yay footrot flats

who the bloody hell was the cartoonist for The Australian

Bill, not Ball

Bill Leak

fuuuuucking hell

You fake news'd me >:(

Well, they're both dead, if that's any.. er.. consolation

Those are some damn good cartoons

Got hauled in front of a tribunal for the first and third cartoon

Oh but the 2nd was fine
They're not pushing the agenda hard enough

https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/949324779810709504

"Other guests set for Letterman's series are George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey and Howard Stern."

cuck, ???, cuck, cuck, fun weirdo?

"Other evidence is equally discouraging. One researcher tested Arizona State University students’ ability to “apply statistical and methodological concepts to reasoning about everyday-life events.” In the researcher’s words:

Of the several hundred students tested, many of whom had taken more than six years of laboratory science … and advanced mathematics through calculus, almost none demonstrated even a semblance of acceptable methodological reasoning."

"Fifty years ago, college was a full-time job. The typical student spent 40 hours a week in class or studying. Effort has since collapsed across the board. “Full time” college students now average 27 hours of academic work a week—including just 14 hours spent studying."

Malala "the more speak on Muslims, the more terrorists are created" Yousafzai is a useful idiot Islamophile.

MEME JIHAD

`By late Friday, The Gorilla Channel was trending on Twitter.

The bad news: there is no Gorilla Channel.

The worse news: people will believe anything that’s convenient for them to believe, particularly about President Trump.

The worst news: now that people know the Gorilla Channel was a fraud, there can never be a real Gorilla Channel.`

Harambe strikes back!

Samantha Maiden is trash, that's the main takeaway I got from this article

lol

that's an underwhelming takeaway

meh

considering she's the Aus journo who got caught up in this

https://twitter.com/kierandill/status/949385704597016576

So desperate for news they try to make fake news real

lol

@Reaps what is that from?

wrong upload 👍

but it was from the D&D livestream

lol

fucking netflix 🤣

`Speaking to the hosts about hand gestures associated with white supremacists, Nolan burbled, “I just found what this means,” holding up her index finger and thumb together. “I’ve been using that to mean okay for so long. I’m like, ‘F***, what?

Host Desus Nice asked, “You came on this show to let people know you’re down with the alt-right people?”

“No!” she screamed, then held up her thumb, asking, “Is this banned?”

Holding up his thumb, Desus answered, “This is bad, and the okay, they’re both for white power.”

“F***ing hell,” she muttered.

Host Mero stated, “Thumbs up is white power now? Holy s***.”`

They make it so easy

👌🏿

prohibition is bad

that's from the government report

"The majority of pornographic sites are based in the USA, and although a number of attempts have been made to legislate there to restrict the availability of online sexualised content to minors, these have largely failed due to freedom of speech legal issues."

just the way they frame that

Make good porn

a 6 stone girl getting railed in her ass isn't porn

but your porn websites are full of that shit

no code of conduct

weeeow

imagine that

One if the reasons Japanese porn is so entertaining, they pull some creative stunts to survive the competition.

is it entertainment if your dick is in your hand?

"You can be sure that this weekend at the Golden Globes, Hollywood celebrities, not exactly known for their independent thinking, will turn the red carpet into a #MeToo moment replete with designer duds."

SHOTS FIRED

#nytimeshateswomen

"Australian Palestinian supporters are calling for people to stop using online payments provider PayPal because it does not offer services in the West Bank and Gaza."

are those areas even incorporated?

and if they are, then under which state?

now the feds know all about the pillow you blow loads into

(((AMAZON)))

Isn't that "best friends ban" like old news?

yes it is

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/new-bill-could-finally-get-rid-of-paperless-voting-machines/

this is fantastic, I really hope that bill passes

"The first objective is to get rid of paperless electronic voting machines. Computer scientists have been warning for more than a decade that these machines are vulnerable to hacking and can't be meaningfully audited."

we all know for a fact that it's impossible to secure electronic voting, while we have hundreds of years of experience handling paper ballots

"The legislation's second big idea is to encourage states to perform routine post-election audits based on modern statistical techniques."

I haven't read the text of the bill, but judging by those two sentences, it sounds good

There should also be extra measures to secure paper ballots. Remember the votes that couldn't be recounted because the sealed bags were damaged or had the wrong seal.

yeah it happens almost every election - somewhere there's going to be a problem, but what I'm saying is that there's a difference between paper and electronic where we know that electronic voting can never be secure, while the problems with paper voting can be fixed

"Even before this allegation, the school was in the eye of storm after two of its employees reportedly joined ISIS. "

You know what electronic voting needs? BLOCKCHAIN!

if I had a nickel for every time I heard that the past few years :P

I'm sure daniel knows it perfectly well, but since there are other, non-daniel people in here, "applying the blockchain to electronic voting" doesn't solve any problems that aren't already solved

the problems of electronic voting still remain after you're done

Next thing you'll say is that Cloud Computing didn't solve all technological problems!

Guess what country has Paper votes

Watch 4chan break her ai

By associating “hate symbols” with her

hehe yeah, it's just so funny because the article could also be titled "Woman writes 5-line script to train tensorflow"

What is tensorflow?

it's an open source neural network, put simply, that is easy to use

it's an AI

that is to say, it's what news articles actually mean when they use the word "AI" at this moment in time

Huh ok

in that mexican town article, the piece about Monterrey is essentially an appeal to corporatism

"Monterrey’s experience offered still more evidence that in Mexico, violence is only a symptom; the real disease is in government. The corporate takeover worked as a sort of quarantine. But, with the disease untreated, the quarantine inevitably broke."

"A new governor, who took office in late 2015, let reforms lapse and appointed friends to key positions. Now, crime and reports of police brutality are resurging, ..."

Maybe there's a reason she's ex-NSA. If she was good, she would be still-NSA.

hehehe I thought the same thing

also she's listed as an "ex-Redditor", and I've never used reddit, but does that mean she has just deleted her account?

or, I should ask, how is being a redditor an accomplishment?

Fuck, I'm like a double redditor, I got two accounts!

Gotta add that to my resume.

lol

Kek

"The retreat is the formal beginning of a new kind of institution, one that’s becoming increasingly popular among Silicon Valley’s elite and soon-to-be elite. It’s an ostensibly modern take on a very old idea: the social club."

new kind of .. modern take on .. very old idea

"The kind of intermingling that Neo provides will ensure Silicon Valley titans that they remain as significant to the next generation of tech companies as they’ve been to the last."

so essentially, they're forming an aristocracy

"More than most, Partovi understands the most valuable currency in Silicon Valley is not money, or even ideas. It’s relationships."

"Networking in tech, as recent headlines have espoused, is a brutal exercise—where discrimination and harassment are the norm, and events like sex parties perpetuate a systemic inequality where women and people of color are excluded. Partovi is attempting to build a culture that does the opposite."

"Advocates for the immigrants immediately protested, calling the decision needlessly cruel and a blow to the economies of both El Salvador and the U.S.

In the nearly two decades during which they have been able to live and work legally in the U.S., Salvadorans with protected status have built careers and opened businesses, and workers now play a significant role in industries like construction and housekeeping. The economy of El Salvador also is dependent on money sent back to families from abroad — $4.5 billion last year.

“The United States has yet again turned its back on its promise to provide refuge for those who face violence and persecution in their home countries,” said Oscar Chacón, executive director of Alianza Americas, a network of immigrant rights groups."

"Up until today, mRelief simply helped people find out if they qualify for food stamp services. Now, mRelief takes them through the entire process. The service is free to use and mRelief also offers free Lyft rides to people who need to do interviews."

"Since launching in 2016 at a Y Combinator demo day, mRelief has helped 230,000 families across the country connect to social services."

"They're too comfortable here, don't make them go back home!"

what does that last sentence there even mean?

these 230000 families, would they have died without getting "connected" to social services?

a more pertinent question would probably be; if they died, would that be better for the US as a whole?

:P

It's the old question, "if they're so good for the US economy, we have a moral duty to return to their home country so they can make their country great again."

ah that's my bad, those last two paragraphs are a different story

the el salvadorans is a different one

By the way, that ex-NSA is MTF trans.

⚢wife | parent | gender defector | NATSEC | infosec wytch | cyber weaponz | hacktivist | essayist | support trans military

I wonder which anon ops he participated in, since he's apparently a "hacktivist"

also, I always felt like people who write with "z" endings are like moms who think they are cool

@DanielKO why am I not surprised

also, who _isn't_ an essayist, I mean I had to write tons of them in school

The KiA thread has a good point: former NSA employees don't brag about it.

there's a kia thread about this guy?

ah there

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/7ozoub/exnsa_hacker_build_ai_to_hunt_down_hate_speech/

"I'm an former Seal Team 6"

"Even a basic chatbot that can start spouting off crime statistics would be triggering as fuck."

>A lot of DoD/Intelligence contracts have pretty huge NDA clauses. Not to mention the fact that ALL your security training says that you should never disclose who you work for and what type of work you do.

We had a redpilling AI, but Microsoft killed her.

hehehe

neverforget

https://theestablishment.co/the-real-cost-of-donald-trumps-anti-trans-military-stance-7e35b712888d

written by this trans guy

"One thing that makes the military beautiful is that when it matters, the social barriers that divide us fade away, at least temporarily."

I think what he means is, while in an active engagement with an enemy that wants to shoot you dead

"On July 26, 2017, the president tweeted that transgender individuals would no longer be allowed to serve in any capacity with the U.S. military. Having left my job with the Army months earlier out of concern for the future of my own career as a trans person under an administration run by people actively working in opposition to trans people, ..."

can you imagine being so demented that you leave your job because you perceive the president to be a transphobe

because I can't, so I don't believe him for a second

"President Trump’s recent take on transgender military policy is completely antithetical to any sense of good governance"

I mean, [citation needed]

you can't just assert that it's a good thing to have transgenders service as military operatives

I'm under the impression that Mattis does not want women or trans people, or even gay people, serving alongside combat troops on the ground

and that guy knows his shit

"Among the men, a third of the heart attacks occurred the day after a snowfall. The association between shovelling and heart attack was very strong. If the snow fell for two to three days, the association between shovelling and a heart attack was even stronger. The correlation was true regardless of the patient's age, the presence or absence of cardiovascular risk like high blood pressure or other health conditions.

But here's the thing. The correlation was only true for men – not women. No connection. Zip. Nada."

I WONDER WHY

"A larger American study found that of the patients with heart attack after shovelling snow, 80 per cent were men. "

no shit

"Free speech is dying on the American campus — or so we’ve been told. The culprit is left-wing political correctness.

But this narrative doesn’t pass scrutiny."

what the actual fuck

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"On Sunday evening, #Oprah2020 began trending on social media after Oprah Winfrey delivered a rousing speech against misogyny and racism at the Golden Globe Awards."

has anyone seen the speech?

As CNBC’s Christina Wilkie, in a rare dissent on Twitter, put it: “I love to watch Oprah saying inspirational things on television. But also I love to watch people who have political experience being elected to national office.”

off to the gulag methinks

"The survey finds a higher share of blacks in STEM jobs report experiencing any of eight types of racial/ethnic discrimination (62%) than do others in STEM positions (44% of Asians, 42% of Hispanics and just 13% of whites in STEM jobs say this). They also tend to do so more than blacks in non-STEM jobs (50%), with many saying they have been treated as if they were not competent because of their race or ethnicity. Blacks in STEM jobs are particularly likely to say there is too little attention to racial and ethnic diversity where they work (57%)."

HOW RACIAL DISCRIMINATION PLAYS OUT IN ONLINE DATING

EXCUSE ME

dating preferences are bigoted, don't ya know

I may just be some country-borne naive person who likes cream in his coffee and pussy on his dick, but isn't picking a dating partner _100% discrimination_?

oh right, I remember now

it's that freak on youtube, he said that if you don't date trans people, you're transphobic or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTc_8Ms-UmE

I don't know what it is, but yeah, I can imagine you're not desirable

put a bag over your head and try again, snowflake

I didn't choose my wife because of the colour of her skin

I fell in Love with her for the content of her heart.

That freak (Riley) was specifically addressing women that don't want to have sex with trans lesbians.

He's a trans lesbian.

So he's basically saying, "if you refuse sex with me, you're a transphobe."

IF I refuse sex with you?

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wat

do we kno de whey?

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WE KNO DE WHEY

"Open Banking forces lenders to offer a digital "fire hose" of data that any third party can use to get standardised access - provided the startup is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the customer agrees to share their data."

on the face of it this sounds like it has been designed by someone completely incompetent, where the setting is "share all data or nothing" per bank user

however that's not the case

https://www.openbanking.org.uk/personal-customers/

"Is Open Banking safe?

We have all been taught to never share our account details. That’s still good advice in many ways, but the difference with Open Banking is that we are creating software and security systems that let you share access securely."

"It’s been just over seven years since Darryle’s death, and his case remains open. “I’m going to keep on fighting until somebody is brought to justice,” says his mother Rose. “You don’t go out and take somebody’s life for a pair of glasses.” But when it comes to these particular glasses in Detroit, Darryle’s story is no outlier. According to the Detroit Police Department, between 2012 and 2016, Cartier glasses figured in nine homicides, 17 non-fatal shootings, and 2,158 robberies."

so his mom is wrong, you _do_ go out and take someones life for pairs of glasses

we must lobby the city council, we must BAN these glasses from our streets

only then will we be safe

When we arrive, the man selling pills is sitting on his front stoop wearing Cartier Giverny wire frames. He describes them as “more professional” than the White Buffs that The General has on. After all, he is currently working his 9-5.

“They will look at [White Buffs] and think: dope dealer or rapper,” the man explains. “I learned young. I walked [into court] before with White Buffs. Went back to jail. And the bailiff told me it was because I looked like a drug dealer. Because you walk into court and you say you don’t have a job, but you’ve got on $2,500 glasses.”

This kind of makes the round on my feed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/movies/catherine-deneuve-and-others-denounce-the-metoo-movement.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

“As a result of the Weinstein affair, there has been a legitimate realization of the sexual violence women experience, particularly in the workplace, where some men abuse their power. It was necessary. But now this liberation of speech has been turned on its head.”
[...]
"One of the arguments the writers make is that instead of empowering women, the #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc movements instead serve the interests of “the enemies of sexual freedom, of religious extremists, of the worst reactionaries,” and of those who believe that women are “‘separate’ beings, children with the appearance of adults, demanding to be protected.” They write that “a woman can, in the same day, lead a professional team and enjoy being the sexual object of a man, without being a ‘promiscuous woman,’ nor a vile accomplice of patriarchy.”"

"Ali, of Chapeltown, Leeds, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour, arson, assault and criminal damage.

The court heard Ali had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.

He was made the subject of an indefinite hospital order under the Mental Health Act, combined with a 19-month prison sentence."

"Officials said the probes were an extension of raids carried out under the Obama administration in 2013 against several 7-Eleven franchise owners who later pleaded guilty to operating an immigrant-exploitation scheme from their convenience stores."

“It is convenient to blame Pakistan for cross-border terrorism, where the US has not lifted a finger to help fence-up the border,” Dastgir said.

that's the pakistan-afghanistan border, which apparently the US has some sort of duty to fence

of course, when the US revokes $33 billion in aid - which amounts to ~10% of pakistans annual GDP - you can't blame them for going a bit crazy

that's a bit misleading of me to say

$33 billion over 15 years, I think it was trump said

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/11/nigel-farage-backs-fresh-brexit-referendum-to-kill-off-issue

"Not all opinions are equal, but some people seem to wish they were. Former Google engineer James Damore, who you may remember as the author of an eye-poppingly sexist company-wide memo about why men are naturally better at computers than women, is now suing the company for discrimination against conservatives. The memo claimed that it was wrong for Google, a company with 80% of its technical roles held by men, to be pursuing diversity."

I can't even

"He is not alone. Donald Trump received his strongest support at the polls among Americans who believed that men, Christians and, in particular, white people, were being unfairly discriminated against."

"Conservatism is a behaviour, a set of opinions, not a fixed identity.", yes, you're not very familiar with californian labor laws are you

There's a massive smearing campaign against Damore, yet again.

Media is going crazy with the lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrkbev0nPnQ

it doesn't really surprise me as much as entertain me :P

also, does this sentence mean they're coming sort of full circle back to agreeing that the quran has doctrines that are incompatible with a western way of life?

Laurie Penny was an established cunt already

"Not all opinions are equal, ..."

oh god there's even worse ones of her

Alt-Right darling James Damore

LOL

"techbro" has to be one of the stupidest newspeak terms

Cheesy Males

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/11/farage-second-referendum-remainers-britain-eu

"We cannot threaten or pronounce our way to victory. Instead we have to go out into the country and answer the crucial question for many who voted to Brexit out of legitimate anger and despair: If not leave, what? What can we do to give people security, esteem and optimism so that they can view a European Britain – with all the opportunity that brings – with confidence and enthusiasm?"

yes, like they didn't do last time - did you see the example of poor rhetoric I linked from lindybeige some time ago?

https://youtu.be/_z3pe_OSZrQ?t=26m10s

the poster is red. That's scary

if you watch another minute there's another perfect example of poor political rhetoric

hehehe

Averages. How they work? Are they like Magnets?

even slate.com attacks oprah 2020 https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/oprah-winfrey-helped-create-our-irrational-pseudoscientific-american-fantasyland.html

this cunt can't win, ben convinced me of that

so let's hope she runs

welll they gotta run someone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-42648624

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-42655805/tom-hanks-oprah-is-one-of-a-kind

eww

well if Tom Hanks thinks a talk show host should be President

I must march down the the polls and make it so

wait... isnt that basically what happened?

WRONG

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-attacks-protections-for-immigrants-from-shithole-countries-in-oval-office-meeting/2018/01/11/bfc0725c-f711-11e7-91af-31ac729add94_story.html?tid=ss_tw-bottom&utm_term=.8b7c53c9c2d5

https://www.axios.com/trump-argues-1515707301-d460d701-8e1e-420d-9b4b-9df02ff58f64.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuoA7gjnxgI

wtf even twitter employees don't know the milo vs leslie specifics

they don't need to know

they don't folllow Milo

but with this Lawsuit and athe Damore Google one they might be able to do some damage

fingers crossed

Milo is doing his 1 hour-a-day show... and is going to charge for it.

I agree they don't need to know, but then they shouldn't regurgitate lies like "he called her a monkey"

if you don't know, then don't claim to know and fabricate lies

Milo might just settle out of court

get $10M off Twatter and buy another tour bus

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