In my experience, most journalists failed to understand the significance of the blogosphere. This was partly due to the fact that, like Dr Johnson, they thought that “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money”, and so bloggers must be weird. (Which is hard for those of us who happen to be both bloggers and hacks.) But it was mainly because mainstream media was hypnotised – and blind-sided – by the vertiginous rise of social media. Journalists came to assume that the blogosphere must be old hat, a relic of the past, a meeting place for cranks, nerds and ponytailed men wearing shoes like Cornish pasties. Social media was what mattered.
One of the most important anthropologists of the 20th century was a dirt-poor mestizo woman called Helena Valero. After having read the one and only book in English about her, I’m convinced of that. Her insights into a primitive society is worth more than that of the vast majority of anthropologists, for one simple reason: Helena was there for real, as a member of those societies. She didn’t only study stone age life. She lived it. For two decades, she lived among the Yanomamö horticulturalists of the Amazonas, after having been kidnapped at the age of 11, in 1937.
The ancient masterpiece is a stunning example of Hiberno-Saxon style, thought to have been composed on the Scottish island of Iona in 806, then transferred to the monastery of Kells in County Meath after a Viking raid (a story told in the marvelous animated film The Secret of Kells). Consisting mainly of copies of the four gospels, as well as indexes called “canon tables,” the manuscript is believed to have been made primarily for display, not reading aloud, which is why “the images are elaborate and detailed while the text is carelessly copied with entire words missing or long passages being repeated.”
Take, for example, Vista Equity Partners’ $1 billion acquisition of Acquia in 2019. Acquia is the main commercial backer of Drupal, another popular open source CMS. In the years since the acquisition, the Drupal community has visibly struggled. Acquia appears to be contributing less code and providing less financial support to the ecosystem.
In a world awash with digital data, private intelligence companies now compete with state agencies, turning everyone into potential spies and transforming the age-old craft of espionage into a high-stakes technological arms race.
The de facto Kaspersky ban in the USA is having a global impact: Google kicks the manufacturer and its products out of the Play Store.
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How Wisconsin is trying to speed up beer sales at Camp Randall Stadium
I can see how these 2 positions could be coordinated. Both candidates state something that sounds absolute, but I don’t think either really means it that way. I would think the real question is what should be defined as criminal, and then, how do you enforce the law. What should be left to the parents, and when should the state invade the home?
Before I get to the Top 10 Worst Offenders, first let’s take a look at some of the notables on the list who fell outside the Top 10.
Tennessee’s HPR Law and Its Transformation of Nashville’s Housing Market: A Model for Other States
The lawsuit alleges that Williams intentionally excluded qualified Republican poll workers from the hiring process for the upcoming November 2024 election, hiring only 15 Republicans out of 804 total election staff.
I had come for the American Dream but America was no longer selling it.
Incredible. I spoke too soon about @60Minutes. Also note how many breaks there are in her answers in the ‘full’ version of her interview.
But sometimes, it takes an erratic, moody, inhumanely demanding person to make things happen. And, time and again, Musk has made things happen—to the benefit of us all. Presidents can’t afford to turn their backs on people like Musk. They do so at their own—and the country’s—peril.
Remember when multiple major US media outlets — as well as all the small of handful of “think tank experts” they always quote — tried to convince Americans and Europeans that it was mostly likely Putin who blew up his own Nord Stream 2 pipeline? I do.
“We have to stop, every time one side loses an election, saying the election was stolen.”
Sources consulted for this story said the use of Smartmatic software in the municipal and the presidential elections was meant to be kept under wraps, and that Venezuelan officials and company executives agreed to use another company to hide Smartmatic’s involvement.
Popular car brands are collecting and sharing driver data from braking patterns and odometer readings to vehicle location and voice recognition information, consumer advocacy group Choice has found.
If you only take away one thing from this article, it should be the concept of Strength-Based Feedback. Unlike traditional approaches that attempt to “fix” weaknesses, strength-based feedback acknowledges that, realistically, weaknesses can only be managed, not fixed. This approach shifts development conversations from problem-solving to focusing on growth, empowering employees to excel in doing what they do best. Strength-based feedback can lead to meaningful engagement and performance improvements and allows individuals to contribute more effectively to their organizations.
U.S. Navy “On the Scene” Shortly Before Nord Stream Sabotage
we cannot make them at the rate that they are aging out of service, the fleet gets older and smaller every single year, it’s pretty grim.
Neeleman went out of his way to bring up SAFs in a keynote interview, making sure the world knew he was opposed to the idea.
Dubbed the Global Police Summit, the most recent event took place over three days in October 2023 at Apple Park. It was timed to precede the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) conference in San Diego that year, according to emails obtained by Forbes via a public records request with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD).
UnitedHealthcare said that while Duke Health is one of the most expensive health systems in the southeast and has a much higher cost than other peer academic health systems in North Carolina and surrounding states, the health system continues to require price increases that consumers cannot afford
But whatever my feelings about private equity in general or Silver Lake’s management of WP Engine in particular, I care far more about the integrity of open source licenses, and that integrity is under direct assault by Automattic’s grotesque claim for WP Engine’s revenues.
This person says their job was to handle reports about users and decide a punishment. They note that one of the most common reports women make about men is “I just don’t like him.”
The mice are so bad right now in Rock Island State Park off the northeastern tip of Door County that rodents are reportedly chewing through campers’ Crocs, shredding tent floors and chomping their way into Rubbermaid bins.
Today, Airbus is playing from a position of strength and dominance. Boeing is playing from a position of weakness and financial trauma.
So today, we’ll examine the statistical underpinnings of the Kevin Bacon game, digging into three key facets of game lore:
overestimated by 42% because of unaccounted for weather station aging, reports new study.
If it’s a town hall, you’re not supposed to have the questions in advance. It’s supposed to test the candidates. If the answers are pre-written, the candidate is cheating on the test, posing as capable of spontaneity, when she is actively protecting herself from the risk of spontaneity, and hiding that self-protection from us. She’s asking us to see her as our protector.
This one is so funny and so important about a corruption of the press.
A new In-N-Out is headed to Las Vegas, and by all accounts, it’s going to look and feel unlike any other In-N-Out in America.
No car manufacturers produce vehicles that are already ready for patrol, and transforming a commercially sold Tesla into a crime-fighting machine is no small feat. Beyond the standard emergency lights, sirens, radio, antenna, push bar, partition and gun rack that are added to the car, the vehicle gets a serious upgrade with ballistic panels to toughen it up for the streets, according to a report prepared by a different California city that investigated adopting Teslas for police use.
Thanks to Sweden’s allemansrätten, or right to roam, it is possible to visit all year if you bring your own tent and supplies. I, however, am slipping in just before the cabins (Stockholm area: Stockholm Archipelago Trail) here close for the season.
Dominion announced the acquisition of the Diebold products on May 19, 2010 [2] and the acquisition of Sequoia Voting assets on June 4, 2010 [3]. Dominion also hired much of its personnel, probably retaining ties to extremely sketchy Smartmatic. Sequoia/Smartmatic systems had been used in the Venezuela 2004 referendum, which Hugo Chavez “won”. Smartmatic is a British company with Hugo Chavez ties, headed by “Lord” Malloch-Brown (former UN Deputy Secretary-General, UNDP, UNHCR, VP of Soros’ Quantum Fund, and Vice Chair of Soros’ Open Society Foundation) [7], and linked to electoral scandals all over the world [5].