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I'm Paul Wright, a software engineer based in Cambridge, England. You can now find my public blog on my own site: http://www.noctua.org.uk/blog/. See you over there.

QAnon Is More Important Than You Think – The Atlantic

QAnon conspiracy has the makings of a new religious movement. Fascinating and worrying.
(tags: conspiracy qanon trump evangelicalism)

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The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound

(tags: banking history economics finance soros erm Europe)

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post modern C tooling – draft 5

(tags: tools programming C)

‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit | Books | The Guardian

“At 87, le Carré is publishing his 25th novel. He talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy”
(tags: spies intelligence MI5 MI6 le-carre politics)

The New Zealand Shootings: The Untold Stories | GQ

A moving account of the shootings and their aftermath. Via Metafilter.
(tags: shooting terrorism racism new-zealand)

How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics | The New Yorker

Introducing Derren Brown to the Americans. Via Mefi.
(tags: magic derren-brown mentalism)

WSJ, WaPo, NYT Spread False Internet Law Claims | Cato @ Liberty

Rebutting nonsense about the supposed publisher/platform distinction in Section 230 of the US’s Communications Decency Act. From the Cato Institute, so can’t be dismissed as leftist propaganda.
(tags: law censorship internet)

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Supreme Court ruling is the natural result of Boris Johnson’s constitutional vandalism | News | The Times

Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court ruling: Parliament is the forum for compromise. Boris Johnson tried to circumvent it. So the judges had to make its role explicit.
(tags: law brexit court boris-johnson)

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‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’ – POLITICO Magazine

Oral history of the events of 9/11. Odd that the USAF doesn’t seem to have the equivalent of the RAF’s QRA fighters (although there’s clearly a lot more country to cover).
(tags: hijacking 911 transcript history)

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The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History | WIRED

“It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind.”
(tags: russia hacking Security)

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The great university con: how the British degree lost its value

Perverse incentives and grade inflation.
(tags: academia degree university oxbridge)

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‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain | Politics | The Guardian

Weirdly wants to make “remainist” a thing, but otherwise interesting.
(tags: brexit remain politics)

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Information Theory for Intelligent People

(a play on the “for Dummies” series).
(tags: entropy communication shannon information mathematics)

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