July 30, 2021
Nobody Asked Me, But...
Why does the new Google Security update, which changes sharing protocols for URLs, want to remove the URLs only of photos I took in China and Chile?
Joel Kotkin’s new book, “Neo-Feudalism: Toward a New Orthodoxy” takes a long stare at our tech nobility and the digital serfs. Here’s an interview that cuts to the chase (I skipped the interviewer parts).
Where exactly did all that COVID-19 aid money go? Along the main shopping street of Greenwich, Connecticut, one of the wealthiest communities in the U.S. more a dozen empty storefronts gape like missing teeth in the mouth of a local monied princess. Small local business owners and restaurant workers have told me they received no help. None. Not even Brooks Brothers could hang on.
Speaking of aid, why has only $3 billion of the $47 billion in emergency rental assistance been delivered since it was funded late last year? As my colleague Diccon Hyatt at The Balance points out, red tape has snarled the program and many people are being evicted and ending up homeless. But what can be expected of a huge government program being administered by hundreds of local entities?
So where are the cicadas?
Has anybody else noticed that Google AI de-ranks small businesses and news publishers because it mistakes them for dangerous enemies and that there’s no effective way to complain?
A follow-up on the Simon Biles meltdown from the Babylon Bee: Biden Quits Presidency to Focus on Mental Health.
I am growing lots of sunflowers in my Connecticut garden, and the native ones are just as tall as the Mongolian giants.
Does anyone else yearn to retake the word “snark” back to the Lewis Carroll poem? I’m having the same feelings about it as I do for the egregious “iconic” and “reaching out,”
If you’re in the word business or just love the English language, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, by the the chief copy editor at Random House, is drawing chortles from...
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