Cool that graffiti has kind of changed in a way where people will tag pretty much whatever just with their name when it used to be more informative. That informative part of street art I think it has been taken by flyers or posters that will have updates or messages. But more and more these days I am seeing explicitly politic graffiti around witch seems a bit closer to it's original use.

There is a complaint from the FTC alleges that Facebook has not developed innovative mobile features for its network, Facebook instead resorted to an illegal buy-or-bury scheme to maintain its dominance over the market. It unlawfully acquired innovative competitors with popular mobile features that succeeded where Facebook’s own offerings fell flat or fell apart witch is illegal. And so the FTC goes after Facebook

Describes the kind of computer graphics called vector graphics. Basically vector graphics are special because they are shapes constructed on a cartesian plain as opposed to a raster model where pixels are assigned a color value and then a ton of those squares make up the image. Some use cases include graphic design, GIS, and CAD.

For relationship status I would make a user choose from a list of options being taken, complicated, single, and single (not seeking). This would include not only people who's relationship status is complicated meaning they are not in a committed relationship but have some kind of relationship that is extra-platonic that they want to inform their followers about. This would also account for folks who either do not desire non-platonic relationships, are in a transitionary period, or for whatever reason do not want to be approached or perceived non platonically. I guess something this system does not account for is polyamorous and or open relationships, as storing data in the list format would be quite limiting because relationships like that are hard to pin down. The list of options would have to be miles long to account for everyone's situations.

Couple reasons, one is that bots tend to be good for engagement if they are deployed in the right way. These companies make their money advertising so upping that engagement is exactly what they want. Another is that usually to make a bot you need to buy the rights to edit the code of the app unless the company's software is open sourced.

This article explores the potential for the app store rankings to be manipulated. Focusing on how the lack of transparency by apple in how their ranking process works makes worse the ability of rumors like this to spread off of this picture. Because ultimately it is still a rumor because it is not confirmed if that is what the person is actually doing in the photo. But it highlights the real problem of these services that offer to app developers the opportunity to boost their rating on the app store.

In this scenario I would let my parents live out the remainder of their lives. I have seen a family member go through the process of developing Alzheimer’s and its absolutely heartbreaking because you know the person you are speaking to but slowly that person begins to fade and there is really nothing you can do about it. But I always said to myself after seeing that that If It happens to me I don't want to have any extra care. I want to live out whatever time I have left doing what I love and being with the people that I love. If you institutionalize someone you rip that final opportunity of normalcy away.

I fundamentally disagree with this aspect. While "going with the flow" is a great way to not ruffle any feathers, it is also the best way to get complacent. I'll give a basic example. Do you think that the Civil Rights Act would have eventually been passed if Dr. King, Rosa Parks, or Malcolm X just "went with the flow". Was it wrong of Nelson Mandela to "force" the end of apartheid in South Africa? Every single advancement in the field of ethics and human rights has been made by someone unwilling to be satisfied with the status quo and "forcing" it to change. If we resign ourselves to what the world around us wants us to do then we would live in a society far bleaker than our own.