Kottke
Facebook inflated ad metrics up to 900 percent: lawsuit
”If true, Facebook’s big “pivot” to video was really a scam. Again, Facebook is looking more and more like a criminal enterprise. A Silicon Valley racket.”
Gruber - and total concurrence.
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… something for all fellow grumpy old nerds.
🎵Lindsey Buckingham sues his former Fleetwood Mac Bandmates
… get the popcorn.
I mean … what could be more important in 2018?
Political Correctness Gone Mad. CoL Richard Kemp Slams Order Banning Poppy On BTP cars.
… as discussed yesterday … Political Correctness is out of control.
What ‘’clarity of ‘consent’ should mean ….
Since I upgraded to Mojave, my dual monitors changed behaviour. (The default icons ran down the right of the left hand screen. I wanted them on the right of the right hand screen.)
Solution … drag that little white bar from the left to the right and voila!
”Sears has been dying for many years. It’s been obviously improperly run for many years and it’s a shame." So said President Trump. (Sidenote: Steven Mnuchin was on the Sears board for those many years…)
Dave Pell, Next Draft
Race and poverty aren’t the only challenges facing some students. During the last school year, 114,659 public students were homeless. That’s not across America. That’s just in New York City.
Dave Pell, Next Draft
I think that is a staggering number … how about you?
[Paul Allen Dies at 65](Microsoft co-founder and developer Paul Allen dies at 65)
How to use Spaces, Apple’s mostly ignored macOS Mojave productivity feature
Love Spaces .. and the smaller the screen the more likely they will be used .. on my 13” … that’s pretty much all the time.
Are we in brackets season?
Trump says he will call Saudi King Salman about journalist Khashoggi
And he’ll get off the call and say …
‘you know, the king said that the Saudi’s had nothing to do with it … and I believe him.”
Jared Kushner ‘likely’ paid little or no income taxes for years
Explains his ever present smirk.
There’s this:
Negotiators reach Brexit divorce deal
But then there’s this:
Britain’s Labour will not vote for ‘blind Brexit’
Which seems to negate the first item … since no deal can be done without a vote which can’t be done without the detail of the deal … which ….
Saved from being hung by a jury that was itself hung ….
Should I file it in the ‘hung pun bucket’?
About that voter suppression stuff that we shouldn’t worry about …