Outsourcing your outsourced work … Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France … odds on its happening in the USA.
The Dude’s gone International ….
Genius said it used morse code to catch Google stealing lyrics
”In 2016, Genius made a few changes to the punctuation in its song lyrics. Sometimes, it used a straight apostrophe. Other times, a curly one.
Genius did this in a very specific sequence because when “the two types of apostrophes were converted to the dots and dashes used in Morse code, they spelled out the words ‘Red Handed.'”
“Excuse me sir .. you need a ticket.”
“I have one - from there.” pointing at machine I just got the ticket from.
“We don’t use that anymore.”
“Obviously the machine didn’t get the memo.”
Blank Look.
”George RR Martin writes on an ancient program called Wordstar 4.0 on a dos computer. He is selling more books than nearly anyone on the planet and his computer can’t even send an email. … So often we think that we need more to be successful.”
Kyle Westaway
Uber ‘Takes Stranglehold Of Basildon Cab Trade’.
”Local taxi drivers are registered and are licensed by the borough council to work here, whereas the Ubers aren’t, they operate here when they’re licensed to operate in London.
And so much more. All the usual Uber shenanigans.
‘Lifesize’
1.25 … for some it’s a buy opportunity … not so much a sell though!!!
🎵 Well here’s a start @kapsa - found your RSS feed and add it into the JGM side bar
and this post will also appear there ….
Sorry - I can’t recall where I got this from - BUT 🔗📼 for all Escher and Penrose fans a short mesmerising video.
#vimeo
I have no idea of the truth. NONE. But it is telling that I don’t automatically believe the American Administration’s position. In fact, more worrying, I find myself leaning towards them being the more likely liars.
How sad is that?
Google login chief actually praises new ‘Sign In with Apple’ button
… well I didn’t see that coming!
I already knew the underlying data, it was how Aaron phrased it at last night’s Defy Ventures that made me sit up.
“The ‘Land of the Free’ has more people per 100,000 incarcerated than any other country in the world.”
Bonus fact 20% of the inmates are un-sentenced.
“There will be ways to protect against being ‘faked’ by doing things like wearing a live cellular automaton tie.”
Stephen Wolfram
”America reached its zenith as a world power when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and entered its decline with the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Fareed Zakaria