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🔗 📼 The Beatles were a Rutles cover band https://youtu.be/6HxNGyE3zng?si=vswnGjiqz_Ye9FRi

🔗 Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

"what does Unity, the 3D engine, have to do with the in-app advertisement or location tracking?"

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"Turns out that Unity’s main revenue stream (they made $2 bln+ in 2023) is Unity Ads - “Mobile Game Ad Network”. Sounds quite interesting."

Too technical for this bear to fully understand - BUT I got enough to let out a very loud expletive.

(via John Wunderlich over on LinkedIN) https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/

🚧 Prisons and Bitcoin https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/prisons-and-bitcoin.html

A Preemptive Apology To a Cashier In A Local Store https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/04/a-preemptive-apology-to-a.html

Hello Tapestry.

"The prognosis isn’t good. But we should get our shit together asap because it’s our only hope.

PS: Blaming other people is easy and powerless. Accepting your own responsibility and doing something to change it is powerful."

💬 Dave Winer

💬 Kim got it before we knew we needed it.

🕵💬 Inspired By People

The Full Collection : Visual Scroll | 🔍 List Of Posts https://john.philpin.com/inspired-by-people https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People

📸 I thought the sign was quite clever .. until I got close up and personal. The building needs more than ‘a little love’. How cool would it be if it rocked and had that sign.

🔗 The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

The names to remember ..

"Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran." https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-government-young-engineers/

"“Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that he’s pulling the plug on his province’s $100 million deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink, announcing that “Ontario won’t do business with people hellbent on destroying our economy.”"

💬 Various News Outlets

I post on my blog which syndicates to

BlueSky

Mastodon and

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Threads- running a distant third because if you scroll though that timeline you woukd assume that everything in the world is rainbows and butterflies.

If you are reading this on Threads please go find some news and report back.

Who’s keeping track of all the court cases against the people responsible for this shit?

I mean - there are court cases?

Aren’t there?

I used to be an avid Spotless listener.

( I subscribe to a LOT of podcasts but LISTEN based on guest or topic).

Since their acquisition - I have maybe listened to 2?

It has to be the guests coming through.

Maybe they used to use their rolodex - and now it’s some ‘runner’ in charge?

DEI? 🔗📼 Try This. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR8AwuQ7Cw

Amazon, Meta, Uber, Lyft and Netflix all green in the sea of red.

Don’t judge. No alternative for the morning fix.

Got me to wondering …

short of ink?

today’s challenge abbreviate all names?

just ‘the usual’?

they know more about me than I thought?

WaPo … the Mexican side is very specific. The US side is wishy washy. Maybe Claudia should have insisted Trump did the same or at least something measurably specific to actually stop weapon trafficking.

🔗 John Brayton too

.. he includes a script. https://micro.virtualsanity.com/2025/02/03/calling-representatives.html