A QAnon website shut down after a fact-checking group exposed the developer behind it
QAnon exposes pedophiles like Ms. Maxwell.
A popular site [Qmap.pub] for the dissemination of QAnon posts and ideas shut down after a fact-checking group identified the site's developer [Q].
Logically.ai, a fact-checking site, identified the "developer and mouthpiece" behind the site as Jason Gelinas [or "Q"], a New Jersey man appearing to work in IT at Citigroup.
QAnon has been gaining traction this year, with several of its supporters making a run for Congress.
A New Jersey man was identified as the developer behind a now-defunct website used to circulate far-right conspiracy theories pushed by QAnon.
The website, Qmap.pub, was abruptly shut down after fact-checking group Logically.ai revealed the man's identity.
The site reached over 10 million visitors in July [2020], Bloomberg News reported, and served as one of the main platforms of communication between QAnon supporters.
By tracing an email address from a since-deleted Facebook post asking for translation services for Q, the unknown head figure behind the fringe group, Logically was able to identify Jason Gelinas as the "developer and mouthpiece" for Qmap.pub. More
Love is a fiction we tell ourselves. It begins in the womb when momma grows fond of muttering, "That d*mn man did this to me." I overheard and, even without syntax or grammar, understood her intention.
In America searching for love is a strange thing. The creator of Match.com lost his girlfriend...she found a better match on, yes, Match.com. He considers it a triumph, as the site is meant to be very female-friendly.
Dating on each coast -- from the Great Lakes to the Keys in the Gulf, from the Jersey shore to Santa Monica and Half Moon Bay -- I ended up in the arms of a Latin-American Eurasian, who will one day produce the most beautiful babies -- blond locks on Tibetan faces.
(How To Be Single) Too smart for its own good. The smarts comes from the book it's based on, but it's dumbed down by Rebel Wilson and a very unattractive Dakota Johnson (hot in "50 Shades") who did a Felicity on her hair and ruined this venture.
The success of dating sites lies with women
Match.com founder Gary Kremen says he designed the site with women in mind. He really knew his venture was a success when his own girlfriend left him for another man she met on Match.
"You have to design the whole system for women, not men," Kremen says. "Who cares what men think? So things like security and anonymity were important. And little things, like talking about body types, not pounds. Never ask a woman her weight."
Instead of just running "a digital disco where it is easy to find lots of potential dates," Match now aspires to "get to know you, and what you want, better than you know yourself." And apparently that isn't too difficult.
A woman might say she only wants to date men in their 20s, but if she often clicks on 30-something males -- or even if users similar to her do -- Match figures she is open to older men.
"When we researched the data," says key Synapse developer Amarnath Thombre, it became clear that people's actions and their stated goals were "very different." Still, alack and alas...
Not everyone finds their love online
Despite the Synapse algorithm's notable success, "not even the most potent computers in the world, it seems, can engineer a panacea for lonely hearts," Gelles notes, or stem the disappointment that comes from meeting someone face to face who oversold him/herself online.
Plenty of Match love-seekers give up after one too many a bad date, or bad recommendations. "The Match algorithm should have figured out that I don't want a 45-year-old from New Jersey," says a 30-something professional woman from Manhattan. "Every time I log on I feel faintly insulted."
So what chance did Ziggy have? She's not Twiggy, but attractive, successful, independent, with a lot to offer. That's when she realized where she had been going wrong and how to fix it. Love is on the way. STAY TUNED
(Certify Funny) Amy Shumer, people assume she's shallow...because she's REALLY pretty. But honestly she doesn't care about her boyfriend's looks. His money is enough. Although she's thinking of getting some work done...to him. More: facebook.com,amyschumer.com
Wisdom Quarterly (April 2011) Ke$ha wrote the lyrics, Britney Spears sings them. Their advice for the end of the world? "Just dance." Translation: Don't pay attention. Add, "Make a lot of good karma," and we agree.
What if the world ends? What if it doesn't? The "world" as we know it is a series of rapidly forming and disintegrating moments. Because we do not pay close enough attention, we do not normally notice the incessant rise and fall of physical and mental phenomena. But together they form the "world." So long as there is life, there is rising and falling. This is not only true on the subatomic level, it is true on the level of history and our lives. It cannot be otherwise in the world of composite things. All things are things, composed of other things. There is only one exception -- nirvana. Liberation from all suffering is no plane (loka), condition (ayatana), heaven (sagga), or immaterial sphere (arupa loka), and yet it is not "nothingness" (akincanyayatanaupaga). What then is there to worry about? Only ignorance. The ultimate truth sets one free, whereas ignorance means bondage, incessant rebirth, and suffering. The only thing between one and the truth is a lack of absorbed-concentration (serenity) and wisdom (liberating-insight). Otherwise, change is the only constant.
Sex, coffee, alcohol, chocolate [all stimulants consumed in the hopes of relaxing] are less important to us than soothing, hypnotic screen time in front of our devices.
Americans are more connected than ever -- at least to the Internet.
A new survey by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) attempts to quantify just how much we value access to the World Wide Web. Its findings are somewhat surprising.
Asked what they would give up for a year in order to maintain access to the Internet,
21 percent of Americans said they'd forgo sex
69 percent coffee
73 percent alcohol
77 percent said they'd go a whole year without chocolate.
BCG also tried to determine in dollar terms the worth of the Internet for most people living in the US. As it turns out, US consumers would need to be paid roughly $2,500 to live without the Net for a year.
What do Americans value the most about the Internet? General search, e-mail, and access to online banking and investing.
USA compensates its war crime victims in Afghanistan The American government goes way over what it usually pays for murdered humans in an effort to mend relations after massacre and be able to keep active soldier longer while reaping huge profits. Is it more money, or has the US dollar just lost much of its value?
Millions of Americans oppose censoring the Web with SOPA and PIPA. These two bills before Congress, known in Orwellian Newspeak as the "Protect Intellectual Property Act" (PIPA) in the Senate and the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) in the House, would censor free speech on the Web and impose harmful regulations on business.
Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA. The Senate will begin voting on Jan. 24, 2012. Make your voice heard. SIGN THIS PETITION urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA while there is still time. YouTube is likely to take the biggest hit as corporations take effective control of the Internet. This is the Web's NDAA.
The biggest Web protest ever (Huff Post) Over 7,000 websites -- including Wikipedia and Google -- will protest anti-piracy legislation on Jan. 18, 2012. Corporate-friendly legislation is currently making its way through Congress. Sites in opposition to the measures are either "going dark" or posting information to educate visitors about bills H.R. 3261 (SOPA) and S. 968 (PIPA) that will give government and multinational corporations legal control of the Web. ("Fascism" is the wedding of these two bodies). Claiming to curb copyright infringement, they aim to curb a lot more than that. Many may support the bills' alleged intentions. But opponents and civil libertarians are worried that their passage would give government powerful censorship tools threatening free speech:
By Paul McDougall (InformationWeek, August 15, 2008) CLICK TO ENLARGE (Cryptomundo.com)
The rush to view purported pictures of Bigfoot on Thursday was so intense that the Web site SearchingForBigfoot.com went offline.
A group of self-described "Bigfoot hunters" that claim to have found the dead body of one of the legendary bipeds said they plan to hold a press conference Friday at which they will present DNA evidence to prove the creature's existence.
The press conference is scheduled for noon Pacific time at a hotel in Palo Alto, Calif. "DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented," said the Bigfoot hunters, in a statement on their Web site. Internet records show that the site was registered to the California-based company in 2006 by Robert Schmalzbach, a Java programmer and Bigfoot enthusiast from the Silicon Valley area.
The rush to view purported pictures of Bigfoot on Thursday was so intense that the site went offline. Queries to SearchingForBigfoot.com were returned with an error message that said "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded."
On Friday, the site appeared to be up and running again, and offered descriptions of the supposed Sasquatch. The body "weighs over five hundred pounds" and "is male," the group claimed. "The feet are flat and similar to human feet," the description continued. "The creature is seven feet, seven inches tall."
In failing to anticipate the publicity spike's impact on their Web operations, the Bigfoot hunters are not alone.
The New York Jets' online store was offline for parts of last week as fans rushed to be among the first to purchase a jersey bearing quarterback Brett Favre's famously difficult-to-pronounce last name and No. 4 player number.
Demand for the jerseys was such that JetShop.com was either offline completely, or had slowed to a crawl, for much of last Thursday.
New York Magazine's Web site earlier this year went dark for a time after thousands of people attempted to view the publication's nude Lindsay Lohan photos online.
Also this year, Oprah Winfrey was forced to apologize to the millions of fans whose efforts to log in to the self-empowerment guru's widely hyped Webcast were thwarted by overwhelmed Internet servers. The Webcast featured Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle, whose new age bestseller A New Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection.
In 1999, a Webcast of the Victoria's Secret fashion show in New York City famously crashed, leaving millions of viewers frustrated.
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