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Austin plane crash: Joe Stack’s suicide note

by Karoli on February 18, 2010

Oliver Willis has posted links to a website which appears to be owned by Joseph Stack, the alleged pilot that crashed into the Austin FBI/IRS office building this morning. If the text is authentic, it appears that Mr. Stack had ongoing resentment toward the government and the IRS in particular.
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Denver Plane Crash, Twittered

by Karoli on December 20, 2008

The good and the bad of news on Twitter is this: First reports can often be akin to a game of Telephone, where the original message gets exaggerated or twisted just a little bit until it’s completely inaccurate, while others are actually telling the tale in real time and after the fact.
The first reports hit [...]

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