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Nov 28, 2020

Facebook Is Dead (It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet)

Ihad a strange moment last week that helped me realize that Facebook — the social media platform I’ve used for more than a decade — is about to go extinct. And, like the dodo bird and carrier pigeon, it probably doesn’t see it coming. I have the privilege of teaching Sunday…

Data Science

7 min read

Nov 28, 2020

An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26 Million

On a fateful Saturday morning, Marge Selbee walked into the kitchen to fire up a pot of coffee. Her husband, Jerry, was drawing on a notepad. Numbers and formulas danced across his page like a stiff-armed ballerina. This wasn’t unusual for him. Sipping on coffee, Marge turned to him, “What are you…

Health

4 min read

Nov 28, 2020

How Western Media (and others) are STILL failing Ethiopia

Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. Just to give you an idea of the man, he…

Money

11 min read