Nadire Atas trashed the reputations of people she saw as enemies, and their relatives. On Tuesday, she was charged by the Toronto police with harassment and other offenses.
10 Weekend Reads
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of
Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat by a snowbank, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
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The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills Brooklyn’s Hottest Ice Cream Company What happened to the ice cream company the New York Times dubbed “Brooklyn’s Most Beloved”? The bankruptcy filings tell a straightforward story: “In practical terms, Ample Hills built out a factory in order to increase volume and lower costs, but the opposite happened, and the losses have mounted.” While the factory was “probably the financial decision that ultimately led to the bankruptcy, in a way it’s too simple a hook to hang your hat on.”. (Medium)
Frosted Flakes: Dyatlov Pass, 66 Pounds of Oranges and ‘Traveling Under the Social Influence’
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That’s a lot of oranges
One of the strangest mysteries that has fascinated me the most was the Dyatlov Pass incident. A group of hikers never returned after leaving on a trip into the Ural Mountains. The causes of death ranged from internal bleeding, head trauma and hypothermia.
A National Geographic article released last week (I posted the article below) declared that the cause of the death was releated to a small avalanche. It seems convincing enough after reading the article and watching some other recent videos about the incident (see below) but I’m curious to hear everyone else’s thoughts about the recent findings.
A vast web of vengeance: When online lies destroy lives
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By: Kashmir Hill
Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined. Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father. I don t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet, Babcock recalled his father saying. Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father s social club had alerted him.
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02/03/2021 10:00 AM EST
This week brought with it some welcome news sort of, with caveats on the vaccine front. But the rise of vaccine nationalism and the threat of export controls raises the question: Did it have to be like this?