Interesting reads
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@Nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
@Nepia said in Interesting reads:
@jegga said in Interesting reads:
Random 24 year old man spontaneously raises millions for charity , gets interviewed by local paper which digs up tweets from when he was 16 . Paper and journo gets massive blowback , journos identity is discovered, turns out he has said awful shit on twitter too and paper sacks him . Journo still doesn’t seem to understand what happened
Twitter hates me. The Des Moines Register fired me. Here’s what really happened.
During the seven months I worked as a trending-news reporter for the Des Moines Register, it was my job to write about viral news in Iowa and to frame my stories in ways that would increase their viral potential. My last story for the paper, a profile of local celebrity Carson King, was my most […]
This was definitely an interesting read but your description implied (or I misread it's intention) that the journalist was setting out to set him up ... when (and this is in his own words obviously) he was a writing a series of articles about him due to the charity work.
I can kind of understand why the journo doesn't understand what happened. The newspaper posted an editorial explaining the rationale for why 'they' were chosing to include the info about the tweets but were preempted by the guy himself. And the kid himself tweeted that he didn't have an issue with the reporter.
Register editor: Here’s how we reported on Carson King’s tweets
The racist jokes were found in a routine background check. Editors discussed whether and how to report them.
I don’t think I implied he was setting him up . He says in the first sentence he saw his job as to make sure his stories went viral so he included the tweets. He obviously never anticipated that it would massively backfire on him .
I followed the story when it first broke and the guy who raised the money is obviously a good sort so I guess having some understanding of what the journo is going through he wouldn’t wish it on anyone .
I thought it was an interesting story about social media and how what you say on it can come back to haunt you.
I don’t have much sympathy for the journo , he reminds me of Sarah Jeong he just didn’t have the high profile supporters she did .
All good, must have just been my interpretation. I don't know who Jeong is but I guess we have to agree to disagree on the journo, he seemed pretty supportive of the guy to me - but I didn't follow it at the time, only just did some research after reading your link.
It was around the same time as Trudeau’s penchant for black face earlier in his life so it was interesting to follow the two stories.
Struggling to give a shit about the journo . If the fundraiser hadn’t had the brains to front foot it on the advice of a pr firm it would have been much worse for him .
Sarah Jeong is a nyt writer who after she was hired was found to have tweeted all kinds of racist tweets and stuff like “ kill all men “ but people like Ezra Klein from Vox went bat for her despite all this and the fact she outed a gay Chinese tech writer who was previously anonymous. Eventually the nyt realised she was actually an awful person and moved her on. -
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@Tim Is it Nebraska that has really jumped into this? It was a key plank to English's plans for social welfare reform if Nats had been re-elected.
To give him some credit I think he was looking for more effective ways to target resources rather than aping a management fad. He was planning to mine existing DSW data to try and identify pointers to a bad adult outcome in young kids.
But yeah...nah
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@Tim Is it Nebraska that has really jumped into this? It was a key plank to English's plans for social welfare reform if Nats had been re-elected.
To give him some credit I think he was looking for more effective ways to target resources rather than aping a management fad. He was planning to mine existing DSW data to try and identify pointers to a bad adult outcome in young kids.
But yeah...nah
Pittsburgh was really interested
David Farrar claimed it was behind falling teenage pregnancy rates but they had been trending downwards in the West since the 90s
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This might be the best place for these stories. I've been reading the articles in the newspaper but the online versions are best with additional photos and video.
Pitcairn: The edge of the world part 1
Pitcairn Island: The edge of the world part 1. Remote, rugged and a high-value tourist destination.
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Cryptocurrency scam:
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@antipodean said in Interesting reads:
Cryptocurrency scam:
There's a podcast about this that I'm about to start listening to!
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Good read that @antipodean thanks
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200 page report about how Amnesty International got Oxfammed and destroyed its credibility.
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@jegga a precis
Important to note that the paper was funded by Jewish Rights Watch, Collier is a self-avowed Zionist and he has criticised the UN and MI5 in the past for running anti-Jewish campaigns. Doesn't mean he's wrong about Amnesty though
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@dogmeat said in Interesting reads:
@jegga a precis
Important to note that the paper was funded by Jewish Rights Watch, Collier is a self-avowed Zionist and he has criticised the UN and MI5 in the past for running anti-Jewish campaigns. Doesn't mean he's wrong about Amnesty though
He openly admits to being a zionist, the people he mentions have no place in Amnesty though. He even tries to give Amnesty an out by saying they should rotated out to other areas of the world where they might actually be able to do some good. Personally I think they have no place in Amnesty, the weird obsession with Israel and ignoring far worse countries or regimes from people like them won't do the organisation any favours.
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Amazon vs Walmart
Walmart Has Made A Genius Move To Beat Amazon
America’s biggest retailer Walmart has a master plan to beat Amazon in e-commerce.
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Interesting, however with AWS propping them up, I’m not so sure that Amazon is actually in any real trouble. That article does make it look like they’ll have some reasonable competition from Walmart though, which is good. Were the anti-trust guys to break up Amazon, things would change very quickly.
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You know what people spend more on regularly than anything else? Groceries. Grocery shopping is basically joyless, so Amazon want to help you remove that almost entirely from your life.
That I think is the Amazon end game. Picture this. Each week you get sent two boxes.
One is full of your weeks groceries. Those are primarily things that Amazon's AI thinks you want, based on your purchase history, plus anything additional you have manually added to that weeks order.
The other box is empty, for you to send back anything you don't want. Anything you send back helps them tweak your preferences, so over time there is less and less you send back each week.
After a while, you become dependent on Amazon, and effectively lose your desire to do your grocery shopping any other way.
The combination of huge computational power behind their AI, leading edge machine learning and a robust distribution network (in large cities which is pretty much all they need to care about), they can do this better than anyone else.
A few years back when I was working at one of the big two supermarkets head office, I wrote a paper on this for the CEO, but the feedback I got from senior management when I did a presentation on this was that NZ was too small for them to worry about. Why not do it ourselves then I asked? Too much investment and not enough certainty on the return was the answer.
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How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia Takeover
How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — the Mafia
The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.
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@Stockcar86 Thanks for that - I also learned a new word "copacetic" although quite why it exists when there appear to be scores of better more copacetic alternatives I don't know
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The authors father had the rights to his story bought by Harvey Weinstein who never paid him for them . A few years she interviewed Weinstein later and he moaned about people lying and saying he never paid them . She had the last laugh giving Ronan Farrow some of the information and leads she’d gathered over the years and writing her own story about him .
My Father, The Inglourious Basterd
Quentin Tarantino's ultra-violent Nazi revenge movie may have plenty of drama but the real story is even better. Kim Masters on the heroic band of Jewish commandos known as X Troop.
