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August 2007. First advertisement for the iPhone. #wiredarchive
One thing I've been pondering recently: the early marketing campaign for the iPhone -- tv ads in particular -- did something that I *still* haven't seen for VR (the supposed next revolution in digital technology)
One of the early tv ads showed how you could use an iPhone to search for a restaurant, find it on a map, then call it to make a reservation. That was incredible! It was a direct appeal to the ways you could actually use it in your actual life.
Another, for a later iPhone model (debuting FaceTime), showed a man using the camera to introduce his parents to their newborn grandchild.

Videophones had a 20+ year history of being a complete waste. No one ever bought or used the damn things. FaceTime turned that on its head.
For wearables, both Google Glass, Apple Watch, etc, I've never seen marketing campaigns like those. There's never been a clear story about how these objects-from-the-future can be integrated into the present. Same story with VR. What is VR actually *for?*
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Here’s my real fear:

I’m afraid the November election will be hacked, directly, through the voting machines/databases.

Im afraid it won’t be terribly subtle.

I’m afraid the outrage will be confined to the usual suspects, and that will functionally be how US democracy ends.
I don’t think that’s *likely*. But I don’t think it’s unfathomable.

Four years ago, I would have thought it unfathomable.

And, reading Kim Zetter’s NYT piece on election security, it sure seems like we’ve failed to take the basic steps to prevent it.
nytimes.com/2018/09/26/mag…
Let’s say there’s strong reason to suspect vote totals were changed.

Let’s say there’s then a detailed investigation from a panel of expert evaluators.

Let’s say they conclude with near certainty that there was vote tampering.

What then?
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I keep going back to how differently this all plays out if Kavanaugh has the humility to initially say "I drank a lot in HS. I have no memory of the events that Dr Ford describes, and do not believe they occurred. But I apologize for my youthful behavior if it caused her harm."
That would have let his allies spend the past two weeks talking about his sterling character and achievements as an adult.

It would have turned this into a debate about whether the mistakes of (rich, white, male) youth should be disqualifying in adulthood. (...)
(...) which is the debate Republicans DESPERATELY would have preferred.

But instead he lied, brazenly and repeatedly, in full display for the Senate and the entire world. All because he was shocked and offended that he might be held to account for his teenage behavior.
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if there was even one Republican in the Senate who cared about institutional legitimacy, Kavanaugh's nomination would be withdrawn.

*Half of the country* is convinced by Dr. Ford's testimony that he got blackout drunk, assaulted her, and LIED ABOUT IT to get on the court. (1/x)
He cannot be a fair and impartial judge. He declared that with his opening statement.

If there were still Republican Senators who cared about the image of the Court as fair and impartial, his nomination would be withdrawn. (2/x)
It isn't JUST that the Republican party doesn't give a damn about sexual assault. (They don't. And Trump confirms that daily.)

The Republican party also doesn't give a damn about maintaining even a shred of legitimacy for the government. (3/x)
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As promised, I'm going to share some of the hypotheses we considered. It would be challenging to capture all of the many hypotheses discussed, to include a U.S. government threat emulation, which was quickly ruled out due to the illegal compromise of third parties. Here we go.
H1. APT29 conducted the phishing campaign. They intentionally used the same virtual machine or builder to create the weaponized LNK as they did in 2016 with the intent of causing doubt and dissent within the security community. 1/X
The nation-state suspected to be associated with APT29 has a long history of leveraging deception, which at times includes revealing actual truth in such a way as to cause doubt amongst analysts. 2/X
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As I stated in the previous thread, I’m writing these stories because people ask me how I was able to go from a N15,000 month intern at SOU to earning millions from ad campaigns.
I could say hard work, perseverance, patience, diligence, creativity etc which would all be true. But comm’n you already know all that. I had an extra sauce of faith and I learned it from Adefarasin & Oyedepo. Since you know the foundation I want tell you about the extra sauce.
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Let’s talk about the new #russianbot/#russianshill/#russiantroll/#altright darling, #walkaway for a bit, shall we, since clearly they’re pushing this as their new marketing campaign.
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Now, it’s…#walkaway

(Christ, that’s a lot! They’re super gullible, enh? Heh)
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