There is no way to decouple yourself from the Twitter mechanics of persistent data collection, an always-on trail of harvestable imprints
The Twitter war against you
You ever try breathing hard?
You ever try breathing hard for 3 hours?
I am used to exertion and then my breath catching up. But, when your breathing hard by itself, without the physical demand, it’s a whole dif ball of wax.
This isn’t something I would suggest doing frequently. It’s exhausting ‘lung-wise’, on the muscles and all the body stuff around the stomach, and also emotionally cos your mind wanders off its breath and you have to stay alert to pull your mind back in.
China, tech theft, food supply and pollution
China wants the food off your table. What if the Chinese government becomes the largest player in American agriculture? Cos it’s happening…
Timestamping my prediction. Cormier v Miocic
What is the The US. Chamber of Commerce?
Bow tie pundits like to cite the US. Chamber of Commerce. But what is ‘it’. Here’s what it ‘is’ and isn’t. Be your own pundit…
Explaining Auto tariffs and our trade imbalance
Is Trump right about Tariffs? Will tariffs cost consumers $5.800 a vehicle? Maybe trade groups and pundits are lying and it’s #FakeNews
Adam plays Scrabble
I keep all my games and scrabble stuff on another site, AdamScrabble.com
Uber IPO. No questions asked
I don’t get invited to any of the glitzy Uber soirees. No open bar for me. This is because I don’t drink and I do ask questions. Had I been invited I may have asked about an Uber IPO and it’s recent 1st quarter ‘earnings’
Instead, I am the misfit talking bad about Uber behind its back
Uber’s reported “profit” was entirely due to a one-time, $2.94 B gain on the hopelessly unprofitable operation Grab sale.
Undemocratic technologies. Killer robot dogs
🤖 Artificial intelligence creates undemocratic technologies that manufacture users by warping their behavior.
🐶 Who trains the killer robot dogs?
How to launder money thru Walmart and Amazon
I am gonna do most of my money laundering thru Walmart but, I’ve got my eye on Amazon’s new ‘no credit check reloadable debit card’
Amazon and Walmart. Retail Post-mortem
The Amazon blast radius, retail nuclear bomb
Gig economy companies, don’t hold your breath
The California Supreme Court recently ruled in Dynamex Operations W. v. Super.
Gig economy workers had a big win
Gig economy companies didn’t
The Apology. We’ve got Facebook. China has Toutiao
What does it mean to have “exerted a bad influence on online opinion”?
It’s something I must surely have done, you’re not squeaky clean either.
Neither is Toutiao one of China’s largest mobile platforms. They analyze the features of content, users and users’ interaction with content, then run this all thru the company’s algorithms to generate a tailored feed list of content for each of their 120 million daily users.
Explaining China and its dual currency
🇨🇳 China has a dual currency system, an “onshore” and an “offshore.”
This post explains how they manipulate it*
*⚠️warning, don’t try this at home
Facebook: Romney 2012 v DeSantis 2024
🧐 why did Obama and Romney in 2012 have better tech then Ron DeSantis today 🤷♂️
🗓️ Flashback to 2012, Facebook and websites.
How can you have a ‘ground game” without having the technological ground?
Left and moral authority trick
The Left is infatuated with the Civil Rights perpetual motion machine, recreating a brand without disrupting its own political power
Twitter Campaign. Politicians, you’re doing it wrong
This is the ‘real real’ of a Twitter campaign. Not what a staffer insists because everyone else is doing it. Social media doesn’t want to see pictures of you standing bravely, shaking hands or dishing food at a pantry. And your policies, meh.
Computational politics. Twitter, big data for sale or barter
The quantity and quality of persistent surveillance extracted from online conversations, likes, retweets, comments, your language, sentiment, empathy all correlated, political engagement, employment, home address, cell phone records, search history, purchases, financial interaction and all those people on your periphery, has resulted in an exponential increase in the amount and type of data available to large organizations that can afford the access
MLK. Letter from Birmingham Jail
📚 This is MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Every word is considered and contributes to its lyrical qualities. The letter has a rhythm 🎼
What gives it emotional power is that it’s simple. It is written to be read. So please read it 👀
Altered Carbon. A No BS review
Altered Carbon is sci fi without an operating system. It’s all hardware, no instructions.