The glass cliff - where females are more likely to achieve leadership roles during periods of crisis or downturn and so chance of failure is highest.
Reminding you because I commented about ‘said cliff’ here and had a couple of people ask if I could ‘splain.
Melania Trump, Clintons and Obamas attend funeral of Barbara Bush
Says it all really.
Kurzweil Predicts Universal Basic Incomes Worldwide Within 20 Years
Who am I to argue with Kurzweil … but he could be right if you exclude the US … where even Healthcare for all is consistently voted down.
Sheriff’s Deputy Is Fired After Fatally Shooting Unarmed Man in Houston nytimes.com
Doesn’t ‘fatally shooting’ sound so much better than ‘killing’?
I didn’t think that the podcasting app had been around long enough to qualify for ‘an era’, much less for its passing to be reported in the Guardian.
Wrong Castro.
The Weinstein Co. Names Executive With Experience In Restructuring To Board Of Directors
Yeah yeah yeah … hands up if you have heard of the Glass Cliff?
Why you should learn how to use Google Sheets vs. Excel
… the usual blah blah blah - get out and f the bubble!
Apple offers replacements for swollen 13-inch MacBook Pro batteries
Cannot recall when - but back in the day I also suffered from the swollen battery …. took it in … and … well you know what happened …
Wonder if there is a retrospective offer?
German court says ad-blocking is legal
I have heard the arguments that it isn’t … but those arguments eminate from US based people … the rest of the world … lets call them the other 95% … yeah … they are for people … not the corporation.
Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries
No - but sure - I’m listening ….
Apple iPhone X will be killed off this year, analyst says
Meanwhile ……
”Samsung’s top two phones combined account for less than 5 percent of industry profits, and no other company had a phone that cracked the top 10.”
Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
I love science
”So, she hired a handstand coach. Yes, I know what you’re thinking, but evidently this is an actual thing that exists.”
Jeff Bezos
Feature request …. edit comments
Lance Armstrong reaches $5m settlement in $100m federal fraud case
I thought I misread it, but no.
Sorry about that $100 … will $5 cover it? One day courts will hold people accountable. Not the little people. Not the poor people. No. Just mofos like this loser.