#Matthews Garrahan

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Single Player Fallout 76: Stump Matthews

I’ve gone over all the factions and regions, so now I’m going to talk about the companions that would be in a single player version of Fallout 76, starting with the old folk singer Stump Matthews.

Backstory:

Stump Matthews is a elderly communist folk singer, in the same vein as Pete Seeger or Woodie Guthrie. He was a uranium miner when he was young, until he got fired for Union involvement.

Matthews’s draft number got drawn for the Sino-American War. Matthews dodged the draft, and spent the first half of the 2070s on the run from the law.

In 2076 he partially reemerged, leading union activities in Welch and Beckley, although he never stayed in one place for long.

After the bombs fell, Garrahan and Hornwright formed the Mining Coalition. Once they consolidated their power over the Ash Heap, they destroyed most of Welch and raided Beckley, arresting union leaders there.

Matthews proved difficult in prison, continuing to organize hunger strikes from inside. When the Coalition took over cities in the Toxic Valley in order to hold the Grafton Dam, Matthews was transfered up to the newly found base in Clarksburg.

Recruiting:

You find Matthews in the Clarksburg prison. To recruit him, obviously, you need to make it so he is out of the prison.

This can be done by bribing the guard, hacking into the terminal to change his release date, or picking the lock and sneaking out.

If you ask him for his opinion, he’ll suggest waiting for night, then staging a jailbreak when there aren’t as many guards. To do this you have to pick all the locks on the cells, then wait until night.

Likes:

Releasing him from Clarksburg.

Completing Responders or Free States Quests.

Playing Instruments.

Helping out Miners.

Siding with the Diehards when helping Rose reform the Raiders.

Siding with the ghouls at Haven Church and Purveyor Murmrgh to free a group of Mole Miners.

Loves:

Fighting the Mining Coalition as the Responders in the Battle of Charleston.

Rescuing the Survivors in Big Bend Tunnel.

Taking the Beckley Mine Exhibit Settlement for the Responders.

If you reach the highest affinity with him, you gain the perk “Ain’t Nothing But A Man” where you get +25% damage against robots, and +50% damage against Coalition robots.

Dislikes:

Completing Coalition side quests.

Joining the Enclave.

Choosing rude dialog options toward friendly common people (people in settlements, towns, etc.)

Siding with any of the more violent Raiders.

Praising the Coalition or other Pre-War corporations.

Harming the inmates in Allegheny Asylum.

Hates:

Bullying Responder Settlements out of supplies for the Coalition.

Completing Coalition main quests.

Helping the Coalition take over Grafton.

He will become hostile towards you if you complete the quest to start up the excavator on Mount Blair.

Personal Quest:

The first time you take a propaganda poster from a Liberator Bot, he’ll make a joke about how if you keep collecting them, you’ll have enough to carpet your room with. Once you collect 20 of them while traveling with him, his personal quest triggers.

He asks you to help with some propaganda of his own, specifically replacing the Coalition propaganda radio with a pro-union station.

To do this, you need to go to Relay Tower HG-B7-09. You can kill, intimidate, persuade, or bribe the radio operator there, depending on skill levels and perks. Then you perform some modifications on the equipment so Matthews can access it from his hideout.

Then, you have to find his hideout, only to find that it’s been buried in Ash in the past years. You have to find the back entrance, which is in Welch. To get there, you have to fight through the Mole Miners that now occupy Welch.

Once you get inside, you have to activate all the systems to make it livable again. Then, you can hijack the Relay Tower’s signal and Matthews will preempt it with his own music.

Coalition Radio is replaced by John Henry Radio, a station that plays pro-union folk music, and has pre-recorded interludes of Stump Matthews as a host (such as “Hello Appalachia, my name is Stump Matthews, and I didn’t come here to die.”).

When you complete this quest, Matthews finds some of the supplies he left in the bunker, including the armored jumpsuit he made for clashes with the mining companies and a unique assault rifle called “This Machine Writes Folk Songs.” This rifle becomes his default weapon, which means he has great damage potential while not using ammo.

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Rupert Murdoch Secretly Attends Donald Trump’s Times of London Interview

Rupert Murdoch Secretly Attends Donald Trump’s Times of London Interview

Donald Trump recently sat down for an interview with the Times of London, alongside its proprietor, 21st Century Fox and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch — a factor that the paper failed to note, according to the Financial Times. “It was the journalistic coup of the moment, the first British newspaper interview with Donald Trump since his victory. But there was one thing The Times did not…

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Meta Vice President Shares The Company’s Plans During his interview with Financial Times’ Matthew Garrahan, Clegg was in high spirits as he continued to speak jokingly and in a bare-it-all manner, while also sharing some notable insights into the plans of Facebook’s new Meta project. Clegg insists that Meta will be as open as possible and would not be looking to build the metaverse alone. Probably in a bit to douse the skepticisms around the metaverse, the VP also confirms that, contrary to the opinions of many people, metaverse is not going to be solely owned, administered and operated by Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. The former British politician continued his remarks by stressing on the importance of encouraging collaborations, that will ultimately lead to the accelerated evolution of technology. In addition, Clegg highlighted the importance of Meta Platforms coming out as early as they did. Amongst his reasons was the fact that this is a well thought-out project, and one that boasts to be quite unlike previous technological innovations that were rushed and later went on to have issues as they raced to comply with society and regulation standards. His thought process might not be unrelated to the issues that arose with the Frances Haugen saga. According to the VP, “this time we can do it the other way round.” Facebook’s corporate diversion into the metaverse market at Facebook’s Connect conference last Thursday, places them amongst blockchain platforms like Axie Infinity, The Sandbox and Decentraland in creating the architecture of virtual reality for people to work, interact, and live together. #facebook #instagram #youtube #twitter #tiktok #love #instagood #follow #like #socialmedia #whatsapp #music #ge #photography #memes #marketing #india #followforfollowback #likeforlikes #a #insta #fashion #k #trending #digitalmarketing #covid #o #snapchat #socialmediamarketing #wazirxwarriors https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGaX27tE2j/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Johnson’s Commons response on the UK’s COVID infection rate is really quite extraordinary

What an amazing answer from Johnson. Asked why the UK's Covid infection rate is worse than Germany and Italy he says it's because we're a "freedom loving country" pic.twitter.com/vbOFSzgpfM

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) September 22, 2020

The clip now trending on social media

I have only just seen this Commons response by the PM to LAB MP, Ben Bradshaw, who asked about the UK’s COVID infection rate compared with Italy and Germany.

It really is quite remarkable that Johnson should turn this round to Britain being a “freedom loving country” This was an obvious question and he should have had a response all prepared. His apporach, I’d suggest, is one of the reasons why his personal ratings continue to fall.

In polling issued by Ipsos-MORI today Johnson has dropped to minus 14% to the firm’s satisfaction question – the polling series that pre-dates PM Margaret Thatcher. Last month it was minus one percent.

I just wonder what those CON MPs who gained seats at the last election think.

Mike Smithson

from politicalbetting.com https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2020/09/22/johnsons-commons-response-on-the-uks-covid-infection-rate-is-really-quite-extraordinary/ https://dangky.ric.win/

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Financial Times front page, 29/04/2020 (Matthew Garrahan on twitter)

British Airways lays off 12,000 staff vs. Animal Crossing finance story.... (read it here!) Welcome to the Covid 19 economy.

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Facebook touches the third rail by mentioning accreditation of journalists

Note: This is something I originally published on the New Gatekeepers blog at the Columbia Journalism Review, where I’m the chief digital writer

Not surprisingly, the issue of “fake news” and the role that the giant web platforms play in spreading misinformation was a big topic of conversation at the Financial Times “Future of News” conference held this week in New York. But things started to get a little heated when Campbell Brown — Facebook’s head of news partnerships — was asked by moderator Matthew Garrahan if the social network might consider “some sort of accreditation system” as part of its attempts to solve the disinformation problem.

“I think we are moving in that direction,” Brown said, at which point she was interrupted by Google’s VP of News, Richard Gingras, who was also part of the panel discussion (along with Emily Bell, director of Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism). Gingras echoed what many journalists were probably thinking when he protested that “from a First Amendment perspective, we don’t want anyone accrediting who a journalist is.”

In tweets sent later to some journalists who made similar criticisms, Brown clarified that what she meant was not accreditation per se, but that in order to stamp out fake news, Facebook might have to verify trusted news organizations “through quality signals or other means.”

to clarify – i do think fake news may be pushing us into a world where we have to verify news orgs through quality signals or other means.

— Campbell Brown (@campbell_brown) March 22, 2018

Giving what seems like approval to the idea of accreditation might be horrifying for some, since it brings up unpleasant images of countries where the government or dictator in power decides who qualifies as a journalist. But at the same time, Brown’s gaffe is somewhat understandable, because Facebook is currently trapped between a rock and a hard place when it comes to taking action on fake news and misinformation.

On the one hand, the company is being pressed by governments both in the US and elsewhere to do more to remove or de-emphasize fake news, not to mention hate speech, harassment and other negative content. But the more it does that, the more it gets accused of infringing on free speech. And every attempt to rank news outlets on vague concepts such as “quality” or “trust” looks a lot like Facebook deciding who is a journalist and who isn’t.

Until the whole Russian troll fiasco broke out into the open, Facebook could plausibly maintain the fiction that it is just a platform, and that it doesn’t play favorites when it comes to sources of news or any other content (which has never really been the case, of course). But now it is having to grapple with the realities of being a media entity and making editorial decisions about what to include and who to highlight, and that is a completely different ball game.

Facebook touches the third rail by mentioning accreditation of journalists was originally published on mathewingram.com/work

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Tweeted

Lib Dems: Revoke Article 50 Tories: Leave October 31st What is Labour’s Brexit position in three words or less?

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) September 11, 2019

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Matthew Garrahan at Financial Times:

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is in talks with Blackstone, the private equity firm, to launch a joint bid for Tribune Media, which owns a portfolio of US television stations, according to two people familiar with the negotiations. 

Tribune has a market capitalisation of $3.2bn. Fox and Blackstone hope to trump a rival offer from Sinclair Broadcasting, another owner of US television networks, and plan to form a joint venture for the deal, with Blackstone providing the cash and Fox injecting its own portfolio of stations. 

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Single Player Fallout 76: The Ash Heap and the Mining Coalition

Continuing the trip around Appalachia, I’m going to talk about what the Ash Heap would be like in a single-player Fallout 76 game. I’m also going to talk about the all-new faction, the Mining Coalition. I’ve been writing a lot on what a single-player game of Fallout 76 would look like, and you can find the rest of it by searching #single player 76.

Thoughts:

The Mining Coalition (formerly known as the Hornwright-Garrahan Coalition and sometimes just called The Coalition) is an alliance between Hornwright Industries and Garrahan Mining, and is armored and equipped by Atomic Mining Services. Hornwright and Garrahan were fierce competitors before the war, but when the bombs fell, they decided collaboration was the only way they could keep their position over the workers of the Ash Heap.

Upon forming the Coalition, the mining companies began to target striking workers, starting with the town of Beckley. Union miners are arrested and shipped to the Coalition prisons outside of the Ash Heap, such as the prison in Clarksburg, where companion Stump Matthews is found.

When it became clear that the government that remained was to weak to ensure business interests, the Coalition formed its own military out of soldiers in Garrahan Excavator Power Armor and AMS strikebreaker robots.

The Coalition Headquarters is at the Garrahan Mining Headquarters. Companion Henry Henderson, a Garrahan Power Soldier, can be found there.

The ultimate goal of the Mining Coalition is to turn the giant excavator on Mount Blair into a mobile war machine so they can take over all of Appalachia. To do so, they have to retake Charleston to get access to the Motherlode machine in Hornwright Industrial HQ.

Lewisburg is the model town of the Ash Heap. It remains relatively clean compared to the rest of the Ash Heap thanks to air filters installed on their rooftop gardens, although citizens still have to occasionally wear. Since they are mainly self-sufficient and happy, the Coalition provides protection in exchange for fresh produce and leverage over the town, but otherwise leaves it alone.

One of the stages of the Order of Mysteries questline happens in Lewisburg. I’m going to make a separate post for that quest, so I won’t go over it here.

Dick Shale, legendary tour guide narrator, lives in Lewisburg. He wants to make a new series of tour holotapes that highlight the new attractions in post-war Appalachia, and asks for your help. You can suggest tour attractions that have formed since the war, such as the party spots of Morgantown, the theater at Bleeding Kates Grindhouse, or others. He asks you to travel there, and once you have (or if you already have) he’ll ask you questions about it. After you’ve found three locations for him, he’ll give you a new quest.

Dick Shale asks you to correct the one blemish on his tour guide reputation. He asks you to go to Uncanny Caverns, where the management had him narrate the local legends of the Night Kid, a mutant child raised by bats, which grew into the local tale of the Batsquatch. He has studied it more, and believes that the Batsquatch doesn’t actually exist, and sightings are actually misidentified sightings of Mothman. When you go to the cave you can listen to the Dick Shale tour stations there as you go through the caverns. At the end you find out that the Batsquatch is real, and you can either kill it or use the information from the tour to deal with it peacefully.

The Sheepsquatch quest that comes out tomorrow is mostly the same; it starts as a mystery in Lewisburg and progresses from there. Some of the searching for clues is replaced by conversations rather than finding everything through notes and holotapes, but there’s still a detective element. I haven’t played it yet, so this is just based on what I’ve read so far.

Camden park is mostly unchanged. It is a robot-run park with mini-games, but better mini-games than currently exist. Only Dross Toss remains the same, and the other ones are replaced.

Bleeding Kate’s Grindhouse is a raider camp, led by the eponymous Kate. They make caps by showing movies and performing plays, and only really call themselves raiders because they rob caravans and passersby for their holotapes. Bleeding Kate gives a repeatable quest to find movie holotapes around Appalachia.

The Charleston Fire Department is the farthest south the Responders have a hold on. They use the Ash Heap as a training ground for their elite Fire Breathers, both against the wildlife and the Coalition robots. It lies outside the area of Charleston that the state government has reclaimed.

Send an ask if you have any questions, or if there are any Ash Heap locations you want me to cover.

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Twitter lucha para convertir sus tuits en un tesoro - Educación financiera

21/09/2017 | Matthew Garrahan (Financial Times) Casi todos los días, poco antes de las 7 a.m. hora de Washington, Donald Trump toma su teléfono inteligente, escribe un tuit y enloquece a los medios de comunicación internacionales. Sus comentarios a menudo dictan la agenda informativa del día. Los arrebatos en Twitter del presidente estadounidense, ya sean en la mañana, durante el día o ya entrada la noche, generan millones de reacciones online, desde la adulación hasta la condena y la indignación. Pero no le han dado un impulso significativo a Twitter, que continúa luchando a la sombra de sus primos mucho mayores y con un crecimiento más rápido, Google y Facebook. Las acciones de la plataforma se han mantenido relativamente estables durante dos años a causa de las preocupaciones de los inversores de que su crecimiento de usuarios se ha paralizado. Después de su más reciente informe de ganancias el mes pasado, el precio de las acciones cayó cuando Twitter reveló que no había sumado ningún nuevo usuario del primer trimestre al segundo. Sin embargo, si los niveles de participación de usuarios determinaran su valor, Twitter sería un gran éxito. No está claro cuántos de sus 328 millones de usuarios son “tuiteros” prolíficos, pero un rápido análisis de la plataforma los días de noticias importantes — como las secuelas de la violencia por parte de nacionalistas blancos en Charlottesville, o durante un evento importante, como el Súper Tazón o los Oscars — muestra lo metido que está Twitter en la vida pública. Este nivel de profundo compromiso debería tener un valor claro para los anunciantes. Los editores y las marcas han intentado forjar conexiones más profundas y personales con los consumidores en lugar de esperar pasivamente a que vean un anuncio online. Con los millones de usuarios que comentan diariamente noticias, deportes y espectáculos, Twitter debería, al menos en teoría, ser muy atractivo para los anunciantes. Como medio de comunicación, tiene un poder innegable. Los tuits pueden afectar a los mercados, acabar carreras políticas, hundir compañías y desencadenar revoluciones. Pero sus acciones estancadas y el valor atribuido a Twitter por parte del mercado no reflejan la amplitud de su alcance y potencia. Esto plantea una pregunta: si Twitter no puede convertir su participación de usuarios en éxito financiero, ¿cómo lo harán los editores de noticias? Los sitios de noticias de todo el mundo han levantado muros de pago para compensar la disminución de las ventas de periódicos y la disminución de los ingresos publicitarios. Twitter, que no tiene ningún muro de pago, no sufre de estos problemas. Es una plataforma abierta que, al igual que Facebook, utiliza la magnitud de su base de usuarios para impulsar las ganancias publicitarias. Pero los inversores le han puesto una prima al número de personas que utilizan las redes sociales — en lugar de centrarse en su nivel de participación — que es la razón por la que Facebook, con su creciente base de 2 mil millones de usuarios, tiene un valor cercano a los 500 mil millones de dólares y Twitter menos de 12 mil millones de dólares. Dado que su base de usuarios ha dejado de crecer, ¿habría algún tipo de modelo de suscripción que hiciera aumentar el precio de las acciones de Twitter de nuevo? También ha habido especulaciones — pero no hay pruebas concretas — de que la compañía podría introducir un día suscripciones destinadas a sus usuarios más activos. Dicha medida podría crear un flujo de ingresos secundario y darles a los anunciantes más datos de usuarios para analizar y explotar. Sin embargo, es difícil ver que un modelo de suscripción más amplio de Twitter funcione en la práctica. Puede que no sea una red social tan grande como Facebook, pero su escala es clave para su atractivo: un tuit divertido, informado o revelador vuela alrededor del mundo en cuestión de minutos porque es compartido por una red que abarca más de 300 millones de personas. Eso es lo que hace que sus usuarios vuelvan una y otra vez. Pregúntale a cualquiera que esté atento al último drama de la Casa Blanca… o del hombre que vive allí.   21/09/2017 | Matthew Garrahan (Financial Times) Texto original en inglés Most days, shortly before 7am Washington time, Donald Trump picks up his smartphone, taps out a tweet and sends the international media into a tailspin. His remarks often dictate the news agenda for the day. The US president’s Twitter outbursts, whether in the morning, throughout the day or deep into the night, generate millions of online reactions, from adulation to condemnation and outrage. But they have failed to provide a meaningful boost to Twitter itself, which continues to toil in the shadow of its significantly larger, faster-growing cousins Google and Facebook. Shares in the platform have been relatively flat for two years over investor concerns that its user growth has stalled. At its most recent earnings last month, the stock price plunged when Twitter revealed that it had added no new users from the first quarter to the second. Yet if levels of user engagement determined its value, Twitter would be a roaring success. It is unclear how many of its 328m users are prolific tweeters but a glance through the site on big news days, such as the aftermath of last weekend’s white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, or during a big event, such as the Super Bowl or the Oscars, shows how tightly woven in public life Twitter has become. This level of deep engagement should have clear value for advertisers. Traditional media business models have been blown up by the internet and advertising has scattered across new digital devices. So publishers and brands have tried to forge deeper, more personal connections with consumers rather than hoping they passively view an online ad. With millions of its users commenting on daily news, sports and entertainment events Twitter should, on paper at least, be catnip for advertisers. As a communications medium it has undeniable power. Tweets can move markets, end political careers, crater companies and spark revolutions. But its stagnant shares and the value ascribed to Twitter by the market do not reflect the scale of its reach and potency. This raises a question: if Twitter cannot convert its user engagement into financial success, how will news publishers? News sites around the world have erected paywalls to offset shrinking newsstand sales and declining ad revenues. Twitter, which has no paywall, doesn’t suffer from these problems. It is an open platform which, like Facebook, uses the scale of its user base to drive advertising returns. But investors have put a premium on the number of people using social networks — rather than focusing on their level of engagement — which is why Facebook, with its ever-growing user base of 2bn, is worth close to $500bn and Twitter less than $12bn. Given that its user base has stopped growing, could some sort of subscription model get Twitter’s share price moving again? There has also been speculation — but no concrete evidence — that the company might one day introduce subscriptions aimed at its most active users. Such a move would create a secondary revenue stream and give advertisers more user data to mine and exploit. And yet it is hard to see a broader Twitter subscription model working in practice. It may not be as big a social network as Facebook but its scale is key to its appeal: a funny, informed or revealing tweet flies around the world in minutes because it is shared by a network that spans more than 300m people. That is what makes its users return again and again. Just ask anyone glued to the latest drama from the White House — or the man who lives there. SIGUE LEYENDO... Ir a la fuente / Author: AdminFxM Click to Post

[clemensv]

It's official: a barrel of oil now the same price as a Starbucks latte https://t.co/wuTZWM2iNm

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) April 20, 2020

[jon-darling]

Asked my octogenarian neighbour if I could pick her up any essentials from the supermarket given how tough it is to get stuff now. Her order: four bottles of rosé

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) March 14, 2020

[adambowielinks]

Favorite tweets: Maybe this is the future of advertising - persuading the star of a widely mocked ad to appear in your own within days https://t.co/D5dHNbzUQu— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) December 7, 2019

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Favorite tweets

Greatest post-match interview in sporting history pic.twitter.com/e9cbgq1U12

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) May 7, 2019

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Sources: Netflix plans to spend ~$1B on original productions in Europe this year, more than double what it spent last year, across multiple languages (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times) http://www.tech-digi.com/2018/04/sources-netflix-plans-to-spend-1b-on.html

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Sources: Netflix plans to spend ~$1B on original productions in Europe this year, more than double what it spent last year, across multiple languages (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)

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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times: Sources: Netflix plans to spend ~$1B on original productions in Europe this year, more than double what it spent last year, across multiple languages  —  Netflix will escalate its assault on European broadcasters by sharply increasing its content investment across the continent …

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