out of character and reveal what a bigoted moronic asshole they really are.
Source: John Cleese disappoints me
Cory Nails It
The problem is that we’re confusing automated persuasion with automated targeting. Laughable lies about Brexit, Mexican rapists, and creeping Sharia law didn’t convince otherwise sensible people that up was down and the sky was green.
Rather, the sophisticated targeting systems available through Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other Big Tech ad platforms made it easy to find the racist, xenophobic, fearful, angry people who wanted to believe that foreigners were destroying their country while being bankrolled by George Soros.
Source: Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online
Both Sides In Denial of Reality
Dangerously Incompetent CEO Allen Hollimon
A Trump extremist nut job was arrested in PA:
Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center were “coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots” to the city
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Both men were carrying loaded handguns, and police found an AR-type rifle in the Hummer, authorities said at a news conference Friday. About 160 rounds of ammunition were found in the weapons and the vehicle, authorities said.
Stickers and a hat with logos of the QAnon conspiracy movement were found in the vehicle, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said.
LaMotta and Macias were charged with having a concealed firearm without a license and carrying a firearm on a public street or public property, Krasner said.
“This alarming incident is still very much under investigation regarding additional charges,” Krasner said.
LaMotta and Macias were arraigned Friday night, and a judge set bail at $750,000 each, Krasner’s spokeswoman Jane Roh said.
LaMotta’s boss, CEO Allen Hollimon, is so dangerously incompetent that when asked about his crazy Qanon believing employee he said:
Hollimon said he did not know why LaMotta was in Philadelphia and emphasized that he believes he is “a good guy.”
“He’s a very devoted guy. I’ve never had an issue with him,” Hollimon told CNN. “He’s not a threat.”
If I were a customer of Nationwide Investigations & Security, Inc. , I’d be searching to find a competent company for the job. When you can’t see the danger your employee poses to your customers, even when informed of the extremely dangerous behavior that led to his arrest, you can’t be trusted with keeping your customers safe.
Source: Report: Armed men arrested in Philadelphia were trying to deliver fake ballots – CNN
Honey Bees, Cows, Pigs & Chickens
What do they have in common, they’re all domesticated livestock in North America. This means that other than being great for producing food for humans, they generally harm the environment.
Source: The Problem with Honey Bees – Scientific American
Our native pollinators are what we should be working to conserve as they sustain healthy ecosystems.
