Newmark's Door

Excellent question. Thanks goodness for caller ID, though.

They made a Covid-19 vaccine in less than a year, but I still get robocalls.

Some clever and some I had not heard before. Three examples:

Shaker’s Law of Departure – “Those who egregiously announce their imminent departure from an Internet discussion forum almost never actually leave.”

Shank’s Law – “There is no idea so batshit insane that you can’t find at least one PhD scientist to support it.”

John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory – Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad

And one I had and still like:

Brandolini’s Law - "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."

I can recommend, "Eponymous Laws Part 3: Miscellaneous," too.

Consistent with what I've read before: the great majority of social media is begin generated by a small fraction of the users.

How much longer does COBOL last and what does that say about the institutions that still rely on it.

What's especially interesting here is how the free market has produced--without any government mandate to do so--a whole lot of resources to help "influencers".

Just in case anyone needs a reminder.

Well worth keeping in mind: ". . . the most active 10% of users produced 92% of all tweets by U.S. adults."

Combined with the fact that about 14% of U.S. adults are "monetizable daily active Twitter users" (37 million divided by 258 million), we find that all the infamous Twitter mobs comprise about 10% of 14% of the U.S. adults. 

I knew nothing about Go and I missed this story when it was discussed a few years ago, so I found this well-done 1.5 hour documentary quite interesting.

I fully agree with this.

Geez, don't we have enough to worry about right now?