U.S. Government Releases “Proof” of U.S. Election Hacking by Russians

Gary Markstein, as above. Edit: Original post still below, but I’ve been informed by several of the Threat Researchers with whom I work that this report is not supposed to be considered as the government’s proof, merely things that organisations can use in order to protect themselves. With that understood, it still furthers a narrative […]

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The Despicable Alternative

Meme by me. Among the “intelligent left”, it is said that it is “better to elect a corrupt politician than a madman”, referring obviously to their preference of Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. While I don’t think that Donald Trump should be president, the problem with the supposition that he is a madman, is that […]

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On the Ill Health of Hillary

Dr. Drew Pinsky has come out as gravely concerned for Hillary’s health care. There’s a Youtube video of the conversation he’s had; some website has also taken down a page where he put up the supposition originally. I mentioned this on Google Plus, and from a Hillary apologist I got the standard response that any […]

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On Animal Spirits

Here’s the thing with Keynesian economics: animal spirits, like regular animals, sometimes come back to bite you. Keynes chose to believe that humans worked based on “a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities”, which he called “animal spirits”. […]

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