Weekend Vibes [DOT 5/10/24]

Happy Saturday gang!


Damn Bruce go off


Speaking of smack downs, this one is worth the watch:


What else ya got?!?

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  1. What is on “embattled” (to put it mildly) NYC Mayor Eric Adams’s schedule today?

    2 p.m. – Adams delivers remarks at the New York City Police Department’s Gospel Fest, 177 Dreiser Loop, Bronx.

    3:30 p.m. – Adams delivers remarks at the Nigerian Independence Day Parade Festival, East 24th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan.

    I did not know that the NYPD sponsored a Gospel Fest, so much for the separation of church and state, nor did I know that we celebrated Nigerian Independence Day with a parade. Well, good for us.

    • The NYPD’s different affiliated groups have been huge leadership slush funds for a very long time, and they’ve been a traditional way for police groups to shake down businesses and wealthy people for backdoor donations. There’s a good reason to wonder whether they’re involved in the investigation of Adams’s police commissioner who just resigned.

      But the NY Times isn’t trying to hide that they desperately want Adams to stick around. First Bret Stephens said the case against him was a nothingburger, now they run this idiocy:

      https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/opinion/democrats-corruption-eric-adams.html

      Adams is the NY Post/Bret Stephens Mayor, but sure, he’s a sign of what Democrats are guilty of. The only other person she cites is Menendez, who Democrats turned on and threw out.

      She’s made it clear that she’s trying to write off Trump’s corruption and the near universal GOP endorsement of it, with the backing of the entire right wing of the Supreme Court, and these are the best whatabouts she can come up with.

      Stephens is a sacred cow at the Times, though. Bringing him up is verboten. What she has in common with him though is complete cluelessness about how NYC politics works, and how Adams and his police commissioners going down is bad for the NYPD’s grip on things.

  2. I’m expecting this to be a barn burner. We’ll see what kind of coverage it gets, because thumbs have to be put on scales to avoid suggesting working class voters back Democrats.

    Rally to elect Harris/Walz with Bernie Sanders and President Fain Saturday, October 05, 2024•10:00 AM

    Rally with the working class to elect Harris/Walz with Bernie Sanders and President Fain

    https://region1.uaw.org/local412/news/rally-elect-harriswalz-bernie-sanders-and-president-fain-saturday-october-05-20241000

  3. i dunno what kind of coverage its going to get

    but this co operation sure beats the bernie bros and hill shills infighting…

    i still think thats part of why trump happened the first time

  4. At work this week, I had a bitter moment…. moreso than usual. We had a problem with a piece of equipment breaking off parts that ended up in product.

    The bitter part is that six years ago, I was asked to be part of an investigation on the same equipment doing the same thing. I gave my report to my boss that the part be redesigned and replaced with something bigger/stronger. The engineer who was in charge of said project refused. She refused to listen to maintenance, workers, and us in production. No one could convince her otherwise.

    Certain management favored her so nothing could be done.

    On top of that when she was promoted to manager she “leaned” the maintenance schedule such that the maintenance guys didn’t get a chance to check the bolts (that was the only concession she made earlier so sure she was about the design.)

    Last week she got promoted to director.

    Sigh. The disappointing part about all of this was I thought she was smarter than that. Turns out I was horribly wrong and now two of my coworkers are in deep shit over this fiasco.

    Just reaffirms my decision to leave next year.

  5. Here we go again. Democrats are vastly outspending and out-organizing Republicans, and here’s why that’s bad for Harris.

    Harris is running a much bigger campaign than Trump. Will it matter?

    The thesis is that Democratic spending isn’t moving the needle. To push that metaphor, at no point do the reporters consider the fact that the needle isn’t accurate. 

    The entire article is about how, despite Herculean efforts by the Harris campaign, polls haven’t changed. There are two variables in that equation: spending and polls. If one is changing drastically and the other isn’t, a competent analyst would look at the second variable to see if it’s actually being measured correctly. 

    But not here. Here we get “polls are 1,000% correct and Harris is in trouble” like polling data is printed on stone tablets and handed to reporters by Moses on the mountain.

    • Even more than in the past, there is a huge amount of uncertainty around whether people who call themselves “likely voters” are being honest. The record over the past eight years is they’re actually fickle. And turnout efforts and voter activation seems to make a difference in whether they follow through. We’ll see.

  6. 23andMe has lost 99% of its market value and is teetering on bankruptcy:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/10/03/g-s1-25795/23andme-data-genetic-dna-privacy

    There’s an obvious question about what happens to all of its data.

    I think there’s also a lesson as far as ultra-hyped tech. The story points out how most people tried it out to get an initial test result, and then failed to buy any of the rest of what it offered. I think you could see something similar happening to a lot of AI companies. Unless their offerings get a lot better and quickly, people are going to lose interest.

    DNA testing is obviously here to stay, and AI in some versions is too, but if neither one is a transformative business you’ll see more bankruptcies.

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