“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”
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Jessica Mauboy joins flash mob at Bondi Icebergs to celebrate Vogue’s 60th birthday - Daily Telegraph
MEdia Dragons 🐉 are in Vogue Again - Young at Heart 💓
STICKY beaks in Randwick had a ball at Little Bay ;-)
AND YOU THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: World ‘epidemic of loneliness’ questioned by new studies.
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon’s Sprawling Home Surveillance Network “Gizmodo has acquired data over the past month connected to nearly 65,800 individual posts shared by users of the Neighbors app. The posts, which reach back 500 days from the point of collection, offer extraordinary insight into the proliferation of Ring video surveillance across American neighborhoods and raise important questions about the privacy trade-offs of a consumer-driven network of surveillance cameras controlled by one of the world’s most powerful corporations. And not just for those whose faces have been recorded. Examining the network traffic of the Neighbors app produced unexpected data, including hidden geographic coordinates that are connected to each post—latitude and longitude with up to six decimal points of precision, accurate enough to pinpoint roughly a square inch of ground.
CHANGE: Firms Withdraw From China On Worsening Business Conditions. “A growing number of companies from Korea and other countries are pulling their production out of China due to worsening business conditions sparked by the prolonged tension between the United States and China coupled with rising operating costs there. They are moving to the ASEAN market as the 10-nation economic bloc with its young population and cheap labor costs has been emerging as the world’s new manufacturing hub replacing the Chinese market.”
52 things I learned in 2019
Tom Whitehall – Medium – “This year I edited another book, worked on fascinating projects at Fluxx, and learned many learnings….[this is a terrific read – and I had a beloved budgie named Nigel – and the name fit him perfectly – he is missed…] [snipped from the list]
- No babies born in Britain in 2016 were named Nigel. [Jonathan Ore]
- Each year humanity produces 1,000 times more transistors than grains of rice and wheat combined. [Mark P Mills]
- The maths of queuing are absolutely brutal and counter-intuitive. [John D Cook]
- Emojis are starting to appear in evidence in court cases, and lawyers are worried: “When emoji symbols are strung together, we don’t have a reliable way of interpreting their meaning.” (In 2017, an Israeli judge had to decide if one emoji-filled message constituted a verbal contract) [Eric Goldman]
- Harbinger customers are customers who buy products that tend to fail. They group together, forming harbinger zip codes. If households in those zip codes buy a product, it is likely to fail. If they back a political candidate, they are likely to lose the election. [Simester, Tucker & Yang]
- A Python script, an Instagram account and quite a bit of free time can get you free meals in New York City. [Chris Buetti]
- At least three private companies have fallen victim to ‘deep fake’ audio fraud. In each case, a computerised voice clone of the company CEO “called a senior financial officer to request an urgent money transfer.” [Kaveh Waddell, Jennifer A. Kingson]…”