This is also why the app needs to suck up so much data about you. Who you are what you do where you go how you interact with the device.

To show you the source I’ll need a flashlight, rubber gloves and Elon Musk bending over with his pants down.

Bleed off to where? These twitter and Facebook accounts have replaced corporate PR departments and journalists in media channels. These corporate entities will not fund departments again to write email press releases and email out then follow up on engagement, when a few thousand dollars a year in licence fees allows them to remain in touch. Social media may feel like it’s “influencers” and giving voice to individuals it really is just corporate money all the way down.

Soon social media will be even more like Television or radio with a clear divide between licensed content creators and consumers. We are watching the death of social media as we have know it, which was born out of the death of open internet.

Security on paywave/ rfid transactions is the spend limit ($100), transaction analytics and insurance. I had some teenagers pinch my card and go on a short shopping spree. The bank reversed the 20 odd transactions that I couldn’t identify without a second question.

the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch. Then everything will be all right.

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