The accounts displayed tweets telling followers to send bitcoin to a specific address.
Share prices were down more than 5% in Thursday's premarket.
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The accounts displayed tweets telling followers to send bitcoin to a specific address.
Share prices were down more than 5% in Thursday's premarket.
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The Assange hearing was adjourned after its first full week, and its resumption has since been delayed by coronavirus. In that first full week, both the prosecution and the defence outlined their legal arguments over the indictment. As I reported in detail to an audience of millions, Assange's legal team fairly well demolished the key arguments of the prosecution during that hearing.
This extract from my report of the Defence case is of particular relevance to what has since happened:
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Gary Garrels; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Gary Garrels; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) promoted its commitment to social justice in a public statement, and even established the position of "Director of diversity, inclusion, and belonging" at the end of June.
But all this talk of "inclusion" did little to save a longtime curator from having to resign after saying the museum "will definitely still continue to collect white artists."
Gary Garrels, who the media has called one of the most prominent curators in the country, made the comment at the end of a meeting about the museum's move to acquire more works from artists of color following the death of George Floyd. He also said that banning white artists from the institution would be a form of "reverse discrimination."
Comment: Obviously an extremist position to take...
His comments prompted several former employees to start a petition demanding Garrels resign or be fired from his position. The petitioners specifically focused on the term 'reverse discrimination', calling it "white supremacist and racist language."
Comment: These people are sick in the head.
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The children’s special needs may have made it particularly difficult for them to cope with the closure of schools.
The children’s special needs may have made it particularly difficult for them to cope with the closure of schools.
Sarah Hammond, the county's director of integrated children's services, said ordinarily two or three children might be expected to take their lives over 12 months.
All five of the children had special needs, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which may have made it particularly difficult for them to cope without the routine of school, she said.
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"There's this new, weird sort of fascism of people thinking they know what you can say and what you can't," Gervais said in an interview with talkRADIO. "There's this new trendy myth that people who want free speech want to say awful things all the time. This just isn't true. It protects everyone."
Gervais also bemoaned the growing level of exaggeration across the political divide, a trend he says is worsened by social media."If you're mildly left-wing on Twitter, you're suddenly Trotsky, right?" he said. "If you're mildly conservative, you're Hitler and if your centrist and you look at both arguments, you're a coward."
Comment: Gervais is becoming the modern version of George Carlin, skewering fake Hollywood virtue signaling and throwing the truth in their faces. His Golden Globes monologue earlier this year is a must watch for anyone who wants to see what a courageous social commentator looks like:
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Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan, NY.
Black Lives Matter protest in Manhattan, NY.
The 7-0 vote came the night of July 14.
"Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today," said Councilman Keith Young, one of two African American members of the body and the measure's chief proponent.
"It is simply not enough to remove statutes. Black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature.
The unanimously passed resolution does not mandate direct payments. Instead, it will make investments in areas where Black residents face disparities.
Comment: The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island has also signed an order to pursue reparations for Black and Native American residents.
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The Sacramento Bee, the Orlando Sentinel, the Houston Chronicle and a number of other city papers across the US have curtailed the practice of publishing "mugshot slideshows," image galleries showing booking photos of arrested individuals who haven't yet been convicted of crimes.
With exceptions for celebrity mugshots, suspected serial killers, "threats to public safety," and "hate crime" suspects, the move is intended to counter racial stereotypes about criminality.
The papers have a point about the galleries' lack of context - a wordless array of scowling black and brown faces may indeed give the false impression that this is what all criminals look like. Some of the most destructive and dangerous criminals, the ones stealing your (or your parents') retirement savings or bombing civilians in the Middle East are unlikely to ever appear in one of these "rogues' galleries" (or, alas, to be arrested at all). And publishing a person's mugshot before they're even tried for a crime does impinge on the prisoner's constitutional right to the presumption of innocence.
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A combination photograph showing an image purporting to be of British student and freelance writer Oliver Taylor (L) and a heat map of the same photograph produced by Tel Aviv-based deepfake detection company Cyabra is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters. The heat map, which was produced using one of Cyabra's algorithms, highlights areas of suspected computer manipulation. The digital inconsistencies were one of several indicators used by experts to determine that Taylor was an online mirage.
A combination photograph showing an image purporting to be of British student and freelance writer Oliver Taylor (L) and a heat map of the same photograph produced by Tel Aviv-based deepfake detection company Cyabra is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters. The heat map, which was produced using one of Cyabra's algorithms, highlights areas of suspected computer manipulation. The digital inconsistencies were one of several indicators used by experts to determine that Taylor was an online mirage.
Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism and Jewish affairs, with bylines in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
The catch? Oliver Taylor seems to be an elaborate fiction.
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NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan bandages his pinky fingers which he injured during a scuffle with protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge today.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan bandages his pinky fingers which he injured during a scuffle with protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge today.
Surveillance video shows an unidentified man on the bridge's walkway leaning over a fence and using a cane to whack cops over their heads as they arrested a counter-demonstrator against a "unity" march on the roadway.
Photos posted on the NYPD's Twitter account show the wounded cops with blood streaming from their scalps and over their faces. "The officers sustained serious injuries. This is not peaceful protest, this will not be tolerated," the department wrote.
Chief of Department Terence Monahan — the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer — suffered a broken finger during the clashes on the bridge, sources said.
Video shows Monahan climbing the fence to trade blows with an anti-cop activist during a wild brawl on the walkway between counter-demonstrators and uniformed bicycle cops.
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Other NYPD officers were also injured during the scuffle, including Lt. Richard Mack (right), from NYPD's Strategic Response Group
Other NYPD officers were also injured during the scuffle, including Lt. Richard Mack (right), from NYPD's Strategic Response Group
Comment: The consequences show how wise it was to change the rules of engagement in the middle of a pandemic and a civil protest movement.
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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
"There is no need to worry, Hagia Sophia will be guarded as it used to. We sign a protocol, which says it will be preserved as a global heritage site in compliance with international standards. Restoration works in the buildings will be accelerated. Foreign tourists will be able to attend Hagia Sophia free of charge,"The Diyanet head, Ali Erbas, added that the Turkish government expects an increased flow of visitors to Hagia Sophia.
"Hagia Sophia is a heritage of the entire humanity, it is one of the best historical and cultural sites, and we feel honoured to preserve it. I believe that the number of people coming there both for prayer and for a visit will grow to millions."
Comment: The implications of this are huge. If Twitter has a lapse in their security so massive that the former president and vice president, as well as some of the most high profile CEOs of major corporations, can have their accounts entirely taken over, think of what could happen if the hackers wanted to achieve something more nefarious than a rather transparent bitcoin scam.
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