Spotify Saved Music … Can It Save Itself?
I can’t emphasize enough how much I so vehemently disagree with the first half of that headline …
Dropbox went public and is now worth $20 billion
”Houston’s 25.5% ownesrship of Dropbox almost certainly makes his stake in the company worth billions.”
Why ‘almost certainly’? How can 25% of 20 billion not be multiple billions?
More sloppy stupid writing at Business Insider.
Sherlock - “what’s that … what are you typing?”
Watson - “a title”
Sherlock - “ a title? What do you need a title for?”
Strikes me that the writer for Sherlock is a micro blogger! What say you?
‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Confirmation
‘Finally’
“We didn’t elect him to be a saint, we elected him to be a leader.”
It is galling to keep reading this kind of headline - quite apart from the fact that if the shoe was on the other foot … but there’s more
Let’s say he was elected to be a leader … then why isn’t he leading?
”Knowing what we know about Uber, would anyone be surprised to find that this crash was precipitated by a series of irresponsible corner-cutting decisions fueled by a cocktail of arrogance and desperation?”
Exactly
Just how deep is the British Establishment in Cambridge Analytica?
TV news this morning included a piece on ‘Golden Gate Bridge’. The reporter spent some time explaining what a gantry is … no, not Elmer. Like Trump finding out something he never knew, so assumes the world needs to be educated. e.g. ‘Healthcare Is Hard’. ‘Reciprocity’.
Catch 22 Or Just Irony ?
The Facebook scandal is interesting in a number of ways, not the least of which is that we’re sharing our communal outrage on the very platforms that we accuse of breaching our our trust.
The expression of our anger at being turned into a set of psychographic profiles is, ultimately, adding to our psychographic profiles.
Dave Pell - Next Draft
Best price I have found for a new Paper53 stylus - $30
Best price I have found for a new Paper53 replacement tip - $20
Now that’s a razor blade model if ever I saw one!
My goodness @manton does have a deep voice .. castro.fm … good thoughts with @danielpunkass
Zuck, Zuck, Zuck, Zuck …. really?
Individual Rights
The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
‘Ashamed’ Fox News Commentator Quits the ‘Propaganda Machine’
""Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration," wrote Peters, a Fox News "strategic analyst."
"Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed," he wrote."
The Gamblers Betting Against Donald Trump … and Getting Rich - The Ringer
PredictIt is a real-money political prediction market based in D.C. and sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Anyone have knowledge of / use Arena? They seem to be raising money in a different way