Tag: Reading
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A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower | The New Yorker
A Young Kennedy, in Kushnerland, Turned Whistle-Blower When Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson Max volunteered with Jared Kushner’s COVID-19 task force, he likened the Trump Administration’s pandemic response to “a family office meets organized crime, melded with ‘Lord of the Flies.’ ” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/a-young-kennedy-in-kushnerland-turned-whistle-blower As the days passed, and the death count climbed, Kennedy was…
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The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election | The New Yorker
The Legal Fight Awaiting Us After the Election The aftermath of November’s vote has the potential to make 2000 look like a mere skirmish. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-legal-fight-awaiting-us-after-the-election As Election Day approaches, the President has escalated his level of incitement. With the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, last week, a battle…
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The Public-Shaming Pandemic | The New Yorker
The Public-Shaming Pandemic Around the world, people who accidentally spread the coronavirus must face both a dangerous illness and an onslaught of online condemnation. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/the-public-shaming-pandemic In less than a day, Nhung’s Instagram account had ten thousand new followers—and many of them were attacking her. Things got so out of control that…
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Patriot Coalition: Leaked Messages Show Far-Right Group’s Plans for Portland Violence – bellingcat
Patriot Coalition: Leaked Messages Show Far-Right Group’s Plans for Portland Violence – bellingcat Bellingcat has acquired several months of chat logs from the Patriot Coalition of Oregon, a network of far-right activists. via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/09/23/patriot-coalition-far-right-chat-logs-violence/ The leaked chat logs appear to reveal that some members of the Patriot Coalition have taken part in multiple violent…
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How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Hometown
How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread in My Colorado Hometown During the pandemic, some of the people I grew up with got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement. via The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2020/09/23/qanon-conspiracy-theory-colorado/ “And honestly, at first, I thought she was psychotic,” Nash continued. “She just started making these claims that sounded outrageous…
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Donald Trump Is Attacking American Democracy at Its Core | The New Yorker
Donald Trump Is Attacking American Democracy at Its Core The President is transparent about his effort to stack the Supreme Court in his favor for an anticipated challenge to the election results, even as he and his Party work behind the scenes to suppress the Democratic vote. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trump-is-attacking-american-democracy-at-its-core In any case,…
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Donald Trump’s Campaign Rallies Are Pointless | The New Yorker
Donald Trump’s Campaign Rallies Are Pointless The President’s Supreme Court nomination, three upcoming debates against Joe Biden, and his continuing threats to disregard unfavorable election results are the topics that will dominate the public’s attention in the weeks ahead. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/donald-trumps-campaign-rallies-are-pointless The other new slogan, which Trump has had less success in…
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Here Are Twenty Other Disturbing, Awful Things That Trump Has Said This Month, and It’s Not Over Yet | The New Yorker
Here Are Twenty Other Disturbing, Awful Things That Trump Has Said This Month, and It’s Not Over Yet Sadly, the President’s refusal to promise a “peaceful” transfer of power is just another outrage in a September full of them. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/here-are-twenty-other-disturbing-awful-things-that-trump-has-said-this-month-and-its-not-over-yet At a press conference on Tuesday, the day the U.S. officially…
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The Pirates of the Highways
The Pirates of the Highways On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down. via Narratively: https://narratively.com/the-pirates-of-the-highways/ he two truck thieves, Earl Stanley Nunn, and his nephew, Michael Lee Sherley, were no slouches when it came…
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The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart | WIRED
The Cheating Scandal That Ripped the Poker World Apart Mike Postle was on an epic winning streak at a California casino. Veronica Brill thought he had to be playing dirty. Let the chips fall where they may. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/stones-poker-cheating-scandal/ The fundamental idea behind GTO is that there’s a single best decision for every imaginable…
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John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Political Correctness, Monty Python, and Artichokes | The New Yorker
John Cleese Discusses Creativity, Political Correctness, Monty Python, and Artichokes A conversation with the English comedian about artistic inspiration, cultural appropriation, and tabloid journalism. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-cleese-discusses-creativity-political-correctness-monty-python-and-artichokes As to when do you go off the rails, the answer is when somebody says something that’s really funny. Suddenly you realize there is a comedy…
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The Many Faces of Ethan Hawke | The New Yorker
The Many Faces of Ethan Hawke The actor’s long, freewheeling career has been a chart of his restlessness and his recklessness. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-many-faces-of-ethan-hawke In 2008, Hawke married Ryan Shawhughes, a month before their first daughter, Clementine, was born. Shawhughes, who had worked briefly as a nanny for him and Thurman while she…
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“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19 | The New Yorker
“It Was All About the Election”: The Ex-White House Aide Olivia Troye on Trump’s Narcissistic Mishandling of COVID-19 The first staffer on the coronavirus task force to go public tells The New Yorker that America’s pandemic response was “derailed by the person at the very top.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/it-was-all-about-the-election-the-ex-white-house-aide-olivia-troye-on-trumps-narcissistic-mishandling-of-covid-19 In the video, Troye…
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Facebook Tried to Limit QAnon. It Failed. – The New York Times
Facebook Tried to Limit QAnon. It Failed. (Published 2020) The social network tried cracking down on the spread of the conspiracy theory and other extremist material. But QAnon groups are still flourishing on the site. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/technology/facebook-tried-to-limit-qanon-it-failed.html Perhaps the most jarring part? At times, Facebook’s own recommendation engine — the algorithm that surfaces content for…
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Bob Woodward Finally Got Donald Trump to Tell the Truth About COVID-19 | The New Yorker
Bob Woodward Finally Got Trump to Tell the Truth About COVID-19 Whatever the political consequence, hearing the President’s cynical interview on tape is a revelation. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/bob-woodward-finally-got-trump-to-tell-the-truth-about-covid-19 The reviewers at the Times and the Washington Post have already had their shots at Woodward’s book. His latest work has prompted as much fury…
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The Trump Campaign’s Mobile App Is Collecting Massive Amounts of Voter Data | The New Yorker
How the Trump Campaign’s Mobile App Is Collecting Huge Amounts of Voter Data The app, which was developed by the ad broker and software company Phunware, gathers users’ data in an invasive way reminiscent of the methods of Cambridge Analytica. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/campaign-chronicles/the-trump-campaigns-mobile-app-is-collecting-massive-amounts-of-voter-data To access the Trump app, users must share their cell-phone…
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Peter Thiel Met With Racist Fringe While Backing Trump
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it? via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/peter-thiel-donald-trump-white-nationalist-support “I don’t think Peter Thiel is going to become our George Soros after all…
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The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. But It Didn’t Protect a Source. – The New York Times
The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. (Published 2020) Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/media/the-intercept-source-reality-winner.html The documents fall short of revealing a conspiratorial cover-up. Instead they show an extreme version of the human errors, hubris and mismanagement familiar…
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The Man Who Refused to Spy | The New Yorker
The Man Who Refused to Spy The F.B.I. tried to recruit an Iranian scientist as an informant. When he balked, the payback was brutal. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/21/the-man-who-refused-to-spy The F.B.I. agents touched on the indictment, but asked mainly about projects that could be connected to Iran’s military and nuclear capabilities—research in which Asgari had…
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Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker – The New York Times
Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker (Published 2020) The employee, who worked in a group dedicated to rooting out fake accounts, said executives ignored or were slow to react to her warnings. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/technology/facebook-manipulation-whistleblower-sophie-zhang.html “I found and took down attacks of this sort worldwide — from South Korea to India, from…