Daring Fireball: The New York Times’s Hypocrisy on Ad Tracking and Privacy — Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2019/12/27/nyt-ad-tracking-hypocrisy
Anti-Impeachment Democrat To Switch Party; Dispute Could Upend Democratic Debate — The NPR Politics Podcast — Overcast — Read on overcast.fm/+Ht-QwB4T0
Jeff Van Drew - Pro-gun, anti-choice, anti-climate… How was he a dem anyways?
For a closed system, those kinds of open connections are deeply dangerous. If anyone on Instagram can just link to any old store on the web, how can Instagram — meaning Facebook, Instagram’s increasingly-overbearing owner — tightly control commerce on its platform? — Read on anildash.com/2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/
(11) TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS - LIFE ON MARS? (Music from the HBO Series) - YouTube:
A divine instrumental cover…
Passing Time at Père Lachaise Cemetery – Zoetica Ebb // Biorequiem.com — Read on biorequiem.com/photoflurry/passing-time-at-pere-lachaise-cemetery
Stunning photography…
Elizabeth Warren calls Zuck and Thiel’s secret Trump White House dinner “corrupt” / Boing Boing:
Others have pointed out that CEOs have often met in private with presidents, but these meetings are not typically secret, and it's hard to understand what non-corrupt purpose Trump, Zuck and Thiel could have had for failing to disclose the dinner -- perhaps they knew we'd been pleasantly surprised later on and didn't want to spoil it?For Zuck’s part, he likes to claim that he frequently dines with political activists from “across the spectrum” but when his actual dining agenda is analyzed even cursorily, it becomes obvious that for Zuck, the political spectrum runs all the way from “very right wing” to “raving lunatic Bircher neo-Nazi right wing” with stops for all the flavors of right wing in between.
Governments that sign on are asked to promise to "ensure everyone can connect to the internet," to "keep all the internet available all the time," and to "respect and protect people’s fundamental online privacy and data rights."Corporate signatories promise that they will “make the internet affordable and accessible to everyone,” “respect and protect people’s privacy and personal data to build online trust,” and “develop technologies that support the best in humanity and challenge the worst.”
Individuals are asked to “be creators and collaborators on the Web,” “build strong communities that respect civil discourse and human dignity,” and “fight for the Web.”
My changing gears from Facebook to Wordpress and other outlets started before this contract was posted, but absolutely in that spirit.
I don’t know that anyone is noticing, but I know…
Bloomberg is running in part because he opposes the progressive candidates' "extreme wealth taxes" which would see him paying $3.7b under a Sanders presidency, $3b under a Warren presidency or $512m under a Steyer presidency -- per year.That $32m that Bloomberg has dumped into his ad-buy? It’s 1.1% of the tax bill he’d owe under Warren in the first year.
Bloomberg’s attempt to stop left wing candidates is a business expense.
Macro photos on your phone: You don’t need a DSLR to take stunning close-up nature shots - CNET:
Stunning photos - I need to revisit this topic.
I totally want a set of these…
Minnesota school threw out hot meals of students with over $15 lunch debt, then apologized:
Richfield High School came under fire Monday after around 40 students had their hot lunches taken off their trays, thrown out, and replaced with a cold lunch when cafeteria staff saw they had lunch debt of more than $15, NBC Minneapolis affiliate KARE 11 reports.
Not the greatest way to make the national stage…
The Hippie Aesthetic of the 60s Is “Art Nouveau on Acid” — Read on kottke.org/19/11/the-hippie-aesthetic-of-the-60s-is-art-nouveau-on-acid
It proves men like him are more willing to perpetuate the fantastic narrative of negro neighborhoods needing more role models and briefcase-carriers than make the people in power stare into the sun and see the blinding light of racism. Get-along moderates would rather make shit up out of whole cloth than wade into the waters of reality. Pete Buttigieg doesn’t want to change anything. He just wants to be something. — Read on www.theroot.com/pete-buttigieg-is-a-lying-mf-1840038708/amp
"If you pay them, Facebook will run any 'political' ad you want, even if it's a lie. And they'll even help you micro-target those lies to their users for maximum effect," he said. "Under this twisted logic, if Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his 'solution' to the 'Jewish problem'." — Read on www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50525884
These crimes took place at different times, in different places across our country, but they share much in common. They were intended to create fear. They were motivated by hate and bias. And they are incompatible with our values and have no place in American life. — Read on medium.com/@teamwarren/fighting-back-against-white-nationalist-violence-87b0c550f51f
White Nationalism - are we surprised that Warren has a plan to deal with it?
He understood the darkness in children's lives and gave them — and all the damaged Lloyds and Freds of this world — a way to grow into adults who understand that being good is endlessly renewable hard work. — Read on www.mprnews.org/story/2019/11/21/npr-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood-can-you-say-sincere-and-heartening
How to recognize AI snake oil / Boing Boing:
Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan (previously) has posted slides and notes from a recent MIT talk on "How to recognize AI snake oil" in which he divides AI applications into three (nonexhaustive) categories and rates how difficult they are, and thus whether you should believe vendors who claim that their machine learning models can perform as advertised.
Over the decades the Kurds have been inspired by, allied with, relied upon and betrayed by the United States. This week we explore who the Kurds are, who they are to the United States and what, if anything, we owe to them. — Read on www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776794310/no-friend-but-the-mountains
The Siege of Mecca — Throughline — Overcast — Read on overcast.fm/+QfXWu6BhQ
This one moment has shaped much of world events over my entire life.
Popular songs covered with Garage Band on iPhone, in realtime.
I have done this once, The Who’s Baba O’Relily, with a bit of trial and error… It’s fun.
Fun Tip: You can export from Garage Band to a ringtone, if so inclined…
2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg “troubled” by clemency for Chelsea Manning - CBS News:
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who launched a an exploratory committee in January to run for president in 2020 as a progressive Democrat, is criticizing former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden for disclosing classified information.
Justice Department asks court to scrap decades-old ‘Paramount’ antitrust decrees - Reuters:
The consent decrees also barred studios from owning movie theaters without a court’s approval and banned rules setting minimum prices for movies.The National Association of Theater Owners, which represents movie theater companies with 33,000 screens across the United States, had urged the department to forbid movie studios to return to the practice of block booking.