tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33667782024-03-07T19:20:31.990-05:00Peter O'Kelly's Reality CheckBetter living through collaboration and conceptual modelingpbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.comBlogger27884125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-69577027123412001442019-10-02T06:56:00.002-04:002019-10-02T07:15:01.451-04:00About this blog: some updates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After nearly 20
years of weekday morning tech news scans and blogging<span style="vertical-align: super;">1</span>, I've decided it's time to change my daily routine. I've been
dedicating 1 - 2 hours most weekday mornings to tech-related news foraging, and
I've enjoyed sharing resources I've considered noteworthy (and/or snark-worthy)<span style="vertical-align: super;">2</span>, but I'm increasing my
focus on conceptual data modeling<span style="vertical-align: super;">3</span>
and climate/political activism, and reducing my daily news-foraging time
allocation<span style="vertical-align: super;">4</span>. </div>
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As a result, the
frequency of posts on this blog will remain low for the foreseeable future. For
now, here are some other resources (most available via email newsletters) you may find useful for daily news updates:</div>
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Tech and science</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Techmeme</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.techmeme.com</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Overspill</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://theoverspill.blog/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://theoverspill.blog/</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">MIT Technology Review: The
Download</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://forms.technologyreview.com/newsletters/</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Benedict Evans</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Axios newsletters</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.axios.com/newsletters"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.axios.com/newsletters</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The Interface — Casey Newton</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.getrevue.co/profile/caseynewton</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Business Insider 10 Things in
Tech You Need to Know</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/free"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/free</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Computer History Museum This
Day in History</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/</span></a></li>
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Political and
general news</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">WTF Just Happened Today?</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/</span></a></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Popular Information</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Robert Wright's Nonzero
Newsletter</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><a href="https://nonzero.substack.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://nonzero.substack.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Numlock News</span></li>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://numlock.substack.com/"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;">https://numlock.substack.com/</span></a></li>
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I'll post occasional
updates as I run across other useful resources.</div>
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For now: <span style="font-style: italic;">thank</span>s for reading over the years -- more to
follow, but with fewer than 7 +/- 2 posts per weekday…</div>
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Notes:</div>
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1: My first Reality
Check post was 19991027, but I changed hosting service providers a couple times
before ending up on Blogspot in early 2002.</div>
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2: I may increase
the post frequency again if I run across a browser extension or iOS/macOS
sharing extension that significantly streamlines the posting process; Blogger
has frankly been a bit of a nuisance since Google broke its BlogThis browser
extension many months ago (without such an extension, every post requires
several [error-prone…] copy/paste/format actions). Windows Live Writer (created
by JJ Allaire and his Onfolio team) was by far the best blogging tool I've run
across, but alas Microsoft acquired, eventually open-sourced, and effectively
killed WLW many years ago. </div>
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3: I started a
second blog on Medium several months ago -- <a href="https://medium.com/infoslob">https://medium.com/infoslob</a> -- with a
focus on everyday conceptual data models, but the response thus far has been
less than encouraging (I would like to thank <span style="font-style: italic;">both</span>
of the readers who made it all the way through my <a href="https://medium.com/infoslob/apple-podcasts-an-infoslob-perspective-1bc05a3a1cf4">Apple
Podcasts post</a>, for example; this blog has typically had 15 - 20K page views per month, but I've always assumed a lot of those were from Russian bots etc.). I'm going to resume model-related posts on Medium and
will post links here as well, when I do.</div>
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4: The overall shift
to social media (especially Facebook and Twitter) and apps/services such as
Medium have also changed my news-foraging modus operandi over the years. I've
also been mindful of the increasingly common use of paywalls, since I can't
assume all readers have access to all sources (or to aggregators such as Apple
News+).</div>
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pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-16167706745183835582019-09-24T04:36:00.001-04:002019-10-02T07:08:16.923-04:00Light posts this week FYI<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back to my normal schedule 10/1</div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-77732893232343791442019-09-20T06:59:00.000-04:002019-09-20T06:59:09.848-04:00Apple’s location tracking Tags detailed in new leak | The Verge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Check <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875341/apple-tags-location-rumor-roundup">the full article</a> for an Apple Tag rumor roundup<br />
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"Details about Apple Tags, the company’s Tile-like location trackers you can attach to things like your keys, bag, or bike, have leaked again. The latest screenshots come courtesy of MacRumors, and show a new “Items” tab, that replaces the “Me” tab in the new Find My app that rolled out yesterday with the global release of iOS 13.<br /><br />”Keep track of your everyday items,” reads the Items tab when clicking in. “Tag your everyday items with B389 and never lose them again.” B389 is the internal Apple codename for Apple Tags, first mentioned by 9to5Mac back in April. The screenshots were sourced from an internal build of iOS 13 released in early June, according to MacRumors."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875341/apple-tags-location-rumor-roundup">Apple’s location tracking Tags detailed in new leak | The Verge</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-36727234855778385782019-09-20T06:39:00.000-04:002019-09-20T07:36:02.298-04:00Maybe wait to install macOS Safari 13...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
... if you use the Evernote Web Clipper; the OneNote macOS Safari extension was also disallowed (along with many others). <br />
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From an Evernote email message:<br />
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pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-4516380281943650882019-09-20T06:32:00.000-04:002019-09-20T06:32:02.952-04:00Startups still love Slack but big companies are bailing | Recode<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A more constrained Slack (at least in the enterprise)<br />
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"The share of large organizations that use or plan to use Slack next quarter has declined slightly to 33 percent while Teams has increased to 65 percent, according to preliminary surveys of company chief information officers and other leaders from market research firm ETR. So far for next quarter, ETR has measured responses from 845 of the world’s biggest organizations, including those in the Forbes Global 2,000, Forbes’ list of the 225 biggest private companies, and the US government.<br /><br />ETR data also showed that 13 percent of large companies plan to decrease their Slack spending next quarter compared with 1 percent that plan to do so on Teams.<br /><br />The general consensus among these big companies is that Slack may be a better product, but not so much better that it warrants paying for extra software on top of Microsoft Office, which they already require for business staples like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint."</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/19/20874094/slack-startups-microsoft-kruze-etr-charts">Startups still love Slack but big companies are bailing | Recode</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-11177598849340212762019-09-19T12:03:00.003-04:002019-09-19T12:03:41.397-04:00Amazon will order 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian, Jeff Bezos says | The Verge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For details on the overall Amazon climate strategy, see <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873834/amazon-sustainability-jeff-bezos-climate-change-pledge-emissions-paris-accord">Jeff Bezos pledges that Amazon will swiftly combat climate change | The Verge</a><br />
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"Rivian is a relatively new name in the electric vehicle industry, having only debuted its pickup truck and SUV at the end of November 2018. But the company has been operating in stealth since 2009. Originally founded to make something that competed with Tesla’s first car, the Lotus-based Roadster, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe eventually pivoted the company toward a more action-adventure customer segment.<br />
<br />Rivian’s main push this year has been a massive fundraising effort, with the company securing enormous investments from a host of major players, Amazon included. Bezos’ company led a $700 million funding round last February, but it did not disclose the exact amount it was contributing. In April, Ford announced a $500 million investment in Rivian that the companies said would result in a new electric vehicle to be sold by the auto giant. Most recently, Rivian landed a $350 million investment from Cox Automotive, a big name in the retail and logistics space."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20873947/amazon-electric-delivery-van-rivian-jeff-bezos-order">Amazon will order 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian, Jeff Bezos says | The Verge</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-60494858690565820122019-09-19T07:23:00.000-04:002019-09-19T07:23:10.194-04:00Obama offers a thinly veiled critique of Trump’s penchant for social media and TV news | Washington Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On a related note, see <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/18/are-democrats-ready-coming-disinformation-tsunami/">Are Democrats ready for the coming disinformation tsunami? | Washington Post</a><br />
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"Speaking at a private event hosted by data company Splunk, Obama explained how he had approached the job, including some 3,000 political appointments, before offering this advice: “The other thing that is helpful is not watching TV or reading social media." </blockquote>
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“Those are two things I would advise, if you're our president, not to do,” he said. “It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment.”"</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/18/obama-offers-thinly-veiled-critique-trumps-penchant-social-media-tv-news/">Obama offers a thinly veiled critique of Trump’s penchant for social media and TV news | Washington Post</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-58528734885724659052019-09-19T06:54:00.001-04:002019-09-19T06:54:17.655-04:00WeWork’s Adam Neumann wants to live forever, be king of the world and the first trillionaire, says report | CNBC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Also see <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/18/20872777/we-work-adam-neumann-tequila-weed-ipo-eternal-life">I got a contact high just reading this bananas profile of WeWork’s founder | The Verge</a>; <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-not-the-way-everybody-behaves-how-adam-neumanns-over-the-top-style-built-wework-11568823827?mod=hp_lead_pos10">the full WSJ article</a> may also be available without a subscription<br />
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"WeWork has attracted scrutiny over its unusual business model and governance structure, but the company’s strangeness seems to start at the top with CEO and co-founder Adam Neumann, according to a remarkable profile in The Wall Street Journal.<br /><br />Neumann has expressed interest in becoming Israel’s prime minister and the president of the world, living forever, and becoming the world’s first trillionaire, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation. He is also said to have told employees that the company could one day end world hunger."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/18/weworks-neumann-wants-to-live-forever-and-be-the-first-trillionaire.html">WeWork’s Adam Neumann wants to live forever, be king of the world and the first trillionaire, says report | CNBC</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-90703557535183885952019-09-19T06:44:00.002-04:002019-09-19T06:44:40.206-04:00“We Could Say Anything to Each Other”: Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs | Vanity Fair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From an excerpt of Bob Iger's new book, <i>The Ride of A Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company</i>; on a related note, see <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/13/20865042/disney-ceo-bob-iger-apple-board-streaming-service-tv-plus-pixar">Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple’s board | The Verge</a><br />
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"With every success the company has had since Steve’s death, there’s always a moment in the midst of my excitement when I think, I wish Steve could be here for this. It’s impossible not to have the conversation with him in my head that I wish I could be having in real life. More than that, I believe that if Steve were still alive, we would have combined our companies, or at least discussed the possibility very seriously."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/bob-iger-remembers-steve-jobs">“We Could Say Anything to Each Other”: Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs | Vanity Fair</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-38620937441732135662019-09-19T06:35:00.002-04:002019-09-19T06:35:40.000-04:00GM’s Mary Barra Bets Big on an Electric, Self-Driving Future | Bloomberg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From a GM transformation strategy reality check<br />
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"Taking vast resources from businesses that make money and moving them toward businesses that (so far) lose mountains of it is obviously a large and risky bet. But the gamble isn’t the decision itself. It’s the timing. GM, which is pushing hard into electrics and racing into autonomy faster than any other carmaker, could be blowing cash for years before there’s any payoff. Already, its Cruise Automation unit has postponed plans to deploy autonomous cars this year. If driverless and electric vehicles take off more slowly than Barra expects, then GM will have prematurely jettisoned thousands of skilled veterans and killed off its smaller gasoline models, leaving the company even more vulnerable to a spike in fuel prices than it is now. Worse, it could cede a chunk of profits from the remaining decades of the internal combustion era to others.<br /><br />Barra is adamant that GM will sell a million electrics a year in the very near future, while lowering costs and gaining an economy-of-scale edge that Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. would envy. In autonomous driving, Dan Ammann, CEO of Cruise Automation, believes a small group of companies will divide a trillion-dollar market. That’s the potential that has Barra risking so much."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-19/before-gm-goes-electric-mary-barra-has-a-strike-to-settle">GM’s Mary Barra Bets Big on an Electric, Self-Driving Future | Bloomberg</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-46388970342070379602019-09-18T16:16:00.002-04:002019-09-18T16:16:39.685-04:00The Game of Life: Visualizing China’s Social Credit System | Visual Capitalist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Final paragraphs:<br />
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"In 2018, people with a low score were prohibited from buying plane tickets almost 18 million times, while high-speed train ticket transactions were blocked 5.5 million times. A further 128 people were prohibited from leaving China, due to unpaid taxes.<br /><br />The system could have major implications for foreign business practices—as preference could be given to companies already ranked in the system. Companies with higher scores will be rewarded with incentives which include lower tax rates and better credit conditions, with their behavior being judged in areas such as:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Paid taxes</li>
<li>Customs regulation</li>
<li>Environmental protection</li>
</ul>
Despite the complexities of gathering vast amounts of data, the system is certainly making an impact. While there are benefits to having a standardized scoring system, and encouraging positive behavior—will it be worth the social cost of gamifying human life?"</blockquote>
One of several visualizations in the post:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4-nZ9SOiDIR5B3IWbH9mqi_-3UuEMQyRrJebXC0KB-Z4QsYtWW3zI_bl_vbuCGgwGmeLU6zpkXEkjldQpfNTAPqC6N8ZsoQD4ofwQOhFnsGaVLkM2gduNrpFPQsLDfaNo_mfVQ/s1600/Social+credit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1600" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4-nZ9SOiDIR5B3IWbH9mqi_-3UuEMQyRrJebXC0KB-Z4QsYtWW3zI_bl_vbuCGgwGmeLU6zpkXEkjldQpfNTAPqC6N8ZsoQD4ofwQOhFnsGaVLkM2gduNrpFPQsLDfaNo_mfVQ/s640/Social+credit.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-game-of-life-visualizing-chinas-social-credit-system/">The Game of Life: Visualizing China’s Social Credit System | Visual Capitalist</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-71404289114735507562019-09-18T07:07:00.001-04:002019-09-18T07:07:31.260-04:00Facebook unveils charter for its ‘Supreme Court,’ where users can go to contest the company’s decisions | Washington Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On a related note, see <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-facebooks-values-update-matters">Why Facebook’s 'Values' Update Matters | Lawfare</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Facebook on Tuesday unveiled its blueprint for an independent oversight board to review the company’s decisions about the posts, photos and videos it takes down or leaves online, responding to a wave of criticism that inconsistent policies have undermined the platform. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The roughly 40-person panel is supposed to function as the social media giant’s version of a “Supreme Court,” serving as the final word for Facebook users who want to appeal the company’s moderation decisions. It will also offer recommendations for how the tech giant should tackle problematic content in the future. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“We are responsible for enforcing our policies every day and we make millions of content decisions every week,” chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. “But ultimately I don’t believe private companies like ours should be making so many important decisions about speech on our own.”"</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/17/facebook-unveils-charter-its-supreme-court-where-users-can-go-contest-companys-decisions/">Facebook unveils charter for its ‘Supreme Court,’ where users can go to contest the company’s decisions | Washington Post</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-58808385108348293352019-09-18T06:58:00.000-04:002019-09-18T06:58:02.585-04:00Review: Edward Snowden and the Rise of Whistle-Blower Culture in “Permanent Record” | The New Yorker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From a review by Jill Lepore; on a related note, see <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-files-civil-lawsuit-against-edward-snowden-publishing-book-violation-cia-and">United States Files Civil Lawsuit against Edward Snowden for Publishing a Book in Violation of CIA and NSA Non-Disclosure Agreements | U.S. Department of Justice</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The patriot-traitor divide should be less a matter of opinion than a matter of law, but the law here is murky. On the one hand, you might think, if Snowden is a patriot who did what he did for the good of the country, then he deserves not only the protection of First Amendment freedom of speech but also the legal shelter afforded whistle-blowers, under legislation that includes the 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act—except that Snowden signed an oath not to disclose government secrets, and neither the Whistleblower Protection Act nor its many revisions and amendments extend its protections to people who disclose classified intelligence. On the other hand, you might think, if Snowden is a traitor whose actions put his country at risk, the Justice Department was right to charge him under the Espionage Act—except that it doesn’t sound as though he were a spy. (Unlike Julian Assange, Snowden has criticized Putin, and the F.B.I. believes that Snowden acted alone.) “Permanent Record” doesn’t settle any of these questions, or even evince much concern about them. Instead, Snowden appears to have other worries. “Forgive me if I come off like a dick,” he writes, knowingly."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/edward-snowden-and-the-rise-of-whistle-blower-culture">Review: Edward Snowden and the Rise of Whistle-Blower Culture in “Permanent Record” | The New Yorker</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-2396083251119605692019-09-18T06:37:00.002-04:002019-09-18T07:11:34.951-04:00Opinion: UC investments are going fossil free. But not exactly for the reasons you may think | LA Times<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A timely and encouraging milestone from Jagdeep Singh Bachher (the University of California’s chief investment officer and treasurer) and Richard Sherman (chairman of the UC Board of Regents’ Investments Committee); on a related note, see <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/money-is-the-oxygen-on-which-the-fire-of-global-warming-burns">Money Is the Oxygen on Which the Fire of Global Warming Burns [Bill McKibben] | The New Yorker</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"We are investors and fiduciaries for what is widely considered the best public research university in the world. That makes us fiscally conservative by nature and by policy — “Risk rules” is one of the 10 pillars of what we call the UC Investments Way. We want to ensure that the more than 320,000 people currently receiving a UC pension actually get paid, that we can continue to fund research and scholarships throughout the UC system, and that our campuses and medical centers earn the best possible return on their investments.<br />
<br />
We believe hanging on to fossil fuel assets is a financial risk. That’s why we will have made our $13.4-billion endowment “fossil free” as of the end of this month, and why our $70-billion pension will soon be that way as well."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-09-16/divestment-fossil-fuel-university-of-california-climate-change">Opinion: UC investments are going fossil free. But not exactly for the reasons you may think | LA Times</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-20426678682365377542019-09-18T06:25:00.000-04:002019-09-18T06:25:35.717-04:00Facebook working on smart glasses with Ray-Ban, code-named ‘Orion’ | CNBC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For a related perspective, see <a href="https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/09/apple-ar-glasses-rumor-augmented-reality-magic-leap-hololens.html">Why Apple Owns The AR Industry Even Without Owning AR Glasses (Comment Of The Week) | New World Notes</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Facebook has been working to develop augmented reality glasses out of its Facebook Reality Labs in Redmond, Washington, for the past couple of years, but struggles with the development of the project have led the company to seek help. Now, Facebook is hoping a partnership with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica will get them completed and ready for consumers between 2023 and 2025, according to people familiar.<br /><br />The glasses are internally codenamed Orion, and they are designed to replace smartphones, the people said. The glasses would allow users to take calls, show information to users in a small display and live-stream their vantage point to their social media friends and followers."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/17/facebook-enlists-ray-ban-maker-luxottica-to-make-orion-ar-glasses.html">Facebook working on smart glasses with Ray-Ban, code-named ‘Orion’ | CNBC</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-81621142571677223442019-09-17T07:21:00.000-04:002019-09-17T07:21:09.031-04:00IBM CEO Sees Amazon and Microsoft as Cloud Allies, Not Rivals | Bloomberg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
IBM's cloud capitulation continues<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"In IBM’s vision of cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will be allies rather than rivals.<br /><br />Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty is betting on the hybrid cloud, which lets IBM offer services on corporate customers’ cloud-based servers as well as on third-party clouds operated by the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. International Business Machines Corp. has traditionally viewed these cloud giants as direct competitors, but it now aims to partner with them by supporting clients as they shift sensitive databases on to the cloud, regardless of which provider they use."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/ibm-ceo-sees-amazon-and-microsoft-as-cloud-allies-not-rivals">IBM CEO Sees Amazon and Microsoft as Cloud Allies, Not Rivals | Bloomberg</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-16470595829054163232019-09-17T07:03:00.000-04:002019-09-17T07:03:32.812-04:00WeWork Pushes Back I.P.O. After Chilly Reception From Investors | NYT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
WeReWork<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The company had been expected to hold its initial public offering within weeks. But in a statement released late Monday night, WeWork’s parent, the We Company, said that it anticipated the offering would be completed by the end of the year.<br /><br />The decision comes after many investors had questioned the valuation of the company. WeWork had been privately valued at $47 billion in January, when SoftBank of Japan made a large investment. But the prospect of going public has focused attention on a business that is deeply unprofitable and will most likely remain so for years.<br /><br />The We Company has been trying to rescue its public offering in a number of ways. On Friday, the company said it would reduce the power of its co-founder and chief executive, Adam Neumann, amid criticism of the business’s corporate governance."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/business/dealbook/wework-ipo-valuation.html">WeWork Pushes Back I.P.O. After Chilly Reception From Investors | NYT</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-87232558855607409412019-09-17T06:42:00.000-04:002019-09-17T06:42:04.921-04:00Apple Arcade's best selling point: Games you'll actually want to play | Engadget<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First and final paragraphs:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Despite being just $5, Apple Arcade still seems like a tough sell for some gamers, who are already bombarded with other monthly services like Xbox Game Pass. And I'll admit, as someone who doesn't spend much time on mobile games these days, there wasn't much about the service that truly excited me when Apple announced it in March. Sure, a library of mobile games that you can easily play across iOS devices, Macs and the Apple TV sounds nice, but I've already got way too much to play on other platforms. After spending some time with a few of Apple Arcade titles last week, though, I'm convinced it'll delight diehard gamers and casual players alike. Yes, there's a lot more than Frogger to choose from.<br />
[...]<br />
These games alone make Apple Arcade seem like a no-brainer subscription for anyone with an Apple device. It's $5 for the entire family -- the price of many individual mobile games -- it already has a handful of strong titles, and you can easily play across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac. Apple needs to maintain the stream of quality of games, and could very well raise the price eventually, but for now, Apple Arcade seems like one of the best deals in gaming."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/16/apple-arcade-hands-on-overworld-shinsekai/">Apple Arcade's best selling point: Games you'll actually want to play | Engadget</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-30768620999851835652019-09-17T06:35:00.003-04:002019-09-17T06:35:35.869-04:00Richard Stallman resigns from MIT over Epstein comments | The Verge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Also see <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/17/richard_stallman_interview/">Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid Epstein email storm | The Register</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Famed computer scientist Richard Stallman has resigned from his position at MIT over recent comments he made concerning Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. He has also resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation, an organization Stallman founded in 1985, as well as from its board of directors. Stallman is perhaps best known for having initiated the development of the GNU operating system in 1983, as well as for his work campaigning for the use of free software.<br /><br />Last week it emerged that Stallman had cast doubt upon the reports that AI pioneer Marvin Minsky had sexually assaulted one of Epstein’s victims. In an email chain sent to the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) mailing list that was published by Motherboard, Stallman said that “the most plausible scenario” was that Epstein’s victim “presented herself to [Marvin Minsky] as entirely willing.”"</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/17/20870050/richard-stallman-resigns-mit-free-software-foundation-epstein">Richard Stallman resigns from MIT over Epstein comments | The Verge</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-35893842214132180182019-09-16T07:06:00.000-04:002019-09-16T07:06:25.240-04:00Apple built UWB into the iPhone 11. Here's what you need to know (FAQ) | CNET<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Also see <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-u1-chip/">The Biggest iPhone News Is a Tiny New Chip Inside It | Wired</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"You've heard of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 5G. Now it's time to learn another wireless communication term, because Apple has built it into its new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro smartphones. The technology, ultra wideband, or UWB, lets you pinpoint the exact location of phones, key fobs and tracking tags, helping you find lost dogs or automatically unlock your car.<br /><br />UWB calculates precise locations by measuring how long it takes super-short radio pulses to travel between devices. It's well suited to Apple's rumored tracker tags. But UWB could also bring new smarts to your house, car and devices. Right now its use cases are limited, but UWB could lead to a world where just carrying your phone or wearing your watch helps log you in to everything around you and log you out when you leave." </blockquote>
<a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-built-uwb-into-the-iphone-11-heres-what-you-need-to-know-faq/">Apple built UWB into the iPhone 11. Here's what you need to know (FAQ) | CNET</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-14331549823767698352019-09-16T06:48:00.000-04:002019-09-16T06:48:24.700-04:00Apple, services and moats | Benedict Evans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Final paragraph:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"It should be clear that I’m pretty skeptical of the TV Plus project, but that shouldn’t take away from the broader story - that Apple is, mostly, doing things that are entirely natural and correct for this stage of the smartphone S Curve. 4bn people now have a smartphone, 5bn have a mobile phone and there are only about 5.5bn people over 14 on earth - this is a maturing market, with a maturing product. Apple won the high-end, Google won the rest, and this is now the time to optimise, iterate and execute, while thinking about what might be next. Glasses? Cars? Remember, Apple was working on the iPhone for 5 years before it launched, and Apple’s R&D budget is now larger than its total revenue in 2005."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/9/13/Apple-services-moats">Apple, services and moats | Benedict Evans</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-22559979261130171682019-09-16T06:38:00.000-04:002019-09-16T06:38:09.579-04:00Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy | Washington Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Also see <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-opioids.html">New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers | NYT</a><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Under the settlement announced last week, more than 2,000 small government plaintiffs and 24 states have agreed to the dissolution of the company and a contribution from the Sacklers, valued at $10 billion to $12 billion. But the settlement valuation is in dispute, and a number of states have balked at those terms. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The settlement, which does not include any admission of wrongdoing, would reorganize Purdue during the bankruptcy into a trust that would continue to produce OxyContin, as well as overdose “rescue’’ drugs that would be distributed at no cost to communities across the country."</blockquote>
Some related statistics from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html">Understanding the Epidemic | Drug Overdose | CDC Injury Center</a>:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>"From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999. </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose." </li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<a href="https://beta.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/purdue-pharma-drugmaker-accused-of-fueling-the-opioid-epidemic-files-for-bankruptcy/2019/09/15/dbba6ec6-d7f3-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html">Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy | Washington Post</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-49124076818689621492019-09-16T06:09:00.002-04:002019-09-16T06:09:47.406-04:00There Is No Tech Backlash | NYT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From a timely tech reality check<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"But according to its most recent quarterly report, the number of Facebook accounts used daily (1.59 billion) and monthly (2.4 billion) each increased by 8 percent over the prior quarter. Despite all the anecdotes you’ve heard about people deleting their accounts, the company’s flagship app added about a million new daily users in the United States alone. Revenue was up 28 percent. Even factoring in the F.T.C. fine, Facebook recorded a profit of $2.6 billion.<br /><br />Facebook is not the only demonized tech platform; social media companies in general are routinely criticized as toxic swamps full of trolls, liars and bots. But again, there’s no evidence of any exodus. In the same quarter, Twitter added five million new daily users, and Snap reported that the daily user base of its flagship Snapchat app grew 7 percent, its best-ever performance as a public company. According to the Pew Research Center, 72 percent of Americans use some form of social media, a percentage that has risen steadily for years and shows no sign of flagging. (The people I know who quit Facebook all use Facebook-owned Instagram, WhatsApp, or both.)"</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/opinion/tech-backlash.html">There Is No Tech Backlash | NYT</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-14933859620099856692019-09-13T06:34:00.000-04:002019-09-13T06:34:19.788-04:00Does the new iPhone creep you out? Scientists grapple with why tiny holes scare some people | Boston Globe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Critique different<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"The backlash comes from people who say they suffer from an obscure and perplexing condition called ‘‘trypophobia’’ - a fear of clusters of small holes like those found in shoe treads, honeycombs and lotus seed pods. Essex University Professor Geoff Cole, a self-diagnosed trypophobe and researcher in the United Kingdom who studies the condition calls it ‘‘the most common phobia you have never heard of.’’<br />
<br />The phobia isn’t recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which psychologists and psychiatrists use to diagnose patients. But self-described sufferers and some researchers claim the images can evoke a strong emotional response and induce itching, goose bumps, and even nausea and vomiting."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/09/12/does-new-iphone-creep-you-out-scientists-grapple-with-why-tiny-holes-scare-some-people/2vDpHlCLn49E8SGYvwptYN/story.html">Does the new iPhone creep you out? Scientists grapple with why tiny holes scare some people | Boston Globe</a></div>
pbokellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18207982160283918003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3366778.post-57710063479091487952019-09-12T06:48:00.000-04:002019-09-12T06:48:20.816-04:00Every iPad wants to be a Surface now | The Verge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Final paragraphs from a curiously titled hybrid reality check:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Coupled with some of the bigger changes in iPadOS coming later this month, it’s clear the iPad is increasingly moving towards more laptop-like tasks than ever before. There’s even mouse support for the iPad, although it’s limited at the moment. Now that every big iPad supports a keyboard we’re a step closer to seeing exactly where Apple will take this device in the future. The software that powers the iPad is steadily moving away from its smartphone roots, and now the hardware is offering iPad fans a way to transform the device into something beyond a tablet.<br /><br />Microsoft and Apple are at the front of the race to offer tablets that combine laptop tasks. Apple is catching up on the laptop-like side, and Microsoft still has a long way to go to address the tablet experience. Apple’s strength is the touch-friendly apps and simplified OS that exists for the iPad, and Microsoft’s is the three decades of traditional computing experience that has gone into Windows.<br /><br />The search for the perfect 2-in-1 device has been going on for nearly 10 years. Now it seems within reach. We’ll be watching closely to see how initiatives like iPadOS, Windows Lite, and maybe even Chrome OS bridge the gap between the tablet and PC. One of these, or a combination of approaches, will ultimately address the needs of the majority."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/11/20860448/apple-ipad-surface-like-keyboard-report">Every iPad wants to be a Surface now | The Verge</a></div>
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