🔥 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…
VAT tax. the Green New Deal, UBI and You
China, Surveillance, NBA, Movies. And you
🔥 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
USA v China. End of year report, Trump is winning
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
The explainer. China, Trade, Huawei, IP theft and 5g
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 – Seattle WTO protests
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: the tyranny of a modular language
Plastic words begin as scientific terms with highly specialized meanings. They are malleable and in an uncanny way fit every circumstance.
How Google avoids paying its taxes and sticks you with the bill
🔥 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
It’s time to ban big dogs! #StopTheBiting
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.
Interrogating an algorithm is a human right
🤖 Being able to interrogate an algorithm about how it reached its conclusions is a human right
🧐 Who watches the algorithms that are watching us
Google and its revolving door to Government
🤖 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 in New York & the tax payers who subsidize it
Amazon made the finalists sign non-disclosure agreements. They promised big jobs and got big tax breaks. Now what?
Who does TikTok work for?
Yiming founded TikTok. In 2018 he publicly pledged devotion to the Chinese Communist Party and to Xi.
Is TikTok yesterday Twitter today?
Overton window & the social media purge
Sometimes the right thing to do is stay quiet when everyone else is wrong
Medical Regulations. You’re paying, for what?
Specialized technology written to constantly evolving regulations is expensive and built by cartels – cronyism and monopoly
Fake News. One algorithm says the other is lying
When algorithms compete for truth, they are also in competition to propagate fake news. Who is assigned the write-privileges to your software
Uber creationism and 3rd qr 2018 earnings
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.
Timestamping my prediction. Conor vs Khabib #UFC229
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, explaining the math
💵 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.”
Uber IPO in the boiler room
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?
The Twitter war against you
There is no way to decouple yourself from the Twitter mechanics of persistent data collection, an always-on trail of harvestable imprints