Former Florida guardian Rebecca Fierle was arrested last year and charged with aggravated abuse of an elderly person after she signed a do not resuscitate order on behalf of a 75-year-old man in her care — against his will — and he died when his feeding tube was capped. That’s [Keep reading]
Jonathan Walton: So, unpleasant stuff. Mair Smyth: Okay. Jonathan Walton: You’ve been lying to us the whole time about everything Mair Smyth: About what? Jonathan Walton: The whole time. That was a lie. That last four grand you needed that came out of nowhere, that was a lie. You’ve [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION: As cries of censorship,”de-platforming” and domestic terrorism wash over the Internet, it’s time to have a long-postponed conversation about free speech and moderation in the age of the digital megaphone. There are no easy answers. Donald Trump has pushed many Internet-age values to their limit. Duke University’s Phil Napoli [Keep reading]
“So, the Hollywood Reporter received a tip from Jonathan himself in, I believe it was August 2019. And I believe the subject line was something like, “Reality Producer Conned Out of $100,000 by ‘Irish Heiress Con Artist.’” And that, I mean the email had me at Irish Heiress Con Artist [Keep reading]
“De-platforming.” That’s the word of the week in tech-land, and it’s about time. After the storming of the U.S. Capitol by a criminal mob on Wednesday, a host of companies have cut off President Trump’s digital air supply. His Tweets and Facebook posts fell first; next came second-order effects, [Keep reading]
A group of federal agencies including the FBI and NSA said this week that the massive SolarWinds hack attack discovered late last year was “likely Russian in origin,” in a rate statement of attribution. The agencies have been “working non-stop” to gather evidence and insight into the cyberattack, which potentially [Keep reading]
Microsoft’s map of organizations hit by the SolarWinds hack. I keep hearing this from people I respect: It’s hard to overstate how serious the SolarWinds hack is. So, yes, it seems to be the Big One. I suspect we’ll be hearing about the damage for years. This piece is a [Keep reading]
Downdetector.com chart It’s been a bad few days for the Internet. Google, Amazon, security firm FireEye, and several federal agencies — like the Department of Commerce — have all suffered major incidents or outages recently. The government attack, involving widely-used management software named Solar Winds, gave hackers access to critical [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is back, soaring 150% in 2020, and on Wednesday reached heights it hadn’t seen since 2017. Of course, if you dealt with a ransomware gang in the past three years, you know Bitcoin never left. You might have missed the news recently, overshadowed as it was by the [Keep reading]
This report really is worth reading “After hearing that Facebook is saying that posting the Lord’s Prayer goes against their policies, I’m asking all Christians please post it. Our Father, who art in Heaven…” Someone posted this obvious falsehood on Facebook recently, and it ended up on my wall. Soon [Keep reading]
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