”The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the US, according to scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings reviewed by Motherboard.”
and
”The social media posts of American citizens who don’t like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest US military-funded research. The research, funded by the US Army and co-authored by a researcher based at the West Point Military Academy, is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the US military’s role and influence on domestic intelligence.”
Netflix’s libertarian-fascist corporate culture is a hell no one deserves …
… well that is good to know … I think.
note to self - remember not to download all the apple updates at once … there is simply not enough time in the day.
I Am Using Blot and Micro Blog to extract myself from Corporate Networks.
… written in response to a question asked this morning by Doc Searls.
Click through to see what you can do … beyond voting that is!
Never even heard of this one … but for all those writers out there ….
Nisus Writer Pro - Powerful Word Processor for macOS has just had an upgrade.
Red Hat takes over IBM … at least that’s what Bob Cringely is predicting … including Jim Whitehurst becoming IBM’s CEO within 6 months.
Lots of other predictions around Amazon, Google, Oracle et al and what they will now do when it comes to Apache and UBUNTU et al.
”Demagogues rarely commit violence directly. Instead, they use blame, ridicule, fear and hate – and then leave the violence to others. That way, they can always claim “it wasn’t me. I don’t have blood on my hands.”
Time Off To Vote on November 6th #TimeOffToVote
”I have felt for a long time that election day in the US (by law, the first Tuesday after November 1) should be a national holiday.
… Brad Feld
… what Brad said.
October 30th Apple Event Liveblog – 512 Pixels
”10:30 AM: I think that’s it for the liveblog. It was like tweeting the event, but on a platform with no Nazis.
… Stephen Hacket
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The fifteenth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
Evelyn has come to understand that decisions are not simple transactions and have real long term consequences.
The fourteenth in my series …
‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’
has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
Enrique knows which side of his bread is buttered on and approaches life from the PoV of what he wants … not others.
I live in a ‘safe district’ so signed up to help a candidate campaigning in a ‘not safe district’.
It doesn’t matter which side is which. The point is to do something, because every action - and inaction …. counts.
You Say Complacent - I Say Complicit.
EIGHT DAYS LEFT
iBeacon use slows to ‘a trickle’ … well knock me down with a feather.
Thinking aloud … what if your cellularless 🍎 watch didn’t sit ‘on the back’ of your iPhone. What if you had a cellular 🍎 watch that shared it’s internet access with your wireless only 🍎 iTouch/iPod/iPad mini/iPad … for this odd occasions those devices needed WiFi?
Trying to find something I wrote about Ad Tracking and instead found this from last year abouthow Twitter could easily introduce ‘levers' that would allow us to better fine tune who we follow … and why.
Is The US Exporting Hate?
”U.S. officials are pursuing an effort to strip the word “gender” from United Nations documents on human rights."
Andrea Germanos