Ring’s latest security camera is a drone that flies around inside your house – The Verge
September 27, 2020
Ring announced the Always Home Cam during Amazon’s annual product event, a new home security camera that can autonomously fly around your home to get different viewpoints when you’re not home. It will be available starting in 2021 for $249.99.
— Read on www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-drone-security-camera-price-specs-features-amazon
This is Minority Report direction tech, and the fact that Amazon is introducing it should emphasize that… The only more obvious way this would scream Ad Tech would be if it was from Facebook.
COVID-19 fact-finding leads to threats against health workers in Minnesota | MPR News
September 26, 2020
Racism and implied threats of violence have stopped the work of public health care workers on a project looking at how the coronavirus spreads. That includes an incident in far southeastern Minnesota where workers were confronted by three men, one with a holstered gun.
— Read on www.mprnews.org/story/2020/09/25/covid19-factfinding-leads-to-threats-against-health-workers-in-minnesota
Among German conspiracy theorists, ultranationalists and neo-Nazis, the American president is surfacing as a rallying cry, or even as a potential “liberator.”
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/europe/germany-trump-far-right.html
Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
September 4, 2020
Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy
— Read on daringfireball.net/2020/09/online_privacy_real_world_privacy
Dilbert creator Scott Adams uncover the hidden satanic symbolism in Joe Biden’s campaign slogan / Boing Boing
August 27, 2020
Dilbert creator Scott Adams uncover the hidden satanic symbolism in Joe Biden’s campaign slogan / Boing Boing
— Read on boingboing.net/2020/08/26/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-un.html
Oh my… Deep end.
Trump “America First” Eagle design looks like the Nazi parteiadler emblem / Boing Boing
July 2, 2020
America First was a protectionist movement in the early 20th century whose name ultimately became the slogan of those opposed to fighting the Nazis. Revived by the Trump campaign in 2016, its antisemitic associations galvanized supporters while alarming wavering Republicans; his use of the phrase was a key moment in the forming of the “Never…
— Read on boingboing.net/2020/07/02/trump-america-first-eagle.html
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If you don’t punish cheaters and liars you’re rewarding them. Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.
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daringfireball.net/2020/06/working_the_refs_worked_facebook_and_trump
Daring Fireball: Donald Trump’s Praise for the Tiananmen Square Massacre: ‘When the Students Poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Government Almost Blew It’
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/06/04/trump-tiananmen-square
Daring Fireball: Zuckerberg Sticks With Trump
May 30, 2020
Even if you think Zuckerberg’s doing the right thing by not touching Trump’s posts — which I see the argument for — you’re admitting that he lied while answering Ocasio-Cortez’s question.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/29/zuckerberg-trump
Daring Fireball: WSJ: ‘Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive’
May 27, 2020
So Facebook’s “Integrity Teams” can’t enforce integrity if it upsets the side of the U.S. political fence that is, quite obviously, more lacking in integrity.
— Read on daringfireball.net/linked/2020/05/27/wsj-facebook-divisiveness
