In an emotional statement outside her office in Downing St, Mrs May finally announced she was stepping down as prime minister.So...June 7th plus one second?
She will quit as Conservative party leader on 7 June but will stay in office until a successor is found.
NASA has warned an asteroid big enough to boast its own mini moon will this week make a near-Earth approach.
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Asteroid 1999 KW4 is actually two objects, consisting of a larger space rock measuring 0.8 mile across (1.3km) and a mini moon orbiting it.
It will only travel as close as 3.2 million miles from Earth, which equals about 13 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, CNET reported.
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The flyby will be visible starting May 24 and last until May 27. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait until 2036 to see it again.
[.]Meghan McCain seemed a bit irritated and annoyed with her colleagues for not taking her viewpoints on politics seriously enough[.]
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that most House Democrats aren’t demanding immediate impeachment but aim to show the country that President Donald Trump is hiding something big.
“The big issue that I think needs to be made to the American people is that this president is conducting one of the biggest cover-ups of any administration in the history of the United States[.]”
Actor James Woods has responded to his ban on Twitter.And then there's the below, Julian Assange in unmistakable crosshairs. Not linking directly to the account, you can find it on your own if you really want:
The conservative actor was banned from the platform after quoting the television show The Wire. Woods wrote, “”If you try to kill the King, you better not miss.” #HangThemAll” The quote from The Wire paraphrases Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Woods’ girlfriend Sara Miller revealed Twitter claims the tweet violated their “rules against abusive behavior.”
Of course Twitter doesn’t inform his followers. @RealJamesWoods has received the following email: pic.twitter.com/2nnnVBVktQ
— Sara Miller (@Millerita) April 20, 2019
Woods spoke to The Daily Wire where he indicated he will not be returning to Twitter, “Twitter demanded that I rescind my tweet paraphrasing Emerson.” He added, “It now seems they have chosen to delete that tweet from my account without my permission. Until free speech is allowed on Twitter, I will not be permitted to participate in our democracy with my voice. As long as Jack Dorsey remains the coward he seems to be, my Twitter days are in the past.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., on Tuesday threatened to go to court to get former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before his committee.NY Post: Jerry Nadler’s cynical, cowardly show.
“Let me be clear: This committee will hear Mr. McGahn’s testimony, even if we have to go to court to secure it,” Nadler said.
Everyone on Judiciary knows perfectly well that Congress can’t compel testimony from top presidential advisers except in the most extraordinary circumstances: The chief executive’s right to frank, confidential discussions with his staff is well-established.The Zazzy Nadler in June's GQ, on sale now:
So Nadler’s bluster about how he’ll “go to court to secure” McGahn’s appearance is just noise for the cameras.
Police fined a pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face when he saw a controversial facial recognition camera on a street in London.- - -
Officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals.
But one man was unimpressed about being filmed and covered his face with his hat and jacket, before being stopped by officers who took his picture anyway.
After being pulled aside, the man told police: ‘If I want to cover me face, I’ll cover me face. Don’t push me over when I’m walking down the street.’
...why wouldn't a company like Facebook go the extra step and just listen in on our conversations through our phones?- - -
"Most Americans can't go through their day without having one of these companies in their lives," said Margaret O'Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington and author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America.
...factories and industrial complexes are closed environments, and are much more predictable. There’s no threat of kids running in the forklift’s path, and the lighting, weather and traffic conditions are usually constant. “The rules for forklifts are easier than self-driving cars because the environment is structured,” [says Saurav Agarwal, CTO and co-founder at Stocked Robotics, an Austin-based AI company focused on automating industrial vehicles].- - -
The departure from the arcades has drastically morphed how players control games. Here we will take a look at some of the more memorable gamepads and controllers for consoles and PC over the last four decades.How many do you remember? Hit the link for more.
Once upon a time, Apple understood extreme pro users. From about 2006 to about 2012, Apple sold what is fondly referred to as the "cheese grater" Mac Pro, so named because the holes on the side of the unit were reminiscent of a cheese grater.- - -
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Then, in 2013, Apple introduced what's come to be known as the "trash can" Mac Pro, because it looks like a glossy little trash can. When Phil Schiller introduced it, he was so proud of it that he bragged, "Can't innovate, my ass."
Since then, that machine has been pretty much a failure.
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It's entirely possible the new Mac Pro could go horribly wrong:
#1 Proprietary modules and module interfaces
#2 Limited module selection
#3 Lack of user maintainability and some kind of unexpected lock-in
#4 Lack of, or minimal upgradeability
#5 Form over functional heat management
#6 Pricing that limits purchases to high-end enterprises only
Tesla may have just raised $2.7B in additional funding, but the company’s cash burn rate is so high, even that amount won’t keep the lights on for very long. According to CEO Elon Musk, the company is instituting “hardcore” cost-cutting rules and scrutinizing every penny that leaves the firm.["]- - -
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government will be launching a digital charter in order to combat hate speech and online disinformation.Learn To
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“We look forward to working alongside internet companies, but indeed, if they do not choose to act, we will be forced to continue to act in ways that protect Canadians and we will have more to say about the kinds of tools we will be using in the coming weeks and months,” Trudeau said.
Researchers say changing human behaviour key to foiling cyberattacks.So..."passwordABC1", "Admin123" and "tHatsHitheadBoss88"...I should change those then...?
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People routinely put off, ignore or forget cyber security measures such as changing passwords, updating privacy settings and locking computer screens.
"The rollout of Angel’s identity on OregonLive will come via a sympathetic puff-piece they are now preparing, focusing on mental health and personal/family adversity, especially if he is from a migrant family. Unlike other trench coat gunmen in schools, the pivot will be away from issues of firearm access and provenance."
Former Oregon receiver [and football coach, track coach and security guard at Parkrose High School] Keanon Lowe was able to tackle an armed student to the ground before anyone got hurt[.]
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Armed Forces Day is a special holiday for people all over the world to come together and thank the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. First conceived by President Harry S. Truman, the holiday was established in 1949. The creation of a single day celebration for all five branches of the United States military made sense due to its recent unification under the Department of Defense. Today, Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of every May. Be sure to mark your calendar & support our military!
Democratic Presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke was ridiculed on social media for live-streaming a 'weird' 20-minute video showing him getting a haircut during a campaign stop in Texas.
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[BOB] took questions from viewers during the stream, before eventually discussing his education reform platform.
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To fill the awkward silences, O'Rourke gave an update on his three children, explaining that his daughter Molly was taking a standardized test.
Grumpy Cat, the feline famous on the internet for her permanent scowl, has died aged seven, her owners say.
A statement says she died on Tuesday following complications from a recent urinary tract infection.
The cat from Arizona had "helped millions of people smile".
Grumpy, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, went viral in 2012 after photographs of her sour expression emerged online. Her image quickly spread as a meme.
Napoleon Ardern
May 4 at 2:59 PM ·
9.45am SUNDAY 5th May - NEW ZEALAND Police Visit me. With Firearms !!! -- want to talk, but then will not be filmed. Authoritarian State INTIMIDATION of all that OPPOSE Socialism. All those that have an opinion that they don't like. Share, this before it gets memory holed.
rahera k.Published on May 5, 2019
i don't know who Mr. Napoleon Ardern is or anything about him. (edit: ok just watched the video again, i guess his name is Nick Bush.) i was just alerted to this video now and i think it is an important video for New Zealanders to see.
Thomas WAnyone else heard of this happening in NZ, or elsewhere?
There's only one reason they won't talk on camera, abd [sic] that's that they aren't working within the bounds of the law and their remit[.]
Pug
They don't want to talk on camera because the recording will be proof positive that they are acting in an unlawful, unconstitutional manner. Political Policing on behalf of the Islamic headscarf wearing PM, waging her Cultural Marxist War on people of a European, Christian Background.
STOP/RESET
So New Zealand is making lists of people with bad opinions
Calvin Abbott
Political Commissars not police.
mike allen
it is Jacindas brave new world.
DKsFan1
Never talk to the police. They are not there for a friendly chat.... They are information gathers, to gather information against YOU or ppl that you care about so they can convict you, fine you or put you in a cage. Use your rights and say nothing... any lawyer will tell you that.
P Robinson
I'm hearing about more of this going on - the police turning up at peoples properties wrt firearms. My 2 cents: if you arent [sic] willing to be recorded as a public servant, you need to find a new job.
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University “presents an algorithm audit of the Google Top Stories box,” examining the results’ variety and ideological leanings, the Daily Mail reports. The researchers looked at the 6,302 articles that appeared in Google’s Top Stories box in November 2017, and found that CNN had the largest percentage of articles at 10%, followed by the New York Times at 6.5% and the Washington Post at 5.6%. From there, Fox News was fourth at just 3%.This new Northwestern University pdf is located here. If the direct link to the pdf goes glitchy, here's the link to the ACM Digital Library and after "Full Text" select either HTML or PDF version for the study.
The rest of the top twenty sources were all left-leaning organizations or publications, such as Politico, NPR, ABC News, NBC News, and the Huffington Post. No openly conservative news publisher, such as the Daily Caller, made the list.
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The findings are only the latest revelations to undermine Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s repeated insistence that the company’s ubiquitous services are ideologically neutral. In April, documents revealed that Google manually manipulates search results and even maintains a blcaklist of conservative sites including The American Spectator and Conservative Tribune.
John Harwood: Despite Bill Barr saying over and over, “no collusion.”Go chow another 10,000 calorie snack, FatMan.
Jerry Nadler: Bill Barr is just a liar. And, he’s just representing the president.
The second clear conclusion is, there are 12 episodes of obstruction of justice. Beyond all that is the basic question: They’re trying to say that Congress, representing the American people, can’t get information, and therefore, can’t function. The effect of that is to make the president a monarch, to make him a dictator. And that’s what we’ve got to fight.
Last week, 19-year-old Kendrick Castillo lost his life to save his fellow students as a shooting broke out at a STEM school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, just outside Denver. Castillo was, by all accounts, a bright young student and a hero in the wake of a senseless act of violence. As it turns out, he was also an avid Jeep enthusiast. CBS4 Denver‘s Jamie Leary covered the remarkable event, as fellow Jeepers throughout the state turned out to honor his memory.
Witnesses said Kendrick Castillo, a senior who was within days of graduating from STEM School Highlands Ranch, was among three students who tackled a classmate who opened fire in his classroom. Castillo, a robotics buff and outdoorsman, was the lone fatality in the shooting that wounded eight other students.
The local Knights of Columbus, where Castillo often volunteered with his father, was helping pay funeral expenses. The group also was providing an honor guard for the service.
[I]f you want a vision of the future YouTube is midwifing, imagine a cherubic white girl mocking Islamic dress while lecturing her hundreds of thousands of followers about Muslim “rape gangs,” social justice “homos,” and the evils wrought by George Soros — under the thin guise of edgy internet comedy, forever."The future vision You Tube is midwifing"? I wonder how long it took him to think of that sentence. I bet Bernstein felt really clever after composing it. Or he
Actually, don’t imagine it. Watch it. It’s already here.
The video is called "Be Not Afraid"[.]
...O’Rourke is planning to try again, taking a hands-on role in staging a “reintroduction” ahead of next month’s premier Democratic presidential debate."Staging" a reintroduction.
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His top aides deny that a full reinvention or “Beto 2.0” is in the works.
The American incarnation of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. Jarvis would later denounce the holiday’s commercialization and spent the latter part of her life trying to remove it from the calendar.
Here's the full video of Sims berating and verbally assaulting the elderly lady. His behavior is appalling and abusive:The mother of teenage girls who Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims offered money to identify earlier this spring said she filed a police report against the Democratic politician.
Ashley Garecht told CBS Philadelphia that Sims’ aggressive behavior had her concerned for her daughters’ and their friend’s safety. The girls are ages 13 and 15.
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Last week, Sims posted a video of himself berating a pro-life sidewalk counselor in Philadelphia. A second video that he posted earlier in April showed him offering $100 for the identities of three pro-life teenage girls who were praying peacefully outside the abortion facility with Garecht.
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Sims released a statement late Tuesday where he did not apologize for his behavior. Instead, he chose to attack pro-life advocates even more by claiming they “slur” and “attack” Planned Parenthood patients – without providing any evidence to support his claims.
In the first video, Sims also appeared to be attempting to doxx another pro-life woman – he called her an “old white lady” – by asking his viewers for her name and address.
“Shame on you!” Sims said as the woman asked him to get his camera out of her face. “You have a problem protesting in public? Don’t protest in public!
“If you know who this woman is and you can give me her address, we’ll protest out in front of her home. Let’s go protest out of her house and tell her what’s right for her body,” he continued.
[Sims called] those who disagree with his aggressive behavior “Bible bullies,” the weak excuse for a legislator told them to “bring it.”Penn Live: Hundreds of Pro-Life peacefully demonstrate.
Bring it, Bible Bullies! You are bigots, sexists, and misogynists and I see right through your fake morals and your broken values. #BeReal https://t.co/kmDsrQsMmN
— Brian Sims (@BrianSimsPA) May 5, 2019
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Sims, an abortion enthusiast, represents the face of the intolerant left in America today and his actions were so egregious that conservative writer/author Matt Walsh called for a “huge pro-life rally” in the Democrat’s backyard.
The rally is at the Planned Parenthood facility, which is across the street from where Sims lives.
“This coward is accosting women and children at this clinic in Center City,” Walsh tweeted. “Let’s organize a huge pro-life rally at this location. I’d be happy to drive up there. Who’s game? Let’s see if Brian is man enough to show up when there’s more than just kids and elderly women there.”
A group called Live Action organized the "Pro-Life Rally Against Bullying" organized Friday's rally to draw attention to Sims' actions. The street in front of the clinic was packed curb to curb with protesters, some carrying signs reading "Pro Life, Pro Love" and "I Regret My Abortion" others waving flags, holding large crucifixes. Some chanted "resign now." [.]
Walsh made it a point to invite Sims to Friday’s rally, but it would appear that he did not make it.
Details are beginning to emerge into who the adult male shooter is as well. Tuesday night, a car was towed from Erickson’s home that had “F--- SOCIETY” spray-painted on the vehicle along with “666” and an apparent pentagram painted on the hood.
Car towed from #stemshooting suspect's home apparently has "F*** SOCIETY" spray painted on the side. Also "666" and a what looks like a pentagram sprayed on the hood. pic.twitter.com/e6QX3lq4v3
— John Fenton (@higuysimjohn) May 8, 2019
Multiple sources close to the investigation told Denver7 late Tuesday night that the second suspect, who is a minor, is a transgender male who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male.
The sources said that the motive of the alleged shooters went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school and that at least one of the suspects was involved in legal and illegal drug use and had been in therapy.
Maya McKinney, the second suspect in the Highlands Ranch school shooting, appeared in court on Wednesday afternoon. McKinney, a juvenile female, identifies as male and prefers to be called “Alec.”
WFLA News Radio Orlando: One day after the Colorado shootings, Floridians' Gun-Control crowd begs governor to veto school guardian bill.Nothing was said about the school being, under Colorado state law, a “gun free” zone, which allowed the shooters to get “deep inside” (the sheriff’s words) the school before they started picking off their fellow students one by one with their handguns.
A day after the deadly Colorado school shooting, gun-control advocates are pleading with Governor Ron DeSantis to veto the expansion of the school guardian bill allowing trained teachers to be armed. University of Central Florida student Trevor Wild with "March For Our Lives" says they've gathered 13-thousand signatures from Floridians who worry this will lead to even more school shootings.NY Daily News: Classmate gave life to help save others.
Student Nui Giasolli recalled during an interview on the Today show how Kendrick Castillo “lunged” at one of the shooters Tuesday, giving those inside her British literature class time to take cover.
“The next thing I know [the shooter] is pulling a gun and he’s telling nobody to move, and that’s when Kendrick lunged at him,” she said. “And he shot Kendrick, giving all of us enough time to get underneath our desks, to get ourselves safe, and to run across the room and escape.”
Castillo was just three days away from graduating from the STEM School in Highlands Ranch[.]
Trent Gates, 23, severed his testicles in April 2016, then removed his manhood with an ultra-sharp ceramic knife in January 2017[.]
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Trent, from Washington DC, only used iced water for the first procedure, but performed the second removal after after taking regular painkillers to counter the pain.
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Trent describes himself as a non-binary person who is sexually attracted to men. But he does not like the pronoun ‘they’ and says he feels more male than female.
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Trent also revealed how he kept his penis in the freezer – with his mother sparking a family row after throwing it out. He said: ‘(My privates) were preserved in the freezer and they got thrown out. My mother threw them out – I don’t really want to go into much more detail on that right now. they’re still working that out. They were preserved, they were brought home and then…yeah.’
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"I feel happier. I feel more me. I feel, I guess, freer in a sense. It’s kind of hard to describe it."
