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Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
On Banning the Intellectually Dishonest
Regarding banning talk show hosts who are consistently intellectually dishonest. The censoring stuff is the wrong way to go about it, the problem is these guys have an amplifier that shoots messages at 100x the volume of normal individuals – … Continue reading
Twitter Doesn’t Get Design
To quote myself: The right play is for Twitter to save the dollars its wasting on the presentation layer and just shut it down. Instead, it should just provide its firehose data flow (ideally also driven by distributed tweet inputs) … Continue reading
Botnet Command Via Twitter
While digging around I found a botnet that uses Twitter as its command and control structure. Basically what it does is use the status messages to send out new links to contact, then these contain new commands or executables to … Continue reading
Moving Servers
I’m moving servers. Things could get messy and there could be some downtime. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
For Ratings
In one murder after another, the “Canal Livre” crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim. Brazilian host of “Canal Livre” has been accused of murder and drug trafficking. … Continue reading