Links Mar 31 - Apr 6 2019
Saturday April 6, 2019
Lyft is threatening litigation against Morgan Stanley, accusing the firm of supporting short-selling: cnbc.com
"Someone once said that talking about music is like dancing about architecture." newstatesman.com
"But in my more romantic days, there was an intimacy between you and the half sheet." patch.com
A retired scribe who saved his name in hot lead linotype says "I wouldn’t revert to those old mechanical ways even if I could. But ever since computers took over, my words have never seemed as weighty as they used to." chronicle.com
"In response to the changing data privacy landscape created by the enactment of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last year, CPO Magazine has released a comprehensive report outlining the challenges and priorities of data protection and privacy officers around the world in 2019." cpomagazine.com
Infographic illustrating "those enriched by prior tech booms pick the winners of the next." nytimes.com
A privacy/encryption Apple engineer detained by CPB at SFO. Now travels with "lawyers on standby every time he has to go through customs, and they have instructions to act if they haven't heard anything from him within a certain span of time." businessinsider.com
"Last week's news that special counsel Robert Mueller had the goods on 12 high-level Russian spies whose job was to hack computers and muck up America's 2016 presidential election was a political bombshell — but also a resounding vindication for a 26-year-old Georgia woman with the wonderfully poetic name of Reality Winner." philly.com
A site that catalogues high-profile data breaches in the UK takes submissions. databreaches.net
"The breakthrough required almost a year of legal back and forth, and resulted in the Department of Labor releasing federal contractors’ 2015 EEO-1 records over the objections of the companies, a break from a longtime policy of denying such requests." revealnews.org
"But despite its surrender of 2015 data, the Labor Department is now refusing to release the same data for the same contractors for 2016, saying it wants to wait to see the outcome of a separate, ongoing Supreme Court case." revealnews.org
"Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore plans to scrap a controversial program that uses data to identify individuals who are most likely to commit violent crimes, bowing to criticism included in an audit and by privacy groups." latimes.com
Friday April 5, 2019
How Small Businesses Saved Our Job-Creating, Uh, Bacon: forbes.com ➰
'Piano': Its Name Is Only Half the Story: merriam-webster.com
Thursday April 4, 2019
Devoncroft appears to be the media biz version of Agile. devoncroft.com
"An authoritarian news system is up and running, in the country that was once known for having the strongest free press protections in the world." pressthink.org
"The epidemic of overwork in China became evident once more this year when 24-year-old Li Yuan, an employee at the Beijing offices of U.S.-based advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather died of a heart attack, after allegedly working until 11pm every night for a month." huffpost.com
On NPR yesterday morning or the one before, they interviewed migrants in South American who said they were told by authorities in their country they'd have greater chance of being granted asylum in the U.S. if they arrived with a child. Now one pens surprise in the NYTimes that the U.S. government "took my baby." .nytimes.com
Privacy and Data Security Update, including "Section 5" is explained on the FTC's website. ftc.gov
Pastor warns local newspaper during a sermon: 'I cut people. I got a knife right in that pocketbook.': www.yahoo.com
Wednesday April 3, 2019
Programmers and Musicians: jacobobryant.com
"When my copy of PC Week or MacWEEK came in, I closed the door and read the whole issue cover to cover. It was our pulse." scripting.com
"Time spent on online news sites is only about 70 seconds per day, compared to 25 minutes spent reading a print edition." techcrunch.com
Film Director: Don’t Just Blame Gentrification for Housing Crisis wsj.com
"Since reopening, the mill in Combined Locks has switched most production from white paper to brown, installed equipment that can crush used cardboard to make new paper, and hired back about half of the 600 workers laid off during the shutdown." nytimes.com
Seattle Times president Alan Fisco, who announced plans to sell its printing-press operations because of decline in print news and rise in real estate values, said the move "will not significantly affect deadlines for journalists finishing Seattle Times stories that readers see in print the next day." seattletimes.com
Tuesday April 2, 2019
Of the seven marketing sins is being inconsistent, "we’re not paying that much attention, but when we do, it helps if you are similar to the voice we heard from last time." seths.blog
More people than ever create, go to work using their minds, have a platform to share their point of view, and "I think that raises the bar for our understanding of how the world works." seths.blog
"Hal Varian at Google reports that the average person online spends seventy seconds a day reading online news." seths.blog
"One reason for this confusion is that we’re often using precisely the same device to do our work as we are to distract ourselves from our work." seths.blog
"It has created a glut of cardboard scrap that is allowing American mills to obtain their most vital raw material at 70 percent less than it cost a year ago." nytimes.com
A retired captain of industry tells readers "Simply out, shareholder primacy has become a kind of cancer that needs to be eradicated before it destroys our way of life." amazon.com
"To say this within the world of business today is tantamount to pointing out, centuries ago, that the earth was actually round." amazon.com
"What's missing is a recognition in our business community of the happiest irony in this story: only by abandoning short-term shareholder primacy will a company find its path to greater profits down the road..." amazon.com
Monday April 1 2019
"Or they won’t even admit to reading certain books because in their view, those books lower their capital as readers." bookriot.com
She "gradually went against her family's broader conservative political beliefs as she became concerned about the future of her biracial sons, but it took hearing people she knew calling President Obama 'the devil', and Donald Trump's open bigotry and birtherism, to electrify her." theguardian.com
"...he was balancing promotion for 'Victory Lap' with the opening of Vector 90, a co-working space and STEM center in the Crenshaw district that he envisioned as a conduit between underrepresented groups and corporate partners in Silicon Valley and beyond." latimes.com
How the tech giants make their billions. visualcapitalist.com
The Investopedia definition of Board of Directors says a director can be expelled for "Using directorial powers for something other than the financial benefit of the corporation." It also says a director can be expelled for using proprietary information to gain personal profit. investopedia.com
"This is the website for research related to a collaborative project funded by the NSF in the U.S. and the NWO in the Netherlands on understanding how smartphone users think about privacy when using their devices and how that affects subsequent decision-making about their data." mobileprivacy.umd.edu
My five year-old son, who loves all technologies from the 80s, is currently sitting in the living room listening to Johnny Cash sing Folsom Prison Blues on his great-grandfather’s cassette tape deck. pic.twitter.com/ZDO5EJfItK
— Adam Gessaman (@adamrg) May 11, 2018
Yes. Visual feedback seems to be a major part of it. The mechanical buttons and motors are also novel because they offer more satisfying tactile response than tablet UI elements. He’s also fascinated by A and B sides and flips tapes often.
— Adam Gessaman (@adamrg) May 11, 2018
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