September 9, 2020

Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans. “President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the coronavirus outbreak in China. ‘This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,’ national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. ‘This is going to be the roughest thing you face.’… Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly. ‘You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,’ Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. ‘And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your […]

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August 7, 2018

Engadget: FCC admits its comment system never suffered DDoS attack

Engadget: FCC admits its comment system never suffered DDoS attack. “If you didn’t buy the FCC’s claims that its comment system fell prone to a DDoS attack when it was soliciting net neutrality comments, investigators have just validated your suspicions. An imminent report from the agency’s Inspector General has revealed that there’s no evidence of such an attack. To put it another way, the comment system’s problems were more likely due to large-scale opposition to the net neutrality repeal (helped by Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver), not an untimely hacking campaign.”

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July 27, 2018

Gizmodo: When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life

Gizmodo: When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life. “Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent, she fits a certain stereotype of the All-American life. She’s blonde. Her husband is a veteran Marine. Her two children, a boy and a girl, joined the military as adults. She sells houses—she’s a real estate agent at Re/Max—helping others realize their own American dream. But in September 2015, she was suddenly plunged into an American nightmare. She got a call at 6 a.m. one morning from a colleague at Re/Max telling her something terrible had been posted about her on the Re/Max Facebook page. Glennon thought at first she meant that a client had left her a bad review, but it turned out to be much worse than that.”

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June 19, 2017

Salon: Explosive growth in bulls**t studies! The latest academic frontier in the age of You Know Who

Salon: Explosive growth in bulls**t studies! The latest academic frontier in the age of You Know Who. “‘There is so much bullshit!’ exclaims mathematical biologist Carl Bergstrom. ‘We’re drowning in it!’ So begins the first session of Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data, a class Bergstrom is teaching with data scientist Jevin West at the University of Washington. It might be comforting if bullshit were confined to the realms of politics, PR and advertising. But that’s bullshit.” Not as political as the headline would have you believe.

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