”We live in an incipient dictatorship. I wonder when more of us will start to take this seriously.”
David Friers
What’s wrong with bots is they’re not ours
@dsearls is not wrong … interesting breakdown of the language used by Zuck.
Bottom line … ‘you’ means whatever ‘he’ wants it mean at a given moment.
It’s like black magic ….
Facebook bug set 14 million users' sharing settings to public
… well they said it was a bug … who else thinks that might not exactly be the truth?
Warriors and Leno leading … nothing final yet, but all heading in the right direction.
3 - 0 …. wow … and I don’t even follow basketball!
Hedera Hashgraph … any insights from this fine community?
Uber to Spend Up to $500 Million on Ad Campaign
… designed to repair their image.
What could possibly go wrong, after all Advertising is such a trustworthy medium.
We might not have had as many people as San Jose

… but I bet we could compete on the total people-hours spent at the event.
What say you @devilgate?
Not a lot to argue with …. … but if that is the case do we agree with the conclusion ….
… it’s the ‘America is doomed’ and its happening fast scenario.
There’s something about bookshops … like when you find 4 books you want to read all arranged for you … but traveling light .. so another day.
In Praise of Micro.Blog is written in response to a friend who asked me to ‘tell him more’.
Rather than emailing him back - I took @brentsimmons advice from 2014 and wrote a blog post.
It isn’t perfect - but then - what post is?
Under Pressure, Uber Tries New Approach in Japan
… you know … that one where you partner with people already doing what you do to do what they do for you … that one.
My first story from the new series ‘real stories from real people’ is now published on BIZCATALYST 360°
People: Pete
Pete … loud … but nice. Turkish is his ’baby’ has ‘been with him for 15 years’. Turkish looked up at me from Pete’s lap. Cute.
More an experiment than anything.
Do I mention the WWDC conference on Monday OR did I have to mention the WWDC conference on Monday actually on Monday?
Microsoft confirms it’s buying GitHub for $7.5 billion
I saw a 2 billion number this morning … so wow!
second wow … softies stock up 40% in the past 12 months … if that climb continues ….
Sex robots ‘won’t solve loneliness’
Good to know … but was that the intent?
📚 🎵 My Book of Genesis looks like a good one if you want a different spin on the band
James Patterson has a new book out : The President Is Missing Apparently
”weaving a suspenseful and gripping technothriller that will leave readers wondering, ‘Could this really happen?”
“Oh I hope so” … I thought aloud.
”We think as we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.”
💬 John Fowles