Polls give an appearance of “data-driven journalism”, but they are not. They make it effortless to form an opinion with no information assembly required. They are a sort of rolling referendum and their science is not in accuracy but in giving the appearance of it.
🔥 Kick a** post about the VAT tax.
🆓 Medicare For All, free college and the Green New Deal, are estimated to cost more than +/-$45t over 10 years.
🤯 Here’s how they’re gonna make you pay for it, buckle up…
🔥 Kick Ass post about 🇨🇳 China 💳 Social Credit 🏀 Basketball 🍿🥤 Hollywood ☠️ Human Rights and South Park 🤣
Read this and instantly become “the smart friend”
👨⚕️ Consult your doctor if this post is right for you
Trump is winning in China, will our Government let him? Your October 2019 update. You’re about to become incredibly smart and wise. Buckle up
This is gonna be a fun explainer about China, Trade, Huawei, IP theft and 5g. You are about to become an expert and the life of any party
*results may vary
Networks and Netwars – Netwar in the Emerald City: WTO Protest Strategy and Tactics Netwar in the Emerald City: WTO Protest Strategy and Tactics In a free society, netwar can run…
Plastic words begin as scientific terms with highly specialized meanings. They are malleable and in an uncanny way fit every circumstance.
🔥 This post explains tax inversions, tax routes/treaties and Stateless income.
It’s about 🛣️ how Google avoids paying its taxes and sticks you with the bill
We can learn so much from China. They have solved the ‘too many guns’ problem. Now they are ticking off another public threat, big dogs.
🤖 Being able to interrogate an algorithm about how it reached its conclusions is a human right
🧐 Who watches the algorithms that are watching us
🤖 FLASHBACK to 2016 and a political revolving door:
A list of just some of the former Google employees who now work for Hillary Clinton’s State Department, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Presidential Campaign
Amazon made the finalists sign non-disclosure agreements. They promised big jobs and got big tax breaks. Now what?
Yiming founded TikTok. In 2018 he publicly pledged devotion to the Chinese Communist Party and to Xi.
Is TikTok yesterday Twitter today?
Sometimes the right thing to do is stay quiet when everyone else is wrong
Specialized technology written to constantly evolving regulations is expensive and built by cartels – cronyism and monopoly
When algorithms compete for truth, they are also in competition to propagate fake news. Who is assigned the write-privileges to your software
It takes time to dismantle a company as large as Uber. I was one of the first to hit the buzzer and call “bullshit”. You can catch up with these gems: Uber. BS earnings. Tech journalists didn’t do forensics. So I did and Will Uber be the death of Softbank And the start of it all Uber. Beginning the postmortem
The whole bunch is here: adamtownsend.me/category/uber/ it covers a lot of territory, financials, legalistics, technology, propaganda, eager business journalists on a tight deadline. It’s all there.
But, I’m kinda Uber exhausted with the whole thing, now I just wait for the IPO and laugh. Instead of my rants, let’s examine what others are saying.
Conor vs Khabib. Time stamping my predictions for UFC 229
Normally I don’t bother with sharing the forensics of how I came to my prediction because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
This time I’m gonna give me a pass on that rule o’ mine
💵 Stock buybacks – the ‘splainer
👨🏫 Share buybacks and dividends get cash out of companies that don’t have worthwhile ideas and into companies that do.
💬 “…maybe this company doesn’t have any ideas worth investing in. Not every company needs to expand at any given moment.”
Is Uber’s coming IPO being crafted in high tech boiler rooms? Is Morningstar’s recent Uber report just another penny stock broker’s pitch?