Building trust in media

Wall Street Is DESTROYING The American Dream | Breaking Points w/James Li

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James Li said that Wall Street is gobbling up the housing market and killing the chance for most Americans to own a home. They are telling regular Americans that buying homes is a bad investment while  simultaneously spending billions of their own dollars buying up the exact same homes presumably because they see it as a great investment

We’re no longer in Walter Cronkite days. The consequence is people don’t agree on facts.

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In a January 24, 2020 interview discussing her new book “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America“, Investigative Reporter Carol Leonnig, responded to a question about the cost of the Trump circus and lies.

Leonnig says:

We’re no longer in Walter Cronkite days. The consequence is people don’t agree on facts. And Phil and I have an extra job in addition to bringing you facts and that extra job is something the Post also takes really seriously with is now we got to show you how we made the cake. We’ve got to show you how we did the reporting or else you’re not going to believe us. And that’s our new chore.

Kenneth Cukier: Big data changes the nature of the problem

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Kenneth Cukier says that the improvements in many areas, including self-driving cars, are not driven by faster computers or faster algorithms.

The improvement is possible because big-data has allowed us to change the nature of the problem:

 We changed the nature of the problem from one in which we tried to overtly and explicitly explain to the computer how to drive to one in which we say, “Here’s a lot of data around the vehicle. You figure it out.

Library of Alexandria

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As an example, consider the following quote from James Burke’s “Connections” series about a “crafty way” the Library of Alexandria assembled their collection:

Now, they got these scrolls, either because the local scholars wrote them or because they had a rather crafty law. See, if you came to Alexandria on a boat and you owned a book you had to lend it to the library to be copied. And sometimes the copies were so good the owners went off with the fakes and the library kept the original.

Sommarøy, Norway

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Wikipedia reports:

Sommarøy is an old fishing village in the western part of Tromsø Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located about 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city of Tromsø and is a popular tourist destination due to its white sand beaches and scenery.

CiteIt Contacts: Connections

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First to Contact:

  1. Ian Mulligan: UWaterloo : Digital History, @ianmilligan1
  2. Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity
  3. John Fea: Messiah: History, @JohnFea1
  4. Bruce Bartlett : Truth Matters,  @BruceBartlett
  5. Lee Giles: Penn State:  CiteSeer
  6. Tyler Cowen George Mason University, Economics
  7. Ethan Zuckerman: formerly MIT Media Lab
  8. David French: The Dispatch
  9. Jim Gerraghty
  10. Emma Green: The Atlantic: x-email-not-checked,  @emmaogreen
  11. Jane Mayer: New Yorker x-email-not-checked,  @JaneMayerNYer
  12. Krista Tippett, OnBeing
  13. Carol D. Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius, @CarolLeonnig, carol.leonnig@washpost.com
  14. Substack: Chris Best: @cjgbest ,  Hamish McKenzie @hamishmckenzie , @SubstackInc
  15. Eric Lach: New Yorker: edits “The Current” online news and current events column,  @ericlach
  16. Thomas Edsall: New York Times column
  17. Derek Thompson: The Atlantic & Crazy/Genius Podcast,
  18. Alexis Madrigal: The Atlantic (technology columnist)
  19. Jonah Goldberg: The Dispatch & The Remnant Podcast, @JonahDispatch
  20. Adam Davidson: NPR, Planet Money, New Yorker,  @adamdavidson
  21. Nicholas Kristoff
  22. James Risen: The Intercept
  23. Megan McArdle: Washington Post, @asymmetricinfo
  24. Peggy Noonan: Wall Street Journal,  @Peggynoonannyc
  25. Hacker News
  26. Babbage podcast: technology & science: Kenneth C.
  27. Skye Jethani
  28. The Browser: reach people who care about writing, discourse

Categories

Academia:

  1. Ian Mulligan: UWaterloo : Digital History, @ianmilligan1
  2. Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity
  3. John Fea: Messiah: History, @JohnFea1
  4. Bruce Bartlett : Truth Matters,  @BruceBartlett
  5. Lee Giles: Penn State:  CiteSeer
  6. Tyler Cowen George Mason University, Economics

Journalism:

  • Bob Garfield: , “American Manifesto”, at Politics and Prose
Washington Post:
The Atlantic:
New Yorker:
NPR:
Wall Street Journal:
Pro-publica
  • 6) research
The Dispatch:
National Review:
  • Richard Lowry
  • Romesh Ponnuru
The American Conservative:
  • Rod Dreher
New York Times:
On Being:
Washington Post
Freakonomics
  • Stephen Dubner
The Intercept:
Economist:

 

Substack: Alternative Journalism

  • Matt Taibi
  • The Dispatch

Ideological Allies?

  1. Timothy Snyder: Yale: History, @TimothyDSnyder
  2. Jaron Lanier: Who Owns the Future
  3. Meredith Broussard: Machine Learning (Derek Thompson podcast), @merbroussard

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Armistice of Treviso

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Wikipedia says:

Brune was able to cross the Adige river unopposed as Bellegarde pulled back, keen to join Josef Philipp Vukassovich and Johann Ludwig Alexius von Loudon whose 20,000 troops were moving down the Brenta river to the plain of Bassano.[1] Bellegarde held his forces at Caldiero, intending to provide time for Laudon and Vukassovich to assemble, but was driven from that position by Brune.[2]

Wikipedida also has an article about Vladimir Putin today, saying Семья Путиных занимала одну комнату в коммунальной квартире без всяких удобств в Басковом переулке The article gives background about Putin’s life.