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Will work for people defending Pit Bulls who have torn off baby faces as a script doctor.
NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
You know the stereotype of the NPR listener: an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag–carrying coastal elite. It doesn’t precisely describe me, but it’s not far off. I’m Sarah Lawrence–educated, was raised by a lesbian peace activist mother, I drive a Subaru, and Spotify says my listening habits are most similar to people in Berkeley.
I fit the NPR mold. I’ll cop to that.
So when I got a job here 25 years ago, I never looked back. As a senior editor on the business desk where news is always breaking, we’ve covered upheavals in the workplace, supermarket prices, social media, and AI.
It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.
If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.
But it hasn’t. ...
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population.
If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way.
But it hasn’t. ...
transitioned from army to the NSA
BeneTiberCato says
transitioned from army to the NSA
BeneTiberCato We would love to hear about what it's like to work at the NSA.
But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.
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The other potential problem is the Signal Foundation’s current chairman of the board, Katherine Maher, who started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change. During the Arab Spring period, for instance, Maher ran digital-communications initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa for the National Democratic Institute, a largely government-funded organization that works in concert with American foreign policy campaigns. Maher cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used American technologies to advance the interests of U.S.-supported Color Revolutions abroad.
But the insider history of Signal raises questions about the app’s origins and its relationship with government—in particular, with the American intelligence apparatus. Such a relationship would be troubling, given how much we have learned, in recent years, about extensive efforts to control and censor information undertaken by technology companies, sometimes in tandem with American government officials.
One problem with peer-to-peer is that the peer you want to communicate with may not be online at the moment. Servers are always on.
But maybe everyone should have his own personal server. That's one way to solve that problem.
Patrick says
One problem with peer-to-peer is that the peer you want to communicate with may not be online at the moment. Servers are always on.
But maybe everyone should have his own personal server. That's one way to solve that problem.
You can run a raspberry pi on 5 watts. If you want a "sweet setup", 128 GB SD Card is $11, Flirc Case is $15, good power supply is say $15, Pi 4, 4GB, is about $40. $81.
Voila, server. You can cache data on your PERSONAL server.
What is this too under-powered? It's a better, more powerful, VASTLY MORE EFFICIENT than a top of the line gaming machine was in 2000. I could put 30 people on it at the same time doing VOIP. I can serve out video to 1/2 dozen users at 1080p, before it even starts to stumble.
We don't need a 3rd party of ANYTHING now.
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