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In reply to Ambar. Ambar, Thank you so much for writing. I’m glad to hear she had a positive effect on your life, and only regret that you had to hear of her passing in this way, and so much after the fact. I miss her a great deal. I think about …

My sincere condolences, just learned about this while trying to find her to reconnect with her. She was an amazing woman and I always viewed her as a “rock star” She gave me strength and courage I didn’t even know I had. LikeLike

[…] In a post I wrote about a month ago, I promised a series on Big Data, focused on Firmin DeBrabander’s book, Life After Privacy. Here’s part (2), a response to what I regard as DeBrabander’s excessively victim-blaming account of Big Data’s hol…

Started from the bottom, now we’re here… –Drake The Democrats, setting the standards for the next election: Asked about concerns some Americans have about Mr. Biden’s age, Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Biden had the “most successful legislative record of any president since Lyndon Johnson,” citing achievements on infrastructure and gun policy.…