Trailers for Wall-E in the style of seven different genres.
… what was I saying about professional delivery of recordings just now? I’m with kottke … anything in the hands of a good editor can totally change the story. But it ain’t the tools, it’s the talent.
Paul Ryan Is Fucking Everything Up for the GOP
Really? I think they are doing a perfectly fine job themselves, lead by the ‘Chief Fucker Upper’. No additional help required.
Now it is true that Ryan lacks a spine, but isn’t that how he got in to the party?
After Cambridge Analytica, Privacy Experts Get to Say ‘I Told You So’
Nellie Bowles was at last week’s Internet Identity Conference that I posted a little on at the time - this is her take.
This is - oh - the 8th update (?) since they started the beta testing … and each time my heart skips a beat when I see the alert and then I realize - oh @Omni Graffl - not OmniFocus.
What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
The premise is simple: instead of owning your own bike, you can find and rent a JUMP bike directly in their app – each one has a built-in GPS. Bikes are scattered across the city, locked to racks, poles, or even trees.
An example of went wrong in China is below - and that doesn’t include bikes tied against trees, lamp posts and stop signs that will be all over San Francisco.
Thank-you dear tax payer - we will repurpose these ‘utilities’, make your city look like crap, probably cause accidents because we won’t be too careful about where we leave stuff …. oh and we are not responsible … you see we simply ‘facilitate bike sharing’.
Is Wavelength the new cheese?
text, image, sound, no video yet … is that next?
“Don’t be the best in the world at what you do; be the only one in the world who does what you do.”
Jerry Garcia
Of course, first you have to decide what it is that you do!
Been living with this for a while now …
Two weeks ago I changed one of my site designs. I updated Mars Edit this a.m. and it duly published a blank post.
I liked this response the best:
Subject Looks like an Oops.
Body On the positive side, you should be commended for encouraging all of us to use our imaginations.
An unwelcome consequence of living in a world where everything is “easy” is that the only skill that matters is the ability to multitask. At the extreme, we don’t actually do anything; we only arrange what will be done, which is a flimsy basis for a life.
Tim Wu
Rent your space in Space Hotel
”A 12-day trip will cost $9.5 million per person, and reservations for the first four months have already sold out.”
Any thoughts?
You Can Now Book a Stay at the World's First Space Hotel
"A 12-day trip will cost $9.5 million per person, and reservations for the first four months have already sold out."The Full Story
”Yahoo just notified users of a new policy of gathering data from email and sharing with verizon and other media companies.
Well … there’s a quick way to lose your customer base.
I use ‘uniquename at philpin dot com’ when i register and sign up for stuff.
GDPR means that I am getting a lot of email asking me to opt in to whatever they are up to.
All emails are being sent to ‘linkedIN at philpin dot com’
That was a ‘whole lot of scraping’ going on.
Observation - here on Micro.Blog I have done what I usually do - follow everyone who I see and then as time goes by stop following if I am bored, posts not relevant, I am not learning, spurious, whackos … you know - the usual sort of stuff.
Haven’t yet unfollowed anybody.
Ryan is NOT retiring because of problems with Trump OR the House being under threat … of course not … whatever you say Paul. We believe you. When have you ever misled us?
How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet
"Facebook’s targeting algorithm is so powerful, they said, they don’t need to identify suckers themselves—Facebook does it automatically. And they boasted that Russia’s dezinformatsiya agents were using tactics their community had pioneered."The Full Story
Healthcare Is not the same as Healthcare Insurance
The headline,
Josh Kushner’s healthcare start up
caught my eye, so I read on.
Oscar, the health insurance startup co-founded by Joshua Kushner and Mario Schlosser, has raised $165 million in new venture capital funding. A source puts the post-money valuation at $3.2 billion, which is up from $2.7 billion in early 2016.
Oh … not healthcare start up at all … health Insurance startup. I do find the conflation of these two very different businesses in the US not just confusing - but almost deliberately misleading.
…. and yes, Josh is the Kushner that you don’t read too much about.
Revisiting Full Contact any views - positive or negative about its behavior, use of data etc