🚖 Uber propaganda is that their valuation is justified because of ‘ride sharing’ ‘on demand’ ‘just like Amazon’
✍️Beware tech journalists embedded in Silicon Valley tribes 🤑
😱 These are the forensics on Uber’s 2017 numbers, buckle up
Bitcoin was not the big bang, this post is about what came before, eCash and E-Gold. A brief history of the beginning of the beginning.
…there are no Ponzi or pyramid schemes still running from the 1800s, or the 1920s, or even from 2001. And so bitcoin goes…
Will robots buy robots? Will they buy the products of other robots? Will they pay income taxes? If they don’t, who will?
Zhang Yiming publicly professed his devotion to the Chinese Communist Party and to the “Four Consciousnesses” of Xi. He also founded TikTok
Electric Dreams. A NO BS review
1/8 I like sci fi. Movie pick? hm, Mr. Nobody. I watched 5 epis of #ElectricDreams I had no good/bad expect. ‘Uh oh’ in open montage.Fancy schmancy,bad! Twilight Zone opening = ordinary stuff/strange setting, disorienting.Imagination works, scary, great!
I like sci-f. There are lots of good movies, some great and some greater. It’s a hard thing to write, and watch, because small script, directing and acting mess-ups cause damage to the whole thing. Also hard because many times the writer wants to embed too many little coded references to other things, it makes for good blogging but oftentimes compromises the movie, it devalues the audience intelligence by creating complexity and clickbait. People are much more forgiving with romantic comedies, dramas and the like.
Black Mirror. A No BS Review…
I usually start reading a TV review at its end and sometimes work my way backwards. My own simple rating system is DON’T SEE IT, SEE IT, WHATEV
This bunch of my reviews is only SEE IT. It my TV list, and I could be wrong for you, but it is right for me
…preview of a paper (under peer-review) that does forensics on how ambulance use rates changed when Uber began operating in US cities, and looks at data from 2013 to 2015….
A corporate tax cut has to defend itself. Governments don’t like giving money back. Fallacy of paper investments vs real investments
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
We are an algorithmic culture that is devotional.. Adherents of computational social change algorithms as scripture. Is resistance futile?
There must be such a thing as socialized medicine, but no-one is exactly sure what it ‘is’. We know all the things that it isn’t. Include in that long list that it is not single-payer and/or ‘Medicare for all’.
🌍 Amazon and the megacorps, have replaced Territorial Sovereignty with Functional Sovereignty
It’s their country and your just living in it
🫡 saluting their flag 🏳️🌈
💉 injecting their passport
When you hire legal crooks, you get legal crimes. Moral and technological turpitude, its wolf in user privacy henhouse was Joe Sullivan, Director of Security:
Orwell reminded us that our history is the propaganda of the past and the propaganda of today is tomorrow’s history. Good luck with that
Time stamping my predictions for UFC 217
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
Climate Change. The bonkers Government wish list of 17 interventions that take the ‘energy’ out of the ‘market.’ Buckle up…
Amazon is building the capabilities to influence personal behavior and consumer habits outside the doctor’s office.
That should get you worried and it might also get you unemployed.
Guccifer 2.0 is not a hack. It’s there to desensitize people to the uncontrollable events of real ‘anti-hillary’ news leaking out.