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Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 3:07 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: byte, social media ( 31 )   

bytetokvine

So what exactly was the point of Twitter shutting down Vine again?

Source: Vine Successor Byte Tops 1.3 Million Downloads in First Week – Variety

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 3:06 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: politics ( 48 )   

go ahead and blow up

He, and those around him, just want to watch things blow up and don’t care how many kids have to lose their legs or die as a result.

Source: Trump rolls back Obama-era restrictions on land mines

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 3:05 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: gig economy ( 6 )   

let them go

Goodness, let the people just trying to do their jobs go to the bathroom. Why would this be the hill you’re going to die on.

Source: Gig Workers Have Nowhere to Pee – VICE

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 3:03 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: fiverr, gig economy ( 6 ), influencer marketing ( 4 ), social media ( 31 )   

buying influence

Shady marketplaces allow shady people to hire shady actors.

Source: Buying Instagram shoutouts on Fiverr and the tricky cost of social media clout

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 3:01 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: finance ( 26 ), housing ( 10 )   

no housing help for the bottom

Lots of gears are put in motion when housing prices bottom out, but none exist for when they get too high for people to afford.

Source: The new housing crisis – Axios

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 2:53 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: amazon ( 6 ), ecommerce ( 2 ), ups   

ups, but not for long

Everyone Amazon has ever worked with eventually finds itself competing against that company. UPS will not be the exception.

Source: UPS has a new risk factor: Amazon – MarketWatch

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 2:51 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: energy ( 3 ), environment ( 14 )   

birds are expendable, apparently

If there are less strict penalties for killing birds, the justifications for doing so will drop as well.

Source: Trump administration to reduce protections for birds, report says

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 2:49 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: books, ecommerce ( 2 )   

buy more books

Great idea here, creating a clearing house for small shops to compete on the ecommerce field.

Source: Meet Bookshop, the Startup Helping Indie Booksellers Take on Amazon | WIRED

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 2:47 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: media ( 53 ), unions ( 3 )   

business vs image

As in most industries, it’s important to remember that the values espoused on the editorial side of a media company bear little to no relation to those held by ownership or management.

Source: Under Trump, media companies are emboldened against employee unionizing – Columbia Journalism Review

Unknown's avatar Chris Thilk 1:15 pm on February 7, 2020
Tags: music ( 24 )   

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