Can’t say that I’ve read anything on Salon in years, but this is an interesting response to ad-blocking, which is not going away: “Salon.com has a new, cryptocurrency-driven strategy for making money when readers block ads. If you want to read Salon without seeing ads, you can do so—as long as you let the website…
I’m not a morning person. Anyone who has ever known me will tell you that. According to the internet, that also apparently means that I’m a complete slacker and will never be successful. One such article came across my feeds recently and as I read it, I realized that the entire premise of the article…
Recently, I’m sure that many of us have read various articles about how Facebook, Google and other social platform algorithms are being manipulated by media companies, Russians, trolls, government agencies, and so on in one mass effort to manipulate us all to do one thing or another. There have been numerous calls for legislation, censorship,…
This is an interesting idea that might be an easy way to eliminate at least some of the malware epidemic. I enabled it on my Macbook for the past day or two and haven’t noticed it really, which I guess just means I haven’t tried to access any sites that have been distributing malware. A…
This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…
This is disconcerting, because they are right, Germany is asking social media platforms to decide what is hate speech and what is not, like that’s an easy thing to do. And they have actual laws on the books about what is hate speech. How will they determine what hate speech is in other countries where…