Should we happen to share that Binney story on Twitter, we compound the problem by enlisting the help of bots and fake accounts posing as real people. Vast networks of Twitter accounts are programmed to monitor keywords and links, and they'll automatically promote a link or amplify a hashtag when triggered. This helps a piece go viral, or at the very least be seen by hundreds of thousands of people until a verified account—say that of Flynn or Trump—retweets it with commentary. Then, in what's called a "handoff," the fake accounts delete their original posts. Voilà! The story looks even more credible because it appears to have originated from a verified account.

But you're an accomplice, too. For example, you may remember some funny photos of cats wearing helmets that were going around, accompanied by an online piece about the pets of Viking warriors. That story, which I saw shared on Facebook by too many friends to count, was published by RT.com, a.k.a Russia Today, a large, Kremlin-funded propaganda operation. On the back end, your innocent click-and-share of silly cat pics is rendered as a bait-and-switch command to the algorithms, ensuring that you will be served up more RT content on Facebook and elsewhere—stories that often rely on fringe experts and dubious evidence.

Toxic air now kills almost as many people as high cholesterol and even more than excessive salt or being overweight.

Steve Jobs’s design philosophy was fascist more than it was exacting.

These crude artifacts reflect the sense that a company’s Slack channels are like its internal clubhouse: sure, discretion matters, but you can make the game more fun (and make sure that your Slack “non-work work” does not go entirely to waste) by showing your social media followers your latest bon mot fail. To outsiders, these peeks into company culture might be tantalizing, promising a voyeuristic view into what really happens behind the scenes at your favorite media brand. But in this landscape of curdled privacy and ubiquitous surveillance, sharing Slack screenshots is less an act of authenticity than simply another kind of performativity, designed to please one’s audience with acts of selective revelation.

This permanence has already been a boon to litigators. When former pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan sued Gawker for publishing an excerpt of his sex tape, the trial featured readings from the editors’ conversations in Campfire, another collaboration platform. Gawker employees used Campfire to banter about “the little do-rag” gracing Hogan’s groin and jokingly proposed the headline “Watch Hulk Hogan pop his hip back into place mid-coitus,” the court learned. Editor John Cook circulated a picture of an uncircumcised penis, for reasons he was pressed to explain when deposed.

The rise of Slack can be attributed in part to the makeup of its client base: journalists and media companies are among its most visible users. They’re also some of the program’s biggest critics, having passed through the requisite phases of early adoption and breathless evangelism into a performative cynicism.

Cue, then, the “I detoxed from Slack and survived” testimonials—the sort of personal laments that appear during the hype cycle of any popular tech product. In March, Fast Company, borrowing a hashtag, announced a brewing “slacklash” against the popular workplace collaboration app. In May, Vice’s tech site dropped Slack for a week and then published an “oral history” of the experience. Digiday wrote about media outlets’ vexed relationships with the productivity platform, warning that Slack “can reduce the need for long meetings, but replace them with just as endless chats that never get resolved.” The feeling is echoed in several posts on Medium, the complaint board of woke digerati. There’s even a site called slacklash.com that collects links to the latest reports of knowledge workers besieged by the app.

An important change was a decision in 2014 by the European Court of Justice, the European Union’s highest court, to establish a “right to be forgotten”.

Airbnb’s inventory of 2.3m rooms makes it bigger than the three largest hotel chains—Hilton, Marriott and InterContinental—combined.

To shield firms against potentially ruinous suits, as well as to protect free speech online, Congress in 1996 added a section to a law that otherwise focused on the more headline-grabbing topic of obscene material online: the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This section, now known by its number, 230, immunised online firms for torts committed through their services. Soon afterwards the European Union created a similar safe-harbour rule in its own e-commerce directive of 2000.

The danger was underlined in 1995, when an investment firm sued Prodigy, an early online service, alleging that it had been defamed in one of its discussion forums. Plaintiffs later dropped the suit, but they had claimed $200m in damages.

But if we look at the timeline of events, we see that the tweet interpreted as “strike breaking” was sent out after the strike had ended. Although Uber and Lyft continued to drive during the hour-long strike, it was Uber’s tweet about suspended surge fares that incited the backlash. Uber often turns off surge pricing during newsworthy events to avoid the appearance of exploiting high-demand but when twitter user @Bro_Pair spotted the tweet on Saturday evening, he accused the company of “breaking a strike to profit off of refugees being consigned to Hell.” Within hours #deleteuber became the number one trending hashtag on twitter. By Sunday morning my Instagram feed was flooded with screenshots from everyone from Lena Dunham to cool-guy-chef Danny Bowien urging me to stand with refugees by deleting an app.

News that a few dozen Wikipedia editors had decided that the Daily Mail should be “generally prohibited” from being used as a source caused consternation among many in the media. That’s not least because the anarchic way in which policy is set at the “world’s public library” is a million miles away from what most of the journalists and academics referenced by the site are used to.

we mistake ideological challenges as personal insults.

Although anonymous comments are "six times more likely to be an attack," they represent less than half of all attacks on Wikipedia. "Similarly, less than half of attacks come from users with little prior participation," the researchers write in their paper. "Perhaps surprisingly, approximately 30% of attacks come from registered users with over a 100 contributions." In other words, a third of all personal attacks come from regular Wikipedia editors who contribute several edits per month. Personal attacks seem to be baked into Wikipedia culture.

The key strategy question is a general overarching one: how should I best marshal all my current resources to achieve this goal in this setting?

We want to reduce the confusion. To that end, we offer an analysis that highlights the commonalities and distinctiveness of each term. Reading strategies are deliberate, goal-directed attempts to control and modify the reader’s efforts to decode text, understand words, and construct meanings of text. Reading skills are automatic actions that result in decoding and comprehension with speed, efficiency, and fluency and usually occur without awareness of the components or control involved. The reader’s deliberate control, goal-directedness, and awareness define a strategic action. Control and working toward a goal characterize the strategic reader who selects a particular path to a reading goal (i.e., a specific means to a desired end). Awareness helps the reader select an intended path, the means to the goal, and the processes used to achieve the goal, including volitional control (Corno, 1989) that prevents distractions and preserves commitment to the goal. Being strategic allows the reader to examine the strategy, to monitor its effectiveness, and to revise goals or means if necessary. Indeed, a hallmark of strategic readers is the flexibility and adaptability of their actions as they read. In contrast, reading skills operate without the reader’s deliberate control or conscious awareness. They are used out of habit and automatically so they are usually faster than strategies because the reader’s conscious decision making is not required. This has important, positive consequences for each reader’s limited working memory system. Thus, as we consider a reader’s actions, we must also determine whether they are under automatic or deliberate control. This is a key difference between skill and strategy. It is important to note that reading strategies, like reading skills, are not always successful, and a definition of reading strategies does not entail only positive and useful actions. A young reader may choose an inappropriate goal, such as reading fast to finish before peers rather than reading carefully to understand the text. Some strategies are simply incorrect ideas about reading, such as guessing a word based on its initial letter. The actions are indeed strategic; they connect specific means to specific goals but they are inappropriate and ineffective for reading. Having good intentions and trying to be strategic are good starting points but neither alone ensures that readers will decode and understand text successfully. It is the appropriateness of the goal, the means, and the path to connect them that must be negotiated in every situation in order to be strategic and successful. This is fundamentally different than a skill that is well practiced and executed in the same manner across situations.

So as a rational person, you might think it would be of the utmost importance to try to talk some sense into these people. But there's a problem: According to a major new study in the journal Pediatrics, trying to do so may actually make the problem worse. The paper tested the effectiveness of four separate pro-vaccine messages, three of which were based very closely on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself talks about vaccines. The results can only be called grim: Not a single one of the messages was successful when it came to increasing parents' professed intent to vaccinate their children. And in several cases the messages actually backfired, either increasing the ill-founded belief that vaccines cause autism or even, in one case, apparently reducing parents' intent to vaccinate.

an undue amount, given the likelihood that her comments were a mistake rather than an intentional lie.

In the United States, automation tools generally have been deployed more aggressively by conservatives, researchers say. Pro-Clinton hashtags, in some cases, got “colonized” by pro-Trump tweets during the election season, according to the paper by Howard and Woolley. And for the third presidential debate, Trump’s supporters — and in some cases, likely bots — began tweeting the “#TrumpWon” hashtag a half-hour before the event began.

Some of the most prolific political tweeters complain that the company doesn’t have clear enough rules of the road. Lewis Shupe, a conservative Las Vegas-based retiree who runs @USFreedomArmy, a 61,000-follower account, said that he had received warnings from Twitter for posting too often. He now limits his scheduler to 150 tweets per hour, a number he thinks allows him to fly under the company’s radar.

The last six characters are #PJNET, for the Patriot Journalist Network, a coalition of conservative tweeters who amplify their messages through coordination, automation and other online tactics.

One research team found that “highly automated accounts” supporting President Trump — a category that includes both bots and cyborgs — out-tweeted those supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton by a ratio of 5 to 1 in the final days before the vote.

Much of that research has focused on “bots,” accounts programmed to follow instructions, such as automatically replying to tweets from other accounts. But Sobieski exemplifies the growing popularity of a variation, called “cyborgs,” that mix human creativity and initiative with a computer’s relentless speed, allowing their views to gain audience while sidestepping the traditional gatekeepers of news and commentary. Sobieski’s two accounts, for example, tweet more than 1,000 times a day using “schedulers” that work through stacks of his own pre-written posts in repetitive loops. With retweets and other forms of sharing, these posts reach the feeds of millions of other accounts, including those of such conservative luminaries as Fox News’s Sean Hannity, GOP strategist Karl Rove and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), according to researcher Jonathan Albright.

The key to this frenetic pace was technology allowing Twitter users to post automatically from queues of pre-written tweets that can be delivered at a nearly constant, round-the-clock pace that no human alone could match. In this way, Sobieski — a balding retiree with eyes so weak that he uses a magnifying glass to see his two computer screens — has dramatically amplified his online reach despite lacking the celebrity or the institutional affiliations that long have helped elevate some voices over the crowd.

The Times also reports that the alleged shooter sent the following Facebook message to the Breitbart News editor an hour before the incident: “Hey Milo. im outside in line to your UW event. I got sucker punched (he was a bit limp wristed) and someone jacked my #MAGA hat. Anyway for me to get a replacement signed by you?

Though a witness at the scene told KIRO Radio that Yiannopoulos supporters were spraying pepper spray at the crowd. We were just standing in the middle, and Milo supporters started spraying everyone with their own mace, and there was a boom, and I saw the guy a few feet away and he had blood gushing out of his stomach.

The man who told police he shot and wounded another man during a violent demonstration over the appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Washington sent a social-media message to the Breitbart News editor just an hour before the shooting. “Hey Milo,” the 29-year-old former UW student posted to Yiannopoulos’ Facebook page at 7:24 p.m. “im outside in line to your UW event. “I got sucker punched (he was a bit limp wristed) and someone jacked my #MAGA hat,” he said, referring to the ubiquitous red and white “Make America Great Again” caps worn by supporters of President Trump. UW Shooting Timeline of Friday’s protests that ended in shooting at UW  Man shot during protests of Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ speech at UW “Anyway for me to get a replacement signed by you?” the man asked

The union said that the victim is a 34-year-old man and “long-time anti-racist and anti-fascist activist” who was “unarmed and attempting to de-escalate conflict” when he was shot.

The victim of a politically charged shooting at a public speech by Milo Yiannopoulos in Seattle is calling for dialogue and “restorative justice” rather than criminal charges.

Two weeks after Milo Yiannopoulos’ appearance at University of Washington—outside of whicha 32-year-old man was shot by a fan of the the Breitbart News editor—UW Police Department is still investigating what happened that evening at Red Square.

In a statement issued though his attorney, Sarah Lippek, the victim said that he doesn't want the shooter punished by the legal system.

The alleged shooter is 29-year-old senior at the University of Washington

Early on the night of the shooting, the gunman sent Yiannopolous the following Facebook message: “I’m outside in line to your UW event. I got sucker punched (he was a bit limp wristed) and someone jacked my #MAGA hat. Anyway for me to get a replacement signed by you?”

Meanwhile, a few days earlier in Washington State, a Trump supporter put a bullet in the stomach of an anti-fascist protester, and walked away with no charges at all, while the case remains under investigation.

Minnesota officials said the large rate hikes were the result of high prescription drug costs and sicker-than- expected customers, among other factors.

Minnesota’s Democratic governor on Wednesday said Obamacare is "no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people" — the latest sign of Democrats' growing concern about the law's rising insurance costs.

With rates up more than 50 percent on average, tax credits via the state’s MNsure exchange will be more important than ever to consumers. An estimated 123,000 state residents won’t qualify for the subsidies, but those who are eligible will see tax credits increase in tandem with premium costs.

Open enrollment starts Tuesday for about 250,000 state residents in the state’s individual market,

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Friday expressed "regret" that Democrats are being attacked over his comment that Obamacare is “no longer affordable,"

Minneapolis-based UCare proposed an average rate increase of 66 percent for one of its products.

Minnesota is in worse shape because it has an unusually small individual market with an unusually large number of sick people.

People who qualify for federal tax subsidies will see those subsidies rise along with the premiums, blunting or even negating the increases. These subsidies are available for people earning up to 400 percent of the federal poverty line: $47,520 for an individual or $97,200 for a family of four.

That’s because just a few years ago, Minnesota had among the lowest premiums in the nation, so even years of double-digit increases leave Minnesota with the 13th-highest premiums in the country, according to a Pioneer Press analysis.

For some customers, federal subsidies for individuals will cancel out some or all of the premium increases.

The bulk of the increases run from 36 percent to 67 percent. Figures from one major insurer, Medica, were not immediately available Thursday, but a Department of Commerce spokesperson said Medica increases were around 57 percent.

Insurers are asking to raise premiums by an average of more than 50 percent for customers on Minnesota’s individual insurance market.

Insurers are asking to raise premiums by an average of more than 50 percent for customers on Minnesota’s individual insurance market.

In choosing this country, whether it's my friend Marco Rubio's parents from Cuba or my parents and great-grandparents who fled persecution from Europe, immigrants bring an appreciation for the choices and opportunities that are unique to America," Schumer said. "Immigrants have been an essential component to our American success story. To reject this basic truth in this vote today would be a direct rebuke to the lady who shines so brightly in New York's harbor."

Charles Ellis “Chuck” Schumer: b. 23 Nov 1950 Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY; Senator from NY (D)   2. Abraham Schumer: b. c Nov 1915 NY [New York Times, 14 Nov 1948: “Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rosen of Brooklyn, N. Y., announce the engagement of their daughter, Selma, to Abraham Schumer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schumer of Brooklyn, N. Y.”] 3. Selma Rosen: b. c1928/9 NY   4. Jacob Schumer: b. 3 Dec 1888 Galicia, Austria; imm. 1906/7; d. Apr 1974 (last residence Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY); m. c1910/11  [SSN 051-18-9018, issued NY bef. 1951] 5. Ida H. Makowsky: b. c1891/2 Poland; imm. 1904/5 6. Robert Rosen: b. c1897/8 Russia; imm. 1901; m. c1924/5 7. Theresa “Tess” ___: b. 11 Oct 1901 NY; d. 21 Dec 1996 (last residence Floral Park, Queens Co., NY)  [SSN 080-14-8879, issued NY bef. 1951] [New York Times, 23 Dec 1996: “Rosen—Tess.  Wife of the late Bob, mother of Selma Schumer and the late Dr. Mortimer Rosen.  Mother-in-law of Abe Schumer…grandmother of Charles…Schumer…”]   10. Philip Makowsky: b. c1869/70 Russia/Poland; imm. 1900 11. Bae ___: b. c1871/2 Russia/Poland; imm. 1904

Also in contrast to the D Street house, Mr. Schumer's Brooklyn home is filled with personal touches. The den is decorated with photographs of the family's annual hiking trip; original Al Smith and F.D.R. campaign posters; and a turn-of-the-century portrait of Mr. Schumer's great-grandparents, who died in the Holocaust.

Paraphrasing Craig Muldrew’s findings, James B. argues that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries beer was more important as a source of energy (via calories both from grain and alcohol) than as an alternative to water (p 66

The lady of such a professor, on being questioned by a company of ladies as to her husband's emotions at the prospect of such an enlargement of the field of science, excited a strong feeling of displeasure against herself. She could not say that he believed it, and would gladly have said nothing about it; but her inquisitive companions first cross-examined her, and then were angry at her skepticism

"The credulity was general. All New York rang with the wonderful discoveries of Sir John Herschell... There were, indeed, a few sceptics; but to venture to express a doubt of the genuineness of the great lunar discoveries, was considered almost as heinous a sin as to question the truth of revelation."

The combination of the Sun's high circulation and the newsboys meant that everyone throughout the city, spanning all social classes, heard about the lunar discoveries at the same time. They experienced it as a shared social event in a way that was entirely new.

The idea that the popularity of the moon hoax led to a rise in the Sun's circulation has become a standard part of the story of the hoax. However, it turns on its head what actually happened and obscures the historical significance of the event. In fact, as Mario Castagnaro (2009) has argued, it was the Sun's already high circulation and broad reach that ensured the success of the moon hoax — not the other way around.

The Sun's high circulation was made possible by its use of steam-powered printing presses. Such presses, which had only recently become available, allowed papers to print tens of thousands of copies at a cheap rate, thereby broadening their readership and turning them into a medium of truly mass communication. In addition, the Sun used an innovative means of distribution that further broadened its reach — newsboys who sold issues on the street, shouting out the headlines for everyone to hear. The Sun was the first paper anywhere to use newsboys to sell copies. It had started using them in 1833, less than two years before the moon hoax, so their presence on city streets was still a relatively new part of the urban environment.

His Seattle attorney, Sarah Lippek, confirmed his identity, although she said Dukes was concerned about his name being made public “as the risk of harassment and threats is very real, and my client needs time to rest and recover from his injuries.” Lippek said Dukes planned to issue a public statement at a later date.

Sometime just before 8:30 p.m., the man — who at this point was wearing a yellow hat — was involved in a scuffle with several people, and he allegedly shot and wounded the other man.

Several sources have identified the victim as Josh Dukes, 34, a Seattle computer-security engineer and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) General Defense Committee, which describes itself as an “anti-racist and anti-fascist organization.”

The victim is a 34-year-old man from Seattle who has been a long-time anti-racist and anti-fascist activist.

Salena Zito

The United States is seeing both a chronic and an acute new version of this public-information problem. The chronic version, recognized but nowhere close to being solved, is the rise of separate fact-universes into which different segments of society silo themselves—occurring at the same time as the “normal” news media are struggling against economic and other pressures.The acute version is the emergence as president-elect of a man whose nature as a liar is outside what our institutions are designed to deal with. Donald Trump either cannot tell the difference between truth and lies, or he knows the difference but does not care. Tiniest example: On a single day during the campaign, Trump claimed that the National Football League had sent him a letter complaining that the presidential-debate schedule conflicted with NFL games (which the NFL immediately denied), and then he said the Koch brothers had begged him to accept their donations (which they also flat-out denied).

The image is typical of the Frankfurt School and its contemporary academic descendants. By adopting a stance of infinite disillusionment, the critical theorist protects herself from ever being accused of naivete—the sophisticated academic’s greatest embarrassment—or of having overlooked some atrocity, hypocrisy, or unacknowledged crime.

A new study linking profanity to honesty shows people who curse are more authentic

Right-wing bloggers and Twitter posters had noticed a woman who they thought was taking pictures of the notes that Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil chief executive who is Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, had taken during his Senate confirmation hearing. Instantly, they started to “investigate” whatever was going on. Before I could do anything about it, someone had decided the woman was me. No one ever bothered to contact me, but it was this post that Twitter seized upon overnight. By the time I woke up, trolls had commented on social media channels besides Twitter. My Facebook feed had dozens of angry messages from people I didn’t know, as did comments on my Instagram account. Even my rarely used YouTube channel attracted attention. My emails and my voicemail included messages calling me “pathetic” and a “sneaky thief.”

This may finally prove the myth pushed by many mainstream media outlets of the superior Clinton get out the vote operation, as measured by the number of Clinton-specific offices in comparison to Trump-specific offices. The vaulted Clinton ground game has been buried in North Carolina by the Republican effort, thus far.

And 48 per cent said that they experienced problems during their school years that prevented them from concentrating on their academic work.

Half of young people have so many emotional problems they cannot focus at school, a study has found.

Half of young people said they have so many emotional problems they cannot focus at school, a study has found.

Half of young people have so many emotional problems they cannot concentrate at school,

Half of young people have so many 'emotional problems' they cannot focus at school, study finds

Some 48 per cent of youngsters said that they experienced problems during their school years that prevented them from concentrating on their academic work.

The eighth Index, based on a survey of 2,215 young people aged 16 to 25, revealed many feel their circumstances are trapping them.

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On June 30, 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby and other "closely held" stock corporations can choose to be exempt from the law based on religious preferences, based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act but not on the First Amendment

Hobby Lobby fired an employee yesterday for divorcing her husband without company approval. 33-year old Jennifer Silverton of Scottsdale, Ariz., spent seven years as a cashier at the arts and crafts retail giant and was promoted to assistant manager just two weeks ago.

The data also showed that black voters were more likely to make use of early voting — particularly the first seven days out of North Carolina's 17-day voting period. So lawmakers eliminated these seven days of voting. "After receipt of this racial data, the General Assembly amended the bill to eliminate the first week of early voting, shortening the total early voting period from seventeen to ten days," the court found.

While Republican lawmakers were drafting the bill, they requested data on the use of early voting practices and IDs by race. It showed African Americans disproportionally lack IDs, especially the most common form of identification: a driver’s license. The forms of allowable ID that made it into the bill were ones African Americans tended to hold in lower percentages. In addition, data shows that African Americans disproportionally used early voting, especially the first 7 of the 17 days of early voting that existed pre-HB 589. The General Assembly proceeded to cut early voting to 10 days.

These conflicts over the professionalism of the intelligence community are part of a larger conflict between the right and expert knowledge—one that traces back to Willmoore Kendall, a mid-twentieth-century intellectual from Oklahoma who played a crucial role in creating right-wing populism. A liberal in his early adulthood, in the 1930s, he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt and developed arguments against elite institutions like the Supreme Court, which was trying to thwart the New Deal. Kendall was also critical of academic economists who tried to use their professional expertise to fight popular reforms. In a 1939 essay for The Southern Review, he attacked the “typical modern intellectual” for wanting to “perpetuate the situation in which political discussion is a monopoly of the scientific elite.” Noting the class bias inherent in claims of expert knowledge, Kendall argued that “the claims of the majority principal cannot get a fair hearing from an educated minority whose real religion is Science.”

Harassment is seen as an inevitability for women on the internet, and, as with most awful nonsense, it’s even worse for women of color. I have the privilege of whiteness, but know the onslaught of misogynoir garbage Leslie Jones endured last summer was unique only in scope. If you’re a woman online with anything even remotely resembling an opinion, Twitter eggs will sniff you out like a shark hunting down the scent of blood. They’ll tell you that you deserve to be raped, or that no one would ever sleep with you, that you’re ridden with disease, wearing too much makeup, or not enough makeup, that you’re a whore with bad eyebrows. That… I don’t know, some period joke about the shark’s blood thing. Come get me, trolls, I’m bracing for impact. (Shout out to the orange egg who just messaged me, “Ho, ho, Hitler.”)AdvertisementI think about this too much, and that’s the problem. Online harassment is a theft of my time and energy — time and energy that could have been spent on anything else.The obvious solution seems like it would be not going online. You know, if every time you try to swim laps in a crocodile pit, a crocodile eats one of your limbs, maybe don’t swim in that crocodile pit, right? Except, I don’t know, what if swimming there is needed for your job? Twitter isn’t mandatory for writers, but it can be really important. It’s a gamified means of wasting time, but also a means of networking, while developing and establishing a distinct voice. I’ve gotten most of my work this year through connections built on Twitter. Telling women writers to “just not do that” is like suggesting a New York cab driver relocate to a state where everyone has cars and no one needs cabs. Women already have to stomach enough career disadvantages as it is. Let's think a little more critically about the way bullying exerts itself online. Many times, the targets are women who dare to be anything other than quiet and small. Of course, there are women who are trolls, especially of the celebrity variety, but the overwhelming majority of anonymous trolling takes on the defiant woman, who dares to speak her mind on any of the non-approved subjects.Of course, the ideological and practical have struggled to meet here. Twitter is still trying to wrap its head around basic empathy, despite there being various concrete solutions, and most employers seem to do little more than shrug off the evils of the world. I don’t know that we have to accept that as the way that it is. This isn’t a “men are bad and women are good” argument, though it certainly is gendered. Overall, what if all of us banded together to say, hey, I don’t want to live in a world where people conspire to harass a female writer “until she has a breakdown or goes into porn”? That’s a real thing I saw about myself, by the way.The funny thing is, this argument has been centralized around willful obligation. Women writers and the willful obligation of refusing to give up on an asset to their work, my personal obligation in refusing to be silenced. But there are also women who do things where the word “Twitter” is no weightier than “flutter,” who should be able to participate in a conversation online, just because they want to, without being called a derogatory term.The internet has radically shifted our communication forums, and in many ways the public square has shifted to take place online. Obviously, right? Duh? OK, so what does it mean if women are being ejected from those spaces by sheer force of will? What does it mean if participation comes at a measurable cost of capitalistic forces like time and energy?Anyway, I’m not sure. I’m either a warrior goddess or a triggered snowflake, depending on what side you’re on. 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Yesterday I noted that the intelligence report on Russian hacking devoted an awful lot of space to RT America, the Kremlin-funded cable TV network. That struck me as odd since I don't think RT had much influence on the election. Shortly after I wrote that, I got this tweet: And this email: I think you underestimate the influence of RT on the Jill Stein and "Never Hillary" crowd among Bernie supporters. This is only one aspect of delegitimizing the center. A leftist progressive friend who works on Syrian refugee issues was really disturbed by how many on that part of the spectrum think Putin is just dandy. And this from Vox's Zack Beauchamp:Ads by ZINC3 The ODNI report focuses, to an almost surprising degree, on RT — the Kremlin’s international, English-language propaganda media outlet. The report contains several striking observations about RT’s reach, message, and proximity to the Russian government.

Yesterday I noted that the intelligence report on Russian hacking devoted an awful lot of space to RT America, the Kremlin-funded cable TV network. That struck me as odd since I don't think RT had much influence on the election. Shortly after I wrote that, I got this tweet:

Our prediction accuracy ranges from 62% to over 80% of districts in a state, depending on the grade level and subject tested

(a) percentage of families in a community with income over $200,000 a year, (b) percentage of people in a community in poverty, and (c) percentage of people in a community with bachelor’s degrees. Those three variables accurately predicted results for 78% of our samples.

The 2011 grade seven math model of best fit included the (a) percentage of people in a community with advanced degrees, (b) percentage of people in a community without a high school diploma, and (c) percentage of lone parent households.

Research indicates that children from low-SES households and communities develop academic skills more slowly compared to children from higher SES groups (Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier, & Maczuga, 2009). Initial academic skills are correlated with the home environment, where low literacy environments and chronic stress negatively affect a child’s preacademic skills. The school systems in low-SES communities are often underresourced, negatively affecting students’ academic progress (Aikens & Barbarin, 2008). Inadequate education and increased dropout rates affect children’s academic achievement, perpetuating the low-SES status of the community. Improving school systems and early intervention programs may help to reduce these risk factors, and thus increased research on the correlation between SES and education is essential.

Summers, along with his mentor Robert Rubin, were responsible for deregulating the US banking system via the removal of the Glass-Steagall Act, making him more responsible than any other person for the economic crisis of 2008, as well as the economic crisis we are soon to face.

Now comes research that reveals that a simple demographic study of the wealth of the parents could have accurately predicted the outcomes, no desks or test packets needed.

In his report, published by Education Next, Peterson cited a 2011 Brookings Institution study that found that the direct impact of family income on math scores, once factors such as race and parental education are factored out of the equation, is just 6.4 percent of a standard deviation.

But when it comes to wealth and educational outcomes, common knowledge has it right: on average, kids from wealthy families do significantly better than kids from poor families. Household wealth is associated with IQ1and school achievement,2 and that phenomenon is observed to varying degrees throughout the world.3 Household wealth is asso-ciated with the likelihood of a child graduating from high school4 and attending college.5 With a more fine-grained analysis, we see associations with wealth in more basic academic skills like read-ing achievement6 and math achievement.7 And the association with wealth is still observed if we examine even more basic cogni-tive processes

Using data from over 600,000 students and teachers across the country, the researchers found that academic achievement was less related to the quality of a student's school, and more related to the social composition of the school, the student's sense of control of his environment and future, the verbal skills of teachers, and the student's family background.

Combine this with a deep distrust of media sources. If the media is reporting on something, and you don’t trust the media, then it is your responsibility to question their authority, to doubt the information you are being given. If they expend tremendous effort bringing on “experts” to argue that something is false, there must be something there to investigate.

In close relationships it is possible to find ways of arguing that result in better understanding and solving problems. But with most arguments, little is resolved, worked out, or achieved when two people get angrier and less rational by the minute. When you're having an argument with someone, you're usually not trying to understand what the other person is saying, or what in their experience leads them to say it. Instead, you're readying your response: listening for weaknesses in logic to leap on, points you can distort to make the other person look bad and yourself look good. Sometimes you know, on some back burner of your mind, that you're doing this -- that there's a kernel of truth in what your adversary is saying and a bit of unfair twisting in what you're saying. Sometimes you do this because you're angry, but sometimes it's just the temptation to take aim at a point made along the way because it's an easy target.

In a word, the type of opposition I am questioning is what I call "agonism." I use this term, which derives from the Greek word for "contest," agonia, to mean an automatic warlike stance -- not the literal opposition of fighting against an attacker or the unavoidable opposition that arises organically in response to conflicting ideas or actions. An agonistic response, to me, is a kind of programmed contentiousness -- a prepatterned, unthinking use of fighting to accomplish goals that do not necessarily require it.

n the counter-intelligence world, this is what is known as a “wilderness of mirrors” – creating a chaotic information environment that so perfectly blends truth, half-truth and fiction that even the best can no longer tell what’s real and what’s not.

I’m a civil libertarian

"We need a roundup of the weirdness," Tucker Carlson shouted, walking past a row of young staffers hunched over laptops on the sort of cheap-looking teak tables that scream startup venture. <!-- var rn = ( Math.round( Math.random()*10000000000 ) ); document.write('<s\cript src="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/11/AR2010011100892_StoryJs.js?'+rn+'"></s\cript>') ; // --> The Fox News commentator launches his new Web site, the Daily Caller, on Monday. His partner is Neil Patel, a former Dick Cheney aide. His opinion editor is Moira Bagley, who spent 2008 as the Republican National Committee's press secretary. And his $3 million in funding comes from Wyoming financier Foster Friess, a big-time GOP donor.

Antarctica and the Arctic are two very different environments: the former is a continent surrounded by ocean, the latter is ocean enclosed by land. As a result, sea ice behaves very differently in the two regions. While the Antarctic sea ice yearly wintertime maximum extent hit record highs from 2012 to 2014 before returning to average levels in 2015, both the Arctic wintertime maximum and its summer minimum extent have been in a sharp decline for the past decades. Studies show that globally, the decreases in Arctic sea ice far exceed the increases in Antarctic sea ice.

Poe’s law also played a prominent role in Facebook’s fake news problem, particularly in the spread of articles written with the cynical intention of duping Trump supporters through fabrication and misinformation. Readers may have passed these articles along as gospel because they really did believe, for example, that an FBI agent investigating Hillary Clinton’s private email server died mysteriously. Or maybe they didn’t believe it but wanted to perpetuate the falsehood for a laugh, out of boredom, or simply to watch the world burn. Each motive equally possible, each equally unverifiable, and each normalizing and incentivizing the spread of outright lies.

But 2016 was also marked—besieged, even—by Poe’s law, a decade-old internet adage articulated by Nathan Poe, a commentator on a creationism discussion thread. Building on the observation that “real” creationists posting to the forum were often difficult to parse from those posing as creationists, Poe’s law stipulates that online, sincere expressions of extremism are often indistinguishable from satirical expressions of extremism.

"I didn't want to be around her," Fisher recalled that dark time in the 2011 Oprah interview. "I did not want to be Debbie Reynolds' daughter."

We see a degree of paranoia in the responses. Most indicative is nearly one-third of respondents believed the government is concealing information about ‘the North Dakota crash,’ a theory we asked about that — to our knowledge — we made up.”

a large majority of the American people do not believe the official story their government has told them

Perry was Texas’ longest-serving governor

California’s electricity crisis amid the Enron scandal had spooked several states about following a similar path.

price spikes in 2005 following hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Perry took over the governorship in late 2000, following Bush’s White House win,

A Texan himself, Wood

Brian Waidmann, a former top aide to George W. Bush administration Interior secretaries Dirk Kempthorne and Gale Norton

Ray Sullivan, another former top Perry aide

David Garman, an energy undersecretary in the George W. Bush DOE

former state and federal regulator Pat Wood said

his ride to the White House shocked the political establishment of both parties

Rep. Frank Pallone of New Jersey, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee

wrote this month.

Perry unseated as the state’s agriculture commissioner in 1990

former MIT physicist

outgoing Secretary Ernest Moniz

drew immediate derision from the former governor’s critics

former governor advocated during his 2012 presidential campaign

leading the Energy Department during President Barack Obama’s first term.

endured rocky relations with Congress

Nobel-winning physicist

former regulators there credit him with policies that streamlined energy permits and helped drive a big expansion of wind power

that oversees the security of the U.S. nuclear arsenal

federal agency he's just been tapped to lead

and infamously forgot the name of the Energy Department

got a "D" in a college class called "Meats"

Rick Perry did the cha cha on “Dancing with the Stars,”

Marc Palazzo, a former lobbyist for a Koch Industries subsidiary

But President-elect Donald Trump's team and Perry have not said definitively whether they want to ax the entire department

Department of Homeland Security, which fights against domestic terrorism

‘Please indicate names of people serving in those roles and status (political or career).’

Donald Trump’s transition team heads have requested more names from two federal departments, this time those of employees working on programs to stem violent extremism.