The NYT Magazine: Can China Turn the Middle of Nowhere Into the Center of the World Economy?
”I don’t know the answer to that question. But I do know that this is what China is working on while America is still waiting for Infrastructure Week."
Dave Pell
”Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity.
… similar to another Facebook app that Apple banned in June and removed in August. “
Read It All, and no, I am not surprised.
Microsoft employees swept up in GitHub reply-all email apocalypse.
”It happens to the best of us.”
… what a croc … no it doesn’t. Maybe the writer meant ‘the best of us at Business Insider’ …. now that I can agree with.
Protecting your online privacy is tough—but here’s a start.
”Your digital identity has three layers and you can only protect one of them.”
Actually …you can protect 2 .. but we don’t talk too much about that … you know the bit about behavioural tracking?
To all you ‘sketch noters’ out there … take note of ‘Structured Visual Thinking’
The Downside Of Extraordinary Sucess
”The Apple Watch and its AirPod wireless earphones have already topped those of the iPod at its peak. But who thinks the wearable products have caused anywhere near the sensation of the iPod?”
The two presidential candidates that terrify Wall Street the most
“It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders. It has to be someone centrist and someone who can win.”
... ‘a top exec’ at a large bank.’
I would say both are centrist given how far to the right we’ve ‘drifted’.
Extraordinary: 🔗📼 In a Nutshell
#vimeo
The Supreme Court may kill Roe v. Wade as soon as this week.
Conclusion and Spoiler Alert:
”Roe v. Wade will die a quiet death, and the Supreme Court won’t even have to kill it.”
The juxtaposition caught me out @bestoftimes … how big are His TVs I wondered? Then I realized that it was another wonderful @robertbrook photograph.
“Out of his element.”
… the Times reported.
“Out of his mind.”
is more accurate.
Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams
I’ve ‘picked a side’ Pompeo … not yours.
You are part of an isolationist administration, so why throw your weight around here?
Rhetorical question … I know it’s the oil. It’s always the oil.
Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand
”The aim of Founders, clarified by the accompanying text and by the piece’s lurid illustrations, was not simply to evade the apocalypse, but to prosper from it.”
Europe ‘coming apart before our eyes’, say 30 top intellectuals
Pro-Europeans “no longer have a choice. We must sound the alarm against the arsonists of soul and spirit that, from Paris to Rome, with stops in Barcelona, Budapest, Dresden, Vienna and Warsaw, are playing with the fire of our freedoms.”
Reskilling 1.4 million workers due to automation will cost $34 billion
Finally someone talking about the issue society faces, though personally I think 1.4 million is a lowball and at only per head price of around $25,000, I think the final answer is going to be well north.
The deal also means the roughly 800,000 federal workers who’ve been furloughed or forced to work without pay since Dec. 22 will begin getting paychecks …
“very quickly or as soon as possible,”
tRump
Serious thought. IWatch becomes my sole cellular device and I then have an iPad, iPad mini or iPod Touch as my secondary device that is wifi or piggy backs on my watch’s 4G connection.
Invasion Day - the new Australia Day?
Protesters blast Australia′s national day
I wonder when this movement will catch on in America?
Refreshing honesty .. from Alex Karp, CEO Palantir
”You’re not supposed to go exactly explain what you’re doing, what’s wrong with it,"
“You’re supposed to be a complete a–hole and that’s how you get funding.”