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Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price
Deepa Seetharaman, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 14, 2018 8:00 a.m. ET; see alsoFacebook employees inside the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Recent worker surveys showed fewer of them...
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The Long Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles
How soda cans, bad weather and snakes present challenges to the latest technologyBy Laine Higgins, Dylan Moriarty and Jieqian Zhang, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 15, 2018image (not from article)...
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Bezos Invades Trump’s Backyard
Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 14, 2018image (not from article) fromAmazon is the new king of Queens, where you-know-who got his start in real estate.Excerpt:So when you look at the...
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[The Pleasure of Being Impersonated?] Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s...
Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas, The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2018; original article contains additional photographs and linksSee also John Brown,...
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More on the illusion of cyberutopia (III)
Kara Swisher, "Facebook and the Fires," The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2018; see also (1) (2)The toxic smoke is a bleak backdrop and an apt metaphor for where Silicon Valley finds itself.image...
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Norfolk says no to scooters, impounds 560 and fines startup Bird $93,000
Several other cities are taking similar action, alleging the company is operating in their jurisdictions without permission.The city of Norfolk has impounded 560 Bird scooters. (Courtesy of the city of...
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‘Toxic’ is Oxford Dictionaries’ 2018 word of the year. ‘Gaslighting' and...
Isaac Stanley-Becker, washingtonpost.com, November 16 at 5:19 AM image from The word that best captures the “ethos, mood, or preoccupations” of 2018...
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[Americana:] Friday night plight: Parents, players rethinking football
Image from article, with caption: The Centennial Eagles in Howard County, Maryland, are back on the field after a year without varsity football. The Eagles have had trouble finding enough players for a...
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Why the ‘P’ word — propaganda — might be best for what we're seeing on our TV...
Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, Nov 16, 2018 | 4:00 AMSee also (1) Walter Isaacson, "A Declaration of Mutual Dependence," The New York Times (2004), which states: "Thus the Declaration of Independence...
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The inevitable, tragic — and ultimately necessary — death of the kilogram
Farewell to the objects that defined our units of measure.Two one-kilogram weights on a scale in Saussay-la-Campagne, France. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)By Oliver Morton, The Washington PostOliver...
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Secession fantasy: Analyst envisions America split into Red Federation and...
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times,Thursday, November 15, 2018 (image from)Amid red states, blue states, social strife and political polarization [JB emphasis], one analyst now suggests that the...
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Divided We Stand: The country is hopelessly split. So why not make it...
Sasha Issenberg, nymag.comOne of Trump’s midterm rallies. Photo: Mark Peterson/ReduxThe year is 2019. California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, recently elected on a platform that included support for...
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susurrous -- word of the day
via emailWORD OF THE DAYNovember 17, 2018susurrous adjective | soo-SUR-us Definition:full of whispering soundsScroll down for more about susurrousDid You Know?Susurrous derives from the Latin noun...
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D.C.’s original site competition
Crystal City in Arlington. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)By Brian P. Darmody, The Washington Post; see also (1)Brian P. Darmody is associate vice president for corporate engagement at the University of...
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Give a Punch to Pancho
image fromU.S. Secretary of Defense General James Mattis to the troops protecting the Underwalled Border from El Invasión:“I think many of you are aware that President Wilson 100 years ago — a little...
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These Americans Are Done With Politics - Note for a Discussion, "E Pluribus...
Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2018; original article contains additional illustrations/linksThe Exhausted Majority needs a break.Image from article, with caption: Bruce Bell at home...
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[Americana:] ‘It was jumping all around’: Woman discovers live frog in her...
Naomi Stahl, 28, ordered takeout Nov. 16 from a Cava restaurant located in Tenleytown. When she returned home, she discovered a live frog in her food. (Naomi Stahl)Michael S. Rosenwald, The Washington...
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Two Spies, Two Opposing Sides, One Fast Friendship
Review by Adam LeBor, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2018BEST OF ENEMIES The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War By Gus Russo and Eric Dezenhall Illustrated. 342 pp. Twelve. $28.image from article, with...
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What Is America’s Role in the World? Three Authors Offer Very Different Views
CreditCreditJohn GallBy Zachary Karabell, The New York TimesNov. 16, 2018A NEW FOREIGN POLICY Beyond American ExceptionalismBy Jeffrey D. Sachs253 pp. Columbia University. $17.95.mageSachs, whose long...
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Why Aren’t People Buying Much Fiction These Days?
Tina Jordan, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2018image from[JB comment: Who needs fiction when we're living -- in Trumpian America -- in a fictional age...]Ask any publisher or bookseller, and they’ll...
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