Month: March 2024
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Watch It Burn – The Atavist Magazine
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Watch It Burn Two scammers, a web of betrayal, and Europe’s fraud of the century. via The Atavist Magazine: http://magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-france-europe-carbon-fraud-scam-vat-betrayal/ Unlike VAT fraud with mobile phones, no empty vans were required. The carbon market rendered even the pretense of real-world trade unnecessary because its product was an absence, an unemitted ton of gas. All someone…
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin | WIRED
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How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, “the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man.” via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin/ They realized they could track world leaders through Locomotive, too. After acquiring…
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How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future – The New York Times
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How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world? Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html “Soon after the printing press emerged in the 15th century, the scriptoriums for copying manuscripts in monasteries rapidly began shutting…
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Bosnia Was Once Emptied by War and Now Faces Peacetime Emigration – The New York Times
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A Land Once Emptied by War Now Faces a Peacetime Exodus Bosnia is being hit by a combination of a low birthrate and emigration, a trend fueled by ethnic tensions and disgust with corruption. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/world/europe/bosnia-population-emigration-birthrate.html Mr. Kremic said that a rough guide to how much the population had dropped was a study conducted last…