The most dangerous of all is Facebook, it’s where grandma and the grandkids are. They are weaponizing empathy.
Facebook is the emotional platform.
News doesn’t matter. Facebook is the emotional platform
Essential explainer. Chinese Social Credit Score
The Chinese government has developed the ‘Perfect Citizen’, Social Credit System. It’s always-on surveillance and it’s coming here.
The anti Uber open sourced insurgencies won. City Governments did too.
Bureaucracy, over staffing, inefficiency and extra costs are not accidents of the system. It is the corporate-welfare-state system, and that’s what is re-asserting itself. Uber battled, won for a while. Now the State has battles back. They won.
In the Gig Economy everybody is a product placement
Crowdtap’s business plan is the future of work. Independent Contractors as the dumping ground for brands. Cheapened labor stimulating consumption, to themselves.
Amazon takes hostages, it’s mom and pop
Mayors, governors, controllers, local political bureaucrat and activists in some of our bigger states and cities have spayed and neutered themselves because they want the carrot to stay dangling of a new local Amazon HQ, and because they are afraid Amazon might cease operations in their state. Nobody wants that headline
Unraveling Obamacare. Is a sometimes dictatorship good?
All the panicked tirades of assorted bunches of #NeverTrump that feared he could maneuver into a dictatorship are now driving in reverse, they bellow that some dictatorships are good. Trump should ignore the judicial ruling just this one time, cos, you know, that’s what a benevolent dictator should do.
Facebook shakedown. the Main Street Media Mafia
It’s a shakedown. The old media is coming to their store and breaking windows.
Why…
Because the legacy media’s business models aren’t sustainable. Hence the…
Facebook Shakedown
Star Trek Discovery. No BS review
I grew up watching the original Star Trek. I was too young to see its first go-round, it had just been cancelled. I was the generation that loved it only once it had gone.
As there were not many episodes and it aired daily, I knew every one. These were days before television shows were implanted with endless novelties for tv blogging sleuths. Sometimes a tv show is just a tv show.
When healthcare kills
You can reconfigure the system any way you want, but you have to eliminate cartels, cartel ownership of governance, opaque pricing, government blank checks and incentives for profiteering from chronic illness. If you don’t eliminate all these, you’ve fixed nothing.
Beware the Google company town
Google company town is omnipresent capitalism, militarizing and regimenting workers to make them ideologically and behaviorally economized
Social disruptors. No matter what it is or who commenced it, they’re against it
Social disruptors push political agitation that appears to be about something positive but is really about deconstruction.
A nuke killed millions today but it’s not on CNN
☢️ What if a nuclear bomb killed millions and CNN didn’t report it 💣
It would be on Twitter, but is that enough?
Timestamping my prediction: Conor v Mayweather
Every sports contest has people who are convinced, and occasionally convincing, that they predicted the outcome.
I am time stamping my predictions for McGregor v Mayweather. I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I solved, or didn’t, this puzzle because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
Uber v. the anti-corporate open source insurgency
Open Source Anti-Corporate Insurgency is an organizational method by which a large collection of small, visible and empowered activists groups can work together to take on corporate hierarchies. It does not have a centralized operations or command and little to no advertising spending. It is a loose, meshed network of individuals and small groups working independently, but united by a single purpose, in this case: defeating Uber
RIP Petunia – Imperfect cat and an imperfect owner. Lie at my side again
I’m so sorry you got sick. And I’m so sorry I didn’t know it earlier. I am not a perfect person, you were not a perfect cat. We were imperfect together.
Bitcoin and Blockchain. The explainer
Bitcoin is a protocol. It is a set of rules
As in other sources, I refer to the protocol as Bitcoin (with a capital B) and the units of currency as bitcoins (lowercase).
The Bitcoin protocol consists of two main components:
Just like in describing baseball much will also not be described. It isn’t essential to include a ‘how to’ of a curveball, so there are also many things I won’t include here, there are too many ‘how to’s’
There is also a philosophy within baseball, Yogi Berra spent a lifetime completing a small piece of that and Derek Jeter spent his career practicing that philosophy. we would get lost including a philosophy here, but, there is one.
How Amazon avoids paying its taxes and sticks you with the bill
Profits at Amazon come from its Intellectual Property, patents, software, etc. It’s stateless income. But what about the taxes?
Google. What is a country
Google and the transformation of our People Operating System. Tech companies have won the world and we are their citizens.
Planet Amazon Prime
Is Amazon a country? What is a country? What is a citizen? What is a consumer? Is an End User License Agreement better than the Constitution? Are we living in companies, or should we be? Read the list…
Will Trump kill ObamaCare by Executive Order? He can…
A mandate consists of two parts: a requirement and a penalty for not meeting the requirement.
No matter how many times you take this back to the Supreme Court, they have the ability to rule on the penalty, not the requirement. You can’t force the court to rule only on the mandate.
Why not? Because it can’t be a mandate without a penalty.