Starting in late November, Palm Springs offers up the holiday fun in a series of classic annual events that are sure to put a grin on your face and get [ … ]
Can 2019 Grammy nominations avoid last year’s “GrammysSoMale” criticisms?
It’s a safe bet that more eyes than usual will be focused on Friday’s announcement of the 2019 Grammy Award nominations. For the first time in Grammy history, the ceremony [ … ]
Is there a lack of originality in Hollywood Movies? A List of film titles would confirm!
Is Hollywood running out of movie titlesm or just trying to confuse everyone? Judging from a spate of similarly named films this year and next, the answer seems to be [ … ]
Is there a lack of originality in Hollywood Movies? A List of Movie titles would Confirm!
Is Hollywood really running out of movie titles or they are just trying to confuse people? Judging from a spate of similarly named movies this year and next, the answer [ … ]
Amazon in New York & the tax payers who subsidize it
Amazon has announced its new vaunted 2nd headquarters. Not one but two. Two new hq’s on the east coast. Two high bidders and Amazon split the baby. This means that… [ … ]
The YouTube purge. Who does it better, us or the Chinese?
The people have spoken. Well, maybe not. But, China’s broadcast regulator says they have and he has demanded that two of the country’s most popular media platforms, live-streaming app Kuaishou [ … ]
Overton window & the social media purge
Prologue I’ve been writing about this broad subject for the past five years and this post is one of many, some precise, the post below is directional. But first some [ … ]
HIPPA and the High Regulatory Hurdles You Pay For
From late 1990’s to +/- 2012 one of the core thesis for my investments was outsourcing. Some part of that was pricing ‘risk’ and building the mechanisms so that clients [ … ]
Can AI solve #FakeNews & what if another AI says the first is lying?
A functional society is built on a store of publicly accessible information, its shared history, and that evolves over time. But who is assigned write-privileges to this public ledger and how can [ … ]
VC’s & hype riders tout blockchain asset tokenization
Imagine…. People are gathered at the beginning of time and formulate trading plans for a given vector of market prices (called out by some mysterious auctioneer) Commodities can take the [ … ]