Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and Emerson Collective founder Laurene Powell Jobs participated in a panel discussion at the 2022 Code Conference on Wednesday.
Responding to a question from [Kara] Swisher about what they believe Jobs would think about the current state of the world, Powell Jobs opined that he would not have been happy about the polarization that increasingly dominates discourse.
I would say not only the polarization, not only the fact that people are really coming to blows within families and communities and our country, but also just that he loved our country so much.
He loved California so much, but he loved our country. He loved the idea of America. He loved what it allowed the individual and the communities to become. He loved the unfetteredness of it. He loved the personal freedoms and liberties, but also the connectedness and responsibility for each other.
It was very important to him to be able to give something back to the human experience, and I think he would not be quiet about it.
Additional discussion topics included Steve’s outlook on the genesis of creation, his structure for Apple that persists to this day, his belief that Apple should own its primary technologies, and more.
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Leftist circle jerk.
Re: polarization, here’s Kara Swisher, a fool celebrated by leftists, of course:
“Four years of Trump have led to the Republican Party becoming a threat to democracy, a declining sect dominated by crackpots, charlatans and cowards. Of these, it’s the cowards, including the senators who killed last week’s legislation, who bear the most blame.” — Kara Swisher, June 2, 2021
Far-left Kara Swisher is a militant lesbian with hair so bad that even the average militant lesbian would say, “Oh, honey, let’s try this instead…”
Laurene Powell Jobs is a socialist using capitalist Steve Jobs’ money to “fundamentally change America” into yet another socialist shithole.
Tim Cook is a sanctimonious, visionless bore overstaying a welcome that should have never come, had Steve Jobs possessed any proven ability to choose Apple CEOs.
Jony Ive lost the plot several years ago. He’s a nut job parody.
To borrow from and quote the late great Mr Limbaugh – “Mega Diittos”!
Or maybe,,,,,MAGA ditto’s!
Laurene Powell Jobs is the founder and president of Emerson Collective, which is the majority owner of The Atlantic, a Leftist shit post rag.
“He loved the idea of America. He loved what it allowed the individual and the communities to become.” So Powell Jobs, you are saying Steve would have hated the communities of high tech companies that delved into the arena of ‘we are right, you are wrong polarization. Now shut up.’
If Steve Jobs thought what Big Tech Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon and a few others did was right, then maybe Steve didn’t love the country as much as you thought Laurene.
No one knows for certain who Steve Jobs would have viewed today’s political environment. But this Huntington Post article gives a little insight. It suggests he’s no fan of doing business in China and he definitely was no fan of the teachers union.
Oops. Forgot the link.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786
Interesting takeaways from HuffPost article dated Oct. 20, 2011 that stand the test of time.
JOBS ON OBAMA
“When he finally relented and they [Jobs & Obama] met… Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a CONSERVATIVE. “You’re headed for a one-term presidency.”
“Though Jobs was not that impressed by Obama… his focus on the reasons that things can’t get done “infuriates” him.”
ON MANUFACTURING
“Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where “regulations and unnecessary costs” make it difficult for them.”
ON EDUCATION
“crippled by union work rules… Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost NO HOPE for education reform. Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year.”
ON BILL GATES
“Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.”
ON PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT
“We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I.”
ON CANCER SURGERY
“I didn’t want my body to be opened … I didn’t want to be violated in that way.”
The last quote on surgery illustrates the great one was capable of a rare error. Later as health worsened, Jobs regretted ignoring condition in favor of willed “magical healing” and not having operation sooner…
Oh cupcakes 🧁!
Butt still hurting from the Republic being spared.
Useful idiot babbles what?
FBI Conceals Chinese Infiltration of U.S. Election Software – September 8, 2022
In a live chat released on Monday, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, appeared together on “truethevote.locals.com” to discuss their 15-month involvement with what was characterized to them as a “counter-intelligence operation” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation into American election company Konnech Inc.
Konnech, which is based out of East Lansing, Michigan, builds software to manage the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
In January 2021, Phillips said that the cyber analyst he had been working with encountered an “oddity in some of the URLs” such as vote4la.com, vote4detroit.com, and vote4boston.com, which Konnech’s “PollChief” software application used to gather personally-identifying information about poll workers.
Using Binary Edge, a software product companies use to identify and assess the risk of cyber breaches, “We began to look at where do these URLs actually resolve to. We found that most of them resolve to one IP address and that IP address — the URL resolved in China,” Phillips said.
“What we also learned in our review, apps.konnech.com [.net], resolved into this same URL in China, meaning that the application itself was residing in China,” he continued.
“In Binary Edge, you can figure out what type of database they are using, their database port, and all the different services offered by ports in this particular application living in China. It turned out that not only did it live there, but they left the database open.”
This database “stored the personally identifying information of over a million Americans,” he emphasized.
Engelbrecht and Phillips decided that “this was a major national security risk” and immediately took the information to the FBI.
When Engelbrecht and Phillips took this information to the FBI, the FBI “said the information was forwarded to their counter-intelligence operation, and a counter-intelligence op was opened up in January or February of 2021,” Phillips said.
Phillips described how he and Engelbrecht played an active role in the FBI’s operation, “They engaged us in the operation, they were communicating with us on a regular basis. They were communicating with Catherine regarding communications with the target and this went on for approximately 15 months.”
Phillips and Engelbrecht noted that the field office that they worked with for those 15 months was “legitimate” and not “political law enforcement.”
“These were legitimate people who believed that this software posed a national security risk to the United States of America and they were working with us closely to try to stop this from being in place during the midterms,” Phillips said.
“The focus point was always we needed to remove this software from the election, but taking a step further, there were a lot of other concerns that the bureau had.”
The FBI agents indicated that Konnech had already “been on their radar” and that there were “lots of other problems” with the U.S. election company including “banking issues” and problems involving the company’s overseas operations in “Australia” and “Canada”.
In April 2022, Engelbrecht received a call from one of the FBI agents, who informed her that the FBI’s “Washington D.C. headquarters” was now involved in the investigation.
Engelbrecht described how everything changed after this call, “There was no more goodwill, there was no more let’s work together, the script had been flipped, and now we were the target,” she said. “That was a very disturbing call.”
The agent informed Engelbrecht that “two women” at the FBI’s headquarters believed that Phillips and Engelbrecht were “in the wrong for doing this” and that the D.C. office was now trying “to figure out how you guys broke the law to find all of this”.
Engelbrecht added, “which of course we didn’t, but that was kind of their MO [modus operandi], they were going to try to pin something on us, and today you can pick your headlines about how the FBI has done this time and again.”
Phillips remarked, “The problem is they know about this and they chose to do nothing. They chose to investigate it and in the end, they chose to blame us, but this is China. These are Chinese operatives in the United States, these are Chinese citizens who are programming this.”
Engelbrecht and Phillips, who have worked in the election industry for a combined fifty years, described how this was a “complete and total failure” of federal law enforcement, U.S. intelligence, and the Department of Homeland Security which is primarily responsible for the “critical infrastructure” making up the U.S. election system.
“In fact, the president of this company sits on the board of another election company that is one of the founding members of DHS’s election security task force. So you want to talk about the fox in the hen house? It’s all right there,” Engelbrecht noted about Konnech CEO Eugene Yu’s membership on Votem Corp.’s Board of Advisors.
Furthermore, Phillips added, “The same individual who programmed this election mess, PollChief, was also the lead programmer for the Confucius Institute internal comms [communication] mechanism.”
“Meaning how they exchange data between here and China, this same person built the entire app that runs all of these elections across the United States. This is a red Chinese communist op run against the United States by Chinese operatives and it’s a disaster.”
Engelbrecht explained how the FBI agents initially hoped they could persuade the Washington D.C. office to do the right thing, “Our contacts were saying we are going to try and smooth this out, but as the days clicked on, they re-contacted us and one of them said you may need to be ready to — his term was to use the nuclear option and go to the press,” she said.
“And that is when we began to plan the Pit.”
With the FBI no longer interested in pursuing Konnech, Englebrecht and Phillips organized an event for Saturday, August 13th in Arizona called “the Pit” where they brought together about two hundred “researchers, independent journalists, and big thinkers” to share their story with.
“We asked the people in attendance for help, we didn’t know what the FBI’s plans were for us, we didn’t know if we didn’t speak this publicly if we would ever have the chance to, but we felt like our best chance was to share this with people we trusted who had the wherewithal to get the word out,” Englebrecht said.
She continued, “There have been so many great things that have happened since that event, but one of the greatest, was this community that came out shoulder to shoulder saying let’s dig this, let’s see how much more information we can find.”
“The quality of research that has been done to supplement what we already had and to corroborate what we already had has been incredible.”
Phillips added, “This is some of the best research I have ever seen. The quality of it, the depth of it, we were with a prosecutor the other day and we had an opportunity to share some of this information with them.”
He continued, “There’s likely going to be a grand jury convened here in the next week or so. It’s supported by not just the research that my team OPSEC did for Catherine and True the Vote, but it’s supported by the research of one of the best research teams that I’ve ever seen come together.”
“The data and research all stand on their own.”
https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/fbi-conceals-chinese-infiltration