THE REAL WEIRD TWITTER IS THE ESPIONAGE TWITTER

kadrey:

criminalwisdom:

Is Twitter being used as a numbers station?

‘GooGuns posts nothing but strings of letters and numbers, like b39e65fa00000000 in intervals of about five minutes on average. The string of characters always ends with zeroes, occasionally with the location service turned on, so you can see that 554705fa00000000 was allegedly tweeted from the “Region of Khabarovsk.” This has been going on all day and all night, for years, with more than 318,000 tweets posted since 2009. But why?’

(Source: Linkmachinego)

Number stations in social media? 

This would appear to be the control channel for a botnet. Twitter has been known to he used for such purposes.

(via wilwheaton)

Source: criminalwisdom

Wasted: Can someone explain to me the “If we lower taxes for business/rich...

manthatass:

Can someone explain to me the “If we lower taxes for business/rich people then that means they have more money and therefore hirer more people.” mindset? I’m not meaning snarky I literally don’t understand it. Why would they hirer more people? Wouldn’t businesses either a) just pay current…

It doesn’t make sense because it doesn’t make sense. Supply-side economics doesn’t work as well as demand-side: Increasing demand will lead more suppliers to enter the market, but increased supply doesn’t guarantee that shit will sell.

That being said, payroll taxes being too high can cause some employers to not hire more workers, even when they need additional capacity, but lowering employment taxes will not increase employment, all other things being equal. (“Ceteris Paribus”, as economists say.)

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