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How would English sound if it were phonetically consistent?

The end result sounds a little like Werner Herzog doing an impression of someone from Wales doing an impression of an Italian who doesn’t speak English that well.

"Roger Daltrey says ‘hip-hop hasn’t evolved at all’ and calls Kanye West’s music “kind of meaningless” "When asked to clarify his comments on the genre, Daltrey said: “Has hip-hop evolved? I don’t think it has at all.” However, he did sing the praises of one rapper. “I do think Eminem is still one of the most creative people in that whole arena. He’s fabulous. I love him.”

JP Says : Wonder how long it will take the media to catch up and point out that of all the rappers Roger could have called out, the one he highlighted was ‘the white one’.

Good Old Google …. makes you feel proud. Right?

"Google’s snooping proves big tech will not change – unless governments step in | Arwa Mahdawi "You must log in to your Google account, go to the “manage your Google activity” section, open “activity controls” and disable the permissions there, which are enabled by default."

(The Guardian) for the full story.

"In Defense Of Slow News "Many years back, I remember seeing Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, being interviewed about that site (which at the time was on its way to becoming the first "mainstream" tech news blog). I'm paraphrasing​ and possibly misremembering, but what stuck with me was that he suggested that, as a blog, you basically had to focus on one of three things to succeed: being first, being funny, or being insightful."

(Tech Dirt) for the full story.

JP Says : I like the idea of ‘slow news’ … and now I know it isn’t one of Arrington’s three legs for success in blogging, I like it even more.

What could possibly go wrong ….

"The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints or facial features. To fight fraud, a growing number of banks and merchants are tracking visitors' physical movements as they use websites and apps."

(Slashdot) for the full story.

Good Grief. Every day you think we finally have hit the bottom with these stories and then suddenly it’s tomorrow.

Catfish Victim Allegedly Planned to Kill Mother to Get Money to Pay Scammer "A scam victim may have been plotting to kill her mother in order to pay the person who was catfishing her."

"Collusion Is Worse Than a Crime "It’s true, as Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani keeps insisting, that you will not find the word collusion in the federal criminal code. You will not find the word hacking there either. But that does not mean that hacking is legal, only that lawyers speak differently from other people."

(The Atlantic) for the full story.

Asbestos … seems like it is coming back!

The EPA's own staff are aghast that Trump is bringing back asbestos "The Trump administration's plan to bring back asbestos is right in line with Trumpist ideology that any science that interferes with profits is a hoax (Trump claims that the asbestos-cancer link is a conspiracy to help the mafia make money on asbestos removal contracts), and the fact that the leading Russian asbestos company (which has ties to Putin) put Trump's face on their packaging is just an extra too-shitty-to-be-true detail for all of us to ponder as we die of mesothelioma in a few years."

I don’t think for one minute that had Trump not started Twitter Wars, we would find The Russian Embassy taking to that medium to make fun of him. So glad they do.

Russian Embassy mocks Trump’s Space Force logos "the embassy tweeted "Good Morning, Space Forces!" along with a graphic of a rocket being launched and features the Russian flag. The tweet also links to a Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation's Space Forces website."

(Via Politico)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Why Do We ‘Write Blank Checks for War’ But ‘Our Pockets Are Empty’ When It Comes to Medicare for All?

"In an interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo Wednesday evening, New York congressional candidate and democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned how Congress can "write unlimited blank checks for war" and pass the GOP's $2 trillion tax cut for the wealthy, but when it comes to proposals that would help every American—such as Medicare for All—"our pockets are empty.""