Category Archives: Technology

Hair Füror Makes a Move

Posted on August 7, 2020 by

The LATimes email thingie tells us: — Trump has issued an executive order that will bar TikTok‘s parent company, ByteDance, from conducting business transactions with American companies beginning in 45 days. A separate order bans business transactions involving WeChat, a … Continue reading →

Posted in 2020 Goat Rodeo, Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Technology | 11 Comments

(UPDATED) New Cool Kid: Microsoft

Posted on August 3, 2020 by

Axios morning email thingie tells us that the people who brought us Clippy are definitely trying to buy TikTok: President Trump gave Microsoft 45 days to negotiate an acquisition of TikTok, following a Sunday conversation with CEO Satya Nadella, Reuters … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, Social Media, Technology, The Death of the Social Media, TikTok | 10 Comments

Tech Bros Escape Hearing Unscathed, Unlike Republicans

Posted on July 30, 2020 by

It seems that there were two (2) Tech Hearings yesterday. The first was Democrats wondering if Tech Companies are too big and powerful for America’s good. Axios morning email thingie: Here’s where the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee pressed each company … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Faceberg, Silicon Valley, Technology, The Google | 19 Comments

Tech in the News

Posted on July 29, 2020 by

The Tech Bros are gonna be testifying today before Congress starting at noon ET, so I’m putting this up, quickly, so we can do our homework first: What to watch for in today’s Big Tech CEO hearing in Congress according … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Faceberg, Silicon Valley, Technology, The Google | 5 Comments

Don’t Try This At Home, Kids

Posted on June 27, 2020 by

This cracked me up: Microsoft Store announces new approach to retail The new approach: they are getting out of retail. That headline is weapon-grade spin!

Posted in Technology | 7 Comments

News That Will Drive You to Drink

Posted on June 9, 2020 by

Happy Hour News Briefs As Gawd is my waitress… The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation owns shares of Apple, so naturally when so-called "firefighter prophet" Mark Taylor was required to wear a mask when he picked up his new Apple … Continue reading →

Posted in Chris 'Sugar Lips' McDonald, Mark Taylor, Technology, Theocrats | 7 Comments

Failure to Launch

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

The SpaceX failure to send Americans into space yesterday really isn’t a politics story… until it was. NYTimes (emphasis mine): At Cape Canaveral, Trump’s Search for a Heroic Narrative Is Thwarted “For President Trump, it was a chance to rewrite … Continue reading →

Posted in Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Science, Space!, Technology | 14 Comments

I, For One, Welcome…

Posted on May 27, 2020 by

…our new Robot overlords: SEOUL, South Korea — When you approach the sleek silver counter of Lounge X, a cafe in one of southern Seoul’s corporate hubs, a masked and aproned barista takes your order. Motioning toward the chip reader, … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Things that will kill us all | 8 Comments

Our Future, Today

Posted on May 21, 2020 by

Think pieces abound that office workers will be at home because the technology is so easy now and proven to work…

Posted in Bad Tech, Technology | 9 Comments

News That Will Drive You To Drink

Posted on January 3, 2020 by

Happy Hour News Briefs Wired Magazine —the tech magazine that oddly has little tech in it— has a post to summarize the decade that was: The Most Dangerous People on the Internet This Decade That headline is a little ambiguous … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook or Faceberg, Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Pooty-Poot Putin, Silicon Valley, Social Media, Technology | 3 Comments