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Jozef Imrich, name worthy of Kafka, has his finger on the pulse of any irony of interest and shares his findings to keep you in-the-know with the savviest trend setters and infomaniacs.
''I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.''
-Kurt Vonnegut
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Wired – “The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.
Multiple staffers at a Trump-aligned policy think tank have burrowed their way into the US Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data and have contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections ahead of the midterms. In August, the Census Bureau published an anonymously authored reporttitled “Noncitizen Voting in the 2020 Election: A Beginning Analysis,” claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted in the 2020 election.
A WIRED investigation revealed that the report appeared to employ faulty methodology, casting its conclusions into doubt, and that two of its authors work for the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with deep ties to the Trump administration.
Now WIRED has found that the two authors are part of a larger team, made up almost entirely of AFPI members, who have been detailed to the Census Bureau and given access to its data. The Census Bureau is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.
Experts and Census employees who spoke to WIRED worry that the noncitizen voting report is the first salvo in Census data possibly being used to undermine the results of the upcoming midterms or the 2028 presidential election.
A Census employee who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity says that there has historically been “nothing close” to what AFPI is doing at the bureau. “Frankly, it’s disrespectful to the institution,” they say. The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to cast doubt on the accuracy of Census data in order to reshape elections.
Earlier this year, WIRED reported that the Department of Commerce, which oversees the bureau, was circulating a rule changethat would eliminate noncitizens from being counted in the Census, a move that could drastically reshape how Congressional districts are drawn. Republicans also took aim at a little-known statistical method called differential privacy that is used to protect the privacy of individual respondents, alleging that it makes the Census count inaccurate in ways that favor Democrats in congressional apportionment..”
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Birthday wishes From Sydney to High Tatras
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
~ William Shakespeare
Happy Birthday 🎈 Wishing you a beautiful day and many blessings for the year ahead. 🎂
May your birthdays be the start of a year filled with new opportunities, accomplishments, and endless joy…
From Jozef Imrich and William Shakespeare 🫶
"Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake."
~ Jozef Imrich
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
~ Lucille Ball
"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."
~ Larry Lorenzoni
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
~ Jack Benny
"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."
~ George William Curtis
"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."
~ Mark Twain
"As men get older, the toys get more expensive."
~ Marvin Davis
"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."
~ Helen Hayes
"You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime."
~ John Grier
"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
~ Chili Davis
When I have a birthday, I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off."
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Elon Musk attacks film-maker behind documentary about him
Is there anything more to know about the world’s richest man? And more importantly, do you want to know it? Elon Musk is such a titanic figure—in both the size and the shipwreck sense—that Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary Musk, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday and heads next to Toronto before opening in U.S. theaters on Oct. 16, doesn’t have enough space to be comprehensive. (Where, for example, is the fact that Musk, according to the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, bears such an intense antipathy for the number nine that he wouldn’t allow it to appear on Tesla’s website?) And it’s far too long for the casually interested, if there is anyone left who has not yet formed an opinion of this messianic monster. But perhaps it is for those who know that Musk is bad, but not how bad, or who don’t quite grasp how he, and we, got to the point where he became one of history’s most powerful figures, and one of its most unhinged.
The Alex Gibney documentary presents a power-hungry megalomaniacal con man with a god complex. The Tesla and SpaceX chief is not happy about it.
The documentary details how Elon Musk supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election because “tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix”. AP
