Crambe Repetita #114 - August 9, 2019
Welcome to a newsletter of recommendations from Todd L. Burns. In every email, I suggest some things that I find interesting. Maybe you will too…
Listen
Cocteau Twins meets Lou Harrison meets Mono.
Read
Tim Wu Explains Why Facebook Should be Broken Up
Better than the headline suggests, the author dismantles Facebook’s main arguments one-by-one with impunity.
Most people who have studied the Russian interference in the last election suggest that one of the problems is that you just had a couple of big targets. What would Putin have done 20 years ago in the days of the more chaotic internet? Go put some ads on Craigslist or something to try and manipulate votes? When there are just a few choke points, just a few points of control, that's when you're vulnerable to foreign interference.
Look
President Nixon at the Grand Ole Opry, Learning How To Yo-Yo
Here’s him behind the ivories there, too, looking like he’s getting away with something.
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