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The self-appointed voice of techbros and “effective accelerationism,” Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is a prime example of a common archetype in Bay Area tech - a libertarian who wants socialism, but only for corporations. Emily Mills (@sf_mills on Twitter/X) does the undervalued job of keeping track of some of the richest people in the Bay, and which politicians and campaigns they're spending their money on, including Garry. Taping of an evening with Garry Tan, featuring Martin Shkreli, hosted by techbro hype house AGI House: youtube.com/watch?v=xMRlKPqNMT4 Latest puff piece on Gary, from venture capitalist Michael Moritz's SF Standard (Josh Koehn): sfstandard.com/2023/09/27/garry-tan-y-combinator-declares-war-san-francisco-politics-progressives-elon-musk/ "Pro-recall committees have raised 46 times more money than the anti-recall campaign, according to Ethics Commission data" (Will Jarrett, Mission Local): missionlocal.org/2022/01/who-is-funding-the-school-board-recall "Internet billionaire Reid Hoffman apologizes for funding a group tied to disinformation in Alabama race" (Tony Romm, Craig Timberg and Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post): washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/26/internet-billionaire-reid-hoffman-apologizes-funding-group-behind-disinformation-alabama-race “Immigrant Rights Activists Renew Push Against Palantir to Cancel ICE Contract” (Kevin Gosztola, Shadowproof/Truthout): truthout.org/articles/immigrant-rights-activists-renew-push-against-palantir-to-cancel-ice-contract More Sad Francisco: sadfrancis.co

Document leaking has been in the news lately—and not just stories about the leaking of U.S. intelligence documents. On March 30, 2023, the Washington Post published a series of stories about the Vulkan files, an international investigative project based on thousands of pages of leaked documents from a Russian company that reveal new details about how Russian intelligence agencies seek to operate disinformation campaigns and enhance their ability to launch cyberattacks with the help of contractors. To talk about the Vulkan files, Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Craig Timberg, Senior Editor for Collaborative Investigations at the Washington Post, who, along with his colleague Ellen Nakashima, has bylines on these stories. They talked about how the Washington Post got involved in this investigation, what the documents revealed about Russian cyber conflict, and what Craig considered to be some of the biggest takeaways from the documents.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Craig Timberg, Sr. Editor for Collaborative Investigations at the Washington Post, details the growing threat to female journalists, who are targeted online for holding powerful people accountable.   Tweet us at @podcastcolors. Check out our partner program on international affairs Global with JJ Green on YouTube. Please subscribe. Email us at colors@the colorspodcast.com.

Hour 3 of A&G on Friday. Jack doesn't know what Euphoria is. The CDC is expected to announce new guidance today on masks. An old Ukrainian woman has an interesting rebuke to a Russian soldier. Craig Timberg from the Washington Post joins the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G on Friday. Jack doesn't know what Euphoria is. The CDC is expected to announce new guidance today on masks. An old Ukrainian woman has an interesting rebuke to a Russian soldier. Craig Timberg from the Washington Post joins the show.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G on Friday. Jack doesn't know what Euphoria is. The CDC is expected to announce new guidance today on masks. An old Ukrainian woman has an interesting rebuke to a Russian soldier. Craig Timberg from the Washington Post joins the show.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 of A&G on Friday. Jack doesn't know what Euphoria is. The CDC is expected to announce new guidance today on masks. An old Ukrainian woman has an interesting rebuke to a Russian soldier. Craig Timberg from the Washington Post joins the show. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

In October, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz declared six Palestinian human rights organizations to be “terrorist” groups. The targeted groups form the backbone of Palestinian civil society. Collectively, the organizations document Israeli human rights abuses and offer direct aid to Palestinians crushed by the Israeli occupation, whether it's farmers facing Israeli settler land theft or children detained in Israel's military court system. Gantz's declaration placed the organizations at severe risk, making their employees potentially subject to arrest for working in a banned organization. To learn more about what's behind Israel's moves and what it means for the future of Palestinian civil society, Senior Reporter Alex Kane interviews Palestinian American analyst Yousef Munayyer and Sarit Michaeli, International Advocacy Officer for B'Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organization.  Articles Mentioned: “https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/secret-israel-dossier-palestinian-rights-terrorist/ (Secret Israeli Document Offers No Proof to Justify Terror Label for Palestinian Groups),” by Yuval Abraham, Oren Ziv, Meron Rapoport “https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/05/the-long-arm-of-israeli-repression/ (The Long Arm of Israeli Repression),” by Yousef Munayyer “https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-israel-jamal-khashoggi-hacking-6bfc5bc992de7f33f5c8e969e69ce15c (Report: NSO Spyware Found on 6 Palestinian Activists' Phones),” by Frank Bajak and Joseph Krauss “https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/world/middleeast/israel-palestinian-nso-hacking.html (Palestinian Diplomats Targeted by Israeli Spyware, Official Says),” by Patrick Kingsley and Rawan Sheikh Ahmad “https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/?itid=lk_inline_manual_1 (Private Israeli Spyware Used to Hack Cellphones),” by Dana Priest, Craig Timberg, and Souad Mekhennet  Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

'Washington Post' reporter Craig Timberg explains how military-grade spyware licensed to governments and police departments has infiltrated the iPhones of journalists, activists and others. "It takes a story like this to help people understand how deeply enmeshed these tiny little computers have gotten into our lives," Timberg says. "I still carry my iPhone everywhere I go ... And the reality of that is that every time I do that, I'm exposing not just myself, but everyone I deal with to the possibility of spying by governments all over the world."Also, Justin Chang reviews 'The Green Knight' starring Dev Patel.

'Washington Post' reporter Craig Timberg explains how military-grade spyware licensed to governments and police departments has infiltrated the iPhones of journalists, activists and others. "It takes a story like this to help people understand how deeply enmeshed these tiny little computers have gotten into our lives," Timberg says. "I still carry my iPhone everywhere I go ... And the reality of that is that every time I do that, I'm exposing not just myself, but everyone I deal with to the possibility of spying by governments all over the world."Also, Justin Chang reviews 'The Green Knight' starring Dev Patel.

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has a new Secretary, Kathryn Campbell. Darren uses the occasion to build a theoretical model of the position, positing that the ideal candidate would fulfil four roles: administrator, consigliere, strategist and diplomat. Allan points out that the “diplomat” skill-set is unique to DFAT, discussing the history of the position not just in Australia but internationally, and some of the novel challenges every DFAT secretary will face. The two next turn their attention to a pair of recent cyber stories: the attribution to China by a broad coalition of western governments of the massive and indiscriminate hack of Microsoft's Exchange server earlier this year, and investigative reporting that surveillance software sold by the Israeli company NSO is being used to monitor thousands of individuals, from political and business leaders to journalists and activists. Is it possible to develop norms in this domain, especially given how extensively the US conducts its own spying? What is different (if anything) about these events, and can a rules-based order that regulates this behaviour be built? As the podcast wraps up, Allan briefly discusses the recent APEC extraordinary meeting, the first of its kind for the organisation. Can the vigour of hosts New Zealand breathe new life into a troubled organisation? Finally, exclusive reporting by the ABC suggests the Australian government is considering returning a presence to Afghanistan, which would represent a rapid reversal of the decision to close the embassy indefinitely just a few months ago. Why? We thank Mitchell McIntosh for audio editing and Rory Stenning for composing our theme music.      Relevant links MArise Payne and Zed Seselja, “Kathryn Campbell AO CSC announced as new DFAT Secretary”, Media Release, 9 July 2021: https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/kathryn-campbell-ao-csc-announced-new-dfat-secretary Dave Sharma, “A diplomatic step-up to match our military step-up”, Lowy Interpreter, 13 July 2020: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/diplomatic-step-match-our-military-step Alex Oliver, “A budget of skewed priorities”, Lowy Interpreter, 7 October 2020: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/budget-of-skewed-priorities Marise Payne, Karen Andrews and Peter Dutton, “Australia joins international partners in attribution of malicious cyber activity to China”, Media Release, 19 July 2021: https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/australia-joins-international-partners-attribution-malicious-cyber-activity-china Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Accuses China of Hacking Microsoft”, The New York Times, 19 July 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/us/politics/microsoft-hacking-china-biden.html “Chinese Embassy Spokesperson's Responding to the Australian Side's Remarks on Cyber Issues”, Media Release, 20 July 2021: http://au.china-embassy.org/eng/sghdxwfb_1/t1893534.htm Andy Greenberg, “How China's Hacking Entered a Reckless New Phase”, Wired, 19 July 2021: https://www.wired.com/story/china-hacking-reckless-new-phase/ International Institute for Strategic Studies, “Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment”, Researhc Paper, 29 June 2021: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/research-paper/2021/06/cyber-capabilities-national-power Dana Priest, Craig Timberg and Souad Mekhennet, “ Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide”, Washington Post, 18 July 2021: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/nso-spyware-pegasus-cellphones/ Scott Morrison, APEC Virtual Informal Leaders' Meeting, Transcript, 17 July 2021: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/apec-virtual-informal-leaders-meeting Andrew Probyn, “Australia considering future return to Afghanistan to monitor Taliban resurgence”, ABC News, 20 July 2021: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-20/australia-considering-return-afghanistan-monitor-taliban/100305336 The Rachman Review (podcast), “Coming to terms with Putin's Russia”, 24 June 2021: https://www.ft.com/content/842e9410-d0df-4d11-bd07-bb319a2dd30f National Security Podcast, “Tim Watts MP on national identity and cyber literacy in Australia”, 8 July 2021: https://www.policyforum.net/national-security-podcast-tim-watts-mp-on-national-identity-and-cyber-literacy-in-australia/ Loki (TV show): https://disneyplusoriginals.disney.com/show/loki

S'abonner à ma newsletter La Ruée :  bit.ly/33jNoL0  Envie de gagner 30 000 euros par mois sans bouger de votre salon ? Découvrez l'industrie très profitable de la désinformation ! Et qui sait, peut être qu'à la fin de l'épisode, vous aussi serez tenté de créer vos propres fake news ou de déménager en Macédoine... Retrouvez Crapules sur Twitter : https://twitter.com/CrapulesStudio Et sur Medium : https://crapules.medium.com/ Liens utiles sur les fake news : Le site de l'AFP Factuel Les ressources de Bibliothèques Sans Frontières pour lutter contre les fake news "Vrai ou fake" de France Info Comment repérer les fausses nouvelles ? par la Toronto Public Library Comment combattre la désinformation ? par les Décrypteurs Sources :  The 10 most-viewed fake-news stories on Facebook in 2019 were just revealed in a new report, Ben Gilbert, Business Insider, 2019 Lou Stone, the Winsted Liar, Museum of Hoaxes We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned, Laura Sydell, NPR, 2016 How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News, Craig Silverman & Lawrence Alexander, Buzzfeed News, 2016 Macedonia's Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Had American Links, And Is Under Investigation For Possible Russia Ties, Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed News, 2018 The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump' was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, 2019 Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites', Emma Graham-Harrison, Jasper Jackson and Alexandra Heal, The Guardian, 2021 Content farms develop and spread fake news about COVID-19 for profit, Help Net Security, 2020 Musiques : Par Kevin MacLeod : Lobby Time Par Chad Crouch : Shipping Lanes, Daybreak, Negentropy, Moonrise

S'abonner à ma newsletter La Ruée : bit.ly/33jNoL0 Envie de gagner 30 000 euros par mois sans bouger de votre salon ? Découvrez l'industrie très profitable de la désinformation !Et qui sait, peut être qu'à la fin de l'épisode, vous aussi serez tenté de créer vos propres fake news ou de déménager en Macédoine...Retrouvez Crapules sur Twitter : https://twitter.com/CrapulesStudioEt sur Medium : https://crapules.medium.com/Liens utiles sur les fake news :Le site de l'AFP FactuelLes ressources de Bibliothèques Sans Frontières pour lutter contre les fake news"Vrai ou fake" de France InfoComment repérer les fausses nouvelles ? par la Toronto Public LibrarySources : The 10 most-viewed fake-news stories on Facebook in 2019 were just revealed in a new report, Ben Gilbert, Business Insider, 2019Lou Stone, the Winsted Liar, Museum of HoaxesWe Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned, Laura Sydell, NPR, 2016How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News, Craig Silverman & Lawrence Alexander, Buzzfeed News, 2016Macedonia's Pro-Trump Fake News Industry Had American Links, And Is Under Investigation For Possible Russia Ties, Craig Silverman, Buzzfeed News, 2018The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump' was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back, Craig Timberg, The Washington Post, 2019Facebook ‘still making money from anti-vax sites', Emma Graham-Harrison, Jasper Jackson and Alexandra Heal, The Guardian, 2021Content farms develop and spread fake news about COVID-19 for profit, Help Net Security, 2020 Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

'Washington Post' reporter Craig Timberg suggests some in the QAnon movement will become even more extreme now that Trump, their "messiah," has left office. "There is a real danger that what we'll see is a somewhat smaller but maybe more fervent and maybe more hateful and maybe more stealthy remnant that remains a force in our political life for years to come," Timberg says. We talk about the impact of Trump's ban from social media, the inception of the conspiracy theory/extremist group, and how the movement is responding to a new administration. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews 'My Year Abroad' by Chang-rae Lee.

'Washington Post' reporter Craig Timberg suggests some in the QAnon movement will become even more extreme now that Trump, their "messiah," has left office. "There is a real danger that what we'll see is a somewhat smaller but maybe more fervent and maybe more hateful and maybe more stealthy remnant that remains a force in our political life for years to come," Timberg says. We talk about the impact of Trump's ban from social media, the inception of the conspiracy theory/extremist group, and how the movement is responding to a new administration. Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews 'My Year Abroad' by Chang-rae Lee.

Joining Chris Merrill is Craig Timberg, national technology reporter for The Washington Post, specializing in privacy, security and surveillance.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What record-breaking early-voter turnout means for Democrats and Republicans. How one election official is handling the “tsunami” of ballots in her Texas county. Plus, the latest on foreign election interference. Read more:Across the country, Democratic enthusiasm is propelling an enormous wave of early voting. But reporter Amy Gardner, who covers voting issues, explains that it’s still too early to know what that will mean for Democrat Joe Biden. Meanwhile, election officials such as Dana DeBeauvoir of Travis County, Tex., are scrambling to accommodate the record numbers of voters. During Thursday’s debate, President Trump and Biden were asked about the latest foreign interference in the election. Craig Timberg, national technology reporter, explains the story behind mysterious emails threatening Democratic voters this week. Subscribe to The Washington Post: postreports.com/offer

In the first segment [1:04-15:32], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's top stories: The policing case study of Camden, New Jersey (James Doubek, NPR) https://n.pr/37psgEq / (Scottie Andrew, CNN) https://cnn.it/2XXn8Ey  Study finds that rental property managers screen minority households into more polluted neighborhoods (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk) https://bit.ly/3hoZ1qb  Scientist studies how face-masks change human behavior on city sidewalks (Craig Timberg, Washington Post) https://wapo.st/3hpG6LC  In the second segment [15:56 - 23:02], the hosts talk to reporter Perla Trevizo about how Texan cities are supporting local businesses (especially those owned by minorities) that didn’t get help from the federal pandemic program (ProPublica / Texas Tribune) https://bit.ly/2MPRcM7  And in the final segment [23:05 - 25:33], the hosts share what made them smile this week. “Why the Golden Gate Bridge Is Now a Giant Orange Wheezing Kazoo.” (Gabe Meline, KQED) https://bit.ly/3ffU2Gn Astoria diner hosts drive-in movies (Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker) https://bit.ly/3hm1lxT

The Interface - Programming note: The Interface will be off on Thursday. Today Apple and Google released an initial version of the API that represents the first https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton/archive/244645 released an initial version of the APIwill Americans actually use these appsreport Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Alauna SafarpourGoogle and AppleWashington Post-University of Maryland poll findsexplain why in the New York Timesthe state’s appcontact-tracing appNorway’s appa recent studyyour employer forcing you tousing human beings to trace the contacts they had while they were infectiousneed a lot moreraise that possibility in Reutersto track the movements of refugeespublic documents

Bio  Gary Radburn (@VRGaryatDell) is the Director of VR/AR solutions at Dell. As part of this role, he works closely with Dell customers on VR/AR deployments and help to establish Dell’s VR Centers of Excellence with locations around the world for businesses and consumers to experience and learn more about VR in the real world. He has held various roles across the technology industry over the last three decades, ranging from Engineering to Sales & Marketing, and has experience across all aspects of designing products and solutions and bringing them to market.   Resources  Radburn, G. (2018). Real Innovators Use VR for Social Good. [Blog] Direct@Dell.  [Accessed 26 Feb. 2020].  News Roundup  Washington Post report on Facebook/GOP coordination doesn't bode well for policy pros of color   A Washington Post report by Craig Timberg doesn't bode well for lawyers of color and Democrats seeking to work in Facebook's policy office here in Washington. According to anonymous sources who contributed to the story, GOP operative Joel Kaplan, who dated Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg when they attended Harvard together, has no intention anytime soon of adding Democrats to his policy team. Only Republicans are driving Facebook's policymaking efforts, often acceding to Trump administration demands by enacting policies like the ban on removing political ads from the platform in which politicians make false statements. Last year civil rights leaders met with Mark Zuckerberg at his home in Palo Alto in an attempt to persuade him to remove such ads – he refused, likely after taking Kaplan's advice into account. So the disproportionate power dynamic at Facebook is just as out of whack as compared to its user base, as Congress is to the populace: Seventy-eight percent of lawmakers in Congress are white even though whites comprise only 61% of the total U.S. population. So, is Facebook using politics as a pretense for racial and gender discrimination? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe Democratic women and people of color who are listening should apply for jobs in Facebook’s policy shop and, when they don't get them, sue them and see what happens.  Following resistance, UCLA bans campus-wide facial recognition  The University of California at Los Angeles has banned the use of facial recognition surveillance on campus, Fight for the Future reported on Medium last week. The decision came amidst growing backlash against the 45,000 student university including a nationwide campaign to prevent the spread of facial recognition across college campuses. Schools like MIT, Harvard, Brown, and Columbia have issued public statements stating that they would not institute a facial recognition program. But UCLA decided to go ahead and see if it could roll out an always-on biometric scanning and identification system anyway, until it ultimately caved to pressure from the UCLA community. Here in DC, GW, and American have stated publicly that they might use facial recognition technology on campus. But the University of Maryland, on the other hand, has said they won't. UVA has also said that it will not implement facial recognition as part of its campus safety program.  Kickstarter workers vote to unionize  Engineers and other white-collar workers at Kickstarter have voted to form a union, according to the New York Times, becoming one of the first tech companies to do so. The vote was by a narrow margin – 46 to 37 – but the decision to unionize has put to rest many months of back-and-forth and tension at the company.  Feds are raiding tech companies for medical records  According to a new investigative report by Thomas Brewster at Forbes, federal law enforcement officials have been raiding tech companies to obtain their users' medical records data. And this isn't just DNA data, either -- We're all too familiar with the risks associated with giving our DNA data to companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com. But this is about law enforcement obtaining warrants to access your medical history, including any medications you're taking, by showing the warrant to a company called DrChrono, which specializes in warehousing this information online.  Seattle city Councilwoman Kshama Sawant wants to tax Amazon to address housing shortages  The Guardian reports that Seattle city Councilwoman Kshama Sawant introduced a bill last week that would impose a 1.7% payroll tax on Amazon, and other companies among Seattle's top 3%, generating up to a as much as $300 million per year. Three-quarters of the proceeds from the fund would go towards building affordable, publicly-owned homes. The remaining 25% would go to convert homes from using oil and gas, to clean electric energy.   Target’s delivery app Shipt is hostile towards employees  According to a new report in Motherboard – Shipt - Target's delivery app – is retaliating against employees for posting comments or criticisms about Shipt's labor practices. One Shipt employee reported publicly that, after Shipt tweaked its algorithm, she went from earning $200 per week to $0-25 per week. Shipt then deactivated her account. Some employee accounts have been deactivated for no apparent reason, leaving employees unaware of and on pins and needles wondering when the next shoe will drop.  Northeastern University Study: No bias in YouTube Comment Moderation  Ars Technica reports that a Northeastern University study has concluded that there is no apparent political bias in content moderation on YouTube. For the last several years, Republicans including Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, have claimed that platforms like YouTube are biased against conservative viewpoints. But after reviewing some 84,068 comments on 268 YouTube videos, the researchers found that the moderation of hate speech by right-leaning commenters versus that of left-leaning commenters was about the same.  

Chris is on a beach somewhere soaking up the rays, so this week George Mason's Trevor Thrall joins the podcast. The gang discusses NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's address to Congress on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Washington Treaty. What is NATO's mission 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union? What does the addition of member states mean for the Alliance and for American national security? What effect has President Trump's rhetoric regarding the responsibilities of other members and the possibility of the United States leaving the Organization had? Finally, Trevor warms Melanie's heart with puppy stories and Bryan rejoices in UVA's national title and the return of Game of Thrones.    Links General Jens Stoltenberg, "NATO: Good for Europe and Good for America," NATO, April 04, 2019 "Deciphering the Navy's 2020 Budget Request and Shipbuilding Plan," Heritage Foundation, April 15, 2019 Michael Burke, "Buttigieg Slams Electoral College for Overruling Popular Vote 'Twice in My Lifetime," Hill, April 14, 2019 Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell "A Computerized YouTube Fact-Checking Tool Goes Very Wrong: In Flaming Notre Dame, It Somehow Sees Sept. 11 Tragedy," Washington Post, April 15, 2019 Michael Weiss, "Julian Assange Got What He Deserved," Atlantic, April 12, 2019 Eugene Scott, "Bernie Sanders is Now a Millionaire. Can He Still Speak for Working=Class Americans?" Washington Post, April 15, 2019 Declan Walsh and Joseph Goldstein, "Amid Euphoria in Sudan, a Delicate Dance Over Who Will Lead: Soldiers or Civilian," New York Times, April 16, 2019 Robby Soave, "Concordia University Disinvites Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield Over His Conservative Gender Views," Reason, April 16, 2019   Music and Production by Tre Hester

Author of the Legends of the First Empire and Riyria series Interview starts at 10:01 and ends at 43:57 On writing fantasy: “The world should just build in the background. You should get to know it by experience, not by having to be told in page after page and getting a whole world history, because that's boring. People tend to skim that kind of stuff. I like to try and write so if people skim they'll totally ruin the book, and I try to make everything entertaining enough that they won't want to.” News “Amazon is Making a Rival to Apple's AirPods as Its First Alexa Wearable” by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg - April 4, 2019 “Jeff Bezos, in divorce settlement, retains 75 percent of the Amazon stock he held with his now ex-wife MacKenzie” by Craig Timberg and Greg Bensinger at The Washington Post - April 4, 2019 Interview with Michael J. Sullivan Age of Legend Kickstarter project Books by Michael J. Sullivan at Amazon.com Next Week's Guest James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, who will present a webinar April 23, 2019 at 11 - 11:45 am ET titled “Are You Fit for the Future? You Can't Shape the Future with Tools You Don't Have” Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

This episode of Armstrong & Getty features WaPo tech reporter Craig Timberg on YouTube's difficult response to the New Zealand shooting. Plus, the odd signals used by hate groups and Joe talks about his band's new album!

This episode of Armstrong & Getty features WaPo tech reporter Craig Timberg on YouTube's difficult response to the New Zealand shooting. Plus, the odd signals used by hate groups and Joe talks about his band's new album!

There's more from the Kavanaugh hearing to lead-off this episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show! Plus, while that situation plays out, another Congressional hearing is taking place--this one regarding social media. Craig Timberg of The Washington Post joins Jack & Joe for an update.

There's more from the Kavanaugh hearing to lead-off this episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show! Plus, while that situation plays out, another Congressional hearing is taking place--this one regarding social media. Craig Timberg of The Washington Post joins Jack & Joe for an update.

There's more from the Kavanaugh hearing to lead-off this episode of the Armstrong & Getty Show! Plus, while that situation plays out, another Congressional hearing is taking place--this one regarding social media. Craig Timberg of The Washington Post joins Jack & Joe for an update.

  Bio Dr. Desmond Upton Patton (@SAFELab) is an assistant professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and a Faculty Affiliate of the Social Intervention Group (SIG) and the Data Science Institute. His research utilizes qualitative and computational data collection methods to examine how and why youth and gang violence, trauma, grief and identity are expressed on social media and the real world impact they have on well-being for low-income youth of color. His current research projects examine: How gang involved youth conceptualize threats on social media The extent to which social media shapes and facilitates youth and gang violence Developing an online tool for detecting aggression in social media posts in partnership with the Data Science Institute at Columbia. Dr. Patton's research on Internet Banging has been discussed on several media outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, USA Today, NPR, Boston Magazine, ABC News, and Vice; it  was most recently cited in an Amici Curae Brief submitted to the United States Supreme Court in the Elonis v. United States case which examined the issues of interpreting threats on social media. Before coming to Columbia in July of 2015, Dr. Patton was an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and School of Information. He received a BA in Anthropology and Political Science, with honors, from the University of North Carolina- Greensboro, an MSW from the University of Michigan School of Social Work, and a PhD in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. Resources SAFELab at Columbia University's School of Social Work The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish News Roundup Mueller indicts 13 Russians in '16 election hacking  You have undoubtedly heard by now about FBI special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's indictment of 13 Russians who allegedly maintained a vast network of content creators in order to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump. The defendants used social media by amplifying primarily mainstream news content, according to a new Columbia University study. The network stole Americans' identities, and created fake social media profiles to spread divisive content that favored Donald Trump. But the hacking began in 2014, prior to president Trump's announcement that he would be running for president. The defendants even promoted content that favored Bernie Sanders' primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. So the Trump administration is using this to try to illustrate that the Russians' primary effort was to subvert our entire political system, rather than support Donald Trump's election, specifically. Trump's opponents argue that Russian conspirators saw the seating of Donald Trump as President as a no-brainer, given his susceptibility to blackmail because of his alleged hiring of prostitutes in 2013 in Moscow and his real estate deals with Russians. Sharon Lafraniere and Matt Apuzzo report for the New York Times. Craig Timberg reports for the Washington Post. But you can find coverage everywhere. Meanwhile, Trump's Director of National Intelligence warns that there is “no doubt” that Russians are planning to hack this year's midterm elections. The consensus is that we're not prepared for that. In fact, the website Hamilton 68, reported that Russian bots flooded Twitter with pro-gun messaging following Wednesday's school shooting in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead. FCC is investigating its own Chairman Pai Cecilia Kang at the New York Times reported last week that the FCC's Inspector General is investigating FCC Chairman Ajit Pai for illegally paving the way for Sinclair Broadcasting. Pai led the agency in several efforts that, appearing to some, seemed timed to Sinclair's proposed $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, including the relaxation of the media ownership cap and newspaper broadcast cross-ownership rules. Amazon boosts lobbying spending Spencer Soper, Naomi Nix, Ben Brody and Bill Allison report for Bloomberg that Amazon has significantly increased its lobbying spending in Washington. A number of policy issues have taken center-stage for the company, as Amazon seeks to expand into different areas, including healthcare. The company's lobbying spending has grown by over 400% since 2012, according to Bloomberg. You can find the full report there. Federal Court: Grubhub drivers are contractors not employees In a major victory for on-demand takeout company Grubhub, the U.S. Dictrict Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Grubhub drivers are contractors not employees. The plaintiff sued Grubhub for paying subpar wages based on his classification as a contractor. The court ruled that Grubhub does not exercise a requisite amount of color over drivers' work to justify classifying them as employees. Dara Kerr reports in CNET. Google tests 911-caller locator system Google tested a new system that would improve the ability of 911 operators to locate emergency callers. Currently, 911 calls made via cell phone are difficult to pinpoint. Ryan Knutson has the story in the Wall Street Journal.

In this episode: -Aaron & Jay answer a provocative mailbag question as to whether they even fundamentally believe in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies -The crypto “long winter -Mining and electricity consumption -Ethereum’s hacky-sack mentality vs Bitcoin’s scorched earth =Buzzfeed tech reporter Charlie Warzel comes in for a new deep dive segment on the ERC-20 casino token Funfair (FUN). Send us mailbag questions: hi@cointalk.show @CWarzel 4:40 RaiBlocks (XRB) 11:19 "What It's Like To Be Absolutely Obsessed With Bitcoin" (Jay Kang, Vice News Tonight) 12:01 Report: India's Government Sends Tax Notices to Cryptocurrency Traders (Coindesk) 13:22 Local Bitcoins 22:32 Ripple (XRP), Tron (TRX), Verge (XVG) 24:09 "There Is Nothing Virtual About Bitcoin’s Energy Appetite" (Nathaniel Popper, New York Times) 31:13 "Satan’s Credit Card: What The Mark Of The Beast Taught Me About The Future Of Money" (Charlie Warzel, Buzzfeed) 36:00 "Bitcoin Boom is a Boon For Extremist Groups" (Craig Timberg, Washington Post) 41:00 Funfair (FUN) White Paper

Libraries have always been places for free and unfettered intellectual exploration. But how is this threatened by the inherent leakiness and insecurity of the networks we use to access information these days? In this episode we talk to Alison Macrina, Bill Marden, Melissa Morrone, Chuck McAndrew, and Phoebe Stein about privacy policies, CryptoParties, Tor relays, and other adventures. CORRECTION: The episode says that Chuck's surveillance self-defense courses can be found at leblibrary.org -- the website is actually leblibrary.com. Here is a link: https://leblibrary.com/online-self-defense Related Articles and Resources: BPL's Digital Privacy Curriculum: http://www.dataprivacyproject.org/ Protecting Patron Privacy, Library Journal, July 14, 2016 by Alison Macrina http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/07/digital-resources/protecting-patron-privacy/ ALA Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15347 Library Patron Privacy in 2014 - Honoring the Legacy of Zoia Horn, CUNY School of Law, 2014, by Sarah Landon http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1060&context=cl_pubs A Flaw in the Design, by Craig Timberg, May 30, 2015, The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/30/net-of-insecurity-part-1/?utm_term=.036cf687d2ce Library Freedom Project: https://libraryfreedomproject.org/ State Privacy Laws Regarding Library Records http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacyconfidentiality/privacy/stateprivacy EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense: https://ssd.eff.org/en Tactical Tech's Security-in-a-box: https://tacticaltech.org/projects/security-box Down the Security Rabbit Hole: http://podcast.wh1t3rabbit.net/ Privacy Paradox podcast: https://project.wnyc.org/privacy-paradox/ TechSNAP podcast: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/techsnap/ Music and Soundtracks: Opening and closing track: “Magic” by Otis MacDonald This podcast uses these sounds from freesound: probe1gain by pheonelai (http://www.freesound.org/people/phoenelai/) Intro 1L72 by Setuniman (http://www.freesound.org/people/Setuniman/) etc.. Tools used to record this podcast: Blue Yeti microphone: www.bluemic.com/products/yeti/ Transcribe: transcribe.wreally.com/app Reaper: www.reaper.fm/ Izotope: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx-plug-in-pack.html

7 AM - 1 - Washington Post technology reporter Craig Timberg on his piece: "WikiLeaks: The CIA is using popular TVs, smartphones and cars to spy on their owners". 2 - We can't take President Donald literally. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Jack is wearing a jacket today he may return; $300k for a parking stop in Brooklyn; There's 3 kinds of p0rn watchers.

IMDb will soon close and erase their 18 year old message boards. Media coverage of this announcement has generally followed a similar theme: Trolls forced them to close. Blame the trolls. They were unstoppable. But that perspective is completely dismissive of the community profession, and the tools and strategies we have at our disposal. Trolls don’t force us to close communities. But apathy definitely does. Timo Tolonen, head of community at giffgaff, a community-first mobile phone service provider, joins the show for an in-depth discussion on the announcement and resulting impact. Plus: The value that exists within the IMDb message board archives Why quick community closures harm your most loyal members How giffgaff restructured its community team to focus on specialization Big Quotes “Trolls don’t force companies to close communities. Apathy is what leads to communities being closed.” -@patrickokeefe “I feel like moves like [IMDb closing their message boards] implicitly endorse the narrative of comment sections and communities being inherently worthless due to a minority, and that we are somehow powerless against those forces.” -@TimoTolonen “IMDb is the definitive movie site, so it stands to reason that there are posts [in their message boards] that were written by wannabe filmmakers, who are now winning Oscars. Or there are posts there by people who were no-name actors, who are now stars. It’s not uncommon. There are old hip-hop forums people talk about where that rapper, who’s now a big deal, was on there, or that producer who’s now a hitmaker was on there. So, culturally, IMDb is very significant to film, especially film from the ’90s on and the discussion and critique of film. To wholesale clear that out, it just feels like there’s a lack of appreciation for the significance.” -@patrickokeefe “[IMDb talks about] moving those people [from their message boards] over to social media – their Twitter account, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Tumblr. Aside from serving slightly different audiences at the moment, my concern [is] that they haven’t learned quite the right lesson out of all of this. It’s not a question of platform. It’s about how you manage that platform and what you do with your engaged people. It’s not so much about where you have them. It’s about what you do with them.” -@TimoTolonen “If a community’s doing something or has become something, it’s the fault of the community manager, effectively. Either you were rewarding or recognizing the wrong behaviors or something else happened along the line. It doesn’t just happen overnight, and it also doesn’t mean that you’re stuck there. You can make changes. You can take ownership of the platform and the people on it. It’s a lot of hard work and it’s not easy, necessarily, and the solutions aren’t always readily apparent, but you’re never beholden to the direction you’re heading in at that moment.” -@TimoTolonen “When it comes to closing a massive, 18-year-old community, I feel like you have to give people more than two weeks to connect elsewhere. You don’t have to keep the boards open for that long, but at least create a carve out so that people with a certain number of posts … can connect to other people that they have this strong connection to through your site. Some vacations are two weeks long. So, what? A decade-plus user of IMDb goes on vacation, comes back, and sees they are cut off from the friends they made years ago? That’s sad.” -@patrickokeefe “The guy who came up with the idea for giffgaff, Gav Thompson, he had sort of an epiphany one night when he was looking for help fixing his motorcycle. He’d gotten a quote from a BMW garage, and they told him that’s it’s going to cost an arm and a leg to adjust his suspension. He was like, ‘Well, I’m not having that. I’m just going to ask some random people online,’ and he did so at midnight after a couple of drinks. What happened was, he immediately got some responses and not only did he get responses, he got this overwhelming amount of support from members on that community with pictures and everything else. He got a better level of service for free, from the comfort of his own home, and that kind of gave him the idea of, ‘Okay, how about we translate this model into mobile?’ That’s where the concept of giffgaff came from. When launching, I wasn’t there for the early days, but the whole point was that in order for this business to work, it needed to have a community at the heart of it. It needed to be the core of it.” -@TimoTolonen "[After we won the uSwitch Best Network Customer Service] award from last year, we sent it to our members, and they've been passing it from one member to the other for a bit now. ... Usually, when we have awards ceremonies for member support or, in this case, it was a customer support services, we tend to take members there to accept the awards on our behalf, because effectively, they're the reason we're winning." -@TimoTolonen “You have somebody on Twitter, and they’re doing amazing stuff. They really love Twitter because of their own personal connection to it, or the format or something about it that really resonates with them. Then, you see somebody on the forum using that platform the way it’s intended for long form content. … You can tell they love it as much as that person loves Twitter. Those two people, if they got into a room together without platform, in real life, they would have so much in common, and so much to talk about. They would get on like a house on fire. The only reason they don’t is because the forum user never wants to use Twitter, and the Twitter user doesn’t want to use the forum, and the twain shall never meet.” -@TimoTolonen About Timo Tolonen Timo Tolonen is a people and project manager from the video games industry who saw the light and made the very sensible leap into community some 6 years ago and hasn’t looked back since. He is currently the head of community at giffgaff, a mobile phone provider in the UK that believes that together with their members anything is possible. Related Links Timo on Twitter IMDb IMDb’s announcement about their message board closure giffgaff, the United Kingdom-based mobile phone carrier, where Timo is head of community IMDb’s Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube profiles Patrick’s Twitter thread about the IMDb message board closure Timo’s responses on Twitter giffgaff Community NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by Elizabeth Jensen of NPR We’re Getting Rid of Comments on VICE.com by Jonathan Smith of VICE One of the Worst Comments Sections on the Internet is Shutting Down by Sarah Perez of TechCrunch IMDb Kills Its Message Boards and Nothing of Value Was Lost by Bryan Menegus of Gizmodo IMDb’s Message Boards IMDb’s Get Satisfaction Hearst, publisher of Cosmopolitan Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine, which archives webpages MovieForums.com, managed by Chris Bowyer Community Signal episode with Chris Bowyer MovieForums.com’s IMDb alumni thread Col Needham, IMDb founder Col Needham discussing IMDb’s technology scaling efforts Col Needham discussing the “old boards software” and future community efforts at IMDb Comment on IMDb Facebook about the message boards being closed after 2 decades As a Conservative Twitter Users Sleeps, His Account is Hard at Work by Craig Timberg of the Washington Post O2, a think tank from which giffgaff launched from Gav Thompson, founder of giffgaff, who had the idea for the company after receiving help for his motorcycle in an online forum uSwitch, a UK-based price comparison tool uSwitch Mobile Awards, where giffgaff has won the Best Network Customer Service award for two consecutive years giffgaff Payback, the company’s program to financially incentivize community participation giffgaff Reaches 1 Million Customers, Starts Selling Handsets by Telecom.paper giffgaff Labs, the company’s ideation platform giffgaff’s community knowledge base Run By You, giffgaff’s community award program Community Signal episode with Brad Williams, who Patrick met in the SitePoint Forums Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you’d like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be grateful if you spread the word. Thank you for listening to Community Signal.

Alondra Nelson (@alondra) is the Dean of Social Science at Columbia University. An interdisciplinary social scientist, she writes about the intersections of science, technology, medicine, and inequality. She is author of the award-winning book Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination. Her latest book, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations and Reconciliation after the Genome, was published in January. In this episode, we discussed: the meaning and importance of "racial reconciliation" and the potential for genetic research in helping to promote it. the extent to which the concept of race is based on biology as opposed to being socially-constructed. the role of DNA evidence in historical analysis. key national priorities policymakers ought to focus on as they consider ways in which genetic research can help to advance social equality. Resources Columbia University Division of Social Science The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson Dark Matters on the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne   NEWS ROUNDUP FCC Republican Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly sent a letter to associations representing Internet Service Providers saying they plan to roll back the FCC's net neutrality rules. The FCC passed the landmark rules which state that ISPs must treat all internet traffic equally, without prioritizing their own content, in 2015. The rules were subsequently upheld by a 3-judge DC Circuit Panel. A complete reversal of the rules would take some time, since a public comment period would need to be conducted first. Ajit Pai, who is expected to serve as the interim FCC Chairman once current Chairman Wheeler resigns in January, has said the days of the net neutrality rules are quote-unquote "numbered". -- The FCC has passed new rules enabling consumers who are deaf and hard of hearing to communicate. Previously, those who are deaf and hard of hearing had to rely on clunky, so-called teletype (TTY) devices to communicate with others. TTY devices converted tones into text and required the recipients to read on paper. Under the new rules, the FCC will now require wireless carriers and device manufacturers to enable "real time" text messaging, or RTT standard, which allows messaging recipients to see, in real time, what deaf and hard of hearing individuals are communicating. Sam Gustin has the story in Motherboard. -- Researchers at Google, UT Austin, and the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago have devised a new way to test algorithms for biases. Examples of biases in machine learning have included computer programs that take data and target black neighborhoods, show advertisements for payday loans to African Americans and Latinos, or display executive-level jobs only to white male applicants. The approach developed by the researchers, entitled the Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning, would enable algorithms to determine that particular demographic groups were more likely to have particular behaviors, but would not target or exclude all individuals based on their race, ethnicity or gender, simply because some individuals within a particular sample had the behaviors. For example, if the algorithm determined that white women were in general more likely to buy wine, and then conclude that someone who bought wine was likely to be a white woman, that would be less biased than excluding non-white women from ad campaigns for white wine. Hannah Devlin has the story in The Guardian. Separately, the White House released a report warning of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the workforce. The report concludes AI can lead to significant economic opportunities, but have detrimental impact on millions of workers. -- Nokia has sued Apple for patent infringement in Germany and in a federal court in Texas, accusing Apple of not renewing some patents the mobile industry relies on, and which Nokia now relies on for profit. Apple is stating that Nokia is acting like a patent troll by extorting Apple and not licensing the patents on reasonable terms. Nate Lanxon, Ian King and Joel Rosenblatt have the story at Bloomberg. -- Two consumer groups have filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint against Google accusing it of privacy violations after the company updated its privacy policy back in June. Consumer Watchdog and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse claim the company had its users opt-in to a privacy change in which the company allegedly merged data from several Google services without providing adequate notice. Craig Timberg has the story in the Washington Post. -- Pinterest released its diversity data, and while the company hit some of its internal hiring goals, black employment at the company remains at 2% with Hispanic employment at 4% of the company's total, tech and non-tech workforce. -- Facebook released its annual Global Government Requests report showing a 27% uptick globally in the number of government requests for user data, to over 59,000 total requests. -- Finally, HUD Secretary Julian Castro announced a major White House initiative to help students living in HUD-assisted housing to gain access to computers and the internet at home. In the partnership between HUD, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio, the New York City Housing Authority and T-Mobile, 5,000 families living in public housing in the Bronx will get internet connected tablets. The ConnectHome program has thus far reached 43 states, with other major partners including Google Fiber, Comcast, AT&T, Sprint, Best Buy, the Boys and Girls Club of America, PBS, and others.

9 AM - 1 - Washington Post's Craig Timberg on his piece: "Why Facebook and Google are struggling to purge fake news". 2 - Canadian smuggled gold from the Mint in his bum. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - ; Final Thoughts.

8 AM - 1 - The Bundy Brothers were acquitted in Oregon refuge takeover. 2 - Washington Post technology reporter Craig Timberg on his piece: "The FCC just passed sweeping new rules to protect your online privacy". 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - The Pop-Tart gun.

7 AM - 1 - Craig Timberg from the Washington Post on his piece: "Racial profiling, by a computer? Police facial-ID tech raises civil rights concerns.". 2 - More on facial ID technology. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Hillary and Trump stuff.

8 AM - 1 - Mike Rowe says to NOT rock the vote. 2 - Craig Timberg from the Washington Post on his piece: "Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says". 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Fun texts on stuff.

9 AM - 1 - Washington Post technology reporter Craig Timberg talks about his piece: "Here's how Russian hackers could actually tip an American election". 2 - . 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Happy 18th Birthday to us!; Final Thoughts.

Youtube Show Notes Hosts Preston Wiley, CISSP, CCNA Mike Hill, CISSP Keith Watson, CISSP-ISSAP, CISA Articles Research shows how MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning by Ashkan Soltani and Timothy B.Lee (The Washington Post), FBI’s search for ‘Mo,’ suspect in bomb threats, highlights use of malware for surveillance by Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima (The Washington Post), iSeeYou: Disabling the MacBook Webcam Indicator LED by Matthew Brocker and Stephen Checkoway (Technical Report 13-02, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University) Liberty and Security in a Changing World by The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, White House panel recommends new limits on NSA surveillance by Ken Dilanian and Christi Parsons (Los Angeles Times), Obama Is Urged to Sharply Curb N.S.A. Data Mining by David E. Sanger and Charlie Savage (The New York Times), Obama review panel: strip NSA of power to collect phone data records by Dan Roberts and Spencer Ackerman (The Guardian), EFF Statement on President’s Review Group’s NSA Report by Rebecca Jeschke (The Electronic Frontier Foundation)