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July 22, 2021

London is like Arizona. Hot and Humid.

This week has been both fascinating and exhausting. London is having a heat wave, and nothing is air conditioned. I forgot what that feels like, having lived in Phoenix for most of my life. Even the coastal towns are suffering. It doesn’t cool off near the beach like it does in California. Who knew?

Does it strike you that Mercedes comes to everything a little late? Its market research must tell it that its clients are late adopters. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/22/business/economy-stock-market-news?type=styln-live-updates&label=economy%20updates&index=0#mercedes-benz-electric-vehicles

So tired of hearing more bad Covid news. My own situation is that I’m doing the best I can do live a life, but can’t go inside anywhere. https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/22/public-health-officials-have-tools-to-beat-back-covid-again-does-anyone-want-to-use-them/

Politicians are so fast and loose with truth. On both sides. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/22/politics/fact-check-biden-cnn-town-hall-july/index.html

Usually when people help us in a war zone we leave them behind to fend for themselves. It’s nice to see that we might have realized at long last how wrong this was. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/22/us/politics-news

I love it when people get finished working at places causing our problems and then realize we have lost our privacy and security to “growth hacking.” Now what?



Moving fast and breaking things cost us our privacy and security – TechCrunch

We need to ask if the technology we create is beneficial not just to the user, but to society. One way to build tech that better serves humanity is to ensure that it protects users and their values

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