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Google pursues tech to measure how white you are

To be at least somewhat fair to Google, their push to develop new technology to “measure skin tone” also measures how brown or Black you are. And at least on the surface, they’re not talking about a system to provide digital enhancements to Critical Race Theory programs. (Or at least… not yet.) The new project, as described to Reuters, is purportedly trying to improve facial recognition software and determine if many of the programs available on the market today are “biased” against persons of color.

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Teen Vogue Fears ‘Juneteenth Car Sales’

June 19 or “Juneteenth National Independence Day” is now a federal holiday. On that day in 1865 Union soldiers finally made it to Galveston, Texas, and enslaved blacks learned they were free. It can and should be a unifying holiday, and one that signifies how far our country has come. Or, if you’re one of the hard leftists at Teen Vogue you can take the opportunity to event to moan about how white people ruin everything.

That’s what Jameelah Nasheed did.  Before the bill even reached Biden’s desk Nasheed was ragging on white people for “whitewashing” the holiday.

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‘Transgender Realities In The Lord Of The Rings’: Facing Accusations of Racism, Tolkien Society To Focus on ‘Diversity’ At Seminar

The Tolkien Society has announced that the theme of its 2021 Summer Seminar, held July 3 – 4, will be “Tolkien and Diversity.”

Established in 1969, the Society describes itself as an educational charity and literary organization founded to promote the work of ‘Lord of the Rings’ and Hobbit author, J.R.R. Tolkien. It claims hundreds of members in 22 countries and “received the blessing of Tolkien himself when he agreed to become the Society’s president.”

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AstraZeneca jab hailed as perfect excuse to avoid attending Springsteen show

Vaccine rule for Springsteen Broadway show adds travel uncertainty for AstraZeneca recipients

Drunk Trump deranged celebrity idiot

David Screech had already selected his seats and put in his credit card information for Springsteen on Broadway tickets when he noticed the COVID-19 vaccine requirements: his two doses of AstraZeneca-Oxford wouldn’t be enough for admission.

Screech, the mayor of View Royal, B.C., and a Springsteen fan of 40 years, received his second AstraZeneca dose last week, but the Jujamcyn Theaters’ website said it would only allow guests “fully vaccinated with an FDA-approved vaccine” — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.

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Canada-U.S. border restrictions extended until at least July 21: Bill Blair

Canada-U.S. border restrictions extended until at least July 21: Bill Blair

OTTAWA, June 18 (Reuters) — Canada is extending a ban on non-essential travel with the United States until July 21 and will soon reveal how existing COVID-19 restrictions will be relaxed, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said on Friday.

Canada’s Liberal government is under increasing pressure from businesses and the tourism industry to ease the ban, which was first imposed in March 2020 to help contain spread of the coronavirus and has been renewed on a monthly basis ever since.

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Mark and Patricia McCloskey Plead Guilty to Charges, Will Surrender Guns

The St. Louis couple who were seen holding firearms as Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists approached their home pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges and surrendered their guns.

Mark McCloskey, a lawyer, pleaded guilty to a Class C misdemeanor of fourth-degree assault, while his wife, Patricia McCloskey, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor of second-degree harassment. They will pay the maximum fines of $2,000 and $750, and they won’t serve any jail time.

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Green leader silent on party’s key demand that she disavow ex-advisor who supported Israel

… Paul faced a move towards a non-confidence vote earlier this week when several members of the party’s federal council, its board of directors, sought to have her removed. The council didn’t move directly toward a vote of non-confidence, but said it would move ahead with the process to remove Paul on July 20, if she didn’t repudiate former advisor Noah Zatzman as well as issue a statement fully supporting the party’s caucus.

This statement by Noah Zatzman indicates a psychic break from reality and Lib-left politics; “We will not accept an apology after you realize what you’ve done. We will work to defeat you and bring in progressive climate champions who are antifa and pro-LGBT and pro indigenous sovereignty and Zionists!!!! Am Israel chai [The people of Israel live].”

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Victoria’s Secret goes woke

Victoria’s Secret “Model”

Victoria’s Secret is going woke.

No, not in the most obvious sense. What it’s doing is scrapping its long-built brand of sexy underwear on super-thin supermodels — and exchanging it for underwear displayed on fat models, transgender models, lesbian models, tattooed models, people whose taste and presentation in “sexy” is not quite the same as it was in the past, expecting the public to buy it, like it or not. They’re going virtuous, they’re going inclusive…

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South Carolina court halts executions until firing squad is available

A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad.

A new law requires inmates on death row to decide between the two methods if lethal drugs are not available.

But as prison authorities have not yet formed a firing squad, the executions have been halted by the supreme court.

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