A visual guide to America’s concentrated uncompetitive markets.
We were talking about breaking up tech companies that are ‘too large’ … ma e we should look here aswell?
Systems Affected : Microsoft Windows
”This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). DHS and FBI are releasing this TA to provide information about a major online ad fraud operation—referred to by the U.S. Government as “3ve”—involving the control of over 1.7 million unique Internet Protocol (IP) addresses globally, when sampled over a 10-day window.
Truth … reminds me of my old days in large corporate change management initiatives … we used to call it the ‘permafrost layer’.
Apparently :
”The current effort to retrain American workers, labor authorities agree, is small compared with the needs, particularly in recent years as computerized machines have evolved, bringing to the workplace perhaps the greatest change since the Industrial Revolution in the 1820’s.
Except that was written in 1983
And yet still the world seems to be surprised how jobs are being taken by automation of one kind or another.
The eighteenth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
Pete is an older gentleman that lives in London. He can see no reason to even visit America - certainly not after what his brother experienced.
Anyone else a Mervyn Peake fan?
Time to workout what a ‘tie-break’ means in Chess.
If one country fires a weapon into another country … isn’t that an act of war?
Asking on behalf of Mexico.
Synth .. “interactive podcasts in byte size increments.”
Does anyone reading this have any experience of them?
”You can’t have a heart unless you do a GoFundMe for 10K' is not a just system."
Who needs democracy when you have data?
”The algorithm is thought to highlight suspicious behaviors such as visiting a mosque or owning too many books.”
Spain’s Sanchez confirms deal reached over Gibraltar
”Sanchez said any future decisions regarding Gibraltar would be made with Spain.
Rolled over? Sold out? Capitulated? Threw in the towel? Blinked first?
What will May do when Yorkshire cecedes?
World’s Loneliest Tree – New Zealand
’The introduced spruce is considered the most isolated tree in the world, after the former record-holder, the Tree of Ténéré in the Sahara Desert, was mowed down by a drunk driver.
I wonder if that driver was a Kiwi?
The iPad, HomePod, and Apple TV need multi-user support.
… umm because those devices are often used by more than one person?
The one surprise of the article? That it took an entire article to say what could be said in a sentence.
I have TOTALLY forgotten how to add text snippets to the ios special keyboard … which means that is not intuitive. I did log a request a while back that you should simply be able to create a folder that you move shortcuts into for them to appear. Maybe they are working on it?
Good Grief
The Fall of FAANG … and they even call out ‘Alphabet’ in the body copy!
Sincerely yours … the pedant.
(PS - It is a very good graphic)
”Oh, if only you were.”
Jeff Bezos
On Cluetrain’s 2nd decenniversary
Some unintended symmetry I suspect … ‘remembering Cluetrain’ by Searls et al, first published in 1999 by Doc Searls on 1999.
Happy Boxing Day Thanksgiving …
”The generally accepted definition of a bear market is a 20% or greater decline from recent market highs.
Great graphic on the click through.