Fay/faeself pronouns. We have a serious mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/5zlGStWRDn
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 2, 2023
Author: Blazingcatfur
Twilight of the Tech Gods
Maybe a few years in a federal prison will be good for Sam Bankman-Fried. The high-tech grifter went from billionaire to broke in a matter of days when investors realized that his FTX crypto-currency trading platform had vaporized their money. FTX was a Ponzi scheme purpose-built to snare investors like them—people who thought they were smarter than everyone else. Up until his arrest on December 11, SBF, as Bankman-Fried styles himself, was still giving interviews. Like a frat boy who got caught “borrowing” the college president’s car, he seemed to think he could still talk his way out of this mess. But he’s about to learn that embezzling money is a crime. Even when the alleged embezzler is a fuzzy-headed nerd who convinced everyone he was just trying to save the world.
Teachers Don’t Want to Tell Parents What’s Going on in Their Kids’ Classrooms
A Michigan court ruling returns the spotlight to a controversial subject.
Do parents have the right to know what their children are being taught in public school?
Parents say yes; teachers say no.
Of course, it’s not quite that simple. The description of the latter party can be tweaked to “teachers unions” — although you don’t hear many individual teachers bucking the union line — but the dichotomy remains: parents want to know what’s going on in their kids’ classrooms, and teachers, administrators, and their union bosses would rather not tell them.
Justice Department is concealing 400 pages of ‘sensitive documents’ laying bare payoffs and gifts to Hunter and Jim Biden from China, Russia and Ukraine
The Department of Justice is trying to prevent disclosure of 400 pages of sensitive documents on Hunter and Jim Biden’s dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine – by pretending they don’t exist.
Colorado lawyer Kevin Evans sued the department in March after it failed to comply with his request for records on the Bidens’ dealings under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Evans, a FOIA expert, asked for documents pertaining to ‘any relationship, communication, gift(s), and/or remuneration in any form’ between the president’s son Hunter or brother Jim, and China, Russia or Ukraine.
Do Not Fall for the China-TikTok ‘Strategic Ploy’
TikTok, the extremely popular video-sharing app, is in the midst of another round of negotiations with the U.S. federal government over data security.
The Biden administration should terminate the seemingly endless discussions and either require TikTok to stop operations in the U.S. or force its Chinese owner to sell the app lock, stock and barrel to American parties. No other solution is acceptable from national security and First Amendment points of view.
President Joe Biden’s failure to counter the known threat of the TikTok platform is a prime example of Washington’s bipartisan inability to recognize the comprehensive nature of the Communist Party’s assault on America. China wants to tap TikTok data for, among other purposes, blackmailing and intimidating Americans.
Woke Fail: Netflix Shares Plummet More Than 50 Percent in 2022 — Worst Year in More than a Decade
Netflix has closed out its worst year in more than a decade, with its stock plunging more than 50 percent and wiping out a staggering $136 billion in market value.
For 2022, Netflix shares dropped 50.6 percent, the most the stock has declined on an annual basis since 2011. For the first time, the once-invincible company lost subscribers for two consecutive quarters, ushering in a period of painful belt-tightening that has included several hundred layoffs.
NY Times Now Loves the FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Social Media All Cool
For decades the liberal press, including the New York Times, used the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a symbol of the fears of oppressive government surveillance, investigating allegations that the agency surveilled civil rights leaders and radical anti-war groups during the Vietnam War. The Times hyped myriad other civil liberties concerns regarding the “sullied agency.”
In this millennium, the Times condemned FBI tactics, post 9-11 and during the Iraq War, including the surveillance of Muslims, which sowed “anger and fear.”
Enby, Brotherboy And Genderf**k: Here Are 13 Genders You Could Identify As In 2022
In 2022, numerous gender options were presented for individuals to choose from and identify by in school surveys and program applications.
Throughout the year, dictionaries and government surveys have expanded beyond “female” and “male” gender options to provide selections and definitions of more than 100 gender identities; gender identity is “not visible to others” and can differentiate from the gender an individual is assigned at birth, according to the It Gets Better Project, an international organization focused on supporting the LGBTQ community. Here are 13 of those gender identity terms used throughout 2022.
Prince Harry wants to reconcile with William and his father … but first he’s gonna crap on them some more
The Duke of Sussex says he would like to rebuild his relationship with his father and brother but that the royal family has made no attempt at a reconciliation.
In a trailer for an interview with Tom Bradby to publicise his forthcoming memoir, Prince Harry also says that the family prefers to keep him and his wife, Meghan, as “the villains”.
Times Square idiot convert ‘jihadi’, 19, was arrested with chilling manifesto
The alleged Islamic extremist who stabbed a rookie NYPD cop with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve and was on an FBI ‘watchlist’ wrote a chilling manifesto where he urged his family to ‘repent to Allah.’
Trevor Bickford, 19, from Wells, Maine, who officials believe became radicalized and vowed to fight in Afghanistan, addressed a letter to his family where he urged his loved ones to convert so they ‘may be taken out of the hellfire.’
According to police sources who spoke with one outlet, the Maine resident had a handwritten note and collection of religious materials in his backpack while visiting Manhattan to carry out the attack.
Celine Dion snubbed by Rolling Stone’s greatest singers list — and fans are outraged: ‘A crime against humanity’
I’m everything I am because you snubbed me!
Fans cried foul last weekend when Rolling Stone left Celine Dion off the magazine’s 200 Greatest Singers of All Time list.
Announcing the roster on Twitter, the publication was already on the defensive.
“Before you start scrolling (and commenting), keep in mind that this is the Greatest Singers list, not the Greatest Voices List,” the tweet said. “Talent is impressive; genius is transcendent.”
Good, he’s an Uber Woke ass
Benedict Cumberbatch’s family could be forced to pay reparations for ancestors’ slaves
The family of Benedict Cumberbatch could be forced to pay reparations for slavery after it was revealed he has familial ties to a sugar plantation in Barbados.
The Caribbean nation, which became a republic in 2021, is looking for reparations from the families of past slave owners and Cumberbatch could find himself in a legal battle over his ancestors owning a plantation in the 18th and 19th century.
Justice Centre’s John Carpay Arrested, Released on Bail
John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, was arrested over charges he hired a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge involved in a COVID-19 public health order case.
In a statement issued on Jan. 1, the Justice Centre said Carpay was made aware of the charges on Dec. 30, and turned himself in to police. He was released on bail after spending 23 hours in detention, the statement said.
Dystopia: Soylent Green 50 years later
The 1970s was a pessimistic decade. America’s mood was foul. If you asked almost anybody what the future held, the answer would be: decline.
The Vietnam war was still tearing the country apart, pollution was a terrible problem, the economy was slowing, and the Soviet Union appeared to be on the rise. Fashion was execrable, and American cars sucked. Our closest ally, Great Britain, was wracked by strikes that paralyzed the country, and that seemed to be our future.