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Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 In December 2020, Nextcloud delivered a serious punch to the face of megacorp cloud companies by offering “one-click migration” to NextCloud OneDrive, Dropbox and Google services”. NextCloud has helped universities and medical schools to fight COVID-19. The version released in February 2021 has ten times better performance. GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met itEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 In December 2020, Nextcloud delivered a serious punch to the face of megacorp cloud companies by offering “one-click migration” to NextCloud OneDrive, Dropbox and Google services”. NextCloud has helped universities and medical schools to fight COVID-19. The version released in February 2021 has ten times better performance. WHAT WENT WRONG WITH SOFTWARE FOR PRISONS It became just another business, in one more market. Twelve years ago, I told the story of two inmates that were using Open Source Software and methods to help other inmates.Today CAPTION: Inmates, from Wikimedia Commons Today, that program seems to have disappeared, and “our degree of civilisation might be revealed by the technology usedinside prisons.
ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affectEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE If you like this post and the mission of this website, please help me to keep writing six posts a week, by participating in my 2020/2021 fundraiser.Thanks in advance for your support! WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GPT-3 Typewriters that write by themselves still are typewriter. GPT-3 (“Generative Pre-trained Transformer”) is software that automatically produces, or analyse, human-like texts, in ways that may have a huge impact on society.This posts summarizes an article on GPT-3 nature, and effects, published in November 2020 by L. Floridiand M. Chiriatti.
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITH Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
ANTEXWEB, LE BUSTE PAGA DI MARIA CALZETTA AntexWeb, le buste paga di Maria Calzetta. 2013-02-28. AGGIORNAMENTO 11 MARZO 2014: il servizio AntexWeb NON ha più i problemi descritti in questa pagina. Potete leggere lo specifiche attuali del servizio nella risposta completa di Antex a questo post. Antex è un’azienda che (enfasi mia) “da 50 anni fornisce idee e servizi di gestione ed GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GPT-3 Typewriters that write by themselves still are typewriter. GPT-3 (“Generative Pre-trained Transformer”) is software that automatically produces, or analyse, human-like texts, in ways that may have a huge impact on society.This posts summarizes an article on GPT-3 nature, and effects, published in November 2020 by L. Floridiand M. Chiriatti.
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITH Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
ANTEXWEB, LE BUSTE PAGA DI MARIA CALZETTA AntexWeb, le buste paga di Maria Calzetta. 2013-02-28. AGGIORNAMENTO 11 MARZO 2014: il servizio AntexWeb NON ha più i problemi descritti in questa pagina. Potete leggere lo specifiche attuali del servizio nella risposta completa di Antex a questo post. Antex è un’azienda che (enfasi mia) “da 50 anni fornisce idee e servizi di gestione edSTOP AT ZONA-M
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ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M Welcome to the Stop! I am Marco Fioretti, independent author, researcher, consultant and a few other things.I study, and try to explain, how your own civil rights and the quality of all areas of your life heavily depend on how software and digital technologies are used around you. My talks, publications, ebooks, course offering and other projects are on my main website. HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS And above all: WHY we should ALL do it. While I am finally writing these things, after a couple of weeks of accumulating evidence of what I argue below, the worlwide death toll of Coronavirus deaths is 3120 (source: Worldometer). THAT IS ALREADY 3120 TOO MANY, and will be surely higher by the time you read this.I sincerely pray for all the victims, and pray that this disease ends as soon as MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GPT-3 Typewriters that write by themselves still are typewriter. GPT-3 (“Generative Pre-trained Transformer”) is software that automatically produces, or analyse, human-like texts, in ways that may have a huge impact on society.This posts summarizes an article on GPT-3 nature, and effects, published in November 2020 by L. Floridiand M. Chiriatti.
GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. THE WORST ARGUMENT AGAINST UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” UBI is the acronym of “Universal Basic Income”. I have explained what the real meaning and value of UBI may be here, and several other times before that.. The next paragraph of this post is a verbatim excerpt of a Facebook conversation about how and why UBI would be wrong. I'VE LIVED TWELVE MONTHS IN LOCKDOWNS. WHAT NOW? The end of the tunnel seems in sight. Problem is, what’s there? Exactly one year ago, Italy became the first western country to go into national lockdown, THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. ANTEXWEB, LE BUSTE PAGA DI MARIA CALZETTA AntexWeb, le buste paga di Maria Calzetta. 2013-02-28. AGGIORNAMENTO 11 MARZO 2014: il servizio AntexWeb NON ha più i problemi descritti in questa pagina. Potete leggere lo specifiche attuali del servizio nella risposta completa di Antex a questo post. Antex è un’azienda che (enfasi mia) “da 50 anni fornisce idee e servizi di gestione ed GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 What? You still don’t know what NextCloud is? Back in 2019, I wrote that “if I won the lottery tomorrow, and could thus donate a lot of money to (among other things, of course) a software project[one I would surely fund is NextCloud“, because it is “one of the most important FOSS projects of our time”“.. I said so because I thought, and still think, that NextCloud is the mostEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 What? You still don’t know what NextCloud is? Back in 2019, I wrote that “if I won the lottery tomorrow, and could thus donate a lot of money to (among other things, of course) a software project[one I would surely fund is NextCloud“, because it is “one of the most important FOSS projects of our time”“.. I said so because I thought, and still think, that NextCloud is the mostEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood.EMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 What? You still don’t know what NextCloud is? Back in 2019, I wrote that “if I won the lottery tomorrow, and could thus donate a lot of money to (among other things, of course) a software project[one I would surely fund is NextCloud“, because it is “one of the most important FOSS projects of our time”“.. I said so because I thought, and still think, that NextCloud is the most MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FINALLY, A REAL LAPTOP THAT MAKES SENSE What if everybody could buy a laptop and “Think about this. What if, you buy a laptop today and can simply swap and upgrade hardware components when needed and use that device for decades. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect EVEN THE BLOCKCHAIN CAN BE IMPERIALIST Of course. Why not? What is the blockchain, again? The simplest possible definition of blockchain could be that it is a technology to create distributed public databases, not controlled by any single entity, and can record data of whatever kind in ways that make it impossible to alter it, once they have been inserted in the blockchainitself.
WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
WE REALLY NEED TWO MINUTES OF HATE, EVERY DAY Just two, that is. For everybody. This is a concrete proposal to eliminate, or in any case significantly reduce, the possibility that ANY “public” personality of any kind foments violence, abuse, political upheavals just for its own personal gain (yes, as unthinkable as it seems, it may happen!).. In George Orwell’s “1984”, the Two-Minutes Hate are literally two minutes every day THE UNNEEDED SHORTAGE OF SEMICONDUCTORS FOR CARS When cars become so smart that they starve themselves. As I often say, microelectronics makes the world go round.Cars included, of course. Fact is, microelectronics cannot exist, today and in the foreseable future, without weird elements called semiconductors. FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 In December 2020, Nextcloud delivered a serious punch to the face of megacorp cloud companies by offering “one-click migration” to NextCloud OneDrive, Dropbox and Google services”. NextCloud has helped universities and medical schools to fight COVID-19. The version released in February 2021 has ten times better performance. GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met itEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 In December 2020, Nextcloud delivered a serious punch to the face of megacorp cloud companies by offering “one-click migration” to NextCloud OneDrive, Dropbox and Google services”. NextCloud has helped universities and medical schools to fight COVID-19. The version released in February 2021 has ten times better performance. GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met itEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that never FIVE GOOD REASONS TO TRY NEXTCLOUD IN 2021 In December 2020, Nextcloud delivered a serious punch to the face of megacorp cloud companies by offering “one-click migration” to NextCloud OneDrive, Dropbox and Google services”. NextCloud has helped universities and medical schools to fight COVID-19. The version released in February 2021 has ten times better performance. GAMESTOP: WHY, REALLY, DID IT HAPPEN? There are at least a couple of reasons. But only one surely matters. Last week, I tried to summarize WHAT happened with Gamestop, and who REALLY won.Today, as promised, I share a couple of the larger, “structural” reasons WHY GameStop happened. And no, they don’t include the availability of no-fee trading platforms like Robinhood. MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise.EMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect FINALLY, A REAL LAPTOP THAT MAKES SENSE What if everybody could buy a laptop and “Think about this. What if, you buy a laptop today and can simply swap and upgrade hardware components when needed and use that device for decades. EVEN THE BLOCKCHAIN CAN BE IMPERIALIST Of course. Why not? What is the blockchain, again? The simplest possible definition of blockchain could be that it is a technology to create distributed public databases, not controlled by any single entity, and can record data of whatever kind in ways that make it impossible to alter it, once they have been inserted in the blockchainitself.
WOKENESS? THE ALGORITHMS MADE ME DO IT WARNING: this is NOT for or against political correctness. Or social justice, or anything like that. This is ONLY about understanding what made those concepts so important today instead of, say, one or two generations earlier. Or later. Woke? OK. But WHAT made you so wokejust NOW?
WE REALLY NEED TWO MINUTES OF HATE, EVERY DAY Just two, that is. For everybody. This is a concrete proposal to eliminate, or in any case significantly reduce, the possibility that ANY “public” personality of any kind foments violence, abuse, political upheavals just for its own personal gain (yes, as unthinkable as it seems, it may happen!).. In George Orwell’s “1984”, the Two-Minutes Hate are literally two minutes every day SCHOOLS KEEP USING ALGORITHMS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND Because, money, of course. Or lack thereof. Major universities are using advising software that uses students’ race, among other variables, to predict how likely they are to drop out of school, says The Markup.. The practical consequence is higher probability that college advisors tell Black and other minority students not to aim for certain majors, perpetuating and increasing “educationalSTOP AT ZONA-M
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ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
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ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
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Some more coronavirus facts and feelings from Italy. just a small update, six weeks after the end of #ItalyLockdown HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS And above all: WHY we should ALL do it. While I am finally writing these things, after a couple of weeks of accumulating evidence of what I argue below, the worlwide death toll of Coronavirus deaths is 3120 (source: Worldometer). THAT IS ALREADY 3120 TOO MANY, and will be surely higher by the time you read this.I sincerely pray for all the victims, and pray that this disease ends as soon as ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affectEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. HISTORY RHYMES. FIRST PHYSICALLY, THEN DIGITALLY Even with privatization. Mark Twain famously said (maybe! that “History never repeats itself but it rhymes”.A long, interesting essay titled “The silenced majority”, on the critical situation of Western democracy in general, contains a great, quite relevant today example of this principle, that is.So, please read the excerpt below (edited and rearranged for clarity), because it is THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that neverSTOP AT ZONA-M
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ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
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ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
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Some more coronavirus facts and feelings from Italy. just a small update, six weeks after the end of #ItalyLockdown HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS And above all: WHY we should ALL do it. While I am finally writing these things, after a couple of weeks of accumulating evidence of what I argue below, the worlwide death toll of Coronavirus deaths is 3120 (source: Worldometer). THAT IS ALREADY 3120 TOO MANY, and will be surely higher by the time you read this.I sincerely pray for all the victims, and pray that this disease ends as soon as ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affectEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. HISTORY RHYMES. FIRST PHYSICALLY, THEN DIGITALLY Even with privatization. Mark Twain famously said (maybe! that “History never repeats itself but it rhymes”.A long, interesting essay titled “The silenced majority”, on the critical situation of Western democracy in general, contains a great, quite relevant today example of this principle, that is.So, please read the excerpt below (edited and rearranged for clarity), because it is THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that neverSTOP AT ZONA-M
Late, but never too late. Mar 15, 2021. « Prev 1 2 Next ». Stop at Zona-M Never miss a story: follow me on Twitter (@mfioretti_en), orvia RSS.
ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
STOP AT ZONA-M
Late, but never too late. Mar 15, 2021. « Prev 1 2 Next ». Stop at Zona-M Never miss a story: follow me on Twitter (@mfioretti_en), orvia RSS.
ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
STOP AT ZONA-M
Late, but never too late. Mar 15, 2021. « Prev 1 2 Next ». Stop at Zona-M Never miss a story: follow me on Twitter (@mfioretti_en), orvia RSS.
CORONAVIRUS
Some more coronavirus facts and feelings from Italy. just a small update, six weeks after the end of #ItalyLockdown HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS And above all: WHY we should ALL do it. While I am finally writing these things, after a couple of weeks of accumulating evidence of what I argue below, the worlwide death toll of Coronavirus deaths is 3120 (source: Worldometer). THAT IS ALREADY 3120 TOO MANY, and will be surely higher by the time you read this.I sincerely pray for all the victims, and pray that this disease ends as soon as ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affectEMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. HISTORY RHYMES. FIRST PHYSICALLY, THEN DIGITALLY Even with privatization. Mark Twain famously said (maybe! that “History never repeats itself but it rhymes”.A long, interesting essay titled “The silenced majority”, on the critical situation of Western democracy in general, contains a great, quite relevant today example of this principle, that is.So, please read the excerpt below (edited and rearranged for clarity), because it is THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that neverSTOP AT ZONA-M
Late, but never too late. Mar 15, 2021. « Prev 1 2 Next ». Stop at Zona-M Never miss a story: follow me on Twitter (@mfioretti_en), orvia RSS.
ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong. 2021-03-16. Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software. 2021-01-20. And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because ofsevere
THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
STOP AT ZONA-M
The worst argument against UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.” ABOUT - STOP AT ZONA-M GAMESTOP SUMMARY: WHAT HAPPENED, AND WHO REALLY WON Where I try to REALLY understand a (maybe) watershed attack to stock markets. What “GameStop” is about, in case you missed it. Around January 27, 2021, a “rag-tag internet crew” was winning the day at Wall Street- “at least for now”, with “gains since the start of January to 1,745%”.The crew exploited a well-known, perfectly legal gambling technique called “short selling ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise. WOMEN VS (WHITE-ONLY) BIG TECH AND ACTIVISM IN BRAZIL From the “Things You Need To Know About” department. Today, I find useful to quote a few passages from a November 2020 interview to “Bárbara Paes, a young Brazilian feminist who works at the intersection of technology and social justice”.The interview covers many topics, but here I only quote from the part that most matches the scope of this website: digital divides, and divides in THAT TIME THAT FACEBOOK MADE TURKEY HAPPY Business as usual, really. In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. BOEING 737 MAX IS A REMINDER OF THE REAL PROBLEM WITHBOEING 737 MAXBOEING 737 CAPACITYBOEING 737 INTERIORBOEING 737 PROBLEMSBOEING 737 SAFETYBOEING 737 TESTING And that problem almost never is software. Seven months ago, I mentioned the tragedies of the Boeing 737 MAX as one example of what can go wrong “when everything is software”.. In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing 737 MAX crashed, with hundreds of victims, because of severe problems in their computerized flight-control system, called Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). THE DELIBERATE PRODUCTION OF IGNORANCE, AND A SUGGESTION Everybody who already knew what agnotology means, raise their hands. And then read this anyway, please. Agnotology, I learned from here, is the “strategic and purposeful production of ignorance”. A tragic example of agnotology is the 2019 Christchurch shootings. INDEED, IT SEEMS THAT GOOGLE IS FORGETTING THE OLD WEBSEE MORE ONSTOP.ZONA-M.NET
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The worst argument against UBI “Let’s not fight for social progress because it could be taken away at a later point.”CORONAVIRUS
Some more coronavirus facts and feelings from Italy. just a small update, six weeks after the end of #ItalyLockdown HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS And above all: WHY we should ALL do it. While I am finally writing these things, after a couple of weeks of accumulating evidence of what I argue below, the worlwide death toll of Coronavirus deaths is 3120 (source: Worldometer). THAT IS ALREADY 3120 TOO MANY, and will be surely higher by the time you read this.I sincerely pray for all the victims, and pray that this disease ends as soon as ANUMERACY IS BAD, AND I JUST MET IT It’s everywhere, really. Please learn to recognize it. Numeracy is the “ability to understand and work with numbers” in order to “use maths in everyday life”, for a better understanding of the world.. Anumeracy is the opposite, that is lack of numeracy.. Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it MAKING ELECTRIC CARS "AFFORDABLE" IS WRONG Or, at least, quite misleading. Two big roadblocks keep many drivers from ditching their gas-burning vehicles and switching to electric ones: the lack of home garages and shared spaces to charge batteries, and the cost of buying a new car, electric or otherwise.EMAIL SPIES YOU
Like it or not, email is not going away. You better know how it works. What are spy pixels in Email? Spy pixels are a common marketing tactic used by “many of the largest brands used email pixels, with the exception of the “Big Tech” firms”.Which is obvious, because those firms, especially Google and Facebook, have too many better ways to spy their users to need spy pixel. FREEDOM TO MAP DEPENDS ON WHO DELIVERS IT In India, or anywhere else. Map, or you will be mapped. In 2016, India banned unofficial maps and satellite photos.The official goal of that bill was to regulate both the creation and distribution of geospatial information in India “which is likely to affect GOOGLE'S NEW IDEA IS A SELF-CHECKOUT STORE Hey Google, let me do even more of YOUR work for free. A FLoC of web users, er, I mean a flock of sheeps (Image source: Wikipedia) There are flocks, and there are FLoCs. HISTORY RHYMES. FIRST PHYSICALLY, THEN DIGITALLY Even with privatization. Mark Twain famously said (maybe! that “History never repeats itself but it rhymes”.A long, interesting essay titled “The silenced majority”, on the critical situation of Western democracy in general, contains a great, quite relevant today example of this principle, that is.So, please read the excerpt below (edited and rearranged for clarity), because it is THE "SNOB RSS" HALL OF (CONSTRUCTIVE!) SHAME WHY do even tech-savvy folks snob RSS? WHY??? Welcome to the friendly Hall of Shame for websites that HAVE RSS but hide it. It is half hilarious, half depressing, how many officially tech-savvy organisations advertise on their websites every possible way to follow them as long as it is a non-portable, non-future-proof, intrusive walled garden. I am talking of those websites that neverStop at Zona-M
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WELCOME TO THE STOP! I am Marco Fioretti, independent author, researcher, consultant and a few other things . I study, and try to explain, how your own civil rights and the quality of ALL areas of your life heavily depend on how software and digital technologies are used AROUND you. My talks, publications, ebooks, course offering and other projects are on my main website . The Stop, instead, is my main blog. I started it around 2007, in order to (as its logo tries to convey) give
EVERYBODY a place where they can stop to refill their brains with things that matter, offered in DELIBERATELY short posts, with the simplest possible language. When I started, I divided the Stop in four, partly independent sections (1): Digital World, Active Citizens
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Today, those sections still exist, but over time they have almost merged into each other. The reason is that yes, our age is dominated by digital technologies: but if you want to make the world a better place, you REALLY need to “see the pattern that emerges when one views all the sciences at once” (2). This is both terribly important, and much simpler to do than it seems, if you just get the right information. Sharing that information, WITHOUT PAYWALLS OR ABUSIVE TRACKING, is the purpose of the Stop. And because it is URGENT to share it, in the summer of 2019 I self-committed to publish an average of SIX POSTS PER WEEK, ALMOST EVERY WEEK. Of course… PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP THE STOP RUNNING! Browsing oceans of information, spotting what really matters and then presenting it here almost every day, in the simplest possible form, TAKES A LOT (REALLY A LOT) OF TIME AND EFFORT. Please support it byany combination of:
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