Thinking about cash registers and TV streaming services.


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How’s your 4th of July?

Sparkling lemonade
We’re Grunches


Andrew has ordered a new chair
Live TV streaming services have basically failed

They’re just cable now
YouTube TV now $65/mo (started at $35/mo)

Sling TV is $30/mo, was $20
PS Vue was discontinued after going from $30 to $50
AT&T TV Now (formerly DirecTV Now) went from $35 to $55

Has lost between over a million customers over the past year and a half


Hulu Live TV went from $40 to $55


A la carte media is not possible







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Cancellations For The Dead

Like proxy-baptisms, but for cancelling


VCs harassing Taylor Lorenz for doing journalism

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app
https://www.inputmag.com/culture/a-journalist-does-not-deserved-to-be-harassed-by-vcs-taylor-lorenz-balaji-srinivasan
https://www.cnet.com/news/away-co-ceo-steps-down-as-silicon-valley-elite-conversation-gets-leaked/
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1278820154697109505
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1279068216795426821







Coronavirus: it’s still happening

Mask it or casket


First they came for the police unions…

Police unions’ power wanes, but how about teachers? - CalMatters
First of all, the fact the police are a union is so far down on the list of their problems
The differences between a police union and a teachers union are important

Police are state agents to act against the citizens and for the state.
Teachers have no such enforcement role.
Police benefits and pay are astronomically better than teacher benefits and pay.


Wan Dalters’ example is how the teachers union fights against charter schools

This would be like police fighting against privatized security forces,,,, which, like would definitely NOT be an abuse of their union power and in the public interest.




iPadification of POS equipment

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