Strange and probably polarizing short film.
•The Timing, Source, and What’s Missing: WikiLeaks’ CIA Cyber Arsenal Dump Explained
Fascinating:
There are no names of either individuals or organizations mentioned in the documents. WikiLeaks claims to have made 70,875 redactions in the “Vault 7” files. This is an amazing number, which raises two related questions. First, Assange has always been against redactions, often quarrelling with news organizations that have partnered with WikiLeaks in the past over their insistence on protecting the identities of individuals. What made him change his policy? Also, by all accounts, including Assange’s, WikiLeaks has limited resources and very few employees, certainly nowhere near enough to carry out 70,875 redactions – if that figure is even accurate. All this indicates that either the source (and in this case it wouldn’t have been one former disgruntled government employee) or some other well-funded organization, probably an intelligence agency, have been working on these documents for quite some time.
Path Finder Update : No Man’s Sky
Huge expansion of a game that was a little thin at launch.
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Analysis: GOP plan to cost Obamacare enrollees $1,542 more a year
We reported above the results for individuals. For families, the Republican bill would increase costs by $2,243 if the bill were in effect today. For families with a head of household age 55 to 64, the bill would increase costs by $7,604. For families with income below 250 percent of poverty, the bill would increase costs by $6,228.
David Letterman on Donald Trump and Late-Night TV Today
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George Saunders: what writers really do when they write
US Senate calls on British spy Christopher Steele to give evidence on explosive Trump-Russia dossier
Radiohead and sadness: a data analysis
So lower scores on the “gloom index” are more gloomy? I guess that makes sense. Anyway, saddest albums appear to be Amnesiac and A Moon Shaped Pool.
We can’t see yet what’s at the center of the Trump/Russia black hole. But we can tell a lot about its magnitude by the scope of the event horizon and the degree of its gravitational pull, which is immense.
Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose
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My grandpa seems to have a thing for Teddy Roosevelt.
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Porsche Design’s Book One is a beautiful alternative to the Surface Book
Hey, a Porsche convertible! Seems pretty cool, but these things are much better laptops than tablets. As a tablet it’s either super heavy, if you keep the keyboard attached, or it only gets 3 hrs battery, and either way it’s way bulkier than an iPad.
YouTube, the world’s biggest video site, wants to sell you TV for $35 a month
Includes main US broadcast networks plus the cable channels they own, so Fox News, ESPN and Bravo, but no CNN, AMC, HBO. Also includes “A cloud DVR with unlimited storage space”.
Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War
Pretty good overview, but doesn’t get into the full extent of his Russian ties