What this discussion in the past week has brewing....is mostly about content.
From the 1700s through most of the 1900s....newspapers in America survived because they had content that people wanted to read. Without content, your paper would fold up and dissolve in a short period of time.
The Baltimore Sun....built up a huge legacy in the 1910 to 1930s era, with the help of H. L. Mencken. Mencken could write a 500 word essay piece and grown men would sit and weep over the description and blunt nature of the writing. He made the Sun....into a newspaper that folks in Baltimore, DC, and Arlington would read.
Silent movies took off....because they had content....a basic story.
Radio took off....because they found music, news commentary, and verbal plays to entertain people.
TV networks would take off because of comedy, drama, cowboy westerns, and gameshows.
AM radio took off in the 1980s because they found this one guy....Rush Limbaugh, who could talk about politics for two hours, and people were passionate to hear him speak.
The internet arrived in the 1990s, and found content.
Social media came along around 2010, and found content. Twitter and Facebook survive today....because they have content that draws people.
So here's the landscape....Jack Dorsey (the CEO of Twitter) is the 'gatekeeper' or 'librarian' of this operation. He'll freely admit, without content, his empire dissolves.
The problem here is that this library is 'free'. You walk in....dump your content, and people come to the Dorsey-library to read freely.
Through 2015, Jack and his team were all happy and gleeful. They didn't see a problem. They had content. They had advertising. Members of the team went off to Costa Rica each year to gaze at birds, smoke great weed, and sip very expensive French cognac.
But along about 2015....here came this Trump guy. Trump figured out that he didn't need ABC, or CBS. He didn't need the NY Times or Washington Post. He didn't need NPR or the AP. He just needed Twitter....talking direct to the American people. Funny thing about this.....he could easily write 140-character comment, and hit 'enter' on his own. He didn't need an army to run his talk-policy, or million-dollar-a-week poll people telling what to think or say.
Dorsey had never encountered something like this.
The big IT empire folks who were heavily screwed into the liberal agenda were dismayed. Jack needed to fix this. So they went and got 'editor' people....trying to pretend that they weren't going to screw with content, but that's exactly how they went at this.
People figured out the various games, and started to chat freely about Jack's childish operation. Jack still made money, but the people around him were furious....'you need to do something' was uttered daily to Jack.
This past week, Jack's team decided to finally fact-check Trump. The fact that they'd skipped 40-million bogus stories and lies....from various countries (Iran, China, etc)? Well....that got dumped into Jack's lap.
Jack has a problem.
Was the 'library' ever supposed to edit content? If you have a 'library' doing it....aren't they creating their content, or dissolving you of your 'content'? Can an intellectual even reach a level where facts are absolute?
Yeah, a bunch of questions arise. And Jack is in trouble.
So my two suggestions for Jack.
1. Announce that Twitter is turning the off-button 'ON' around Friday evening and shutting down Twitter for 48 hours....every single week. Let everyone know....from the right to the left, that Twitter is private and will stay that way. Get people used to the idea that Twitter won't work on weekends. It's mostly to make a point.
2. All of this was free. It shouldn't be. Just to gaze at the library, without commentary, you ought to be paying $7.99 a month, and limit customers to just 100 people to follow. Next step up....with commentary added and 500 people to follow, $29. Finally at the premium level.....$49 a month, for all privileges. On this privilege, make it clear....that's absolute open content. If people don't want that last privileage....don't pay the $49 a month, and just get limited service.
As for this Order from Trump fixing the mess? No....I would seriously doubt it. It'll be challenged in court, and take a full year to reach the Supreme Court. I'm sure RBG will be sitting there and asking what the hell Twitter is, and couldn't things just easily work without involving the President.
Thursday, 28 May 2020
My View of the Minneapolis Riots
First....Randy, your mamma called and said she saw you on CNN in some kinda bad disguise, and she thinks that Antifa recruiter has clouded up your head....got you into some serious weed, and you need to come home right away. She'll leave the porch-light on, awaiting your arrival (with fresh pecan pie). She don't want to hear anymore Antifa chatter in the house. She uttered the term 'evil demons' and 'work of the devil' several times.
So, now onto the important business.
Once you burned down your neighborhood, or you allowed Antifa to do it for you.....what's it going to look like in five years? Like Baltimore or Detroit? And is that really what you desire? Half of these business-fronts will look over the insurance money and wise-up....leaving the city.
Next....are you doing much to help the case on the four dimwit police? No. Let the prosecutor line up the case. This shouldn't take more than 90 days to haul them into court, and run a simple seven-day trial. All seven will end up in prison, and then you can get your thugs to go after them there.
Onto the news cameras? Got the juicy stuff? So, if I were a viewer, and looked up the leadership of the state and city....what do I see? Democrat governor, democrat mayor, democrat city council, and a police chief approved to be hired by the mayor and council. If you think a leadership change needs to occur....how will this work? And getting 'orangeman' into this lineup? Does he run the state authority?
Also, to note.....some flags made in China....are flame-retardant. For college graduates, that means it don't burn....even if you soak it in diesel or gas. So go and buy onto cotton flags (usually made in Mexico) if you got some burn-the-flag act for the TV cameras scheduled. You look silly spending 5 minutes trying to burn a retardant flag.
Finally, to the topic of correcting injustice and poor cops. If the police system isn't working....it's your city leadership that needs to be punished and fired. But if you aren't smart enough to see that.....then why bother even playing the game? Just start a civil conflict in the city, and see how far that goes.
So, now onto the important business.
Once you burned down your neighborhood, or you allowed Antifa to do it for you.....what's it going to look like in five years? Like Baltimore or Detroit? And is that really what you desire? Half of these business-fronts will look over the insurance money and wise-up....leaving the city.
Next....are you doing much to help the case on the four dimwit police? No. Let the prosecutor line up the case. This shouldn't take more than 90 days to haul them into court, and run a simple seven-day trial. All seven will end up in prison, and then you can get your thugs to go after them there.
Onto the news cameras? Got the juicy stuff? So, if I were a viewer, and looked up the leadership of the state and city....what do I see? Democrat governor, democrat mayor, democrat city council, and a police chief approved to be hired by the mayor and council. If you think a leadership change needs to occur....how will this work? And getting 'orangeman' into this lineup? Does he run the state authority?
Also, to note.....some flags made in China....are flame-retardant. For college graduates, that means it don't burn....even if you soak it in diesel or gas. So go and buy onto cotton flags (usually made in Mexico) if you got some burn-the-flag act for the TV cameras scheduled. You look silly spending 5 minutes trying to burn a retardant flag.
Finally, to the topic of correcting injustice and poor cops. If the police system isn't working....it's your city leadership that needs to be punished and fired. But if you aren't smart enough to see that.....then why bother even playing the game? Just start a civil conflict in the city, and see how far that goes.
Simply Observations
1. This whole thing in Minneapolis....where does this lead 'from'?
Well....the mayor and majority of the city council....are democrats, and they hire the police chief to serve them and their expectations. So if they hire 'thugs'....it's not just the police chief who triggered the damage, it's the city management itself.
2. Riots in Minneapolis to lead anywhere?
I would expect ten days of this, with over a hundred buildings looted or burned by the end. Figure that thirty to forty percent of the folks affected....won't come back and rebuild. It's kinda the path of Baltimore and Detroit. Don't worry....this is big-city life and part of the drama that they expect.
3. West Virginia mail carrier charged up with election fraud?
This dude picked up an absentee ballot requests (plural, so it's more than one), and altering them. Asked about it....he said it was a 'joke'. Note, he's a 47-year old guy. Here's the thing....it's a felony in the state, and a minimum of one year (up to ten) in prison. So this guy can say adios to the postal job, and figure if he begs his way out.....he'll do one year, and get out at 8 months with 'good' time served. On the stupid level....it's a solid ten.
Can you imagine being in prison, and some rough dudes come up...asking your crime, and you admit that you corrected some ballot requests from Democrat to Republican? Their response? 'Man, that's pretty lame'.
4. Black guys get killed by who?
Statistically speaking....if you are a black guy, it's huge odds if you die in a shooting, it's done by another black guy. It's actually 7-times the odds of a black guy doing it to you, than a white guy.
Now, all this said....black guys might put themselves in a risky spot, arguing over a woman or some debt, and not grasp that the other black dude has zero patience or understanding.
No one ever does the statistical collection to say how the shooting started, if booze or drugs were involved, or if it was just a mistaken identity issue.
5. Anything really odd about this Michigan lockdown and 'water' activity?
This is a curious thing. If you were to go out for a lake visit with a canoe or raft....it'd all be fine and no cop trying to hassle you. If this involves anything with a motor involved.....you would be all hassled-up and in trouble. The only difference....is a motor.
6. Can you drink while wearing a mask?
No. But it begs questions....if you 'dipped' the mask for 8 seconds to slurp up some beer.....is it possible to get one virus-bug of Corona? So far, no PhD guys have discussed this. It may require a good bit of testing.....maybe ten to twenty kegs of beer. I would be willing to participate as a tester. But it has to be premium beer (not PBR).
7. What sort of action is Trump talking about with social media?
So far, no one really knows. Social media may have to react, and go to the next level....shutting down YouTube, Facebook, Twitter....for 24 hours, to demonstrate their power against Trump. This might freak out a whole bunch of folks.
8. Fact-checking doing much by social media?
It's adding a cost factor. No one says how much.
If you go and read the novel '1984'....it usually makes up a hour-long chat by folks over society and the need to control 'facts' or 'truth'. I have this belief that none of the Twitter or Facebook top level of management have ever read '1984'.
Well....the mayor and majority of the city council....are democrats, and they hire the police chief to serve them and their expectations. So if they hire 'thugs'....it's not just the police chief who triggered the damage, it's the city management itself.
2. Riots in Minneapolis to lead anywhere?
I would expect ten days of this, with over a hundred buildings looted or burned by the end. Figure that thirty to forty percent of the folks affected....won't come back and rebuild. It's kinda the path of Baltimore and Detroit. Don't worry....this is big-city life and part of the drama that they expect.
3. West Virginia mail carrier charged up with election fraud?
This dude picked up an absentee ballot requests (plural, so it's more than one), and altering them. Asked about it....he said it was a 'joke'. Note, he's a 47-year old guy. Here's the thing....it's a felony in the state, and a minimum of one year (up to ten) in prison. So this guy can say adios to the postal job, and figure if he begs his way out.....he'll do one year, and get out at 8 months with 'good' time served. On the stupid level....it's a solid ten.
Can you imagine being in prison, and some rough dudes come up...asking your crime, and you admit that you corrected some ballot requests from Democrat to Republican? Their response? 'Man, that's pretty lame'.
4. Black guys get killed by who?
Statistically speaking....if you are a black guy, it's huge odds if you die in a shooting, it's done by another black guy. It's actually 7-times the odds of a black guy doing it to you, than a white guy.
Now, all this said....black guys might put themselves in a risky spot, arguing over a woman or some debt, and not grasp that the other black dude has zero patience or understanding.
No one ever does the statistical collection to say how the shooting started, if booze or drugs were involved, or if it was just a mistaken identity issue.
5. Anything really odd about this Michigan lockdown and 'water' activity?
This is a curious thing. If you were to go out for a lake visit with a canoe or raft....it'd all be fine and no cop trying to hassle you. If this involves anything with a motor involved.....you would be all hassled-up and in trouble. The only difference....is a motor.
6. Can you drink while wearing a mask?
No. But it begs questions....if you 'dipped' the mask for 8 seconds to slurp up some beer.....is it possible to get one virus-bug of Corona? So far, no PhD guys have discussed this. It may require a good bit of testing.....maybe ten to twenty kegs of beer. I would be willing to participate as a tester. But it has to be premium beer (not PBR).
7. What sort of action is Trump talking about with social media?
So far, no one really knows. Social media may have to react, and go to the next level....shutting down YouTube, Facebook, Twitter....for 24 hours, to demonstrate their power against Trump. This might freak out a whole bunch of folks.
8. Fact-checking doing much by social media?
It's adding a cost factor. No one says how much.
If you go and read the novel '1984'....it usually makes up a hour-long chat by folks over society and the need to control 'facts' or 'truth'. I have this belief that none of the Twitter or Facebook top level of management have ever read '1984'.
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