Thursday, June 13, 2019
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #651
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Report: Google Runs ‘Blacklists’ Designed to Remove ‘Fringe Domains’ Like Breitbart News
The Daily Caller reports that two blacklists have been discovered as part of Google’s web answers feature. One is called “webanswers_url_blacklist,” and it impacts Google’s “featured snippets” or answer blocks. These answer blocks usually provide a quick block of content to the top of a Google search for a simple question.
The Caller claims that internal screenshots show instructions at the top of the page of the blacklist which reads: “To ensure the blacklist will REMOVE a URL, add a line ‘# REMOVE url’.” And, “To ensure the blacklist WON’T remove a URL by accident, add ‘# PERMIT url’.” This would appear to imply that these blacklists are manually edited by employees.
The Caller notes that a Washington Post op-ed titled: “How Vladimir Putin Became The World’s Favorite Dictator,” was included in the blacklist. The op-ed was returned by the algorithm in response to a user searching: “who is the dictator of Russia.” A note from a Google employee in the changelog shows that the company may remove all opinion pieces from web answers. “We are going to be removing opinion docs from all of newsey/political/sensitive webanswers. So, BLing any document that we consider to be clearly opinion is not an issue,” the employee note says.
A Google spokesperson told the Caller: “Featured snippets are a feature within Search that highlights web sources that are likely to contain what you’re looking for. Due to the special formatting they receive, we have policies that prevent us from showing a featured snippet for topics like civics or medical information where the content lacks broad consensus. Our systems are designed to not show featured snippets that would violate our policies, and we take action if violating snippets still appear. These policies and actions have no impact on how a page ranks in organic search listings.”
The second web answers blacklist, called all_fringe_domains, appears to be generated by an algorithm according to the Caller. Amongst the websites listed under the fringe domains section are Breitbart News, American Spectator, Breaking911, the website of pastor Brian Jones, the website of Bring Your Bible to School Day, Consortium News, St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, SpeakerRyan.com, The Franklin Society, Free Thought Project, The Gateway Pundit, and The Gorka Briefing.
Multiple websites critical of conservatives are also listed, including Breitbart Unmasked and Spencer Watch, a blog critical of Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer. Breitbart News recently reported that other Google search results had linked President Trump and his daughter Ivanka to the web answers section for the term “hebephilia.”
Breitbart News reporter Allum Bokhari writes:
Until Breitbart News made its inquiry earlier this afternoon, searches for the term “hebephilia” displayed a picture of a young Ivanka Trump sitting on her father’s knee during an event. The image appeared in Google’s “snippet,” the featured result that appears above search and is aimed at answering a searcher’s question right away.
It also appears as the first result in Google’s Image Search for the same term.
After Breitbart News brought the search result to Google’s attention, the tech giant said it would remove the image from its snippet.
“Featured snippets are generated automatically to help people easily find pages that our systems determine may have the most relevant information,” said a Google spokeswoman. “In this case, the snippet included an image from...
John Dean Blows Hole in Democrats' Impeachment Push
It happened around time 6:11 PM EST after about four hours of John Dean's testimony alongside a panel of gushingly, enthusiastically left-wing former prosecutors. In response to a softball "How do you feel?" therapeutic question by a Democratic Congressman, John Dean detonated the entire charade sky high.
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee led by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) could not persuade Special Counsel Robert Mueller to come and testify in their Impeachment Show.
The "Mueller Manifesto" written for Congress failed to deliver any grounds for legal action against President Trump, his campaign leadership, or his children. The public has mostly moved on and decided that the witch-hunt is over.
Therefore, the Democrats -- desperate to make the voters care -- hauled in John Dean to do a "dramatic reading" of parts of the Mueller report. (A "table read.")
Just as more young people will watch the movie version of a book than will read the book, Democrats in Congress have actually admitted in cable TV show interviews that they want to dramatize the Mueller report so that the voters will understand it (in their view) and care. What the "Mueller Manifesto" needs, Democrats have all but admitted, is some Broadway razz-a-ma-tazz: A chorus line. Cheerleaders. Anything to try to get voters to listen.
So on June 10, Chairman Jerry Nadler convened a panel in a hearing titled "Lessons From The Mueller Report." The purpose of the hearing was to read on TV what you could read for yourself in the Mueller Manifesto. John Dean was flanked by two misleading former federal prosecutors and Heritage Foundation scholar John Malcolm, who just mostly agreed with the Democrats like a poodle wanting his belly rubbed.
After four hours of the hearing, Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA) sympathetically asked Dean why he came in to testify after all he had been through in his life.
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CHARGE: ILLEGAL ALIEN BROTHERS, WOMAN HAVE BEEN RAPING CHILDREN FOR 15 YEARS
WASHINGTON COUNTY, OR (KPTV) – Washington County detectives are seeking additional victims after three people were arrested on multiple charges including sexual abuse.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Benito Juarez-Hernandez, 39, his brother Cupertino Juarez-Hernandez, 33, and Diana Rodriguez, 36, were arrested following an investigation by detectives with the Violent Crimes Unit.
Diana is Cupertino’s ex-wife, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office said the three suspects are accused of abusing at least five children in the Beaverton and Aloha communities. The abuse started about 15 years ago and continued until this year, when it was first reported to law enforcement.
Cupertino was arrested on April 13 and booked into the Washington County Jail on 18 counts of first-degree sodomy, four counts of second-degree sodomy, four counts of first-degree sexual abuse, and four counts of second-degree sexual abuse.
His bail is set at $5,500,000.
Diana was arrested on Wednesday and booked into the Washington County Jail on seven counts of first-degree sodomy, six counts of first-degree rape, four counts of using a child in a...
Woke Capitalism: Big Business Pushing Social Justice Issues
Some of the top brands are now pushing social justice themes as part of their products and advertising. Not content with selling their products to a wide variety of people, big businesses now try to sell something else: Social justice. They want you to get woke when you pull out your wallet.
The businesses apparently don’t care about upsetting a large portion of their customers.
Budweiser’s LGBT Beer Cups
Budweiser UK tweeted images of beer cups in colors representing the different identities in the LGBT movement. The company is sponsoring the Pride festival this month in London. Categories for the cups include genderfluid, non-binary, asexual, intersex, pan, bi and transgender.
Magenta is for same-gender attraction, blue is for attraction to genders other than your own, and lavender (a mix of the two) represents attraction to your own and other genders, though some interpret it differently. pic.twitter.com/BRWeTo2C5j
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Nike hired controversial NFL star Colin Kaepernick for its ads. He enraged many in the country by starting the practice of kneeling during the national anthem at football games. In the ad, he says not to ask “if your dreams are crazy, but if your dreams are crazy enough.” Since the controversy, Kaepernick has been unable to get any team to...
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