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Website slow, click here This is a blog with my own opinion plus new stories that piqued my interest. A few of them are from websites you are unlikely to read. I hope they interest you too....
July 25, 2020 - I am no longer mirroring my blog on my personal Facebook page by posting the same stories there.
The title of this comes from Trump's making up words he claims were part of the MoCA test for memory which he apparently thinks proves he's a stable genius. The actual words used are totally unrelated to each other.
EXCERPT: It’s not too controversial, at this point, to say that Donald J. Trump may suffer from serious mental issues. It’s important always to disentangle mental illness from just being an awful person. When confronted with profound immorality that is difficult for the average person to fathom, retreat into comfortable mental harbors such as, “That person must be crazy!” is letting the malefactor off the hook. However, there have been signs from the beginning that Trump may have some profound psychological problems. Until 2016, we didn’t hear the phrase “malignant narcissism” as often as we do now — and that’s just the first course of a speculative smorgasbord covering Trump’s possible psychopathologies. Mary Trump’s recently published book has increased the volume of this discussion, but others, such as George Conway and the authors of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, started it already.
Of course, none of us are qualified to give a definitive diagnosis of Trump, though Mary Trump comes closest, knowing him well as a family member. However, if you are on the bus with someone, as I once was, who is angrily shouting about blue demons and the CIA, you presume that there’s something broken about them, certainly enough to move to a different seat further away from that person. We don’t have to be that person’s therapist or psychiatrist to hypothesize about potentially dangerous mental problems and protect ourselves from them.
Still, Trump's account has evolved over time. He told a highly similar booing story to the New York Times after his election in November 2016, except he did not name the Robin Hood Foundation gala as the venue, put the incident "about two years ago" rather than in 2015, and said it happened "just after I started thinking about politics" rather than after he announced his candidacy.
Trump has tried to make mental sharpness a major issue in the campaign, repeatedly suggesting that Democratic opponent Joe Biden has lost his faculties. Trump taped the interview with Portnoy just a day after a Fox News interview in which he crowed at lengthabout his supposed ability, on a cognitive test he says he took, to remember five words in order: "Person, woman, man, camera, TV."
The Ukrainians have ties to Russia and their own checkered pasts. But some Republicans are taking them seriously, and two of the operatives plan to be in Washington soon to push their agenda.
IPhone fans:
I have an iPhone 10. The only reason I'd consider shelling out the big bucks for a new one is if they make a major improvement to the camera. After all I am teetering on the verge of getting a new 65" TV because the burn-in (see article) is so distracting on my three year old LG OLED set. At first it was mainly visible on solid backgrounds in commercials (below) but now I can see it on regular shows. I watch MSNBC so much you can actually read "breaking news" and see the NBC Peacock.
Here's what the iPhone 12 will probably offer in their camera:
Much of the talk surrounding the cameras on the iPhone 12 have focused on the number of lenses, rather than specific hardware specs like megapixels and apertures. We think the iPhone 12 and 12 Max will feature a main camera and an ultra wide angle lens while the iPhone 12 Pro models will also feature a telephoto lens. That's the same setup featured in the current iPhone 11 lineup.
But the iPhone 12 Pro may see an additional change — a LiDAR sensor similar to the one Apple added to this year's iPad Pro. In broad terms, we know that a LiDAR sensor can map your surroundings in 3D, and that should help support augmented reality apps as well as photographic and video effects. But we don't know specifics about what kind of things a LiDAR sensor on a iPhone 12 Pro will allow you to do.
Sadly, we'll likely have to wait until Apple's fall iPhone event to see actual demos of the LiDAR sensor in action in terms of the effects it can add to photos and videos. The same goes for AR applications, as we can easily imagine a series of demos in which Apple brings out app makers to show how LiDAR enables cool features in their software. But if Apple starts talking up new AR tools during this month's WWDC keynote, that could be a sign that the LiDAR sensor isn't just a tacked-on gimmick, but rather a central part of the company's focus for this year's phones. From Tom's Guide
July 24, 2020
I find myself reading more of The Washington Post than The NY Times these days. Perhaps this is one of the reasons:
New York Times' sexist double standard: AOC coverage reeks of misogyny
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave a riveting House speech Thursday. To Times reporters, it was a branding exercise
So rather than report on Ocasio-Cortez's riveting, viral speech on the House floor on Thursday aas a signal moment in the fight against abusive sexism, Times congressional reporters Luke Broadwater and Catie Edmondson filed a story full of sexist double standards and embraced the framing of her critics by casting her as a rule-breaker trying to "amplify her brand."
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Washington Post columnist Helaine Olen tweeted: "I'm not into NYT bashing — newspaper work is hard and reporters and editors make bad calls! — but referring to @AOC masterful speech as a 'brand' exercise is a major, major miss."
David Remnick's appreciation of Ocasio-Cortez's remarks serves as an antidote of sorts to the Times story. Writing for the New Yorker, he gave her credit for her achievements:
Ocasio-Cortez has been at the forefront of major issues, including climate change, immigration, campaign-finance reform, and income inequality. Her ability to skewer a balky witness in committee hearings has proved as uncanny as it is entertaining.
In a speech that "should be studied for its measured cadence, its artful construction, and its refusal of ugliness," Ocasio-Cortez "defended not only herself; she defended principle and countless women," Remnick wrote.
And he clearly identified the real norm-killer:
The politics of our moment are dominated by a bully of miserable character, a President who has failed to contain a pandemic through sheer indifference, who has fabricated a reëlection campaign based on bigotry and the deliberate inflammation of division. His language is abusive, his attitude toward women disdainful.
In the Washington Post, Monica Hesse wrote that "On the subject of misogyny at least, her Thursday address was the speech of a lifetime."
Ocasio-Cortez is an extraordinary political figure: a smart, brave, charismatic young Latina woman who refuses to be intimidated by anything or anyone.
Her very existence in Congress, along with her insistent, progressive agenda, her bold words and actions, and the ease with which she navigates pop culture and social media, have turned her into an icon — a singular walking, talking challenge to the conservative white male power structure.
As such, she tends to bring out the worst in some people.
On Thursday, she brought out the worst in the New York Times.
This is how HuffPost put it: AOC Gave The Most Important Feminist Speech In A Generation
Bad news from the federal court in Portland: Judge denies restraining order against feds in Portland
This seemed to be good news. It wasn't: Judge Bans Federal Officers From Targeting Media In Portland Amid Ongoing Protests
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order, saying: “When wrongdoing is underway, officials have great incentive to blindfold the eyes” of the press.
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