In case I haven’t shared this before, a little ‘belt and braces’, as they say in the ‘old country’.
Emails Show Facebook Is Well Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy.
”The Facebook executives who approved this ought to be going to jail. Facebook is to privacy what Enron was to accounting."
John Gruber
”If you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.”
Cal Newport
W.H.O. calls to reclassify weed.
”If the changes are adopted, it would serve as an admission by world governments that they were wrong about marijuana."
Kevin Urgiles
The Internet Saved the Record Labels
Not yet it hasn’t …. and by what measure is a total revenue still 15% below where it was 12 years ago measured a success?
See what I mean @blot ?
🔗 Mind my Picasso… superyacht owners struggle to protect art.
”Some 1 percenters are forced to hire art historians to come aboard their superyachts to help restore multimillion-dollar paintings damaged by cornflake shrapnel and champagne corks.”
No comment. Absolutely none.
Are millennials overqualified for the jobs they hold? - Deloitte Insights
… imagine how over qualified the boomers and ‘greatest generations’ must be. Think about it the next time you watch a +70 year old packing your groceries.
The Black and White Minstrel Show
Last seen on BBC TV IN 1978 On stage in London until 1988
Northam photograph 1984.
Time - itâs just a construct.
📸 Time - it’s just a construct.
”the ability of technological advancement to do “more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.”
Buckminster Fuller
This and other great material from Stowe Boyd today - hard to selectively choose on this occasion.
U.S. says foreign meddling didn’t affect 2018 election systems.
… who needs to meddle with the machines when you’ve already meddled with the machine operators?
All of Microsoft’s iOS beta programs, and how to sign up.
Salvation within @simonwoods ?
Amazon’s Baby Activity Skill API lets Alexa developers build apps that track tots' activities.
… what could possibly go wrong?
‘I trusted you!’ Trump voters seethe after realizing they’re getting screwed by the GOP’s tax plan … you can lead a horse to water … but you can’t make it drink … the horse has to be thirsty.
Turns out a few people are realizing that they are thirsty.
Not heard of this one before … a new writing app for mac / ios … just what the world needs.
Programmer Jailed After Finding Secret Way to Withdraw $1M.
It wasn’t that secret then was it? Just sayin’.
📚 Finished reading: Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward.