"Quibi is not succeeding. Likely for one of two reasons: because the idea itself wasn't strong enough to justify a standalone streaming service or because of our timing," Whitman and Katzenberg said in ajoint open letter. "Unfortunately, we will never know but we ...
A lot of people have tried something similar, and it doesn’t always work; the process is absolutely random and unfair, but it worked for me. The first time a small publication offered me a few token dollars to reprint one of my pieces, I wrote in my notebook: No matter what happens...
"We also replace letters with symbols, like using the plus sign as the letter 't' in smut." Other examples of their created language include referring to porn as "corn" (or just using the corn emoji) and replacing the "i" in kink with an exclamation point. "Kink is one of the ...
Mr. Trump is considering an even larger round of tariffs on Chinese goods by taxing the remaining $267 billion in imports that aren't subject to higher duties already. At the same time, the administration is mulling tariffs on allforeign autos and auto partswhile simultaneously workingon new t...
In a Facebook post last Monday, Mon shared a picture of him at the National Bureau of Investigation signing documents. He penned an open letter to Jeff, saying that it should serve as a lesson to him and to everyone. “Using the name of a person and photos without permission is a crim...
This is the point at which one begins to sense the excitement of sociology. (Berger 1963)Sociology can be exciting because it teaches people ways to recognize how they fit into the world and how others perceive them. Looking at themselves and society from a sociological perspective helps people...
“You just told me,” I said, “that you still think of the software you use as what is running on your local computer. Google is built on top of Linux. You’re all using it.” The way you view the world limits what you can see. Microsoft had come to define a paradigm i...
This month is the 10-year anniversary of my first online threat. I thought it was a one-off, then. Just one angry guy. And it wasn’t really THAT bad. But looking back, it was the canary in the coal mine… the first hint that if I kept on this path, it would not end well....
The dramatic expansion of the internet means it's now possible to hear just about any song for free within seconds via the device in your hand, but who gets paid for our easy access to "Hotline Bling" meme videos is a matter of heated debate. Google's parent corporation, Alphabet, is...
the state is missing by not introducing this particular class of people to the experience of incarceration. “You put Lloyd Blankfein in pound-me-in-the-ass prison for one six-month term, and all this bullshit would stop, all over Wall Street,” says a former congressional aide. “That’...