The best resource I’ve seen so far on the very alarming and complicated topic.
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Category: government
We have to break-up BIG TECH
Professor Galloway recommends the American government mandates a break-up of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Facebook shareholders would actually make MORE money after the split. And those companies would have a better chance to compete with one another.
Galloway recommends Amazon be split from Amazon Web Services (VIDEO).
He recommends YouTube be split from Google.
MORE COMPETITION is good for the consumer. Good for the economy.
MORE COMPETITION
Elizabeth Warren, for one, is keen to push that legislation. And I agree.
YES. I know governments will do a lousy job. Politicians don’t understand Tech.
But the alternative is even worse. Bezos and Amazon — at this rate — will have too much share of the world’s wealth.
Aggregation Theory postulates that it’s nearly impossible to compete with a company that is able to aggregate a majority of consumers.
How do you launch a company to compete against Amazon, for example.
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Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
A Story of Loss, Love and the Hidden Order of Life
Great book.
One thread is the astonishing story of David Starr Jordan, Stanford University’s first president, a leading scientist of his day.
Did he murder Jane Stanford, wife of the University founder?
More interesting to me was the life story of the author, intertwined with her research into this obscure topic. Lulu Miller is hilarious.
One awful thread is the fact that the USA was the first nation to legislate eugenics. Forced sterilization was the law in 32 U.S. states, and actually inspired Hitler.
AND there’s the fact new to me that … Fish Don’t Exist.
Read the National Book Review.
One Love – Jews, Christians, Muslims
800 Jews, Christians, Muslims sing ‘One Love’ in Jerusalem (2018).
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Kamala and a bunch of white dudes
History.
Every American girl now knows they can get to the White House.
Reminds me of that OTHER historic moment in American history. 😀
The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Inevitable is a 2016 nonfiction book by Kevin Kelly that forecasts the twelve technological forces that will shape the next thirty years:
- Becoming: Moving from fixed products to always upgrading services and subscriptions
- Cognifying: Making everything much smarter using cheap powerful AI that we get from the cloud
- Flowing: Depending on unstoppable streams in real time for everything
- Screening: Turning all surfaces into screens
- Accessing: Shifting society from one where we own assets to one where instead we will have access to services at all times.
- Sharing: Collaboration at mass scale. Kelly writes, “On my imaginary Sharing Meter Index we are still at 2 out of 10.”
- Filtering: Harnessing intense personalization in order to anticipate our desires
- Remixing: Unbundling existing products into their most primitive parts and then recombining in all possible ways
- Interacting: Immersing ourselves inside our computers to maximize their engagement
- Tracking: Employing total surveillance for the benefit of citizens and consumers
- Questioning: Promoting good questions is far more valuable than good answers
- Beginning: Constructing a planetary system connecting all humans and machines into a global matrix
Though it might sound scary, the book is surprisingly upbeat and optimistic about the future.
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Review.
Is the USA still a democracy?
For me a authoritarian regime (dictatorship) is a place where the leader can order opponents murdered, without consequences. Russia and Saudi Arabia in 2020, for example.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) scores countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.
Nations are then classified under four types of governments: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime.
Under Trump the USA became a flawed democracy.
Obviously, the main goal of the GOP under this egocentric toddler is to make the rich richer. Which they’ve done.
Nations still ranking high as democracies include Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand and Denmark. Canada and Ireland are up there, as well.
Recently a Republican Senator claimed that “democracy isn’t the objective” any longer. Knowing that his Party was likely to lose the 2020 election, it’s part of the GOP plan to contest the results.
That Senator was bored, at home, COVID-19 positive at the time. #loser
I want people to be able to easily un-elect bad leaders. To have more influence in governance, even when they get it wrong. When wrong, they should be able to later easily change again.
David Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet
David Attenborough is now age-94.
His newest work is a “witness statement” — his reflection on his career as a naturalist and the devastating changes he has seen.
A love letter to Earth from the beloved broadcaster.
The first half is very depressing. Humanity doomed.
But in the second half Attenborough explains how mankind MIGHT possibly survive the next 80 years.
As it seems nations can’t organize to do even the most trivial collective good, I’m not optimistic.
In the USA, the Trump regime has been doing the exact opposite as recommended. In Alberta, the Kenney regime is making the future worse, as well.
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American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton is a British-American journalist and author. He is currently a special correspondent at Vanity Fair. …
His reporting is credited with helping to lead the United States Federal Aviation Administration to overturn their longtime ban on using cell phones, Kindles and iPads on airplanes. …
Bilton’s most recent book, American Kingpin, tells the story of the Silk Road marketplace, its founder Ross Ulbricht (who went by “Dread Pirate Roberts“), and how U.S. law enforcement arrested him.
… In June 2017, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the Coen brothers and Steven Zaillian were adapting the book into a movie.
Natalie Maines, Martie Erwin Maguire & Emily Strayer
#respect for the Dixie Chicks
The Chicks (previously known as the Dixie Chicks) … have won 13 Grammy Awards.
Remember this from 2003?
Anti-war band the
DixieChicks have hit back at their critics – by posing naked on the front of a leading showbiz magazine.The Grammy-winning band suffered a massive backlash in America after they said they were “ashamed” President George Bush was from their home state of Texas. …
Rick McCharles 