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Packing plastic

Brand Safety

Maybe someday…

Inviting, Welcoming, Promoting More Participation

Wayne Rooney FTW 😀

“There was no insight to be had” [13:50] #BigData #BullShit

E935: Segment Co-Founder & CEO Peter Reinhardt shares insights from pioneering customer data infrastructure (CDI) to unseat CRM, lessons from first failed product launch & critical pivots, the importance of customer pain as your startup’s North Star, & building the unicorn that actually protects customer privacy

Worthless Quotes

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/worthless

Easier Than Easy listening

(Pat Metheny cover of Norah Jones’ “Don’t Know Why”)

He’s got authenticated identity, because you have to have the email address from the school

— Roger McNamee (42:05 – 42:15)

E908: Roger McNamee, early Facebook investor & author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” shares early days mentoring Zuck, the destructive power of persuasive tech, the Russian plan to subvert American democracy, & Beyond Facebook: Big Tech’s dystopian surveillance, data collection & what we can do about it – PART 1

Did Anabelle Körbel pull these numbers out of a hat?

Vocabulary of the German language, in words

Vocabulary of the English language, in words

Average vocabulary of a German-speaking person, in words

Average vocabulary of an English-speaking person, in words

Also: Does this mean that German-speaking people and English-speaking people…[Read more]

“Do you have a better alternative right now?” [1:42:15]

Yes, Ms. Weiss, I do — it’s called “rational media”, which so far is primarily defined by identifying it’s polar opposite (“retard media” — see http://remediary.com/2014/11/definition-how-to-define-retard-media ).

BTW: IMHO your inclination (“I don’t…[Read more]

Hey, Nineteen!

Happy Holidays!! 😀

Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda

Mass production may blunt our aesthetic choices, but it certainly doesn’t eliminate them.

— Desmond Morris, The Human Animal Ep. 6 (“Beyond Survival”, 16:10)

Was he logged in?

E882: TWiST Live! OpenAI Co-founder & CTO Greg Brockman on our rapid acceleration toward artificial general intelligence: shares achievements in deep learning, the death of Moore’s Law (300,000x compute increase), & the risks of malice, competition & unintended consequences as OpenAI races to build AGI that benefits humanity

Exact Same Thing

“That’s a total trip!” — William Von Hippel

The video of Joe Rogan trying very hard to keep a straight face while he’s explaining the “Stoned Ape” theory is also a riot!

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/william-von-hippel

What’s new in Baltimore?

… besides the WordPress Planet feed… 24:25 (entire Q&A 22:35-27:30)

… the fact that we spend a lot of money on Facebook … 26:50

Maria, representing Spanish Harlem…

… the streets are getting hotter <3

I formulate infinity
Interstitial commercials.

What is social media?

52:10

Dvorak

“Social media is a construct using the internet to interconnect people in groups, forums or even individually so they can interact without being anywhere near each other.”

55:30

How would you define social media for this committee and more importantly for the American people?

Sandberg

“Social media enables…[Read more]