There is something seriously wrong with the way our crazy culture incentivizes people who can and should be doing meaningful work to stay out of the workforce, milk the system, and do incredibly dumb stuff that makes them internet sensations and megabucks. In some cases, evil, criminal stuff. Machelle Hackney[…] Read On
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Google Is the 21st Century’s Evil Empire
“We don’t need you to type at all because we know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less guess what you’re thinking about … Is that over the line?” – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away[…] Read On
Mark Zuckerberg, America’s Fav Boy Robot, Goes to Washington
The way everyone’s eyes are glued to some screen or another, hands ready to tweet at a moment’s notice while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gets grilled on Capitol Hill, you’d think this is some sort of existential crisis for the social network. You’d think these hearings are important. It’s not.[…] Read On
Why Facebook’s ‘Data Breach’ Is a Big Fat Nothingburger
If you want to #DeleteFacebook or whine about Trump stealing the 2016 election, be my guest, but don’t do it on account of the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal. This is more about overblown sensational headlines and political power grabs than anything for users or investors to be concerned about.[…] Read On