Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
The Ministry of Truth — sounds like something out of the Bible. Except it isn’t. (Is it?)
Maybe it’s out of the Global Community in the Left Behind Series. Or maybe it’s out of 1984 and that Orwell guy. Or maybe I just made it up (though I don’t think so). Whatever the case, I thought of the Ministry of Truth (aka, the Department of Truth) today.
Check this out from White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki today: Read it all
Today Alphabet/Google gently broke the tether that bound many a soul to its wanna-be-better-than-Facebook social media platform: Google Plus. Read it all
The current issue of World magazine arrived in our mail today. I looked at the photos on the table of contents page, matching them up to their articles. Then I looked at the two-page spread with photos and quotes and stuff. Then I looked at the two articles in the back.
The last article didn’t interest me enough to read it. (Sorry, Marvin!)
But the next-to-the-last article (yes, I’m a Seu fan, I confess), I read. Until I got to this line: Read it all
“They” may still deem you guilty of social pollution.
I was going to warn you the morning of August 26 when I first read this. I hope I’m not too late to save your bacon.
(To whom it may concern: I mean no harm with bacon nor with speaking of yours.)
The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter.The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online.
The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.” Read it all
Have you ever watched families at a fast food joint? Some folks from Boston Medical Center got curious about such social events. We’ve got a problem, Houson.
Before illuminating the problem, though, I offer you an attainable solution:
Parents, put down your electronics and take up your own flesh and blood! Disconnect from you mobile devices and connect with your children.
That’s my short response to this unscientific-but-telling study: Read it all
So Google+ is playing catch-up with Facebook again.
Now it’s by allowing people who don’t have your email address send you an email if they have your Google+ address or profile or whatever it’s called.
Quoting from an email from Google early this morning…
Gmail update: Reach more people you know
Ever wanted to email someone you know, but haven’t yet exchanged email addresses? Starting this week, when you’re composing a new email, Gmail will suggest your Google+ connections as recipients, even if you haven’t exchanged email addresses yet.
That seems useful enough. Even innocuous.
But what about people not in your Google+ circles. Can you send them an email too? And much more importantly, can they send you an email?
Of course! Read it all
Before my list, some questions:
Do you still want to see my list of 11 things most people don’t know about me? Read it all