2023-07-02

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Markets and Speech: Where Does the Public Reside?
(June 8 2023) Why NYT, WaPo, Politico Didn’t Publish a Seemingly Bombshell Report About UFOs

“Though we were interested in the submission, the authors insisted on a guaranteed publication date that would not have allowed us to complete our process and meet our standards.” The writers’ apparent time constraints have only raised more questions. “To be clear -- the Washington Post did not pass on our story,” Kean wrote on Facebook Monday. “Ralph and I took it to the Debrief because we were under growing pressure to publish it very quickly.” Blumenthal told me that circumstances—including that Grusch’s identity as the whistleblower had leaked out on the internet—pushed them to “publish sooner than we’d hoped.” “If there had been no leaks, it might’ve been different,” Blumenthal said. But “people on the internet were spreading stories Dave was getting harassing phone calls and we felt the only way to protect him was to get the story out.”

Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany | Hacker News

From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users. This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M.
Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
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