Chores calls!

Trump, Qanon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times

• By the numbers, there is no bigger advocate of President Donald Trump on Facebook than The Epoch Times. The small New York-based nonprofit news outlet has spent more than $1.5 million on about 11,000 pro-Trump advertisements in the last six months, according to data from Facebook’s advertising archive — more than any organization outside of the Trump campaign itself, and more than most Democratic presidential candidates have spent on their own campaigns. Those video ads — in which unidentified spokespeople thumb through a newspaper to praise Trump, peddle conspiracy theories about the “Deep State,” and criticize “fake news” media — strike a familiar tone in the online conservative news ecosystem. The Epoch Times looks like many of the conservative outlets that have gained followings in recent years.

7:00 – 4:00 ASRC GOES

• Dissertation
  • I just found out that the UMBC, UMD, and TSU are Jan 2 – 22. I’ll be doing my defense in there somewhere
  • Working on the TACJ section
• Add controllers for the reaction wheels so that a “go to AZ=30, EL=20, R= -10” can work
  • Getting close:
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• Next task is to subclass the ReactionWheelController to pitch, roll, and yaw controllers, so that they can manipulate their data separately
  • Voltage should control the velocity and direction of the wheel
  • Simulator can be told to add drag to a wheel
• I think Communications of the ACM is the next place to try the AI Weapons paper. It’s 5,000-ish words, so it looks like it should fit:
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• Finished TAAS article and letter. Notified Antonio