Discuss a peace agreement. And if youre wondering where we are as a nation, my first thought was, i dont know, ill believe it when i hear it from the taliban. [ laughter ] the Washington Post has published a new article calling former Vice President joe biden and senator Elizabeth Warren frenemies. Even crazier, they referred to john delaney and Michael Bennett as candidates. [ laughter ] President Trump told reporters today that he would release a report on his finances before the 2020 election. And said that people will be shocked that the numbers are many, many times what you think. Okay, but anything times zero is zero [ laughter ] [ applause ] duchess Meghan Markle attended the u. S. Open this weekend to support her friend serena williams. Meanwhile, the queen went to the jets game. [ laughter ] a man on a mission to visit every starbucks in the world, last week visited his 15,000th location in peru what do you know, they finally spelled his name right [ laughter ] a 73yearold wom
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Hello, everyone and welcome to powerhouse we are an independent bookstore and we thank you for your support and attendance tonight and hope that you purchase the book. We are very excited to be hosting the new book american overdose and die will be reading and talking with the moderator after which they will be taking questions. The former journalist at the bbc the guardians correspondent in jerusalem and washington, d. C. By tim on the impact of economic recession in modern america he received the James Cameron prize he was awarded the prize for journalism for recording the version of events and told an unpalatable truth and hes the longtime staff writer in the paris review and the office of Standard Operating Procedure from 2008 and we wish to inform you including the National Book critics circle award. Facebook short fiction essays have been translated into a dozen languages. Hes at work on a new book. Please join me now in welcoming chris. [applause] this one works. [laughter] a lo
By tim on the impact of economic recession in modern america he received the James Cameron prize he was awarded the prize for journalism for recording the version of events and told an unpalatable truth and hes the longtime staff writer in the paris review and the office of Standard Operating Procedure from 2008 and we wish to inform you including the National Book critics circle award. Facebook short fiction essays have been translated into a dozen languages. Hes at work on a new book. Please join me now in welcoming chris. [applause] this one works. [laughter] a long time ago at the border in 1996 or maybe earlier than that and in those days chris is doing some of the truly outstanding reporting from there as he has them everywhere that he has reported that ive ever had the pleasure to read. I guess i want to just start tonight, you have written about american overdose. It is just a terrific book, terrific reporting, writing, exceptional read and urgent story. How did you get into it
Robots that bring nightmares to all americans now its going to decide whats real and fake yes they are that seems like no problem that is in the beginning of every science section and stick opiate side effects like darpas also not only the tweet about meeting underground tunnels apparently for some undisclosed project but they are you know now they are going to go into war pentagons lacing up their boots and their scientists to help stop fake news. So just so you understand what the sum up for program is looking there of looking to develop essentially like 3 hour rhythms that would be that would consist of semantic detection which would be bigger out of media was generated or manipulated ok they would have an attribution algorithm would conclude whether you know where media came from an organization or a person and finally they were going to develop a characterization algorithm tablet that would determine if media was. Rated or manipulated with malicious intent yes a computer algorithm