Larry Ellison, Oracle chairman, donated $32,400 for Jenner’s campaign
👁️ Ellison is heading towards ‘McAfee crazy’!
🎵 A Reminder
“What could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy?”
“It’s not clear if the US is salvageable.”
David Frier
Interesting peak into a possible future.
IMDB DEVELOPER REQUEST
You already allow me to look up a streaming service which tells me what films that service has.
Why not allow me to look up a film and then learn which streaming service(s) it is on?
Fargo paraphrase …
“ You mean like a loan shark.”
“ well yes, but in that world they don’t call it that. They call it Private Equity.”
Tiffany Trump Reportedly Wants Her Wedding to Be an “International Spectacle”
.. I am sure it will be !
Apple and Google crowd out the competition with default apps.
My observation is that many people with smart phones barely understand how the bundled apps work much less are seeking to replace them.
What say you?
Excellent advice from Dana B
Use Prediction Markets To Fund Investigative Reporting … an interesting article that points out that Hindenburg Research has a unique and interesting business model.
I have to say in terms of applying this idea to the past few months of my life (more of this once the Rubicon is crossed) - I would make one change … ONLY Superpower.
Is America Great?
Dave Winer over on Scripting …
“I am an American, nothing is going to change that, but if you asked me do I feel this is the greatest country ever, I’d say that’s an idea we have to purge from our minds, the US is the opposite, it’s a fat, lazy, spoiled, ridiculous excuse for a country. If we want to amount to anything we need to take a 180 degree turn now.”
Channeling Jeff Daniels / Will McEvoy 8 years later?
“Markets: After a bumpy Thursday when investors questioned economic growth prospects, stocks rebounded on Friday to close at all-time highs.”
Via Om
“App Annie, a mobile research and analytics company, points out that the average U.S. android user spent 24.5 hours per month on TikTok, compared with 22 hours on YouTube and 17.5 hours on Facebook.”
‘Average’ - adding up to 64 hours per month (or close to 9% of life).
Observation re the Micro Blog Stream
Number of posts about England v Italy - well in all honesty no idea - lost count.
Number of posts about Branson and Virgin Galactic - 1 - and even that was pretty hostile.
Have I missed something?
Clearly there have been some typos in the recent headlines …
“It’s coming … “
‘Rome’ …. Not ‘home’
“In the eighties and nineties and early 2000s, punditry was so formulaic, you could spot future stars just by scanning the newsroom for the person least inclined to original thought. One glance at David Brooks or Thomas Friedman had editors thinking, kerching!”
Matt Taibi
Ouch!
Apple in Early Talks With NFL for ‘Sunday Ticket’ Streaming Rights
If Apple will need their subscribers to pay a premium to get their sport they had better make it an option and not automatically bundle it (and the price) for everyone.
Say no to the ESPN auto bundled model