It’s been awhile since hearing it bandied about, and I suspect the rate is finally beginning to slow, but back at the dawn of the digital age, Gordon Moore saw and understood a profound truth that energized the high tech industry for fifty years.
In 1968, Moore and Robert Noyce, one of the eight engineers who left Shockley, again struck out on their own. With $500,000 of their own money and the backing of venture capitalist Arthur Rock, they founded Intel, a name based on joining the words “integrated” and “electronics.”
He got it right, and it stayed that way for a looooooong time.
Wanna bet Dorsey was getting advice from some South African emerald industry spawn? It went something like…” ya man, it’s like money on the Internet.” Then the fuckwit went on to tell him a bunch of Paypal™ stories, except the part about how he almost bankrupted it before departure. Wonder how “risk averse” the mutherfuckers are now?
“March 24 (Reuters) – Shares of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc (SQ.N) fell 3% in afternoon trading on Friday, a day after the payments firm’s Cash App business became the latest target of U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research.”
….how fucking stupid they are? Trying to remember how many times I killed a weed by pulling the top off. I’m pretty sure it’s zero – just like every other failed attempt at banning things throughout history. Problem will only get worse in Utah, once the kids find out.
You’re gonna need to outlaw cellphones and PCs, if this is your planned path to resolution.
I’ve been harping on this for going on twenty years. Social media platforms are nothing but disruptive, amoral, cash-generating online scams. Yes -plenty of mundane messaging and entertainment also gets done. But Meta, Twitter and Youtube’s primary and only important objective is monetizing the private information of it’s users.
Still think it’s worth it?
“Reports on social media during the week of March 6 that some venture capital firms, including influential investor Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, were advising companies to pull cash from tech-focused SVB snowballed into a stock rout and sent customers scrambling for the exit. Authorities shut SVB on March 10.”
Social media exposes all sorts of flaws – in mostly unpredictable and unintended ways.
Here’s just one of many examples of the small-print warning you might see on literally any legitimate business website today. Communication is a 2-way street. You’ve been warned:
“This site is being monitored by one or more third-party software(s), and may capture information about you and your visit. You may opt-out from the data collection on your visit through a universal consumer options page located at https://collectionoptoutservices.com/”
Anybody want to guess what that “collectionoptoutservices” page does? It saves GoDaddy™ from collecting it themselves. Social media’s just one of the quick, easy modern vectors – lettin’ ya drive yourselves crazy, while robbing you behind your back.
“London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic and unable to police itself, an independent review said on Tuesday”
The bad part is they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong, just business as usual.
This is what generations of patriarchal, religious authoritarianism gets ya. And royalty – yeah, don’t forget the royalty.
“James Webb recently found six examples of galaxies that are too big too early. This discovery can significantly change our understanding of the early Universe. In this interview, I’m talking with Dr Joel Leja, who is a part of the team behind the research.”
Speaker McDickhead took to Twitter™ apparently complaining about the long-established legal process of indicting criminals in this country. I made sure to fire off a little personal note to him and his staff, informing them exactly what I think about it:
I’m directing every MAGA mutherfucker I see to suck my dick and choke on it.
“This unit, after it shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17… did not face any retribution. They did not face any justice for the crimes they committed,” said George Barros, a Russia analyst at the Institute for the Study of War. “And unfortunately, this is very much systematic in the way that the Russian Federation has been able to violate international law.”
We knew it then, we know it now. Know what we know. It’s called a warning.
“Activity.” in terms of this military unit, will soon be terminated.
Yeah, I get that legacy recording formats are making a comeback, but why? I have a little collection of vinyl music recordings that were played only once for the purpose of cassette transfer. There’s also a bookcase full of CDs in the collection, none of which can be expected to last. Timelines differ, significantly in some respects, but depending on things like storage environment and playing time, they’re little more than historical curiosities at this point. Practically speaking from a music storage and reproduction standpoint, CDs are just fragile little plastic discs, vulnerable to use and abuse. I saved a brand new cartridge for the turntable, assuming I won’t be able to get one when the time comes. The weird part is using it would just inflict damage on the records.
And the hardcore enthusiasts will argue digital isn’t real enough.
This is why I hate Seth Meyers‘ “Back in My Day” bit. Guess it depends what you’re doing with it, but if it’s building a HiFi system, my advice is put your money in speakers and amps.
If recent history is any indication, I have a rare knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s a time-honored tradition now. The NPR article doesn’t mention how the Tangerine Traitor‘s regulation rollbacks enabled the fuckwit bankers to get in over their heads – again.
These cocksuckers who sold stock and triggered the shyt themselves need to be setting up payment plans with Treasury.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on March 8, 2023. Bank shares, especially the regional and smaller ones, have continued to tumble even after regulators took emergency action to shore up confidence in the financial system. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
