For whatever reason I routinely type ‘from’ and it regularly gets input as ‘form’. Sadly I can’t use auto correct - because I do use ‘form’.

The Article

The Web stopped to be an HyperText medium serving people. It became a marketing platform serving personal data collection.

Each click, scroll down or zoom became an observable event that can be recorded to profile a user.

…and JavaScript became a weapon

Apple chip supplier TSMC admits downtime caused by unpatched Windows systems

… doesn’t anyone … ever … learn … anything?

Facebook has begun internally testing its dating feature

So Facebook staff are all dating each other?

Suggest their Public Beta could be the Whitehouse since I’d heard that interns there need to lie about what they do to even get a date in D.C.

How to Use Apple Pencil with Any iPhone or iPad

It does work if the video is true, but what about the back story? How long did he take trying to work his out? What other techniques did he try and fail at? What could he have achieved had he spent the time doing something else?

Kräftskiva - Gastro Obscura … weren’t we talking about ‘bibs’ recently?

Google’s Real Motive in China.

Money.

Open Thread - How To Troll The Right Wing Internet

I don’t often laugh out loud at the shenanigans I read .. but this one I made an involuntary exception for.

John Cage’s ten rules for students and teachers

It’s a list like so many other wise lists … but what I like about this list is that he typed it up … long before ‘devices’ … one for the 🖊 and 📝 mafia.

Actor Steven Seagal appointed Russian ministry’s ‘special representative’

I have read this enough to assume it is not a hoax. So we are doomed then… right?

What Will Cause the Next Recession?

“and with a bit of imagination, picture how the recession of 2020 (or 2022, or whatever year it ends up being) may unfold.”

… which will have been caused by what’s occurring now … but whoever is in power at that moment will get the blame.

Trump voting commission had no evidence of widespread voter fraud, former member says

My best guess is that fraud will be discovered in early November.

Google Categorically Refuses to Remove The Pirate Bay’s Homepage

… In related news and kow towing to the Chinese Goverment it rewrites it’s search algorithms so they can operate in China.

Follow The Money. That’s what Google does.

Jean-Paul Sartre Attempts to Return Some Socks

I really believe that Existential Comics get their ideas simply by observing the world we live in.

Can Google ‘do the right thing’ if it is creating a censorship search engine for China?

Probably not. America next?

Social Decay when the signage reflects the reality of today.

Musicians, Developers, Authors everyone is being screwed by the corporates.

Audible puts the screws to indie authors

Audible authors only get a commission if customers come via social media. If you get a radio interview and someone buys from Amazon as a result, you get $0.00.