Author: trent
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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…
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Safety Net – Longreads
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Safety Net – Longreads These days, when you work as a librarian in America, there is no lack of emergencies. via Longreads: http://longreads.com/2024/02/27/safety-net-public-libraries/ To be a public servant in America is to contend with a fair amount of trauma. The institutions are collapsing, and public librarians, especially, have a front row seat to the fallout.…
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What It’s Like to Be a Sociopath – The New York Times
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What It’s Like to Be a Sociopath “Just because I don’t care about you doesn’t mean I want to cause you more pain,” says Patric Gagne, author of a new memoir about her sociopathy. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/25/magazine/patric-gagne-interview.html Are you able to describe how you’ve built a sense of morality? Just because I don’t care about someone…
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An American Education: Notes from UATX – The New Inquiry
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An American Education: Notes from UATX revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or California but the countr… via The New Inquiry: https://thenewinquiry.com/an-american-education-notes-from-uatx/ In the ensuing Q&A, however, at least one person in the…
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