Submission + - Tracy Kidder, Author of "The Soul of a New Machine", has died.

Submitted by wiredog
wiredog writes: Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New Machine" has died at the age of 80.

"The Soul of a New Machine" is about the people who designed and built the Data General Nova, one of the 32 bit superminis that were released in the 1980's, just before the PC destroyed that industry. It was excerpted in The Atlantic.

"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

Submission + - Stephen Colbert to Write Next Lord of the Rings Movie (cnn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Stephen Colbert already has a new job lined up for when he ends his 11-year run as host of “The Late Show” in May – the comedian and well-known J.R.R. Tolkien superfan announced he will co-write and develop a new film in the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” franchise.

Colbert joined “LOTR” director Peter Jackson to reveal the news in a video announcement.

“I’m pretty happy about it. You know what the books mean to me and what your films mean to me,” the late-night host told Jackson, who led the Oscar-winning team behind the nearly $6 billion original “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies.

Submission + - Wikilaundering: London PR Firm Rewrites Wikipedia for Govts and Billionaires (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Founded by Keir Starmer's Comms chief, Portland helps rich clients 'protect their reputation' — with a shady, off-the-books service.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism just exposed the ugly truth: Wikipedia is corrupt to its core

You do not get information. You get propaganda.... articles manipulated by the highest bidder, billionaires, PR firms, and woke activists

Here’s exactly how the rot works:
  Shadow Network: London-based PR firms like Portland Communications run secret “black hat” editors and middlemen to bypass every rule

  Reputation Scrubbing on Steroids: They delete scandals, human rights abuses, and even controversial Epstein files for powerful politicians...... while scrubbing migrant worker deaths and slave labor scandals for Qatar, covering up ties to terrorists, and burying corporate crimes for billionaire clients

  The Price of Truth: Billionaires and corporations pay huge money to bury failures and push lies while their “achievements” sit at the top

  Gatekeeping at Scale: A tiny insider group controls what billions see as “fact”

Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia. It’s a bought-and-paid-for propaganda brochure run for the elite and woke activists.

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