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Politico reporting how Seattle, San Francisco et al are too expensive to live in because highly paid tech people are arriving and pushing up the prices.

Those same tech people are very quick to preach that the Future of Work is virtual.

Is it that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander?

Great read - and spot on …

“And this leads to my second reaction, which is the deepest impatience and frustration with IndieWeb itself for having developed tools to very literally …

As I said … they will be back ….

”In recent months, executives at Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group, along with the Mercer family, have moved to created a new firm, Emerdata, based in …

My bold ….

We think you are going to love Flickr under SmugMug ownership, but you can choose to not have your Flickr account and data transferred to SmugMug until May 25, 2018. If you want to …

Again not me .. but …

I’m specifically not deleting my account because:

  1. I intend to exercise a number of my data subject rights, and complain if Facebook does not respond appropriately.
  2. I’m expecting the alternatives to Facebook to improve (because they’re virtually non-existent now), and will look forward to using data portability.

The following is an experiment using Siri to talk to Drafts which I will then publish to microblog. The idea works by use of special code inside of Drafts that allows you to talk to your device and it …

The premise is simple: instead of owning your own bike, you can find and rent a JUMP bike directly in their app – each one has a built-in GPS. Bikes are scattered across the city, locked to racks, …

"A 12-day trip will cost $9.5 million per person, and reservations for the first four months have already sold out."
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"Facebook’s targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don’t need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it automatically. And they boasted that Russia’s dezinformatsiya agents were using tactics their community had pioneered."
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The headline,

Josh Kushner’s healthcare start up

caught my eye, so I read on.

Oscar, the health insurance startup co-founded by Joshua Kushner and Mario Schlosser, has raised $165 million in new …