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About a decade ago when times were simpler and easier, I used to be a total Apple fanboi and since the world wasn’t going to shit the way it is now, I could indulge in obsessing over Apple gear instead of Cambridge Analytica. As a badly needed diversion, let me offer a pro tip…
If you have a USB-C charger that you got with your MacBook or MacBook Pro and iPhone 8 or X, you should consider getting a USB-C to Lighting cable. I like to be extravagant and get 2m long because we all know that iPhone cables are too damn short.
Your iPhone 8 or X will charge so damn fast on the USB-C to Lightning cable, you won’t believe your eyes. You can watch the battery meter turn from red to yellow to green in what feels like mere minutes. We at least have that in these dark times. Secret fast charging.
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Criminal prosecution of Cambridge Analytica (SCL Elections Ltd) begins in UK tomorrow. It’s a crime to defy an order from the Information Commissioner’s Office. They refuse to disclose a complete US voter file despite a legal order from their regulator. ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Meanwhile in the USA, our closest counterpart is the FTC and it is shutdown. Its Facebook Cambridge Analytica investigation is delayed. The FTC vs D-Link trial is now also delayed to the summer. #ShutdownStories
For the record, I won’t be attending the trial tomorrow, but I will share news as it comes in. I’m not the plaintiff/complainant here. This is the ICO vs SCL, the UK regulator simply upholding the Data Protection Act of 1998. Not sure if we’ll see Nix or Wheatland cross-examined.
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Brexit movie premiering on UK TV now (HBO in the US later this month). Apparently, it’s a fictionalization first and foremost. #UncivilWar
Imagine casting Robert Mercer
HBO audiences in America would need an understanding of the British campaign finance law scandal that taints Brexit to spot it in this Easter Egg.
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First President to engage in memetic warfare while holding a million federal employees and contractors hostage.
Trolling is Trump doctrine, leveraging Kremlin and DARPA methods.
The GoT wall meme is an intricately layered “in-group” cultural signifier. At the core it’s Trumpists vs everyone else, Us vs Them anti-immigration, those who get Game of Thrones reference vs those who don’t, those who spread meme to endorse it vs those who spread meme in dissent
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