https://twitter.com/photogareth/status/976189175203495936
«Incredible moving image by Ami Vitale for National Geographic Creative. The last moments of the last living male Northern White Rhino on plant Earth
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-stamos.html
«“The people whose job is to protect the user always are fighting an uphill battle against the people whose job is to make money for the company,” said Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook enforcing privacy and other rules until 2012 and now advises a nonprofit organization called the Center for Humane Technology, which is looking at the effect of technology on people.»
Source: http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/weinstein-bankruptcy-1202720180/
«The Lantern bid leaves open the question of how much money will be left for victims of Weinstein’s alleged harassment. Insurance is expected to provide up to $30 million, though the insurer may yet contest its obligation to pay.»
AAANNNDDD, here I am, sharing a Facebook post, after all that. Seems legit, though. 🙂
https://wsvn.com/news/local/128-firearms-turned-in-at-miami-police-gun-buyback/
Memetic engineering. Welcome to the future. Anybody with a spare half mil can pay to manipulate you. Well… not YOU, of course, but your gullible friend. Your and my ability to conduct our own research and analysis is unquestioned, of course.
Bin Laden had this kind of cash, didn’t he?
«The deal is between SCL and State’s Global Engagement Center. The Center was set up by the Obama administration in 2016 to fight ISIS’s online presence, and the deal with SCL was signed in early 2017.
- When that deal was inked, SCL and Cambridge Analytica had just helped orchestrate a massive upset in the 2016 presidential election, and were viewed as power players in data analytics.»
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html
It’s the Chinese “social credit” system.
«Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution. In many countries, Facebook and its products simply are the internet. Some employers and landlords demand to see Facebook profiles [emphasis mine], and there are increasingly vast swaths of public and civic life — from volunteer groups to political campaigns to marches and protests — that are accessible or organized only via Facebook.»
China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-credit/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10S
http://ca-political.com/casestudies/casestudythomtillis2014
Cambridge Analytica helped elect Thom Tillis, R-NC, in 2014.
«CA Political worked successfully with various organizations key to the success of Thom Tillis’ campaign. Thom Tillis won against Kay Hagan by two points, despite Nate Silver and the Washington Post predicting otherwise.»
(Courtesy of WRAL, http://www.wral.com/tillis-may-have-benefited-from-facebook-data-breach/17427902/.)
Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump will save their 51-49 majority — and perhaps even help them pick up a few seats.Even as fears grow within the GOP that Trump will cost Republicans the House, Senate Republicans say the president will play a starring role in the closely contested campaigns that will decide control of the chamber. Trump will be front and center in every state that helped elect the president, according to GOP senators and strategists, making the case that Democrats are hindering his agenda.
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Republicans insist there isn’t a state on the Senate map where they are nervous about deploying Trump. Republicans reason that opposition to Trump is already baked into the Democratic electorate. They figure Democrats will be motivated to vote whether Trump shows up or not, so they might as well use him to fire up their base, too. [Emphasis mine.]
There’s still a ton of Trump supporters out there. This is the country that needs “do not eat” warnings on boxes of laundry soap.
Seven of the 10 most vulnerable Senate Democrats said in interviews that they were prepared for Trump to come to their states and make a spectacle of them. Few said they expected it to change the trajectory of their race.
“If it were Ronald Reagan? Yes.” But Trump’s effect is “TBD,” said Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who is expected to face Republican Gov. Rick Scott this fall.
“I don’t think he will persuade many people. He barely won in Michigan. And frankly [it was] because 51,000 people voted for Jill Stein,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.).
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Republican Senate candidates have already given Trump a bear hug. Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) has gone from “99 percent” against Trump to claiming that everything Trump has touched has been “incredible.”
Heller. That guy is a real piece of work.
Though Trump may be a major drag on endangered House Republicans from the suburbs, who have to appeal to a concentrated set of moderate voters, statewide races in rural places like North Dakota and West Virginia are a far different story. So top GOP operatives see bringing Trump out to the states as a way to alleviate one of their biggest fears for 2018: that a depressed base will allow Democrats to run roughshod over them even in heavily conservative areas.
Source: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-frameworks-libraries-and-tools
Interesting. I wish they had split out AngularJS (1.x) from Angular (2+).
Node.js 49.9% Angular 37.6% React 28.3% .NET Core 27.2% Spring 17.8% Django 12.8% Cordova 8.6% TensorFlow 7.6% Xamarin 7.4% Spark 4.8% Hadoop 4.7% Torch/PyTorch 1.6%
Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/975135764571766784.html
«Boosting Dem primary candidates who would be UNelectable in November is a strategic goal for many, from the GOP to the Kremlin and even the extreme left. We are in an information war and you must vet election information very carefully. /15»
