It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
– Niccolò Machiavelli
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. – philosiblog
Source 2: Atomic Blonde
Quotes
Google’s Pixel Buds translation will change the world
But if you tell it to “Help me speak Japanese” and then start speaking in English, the phone’s speakers will output your translated words as you speak them. The other party’s reply (presumably in Japanese because otherwise what exactly are you playing at?) will then play into your ear through the Pixel Buds.
Source: Google’s Pixel Buds translation will change the world
The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how
It looks like nothing changed since 2014, but GOOG and FB now have direct influence over 70%+ of internet traffic.
The press, unlike before, depends on GOOG-FB to stay in business.
GOOG and FB ceased competing directly, focusing on what they do best instead.
Source: André Staltz – The Web began dying in 2014, here’s how
Humblebragging Just Makes You Look Like a Fraud
Humblebragging: Make an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement with the actual intention of drawing attention to something of which one is proud.
The proliferation of humblebragging in social media, the workplace, and everyday life suggests that people believe it to be an effective self-promotion strategy.
Source: Humblebragging Just Makes You Look Like a Fraud – Pacific Standard
on 20 years of blogging
Young company, young kids, unfinished book, 40s, sore back, facing bariatric uncertainties and paying down the mortgage. 20 years is arbitrary nonsense. A blip. Our software is bullshit, our literary essays are too long, the good editors all quit or got fired, hardly anyone is experimenting with form in a way that wakes me up, the IDEs haven’t caught up with the 1970s, the R&D budgets are weak, the little zines are badly edited, the tweets are poor, the short stories make no sense, people still care too much about magazines, the Facebook posts are nightmares, LinkedIn has ruined capitalism, and the big tech companies that have arisen are exhausting, lumbering gold-thirsty kraken that swim around with sour looks on their face wondering why we won’t just give them all our gold and save the time.
Source: @20 (Ftrain.com)