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Alex Pasternack ♼

@pasternack

still human in the strange loop • writing /editing /producing // map /territory / power defense & cyber etc⟴ editor @ FastCo / cofounder Motherboard, Bandwagon
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New: Iran has its own satellite. Russia is feeding Tehran imagery. China's commercial constellations are unrestricted.

For @CJR I wrote about the current, unprecedented blackout of US satellite imagery—and the journalists & researchers it actually impacts cjr.org/feature/blind-…
www.cjr.org Blind spots. A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to work—and challenged official narratives.
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Unsealed in NM’s landmark $25b Cambridge Analytica case against Meta/Facebook was an urgent plea from Sacha Baron Cohen to Sheryl Sandberg. The email exchange that followed is revealing—and an opportunity to survey all the wreckage fastcompany.com/91613679/fake-…
www.fastcompany.com 'Except perhaps for Mark': Internal emails show Facebook split over fake news plea from Sacha Baron... Newly released emails show the comedian pressed the tech giant in 2016 to label falsehoods and crack down on Holocaust denial.
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New: USA Today Co.'s CEO tells me why the nation's largest newspaper chain tapped Palantir to help it mine reader data ("We're actually an intelligence organization now"), how it's responding to a newsroom revolt, and what it hopes to get from all the AI: fastcompany.com/91608398/usa-t…
www.fastcompany.com 'We're actually an intelligence organization now': Inside USA Today's AI-fueled Palantir deal The newspaper giant's leaders on saving journalism with AI and the furor over Palantir, which is helping target readers, speed up publishing, and more.
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The Kremlin’s spent years spreading fears about US-funded bio labs outside its borders, like one I wrote about in Kazakhstan (popsci.com/technology/art…). Actually, they’re a defense against plague—and the risk of a covered-up bio-weapon leak, like the one in Sverdlovsk in 1979
www.popsci.com Why The U.S. Is Building A High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab In Kazakhstan When Kazakhstan's Central Reference Laboratory opens in September 2015, the $102-million project laboratory will serve as a Central Asian way station for a global war on dangerous disease.
Ashish K. Jha Verified account @ashishkjha Oct 5
Many of you have been tracking the Irkutsk lab situation over the last few days.

I've been gathering facts and trying to understand what is happening before weighing in.

Now that I have, I have to say — I'm concerned

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