Why do we need an explanation for one season? A few years of silence, sure, but weather systems are big, complex things where all sorts of probabalistic matters come into play. It's like demanding an explanation as to why Casey struck out 4x in one game despite his 500+ batting avg. Things that "shouldn't" happen do, all the time. Them's just statistics.

The VAST majority of high profile leaders/CEOs have social media managers or aides for this. They don't tweet; At least not alone. This includes even the young, rad dudes running orgs. It's prepackaged, and calculated. Leading exceptions to this rule include cool young studs like Donald trump and elon musk. Sorry, but social media is exactly as raw as The Backstreet Boys.

Umm, yeah, maybe it's the lack of mobile support that curbs the competitiveness of RSS, or it's the lack of sophisticated AIs spoonfeeding users the exact news they want to hear based on an analysis of their every click aggregated with every click of everyone they regularly associate with on social media. Kinda betting it's the latter.

Best of luck with the tweeted 120 char summary of terms of services on your next mortgage, healthcare plan, omnibus spending bill, etc. I mean, heck, who needs more details than that, right?

I'm not sure they're "too honest to cheat", as much as they are unwilling to walk into a bank in broad daylight, with no mask on (obvs) and nothing but their cojones in their hand, and demand all the money in the safe, which is on par with what they've been asked to do. You walk away a scoundrel or a fool.

A scheme spawned to drive donations and energize voters, resulting in a raid on the capital and possibly costing them the senate -- it has to be one of the biggest political miscalculations in US history.

Same....i realized today summer is almost over. It all feels like a single, stressful day. Same for spring. Life without variety isn't real life.

I hope this inspires a middle road -- either cab companies that aren't living in the 1960's, or ride sharing services that treat their, *ahem*, definitely-not-employees, a bit more like humans. ...or maybe it'll just push self driving car development faster, and none of these pesky humans will matter all that much.

I'm genuinely curious what top notch talent wants to work at Facebook at this point. The platform is a cess pool of vitriol and they've managed to anger both sides of the political aisle. If they aren't paying well above market for talent, I fail to see how they'd draw anyone who knows what they're doing.

The article fails to mention the part of the patent that includes the intravenous anti-anxiety/antidepressant pump that is integral to the optimal Wal-Mart Experience.

"...Professors don't have to worry about reelection..." After they're tenured, correct. Until then, not so much.

As someone the same age, I must agree. I've never even thought of the networks as "brands"; they're just containers with an arbitrary number attached. If you asked me to differentiate beyond that, I truly could not.

Given the notoriously litigious current IP landscape, I have to wonder how many cease-and-desists companies selling kits like these get hit with, since they're basically selling pirate ships.

Eh, might work if you package it with huge cuts (or abolishments) to other federal welfare programs and sell it a massive systematic reform that ultimately gives people more freedom.

Believe it or not, there are a number of high profile libertarians advocating basic income over the sprawling welfare state we have. No sprawling apparatuses, complex laws, loans, interventions, etc. Everyone gets a check, and that's it. How you define meaning, worth, value etc. is up to you.