Wednesday, November 16, 2016

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U.S.

Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, MARK MAZZETTI and MAGGIE HABERMAN | Nov 15th 2016
The uncertain start to what is normally a rapid and meticulously planned transfer of power could have big implications for the Trump administration.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES 

Noise.   
The coup continues.
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." 

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U.S.

Donald Trump Is Picking His Cabinet. Here’s a Shortlist.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Nov 12th 2016
A list of possibilities for key posts in the new administration.

A list of deplorable people.

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Opinion

Steve ‘Turn On the Hate’ Bannon, in the White House

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Nov 15th 2016
White nationalism has no place in the West Wing.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES; RACE AND ETHNICITY; EDITORIALS 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism
Racism is deeply embedded in both the north and the south.

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U.S.

Trump Transition Nominates No One — But Does Name Inaugural Committee

By JASON HOROWITZ, HELENE COOPER, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ADAM GOLDMAN | Nov 15th 2016
The jockeying for positions in the Trump administration is exposing frayed nerves and lingering anger.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT 

King Trump?
Few want to be courtiers. 

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Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial

By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI | Nov 15th 2016
From fake news stories to ideological bubbles, Facebook is having a corrosive effect on our society. It needs to be fixed.
NEWS AND NEWS MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA; LYING; COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET 

"If anything, Facebook has been moving in the wrong direction. It recently fired its (already too few) editors responsible for weeding out fake news from its trending topics section. Unsurprisingly, the section was then flooded with even more spurious articles."

Facebook is a rumor mill.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rumor_mill#English 

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U.S.

Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say

By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT | Nov 15th 2016
Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they talk to and what they write in texts.
SMARTPHONES; COMPUTER SECURITY; TEXT MESSAGING 

Nowhere is Samsung, Alcatel or Nokia.mentioned. 

https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=back+door
No mention in a broad search on slashdot.

https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=Adups


Micromax Remotely Installing Unwanted Apps and Showing Ads 50

Different news: 

Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation (techcrunch.com) 112

Posted by msmash from the boom dept.
Microsoft today said it is joining the Linux Foundation as a high-paying Platinum member. Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin said, "This may come as a surprise to you, but they were not big fans," describing the two's previous relationship. From a report on TechCrunch: The new Microsoft under CEO Satya Nadella, however, is singing a very different tune. Today's Microsoft is one of the biggest open source contributors around. Over the course of just the last few years, it has essentially built Canonical's Ubuntu distribution into Windows 10, brought SQL Server to Linux, open-sourced core parts of its .NET platform and partnered with Red Hat, SUSE and others. As Zemlin noted, Microsoft has also contributed to a number of Linux Foundation-managed projects like Node.js, OpenDaylight, the Open Container Initiative, the R Consortium and the Open API Initiative.ArsTechnica has more details.

Microsoft surrenders.

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U.S.

Critics See Stephen Bannon, Trump’s Pick for Strategist, as Voice of Racism

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT | Nov 14th 2016
People took to Twitter to lament what they said was a frightening normalization of the fringe views that Mr. Bannon promoted as the chairman of Breitbart News.
UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES 

Stephen Bannon is a populist and thus a racist.

He is also an advocate of "soft money"
The House Republicans are "hard money" believers.
The Republican battle against Harry Hopkins is bitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hopkins

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Sports

Columbia Suspends Wrestling Season Over Lewd and Racist Text Messages

By SETH BERKMAN | Nov 14th 2016
The Lions are barred from competing while the university investigates texts sent by team members that included the use of racist, misogynistic and homophobic terms.
WRESTLING; COLLEGE ATHLETICS 

Guilty.

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U.S.

Stephen Bannon and Breitbart News, in Their Words

By DANIEL VICTOR and LIAM STACK | Nov 14th 2016
A look at the words of Stephen K. Bannon, the new chief White House strategist to President-elect Donald J. Trump.

"Archie Bunker" with web skills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Bunker

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Business Day

Gwen Ifill, Political Reporter and Co-Anchor of ‘PBS NewsHour,’ Dies at 61

By SAM ROBERTS | Nov 14th 2016
Ms. Ifill reported for The Washington Post, The New York Times and NBC News before becoming a PBS presence and debate moderator.
NEWS AND NEWS MEDIA; DEATHS (OBITUARIES) 

The cause was complications of uterine cancer, her brother Roberto said.

She is Missed.

The work must go on.

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Fashion & Style

Ivanka Trump Blurs the Line Between Professional and Political

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN | Nov 15th 2016
Promoting a bracelet from her own brand that she wore during her father’s “60 Minutes” interview, the incoming first daughter raises some eyebrows.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; FASHION AND APPAREL

Ivanka will have to behave herself.

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U.S.

As Transition Pace Picks Up, Trump Nears Cabinet Nominations

By ALAN RAPPEPORT, ERIC LICHTBLAU, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ADAM LIPTAK | Nov 14th 2016
A week after his stunning election victory, the president elect is closing in on picks for posts such as the secretaries of state and of the Treasury, and attorney general.

No progress I can find.

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Technology

Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites

By NICK WINGFIELD, MIKE ISAAC and KATIE BENNER | Nov 14th 2016
After criticism that they might have allowed fake news to influence the 2016 election, the companies are banning such sites from using their advertising services.
FRAUDS AND SWINDLING; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; ONLINE ADVERTISING; COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET

Facebook will continue to put "click bait" text in individual "news" feeds.

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Opinion

The Life and Example of Gwen Ifill

By DAVID BROOKS | Nov 15th 2016
She has left a chasm, which nobody else can fill up and which nobody has a tendency to fill.
NEWS AND NEWS MEDIA; BLACKS; DISCRIMINATION; DEATHS (FATALITIES)

David Brooks can sing.

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U.S.

Rudolph Giuliani’s Business Ties Viewed as Red Flag for Secretary of State Job

By MARK LANDLER, ERIC LIPTON and JO BECKER | Nov 15th 2016
Mr. Giuliani, a loyal supporter of President-elect Donald J. Trump, would be a startling choice to be the nation’s chief diplomat, given his background.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

I am relieved he cannot serve in diplomacy.

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Fashion & Style

When Melania Trump Met Michelle Obama, Their Clothes Did Some of the Talking

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN | Nov 11th 2016
The first lady wore a dress by Narciso Rodriguez, the son of immigrants; the future first lady wore a black sheath dress and Christian Louboutin heels.
FASHION AND APPAREL; PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016

A designed product met with a natural designer.

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Magazine

A Time for Refusal

By TEJU COLE | Nov 11th 2016
On the necessity of resisting the new normal.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; RHINOCEROSES

Yes.

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U.S.

Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ALAN RAPPEPORT | Nov 13th 2016
The appointments created rival centers of power and elevated the voice of Mr. Bannon, whose longtime website, Breitbart News, has traded in conspiracy theories
and sometimes racist messages.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; APPOINTMENTS AND EXECUTIVE CHANGES; UNITED STATES POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

There will be no peace in the Republican party. 

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Business Day

Megyn Kelly’s Cautionary Tale of Crossing Donald Trump

By JIM RUTENBERG | Nov 15th 2016
While discussing her new book, the Fox News anchor describes her initial run-in with Donald J. Trump as “prescient” and warns fellow journalists to remain vigilant while covering the Trump White House.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016; NEWS AND NEWS MEDIA; SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Trump is president elect.
Science

‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found

By WILLIAM J. BROAD | Nov 11th 2016
Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels in the Black Sea, some more than a millennium old, shedding light on early empires and trade routes.
SHIPWRECKS (HISTORIC)

Let us have more pictures.

The federal government may be suffering a shipwreck.
The wreckers must be led to fight among themselves
until they can be removed.
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