Disabling device keyboard profile settings/typing suggestions/spellcheck if you are say, a paranoid criminal, will also result in lowercase/missed punctuations as seen in the Epstein emails
Back then, the market was much, much smaller than it is today if I'm doing the math correctly. Zynga reached an early peak in the early 2010s, but multiple companies, including Zynga (at least pre-acquisition) reach bigger revenue numbers today.
This used to be the job of the third estate, but traditional media has all been captured and the algorithms have done the rest, drowning us in a sea of content.
> but traditional media has all been captured and the algorithms have done the rest
We should be explicit about what happened:
Google and Facebook skimmed off most of advertising revenue that previously supported journalism.
Then neither originated new news in quantity or quality to replace what they ate. Revenues (from ads) without costs (of paying journalists) = their profits.
Now, we have orders of magnitude less professional journalism.
When you boil it down, their business models are less about being clever and more about redirecting a huge, previously-social-good flow of money through their toll gates and taxing it.
Sorry, have to call b.s. on lack of funds. Our media are owned by a very few, a handful, of corporations. And this happened before Google even existed. It happened in the 90s.
> business model
I don't know, is this willful ignorance? Press is political ...
That Sinclair, Nexstar, CC/iHeartMedia were allowed to consolidate in the 90s is bad.
That Google et al. decimated newspaper revenue from the mid-00s onwards without replacing their newsrooms is worse.*
I wouldn't have as big a gripe if Google or Facebook had started their own news bureaus and funded them with their profits. It still would have been a rounding error on their balance sheet.
But instead they destroyed a social good, took their bonuses, and called it a day.
The media is the fourth estate. In the modern US the first three are often interpreted as the branches of government. Historically estates were often some combination of the nobility, the clergy, and the commoners.
I have been looking for a simple local only wysiwyg alternative to Onenote and there just.. arent any good ones? Joplin is close but everything is now markdown and I hate it, I've gone back to phyiscally writing down notes.
I'm old, these are notes for me only, I don't care that they arent 'web publishing' ready.
It is probably true, but it is also a useless statistic, let me explain.
8 billion people, avg lifespan 70 years, 115 million people die each year, percentage in capitalist economic zones... No clue, does china count? but probably 80 to 90% so about 10 years for capitalism to cause a billion deaths.
Sure, but I'll still do it if I think of a good one. I'm petty, but also now that all human output is fed into The Machine, there's a nonzero chance it may repeat my novel derogatory nickname to someone new.
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