Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Emma Watson Naked Photo Countdown Was The Work Of Serial Internet Hoaxers:

The media blames a viral marketing company for the stunt, but the truth is far more disturbing.

Here’s the thing, if you’re threatening to leak nudes of someone, and you don’t have any actual intent to, but you don’t *tell* anyone that. Isn’t it still a threat? Isn’t the intended chilling effect on someone’s speech and actions still there for the duration of the hoax? And isn’t the fundamental point of such an act, to make others think twice about speaking out, still the case?

What I’m saying is… does it really *matter* if 4chan was threatening with intent or some pranksters were threatening without intent? Isn’t it still fundamentally abusing others for power? Is it any less wrong because there were no photos to release?

‘Our Love’ by Caribou
Here’s a little something to help you have a chill weekend!

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“White House press-pool reports are supposed to be the news media’s eyes and ears on the president, an independent chronicle of his public activities. They are written by reporters for other reporters, who incorporate them into news articles about President Obama almost every day.

Sometimes, however, the White House plays an unseen role in shaping the story.”

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– Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports.

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“Our survey of GSB alumni identified large valuations of zero-revenue businesses as the most concerning observation in the tech sector today. Perhaps these concerns stem from scars caused by the dotcom bust that these alumni lived through shortly after graduating; when companies went bankrupt in flocks as funding dried up and negligible revenues had no chance of supporting hefty operating costs.

The tech sector has had a remarkable run in the last 14 years. Nearly every business leader and investor we interviewed anticipates some kind of correction in the next 2 to 3 years”

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– Here’s what Stanford MBAs think about the tech bubble.