GWSchulz

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by GWSchulz 7y ago
For years and years and years, there was a scrappy little newspaper in San Francisco that warned (very much obnoxiously at times) about PG&E’s continuing private control of energy and power in the Bay Area and Northern California. That
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Hell yeah.
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“You can’t trust that bag of bits.” That made me giggle.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Good point. Thx for this comment.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Offensive cyber weapons and their relationship with international arms control agreements, or the lack thereof. Old school, stateless arms brokers like the infamous Viktor Bout are being disrupted by digital as much as hotels and taxis. Cod
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Several great books about John Brown, including Russell Banks’s “Cloudsplitter” and a bio from W.E.B. Du Bois. Du Bois wanted to bio Frederick Douglass, with whom Brown frequently argued over anti-slavery tactics. Booker T. Washington got t
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Features like this are presumably what antitrust investigators will scrutinize. It’s Google doing everything in its power to keep users within the Google empire at the expense of potential competitors, of which there precious few at this po
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Didn’t I just see a post on HN that blamed ships for the plastic?
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Quietly my ass. Both are promoting it as a way to make an estate or corner of earth internet-connected, rather than just a single structure.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
I’ll leave it up to Run DMC. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=word%20is%20...
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Word is born.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and data like this are essential for reporting on campaign activity in the digital age. Only looking at contributions and expenditures in disclosure reports isn’t enough anymore. This isn
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
The policy should also require the FBI — prior to utilizing private genealogy sites — add the case details to Justice’s NamUs database and network. The FBI pretends it doesn’t exist, because the bureau doesn’t get to control it. Poor FBI.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
I was an early user at the Center for Investigative Reporting. First learned about it at a NICAR conference in Arizona. Still use it to organize and showcase documents and records.
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
Listening to NPR with my dad on the weekends growing up in Tulsa was my favorite thing on the planet and basically the reason I wanted to become a journalist. But like everything else in digital disruption that seeks to “make the world a be
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by GWSchulz 7y ago
If you've never hiked through one, they are quintessential American excess. I know for many of you, their locations are Flyover Country. But actually embark from your stopover next time and spend a full weekend experiencing it. I'