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Book review of If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future Topics Google | Facebook | big tech In late December 1960, Harper’s Magazine hit the newsstands with a story by a freelancer named Thomas Morgan: John F Kennedy’s razor-thin victory over Richard Nixon the previous month had been orchestrated by a top-secret computer called the “People Machine.” This mysterious device, which had been invented by an equally mysterious company called the Simulmatics Corporation, had, according to Harper’s, concluded that taking a firm stand on civil rights and confronting anti-Catholic bigotry directly, both of which Kennedy did, would help the young senator from Massachusetts win the presidency. In a period of rising anxiety about both communist brainwashing and automation, this was big news. The story of a “robot campaign strategist” analysing voter rolls and public opinion polls was picked up by media across the country. For a brief period, the scandal threatened to delegitimise Kennedy’s presidency before it had even begun. But the story, it turned out, was little more than a hacky publicity stunt by a company propagandist: Within a few months, Morgan, who’d edited the very Simulmatics reports he’d described in his magazine story, had been given an ownership stake in the company to go along with his title of “information manager.” Therein lies the paradox at the heart of If Then,Jill Lepore’s fascinating but flawed new book about the company she says “invented the future”: Her attempt to use Simulmatics as a parable for and precursor to “the data-mad and near-totalitarian 21st century” is hamstrung by the fact that it failed at almost everything it tried to do — oftentimes spectacularly so. Simulmatics, which opened up shop in 1959 and ceased operations in 1970, was the brainchild of a backslapping, glad-handing, résumé-faking huckster named Ed Greenfield. And what a shop...

Shreveport, LA (71104) Today Sun and clouds mixed. High 88F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.. Tonight Clear this evening. Increasing clouds with thunderstorms developing after midnight. Low 64F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Updated: September 27, 2020 @ 3:03 pm Read More

Are you a recent college graduate who can’t find a job because you majored in gender studies? If so, you should consider an exciting and rewarding career as a Facebook fact-checker!Fact-checking doesn’t require a great deal of knowledge or education, much less critical thinking skills. That’s why it’s perfect for many of today’s college graduates.In fact, there’s only one real job requirement: You must have spent the last five years in a “Progressive” bubble, where literally everyone you know believes things like a man can have a uterus, climate change will destroy the earth in 12 years, and Hillary Clinton was, like, the smartest person ever.Like I said, it’s ideal for recent grads.As a Facebook fact-checker, you will utilize time-tested and totally valid propaganda skills in the pursuit of relative truth, social justice, and the un-American way.Like strawman building, which is helpful when someone says something on Facebook that makes you feel icky but you can’t actually disprove. As a fact-checker, you can simply accuse them of saying something obviously false that they never said.For example, what if an unwoke Facebook user — and, sadly, there are many — posts a link to a CDC report that shows only 6 percent of reported COVID deaths were people who died of COVID alone, while the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 co-morbidities. Local Newsletter Get daily Gwinnett County and state news headlines delivered to your inbox every day. Please enter a valid email address. All you have to do to thwart this blatant attempt to spread disinformation by citing scientific data is to tag the post as “Partly False,” with a note explaining that the CDC did not say only 6 percent of reported COVID deaths actually died due to COVID.Of course they didn’t say that! And neither did...

The accused used hotspot or WiFi services of others to evade detection, police said (Representational)New Delhi: A 23-year-old student was arrested for allegedly harassing a woman by sending her obscene messages on social media, police said on Sunday.The accused has been identified as BA first-year student Kafil, a resident of Mehrauli, they said.A woman lodged a complaint that a Facebook user was harassing her by sending obscene and abusive messages on her account, a senior police officer said."During investigation, police obtained the details of the user and with the help of technical surveillance, he was arrested on Saturday," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Atul Kumar Thakur said.During interrogation, the accused said he would create fake Facebook IDs in order to make friends with women and send them obscene messages, police said.He used hotspot or WiFi services of others to evade detection, they said.The accused was stalking the complainant online and presenting himself a gym trainer, police said.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Read More