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“If that story was untrue, I would have written it to be a lot better,” Daniels said of her encounter with Trump. “You have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real,” Necheles asked. “You’re celebrating the indictment by selling things from your store,” Necheles asked. “Not unlike Mr. Trump,” Daniels responded. Prosecutor Josh Steinglass said Trump was aware of the “messy details” of the encounter in 2016 and that shows motive for the hush money payment and cover up.

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☆ For Thomas Hirschhorn, Handmade Art Keeps Us Human
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Travis Diehl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gladstone Gallery looks like a war zone, the aftermath of a Call of Duty gaming session gone bad, the virtual gunmen downing Red Bull and chain smoking over their keyboards, until a bomb came through the roof. Energy drink cans made of tinfoil and mounds of cigarettes fashioned from plastic foam litter the paper desktops. The cardboard monitors, many of them spiderwebbed with cuts, sport color printouts of screenshots from first-person shooters and photos of unnamed but real war-torn cities. The installation, “Fake It, Fake It — Till You Fake It,” features plenty of charming, even funny details, like a box of plastic foam pizza slices or a couple of “I Heart NY” mugs. Hirschhorn warns of the weaponization of artificial intelligence and social media, represented by virtual forms of war — news feeds and games alike.

Persons: Gladstone, Thomas Hirschhorn Organizations: Red Bull, Energy Locations: Swiss

☆ Biden backers rev up write-in campaign in New Hampshire to avoid loss
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

For an incumbent president, primary races -- the state-by-state competitions that nominate a political party's official presidential candidate -- are normally a perfunctory affair. Pro-Biden Democrats' volunteer-focused effort, with just a $100,000 budget, will encourage primary voters to put Biden's name on the New Hampshire ballot. Lyndon B. Johnson, then the Democratic incumbent, shunned the New Hampshire primary in 1968 due to over-confidence, only to see an insurgent campaign from Minnesota, U.S. Biden write-in organizers have largely settled on asking voters to write in "Joe Biden," but believe that other names like "President Biden" and "President Biden and Vice President Harris" satisfy a state law that says to count the vote if the reasonable intent of the voter is clear. "They're gonna use this as a way to say, look, we are good Democrats and organized this to protect President Biden," Smith said.

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☆ Paranoid Bridgewater employees ventured into the woods to take some calls — until a rumor spread that the company was looking into installing listening devices in the trees, a new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Grace Dean | Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some staff at Bridgewater Associates took personal calls in the woods so their employer couldn't listen in, a new book says. This stopped when a rumor claimed the firm might install devices in the trees, per "The Fund." AdvertisementAdvertisementSome employees at Ray Dalio's investment-management firm Bridgewater Associates took non-work calls in the woods near their offices because they were worried about their employer listening in, according to a new book. This practice stopped, though, when a rumor claimed that the firm was looking into installing devices in the trees that could intercept calls, per the book. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt added that the company "did not investigate installing 'devices in the trees.'"

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☆ 2 female small-business founders share how they cracked the code on successful lead magnets — a win-win for your customers and company profits
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Erin Greenawald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Known as a lead magnet, the gift should be tied to the value your company offers. Develop and market a lead magnet like any other product or service. Insider spoke with small-business owners about what they'd learned about making a lead magnet successful. When brainstorming ideas for lead magnets, Louise considers what made her opt in to other companies' lead magnets. Lead magnets can also be an effective tool for segmenting and reengaging existing email subscribers, Louise said.

Persons: SBOs, Jenn Robbins, Ashley Louise, Louise, they'd, Robbins, what's, they're Organizations: Small, Service, Google Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ 4 steps to level up after you've set the groundwork to become a 6-figure content creator
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Zulie Rane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Zulie Rane makes six figures as a content creator. But when you're burgeoning into a full-time content creator, you absolutely will require a personal brand. All you really need for a home office as a content creator is a desk, a phone, and a closed-off area. I was ready to take my YouTube content to the next level. Zulie Rane is a full timc content creator.

Persons: Zulie Rane, Rane, —, it's, Nick Wolny Organizations: Service, YouTube, Research Locations: Boston

Reuters has reviewed more than 50 of the documents, labeled "Secret" and "Top Secret" but has not independently verified their authenticity. This could help investigators focus their effort, though many people could have had access to these documents. Some images also depict printouts of documents with time stamps at the top right corners showing when they were printed. One of the leaked documents rests on a table and in the right corner of the picture is what appears to be a bottle of Gorilla super glue. U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday that they have not ruled out the possibility that the documents may have been doctored.

☆ George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It's time to call him what he is: 'A liar.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Two former CIA officials spoke to Insider before the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. They gave a firsthand account of the George W. Bush administration's attempts to misrepresent intelligence and assert a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The closest they came was this alleged, and apparently nonexistent, help that Iraq gave al-Qaeda [via Atta] in bringing about the attacks. Alice: Today, people say that Bush was looking to justify the invasion of Iraq. Pretty soon it became clear that the administration was focused on this alleged meeting between Atta and Iraqi intelligence in Prague.

Bored Ape Yacht Club was not the biggest crypto phenomenon, but it was one of the top beneficiaries of celebrity hype. The Bored Apes — a computer-generated collection of 10,000 cartoons — were being presented as a status symbol, membership in an exclusive club. Yuga sued Ripps for trademark infringement, and argues that his maligning of the Yuga apes is nothing more than a profiteering tactic. Hickman, who is Black, thought the Bored Apes looked like stereotypical portrayals of Black people as stupid or lazy. He said he thought this would be obvious to most people the second they saw an image of a Bored Ape.

☆ Jeff Bezos' leadership style propelled him to become one of the richest men in the world. Here's what you can learn from it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Former CEO Jeff Bezos, who stepped down in late 2021, led with a slogan of step ferociously. After he predicted that ecommerce was about to take off, Bezos founded Amazon as an online book retailer in 1994. According to the man himself, the value that "surprises people" is Amazon's fourth leadership principle: "are right, a lot." "No PowerPoints are used inside of Amazon," Bezos has said. Bezos ran elements of Amazon like a startup, such as being notoriously frugal when it came to company expenses.

Hacking and repressionAfter Nika went missing, her aunt and other protesters told CNN that her popular Instagram and Telegram accounts had been disabled. On October 12, two of Nika’s friends noticed her Telegram account briefly back online, they told CNN. As with Negin’s case, the reactivation of Nika’s accounts raises questions about whether Iranian authorities were responsible for accessing her social media profiles, allegedly to phish other protesters or compromise her after her death. “Usually what happens is, they do the target phone number, then they send a login request to Telegram,” Rashidi told CNN. However, references in Iranian state media indicate authorities did access Nika’s Instagram account and direct messages, stating they had permission from the judiciary to access them.

Since the early days of the invasion, Mr. Putin has conceded, privately, that the war has not gone as planned. “I think he is sincerely willing” to compromise with Russia, Mr. Putin said of Mr. Zelensky in 2019. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. “I think this war is Putin’s grave.” Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October.

☆ Inside Elon Musk's first day as leader of Twitter: Cancelled meetings, fake layoffs, orders to print out code, and a team of Musk advisers camped out in a separate part of the company's HQ.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Twitter employees predicted chaos after Elon Musk took over the company. Musk entered Twitter's San Francisco HQ carrying a bathroom sink, a joke about his ownership "sinking in." Meanwhile, engineers from Tesla were in Twitter's San Francisco office, some meeting individually with Twitter engineers, asking them about their work and some technical aspects of the platform. Musk worked on Friday at Twitter's San Francisco HQ with a small team he brought in to assist him in taking over the operations, people familiar with the matter said. Later in the day, he said "comedy is now legal on Twitter" and then separately tweeted an apparent joke about the two men who faked being laid off Twitter engineers.

☆ As Big Law looks to tech to help draft legal briefs and log billing hours, top firms like Orrick and Shearman & Sterling are using AI to fast-track work on M&A deals
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Top Big Law firms like Shearman & Sterling, White & Case, and Orrick use artificial intelligence. AI tools by companies like Thomson Reuters, Litera, and Evisort are helping firms manage M&A work. Shearman & Sterling uses a wide variety of AI tools for different uses — one of the firm's go-tos for deals due diligence is Kira, a tool owned by Litera, a document-technology company that works with law firms. Even more said that over the next five years, they expected most M&A work at their firms to be supported by AI. The company uses tools such as Brainspace and Relativity, Janet Sullivan, the firm's global director of practice technology, said.

☆ Alex Jones' billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Collman | Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

Robbie Parker was later falsely called a crisis actor, and the Parkers are among those who sued Alex Jones for defamation. Longtime informal adviser to Donald Trump, Roger Stone (right), and and Alex Jones (left) speak to reporters in December 2018. Picture showing a computer screen displaying the Twitter account of Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones taken on August 15, 2018 in Washington DC. "Alex Jones is likely to continue being Alex Jones, which means he's likely to try all kinds of shenanigans to avoid accountability," said Holt. "The money awarded in damages does not repair what Alex Jones has done to those parents' lives, but it could be a step towards dismantling the toxic empire that Alex Jones has built around his brand."

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