Styx – “Mr. Roboto”
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StreetArt – Zuckerberg or Big Data?
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This Land Could Be Migrant Land
Woody Guthrie – “Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land”
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Make Los Angeles Tijuana Again
Thanks California Democrats!! Just think of what you can do for the entire country…. The California lexicon of destruction just keeps growing. First there was “Californication” and now, sinking to an even lower low, “Tijuanafication“.
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“Rushing” Toward The U.S. Border
AP reports, “Caravan migrants break Guatemala border fence, rush Mexico.” ‘Rushing Mexico‘? Well, I suppose. However, that choice of a word typically has more of a “sporting flavor” rather than the out and out assault or invasion that it actually is. One can always count on the AP for PC-Politically Correct reporting. Like Mike Rowe says, “It’s a Dirty Job, that someone has to do.” And do it, the AP does. No sense in using a WORD like attack, charge, invade, assail, storm, or maybe assault when little old rush would do.
Migrants traveling in a mass caravan burst through a Guatemalan border fence and streamed by the thousands toward Mexican territory on Friday, defying Mexican authorities’ entreaties for an orderly crossing and U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliation.
On the Mexican side of a border bridge, they were met by a phalanx of police with riot shields. About 50 managed to push their way through before officers unleashed pepper spray and the rest retreated.
The gates were closed again, and police used a loudspeaker to address the masses, saying, “We need you to stop the aggression.”
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Going, Going, Disappeared – Facebook Justice, Saudi Style
The Wall Street Journal reports, “Saudis Weigh Saying Journalist Was Killed by Mistake.”
Riyadh is considering issuing a statement saying that rogue operatives killed Khashoggi by mistake during an interrogation gone wrong
On Monday, Saudi officials were considering whether to say rogue operatives killed Jamal Khashoggi during an interrogation gone wrong, people familiar with the matter said, a move that could help the royal family distance itself from responsibility.
We don’t think Zuckerberg has retained an on-call “bone sawing” expert, yet. At least, not that we know of.
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Getting Ready To Fight Big Data
This is your ghillie suit for taking the fight to the Masters of the Universe.
From the Business Insider, “This photo shows that even Mark Zuckerberg is paranoid about his privacy.”
But the photo has taken new meaning after Zuckerberg apologized on Wednesday for a scandal in which British data company Cambridge Analytica, which has ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, illicitly obtained information from as many as 50 million Facebook profiles by abusing Facebook’s data-sharing features.
From the Instagram photo, it’s clear that Zuckerberg takes his own personal privacy very seriously.
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Google After “Don’t Be Evil”
If you are a conservative wondering what happened to your web traffic and search engine ranking, this probably doesn’t come as a surprise. From ZDNet, “Google erases ‘Don’t be evil’ from code of conduct after 18 years“.
As spotted by Gizmodo, the phrase was dropped from the preface of Google’s code of conduct in late April or early May.
Until then, ‘Don’t be evil’ were the first words of the opening and closing sentences of Google’s code of conduct and have been part of it since 2000.
“The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put ‘Don’t be evil’ into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct.”
Poof! Google disappeared the concept of not being evil. Now they just have “[a high bar] for practical as well as aspirational reasons.” I’m not so sure that is very reassuring.
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