Smoke and mirrors: Google announces a “major shakeup in advertising strategy” and plays the crowd for all its worth

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Facebook demonstrates it is more powerful than a single country

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It’s a data privacy nightmare. But hell … isn’t everything these days? A few thoughts about Clubhouse.

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The uproar between Facebook and Australia over news platforms, and the UK Supreme Court decision in favor of Uber drivers. Both bound by the glacial pace of institutional change.

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BOOK REVIEW: a marketplace and a temple – “The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History” by Greg Woolf.

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The Russians hacked your court electronic filings system? QUICK!! TO THE DEAD-TREE ROOM!!

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The storming of the Capitol, and the storming of the capital. Why mobs are ruling the internet in 2021.

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The new COVID variants: will they undermine the new vaccines? Labs scramble to find out.

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Forget the “beginning of the end”. COVID is a permawar.

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“Oh what a tangled web we weave”. How the far right made itself a Russian intel target.

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