Meet the Women Who Ruined Twitter

Posted on | July 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

Twitter rolled out a site redesign this week and it sucks — a giant leap backward, to a clunky and inefficient user interface. Who did this? It was a crew of social-justice quota hires:

IN JANUARY . . . following Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s return from a 10-day silent meditation trip to Myanmar, about which he praised the food and the beauty of the monasteries but neglected to mention the ongoing regional genocide, Twitter made it clear that some things were about to change. . . .
It was time to give the experience of using Twitter a makeover.
A redesign of Twitter’s website was long overdue. The desktop interface hadn’t been refreshed in seven years . . .
“Personalization and customization — that’s something we hope to start bringing out throughout the product,” says Ashlie Ford, the product designer who led Twitter[dot]com’s redesign. . . .
“People use Twitter a lot on desktop to look for information, and it tends to be around their interests,” says Jesar Shah, the web redesign’s product lead. “So we’re trying to make that easier for people, and leverage these new spaces we’ve created on the site and compliment their primary browsing experience.” . . .
“Internally, we call this project ‘Delight,’” says Shah. “One of the things we’re trying to do is make sure this is a delightful experience for users.”

It’s not “delightful.” It’s a nightmare. It’s wrong. You screwed it up.

But they’ll never be held accountable for their failure. That’s the thing about “social justice” as a human-resources policy — if your employer decides it needs to hire more “women of color,” just to satisfy some diversity goal, the people hired under this policy can never be fired, no matter how spectacularly incompetent they are, or no matter how much harm their failures inflict on the company’s profitability.

Six months or a year from now, when the metrics show that “New Twitter” has been a complete disaster, the quota hires responsible for this disaster will not suffer any actual consequences for their failure. Remember when Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012 and everybody was like, “Yeah, GRRRL POWER!” What happened? In 2013, Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for Tumblr, which proved to be such a disaster that within three years Yahoo had to admit that the site was “basically worthless,” and in 2017 Yahoo was sold to Verizon, with Mayer getting a buyout of more than $20 million. No consequences.

Category: Computers, Economics

‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’

Posted on | July 26, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘Brain-Eating Amoeba’

Something else for hypochondriacs to worry about:

A North Carolina man has died after contracting an illness caused by a “brain-eating amoeba,” public health officials said.
Laboratory testing confirmed the man, identified by local media as Eddie Gray, was sickened by Naegleria fowleri after swimming at Fantasy Lake Water Park in Cumberland County earlier this month, according to officials with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Cumberland County Department of Public Health. Infections like Gray’s are rare but typically occur when it is hot for prolonged periods of time, according to the release.
“Our sympathies are with the family and loved ones,” said state epidemiologist Zack Moore. “People should be aware that this organism is present in warm freshwater lakes, rivers and hot springs across North Carolina, so be mindful as you swim or enjoy water sports.”

From the health department:

Naegleria fowleri, referred to as the brain-eating amoeba, does not cause illness if swallowed but can be fatal if forced up the nose, as can occur during diving, water-skiing or other water activities. . . .
Symptoms of Naegleria fowleri infection start with severe headache, fever, nausea and vomiting and progress to stiff neck, seizures and coma.
Local health officials are working with the water park to provide guidance and education about the presence of Naegleria fowleri and how to take precautions when in natural bodies of freshwater.

The world has so many ways to kill us. It’s a miracle any of us survive.

Category: Science

In The Mailbox: 07.25.19

Posted on | July 26, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Only a Bureaucrat Could Construct a Tax Rate ABOVE 100%
EBL: Rossello Out In PR, But “Coonman” Northam Still Governor Of VA
Twitchy: “Fake News In Real Time” – Reuters Tweet Of Woman Begging Soldier To Let Her Into U.S. Missing Important Context
Louder With Crowder: Norm MacDonald Levels Bette Midler For Sexist #MeToo Attack, also, Ted Cruz Kills Again

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: The “Marlene Effect” – Why Our Reasonable Neighbors Are Blind To The Deep State
American Power: Inside The Fight Over The Democratic Party’s Future
American Thinker: Time To Wheel Robert Mueller Away
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Twit Squad News
Babalu Blog: UK Labour Party Leader Corbyn’s Boundless Love For Fidel Castro
BattleSwarm: Mueller – Sad As A Wrinkled Little Balloon
Camp of the Saints: Our Future – Fear, Malice, & Blandness
CDR Salamander: The Gods Of Demographics, Economics, & Politics Are Astride Their Chargers
Da Tech Guy: Is The U.S. Turning Into A Surveillance State? also, #MuellerMadness, or, The Revenge Of The Russian Bots
Don Surber: Media Reacts To Muellergeddon
Dustbury: Bring That Garbage In Here
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Leader Mealy-mouths Rape
The Geller Report: UN Singles Out Israel As Only Violator Of Womens’ Rights, also, Muslim Who Raped & Brutally Murdered 14 Year Old Named As Judge Overturns Reporting Ban
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, A Good Day For Blondes
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s Why Cancel Culture Is Piling On Leonard DiCaprio
Joe For America: Clinton Donor & Pedophile Epstein Found Unconscious In Cell After “Attempted Suicide”
JustOneMinute: Score One For The Skeptics & Haters
Legal Insurrection: Ilhan Omar – “Our Country Should be More Fearful Of White Men”, also, The Investigators Need To Be Investigated
The PanAm Post: Lessons From Ukraine – Communism & Naziism Are Legally Synonymous, also, Putin Willing To Send More Troops To Venezuela
Power Line: Democrats Balk, But Senate Confirms K of C Member To Judgeship, also, Anti-Semites Unite!
Shot In The Dark: It’s Almost A Law
The Political Hat: Gallery of Suicide – Canada Harvests Organs From The Living, Swiss Expanding Euthanasia Clinics, & France Killing The Non-Terminal
This Ain’t Hell: SEALs Booted From Iraq For Drinking, also, FUBAR Ends After One Season
Victory Girls: Mueller’s Finished, So Democrats, Fix Your Cities
Volokh Conspiracy: Notorious RBG Opposes Court Packing
Weasel Zippers: Judicial Watch Files House Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar For Immigration, Marriage, Tax, & Student Loan Fraud, also, Multiple Suspects In Custody For Dousing NYPD Cops With Water
Megan McArdle: Give Up Hoping For A Deus Ex Machina End To President Trump
Mark Steyn: The Taming Of The Jew-Hating Shrew, also, Can’t Get Into That

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Category: Linkagery

Jonathan ‘Jessica’ Yaniv and How Transgenderism Destroys ‘Rights’

Posted on | July 25, 2019 | 2 Comments

Last November, I wrote a post (“Jonathan Yaniv Is Not a Woman and #IStandWithMeghanMurphy”) about how a delusional pervert named Jonathan Yaniv (who calls himself “Jessica” and claims to be a woman) had gotten Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy banned from Twitter.

In the past week, there has been a surge of search traffic to that post because (a) Yaniv got Lindsay Shepherd banned from Twitter for “misgendering” him, and (b) Yaniv’s “human rights” claims against women who refused to wax his genitals was the subject of a tribunal hearing that “devolved into chaos,” according to the Toronto Sun:

Jessica Yaniv, the complainant, argued she was entitled to receive the advertised wax service and that if the tribunal ruled against her it could lead to a “dangerous” precedent.
Yaniv’s claim emerged after she was denied a Brazilian wax of her male genitalia at a home salon in Vancouver.
At one point, Yaniv compared the business owner — a female immigrant of colour — to a neo-Nazi.
The lawyer for the business owner accused the complainant of engaging in “half-truths and fabrications.”
Tribunal adjudicator Devyn Cousineau frequently had to interject to maintain decorum and to keep the hearing from becoming even more chaotic.
But a substantive question remained at the core of the raucous daylong hearing: should a business be allowed to deny service on the basis of gender identity?
“You cannot choose who your clientele is going to be,” Yaniv said.
However, business owner Marcia Da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it.
Jay Cameron, Da Silva’s lawyer and litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, told the hearing that a ruling against his client would be tantamount to ordering “intimate services” against someone’s will.
Yaniv has filed more than a dozen complaints and is a frequent flier at the human rights commission. She describes herself as a digital marketing expert and LGBTQ activist.

Who is Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv? Feminist bloggers have accused Yaniv, among other things, of having a perverted obsession with menstruation and a creepy fixation of pubescent girls. Yaniv once ran the Facebook fan page of the Cimorelli sisters, a singing group who became popular on YouTube, and it is now alleged that he engaged in predatory behavior with the group’s young female fans:

On July 22nd, 20-year-old Jessica Rumpel provided The Post Millennial with evidence of explosive allegations of the sexual interference she experienced as a young teen at the hands of Jonathan “Jessica” Yaniv. . . .
In the aftermath of Rumpel’s bravery, two new victims have come forward, and, as unbelievable as it might be, their intersecting stories are even more shocking.
Twenty-year-old Ashley Smith of Ontario, whose name is being altered due to trauma and for the protection of her work and family, says she was victimized when, like Rumpel, she was a teen.
Ashley was just 14. . . .
Like with Rumpel, Yaniv also sent Smith disturbing messages centred around menstruation.
In one of the messages Smith has provided, Yaniv is seen saying “I want to be really good friends with you, like really close” and asking the 14-year-old to tell them when she’s got her period. In another, Yaniv asks for advice on how to get feminine hygiene products from girls, what kinds of girls to ask, and whether or not to hang around outside of girls’ washrooms.

You can read the whole disgusting thing.

What is interesting is how, despite his gross perversion, Yaniv’s transgenderism has permitted him to bully and silence critics by invoking a concept of “rights” in which his behavior is off-limits to criticism. In other words, transgender “rights” is a zero-sum game which eliminates the rights of everyone else. It’s not about “equality,” it’s about forcing everyone else to bow down in obeisance to our transgender overlords.

Category: Canada, The Transgender Cult

The Mifsud Mystery

Posted on | July 25, 2019 | Comments Off on The Mifsud Mystery

Who is Joseph Mifsud? That question got a lot of attention Wednesday after Republican Rep. Jim Jordan pinned down Robert Mueller in the House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking the former Special Counsel why Mifsud wasn’t charged with lying to investigators. Mueller’s report mentions Mifsud, a former Maltese diplomat and now a London-based academic, 87 times. It was Mifsud who first told Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos later repeated this to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who then reported it to the FBI, thus creating the pretext for opening an investigation into the Trump campaign. Misfud’s role in all this is, according to a report in The Hill by John Solomon, a key question being investigated by John Durham, appointed by Attorney General William Barr to explore the origins of the RussiaGate story.

Jordan’s questioning of Mueller in Wednesday’s hearing was brutal:

JORDAN: You gave us the answer. Page 192 of the report you tell us who told him. Joseph Mifsud. Joseph Mifsud is the guy who told Papadopoulos. The mysterious professor who lives in Rome and London. Works and teaches at two different universities. This is the guy who told Papadopoulos. He’s the guy who starts it all. And when the FBI interviews him, he lies three times and yet you don’t charge him with a crime. You charge Rick Gates for false statements. You charge Paul Manafort for false statements. You charge Michael Cohen with false statements. You charge Michael Flynn, a three star general with false statements. But the guy who puts the country through this whole saga starts it all for three years we’ve lived this now–he lies and you guys don’t charge him. And I’m curious as to why.
MUELLER: Well, I can’t get into it and — and it’s obvious, I think that we can’t get into charging decisions.
JORDAN: When the FBI interviewed him in February — FBI interviews him in February. When the special counsel’s interviews Mifsud, did he lie to you guys too?
MUELLER: Can’t get into that.
JORDAN: Did you interview Mifsud?
MUELLER: Can’t get into that.
JORDAN: Is Mifsud western intelligence or Russian intelligence?
MUELLER: Can’t get into that.
JORDAN: A lot of things you can’t get into. What’s interesting — you can charge 13 Russians no one has ever heard of, no one has ever seen, no one is ever going to hear of them, no one is every going to see them — you can charge them–you can charge all kinds of people who are around the president with false statements but the guy who launches every — the guy who puts this whole story in motion you can’t charge him. I think that’s amazing.
MUELLER: (INAUDIBLE) I’m not certain I–I agree with your characterization.
JORDAN: Well, I’m reading from your report. Mifsud told Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos tells the diplomat. The diplomat tells the FBI. The FBI opens the investigation July 31st, 2016 and here we are three years later, July of 2019. The country’s been put through this and this central figure who launches it all — lies to us and you guys don’t hunt him down and interview him again and you don’t charge him with a crime.

Here’s the big secret that Jim Jordan was driving at: Joseph Mifsud may have been working for U.S. intelligence — perhaps indirectly, on the payroll of a CIA front — and in his contact with Papadopoulos, may have been acting as an agent provocateur. In other words, the CIA may have been using Mifsud to test whether Papadopoulos was vulnerable to exploitation, and this “Russia has dirt on Hillary” business was part of the test. When Mueller says he “can’t get into that,” what he’s saying is that he’s forbidden by law from discussing “sources and methods” of U.S. intelligence, and this is a huge clue that the CIA was somehow involved in RussiaGate — a phony hoax that Hillary Clinton used during the 2016 campaign to smear Trump as Vladimir Putin’s “puppet.”

Who was calling the shots behind the scenes in 2016, when all this shadowy stuff was going on around Papadopoulos and Trump aide Carter Page? What was the role of Fusion GPS in this? As Ace of Spades remarked yesterday, it seems that dossier compiler “Christopher Steele provided cover as a front man for conspiracy theories first adduced by [Clinton supporters] Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer.” This would mean that the true origin of the RussiaGate hoax was the Clinton campaign itself, and if it is true that Russian intelligence hacked the DNC emails — well, how and why did that happen? Were the Russians doing this to help the Trump campaign? Or was there some ulterior motive?

We should soon start getting answers to some of these questions, and I don’t think the Democrats will be pleased by what we learn.

Category: MuellerGate

In The Mailbox: 07.24.19 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Rutger Hauer, RIP
Twitchy: Kamala Harris Comes Out Against Donald Trump Trying To Help An Imprisoned Black Man
Louder With Crowder: Google Engineer Calls Big Tech “Dangerous”, “Taking Sides”, also, “Jessica” Yaniv, You’re An Evil Predator

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Google Engineer Says Big Tech Has Merged With Democratic Party To Sway Elections
American Power: The Mueller Disaster
American Thinker: Now Is The Summer Of The Democrats’ Discontent
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Good Idea News
Babalu Blog: Mexicans Unhappy With Violence, Turning On AMLO
BattleSwarm: Boris Johnson Elected Prime Minister
Camp of the Saints: On Immigration And #GOP Degeneracy
CDR Salamander: Professor Fleming Returns To Annapolis
Da Tech Guy: I’m Staying, also, I’m Old Enough To Remember When Conventional Wisdom Said…
Don Surber: Mueller Owes Trump $5.8 Million
Dustbury: Know Thine Audience
First Street Journal: Is The “Jessica” Yaniv Story A Hoax?
The Geller Report: Jihadi Bomber Detonates Self In Mogadishu Mayor’s Office, also, Mueller Says Democrats’ Collusion With Russia “Outside My Purview”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Past His Sell By Date?
Hollywood In Toto: Soulfinder Hopes To Shame Comic Book Groupthink
Joe For America: Watch Rep. Jim Jordan Blast Mueller For Dodging Questions On Witch Hunt
Legal Insurrection: Sanders’ Presidential Campaign Hit With Federal Labor Complaint, also, Mueller – Russians Also Tried To Help HIllary
The PanAm Post: As Venezuelans Starve, Maduro Spends $200 MIllion To Host Sao Paulo Forum
Power Line: It’s Official – Democrats Don’t Like America, also, Mueller’s Testimony Bombed
Shark Tank: Sen. Rubio Says “Antisemitic Minority” Runs House, Not Pelosi
Shot In The Dark: Virtue-Hitchhiking
The Political Hat: Loyalty & Nationalism
This Ain’t Hell: New SecDef Confirmed, also, Phony Marine M/SGT Sentenced For Charity Scam
Victory Girls: Robert Mueller Claims He Doesn’t Know Who Glenn Simpson Is Or What Fusion GPS Is
Volokh Conspiracy: Mueller Hearings Another Summer Disappointment
Weasel Zippers: Ilhan Omar Says We Should Be More Fearful Of White Men, also, Rep. Ratcliffe Destroys Mueller & His “Exoneration” Word Games
Mark Steyn: Life, But Not As We Know It

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Category: Linkagery

Mueller Hearing a Democrat Debacle

Posted on | July 24, 2019 | 1 Comment

Whoever was responsible for the decision to hold today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing — and I suppose that must be the committee chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) — is an idiot. If the goal of Democrats in having former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify was to gin up support for impeaching President Trump, they failed. Badly.

As the New York Post said, the hearing “was a total waste of time”:

Mueller made it clear long in advance that he didn’t want to testify, and wouldn’t talk about anything except what was in his report. He even got the Justice Department to issue a guidance instructing him to keep to his preferred limits.
That left committee Democrats using their time to read bits of the report, then ask the witness, That’s in the report, right?
Mueller would then say Yes or Let me check or Can you repeat the question?
Though he is a hugely accomplished public servant, he was a spectacularly unimpressive witness, often coming off as unfamiliar with his own report or otherwise confused.

Many observers were left with the impression that Mueller must have only been a figurehead in the two-year investigation of Russian “collusion,” and that the report issued under his name was entirely the work of the Democrat attorneys on the Special Counsel’s staff. Attempts by Republican committee members to get Mueller to address evidence related to Fusion GPS and the Steele Dossier went nowhere, as Mueller either disclaimed any knowledge of this evidence — despite it being included in his report — or asserted that he could not comment because he didn’t want to interfere with ongoing investigations.

Mueller’s befuddled demeanor seemed to confirm the suspicions of a “senior Democrat” — a former Obama administration official — that, at age 74, the former Special Counsel has become senile.

Democrats need to take a long, hard look at the man whose idea it was to stage this embarrassing spectacle. Who is Jerrold Nadler and is he competent enough to chair the Judiciary Committee?

Nadler, 72, has been in Congress since 1992 without accomplishing anything other than occupying a safe seat from a district that has not been represented by a Republican in more than 100 years. He is a short, fat, elderly symbol of the political decline of New York. The stagnating state lost two congressional districts after the 2010 Census, and the subsequent redistricting illustrated the priorities of the Democrats who control New York’s corrupt legislature. They screwed over Rep. Ed Towns, a black Democrat who had previously represented the Brooklyn-based 10th District, in a gerrymander that redrew the district to include the heavily Jewish West Side of Manhattan, which is only connected to a random blob of Brooklyn by the I-478 tunnel under the East River. Towns was forced into retirement to ensure a seat for Nadler, who had previously represented the 8th District. If the so-called “Justice Democrats” need a target for their next left-wing primary challenge, they should aim at Nadler’s old fat ass. Considering how much anti-Semitism now motivates the Left, it shouldn’t be hard for Democrats to recruit a Jew-hating “woman of color” to take out Nadler.

Category: Congress, Democrats, MuellerGate

In The Mailbox: 07.24.19 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | July 24, 2019 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.24.19 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I really hate to say this, but things haven’t been going well for me lately. If you want to help, there’s a PayPal link in the LJ post, or if you’re averse to PayPal, my GoFundMe from last fall is still out there. Thanks in advance for any help you can spare.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Liberal Democrat From Chicago Encourages Concealed Carry
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #691
EBL: Enough About The Moon, It’s Time For Mars!
Twitchy: “Zodiac’s Body Count Grows!” Ted Cruz Just Delivered The Fatal Blow To Beta O’Rourke’s Ego
Louder With Crowder: Blaire White Calls Out “Jessica” Yaniv As A Predator, Demands Action From Trans Community

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott:
American Greatness: Nashville Residents Block ICE Agents From Taking “Tennessee Man” Into Custody
American Power: Mueller Testimony – Dueling Circus Realities
American Thinker: The Co-Conspirators In The Left’s Takeover Of The Democratic Party
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Regime Blames Gasoline Shortage On Increase In Vehicles
BattleSwarm: Tucker Carlson On Democrats & Rigged College Admissions
Camp of the Saints: The False Consciousness Of Pelosi & Her Fellow Mensheviks
CDR Salamander: South Korea Joins The Carrier Club
Da Tech Guy: The Flight From Hell, also, #Normalphobia Running Amok In The Democratic Party
Don Surber: Now Brexit Begins
Dustbury: Room & No Board
First Street Journal: Brett Kavanaugh & Al Franken
Fred On Everything: Democrats For Trump 2020
The Geller Report: Imam Brags “We Exploit Democracy To Seize Power”, also, Bernie Sanders Single-Handedly Exposes Democrats’ Minimum Wage Fraud
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, I Told You They Wouldn’t Like The New Rules
Hollywood In Toto: These Conservative Artists Defied Liberal Gatekeepers
Joe For America: Is Rashida Tlaib Mentally Stable Enough To Serve In Congress?
JustOneMinute: Mueller Time!
Legal Insurrection: Transgender “Woman” Files Complaint When Womens’ Salons Won’t Wax Her Balls, also, Fartacus’ Toxic Masculinity
Michelle Malkin: NYC’s Anti-Cop Anarchy – What Say You, Dante DeBlasio?
The PanAm Post: The Venezuelan Conundrum & European Double Standards
Power Line: Thelma & Louise Go To Israel, also, The US Commission On Civil Rights Strikes Again
Shark Tank: Trump Winning Over Hispanic Democrats In Florida
Shot In The Dark: The Brown Scare
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday – France Tries To Tax American Companies, And More SALT Cap Follies
The Political Hat: Rights & Obligations Of Adulthood
This Ain’t Hell: CA City To Remove Gender Terms, also, Those Planes Were (Not) Really There
Victory Girls: Lies, Damn Lies, & Wikipedia Edits
Volokh Conspiracy: More On Liberals & Federalism
Weasel Zippers: More Details On Why ICE & CBP Detained An American Citizen For Three Weeks, also, Epstein’s Close Ties To The Democrats – It Wasn’t Just Bill Clinton
Megan McArdle: Conservatives Want To Revive A One-Time Trick From Over A Century Ago
Mark Steyn: Fly Me To The Moon, also, Speaking Ill Of The Ted