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kate837 · 4 years ago

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I Love You

I completely recommend watching 2x14 Borrow or Rob, and the beginning of 2x15 Draw O Cesar Erase a Coward, before reading this fic. While this fic is AU it does have many similarities and minor details that it couldn't hurt to watch the episode first! Anyways enjoy!!!!!

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Kurt had a day.

Not bad. Definitely not good. Just... A day.

A day he'll never forget actually. It was so full of ups and downs. From Shepherd plunging a knife into Sean's heart, to joking with Jane about whether or not he could handle Rich Dotcom. From shooting Rich to... Jane's date. That hurt. When Shepherd shoved a knife through Sean Clarke, Kurt's adrenaline spiked, he felt so alert for so long, he thought he would throw up. He got the same feeling from Jane. Except it was everytime she moved, spoke, brushed a lock of hair behind her ear, etc. Her admission of her date was too much. Kurt went straight home, got a damp rag, and laid down. Staring at the ceiling.

Though he did have to say, it still wasn't the worst part of his day. He felt bad. Witnessing first degree murder should automatically be the worst part of your day.

But when it comes to Rich.....

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Kurt and Rich were sneaking through the secret underground tunnels of Jamison College, in order to get into the Deadalus gathering.

"This is interesting." Rich says, while coming to a stop.

"What?" Kurt replies shortly.

"Well this is the door, but the handle's different."

"Different how, Rich?!"

"Wel- well it's not there anymore?? Probably on account of all the hookers I snuck in it." Rich gestures to the handless door.

"Ok, so what's behind this door?" Kurt inquires, looking around.

"The closet. What are yo-"

"Stand back."

Kurt, with a running start, kicks the door in to find himself deep within the walls of a massive walk in closet.

"Aaaaa just how I remember it."

"SHHHHH!" Kurt puts his ear to the door, the one still on it's hinges, just in time to hear the gasps of attending guests and a soft female voice hushedly asking someone to notify security of the discrepancy.

"Shit."

"What?" Rich asks, genuinely confused.

"The guests are getting security to come check out 'the noise in the closet'."

"Oh. What are we gonna do Stubbles? I'm a sly guy but how do we explain that?"

"Oh God, why do you hate me?" Kurt says looking towards the ceiling.

"What? You're acting strange Stubbles, like weirder than normal. I mea-"

Rich was cut off by Kurt's large hands cupping both sides of his face, to kiss him. Without separating he backs Rich against a near wall, mimicking the earlier noise. Rich squirmed at first but expectedly went along with the unexpected.

"Come on Stubbles, you can at least use some tongue!"

"Shut. Up." Kurt snarls. "Actually. . . I need you to make some. . . noises." Kurt says while blushing furiously.

"Security is on their way." Tasha notifies through comms.

"Yeah you guys better get out of there." Reade warns.

"And say what? Oh hey haven't seen you in a while, please excuse my entering through a closet?!" Rich whisper-yells.

"Everyone shut up!" Kurt also whisper yells. "Now Rich I need you to moan a lot. Loudly."

"You could always make me Stubbles!"

"Rich!"

"Kurt what the hell are you doing?" Reade asks, growing increasingly concerned about his teammate's mental health.

"Rich just do it!"

"OOOOH! STUBBLES, YES!" Rich practically screams.

The party guests turn a side eye. But the security, like Kurt hoped, were turning away, figuring that the noise came from two enthusiastic partygoers. Or if the other patrons were anything like Rich maybe more.

Of course Weller didn't know that yet.

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"Ohhh. Now i get it, I can't believe this is working." Reade says, half laughing at the ridiculous noises coming out of his earpiece. "Hey Kurt it's work-"

"Will you shut up?!" Tasha butts in.

"What are you tal-"

"He doesn't know that they stood down yet." Tasha says wriggling her eyebrows. "Hey Kurt most of the security guards stood down but you still have a couple incoming. . . You might need to amp it up a bit!"

Her and Reade try and fail to stifle their laughter after Rich let's out a completely overexaggerated 'UNGH'!

"Come on Stubbles, they're not buying it, you're gonna have to join me if you wanna get out of here."

"Why me? God why me?" Kurt says again looking up.

Kurt let's out a loud and breathless 'Oh God' that completely undoes all of Tasha and Reade's composure. They are hysterical by now. They completely lost it when Rich and Kurt started harmonizing!

"Stop! Stop!" Tasha said. "I can't take it anymore." She pulls herself up from the floor of the van, where she fell from laughing so hard.

"Yeah guys, the security's gone. They're long gone." Reade adds, clutching his stomach.

"Yeah Rich so goo- wait what?!"

"Yeah you're clear." Tasha clarifies.

"You could have compromised this entire op!" Kurt says furiously.

"We all know that's not why you're mad Stubbles. And as the bible states-"

"I swear to God Rich, if you say another word I will shoot you."

"Another word."

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Kurt flushed red just thinking about it. What was he going to put in his field report?!

He turned to lay on his side to take in the fresh scenery of the wall instead of the ceiling. After laying there for about two minutes, he finally got up to fix himself dinner.

While gathering ingredients, Kurt's mind inevitably wandered back to Jane's date. Everything about it tore at him. What she'd be wearing, what she'd eat, would she cover her tattoos, would she wear makeup. . . . . . . .

His thoughts were interrupted by a phone call.

It was Jane.

A million questions ran through his head. Why is she calling him? Shouldn't she still be out on her date?

He lunged for the phone but then. . . He stilled. Didn't move a muscle. He picked up his phone, turned it over, and resumed gathering ingredients.

Once the phone eventually stopped buzzing, Kurt's inner turmoil came to play.

'Why didn't you answer?! Jane could be in trouble!'

'Be rational Kurt. She's on a date, probably just calling to let you know that she'll complete her paperwork tomorrow, since she's busy.'

'Look, everyone knows you're in love with her, but you can't act like some overprotective boyfriend whenever she's around.'

Kurt shakes his head. He wasn't in love with Jane Doe. Was he?

'Of course you are! That's why you lunged for the phone as soon as you saw her name, but put it down when you realized she was still on a date.'

'No. If I was in love with her, I would have immediately answered.'

'No. You love her so much that you realized that if she's having fun, even with another man, you wouldn't want to ruin that. That's love.'

'What am I supposed to do? I can't love her from afar.'

'This may be selfish but what if I proposed the idea that Oliver is Sandstorm?'

'It could work. But why not just tell her how you feel?'

"Because I'm just not ready yet." Kurt voiced sadly.

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First thing the next morning, Kurt was walking up and down the hallways, over and over again. In order to 'accidentally' bump into Jane on her way to Patterson's lab.

After three consecutive minutes, Jane appeared. She was wearing this loose, pastel green shirt, that roughly covered all of her upper body tattoos as well as bringing out her eyes. She paired it with tight blue jeans, which she almost never wears, and a few silver rings on her right hand.

"Wow." Kurt whispered. What looked like any other outfit, looked stunning on her. He almost forgot to 'bump' into her.

"Jane!"

"Oh, hey!"

"You get Patterson's text yet?"

"Yeah, heading there now."

They walk in silence for a few heartbeats, until they turn into a secluded hallway.

"Jane wait." Kurt says while gently grabbing Jane's arm.

"Kurt, what is it?"

"After you told me last night, about your date. I started thinking. . ."

Jane subconsciously starts to hold her breath. Her expression wreaks of hope.

"Hey! Glad I found you two, Patterson's got something." Tasha pops in.

"Yeah." Kurt says releasing Jane.

Saved by the bell.

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The debrief, while no longer than usual, felt unbearably long. The charged energy from Kurt and Jane's previous conversation still radiated off of them.

While any hope of continuing it was completely shut down by the tattoo clues pointing to three different entities, causing the team to split up completely. Kurt with Roman, Jane with Tasha, and Patterson with Reade.

This was going to be a longgg day.

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The team finally reconvened at about 5pm. They had just finished the field reports. All three of them. It was exhausting.

Fortunately for Kurt his adrenaline spiked right back up about an hour later when Tasha, so graciously, reminded the group that they never filled out the field report for their Deadalus mission. Which caused Reade and Patterson to burst out into a fit of giggles.

"What's so funny?" Jane asked, looking to Kurt, smiling.

Kurt goes wide-eyed. She doesn't know.

This was going to be a long night.

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The team had just finished catching Jane up while writing the 'going to be extremely redacted' field report.

"Wait I'm still confused. If you just wanted Rich to moan, why did you kiss him?"

All eyes look to Kurt.

"We- well I was under the impression that security was going to be charging through the door at any second." He says glaring at the pair of agents who were strategically avoiding his gaze. "And when they did, if they saw us. . . you know-"

"We don't know, Weller!" Patterson howled.

Kurt glared.

"Yeah I kind of want to know how far you were willing to take it Assistant Director!" Reade joined in.

"We're done here." Kurt said as he walked out.

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Jane had just walked out of the locker room to be met head on with Kurt.

"Kurt, hey!" Jane says, surprised.

"Hey."

"Umm. . . I actually wanted to talk to you."

Kurt raises his eyebrows in obvious confusion, cueing Jane to continue.

"When we were. . . Uh you know- outside of P- Patterson's lab. You didn't finish." Jane stumbles through her words as a new wave of nervousness hits her with full force.

"Oh that." Kurt says, grabbing Jane's arm, mirroring his earlier gesture and leading her away from the locker room door.

"Jane, I was up all night and I couldn't stop thinking about it. We need to be careful. Sandstorm feels like it's everywhere."

"You think Oliver is Sandstorm?"

"Yes. . . No." Kurt shakes his head.

"Kurt you're not making any sense." Jane says studying him.

"I know. I know. I just- no I don't think he's Sandstorm."

"Then why did you-"

"I've been trying to come up with reasons of why you shouldn't date him for the better part of 13 hours."

"Kurt wha-"

"And I got nothing, because the only reason is that I love you."

Jane goes wide-eyed. It was as if all the air was sucked out of her.

"I love you Jane."

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#part two?#ILY #ily #I Love You #im back #blindspot au fics

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 years ago

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#1yrago My RSS feeds from a decade ago, a snapshot of gadget blogging when that was a thing

Rob Beschizza:

I chanced upon an ancient backup of my RSS feed subscriptions, a cold hard stone of data from my time at Wired in the mid-2000s. The last-modified date on the file is December 2007. I wiped my feeds upon coming to Boing Boing thenabouts: a fresh start and a new perspective.

What I found, over 212 mostly-defunct sites, is a time capsule of web culture from a bygone age—albeit one tailored to the professional purpose of cranking out blog posts about consumer electronics a decade ago. It's not a picture of a wonderful time before all the horrors of Facebook and Twitter set in. This place is not a place of honor. No highly-esteemed deed is commemorated here. But perhaps some of you might like a quick tour, all the same.

The "Main" folder, which contains 30 feeds, was the stuff I actually wanted (or needed) to read. This set would morph over time. I reckon it's easy to spot 2007's passing obsessions from the enduring interests.

↬ Arts and Letters Daily: a minimalist blog of links about smartypants subjects, a Drudge for those days when I sensed a third digit dimly glowing in my IQ. But for the death of founder Denis Dutton, it's exactly the same as it was in 2007! New items daily, but the RSS feed's dead.

↬ Boing Boing. Still around, I hear.

↬ Brass Goggles. A dead feed for a defunct steampunk blog (the last post was in 2013) though the forums seem well-stocked with new postings.

↬ The Consumerist. Dead feed, dead site. Founded in 2005 by Joel Johnson at Gawker, it was sold to Consumer Reports a few years later, lost its edge there, and was finally shuttered (or summarily executed) just a few weeks ago.

↬ Bibliodyssey. Quiescent. Updated until 2015 with wonderful public-domain book art scans and commentary. A twitter account and tumblr rolled on until just last year. There is a book to remember it by should the bits rot.

↬ jwz. Jamie Zawinski's startling and often hilariously bleak reflections on culture, the internet and working at Netscape during the dotcom boom. This was probably the first blog that led me to visit twice, to see if there was more. And there still is, almost daily.

↬ Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society. Curios and weirdness emerging from the dust and foul fog of old books, forbidden history and the more speculative reaches of science. So dead the domain is squatted. Creator Josh Foer moved on to Atlas Obscura.

↬ The Tweney Review. Personal blog of my last supervisor at Wired, Dylan Tweney, now a communications executive. It's still going strong!

↬ Strange Maps. Dead feed, dead site, though it's still going as a category at Big Think. Similar projects proliferate now on social media; this was the wonderful original. There was a book.

↬ BLDGBLOG. Architecture blog, posting since 2004 with recent if rarer updates. A fine example of tasteful web brutalism, but I'm no longer a big fan of cement boxes and minimalism with a price tag.

↬ Dethroner. A men's self-care and fashion blog, founded by Joel Johnson, of the tweedy kind that became wildly and effortlessly successful not long after he gave up on it.

↬ MocoLoco. This long-running design blog morphed visually into a magazine in 2015. I have no idea why I liked it then, but indie photoblogs' golden age ended long ago and it's good to see some are thriving.

↬ SciFi Scanner. Long-dead AMC channel blog, very likely the work of one or two editors and likely lost to tidal corporate forces rather than any specific failure or event.

↬ Cult of Mac. Apple news site from another Wired News colleague of mine, Leander Kahney, and surely one of the longest-running at this point. Charlie Sorrel, who I hired at Wired to help me write the Gadget blog, still pens articles there.

↬ Ectoplasmosis. After Wired canned its bizarre, brilliant and unacceptably weird Table of Malcontents blog, its editor John Brownlee (who later joined Joel and I in editing Boing Boing Gadgets) and contributor Eliza Gauger founded Ectoplasmosis: the same thing but with no hysterical calls from Conde Nast wondering what the fuck is going on. It was glorious, too: a high-point of baroque indie blogging in the age before Facebook (and I made the original site design). Both editors later moved onto other projects (Magenta, Problem Glyphs); Gauger maintains the site's archives at tumblr. It was last updated in 2014.

↬ Penny Arcade. Then a webcomic; now a webcomic and a media and events empire.

↬ Paul Boutin. While working at Wired News, I'd heard a rumor that he was my supervisor. But I never spoke to him and only ever received a couple of odd emails, so I just got on with the job until Tweney was hired. His site and its feed are long-dead.

↬ Yanko Design. Classic blockquote chum for gadget bloggers.

↬ City Home News. A offbeat Pittburgh News blog, still online but lying fallow since 2009.

↬ Watchismo. Once a key site for wristwatch fans, Watchismo was folded into watches.com a few years ago. A couple of things were posted to the feed in 2017, but its time has obviously passed.

↬ Gizmodo. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.

↬ Engadget. Much has changed, but it's still one of the best tech blogs.

↬ Boing Boing Gadgets. Site's dead, though the feed is technically live as it redirects to our "gadgets" tag. Thousands of URLs there succumbed to bit-rot at some point, but we have plans to merge its database into Boing Boing's and revive them.

↬ Gear Factor. This was the gadget review column at Wired Magazine, separate from the gadget blog I edited because of the longtime corporate divorce between Wired's print and online divisions. This separation had just been resolved at the time I began working there, and the two "sides" -- literally facing offices in the same building -- were slowly being integrated. The feed's dead, but with an obvious successor, Gear.

↬ The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Required reading at the time, and very much a thing of its time. Now vaguely repulsive.

↬ i09. This brilliant sci-fi and culture blog deserved more than to end up a tag at Gizmodo.

↬ Science Daily: bland but exhaustive torrent of research news, still cranking along.

The "Essentials" Folder was material I wanted to stay on top of, but with work clearly in mind: the background material for systematically belching out content at a particular point in 2007.

↬ Still alive are The Register, Slashdot, Ars Technica, UMPC Portal (the tiny laptop beat!), PC Watch, Techblog, TechCrunch, UberGizmo, Coolest Gadgets, EFF Breaking News, Retro Thing, CNET Reviews, New Scientist, CNET Crave, and MAKE Magazine.

↬ Dead or quiescent: GigaOm (at least for news), Digg/Apple, Akihabara News, Tokyomango, Inside Comcast, Linux Devices (Update: reincarnated at linuxgizmos.com), and Uneasy Silence.

Of the 23 feeds in the "press releases" folder, 17 are dead. Most of the RSS no-shows are for companies like AMD and Intel, however, who surely still offer feeds at new addresses. Feeds for Palm, Nokia and pre-Dell Alienware are genuine dodos. These were interesting enough companies, 10 years ago.

PR Newswire functions as a veneering service so anyone can pretend to have a big PR department, but it is (was?) also legitimately used by the big players as a platform so I monitored the feeds there. They're still populated, but duplicate one another, and it's all complete garbage now. (It was mostly garbage then.)

My "Gadgets and Tech" folder contained the army of late-2000s blogs capitalizing on the success of Gizmodo, Boing Boing, TechCrunch, et al. Back in the day, these were mostly one (or two) young white men furiously extruding commentary on (or snarky rewrites of) press releases, with lots of duplication and an inchoate but seriously-honored unspoken language of mutual respect and first-mover credit. Those sites that survived oftentimes moved to listicles and such: notionally superior and more original content and certainly more sharable on Facebook, but unreadably boring. However, a few old-timey gadget bloggers are still cranking 'em out' in web 1.5 style. And a few were so specialized they actually had readers who loved them.

Still alive: DailyTech, technabob, CdrInfo.com, EverythingUSB, Extremetech, GearFuse, Gizmag, Gizmodiva, Hacked Gadgets, How to Spot A Psychopath/Dans' Data, MobileBurn, NewLaunches, OhGizmo!, ShinyShiny, Stuff.tv, TechDigest, TechDirt, Boy Genius Report, The Red Ferret Journal, Trusted Reviews, Xataca, DigiTimes, MedGadget, Geekologie, Tom's Hardware, Trendhunter, Japan Today, Digital Trends, All About Symbian (Yes, Symbian!), textually, cellular-news, TreeHugger, dezeen.

Dead: jkkmobile.com, Business Week Online, About PC (why), Afrigadget (unique blog about inventors in Africa, still active on FaceBook), DefenseTech, FosFor (died 2013), Gearlog, Mobile-Review.com (but apparently reborn as a Russian language tech blog!), Robot's Dreams, The Gadgets Weblog, Wireless Watch Japan, Accelerating Future, Techopolis, Mobile Magazine, eHome Upgrade, camcorderinfo.com (Update: it became http://Reviewed.com), Digital Home Thoughts (farewell), WiFi Network News (farewell), Salon: Machinist, Near Future Lab, BotJunkie (twitter), and CNN Gizmos.

I followed 18 categories at Free Patents Online, and the site's still alive, though the RSS feeds haven't had any new items since 2016.

In the "news" folder, my picks were fairly standard stuff: BBC, CNET, digg/technology, PC World, Reuters, International Herald Tribune, and a bunch of Yahoo News feeds. The Digg feed's dead; they died and were reborn.

The "Wired" feed folder comprised all the Wired News blogs of the mid-2000s. All are dead. 27B Stroke 6, Autopia, Danger Room, Epicenter, Gadget Lab, Game|Life, Geekdad, Listening Post, Monkey Bites, Table of Malcontents, Underwire, Wired Science.

These were each basically one writer or two and were generally folded into the established mazagine-side arrangements as the Age of Everyone Emulating Gawker came to an end. The feed for former EIC Chris Anderson's personal blog survives, but hasn't been updated since his era. Still going strong is Bruce Sterling's Beyond the Beyond, albeit rigged as a CMS tag rather than a bona fide site of its own.

Still alive from my 2007 "Science" folder are Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait), Bad Science (Ben Goldacre), Pharyngula (PZ Myers) New Urban Legends, NASA Breaking News, and The Panda's Thumb.

Finally, there's a dedicated "iPhone" folder. This was not just the hottest toy of 2007. It was all that was holy in consumer electronics for half a decade. Gadget blogging never really had a golden age, but the iPhone ended any pretense that there were numerous horses in a race of equal potential. Apple won.

Still alive are 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacSlash, AppleInsider and Daring Fireball. Dead are TUAW, iPhoneCentral, and the iPhone Dev Wiki.

Of all the sites listed here, I couldn't now be paid but to read a few. So long, 2007.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/29/my-rss-feeds-from-a-decade-ago.html

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take2intotheshower · 7 years ago

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Blindspot 30 Day Favorites Challenge

Day 13 - Favorite Patterson Moments

The pairing of Patterson with Rich Dotcom was inspired, but it was never going to be a romance. However, if anybody is going to uncover the secret to curing Jane’s ZIP problems, it will be these two geniuses.

While Patterson and Jack Izenberg from Forensics appeared at first to be made for each other, her discovery that he had downloaded a pirate copy of Wizardville, and that - horror of horrors - he actually vapes, doomed the relationship at birth. Jack quickly vanished back to the comfort of his lab and his Bigfoot podcast.

Patterson and Zapata were best friends, making Tasha’s betrayal over Borden even more hurtful. And just as Patterson makes a move to heal the breach, we discover that Tasha has another major secret up her sleeve. All will not be well when Patterson learns of Zapata’s latest betrayal.

Season 3 finally laid the ghost of Borden to rest, and the realisation that Patterson was ready to move on with her life. Now if only there IS another Kruger brother out there...…

#Blindspot #BSHiatusProject #BS30DayChallenge #Patterson #Ashley Johnson #Ennis Esmer #Rich Dotcom #Audrey Esparza #Tasha Zapata #Jaimie Alexander #Jane Doe #Jack Izenberg #Luke Mitchell #Roman #Blindspot gifs #Take2-BS3

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marconixon70 · 5 years ago

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Test Your Website Speed With These Top 10 Tools

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This one makes use of Google Page Speed and Yahoo for speed testing of websites. It also shares the points where improvements need to take place. GTMetrix, too, presents the data in a waterfall chart format.

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#website speed

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tastydregs · 5 years ago

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Alphabet Has a Second, Secretive Quantum Computing Team

In October, Google celebrated a breakthrough that CEO Sundar Pichai likened to the Wright brothers’ first flight. Company researchers in Santa Barbara, California, 300 miles from the Googleplex, had achieved quantum supremacy—the moment that a quantum computer performs a calculation impossible for any conventional computer.

That was both notable science and a chance for Google to show prominence in a contest among big tech companies, including IBM and Microsoft, to deliver the wild new power promised by quantum computing. The usually low-profile Pichai threw himself into marking the moment, penning a blog post, taking part in a rare media interview, and posting an Instagram photo of himself alongside the shiny machine that scored the result.

Just over a month later, Pichai was named CEO of Google parent Alphabet. But neither the company nor its quantum-happy boss have said much about another quantum computing team at Alphabet, at its secretive lab X.

X, formerly known as Google X, is dedicated to incubating “moonshot” technologies that might underpin new Google-scale businesses. Its small group of quantum researchers is not building its own quantum computing hardware. The group’s leader is more interested in creating new algorithms and applications to run on quantum computers, and building software libraries that allow conventional coders to use the exotic machines.

“Hardware’s very interesting [but] it’s really software that gets the majority of the value creation,” said Jack Hidary, the serial entrepreneur who leads X’s quantum research, in a November talk at Carnegie Mellon University. He pointed to how software companies such as Microsoft are collectively worth much more than the hardware manufacturers their products run on, even though it was advances in hardware that initially created the computing industry.

Google and rivals like IBM are investing in quantum computing because they believe it can catalyze major advances in many fields of science and industry, such as drug development and artificial intelligence.

Quantum computers are built out of devices called qubits, which encode data into quantum mechanical processes apparent only under carefully controlled conditions. The superconducting qubits that make up IBM’s and Google’s experimental quantum processors operate at temperatures colder than outer space. Groups of qubits can perform mathematical tricks conventional computers can’t by exploiting quantum phenomena that don’t have equivalents in everyday life, like the way quantum mechanical objects can become “entangled” such that what happens to one instantly affects another.

X declined to make Hidary or anyone else on his team, which also does research on artificial intelligence, available for an interview. A spokesperson, Aisling O’Gara, claimed Hidary’s group is a separate entity from X.

However, Hidary’s biography on a book he authored about “applied” quantum computing, published last year, says he and his team work at X on quantum algorithms and software libraries; they sit in the X building and report to the lab’s chief, Astro Teller.

“He’s working at X, there’s a small team there,” said Hartmut Neven, leader of Google’s quantum computing project, when asked about Hidary’s role during an October press event at the Santa Barbara lab to mark its quantum supremacy result. “We stay in close touch to make sure this stays nicely complementary.”

A neuroscientist by training, Hidary founded and took public the IT portal EarthWeb during the dotcom boom of the late ’90s. In 2013 he ran as an independent for mayor of New York City on a tech-centric platform that included, according to New York magazine, promising at one event that if he won “everyone gets a pair of Google Glasses.” He got 0.3 percent of the vote on Election Day and has been an adviser to X since at least 2016, joining Alphabet full time in 2018.

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Posthaste: Jason Kenney’s win in Alberta boosts Conservative coalition against Justin Trudeau

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Another Canadian province is reportedly ‘open for business’. Jason Kenney’s UCP party swept into power in Alberta last night, bolstering a Conservative alliance comprising Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and federal Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer to challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues ranging from resource reform bills and carbon taxes.

Here’s what’s breaking this morning:

Build pipelines, scrap carbon tax and battle protesters: That’s what Kenney vows to do for Alberta’s oilpatch

Men only: Notley’s defeat leaves Canada with no women Premiers

Barrick Gold CEO optimistic Congo leader will allow law reform

Ferrovial mulls option to raise stake in 407 ETR

China expects ‘significant’ drop in canola imports from Canada

Bombardier delivers first CRJ900 aircraft to Uganda Airlines

TD swamped by foreign investor demand for Canadian bail-in bonds

Oil hits 2019 high above $72 on China growth, lower U.S. inventories

Green shoots in world economy push euro zone bond yields to 4-week high

Luxury titans lead $678-million effort to rebuild fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral

Slump in world trade is just as bad as the decline sparked by the dotcom crash, warn analysts

Energy’s #MeToo moment: Ex-Anadarko employee alleges culture where women treated as ‘sexual playthings’

Did Aga Khan break rules by giving Trudeau Bahamas vacation? Court orders lobbying commissioner to take fresh look

Hissing snakes and ‘predatory schemes’: How the fight for Hudbay Minerals descended into name-calling

Activist enlists governance expert in battle with Knight Therapeutics

Civil liberties group sues to quash Sidewalk Labs project, with final master plan due within weeks

Why, and how, oil should be shipped in Canada’s Pacific waters

‘I couldn’t even get meetings’: Oil and gas companies bemoan investor apathy

Smaller grow rooms, fewer cannabis strains among the secrets of Organigram’s early success

In Gatineau, Que., the telecom regulator considers suspension of TVA’s broadcasting licence for cutting off sports feed to Bell TV.

Statistics Canada to release consumer price index for March and international merchandise trade figures for February at 8:30 a.m. ET

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Region of Waterloo mayors and Regional Chair Karen Redman in Kitchener, Ont.

Second day of the Scotiabank CAPP Energy Symposium in Toronto

OPG President Ken Hartwick and Bruce Power President Mike Rencheck participate in a panel discussion on the future of Ontario’s nuclear power in Toronto

The Canadian Wind Energy Association holds its spring forum in Banff, Alta.

Notable Earnings: Metro Inc., Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. , Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, and Alcoa

Stringent mortgage rules have done their job of cooling the economy and now need to relaxed, according to CIBC Capital Markets. Canadian banks have seen their rate of mortgage originations slow and the real-estate industry has complained that the stress test has made it tougher for homebuyers to get a loan, writes Geoff Zochodone

Jason Kenney is set to become the new premier of Alberta, but can he make a real difference in the province given that key challenges such as pipelines, carbon taxes and resource reform bills are in the hands of the federal government? What should be his top three economic priorities? Send your ideas, comments and news to Yadullah Hussain at [email protected] — @Yad_FPEnergy

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NEXT TO HAVING your doctor ask you to say “aah,” having your blood examined is one of the most common diagnostic rituals. Some specific blood tests, such as that for diabetes, need just a drop from a finger stick, but broader evaluations can require a teaspoon or more of blood drawn through a needle inserted into a vein in your arm.

No one enjoys the process and some truly fear it. It is worth the pain only because blood tests can reveal conditions you and your doctor need to know about, from your body’s chemical balance to signs of disease. Besides the distress, there is the cost. One recent US study found a median cost of $100 for a basic blood test, with much higher costs for more sophisticated analyses. This adds up to a global blood-testing market in the tens of billions of dollars.

So when 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford in 2003 to realize her vision of less painful, faster, and cheaper blood testing, she quickly found eager investors. An admirer of Steve Jobs, she pitched her startup company Theranos (a portmanteau of “therapy” and “diagnosis”) as the “iPod of health care.” But instead it became the Enron of health care, a fount of corporate deceit that finally led to a federal criminal indictment of Holmes for fraud. She now awaits trial.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is John Carreyrou’s gripping story of how Holmes’s great idea led to Silicon Valley stardom and then into an ethical quagmire. Carreyrou is the Wall Street Journal reporter who first revealed that Theranos was not actually achieving what Holmes claimed, though her company had been valued at $9 billion. Her net worth neared $5 billion, and her deals with Walgreens and Safeway could have put her technology into thousands of stores, thus measuring the health of millions, until Carreyrou showed that the whole impressive edifice rested on lies.

It didn’t start that way. Impressed by her creativity and drive, Holmes’s faculty mentor at Stanford, writes Carreyrou, told her to “go out and pursue her dream.” That required advanced technology, whereas Holmes’s scientific background consisted of a year at Stanford and an internship in a medical testing lab. Nevertheless, she conceived and patented the TheraPatch. Affixed to a patient’s arm, it would take blood painlessly through tiny needles, analyze the sample, and deliver an appropriate drug dosage. Her idea was good enough to raise $6 million from investors by the end of 2004, but it soon became clear that developing the patch was not feasible.

Holmes didn’t quit. Her next idea was to have a patient prick a finger and put a drop of blood into a cartridge the size of a credit card but thicker. This would go into a “reader,” where pumps propelled the blood through a filter to hold back the red and white cells; the pumps then pushed the remaining liquid plasma into wells, where chemical reactions would provide the data to evaluate the sample. The results would quickly be sent wirelessly to the patient’s doctor. Compact and easy to use, the device could be kept in a person’s home.

In 2006, Holmes hired Edmond Ku, a Silicon Valley engineer known for solving hard problems, to turn a sketchy prototype of a Theranos 1.0 card and reader into a real product. Running a tiny volume of fluid through minute channels and into wells containing test reagents was a huge challenge in microfluidics, hardly a Silicon Valley field of expertise. As Carreyrou describes it:

All these fluids needed to flow through the cartridge in a meticulously choreographed sequence, so the cartridge contained little valves that opened and shut at precise intervals. Ed and his engineers tinkered with the design and the timing of the valves and the speed at which the various fluids were pumped through the cartridge.

But Ku never did get the system to perform reliably. Holmes was unhappy with his progress and insisted that his engineers work around the clock. Ku protested that this would only burn them out. According to Carreyrou, Holmes retorted, “I don’t care. We can change people in and out. The company is all that matters.” Finally, she hired a second competing engineering team, sidelining Ku. (Later, she fired him.) She also pushed the unproven Theranos 1.0 into clinical testing before it was ready. In 2007, she persuaded the Pfizer drug company to try it at an oncology clinic in Tennessee. Ku fiddled with the device to get it working well enough to draw blood from two patients, but he was troubled by the use of this imperfect machine on actual cancer patients.

Meanwhile the second team jettisoned microfluidics, instead building a robotic arm that replicated what a human lab tech would do by taking a blood sample from a cartridge, processing it, and mixing it with test reagents. Holmes dubbed this relatively clunky device the “Edison” after the great inventor and immediately started showing off a prototype. Unease about the cancer test, however, had spread, and some employees wondered whether even the new Edison was reliable enough to use on patients.

As Carreyrou relates, Holmes’s management and her glowing revenue projections, which never seemed to materialize, were beginning to be questioned, in particular by Avie Tevanian, a retired Apple executive who sat on the Theranos board of directors. Holmes responded by threatening him with legal action. Tevanian resigned in 2007, and he warned the other board members that “by not going along 100% ‘with the program’ they risk[ed] retribution from the Company/Elizabeth.”

He was right. Holmes was ruthless about perceived threats and obsessive about company security, and marginalized or fired anyone who failed to deliver or doubted her. Her management was backed up by Theranos chief operating officer and president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Much older than Holmes, he had prospered in the dotcom bubble and seemed to act as her mentor (it later emerged that they were in a secret relationship). To employees, his menacing management style made him Holmes’s “enforcer.”

Worst of all, Holmes continued to tout untested or nonexistent technology. Her lucrative deals with Safeway and Walgreens depended on her assurance that the Edison could perform over 200 different blood tests, whereas the device could really only do about a dozen. Holmes started a program in 2010 to develop the so-called “miniLab” to perform what she had already promised. She told employees: “The miniLab is the most important thing humanity has ever built.” The device ran into serious problems and in fact never worked.

Despite further whistleblowing efforts, Holmes and Balwani lied and maneuvered to keep the truth from investors, business partners, and government agencies. Eminent board members like former US Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger vouched for Holmes, and retired US Marine Corps General James Mattis (now President Trump’s Secretary of Defense) praised her “mature” ethical sense. What the board could not verify was the validity of the technology: Holmes had not recruited any directors with the biomedical expertise to oversee and evaluate it. But others were doing just that, as Carreyrou relates in the last part of the book.

In 2014, Carreyrou received a tip from Adam Clapper, a pathologist in Missouri who had helped Carreyrou with an earlier story. Clapper had blogged about his doubts that Theranos could run many tests on just a drop of blood. He heard back from other skeptics and passed on their names to Carreyrou. After multiple tries, Carreyrou struck gold with one Alan Beam, who had just left his job as lab director at Theranos.

After Carreyrou promised him anonymity (“Alan Beam” is a pseudonym), Beam dropped two bombshells. First, the Edisons were highly prone to error and regularly failed quality control tests. Second and more startling, most blood test results reported by Theranos in patient trials did not come from the Edisons but were secretly obtained from standard blood testing devices. Even these results were untrustworthy: the small Theranos samples had to be diluted to create the bigger liquid volumes required by conventional equipment. This changed the concentrations of the compounds the machines detected, which meant they could not be accurately measured. Beam was worried about the effects of these false results on physicians and patients who depended on them.

Carreyrou knew he had a big story if he could track down supporting evidence. In riveting detail, he recounts how he chased the evidence while Holmes and Balwani worked to derail his efforts. Theranos hired the famously effective and aggressive lawyer David Boies, who tried to stifle Carreyrou and his sources with legal threats and private investigators. Holmes also appealed directly to media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who owned the WSJ through its parent company and had invested $125 million in Theranos. Holmes told Murdoch that Carreyrou was using false information that would hurt Theranos, but Murdoch declined to intervene at the WSJ.

Carreyrou’s front page story in that newspaper, in October 2015, backed up Beam’s claims about the Edisons and the secret use of conventional testing. There was an immediate uproar, but Holmes and Balwani fought back, denying the allegations in press releases and personal appearances, and appealing to company loyalty. At one memorable meeting after the story broke, Balwani led hundreds of employees in a defiant chant: “Fuck you, Carreyrou! Fuck you, Carreyrou!”

Problems arose faster than Holmes could deflect them. When Theranos submitted poor clinical data to the FDA, the agency banned the “nanotainer,” the tiny tube used for blood samples, from further use. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that monitors clinical labs, ran inspections that echoed Carreyrou’s findings, and banned Theranos from all blood testing. Eventually the company had to invalidate or fix nearly a million blood tests in California and Arizona. In another blow, on March 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani with fraud. Holmes was required to relinquish control over the company and pay a $500,000 fine, and she was barred from holding any office in a public company for 10 years.

Carreyrou tells this intricate story in clear prose and with a momentum worthy of a crime novel. The only flaw, an unavoidable one, is that keeping track of the many characters is not easy — Carreyrou interviewed over 150 people. But he makes sure you know who the moral heroes are of this sad tale.

Two among them are Tyler Shultz, grandson of Theranos board member George Shultz, and Erika Cheung, both recent college grads in biology. While working at Theranos, they noticed severe problems with the blood tests and the company’s claims about their accuracy. They got nowhere when they took their concerns to Holmes and Balwani, and to the elder Shultz. After resigning from the company out of conscience, they withstood Theranos’s attempts at intimidation and played crucial roles in uncovering what was really going on.

But many with a duty to ask questions did not. A board of directors supposedly exercises “due diligence,” which means ensuring that a company’s financial picture is sound and that the company’s actions do not harm others. The Theranos board seemed little interested in either function, as Carreyrou’s story of Tyler Shultz and his grandfather shows. Later on, in a 2017 deposition for an investor’s lawsuit against Theranos, the elder Shultz finally did admit his inaction. He testified under oath that, despite escalating allegations, he had believed Holmes’s claims about her technology, saying, “That’s what I assumed. I didn’t probe into it. It didn’t occur to me.”

Which brings us to the most fascinating part of the story: what power did Elizabeth Holmes have that kept people, experts or not, from simply asking, “Does the technology work?”

Much of the answer comes from Holmes herself. In her appearances and interviews, she comes across as a smart and serious young woman. We learn that her commitment arose partly from her own fear of needles, which of course adds a compelling personal note. Many observers were also gratified that her success came in the notoriously male-oriented Silicon Valley world. Her magnetism was part of what Aswath Damodaran of the NYU Stern School of Business calls the “story” of a business. Theranos’s story had the perfect protagonist — an appealing 19-year-old female Stanford dropout passionate about replacing a painful health test with a better, less painful one for the benefit of millions. “With a story this good and a heroine this likable,” asks Damodaran in his book Narrative and Numbers, “would you want to be the Grinch raising mundane questions about whether the product actually works?”

All this adds up to a combination of charisma and sincere belief in her goals. But Carreyrou has a darker and harsher view: that Holmes’s persuasive sincerity was a cover for a master manipulator. Noting her lies about the company finances and technology, her apparent lack of concern for those who might have been harmed by those lies, and her grandiose view of herself as “a modern-day Marie Curie,” he concludes his book with this:

I’ll leave it to the psychologists to decide whether Holmes fits the clinical profile [of a sociopath], but […] her moral compass was badly askew […] By all accounts, she had a vision that she genuinely believed in […] But in her all-consuming quest to be the second coming of Steve Jobs […] she stopped listening to sound advice and began to cut corners. Her ambition was voracious and it brooked no interference. If there was collateral damage on her way to riches and fame, so be it.

I would add one more thought. Holmes did not have the science to judge how hard it would be to realize her dream, then ignored the fact that the dream was failing. Instead she embraced Silicon Valley culture, which rewards at least the appearance of rapid disruptive change. That may not hurt anyone when the change is peripheral to people’s well-being, but it is dangerous when making real products that affect people’s health and lives. Facebook’s original motto, “Move fast and break things,” it seems, is a poor substitute for that old core tenet of medical ethics, “First, do no harm.”

Sidney Perkowitz is a professor emeritus of physics at Emory. He co-edited and contributed to Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon(Pegasus Books, 2018), and is the author of Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Russell Brunson – 24hr Expert & Story Selling

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