Open for Business

Open for Business (ISSN 2153-5469) is the magazine of ideas, culture, technology and politics. Est. October 5, 2001. Mastodon: [email protected].

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Dennis E. Powell writes, "As has been noted here many times, it is not possible to do anything online (and often elsewhere) without being tracked." But there are things we can do 👉🏻 https://t.co/8uKe9fGPoL

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Dennis E. Powell: "Many people own 'smart' televisions, which is to say sets or boxes connected to the internet. Practically none of those people have read their televisions' privacy policies. If they had, they would be horrified." https://t.co/FFDPXlT0sB

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Dennis E. Powell writes, "My father died 21,550 days ago, and I still don’t really have him figured out. If you do the arithmetic and remember leap year days, you’ll find that it works out to 59 years." https://t.co/hYNUyMzN3V

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Haffner writes: "[@LelandVittert] was talking about the Iran war, but [he could have been talking] about our society generally, a society that has forgotten the necessary task of persuasion on matters that matter." https://t.co/1nRW85Ji5B

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.@jasonkettinger writes "Pastor @trbutler has already written about this in light of another assassination attempt on either President Trump [...] Many people are unhealthily and dangerously angry, and it seems like it’s getting worse." https://t.co/epdgFEtQnQ

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Dennis E. Powell: "Over the last few years, as frequent readers here know, I’ve taken interest in the lovely, even cute, Japanese culture." https://t.co/YuJ3Gdk8T4

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Our Editor-in-Chief writes on the gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. https://t.co/OadLVyBB2K

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Dennis E. Powell: "The result was a useful lesson. One that was painful both to me, who was guilty, and to many others, who weren’t. I never would have supposed it would become the kind of mistake the president of the United States would repeat..." https://t.co/kU8EkUFyTj

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.@JasonKettinger: "I can remember Mandy Patinkin in various movies of the week on broadcast TV when I was small. Let me say that I definitely grew up with his work, and if it could be said that I love him in a real way, I do." https://t.co/dHO6ApuP1l

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Dennis E. Powell writes, "If the art form known as anime received the attention and credit it deserves, you would already have heard of a series called 'The Holy Grail of Eris,' or in romaji Japanese, Erisu no Seihai." https://t.co/S1IIl4f47p

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.@trbutler writes "My internet is reliable. Reliable at going down at 7 p.m. every Monday night for years. That’s unfortunate given that I preach a livestreamed sermon every week at that time." https://t.co/GT6bjYbooz

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@JasonKettinger: "A Farewell To Arms is about as positive as Hemingway is going to get. Frederic Henry is the American protagonist wounded while serving as an ambulance driver. A lieutenant in the Italian army, he lets us see World War I through his eyes." https://t.co/p6q2fQoYrc

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Dennis E. Powell: "The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it was obvious, wanted to be as far away from this stinker as he could get. He didn't, it seemed, want to be soiled with whatever the Secretary of Defense had been rolling in." https://t.co/X9sLvPO5P9

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.@JasonKettinger writes, "I actually read this novella a few years back, in preparation for teaching it to my ninth grade students. I have an Audible version, narrated by the great Donald Sutherland, may he rest in peace." https://t.co/fKbTaoG4m8

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"The mood in the CBS Radio Networks newsroom was grim, depressing, and tense. [...] Many, including longtime employees who didn’t accept the buyouts (or ones who for some reason weren’t offered them), were laid off, never to return." https://t.co/rAwFyJWkp4

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Dennis E. Powell: "You might have heard of an article published [...] late last week in which after extensive research and what I guess they’d call shoe-leather detective work they identified the famous British stencil-graffiti artist known as 'Banksy.'" https://t.co/6CpNFk0IxV

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"If you’ve been conscious at all the last 10 years or so, it’s been pretty tough in politics. Many people think they cannot have a conversation across the political aisle, so to speak, without harming or ending friendships, and even family relationships." https://t.co/ISXZoC0Q1m

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Powell: "It was among the most welcome phone calls I've ever made. I was calling to tell Frontier or Verizon or whatever it is they currently call themselves that after 21 years ... I was done with what in my estimation is the worst phone company ever." https://t.co/MfOtDUN0cM

[Timothy Butler 🇺🇦 @trbutler]

Two AI-related events over the past week — the Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist Don Knuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://t.co/mYFpm2t2OB

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Dennis E. Powell writes about an ugly scam: "I'm obligated to detail how I fell for a swindle so obvious that there's no escaping the fact that my mind must have got disengaged for a while." https://t.co/Pe88HS62xi