What if, say, Comcast, decides to hack back, the intruder ends up being the Equation Group, a.k.a. NSA, and Comcast disables a good deal if the federal government's capabilities.
The NSA isn't what it used to be, after all, and market forces have forced large network operators to be very good in this context.
Some of Kennedy’s supporters and allies are among those selling unproven peptide treatments.
There we go, the motive is enabling RFKJ's cronys' grifts. If RFKJ was consistent about "safety" (which seems to be his main beef with vaccines), then we would know he's merely a quack. But he's not. Which indicates he's in it for the money.
At least the article accurately names which entity is doing what. Using "FDA" in the article title would shield RFKJ from responsibility for his grift.
Trump's exceptional, isn't he? He explicitly only governs for his base, and he's explicitly against those outside his base. Sure, he won a slim majority, but it's understood that democratically elected rulers govern all their citizens, if only to prevent electoral violence.
We show that the illusion is exacerbated in networks with a heterogeneous degree distribution and disassortative structure
Haven't we discovered that social networks do have a heterogenous degree structure, that a few entities are drastically more connected than others, but that they're sorted?
The first fact is why influencers exist, and people work to become one. The second fact is why Bluesky (liberal bubble) and Gab, Gettr, and Rumble (conservative bubbles) exist? X and Truth Social are different, as each exists mainly to promulgate a single oligarch's point of view.
This reads like Qanon cope in 2020, when Trump had been in office for 3 years. The Storm is not forthcoming, nobody is bleeding out in the streets from mRNA COVID vaccine, and Trump is not playing 4D chess
this whole thing <gestures broadly at Trump and those three election cycles and two terms> plus MAGA's "paint the bullseye around the arrow" have certainly been a clear demonstration of human psychology, I'll give the author that much
What's fascinating in the context of HN is that Trump is partly a product of the industry luminaries we talk about and occasionally see contributions from on this forum. They would get off too lightly if we write it down to cynical opportunism. Some of them are clearly taken in by pseudo intellectuals like Moldbug, crank philosophies like Accellerationism, and long-debunked pseudoscience like eugenics.
The tech industry needs to get better at identifying these pathologies early enough, and acting to prevent damage.
The NSA isn't what it used to be, after all, and market forces have forced large network operators to be very good in this context.
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