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The parent company of The National Enquirer tried to blackmail Bezos to get The Washington Post to drop an investigation on their newspaper. Bezos calls their bluff (or is it a bluff?) and decides to publish the blackmail letter.
Cute littel short by Pixar.
Pretty neat: the ads about the iPad Pro were made completely using iPad Pro.
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I would have done a few things differently though :)
Update: It's fake: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/glitter-bomb-package-thief-video-not-entirely-real
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When you find yourself on the same side as Hassan Nasrallah, Louis Farrakhan and David Duke on the question of a country’s right to exist, it’s time to re-examine every opinion you hold.
This article is the counterpoint to another recent and logically incoherent New York Times article by Michelle Goldberg titled "Anti-Zionism Isn’t the Same as Anti-Semitism".
Anti-Zionism is the denial to grant the Jewish People their right to self-determination, which is without a doubt Anti-Semitic.
Cool visualization of largest known breaches since 2004.
WWI footage, restored, colorized and with added sound. Looks incredible.
"ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing extremist and anti-Semitic incidents around the nation. ADL experts in its Center on Extremism developed this unique visualization with data points extracted from information sources including news and media reports, government documents (including police reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations and more."
This is a very good video essay about the use of disinformation as a weapon by the KGB. Especially interesting, needless to say, given what's happening around the world in the last couple of years.
Everytime I hear someone I know who's reasonably smart and educated say something along the lines of "you don't know who to believe anymore"* regarding the news media, I am filled with a sense of dread over the effectiveness of these campaigns.
- Of course the answer is: "You should believe the news organizations that have been around for decades, have a staff of proffesional journalists, and excellent track record; not the crap you receive over WhatsApp or Facebook from questionable sources".
Amazon debuts new self-driving racing league with tiny machine learning-powered race cars – GeekWire
Back when I was in college, IBM had this thing Robocode (https://robocode.sourceforge.io). It was a little video game with fighting robots. There was a pretty simple Java API to control them and you were supposed to write code to control it and fight others.
This is the 2018 version, and it looks amazing.
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Sadly, this headline could have been written at any time in the last 40 years and it would have been accurate.
Using a file compression algorithm as a metric of repetitiveness is genius.
The A12X chip in the new iPad Pro is by far its most impressive feature. But the only thing I can think of is: Imagine is they start putting these in tiny MacBook laptops.
Words first used in my year of birth.
So who’s lying (or got it wrong?) Bloomberg or The rest of the world?