Two Step Apple Card Approval

1. Hold your phone near the packaging that the card arrived in.

2. Approved.

If you want to work out where I have been for a week - no posts and all that - well - fixed. Been nowhere - just accidentally posting everything into a test account. Now they are all here.

Like Bird on the Wing and New News

“So, to get this straight and for the avoidance of any doubt, users are being warned that if they protect their privacy it might have an adverse effect on Facebook’s ability to target ads and monetise user data. All said without even a trace of irony.”

Uber Lays Off 435 Employees in Product and Engineering

This after the 400 in Marketing a couple of months ago.

Purdue Pharma agrees $12bn settlement in opioids case, plaintiffs' lawyers say.

Only Purdue goes bankrupt. The Sacklers need to be bankrupted aswell.

No deal.

Found this as I was thinking about iPad Pro updates … it’s rumour - of course - but makes sense.

iPad Pro 2019 Release Date, Price, Specs: Latest News & Rumours.

What do you think?

Do I really want a dashboard?

A dashboard reflects history. Tells me what has been going on.

A dashboard doesn’t

• tell me why
  
• have context
  
• provide direction
  
• indicate ’what next’
  
• explain nuance
  
• reveal assumptions
  

It can mislead - and will provide a false sense of security.

Man accused of stealing 1,020 pastries worth $90,000 from New York bakery.

Ninety Dollars?

For a pancake?

And we wonder why the world is in trouble.

“All parents want to help their kids get ahead,” they wrote in asking a judge to commit Huffman to prison, “yet most manage to steer clear of conspiracy, bribery and fraud.”

Prosecutors saying crimes committed by Huffman should not be interpreted as runaway parental zeal.

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