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
Please make your mind up.
Sarah Cooper is always a good read as she examines the ’22 year old hiring the ‘45’ year old who is questioning why he is begging for a job from a 22 year old’.
Tucked inside is the absolute truth of this line …
”We don’t offer healthcare, obviously ..”
… there you have it.
Exploitation Of People By People
Vehicle Costs May Put Some Uber and Lyft Drivers in the Red
”The ride-sharing drivers earn just $3.37 per hour on average, according to an MIT study. I have said for a long time that the same people who object to treatment of workers in remote countries making phones, garments et al ... are generally the self same people who love the convenience of ‘their’ Uber. Case In Point ... disasters. We seem to worry more about issues that are close to home far more than remote ones ... 2 dead in storm floods in the next state over is so much more worrying than 200 dead in Pakistan floods ... yet exploitation of those people in Pakistan by the garment industry hits the news cycle regularly ... exploitation of our own countrymen in the so called ‘sharing economy’ ... that we don’t hear about too much at all.
The internet that took over the Internet
This caught me eye:
”The more I think about it the more I believe: the true way out of the swamp of social media is for things to require a little effort.”
I am thinking that this is definitely a micro.blog thought.
Via @billbennett
Heh there @billbennettnz … or @billbennett as you are known in MB / this is what I mean about a single ‘@‘name that is consistent across the two environments so conversation in either world is easier.
Right up your street @d0gc0w …. My iPad, my accidental typewriter – Bill Bennett …. by our own @billbennetnz
Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan
"“For two centuries the Negro was enslaved, and robbed of any wages—potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants.” —Martin Luther King Jr., in a 1965 Playboy interview with Alex Haley"The Full Story