Edward Morbius
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Google are Evil
This is absolutely equivalent to supporting the National Socialist Workers Party in Germany in 1933.
If you work for Google, quit. Now.
When Kristallnacht comes, it will be driven by Google's data.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/foKDxbyhYUF
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/technology/google-in-post-obama-era-aggressively-woos-republicans.html
Accessible: http://archive.is/ELnsN
This is absolutely equivalent to supporting the National Socialist Workers Party in Germany in 1933.
If you work for Google, quit. Now.
When Kristallnacht comes, it will be driven by Google's data.
https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/foKDxbyhYUF
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/technology/google-in-post-obama-era-aggressively-woos-republicans.html
Accessible: http://archive.is/ELnsN
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Reporting Live from Republican National Committee Headquarters
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If you've ever wondered where the expression "wearing a wire" came from ...
The era of wire audio recording.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc
The era of wire audio recording.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=90ihiTwJPCc
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The respect and attention given intellectual achievements in the press is striking
Maryam Mirzakhani's death has been noted in Western press.
It dominates Iranian and Islamic coverage.
Maryam Mirzakhani's death has been noted in Western press.
It dominates Iranian and Islamic coverage.
Front pages ...
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Morbius, I am your father
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If Republicans Love Their Country, When Will They Show It?
There is a reason the Founders made the presidency — alone of all the offices of state — reserved for a natural-born American. There’s a reason every new citizen must swear this oath: “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” The Founders were deeply worried that the republic could be corrupted by foreign influence, money, or power. No office was more critical in this than that of commander-in-chief. And it was in part for this exact contingency that impeachment was included in the Constitution.
Andrew Sullivan, conservative political blogger.
It's no longer sufficient to ask if the U.S. Republican Party are a branch of the Russian Kremlin, but how long it has been so.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/if-republicans-love-their-country-when-will-they-show-it.html
There is a reason the Founders made the presidency — alone of all the offices of state — reserved for a natural-born American. There’s a reason every new citizen must swear this oath: “I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.” The Founders were deeply worried that the republic could be corrupted by foreign influence, money, or power. No office was more critical in this than that of commander-in-chief. And it was in part for this exact contingency that impeachment was included in the Constitution.
Andrew Sullivan, conservative political blogger.
It's no longer sufficient to ask if the U.S. Republican Party are a branch of the Russian Kremlin, but how long it has been so.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/if-republicans-love-their-country-when-will-they-show-it.html
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On the Media: Three Dimensional Chess
OTM tackles spinning Jr., the Putin-as-chessmaster trope, the Kobach voter suppression operation, Raqqa, and Mosul pirate radio.
1. Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel on how the right-wing media is spinning the Don Jr. emails — and how it reveals something deeper about the pro-Trump media ecosystem.
2. Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev on what the American media get wrong in its reporting on Vladimir Putin.
3. ProPublica's Jessica Huseman on the mistaken reporting on the backlash to the "election integrity" commission's attempt to gather data about voters from the states.
4. City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman describes the efforts of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a band of citizen journalists led by Abdel Aziz al-Hamza who risk their lives to report on conditions in Raqqa, Syria.
5. Radio Al-Ghad's Mohammad Al-Musali describes how his pirate radio station defied the media blackout in Mosul under ISIS rule in order to shine a light onto the city.
It should be an open secret by now that I'm a huge fan of On the Media and its hosts, Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield. In a world of madness, a once-a-week dosing is just about perfect to maintain my present state of insanity. Thoughtful, intelligent, cutting through the crud (whilst exposing it), and very, very good.
Transcript should be available shortly, podcast is up now.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-07-14
OTM tackles spinning Jr., the Putin-as-chessmaster trope, the Kobach voter suppression operation, Raqqa, and Mosul pirate radio.
1. Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel on how the right-wing media is spinning the Don Jr. emails — and how it reveals something deeper about the pro-Trump media ecosystem.
2. Russian journalist Alexey Kovalev on what the American media get wrong in its reporting on Vladimir Putin.
3. ProPublica's Jessica Huseman on the mistaken reporting on the backlash to the "election integrity" commission's attempt to gather data about voters from the states.
4. City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman describes the efforts of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, a band of citizen journalists led by Abdel Aziz al-Hamza who risk their lives to report on conditions in Raqqa, Syria.
5. Radio Al-Ghad's Mohammad Al-Musali describes how his pirate radio station defied the media blackout in Mosul under ISIS rule in order to shine a light onto the city.
It should be an open secret by now that I'm a huge fan of On the Media and its hosts, Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield. In a world of madness, a once-a-week dosing is just about perfect to maintain my present state of insanity. Thoughtful, intelligent, cutting through the crud (whilst exposing it), and very, very good.
Transcript should be available shortly, podcast is up now.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-07-14
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Fuck you Google Chrome
Seven motherfucking years on #50132.
Fuck you.
Fuck you harder.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50132
Seven motherfucking years on #50132.
Fuck you.
Fuck you harder.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50132
Chrome must provide a way to default audio to off, and allow users to whitelist specific sites for audio autoplay. The situation with unwanted autoplay audio is out of control and growing worse. While the Chrome feature to permit muting audio at the tab on a tab-by-tab basis once the audio starts playing is extremely useful, too many tabs don't start playing audio immediately and start blasting sometime later. This has become intolerable.
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McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
"This archive is an attempt to collect in one place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought. I have tried to cast my nets as wide as possible including representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of thought; and most of the sub-fields of economics. The archive is a work in progress that may never be completed. The field of economic thought is a very large one. The texts are posted primarily for the use of students who might not otherwise have access to these writings. They are to be used strictly for non-commercial educational purposes. There are mirror sites at the University of Bristol (maintained by Tony Brewer) and at the University of Melbourne (maintained by Robert Dixon). There are as well, many other sites that might be of interest." - Rod Hay
Of interest to econ geeks.
Or those who try to understand econ geeks.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/
"This archive is an attempt to collect in one place a large number of significant texts in the history of economic thought. I have tried to cast my nets as wide as possible including representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of thought; and most of the sub-fields of economics. The archive is a work in progress that may never be completed. The field of economic thought is a very large one. The texts are posted primarily for the use of students who might not otherwise have access to these writings. They are to be used strictly for non-commercial educational purposes. There are mirror sites at the University of Bristol (maintained by Tony Brewer) and at the University of Melbourne (maintained by Robert Dixon). There are as well, many other sites that might be of interest." - Rod Hay
Of interest to econ geeks.
Or those who try to understand econ geeks.
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/
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UK Met office: 6% decadal risk of US-China crop failure precipitating global famine
That is, there is a 6% likelihood in any 10 year period of a massive crop failure striking both the United States and the People's Republic of China.
The way failure rates work is that you can consider the inverse -- the probability of avoiding a famine -- and raise that to the power of the intervals you're considering. 94% in this case, or 0.94 as a probability.
After 120 years (12 decadal periods), there is a < 50% chance of a avoiding simultaneous US-China crop failure. That's 0.94^12.
After 380 years, there's a <10% chance of success -- a 90% likelihood of a dual failure.
This presumes that the 6% decadal likelihood itself doesn't change. It's also why even relatively high success rates in single-instance cases become near certainties of failure if iterated sufficient times. Where failure represents an existential threat, that becomes all the more critical.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/15/climate-change-food-famine-study
That is, there is a 6% likelihood in any 10 year period of a massive crop failure striking both the United States and the People's Republic of China.
The way failure rates work is that you can consider the inverse -- the probability of avoiding a famine -- and raise that to the power of the intervals you're considering. 94% in this case, or 0.94 as a probability.
After 120 years (12 decadal periods), there is a < 50% chance of a avoiding simultaneous US-China crop failure. That's 0.94^12.
After 380 years, there's a <10% chance of success -- a 90% likelihood of a dual failure.
This presumes that the 6% decadal likelihood itself doesn't change. It's also why even relatively high success rates in single-instance cases become near certainties of failure if iterated sufficient times. Where failure represents an existential threat, that becomes all the more critical.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/15/climate-change-food-famine-study
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