>""These times of polarization pose real challenges to mass marketers. Companies such as Twitter and Disney offend the sensibilities of the mass market at their own peril. _...Read More_

>"An appeals court confirmed the homicide verdicts but commuted the life terms for both men, handing Finnegan Elder 24 years in prison and Gabriel Natale _...Read More_

>"Family and friends of former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila are named by Africa's biggest data leak."

CNN: Winter the dolphin, who inspired 'Dolphin Tale,' has died. >"Winter, an injured dolphin who learned to swim with a prosthetic tail and whose story _...Read More_

Biden warned on Sunday that the evacuation was going to be "hard and painful" and a lot could still go wrong. US troops might stay beyond their Aug 31 deadline to oversee the evacuation, he _...Read More_

An individual on a hacker forum is selling personal data they claim is scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn says the data _...Read More_

By reciting the poem, Gorman joined the ranks of inaugural poets including Robert Frost, Miller Williams, Richard Blanco and Elizabeth Alexander. She also shared the distinction with another Black poet, Maya Angelou, whose “On the Pulse of _...Read More_

>"The chosen name reminded many people of both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and "The Handmaid's Tale.""

I keep meaning to write a very detailed reply to this Taleb piece. I agree in part and dissent in part. As someone that has previously taught IQ assessment at the graduate level, but also has a decent data science background, I probably _...Read More_

Fantastic read. Particularly interested in the Bigoteering scam: it looks like an evolution far beyond simple name calling (as in “you’re just like ‘favourite unsavoury character from history’) because it triggers an urgent digression for _...Read More_

>"Nassim Nicholas Taleb is frustrated whenever the coronavirus crisis is referred to by the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare catastrophe."

“The industry is seeing unprecedented institutional interest for the first time in Bitcoin’s history,” he said. “I’ve been amazed that the strongest believers in cryptocurrency often start out the most skeptical. It’s a healthy skepticism. _...Read More_