February, 2021 archive
All the News that Fits . . . 0
. . . and none that doesn’t.
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Meanwhile, Republicans decide that they just can’t bring themselves to uncross the Rubicon that they crossed five years ago..
The Disinformation Superhighway, Short Attention Span Theatre Dept. 0
One man saw it coming.
He even foresaw “influencers.”
An excerpt from Charlie Warzel’s article about him in last Sunday’s New York Times (emphasis added):
In June 2006, when Facebook was still months from launching its News Feed, Mr. Goldhaber predicted the grueling personal effects of a life mediated by technologies that feed on our attention and reward those best able to command it. “In an attention economy, one is never not on, at least when one is awake, since one is nearly always paying, getting or seeking attention.”
Parler Talk 0
A New Jersey school board member didn’t know that insults could be, well, insulting.
QOTD 0
Voltaire:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Afterthought:
Q. E. D.
In the Face of the Evidence in Their Face 0
Seth sums it up.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Maya Cohen explains how only a few are permitted to wield the free hand of the market.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Dance with politeness.
An 18-year-old woman was killed in a Columbus shooting Wednesday night, the coroner said.
(snip)
According to police testimony in Recorder’s Court Thursday, Farral and two friends were dancing around with a loaded handgun before Farral decided he would use it to “scare” Holtrop, who had fallen asleep on a couch. Farral pulled the trigger by accident, detectives said.
Yes, It Gets My Goat Too 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Shorter Steve M.: No surprises here.
A Matter of Trust 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times has trust issues.
Hacks at the NSA 0
No doubt you heard the December headlines about a massive cyberbreach of the U. S. government. An article in the Sunday New York Times (yeah, it takes me all week to work my way through it) explores the failure of the United States shore up its cyberdefenses, despite being a target rich environment. Here’s a tiny little bit; follow the link for the rest.
At the N.S.A., whose dual mission is gathering intelligence around the world and defending American secrets, offense eclipsed defense long ago. For every hundred cyberwarriors working offense — searching and stockpiling holes in technology to exploit for espionage or battlefield preparations — there was often only one lonely analyst playing defense to close them shut.