taway21 | 5 years ago | on: Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
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taway21 | 5 years ago | on: Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad (2019)
Apparently even the godfather of AI couldnt pick the right company.
Element AI sold for $230-million as founders saw value mostly wiped out, document reveals
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-element-ai-...
taway21 | 5 years ago | on: New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
>> Meanwhile, I don't think she has any obligation to investigate terrorism in other religious communities at all. The editor might have an obligation similar to do that, depending on newsworthiness. But I don't see how it applies here anyway. Once ISIS/L established territory in Syria they became the most newsworthy topic of the decade.
This is pretty circular logic. Her topics are newsworthy because she is covering them, and adjacent un-covered topics happen to become not-newsworthy because she is ignoring them. The NYT editorial staff is def at fault, but she is she, as their designated "Terrorism Reporter [who only covers a certain type of terrorism]" She literally gets to define terrorism by example and undefine it by what she ignores to cover.
As an example, most people in the US I've spoken to dont consider the 2011 Norway attacks "terrorism" because they have not been covered as such. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks) The coverage makes the news and everything else disappears into history when the supposed paper of record conveniently ignores part of the narrative.
As an another example, consider the Russian-Chechnyan conflict.
If the newspaper decides to cover only Russian atrocities, that becomes the news and that is how popular opinion forms and that is what drives US foreign policy.
If instead the newspaper decides to cover only Chechnyan atrocities, that becomes the news and that is how popular opinion forms and that is what drives US foreign policy.
taway21 | 5 years ago | on: New York Times retracts core of podcast series ‘Caliphate’
>> Also, the whole series was constructed somewhat naively.
I would use the word naively if it weren't journalist Rukmini Callimachi, who has created her entire career on the basis of secret terrorism in the Muslim community. At this point, that is her entire narrative and she finds anything to support it and ignores whatever doesnt support this specific narrative.
Interestingly, he never covers similar things in other religious communities and focuses only on Muslims. She is this generation's Daniel Pipes.
Her association with the NYT is also shameful, because she is more Fox News quality w/r/t balance
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