Steven Philips on Think different: AI triggers a hiring boom at IBM - 'This isn’t a marker for the future, it’s just filling a temporary gap – until they no longer need to.'
on Google, Meta and Reddit identified anti-ICE protestors for the Trump administration - 'This’s ONLY being reported on Apple News by ped30.com. Evidently, the NYT has zero presence on Apple News. Yay, PED!'
on Google, Meta and Reddit identified anti-ICE protestors for the Trump administration - 'Has Scott Galloway weighed in on this yet? /s'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'Best way to resist is not to have elected someone you dislike so much in the first place. Get the parties to nominate better candidates. But get people out to vote and make educated decisions. I’ve seen stuff by people saying they are not voting because the candidate doesn’t represent them and it doesn’t matter who is elected. I think most of us feel and see the consequences of this right now. If you didn’t vote in this last election, just shut up about all of this. Galloway lives in London. Don’t know if he even votes. He said he was paying for several subscriptions for years that he wasn’t using. He said he is not giving up his iPhone. It sounded like the interviewer wasn’t going to drop Apple hardware as well. Galloway’s contribution sounded like he was going to use Uber X instead of the costlier version. He wants the boycott to hurt companies so that they can talk truth to power. But that is what Tim Cook, I think, is using his access for. This is a boycott of convenience. He doesn’t want to inconvenience anybody. Just my take on things.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'I believe you are missing the point of the ‘Bias Apple News’ post. It is NOT about content, but sources. They did not claim that Apple is biased against conservative content, but conservative sources. There is a big and important difference. Now I fully realize that content may be influenced by sources. But if Apple intends to be fair and wants to provide news for all, then it needs to include all major news sources. What source is read should be determined by the reader; I don’t want to be told by the right or left (or Apple) where I should be getting my content. Having said that, I do find the info you’re posting very interesting and worth reading, even if it doesn’t pertain to the Apple bias post.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'Okay so I’ll be the most base and crass of all: Galloway is a nasty little prick, right alongside Rob Enderle and Tommo_UK. Nowt more to say and moved on already…'
on Think different: AI triggers a hiring boom at IBM - 'Well, having friends who used to work for IBM, they tend to treat people as disposable assets. Not sure I’d want to work for them.'
on Google, Meta and Reddit identified anti-ICE protestors for the Trump administration - 'I bought it years ago. Every couple of years I dust it off and view it again. Dalton Trumbo, while on Hollywood’s communist blacklist, rewrote Spartacus for Kirk Douglas. Spartacus IS a timeless classic.'
on Google, Meta and Reddit identified anti-ICE protestors for the Trump administration - 'Sounds like authoritarianism 101. MAGA is new fascism for the 21st century. Release the Trump-Epstein files! He likes everything named after himself, nothing is more appropriate.'
on Google, Meta and Reddit identified anti-ICE protestors for the Trump administration - 'I’m sure Apple has been subpoenaed for iCloud data.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'Today’s review of biased Apple News NY Post GUTHRIE! China paid U.S. born Olympian Hollywood Bigwig Selling Talent Agency due to Epstein. Ex ESPN star felt ill sitting near “Demon” J.D. Vance at Olympics. Goldman Sachs top lawyer resigns due to crude email with Epstein. Rosie O’Donnell quietly slips back into U.S. Girl Scout age 6 makes history by selling most boxes of cookies. FoxNews Guthrie Guthrie Guthrie. Passengers fight on jet at 30,000 feet. Review of barbecue techniques by Dem politicians. Podcast hosts express concern about conservatism after Trump How Homeland Security shut down can affect you Olympic skating star failure. Rosie quietly comes back to U.S. Figure skating coach shot in drive-thru robbery. Bondi attacks Massie Women’s group fights against trans dancer. Apple Top News DHS shuts down. High profile resignations as Epstein case fallout spreads. American skater proves he’s mortal. Medical freedom fuels worst measles outbreak in 30 years. Scientific America—Biggest ocean mysteries plus why invasive spotted landflies are thriving. Vanished star may be a newborn black hole. '
on Premarket: Apple was red, turned green - 'Apple closed out the trading week at $256.78, down $5.95 on the day. Apple ended trading last Friday at $277.86. At today’s closing price, the shares shed $22.08 in value over the five trading days this week.'
on Apple triggers Trump's ire - '“But if it lists the “top news stories”, isn’t that just a list of the news stories that are being read most by Apple News subscribers…?” No, I believe it’s actually a selected group of articles curated by Apple News’ editors. It’s that curation to which they seem to be objecting.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'What does he think such a strike will do? Cause Apple to do what? Actively resist Trump by …? Let’s say Apple raises a rainbow flag over every store and office building. Or Cook refuses an invitation to the WH? Or asks for his personal $1 million donation back? And Trump then instructs the FTC to stop all imports of iPhones, iPads, Watches, and Macs until an investigation on fraud, corruption, and possible anti-semitism is completed. That would cripple Apple more than any short boycott of their products. What to do? Heck, I think Cook giving full-throated support for DACA and migrants was pretty big, but no media pointed that out.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'P.E.D. Said: My take: It’s not just Apple. See Galloway’s Resist and Unsubscribe page, which identifies ten Ground Zero companies and eight in the Blast Zone. **It’s very easy for a person such as Galloway to suggest what ox to gore. Is it too obvious to assume that Galloway is not invested in any of those 18 companies that he listed as Ground Zero companies or in the Blast Zone? He states: “The most potent weapon to resist the administration is a targeted, month-long national economic strike — a coordinated campaign that attacks tech companies and firms enabling ICE — to inflict maximum damage with minimal impact on consumers. In sum, the shortest path to change without hurting consumers is an economic strike targeted at the companies driving the markets and enabling our president.” So, “inflict maximum damage with minimal impact on consumers”? Great! Now think of how to “inflict maximum damage” with minimal impact on consumers AND investors and we’ll really have something.'
on 'Tim Cook is the one who pisses me off the most' - 'I like Tim Miller. An essay he wrote for The Bulwark is the reason I subscribe to their stuff and follow Bill Kristol on social media. He is a former political adviser and strategist to Republican candidates who bolted from his party relatively early in their drift toward illiberalism and then toward real fascism – sacrificing big bucks in order to do so. So Miller has earned the right to tell me why I should be willing to sacrifice a little bit myself. But he actually seems skeptical of Galloway’s little effort here. And me too. I do find myself having marginally unkind thoughts about Scott Galloway as I watch him here. His comments and methodological assumptions seem wishful and half-baked. But that might just be my visceral recoil any time I see lips move in the center of a face so deadened by Botox that it is literally devoid of any affect whatsoever. But putting these ad hominem issues to one side, I admire any reasonable effort to resist or oppose Trump at this point. I don’t blame Tim Cook particularly. Early on I spoke up in his defense. But his more recent moves to pay homage to Trump – the Melania documentary and the White House dinner for the Saudi leader who directed the bone-saw execution of a U.S. journalist in particular – just got to be a little too much for me. I feel sure Tim Cook hates this. I can imagine him losing sleep over what his higher ethical responsibility is in this impossible situation. And I do not know. I do sometimes imagine an alternate timeline – one directed by Frank Capra – in which all those with great power and influence in our country had stood up early on and said “I won’t go along, I won’t allow you to bask in my hard-one credibility, I oppose your economically absurd trade policy and your cruel and racist and contractionary immigration policy, and I am going to use every opportunity to point out to our customers and shareholders what your policies are costing them …” What if …? And I just don’t know. What I do know is that it’s still early days in the second Trump Administration. And our government has gotten meaner and more abusive and more authoritarian faster than anybody imagined. Somebody needs to do something. Who will it be?'
