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Tumblr and the End of the Eyeballs-Are-Everything Era
With a complicated design, an adult-content problem and only the vaguest idea how to make money, Tumblr was easy prey for trends much bigger than itself.
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Parker
@hunterwalk Obligatory plug for my rant on why SV is actually really conservative and we’d embrace these whiners if they were too.
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Half-million in loot stolen from A-Rod's car in San Francisco, sources say
A thief smashed into baseball legend Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez’s rental car Sunday night in San Francisco, making off with an estimated half-million dollars worth of jewelry and electronics, sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle.
Parker
Who keeps a maxed out Mac Pro in their SUV tho? sfchronicle.com/crime/article/… pic.twitter.com/78O6wT36Mv
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'He's Here!' Alanis Morissette Welcomes Son Winter Mercy - See His First Photo
Alanis Morissette, who's currently working on new music, first shared her happy pregnancy news on March 25
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Parker
I feel like if your threat model suggests telling a national magazine a fact is more private than putting it in Gmail you probably shouldn’t be quoted as a security expert.
bloomberg.com/news/features/… pic.twitter.com/UVch7KAEAO
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Forget vinyl, cassette tapes are the musical comeback story of 2019
The vinyl revival has been well documented in recent years, but another less-fancied format is also making a return to prominence; the cassette tape.
Why everyone hates Big Tech, with The Verge's Nilay Patel - The Weeds
Verge editor-in-chief and Vergecast host Nilay Patel joins Matt in this special crossover episode to explain what Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows platforms to circumnavigate liability for user content, really means. They...
Parker
If you wanna hear this argument taken to the absurd. Here’s serious tech + policy wonks arguing there’s literally nobody else who can host your video if YT bans it, so regulation is required.
We have definitely over-corrected on concerns w/ Big Tech.
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Bad Times in Tech? Not if You’re a Start-Up Serving Other Start-Ups
Meet the two Stanford dropouts, both 23, who run Brex, which provides charge cards to start-ups. Its growth is a sign of Silicon Valley’s unflagging exuberance.
Carbon Money
Parker
@jdh FB says this isn't for US folks, who generally have good products. I'm inclined to take them at their word.
FWIW, the product you want is carbon.money. They have a good product that's dollar-pegged and in use today.
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Brandless’ New CEO Is Dumping Its $3 Price Point, Hitting The Stores And Going Big On CBD
Brandless wants to start selling items in-stores and launch a CBD line.
HugeDomains.com - BadAssMuthaFucka.com is for sale (Bad Ass Mutha Fucka)
Parker
@ryanlawler @SEBMarketing @Bandrew In 1999 I bought badassmuthafucka.com, but misspelled it and had to call the registrar and spell this out to them to get it corrected. I rule.
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U.S. tax collectors urge owners of virtual currencies to pay back...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday said it was sending thousands of let...
SoftBank to Greenlight $40 Billion Investment in Second Vision Fund
SoftBank has been raising cash for the sequel to its $100 billion Vision Fund.
Mapped: The World’s Oldest Democracies
This map shows the 25 oldest democracies in the world, based on how long current democratic governments have been in continuous power.
Amazon Requires Police to Shill Surveillance Cameras in Secret Agreement
The Lakeland, Florida police department is required to “encourage adoption” of Ring products as part of a secret agreement with the company.
Parker
Hot take: we’d be wise to understand this trend as consumer-driven (they love these products and feeling safer!) & therefor inevitable, then maybe try to make the best of it.
Pretending it’s a plot by evil corporations is not advancing any useful policy.
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Will Set India Back By 40 Years: VC Tim Draper On India’s Report Calling For Crypto Ban
US-based VC Timothy Draper says this is a sign of India shunning progress and Modi government has not yet rooted out corruption in the country
Police Aren’t Ready for Amazon’s Facial Recognition System, but They’re Using Its Doorbell Cameras
The easiest way to build is panopticon might be duct-taping it together from consumer products.
Apple asks Trump administration to exclude Mac Pro parts from tariffs
Company has filed exclusion requests
5 key takeaways about the state of the news media in 2018
Newspaper circulation in the U.S. reached its lowest level since 1940, and the audience for local TV news has steadily declined.