Required viewing: A Good American
, a documentary on Bill Binney and the NSA by @FriedrichMoser. IMHO, this is the real Snowden movie. And I say that with full respect for Snowden. Please watch it. (Disclosure: I have spent quality time with both Bill and Fritz, and believe in both.) Bonus dude: @KirkWiebe, also ex-NSA and a colleague of Bill’s. (In case you think this is all lefty propaganda, read Kirk’s tweets.)
Ice agents are out of control. And they are only getting worse (@TrevorTimm in The Guardian)
Conservatives are fighting each other about Trump, while agreeing that defeating The Left is the main thing. (@DennisPraeger in National Review) Remember William F. Buckley Jr.? He fathered National Review and the intellectual right while failing to defeat The Left. Instead he befriended The Left’s best and brightest. A lesson in there somewhere.
Trump +/vs. Twitter, or something.
Deep background on the dude. From exactly 20 years and a few days ago. Revealing what you already knew, only vividly now. Pull-quote: “And, most important, every square inch belonged to Trump, who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul. ‘Trump’—a fellow with universal recognition but with a suspicion that an interior life was an intolerable inconvenience, a creature everywhere and nowhere, uniquely capable of inhabiting it all at once, all alone.” Now “it all” is the USA.
WillRobotsTakeMyJob is brilliant. Check out its suggested jobs for titles it has no stats for.
Yo to WaPo and the rest: as long as you bait & switch people with that 99¢ come-on, I won’t subscribe.
Maybe Fox & Friends is Donald & Tools. (AdAge)
The Wall Street Journal sticks it to non-paying readers and non-paying Google in one move. (AdAge)
No surprise: SnapChat’s spy glasses will be used for spying. Because we all want that better advertising experience, don’t we? (AdAge again.)
Here’s what Snapchat Spectacles ought to (or could) be.
Dave Winer’s Binge-Worthy TV Shows. Definitive. And I say that entirely because I trust Dave. He’s my designated watcher. (I also like that Twin Peaks isn’t in there. I binge-watched the original, both seasons, end to end, and hated where it went, meaning where it didn’t go, such as to an ending. A quarter century later I watched most of the first episode and part of the second, punching out of both when it got too gratuitously bloody and strange in what I thought were non-David-Lynchian ways, meaning I can guess the ending now: Cooper kills his doppelganger (a better character than Cooper, btw) and rescues Laura Palmer from hell. Tell me if I’m wrong in a year or few.
Theresa May wants to regulate the Internet. (Time) Which would be like regulating gravity. (Clue: you can think you’re regulating the Internet by mistaking containers on it for the real thing, and then regulating the containers in and the people in them. It does help that the containers aren’t the Net. So there’s still hope.)
Errata Security: Your printers and files are designed to narc on you. Here’s the fuck: “most new printers print nearly invisible yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed.” Also, if you want to see the personal metadata embedded invisibly in your own images (yes, all of them), or in those you find on the Web or elsewhere, go to MetaPicz. Among the gems in my own metadata is this item: “Owner: Tangent Mind llc.” Search: Tangent Mind llc. Can’t figure it. Yet. Help welcome.
Federation of American Scientists (fas.org): A lengthy, linky legal sidebar on net neutrality.
Random and uncategorized:
- A handy list of logic symbols.
- Chronotis: (not yet about) the non-linear and non-local. Which is where you are now, by the way.
- Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time, by Dean Buonomano.
- Deloitte Millennial Survey. Bonus link: Where millennials are moving. (Time) I’m guessing because they’re cheap.
- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management. Not as dull as the title sounds. Okay, well, maybe it is.
- Zoe Lister-Jones on What Happens When You Only Hire Women Behind the Camer. (Time) Half would be a lot.
- Heard Joan Rivers on the radio the other night. Led me to Emily Nussbaum’s profile of Joan in The New Yorker. Nobody was sharper. Ever. What a loss.
- How New York Fell In Love With Texas Barbeque. (Daily Beast)
A lot of heavy stuff to read and to be aware of! The world is changing! Fast!