| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| You don't know much about a new technology until you see | 2022-12-30 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608850068215599104 | 1608850068215599104 |
| Your data lives forever - and who knows, it might pop up | 2022-12-30 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1608667651328606208 | 1608667651328606208 |
| If anybody can freely read your website, they can't copy | 2022-12-02 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598526802703486976 | 1598526802703486976 |
| Tim Cook and Jim Jordan - now that's what you call an | 2022-12-02 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598525206725025793 | 1598525206725025793 |
| Who needs Comcast? You and your neighbors can do it | 2022-11-22 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594898928742400001 | 1594898928742400001 |
| Safe if you use it safely! But what adolescent male | 2022-11-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594896928030220288 | 1594896928030220288 |
| The end of tech companies' freedom from government | 2022-11-13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1591807036966244352 | 1591807036966244352 |
| Gaming platforms get serious attention from hackers and | 2022-10-25 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584900331183697920 | 1584900331183697920 |
| Where's your cellphone been lately? Hopefully not near | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565388508310560768 | 1565388508310560768 |
| All your personal data is for sale somewhere. | 2022-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565195172949856256 | 1565195172949856256 |
| Making decisions based on online reviews? | 2022-09-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565193356161851392 | 1565193356161851392 |
| Internet Explorer lives! | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565191939854516224 | 1565191939854516224 |
| Another way to not change the world - kill switches for | 2022-08-29 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564294256918876160 | 1564294256918876160 |
| Only in Silicon Valley! Stanford grads can learn a lot | 2022-08-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1562960633716305920 | 1562960633716305920 |
| How the government finally got on auto warranty | 2022-08-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560619611157958657 | 1560619611157958657 |
| No privacy in the social media era. | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557551897208168448 | 1557551897208168448 |
| Fix the wrong defaults! | 2022-08-01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553939108287823872 | 1553939108287823872 |
| Can anything good come from a crypto enthusiast? | 2022-07-07 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544896070718595072 | 1544896070718595072 |
| Did you imagine that NFT's were immune to crypto diseases? | 2022-06-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538010428231389184 | 1538010428231389184 |
| Musk believes in liberty - for Elon Musk. | 2022-06-18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538003430375010304 | 1538003430375010304 |
| The secret electronic war. | 2022-06-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532728031705411584 | 1532728031705411584 |
| Have you read the million words of your privacy agreements? | 2022-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531851167654768640 | 1531851167654768640 |
| Will fusion energy ever deliver? | 2022-05-31 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531688094721667072 | 1531688094721667072 |
| Does the internet still need a profit motive? Not in | 2022-05-28 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530378695226974208 | 1530378695226974208 |
| Artificial intelligence is now mostly neural networks. | 2022-05-20 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1527651499316129793 | 1527651499316129793 |
| It's hard to keep a secret if you use the internet. | 2022-05-19 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527340537258266625 | 1527340537258266625 |
| Crypto is just another high-tech stock gamble. | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524947720674299905 | 1524947720674299905 |
| So much for crypto - and meme stocks - and companies built | 2022-05-10 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1524015030617866240 | 1524015030617866240 |
| Does pumped storage have a new lease on life? | 2022-05-09 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1523787486220087296 | 1523787486220087296 |
| VPN's flourish under Putin. | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522572214243004416 | 1522572214243004416 |
| Are you old enough to remember when the first internet | 2022-05-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522375618112868354 | 1522375618112868354 |
| The future market for data about your sex life. | 2022-05-05 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522013995300835329 | 1522013995300835329 |
| Does technology now favor military defense or offense? | 2022-05-04 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521948974399188993 | 1521948974399188993 |
| A concession for privacy - | 2022-05-03 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521488844109012993 | 1521488844109012993 |
| Back to the Wild West in Eastern Europe! | 2022-05-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520810285400944640 | 1520810285400944640 |
| Stolen checks readily available for sale on dark web. | 2022-05-01 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1520638390252695552 | 1520638390252695552 |
| Some people foresaw the devolution of the internet. | 2022-04-22 | 502 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517309333788233730 | 1517309333788233730 |
| Remote control war has victims on both ends. | 2022-04-18 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1516091663231303681 | 1516091663231303681 |
| robocalls - the Feds don't seem to be able to stop them. | 2022-04-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512626973947817985 | 1512626973947817985 |
| The advance of technology for murder and maiming. | 2022-04-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511932692429873153 | 1511932692429873153 |
| Technology is making it harder to conceal some facts. | 2022-04-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1511879594067914755 | 1511879594067914755 |
| Apple and Meta easily tricked by hackers. | 2022-04-01 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509878113966067713 | 1509878113966067713 |
| How to make a ton of money with crypto! | 2022-03-30 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1509008004397510660 | 1509008004397510660 |
| Apple considers turning hardware sales into an annuity. | 2022-03-25 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1507391496307183620 | 1507391496307183620 |
| Hypersonic missiles - another arms race. | 2022-03-22 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506104644287668227 | 1506104644287668227 |
| Bitcoin mining is not like coal mining, but there are | 2022-03-19 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1505328525003223043 | 1505328525003223043 |
| Rewriting the economics of warfare - mass attacks of cheap | 2022-03-17 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504527821196062749 | 1504527821196062749 |
| It's harder to add internet censorship, as Putin is doing, | 2022-03-14 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1503250883739496448 | 1503250883739496448 |
| Russia to follow China in creating a private internet? | 2022-03-08 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1501013104712294401 | 1501013104712294401 |
| Zelle is not protected like a credit card - beware! | 2022-03-07 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500828365955026945 | 1500828365955026945 |
| "several Republican members of Congress objected to | 2022-03-06 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500380957777412096 | 1500380957777412096 |
| Shortwave's time has come - again. | 2022-03-04 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499600090666717185 | 1499600090666717185 |
| Can huge chips ever be trusted to run correctly in all | 2022-03-04 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499535733047971849 | 1499535733047971849 |
| Crypto-divorce | 2022-03-04 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499535135850385429 | 1499535135850385429 |
| Cyber guerilla warfare! What rules apply to combatants - | 2022-03-01 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1498496947077861379 | 1498496947077861379 |
| World War Wired - a new era? | 2022-02-26 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1497591703053627395 | 1497591703053627395 |
| Some people don't think US will suffer major cyber and | 2022-02-26 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1497384373686915074 | 1497384373686915074 |
| Location sharing - something else to worry about. | 2022-02-26 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1497383489141821443 | 1497383489141821443 |
| Crypto was designed to help criminals like Putin! | 2022-02-25 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1497223885850247169 | 1497223885850247169 |
| Ever want to be a beta tester? Just buy a Tesla! | 2022-02-18 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1494492834325352451 | 1494492834325352451 |
| Forget the kids! Who gets the passwords? | 2022-02-17 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494334127411130375 | 1494334127411130375 |
| 49ers hit by ransomware attack. | 2022-02-17 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494146600020578309 | 1494146600020578309 |
| The sixth column - cyber warfare. | 2022-02-16 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1493805246501457920 | 1493805246501457920 |
| Automotive and consumer electronics time scales don't | 2022-02-09 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491554040081125376 | 1491554040081125376 |
| The US has the most aircraft carriers. Its opponents | 2022-02-07 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490483398392958978 | 1490483398392958978 |
| Dementia vs privacy. | 2022-02-06 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490469502097649671 | 1490469502097649671 |
| Internet vigilante. | 2022-02-06 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490440966557241344 | 1490440966557241344 |
| This might help in the long run. | 2022-02-04 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489747889915977729 | 1489747889915977729 |
| Chinese espionage continues. | 2022-02-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489746772247277571 | 1489746772247277571 |
| It could have been worse. | 2022-02-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489741417492598784 | 1489741417492598784 |
| Anybody who works so hard to keep in the public eye - | 2022-02-04 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1489737012605173760 | 1489737012605173760 |
| Technology to support sanction evasion. | 2022-02-03 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489122641763975170 | 1489122641763975170 |
| Tesla programmed California stops into its vehicles. | 2022-02-03 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489115337157005316 | 1489115337157005316 |
| Maybe the Metaverse is not really the next big thing for | 2022-02-03 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489099725823361026 | 1489099725823361026 |
| Cyberweapons - the new nukes for merchants of death. | 2022-01-30 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1487866214894366721 | 1487866214894366721 |
| Arthur Rock, founder of Silicon Valley. | 2022-01-27 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1486782400445042692 | 1486782400445042692 |
| Metaverse risks? | 2022-01-21 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484652728819216385 | 1484652728819216385 |
| Not the best day for Elon Musk. | 2022-01-20 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1484016499392090117 | 1484016499392090117 |
| Don't get too comfortable - have you thought about | 2022-01-13 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1481471899485945861 | 1481471899485945861 |
| The essence of Silicon Valley - learn from your mistakes | 2022-01-12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1481408349191094277 | 1481408349191094277 |
| Crypto - the next big thing? | 2022-01-11 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1480733631035314176 | 1480733631035314176 |
| "Bid to win" take a hit? Not likely. All these | 2022-01-04 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1478358976006070277 | 1478358976006070277 |
| The dirty side of green. | 2022-01-03 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477821424223940608 | 1477821424223940608 |
| How many AirTags do you have - that you don't know about? | 2022-01-03 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1477812605301391362 | 1477812605301391362 |
| GPS driving is like just-in-time logistics. Optimized | 2022-01-01 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477289880187138051 | 1477289880187138051 |
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========== You don't know much about a new technology until you see how criminal minds learn to exploit it! https://buffalonews.com/new-chatbots-could-change-the-world-can-you-trust-them/article_43ec7af2-a582-58bd-9d15-3c80f2f0f2be.html #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-30 15:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608850068215599104 ========== Your data lives forever - and who knows, it might pop up on eBay! https://www.boston.com/news/technology/2022/12/27/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans/ #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-30 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1608667651328606208 ========== If anybody can freely read your website, they can't copy it, but do you have any rights over conclusions they draw? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/copilot-microsoft-ai-lawsuit.html Most machine learning looks at vast amounts of data to extract useful patterns. Like human learning, except for scale. #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-02 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598526802703486976 ========== Tim Cook and Jim Jordan - now that's what you call an unpleasant interview. https://macdailynews.com/2022/11/30/apple-ceo-tim-cook-goes-to-washington-d-c-to-meet-with-top-republican-lawmakers/ A friend of the devil is a friend of Jordan! And Musk, and Trump. #PS1technology ===== impress 6 time 2022-12-02 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598525206725025793 ========== Who needs Comcast? You and your neighbors can do it yourselves - if they can afford it - and if there's a nearby "local school with a spare fiber optic internet connection" https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/he-rallied-41-neighbors-to-build-lightning-fast-fiber-optic-community/ #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2022-11-22 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594898928742400001 ========== Safe if you use it safely! But what adolescent male wants to use things safely? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/federal-regulator-issues-warning-for-santa-cruz-based-onewheel/ #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-22 03:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594896928030220288 ========== The end of tech companies' freedom from government regulation? https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/10/twitter-security-resignations/ https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-business-d866be4d1b3b9b88a6e774543a2b6a14 If they can't or won't regulate themselves... #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-13 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1591807036966244352 ========== Gaming platforms get serious attention from hackers and scammers. https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/13/gaming-is-booming-thats-catnip-for-cybercriminals/ #PS1technology ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-25 13:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584900331183697920 ========== Where's your cellphone been lately? Hopefully not near any crime scenes. https://apnews.com/article/technology-police-government-surveillance-d395409ef5a8c6c3f6cdab5b1d0e27ef #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 17:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565388508310560768 ========== All your personal data is for sale somewhere. To anybody! https://apnews.com/article/technology-health-idaho-federal-trade-commission-government-and-politics-a9aabfc0d25828bc4951c736aaab617a #PS1technology ===== impress 2 time 2022-09-01 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565195172949856256 ========== Making decisions based on online reviews? https://apnews.com/article/technology-lawsuits-amazoncom-inc-03329beafb3b1eba170a13c99ee0d318 #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-01 04:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565193356161851392 ========== Internet Explorer lives! https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1189034/even-in-death-internet-explorer-lives-on-in-south-korea/ People will put up with all sorts of inconviences to avoid the greater burden of re-architecting and re-implementing their applications. #PS1technology ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565191939854516224 ========== Another way to not change the world - kill switches for servers. https://apnews.com/article/workers-rights-government-and-politics-8390362e0fed372432f95805f94ac994 #PS1technology ===== impress 8 time 2022-08-29 16:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564294256918876160 ========== Only in Silicon Valley! Stanford grads can learn a lot about fonts - https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.html Maybe more than is good for them! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/25/redwood-city-e-commerce-firm-run-by-family-of-stanford-grads-accused-of-making-fortune-off-stolen-fonts/ #PS1technology ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-26 00:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1562960633716305920 ========== How the government finally got on auto warranty robocallers. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/tech/auto-warranty-robocalls-case/index.html Let's hope it's a trend. #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-19 13:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560619611157958657 ========== No privacy in the social media era. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-technology-health-c62b071aae11783fe0aeed99bbf8fffc Everything you do online is for sale somewhere! #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 02:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557551897208168448 ========== Fix the wrong defaults! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/technology/personaltech/default-settings-turn-off.html #PS1technology ===== impress 1 time 2022-08-01 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553939108287823872 ========== Can anything good come from a crypto enthusiast? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/02/ukraine-crypto-brittany-kaiser-cambridge-analytica/ #PS1technology ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-07 04:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544896070718595072 ========== Did you imagine that NFT's were immune to crypto diseases? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/nft-opensea-theft-fraud.html SOME people get rich. That's the main thing. Everybody else - caveat emptor. #PS1technology ===== impress 35 time 2022-06-18 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538010428231389184 ========== Musk believes in liberty - for Elon Musk. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-spacex-technology-science-1a64e388206cfb2cd209dedb2bcdbfc0 Everybody else can toe the line. #PS1technology ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-18 03:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538003430375010304 ========== The secret electronic war. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-technology-90d760f01105b9aaf1886427dbfba917 All those "smart" weapons rely on wireless communications. #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-06-03 14:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532728031705411584 ========== Have you read the million words of your privacy agreements? Nobody else has either. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/31/abolish-privacy-policies/ #PS1technology ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-01 04:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531851167654768640 ========== Will fusion energy ever deliver? https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2022/05/world/iter-nuclear-fusion-climate-intl-cnnphotos/ #PS1technology ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-31 17:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531688094721667072 ========== Does the internet still need a profit motive? Not in China or North Korea. Will a local cooperative structure preserve the good and inhibit the bad? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/technology/what-would-an-egalitarian-internet-actually-look-like.html #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2022-05-28 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530378695226974208 ========== Artificial intelligence is now mostly neural networks. There is now a theory about the fundamental limits of the technology - while sometimes good approximations of reality might exist, they might not be computable. https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/proving-existence-is-not-enough-mathematical-paradoxes-unravel-the-limits-of-neural-networks-in-artificial-intelligence #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 likes 1 time 2022-05-20 14:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527651499316129793 ========== It's hard to keep a secret if you use the internet. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/19/opinion-i-hid-my-pregnancy-from-the-internet-online-pregnancy-is-nearly-impossible/ Nothing is free on the internet; you're paying for it with your personal data. #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2022-05-19 17:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527340537258266625 ========== Crypto is just another high-tech stock gamble. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/technology/bitcoin-price-crashing-stocks.html #PS1technology ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 03:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524947720674299905 ========== So much for crypto - and meme stocks - and companies built on them. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/10/bitcoin-plummet-continues-now-at-half-its-november-high/ Crypto is sensitive to Fed quantitative tightening - not independent of government actions after all. #PS1technology ===== impress 41 time 2022-05-10 13:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1524015030617866240 ========== Does pumped storage have a new lease on life? https://apnews.com/article/technology-science-business-michigan-lake-f977350c21788d2dcd62f7cef5b7c280 It depends on the relative economics vs battery storage. All energy generation methods have downsides. #PS1technology ===== impress 25 time 2022-05-09 22:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523787486220087296 ========== VPN's flourish under Putin. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/06/russia-vpn-putin-censorship-disinformation/ But paying for them is tricky. #PS1technology ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522572214243004416 ========== Are you old enough to remember when the first internet bubble popped in 2000? No worries, you can watch it happen again! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/crypto-nfts-web3.html Ultimately, you have to create value for SOMEbody. Even if it turns out to be the wrong SOMEbody. #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-06 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522375618112868354 ========== The future market for data about your sex life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/04/abortion-digital-privacy/ If the data is there, somebody will monetize it. And somebody else will criminalize it. #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-05 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522013995300835329 ========== Does technology now favor military defense or offense? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/04/russia-ukraine-aggression-in-age-defensive-dominance/ It seems to favor the side that can operate dispersed inexpensive light mobile arms in great numbers, and against the side that requires fixed expensive heavy arms. #PS1technology ===== impress 17 time 2022-05-04 20:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521948974399188993 ========== A concession for privacy - https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/03/google-you-can-now-ask-to-have-your-address-phone-number-removed-from-search-results/ Next question - what devious abuses of this service can criminals devise? #PS1technology ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-03 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521488844109012993 ========== Back to the Wild West in Eastern Europe! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/01/russia-cyber-attacks-hacking/ #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2022-05-01 17:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520810285400944640 ========== Stolen checks readily available for sale on dark web. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/01/chevy-chase-mailbox-stolen-checks/ Police seem to be helpless. So don't mail checks except inside a post office. #PS1technology ===== impress 39 time 2022-05-01 05:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1520638390252695552 ========== Some people foresaw the devolution of the internet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/12/philip-agre-ai-disappeared/ #PS1technology ===== impress 502 time 2022-04-22 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517309333788233730 ========== Remote control war has victims on both ends. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2022-04-18 16:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1516091663231303681 ========== robocalls - the Feds don't seem to be able to stop them. https://www.connectsafely.org/despite-laws-and-fcc-rules-robocalls-remain-a-problem/ Many are offshore. #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2022-04-09 03:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512626973947817985 ========== The advance of technology for murder and maiming. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/russia-ukraine-land-mines.html #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2022-04-07 05:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511932692429873153 ========== Technology is making it harder to conceal some facts. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/europe/ukraine-russia-war-technology-intl-cmd/index.html But Putin will deny and lie just as he always does. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-07 01:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1511879594067914755 ========== Apple and Meta easily tricked by hackers. https://news.yahoo.com/hackers-pretending-cops-tricked-apple-210201429.html #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2022-04-01 12:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509878113966067713 ========== How to make a ton of money with crypto! https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/hackers-just-stole-more-than-a-half-billion-dollars-from-axie-infinitys-ronin-network-in-what-could-be-the-biggest-crypto-heist-of-all-time/ar-AAVDuNY #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2022-03-30 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1509008004397510660 ========== Apple considers turning hardware sales into an annuity. That's worked for software and services of many kinds. The predictable long-term revenue stream supports higher stock prices. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/apple-is-reportedly-working-on-an-iphone-hardware-subscription-service/ar-AAVsoCm #PS1technology ===== impress 29 time 2022-03-25 16:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1507391496307183620 ========== Hypersonic missiles - another arms race. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-technology-business-maine-us-navy-9f344a7a73f5767de3520fe7bc53fc6d They might make giant aircraft carriers obsolete, just as carriers made battleships obsolete. The future paradigm seems to be swarms of cheap things to swamp defenses. #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2022-03-22 03:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506104644287668227 ========== Bitcoin mining is not like coal mining, but there are similarities in outcomes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/18/bitcoin-mining-noise-pollution-appalachia/ #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2022-03-19 23:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1505328525003223043 ========== Rewriting the economics of warfare - mass attacks of cheap weapons is an economical strategy. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-africa-libya-europe-ecb9e820ea4bddb4464d7e8cb40e82fc This works for both sides, but it's good for defense when you know where the targets are, and for offense when you don't care who you blow up. #PS1technology ===== impress 38 time 2022-03-17 18:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504527821196062749 ========== It's harder to add internet censorship, as Putin is doing, than to build it in from the beginning, as China did. https://apnews.com/article/russia-internet-censorship-efforts-reveal-shortcomings-c2156ead73e1c33cb9357fb954f958f8 #PS1technology ===== impress 76 time 2022-03-14 06:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1503250883739496448 ========== Russia to follow China in creating a private internet? Or worse, North Korea? https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/tech/russia-internet-facebook-block-iron-curtain/index.html Technically inclined Russians will recognize that these moves indicate a government desperate to suppress the truth. #PS1technology ===== impress 42 time 2022-03-08 01:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501013104712294401 ========== Zelle is not protected like a credit card - beware! https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/06/fraud-is-flourishing-on-zelle-the-banks-say-its-not-their-problem-2/ #PS1technology ===== impress 20 time 2022-03-07 13:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500828365955026945 ========== "several Republican members of Congress objected to stricter requirements for notification of breaches" Decentralized defense doesn't work for cyberwar any more than other war. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/opinion/ive-dealt-with-foreign-cyberattacks-america-isnt-ready-for-whats-coming.html #PS1technology ===== impress 39 time 2022-03-06 08:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500380957777412096 ========== Shortwave's time has come - again. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/business/media/bbc-shortwave-radio-ukraine.html All those resisters in WWII movies were listening to their shortwave radios. #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2022-03-04 04:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499600090666717185 ========== Can huge chips ever be trusted to run correctly in all environments over long lifetimes? https://bdnews24.com/technology/2022/02/09/tiny-chips-big-headaches #PS1technology ===== impress 16 time 2022-03-04 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499535733047971849 ========== Crypto-divorce https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/crypto/divorcing-couples-fight-over-the-kids-the-house-and-now-the-crypto-7772506/ #PS1technology ===== impress 15 time 2022-03-04 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499535135850385429 ========== Cyber guerilla warfare! What rules apply to combatants - and prisoners? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-technology-europe-hacking-a61c1c631fd4fc945d02066e03fec534 Are the Russian afraid of US, or more likely, Ukrainian counter-measures? #PS1technology ===== impress 71 time 2022-03-01 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1498496947077861379 ========== World War Wired - a new era? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html Putin used internet DISinformation brilliantly to help elect Trump and sow discord in America and the west. But can internet INformation hinder Putin's plans? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1609471596064020 #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% impress 39 likes 1 time 2022-02-26 15:17 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497591703053627395 ========== Some people don't think US will suffer major cyber and disinformation attacks. But Putin probably thinks his cyber is more effective than ours - and definitely his disinformation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/u-s-firms-brace-for-potential-cyberattacks-as-russia-warns-of-consequences #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 likes 1 time 2022-02-26 01:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497384373686915074 ========== Location sharing - something else to worry about. https://hostagenews.com/larry-magid-real-time-location-sharing-can-enhance-jeopardize-safety/ #PS1technology ===== impress 23 time 2022-02-26 01:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497383489141821443 ========== Crypto was designed to help criminals like Putin! He's counting on it to evade sanctions. https://www.australiannationalreview.com/cryptocurrency/russia-could-use-cryptocurrency-to-blunt-the-force-of-u-s-sanctions/ #PS1technology ===== impress 22 time 2022-02-25 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1497223885850247169 ========== Ever want to be a beta tester? Just buy a Tesla! https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-lifestyle-13dcbfd79de79cb1f4358c3f716e64a A typical Silicon Valley computer firm might have one vice president of quality and 40 vice presidents of time to market. For less excitement, buy cars designed in Detroit or Japan. #PS1technology ===== engage 2 engage-rate 10% impress 21 time 2022-02-18 02:03 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494492834325352451 ========== Forget the kids! Who gets the passwords? https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-philanthropy-0237c5054c9e020c6929700ddd0caa48 #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2022-02-17 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494334127411130375 ========== 49ers hit by ransomware attack. https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-49ers-nfl-sports-technology-europe-370239b9281caea114b3162be54b028e #PS1technology ===== impress 61 time 2022-02-17 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494146600020578309 ========== The sixth column - cyber warfare. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/15/russia-ukraine-cyber-attacks/ #PS1technology ===== impress 43 time 2022-02-16 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1493805246501457920 ========== Automotive and consumer electronics time scales don't match up at all. And big tech companies have little interest in architecting upward compatibility of cars and devices, especially the ones thinking of making their own cars. https://indianexpress.com/article/world/car-software-lawsuits-7763887/ #PS1technology ===== impress 47 time 2022-02-09 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491554040081125376 ========== The US has the most aircraft carriers. Its opponents have the most hypersonic missiles. Who wins the next war? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/03/america-led-hypersonic-technology-then-other-countries-sped-past/ #PS1technology ===== impress 21 time 2022-02-07 00:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490483398392958978 ========== Dementia vs privacy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/03/national/social-issues/dementia-elderly-digital-surveillance/ The demented live in an extremely private world - that often collides with the public world. #PS1technology ===== impress 54 time 2022-02-06 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490469502097649671 ========== Internet vigilante. https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-hacker-internet-outage/ Probably a bad precedent that will inspire other vigilantes globally. #PS1technology ===== impress 51 time 2022-02-06 21:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490440966557241344 ========== This might help in the long run. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-united-states-congress-a6c2366885d82cca4089d3cc09b3acb0 In the short run, chip shortages will keep prices of new and used cars climbing. Especially if China attacks Taiwan. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 44 time 2022-02-04 23:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489747889915977729 ========== Chinese espionage continues. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-hacking-news-corp-400eb96ef1aff4167df6d65c1da93ffe #PS1technology ===== impress 24 time 2022-02-04 23:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489746772247277571 ========== It could have been worse. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/business/stock-market-today.html Apple stock dropped by more than 26% in one day in 1983. And took a while to recover. #PS1technology ===== impress 24 time 2022-02-04 23:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489741417492598784 ========== Anybody who works so hard to keep in the public eye - should not be surprised when the public keeps an eye on him. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/03/technology/elon-musk-jet-tracking.html That's why most billionaires try to maintain as low a profile as possible. #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 time 2022-02-04 23:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489737012605173760 ========== Technology to support sanction evasion. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-middle-east-iran-shipping-44d5cdc52e589c44a7bb0fc5be59d156 #PS1technology ===== impress 33 time 2022-02-03 06:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489122641763975170 ========== Tesla programmed California stops into its vehicles. https://apnews.com/article/tesla-recall-full-self-driving-software-e23d252ac5164cb0e7af776625b15180 It's how you'd expect Musk to drive. #PS1technology ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-03 05:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489115337157005316 ========== Maybe the Metaverse is not really the next big thing for most people. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-earnings-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-d01a0a4c12dc24fa2150a1a3ea2ac836 #PS1technology ===== impress 32 time 2022-02-03 04:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489099725823361026 ========== Cyberweapons - the new nukes for merchants of death. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/magazine/nso-group-israel-spyware.html The bad guys always get the technology sooner or later, and their uses are more creative. #PS1technology ===== impress 31 time 2022-01-30 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1487866214894366721 ========== Arthur Rock, founder of Silicon Valley. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/silicon-valley-invention-venture-capital-sebastian-mallaby-book/ A fateful coincidence - Shockley recruited a brilliant team and then drove them away. They stumbled on Rock. None of this was pre-ordained, which is why Silicon Valley is so hard to duplicate. #PS1technology ===== impress 44 time 2022-01-27 19:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1486782400445042692 ========== Metaverse risks? https://www.connectsafely.org/metaverse-what-it-is-and-what-are-its-risks/ As with any new technology, you don't really understand it until you've seen how it can be exploited toward evil ends. #PS1technology ===== impress 54 time 2022-01-21 22:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484652728819216385 ========== Not the best day for Elon Musk. Autopilot felony crash - https://apnews.com/article/tesla-autopilot-fatal-crash-charges-91b4a0341e07244f3f03051b5c2462ae SolarCity bailout - https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/musk-engineered-solarcity-purchase-as-bailout-investors-argue #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 26 likes 1 time 2022-01-20 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484016499392090117 ========== Don't get too comfortable - have you thought about what cyberwarfare and space warfare mean to your highly technological life? https://apnews.com/article/climate-technology-health-business-environment-and-nature-b2e44f9612a4bffc52a41b94dda2d6a0 You do remember how to use map and compass, don't you? #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 time 2022-01-13 03:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481471899485945861 ========== The essence of Silicon Valley - learn from your mistakes and try again. EVEN BETTER - learn from other people's mistakes and do better. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/01/11/opinion-silicon-valley-culture-isnt-to-blame-for-holmes-crimes/ Other people's mistakes as well as other people's money. #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-12 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1481408349191094277 ========== Crypto - the next big thing? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/20/technology/silicon-valley-cryptocurrency-start-ups.html But be cautious if you don't remember the collapse of the internet bubble in 2000. Currencies and NFTs look like tulip bulbs. There might be important blockchain applications ahead, but not yet. #PS1technology ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-11 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1480733631035314176 ========== "Bid to win" take a hit? Not likely. All these supersalespeople think they are smarter than the ones that failed and got caught. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-health-apple-inc-netflix-inc-bf6be8f233d53d908d508d3feb14fc2e More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1573646932979820 #PS1technology ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-04 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1478358976006070277 ========== The dirty side of green. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/world/asia/tesla-batteries-nickel-new-caledonia.html #PS1technology ===== impress 26 time 2022-01-03 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477821424223940608 ========== How many AirTags do you have - that you don't know about? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/technology/apple-airtags-tracking-stalking.html #PS1technology ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 31 time 2022-01-03 01:22 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477812605301391362 ========== GPS driving is like just-in-time logistics. Optimized for perfect conditions only. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/us/google-maps-waze-sierra-nevada-snow.html Don't drive unfamiliar roads in a blizzard or a flood, no matter what electronics you have. You might get stuck where there's no cell service. #PS1technology ===== impress 56 time 2022-01-01 14:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477289880187138051