I wrote a piece on the immigrant child crisis but the news cycle moves so fast that the story is almost entirely lost a few weeks after it was hyped. I don’t favor separation of parents from children but I’m stunned how thoroughly the issue was politicized and the degree to which prior policy and […]
The Great Escape
Suicide can hardly be more high profile than it is this week. Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, gone. Overall stats are all up considerably. It seems suicide is more than just a persistent pathology among troubled individuals and is starting to feel like a social movement. On the one hand, I cannot judge anyone’s ultimate decision, […]
TIR 5/18/18: ‘Google’s Selfish Ledger Is An Unsettling Vision of Silicone Valley Social Engineering’ or Google’s Total Solution
Google’s Selfish Ledger Is An Unsettling Vision of Silicone Valley Social Engineering Web Publication: The Verge, by Vlad Savov Or – Google’s Total Solution A video produced by Google a couple years ago called ‘The Selfish Ledger’ is now getting some air play. The video, some excellent commentary, and some good comments can all be […]
TIR 4/7/18: ‘Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It.’
Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It. Web Publication: New York Times, by Tim Wu Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University, has done a good job of looking into the heart of Facebook and declared it rotten to the core. I don’t disagree. While Facebook proclaims the lofty goal of connecting the world, a feeling I […]
Facebook Against The Wall
To stay or to go that is the question. A lot of people are either thinking about going or pulling the plug. A lot more are simply laying low and wondering if Facebook is as bad as the news stories make them out to be, particularly when it comes to flaunting the data to every […]
TIR 3/20/18: ‘What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump’
What’s genius for Obama is scandal when it comes to Trump Web Publication: The Hill, by Ben Shapiro Cambridge Analytica is a hot topic right now. In trending news the past few days, the fallout from this companies’ use of Facebook is having a big impact in the political world and directly at Facebook. Mark […]