Source of this which is in plain sight …
Erik Prince wants to sell you a “secure” smartphone that’s too good to be true.
One a lying scumbag always a lying scumbag.
I note his sister is now suggesting that Biden ‘sexually harassed’ her ….
It clearly runs in the family.
Oracle exists so far below the surveillance visibility line that it really is time that something like this happened …
Class action against Oracle’s worldwide surveillance machine.
Amazon is fixing the AC at a warehouse where a worker died on Prime Day.
The horse may have bolted - but there are plenty more horses in the warehouses … so something needed to be done.
If It’s Not About The People …
Careful what you measure … Gaping Void nailing it.
Reminds me of the Blair mandate about waiting for doctor appointments.
Why Barber’s Poles Have All Those Stripes.
Filed in the bucket of ‘Today I Learned’ … fascinating how such branding lives over centuries.
What is Chokepoint Capitalism?.
It’s Cory Doctorow on Medium - well worth a read.
Experimenting with the new Text Expander Keyboard … at least now you can easily get to all your shortcuts!
Most Jobs Fall Into 3 Major Categories
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - a person takes money, hands you an object; liquor store clerks, cashiers, bank tellers, etc.
𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - taxis, aeroplanes, trucks, etc.
𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 - people that watch things. But this extends to people that tweak small things (on par with wiping a baby’s arse) like pool repair, HVAC repair, etc. They take the diaper off, they wipe it down, they put the diaper back on; janitors, gardeners, farmers, painters, security guards, testing, stockers, etc.
Every single one of these will be replaced by a robot, and pretty soon.
💬 Reichart 'Ki' Von Wolfsheild
“Trump didn’t steal classified documents, he was just holding onto them for safekeeping."
💬 Rudy Giuliani
… via Bess Levin at Vanity Fair.
”If you give talented people the opportunity to create wealth, they will do so. If you give talented people the opportunity to extort wealth, they will do so. Don’t credit me with saying that. It’s Libertarianism 101.”
💬 Arnold Kling
“What, pray tell, would Trump have said at this dinner, in order to convey that he was willing to bury the hatchet he spent the entire campaign swinging at Hillary’s head?”
💬 Bess Levin
“It’s summer, and I got a note that politely encouraged a few forays into brevity.”
💬 Brian Morrisey
It could equally well have been directed at me!
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“As one lawyer recounted to the Post, Trump’s legal team once urged the then president “against tweeting about the Mueller probe, only to find he’d tweeted about it before they got to the end of the West Wing driveway.” Others said he was “nearly impossible to represent and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid.”
Human remains reportedly found in suitcases bought at New Zealand auction.
Gulp ..
Now that’s a headline you don’t often read … New Zealand?
“The big shift we see right now with teens that we’re very focused on is this desire to share more privately,”
A Product Manager At Facebook Meta
What rock have I been living under?
I had never heard of him until today - and WOW.
What an artist. What a career. What a lovely highly talented person.
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”
💬 Alfred Marshall