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My groupie days are long gone. Many, many years ago I dated the lead singer in a popular, local band. The girlfriends would go to all the dances where they played. It was always a kick to say, “I’m with the band.” It was a very special time.

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In a 1988 appearance on "Oprah," Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons opened up about hooking up with hundreds of KISS groupies.

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Ryan Fitzpatrick showed off a rare blank space in between tufts of back hair as he unbuttoned his shirt and decided to shake it off to serenade the Buffalo Bills crowd on Thursday night after their critical 24-18 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Ryan Fitzpatrick generates his own Taylor Swift energy with Buffalo Bills “Fitzies” fanbase

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Kathy Swarts — who caused quite a ruckus by telling fellow cast member Theresa Nist to “Zip it” — lost her husband of almost 46 years to suicide, and she told USA TODAY that she committed a few years ago to saying “yes” to adventures and new opportunities. In Kathy’s words:

What Led Women To Join The Golden Bachelor? April Kirkwood, Kathy Swarts And Others Speak Out

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Civic Center Foundation Groupie Movie Series announced for 2023-24

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Renfrew – If there is such a thing as a groupie for the Musical Ride, perhaps semi-retired farmers Alex and Betty Briscoe fit the bill, having watched the ride perform in nine provinces this summer during a very special 150th anniversary year.

Parents travel country enjoying Musical Ride and watching son

Fan favorite and beloved Bradley family member Groupie Doll won two Eclipse Awards, two Breeders' Cup races, four Grade Is, and nine graded stakes; she set two track records, including at Churchill Downs in the GI Humana Distaff;

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Well well well. Look at that Friday afternoon news dump…. Sam Altman was the Face of OpenAI, the Maker of ChatGPT is Just last week (also on a Friday), I wrote about following its first ever DevDay conference. Companies typically do this when they get big. Think: Apple’s demo of the iPhone, or the App Store. Sam Altman gave for that launch which intro-ed a suit of product features by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. His speech was aspirational and grand, emulating similar feelings to those that Steve Jobs used to make. OpenAI’s latest GPTs launch the keynote speech Just under a year ago, was the first of , and counting, on the absolutely tectonic shift that is chatGPT, LLMs (Large Language Models), and AI as a whole. AI was having a moment. It still is. The world hasn’t looked back since. my story on ChatGPT over 500+ stories HackerNoon currently hosts Tech’s New Golden Boy and Its Latest Hope If you don’t live under a rock, you probably know who Sam Altman is. Just under a year, he went from being a semi-famous-yet-obscured-to-the-public-at-large technologist, having previously served as president of Y Combinator, the most well-known startup incubator in Silicon Valley ( )… to being a household name (in other words, ), among the likes of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates. He was among the few CEOs invited to the White House to recently advise the government on AI regulation. This also gave rise to the White House’s first ever Executive Order on AI, which you can read . (The AI industry’s reaction to this EO has been… mixed.) here’s his original 2017 essay on UBI titled American Equity, published on HackerNoon famous-famous here May I remind you, right around the time of Sam Altman’s meteoric rise, another Sam was having his (less positive) moment. The darling of Crypto, people used to call him. The rise of a “good” Sam feels diametrically opposed to . “He’s a good one”, touted tech journalist Kara Swisher on her podcast “Pivot”, referring to Sam Altman. the downfall of crypto’s golden boy Sam Bankman-Fried The parallel rise and fall of the 2 CEOs, I’m sure, would be a fascinating topic to unpack for months if not years to come, for those interested in tech and invested in its long term future, as well as those on both sides of the spectrum of techno-optimism ( ). As people were losing hope in crypto, due to 1 Sam, they were gaining hope in AI, thanks to another Sam. This time would be different, people were feeling. Redemption for tech again! as Marc Andreesen calls it Until….. Sam Altman’s Sudden Ousting as CEO In a public published early afternoon Friday, November 17, OpenAI stated Sam Altman’s sudden departure following a “deliberate review process” which rendered the Board no longer have “confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” See the full statement . blog post here People were having questions… What was in that deliberate review? Lacking confidence in what way? Does it have anything to do with his ? Or because ? Or the allegation that while being a corporation at heart? Or ? Or his as a Democrat in 2024? multiple lawsuits he wore a neon polo with a double popped collar to OpenAI Dev Day OpenAI hides under its 501(c)3 umbrella his sister’s allegation of child-on-child sexual abuse (apparent/possible) bid to run for President And most importantly, why now? Wasn’t he just representing the company in many important moments, as recent as last week? CTO Mira Murati to Serve as OpenAI’s Interim CEO In that same official annoucement, the company briefly mentioned the temporary replacement for Altman. Her name is . Mira Murati Here’s what OpenAI said about Murati: “Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. A member of OpenAI’s leadership team for five years, Mira has played a critical role in OpenAI’s evolution into a global AI leader. She brings a unique skill set, understanding of the company’s values, operations, and business, and already leads the company’s research, product, and safety functions. Given her long tenure and close engagement with all aspects of the company, including her experience in AI governance and policy, the board believes she is uniquely qualified for the role and anticipates a seamless transition while it conducts a formal search for a permanent CEO.” Personally, I have an interest in this person, as she was only 2 years my senior at UWC ( ), the high school system which I was also a part of :) I went to the one in India, and she went to the one in Canada. Also, excited that the CTO of such a company is a woman. But I digress… United World College My concluding thoughts on the Idolatry of Technologists The company is on the hunt now for its permanent CEO, as cited in the blog post. The sudden ousting of Sam Altman definitely came as a surprise to the tech world, down to the company’s own employees ( , who’s in contact with many sources within the company). It seems that their employees learned about the news around the same time the public did. as reported by the Verge It also seems like whatever Sam did, only a handful of the higher ups at OpenAI (and probably its many lawyers now), are privy to. What I can say now, is this rather crude take. This is just another blow to the Marc Andreesens of the world. And by that I mean the people at the , the people who love to argue for a world free of tech scrutiny and who are are okay with the Idolization, over-glorification or even Apotheosis of the technologists who make it happen (Apotheosis is a word I just googled. It means treating someone as though they are god). You know the type. They are the ones with checked marks on Twitter, I mean, X. The Musk “groupies”, if you will. highest totem pole of tech, the techno-optimists Ever since Sam ascended to his current position, I’ve seen a number of behaviors from Sam’s groupie. . No shade to him, of course. My ex-employer included Time will tell. But right now, I’m excited for Mira!

On Sam Altman's Forced Ousting as OpenAI CEO & The Idolatry of Tech "Gods"

ওপেনএআই সিইও হিসাবে স্যাম অল্টম্যানের জোরপূর্বক বহিষ্কার এবং টেক "গডস" এর মূর্তিপূজার বিষয়ে

Über Sam Altmans erzwungene Absetzung als OpenAI-CEO und die Vergötterung der Tech-„Götter“

Sobre el derrocamiento forzoso de Sam Altman como director ejecutivo de OpenAI y la idolatría de los "dioses" tecnológicos

Sur l'éviction forcée de Sam Altman en tant que PDG d'OpenAI et l'idolâtrie des « dieux » de la technologie

सैम ऑल्टमैन को ओपनएआई सीईओ के पद से जबरन बाहर करने और टेक "गॉड्स" की मूर्तिपूजा पर

サム・アルトマン氏のOpenAI CEOとしての強制追放とテクノロジー「神」への偶像崇拝について

Sam Altman의 OpenAI CEO 강제 축출 및 기술 "신"의 우상 숭배

Sobre a expulsão forçada de Sam Altman como CEO da OpenAI e a idolatria dos "deuses" da tecnologia

О принудительном увольнении Сэма Альтмана с поста генерального директора OpenAI и идолопоклонстве перед технологическими «богами»

Sam Altman'ın OpenAI CEO'su Olarak Zorla Görevden Alınması ve Teknoloji "Tanrılarının" Putperestliği Üzerine

Về việc Sam Altman bị buộc phải từ chức Giám đốc điều hành OpenAI và việc thờ thần tượng các "Thần" công nghệ

论山姆·奥尔特曼 (Sam Altman) 被迫罢免 OpenAI 首席执行官一职以及对科技“神”的崇拜

The Corner Pub.

A collection of poems and random notes: In sum, swell doggerel baby since you've been gone the nights are so damn long i pace and cry til the dawn wondering what went wrong in my future, the one i visit in the dreams of exhausted sleep, people are imprinted with display circuitry on their skins. and the display can be programmed, even modified. so the tattoo becomes changeable, perhaps even animated. powered by body heat, both iridescent and illuminated for the well heeled aficionado. some rent advertising space on their bodies as well as making their own pictorial statements. nudity has become blase and frequently we see individuals who opt out of traditional clothing altogether in favor of an illuminated duraderm composite skin, a biosynthetic that employs clones of the individual's own skin cells in a matrix of endura. so what i would like to do is make a video with an individual whose skin changes as we watch.... ever been a total wastrel? a fairly useless manipulative weasel with polydrug issues? scheme scam and sham for thy daily bread which went primarily to buy dope? so far down that even thy loving mum had to turn away from continuing the bailouts and handouts? where the dope was more important than heat, water, or electric? the phone and internet having already been sacrificed long before? you would say whatever was needed to get that shzzzt? yep. i been there, lived there such as living was for quite awhile actually. so don't be tryin to run your tuff luck story shit on me. lolz. one of the problems i see here in our society is this compunction to compensate for the crazies, to "understand their plight" and hence allow them to inflict their modus upon others without fear of remonstration and correction. bad idea i think. you know i am sorry if you have problems, but i have two words for you if you try to make them my problems. and especially don't expect me to get over it in the name of friendship. friendship doesn't entail abuse by my definition, and remaining silent when someone's troubling behavior affects you adversely is not a good response. ok, back to being bobby... The Sword of Mercy Camus really enjoyed the Work he had been called to do. He was quite skilled at piloting the Sword of Mercy and administering its Cleansing Flame. Occasionally he felt something akin to pity, but nothing like remorse, for he knew that the Infidel must nonetheless be everywhere scourged. So he greeted each new duty cycle with gusto and a renewed sense of his Holiness.
Camus had named his Sword of Mercy the Repudiator in honor of his grandsire who had cleansed thousands of worlds. how you'd call my name...
but then she came.
it'll never be the same,
that's the end of our game. need to find a lovely blonde haired blue eyed cowgirl. hmm. maybe i should create her to suit. the problem with women is simply this. they're all so very pleasing to the eye and the mind that it's well nigh impossible to decide which one to play with. ok, i am gonna make us a beautiful lil drover. itz a request from one me buds. hopefully the lass will please us all when she gets here. lolz. i hack therefore i am... i go muff diving, because itz cheaper than scuba equipment... girl said she missed me so much! but she was gonna reload and try again... "did not spawn, only exacerbated their proliferation by giving them a niche in the cloud ecosystem." holy shit i can't believe i just said that! oh bebe. u SO fine, be mine! SEO two of my sites were on the first page of google results... so a search for "isoblock art" brings up one of my sites on first page of results and a search for "peaceleaf jewelry" brings up one of my sites comes up with my site first in google... yay! but talk about hogging google? yeh, search on "bobshitlist"... my site is much of the first google results page... and it is kind of a dummy site, all it has is a kind of asteroids game. but my IsoBlock was most of the results before folks decided hey that’s a good name! ☺ distortions of reason i have be, come Ex chaos venit ordinem. go the fuk away. i been done all mine, no more for bobby crack whore. i have always been amazed at this: the harder you have to work for your pay the less ya get. the question was what was your all time favorite present? my answer was when i was a child i got a little red joystick, and i've enjoyed it ever since.... Note Bene: i have no ownership rights whatsoever in this material and derive no profit from its presentation. i present it as a fair use of copyright material for educational and review purposes only. if you like this work i encourage you to support the artists and purchase a copy. the butterfly came by
and got me quite high,
but i don't know why.
just that kind of guy. eponymous nom de plume, a nobleman of the 13th century CE got something on my mind,
somebody i'd like to find... your face so fair,
the wind in your hair,
the spray in the air.
i wish i were there... maybe "the salt in the air"?
line four, maybe "was" be more colloquial... ah, facebook puts up a lil panel of friend pix, and i see your lovely face on there for hours and then the want, it is like torment. so desirable... i loves da shrieks when i squeeze yer cheeks and ecstasy peaks oh yes, power shred for da hed before bed, what i sed the serpent beguiled me, and i ate. wanna bite? this here is ART for sure, holy and pure, forever to endure mo random music is fascinating to me. the right tune/song just grabs me in such a visceral way, totally drives the emotions. not just any tune mind ya, but enough of them that i'm just grateful.
i make images ya know, but few images grab me as does the right music. and i wanna make some music of my own. with the aid of the computer i will be able to "hear" what i "see" in my mind even though i don't play any instrument.
want to set some lyrics i have to music. so that's where i am right now.
and who knows? if i do well i might attract some groupies. lmao. need a muse, someone to use, kill these blues there are many here among us who feel that life is the butt of a joke so many just lovely women, all kinds all colors, fine fantasies just a passing fantasy, a wishful thought, nothing more they say the first ain't the best
so letz try it again after we rest oh baby! POP my stack pointer! let's pass parameters too! pretty pretty polly, she my plastic dolly, and i love her by golly from quite a while ago - ok. today i am 65. so GOD! you wanna gimme a present? give me Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men and Women, Bless the Children... amen! oh yes! to be free to flee... left last nite on the late train... with not a word to explain. yeh she left me here in pain, our love melting in the rain. PPP it 0700 here at le Palais and i wondering bout it all. ravioli and coffee for breakfast, tasty. baked off. got tunez and toys. stuff wut needz doin tu du. so now, how does one manifest the will? the anima to do? i mean besides snorting some meth candy? someday may come turn up the tunes, grab yer pencils and/or yer pastels, and HIT it - slam dancing with images... girlfriend came by, hung out for a few. evidence: coffee cups here, washcloths there... stuff like that, know? i does not care from where if you be there i wanted to have healthy beautiful breasts but she wouldn't let me touch her.... sometimes i feel like a twenty-five year old. unfortunately no one that age will have anything to do with me.... too bad. i am thinking revolution. if i was in good health i would disappear into the underground and start attacking things that bug me. all go boom! lmao. Tim McVeigh got the wrong target... terrorism today is so lo-tech. fertilizer in trucks, passenger aircraft as weapons, some moron playing shoot-em-up, even the IEDs used as "turnabout" weapons.
what we need is a quadrotor hover craft that will spray ricin powder down upon the "chosen ones". or that's loaded with Semtex so it has a fifty meter kill radius when it's set off. just fly that remote bad boy in there and puff! if we had let saddam take over the whole region. be a whole lot fewer "rulers" over there now...
and we could just divvy up all the oil with the chinese... The Palace El Palacio le Palais Der Palast Slottet Pals a big or small,
short or tall,
dark or light,
they alright! you wanna hang,
then hang tough -
things could get rough. i was reading about the symptom's of Alzheimer's disease, but i forget what they are... nah, doin alright tonight, not too tight, be just right from da ace of space this da place Conclusion This is the last volume of this series, a compendium of my deranged and fevered babbling during the fevered spells. Hopefully you found some entertainment value in here somewhere. As always, comments, criticisms, and suggestions are welcomed. God bless us each and all.

Some Swell Doggerel  Vol. 4

Blockchain by nature is a testament to the sanctity of ownership rights: rightful possession, control of usage, and responsible stewardship. This is what makes it such an attractive model for securing finance and digital rights. It’s a way to secure the extension of ourselves into a digital matrix, retaining our control over our labors and creations. Check out the intro to my ZelCore pitch back in 2019 where I talked about the financial industry’s need to take back these points of control from financial institutions (as well as the nascent technology’s failure, thus far, in doing so): RE-EMERGENCE OF BLOCKCHAIN Since 2019, after slowly cleaning off the grime of greed and distrust that blockchain tech had engendered during the 2017 shit-coin bubble and bust, the adoption of blockchain has grown in numerous verticals that have stood to benefit from it: . In luxury markets, for the purposes of provenance in the fine art market . The tracking of origin of goods Healthcare, which has progressed to gene editing, is emerging as information technology, will also require encryption to protect privacy, integrity of process, and access to services. And once our physical lives are inevitably on-boarded (digitized) to the internet, every aspect of ourselves will become measurable and predictive. More than currency, cryptocurrency is information. Information that can be exchanged for cash. BLOCKCHAIN AS THE BUILDING BLOCK FOR PERSONAL DIGITAL RIGHTS… MAYBE? It’s ironic considering that the user, in the current state of the internet, . is the only actor not collecting cash for his actions on the network As the and continue to digitize our personal physical possessions, our ownership rights become a bit murky: share economy internet of things . We have cars that report mileage to the manufacturer Facebook uses user posts of transactions about buying and selling items to build out its own networks. Our phones, which, in addition to the usual data collection, allow third parties (government, WHO, etc.) to send communications to us, regardless of our privacy settings or personal views. In fact, as we move to a more efficient sharing of resources, especially in localized communities, these exchanges may include the lending/buying/selling/movement of all manner of physical objects as well as services. This creates a digital matrix of the user and his experience - - which is information that, unless secured (e.g., via anonymization protocols) and locked up in a blockchain and, most importantly, controlled by the user, becomes free cash to the old internet Masters of the Universe. an avatar By analogy, the human body is comprised of billions of cells and organisms which provide essential functions in cooperative support of the greater organism using evolved processes to communicate information throughout the system. Each cell contains all the information necessary for these processes in the form of DNA keys. Without these codes, which together map the proper proteins for life, a living system cannot exist. Rather, it’s an ecosystem of discrete proteins (pieces of information) without a relational framework. Although these may eventually self-organize and evolve into balance within an ecosystem, . this creation will not be human So what are we building? And is it representative of our humanity and values? And so this is where humanity now finds itself. As webs of corporate-sponsored AI self-organize user data and build predictive profiles within their ecosystem toward their varying industry agendas (e.g, Facebook for ad targeting, Honda for road mapping, Amazon for goods logistics, etc…), can we use blockchain (as a relational framework) to secure our digital avatars and reclaim our information for our own ends? Or is assimilation into the Google/Facebook/Amazon mainframe inevitable and resistance futile? AND WHAT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS? The more we digitize, the more we run into issues of government oversight and taxation. Which is why many governments have rejected and other platforms, . Libra in favor of developing their own This begs the uncomfortable discussion of the government's continued role in our private lives, as well as the purpose and methods (and moral basis) of taxation (in current times). In other words, will we still need government if we no longer require a central institution (government/courts) to adjudicate digitized commercial contracts (e.g., smart contracts), and when can be used to facilitate off-chain contracts (thus eliminating the need for central banks)? Price Oracles In fact, which , can be used to empower users in local communities, by facilitating transactions according to governance rules established by the community. These communities can raise resources for building and repairs using tokens valued according to their governance rules and may include cash, digital currency, services, goods and labor. Price Oracles, bridge the gap between smart contracts and off-chain technology Since money is simply a measurement of time it takes to extract information, all energies in pursuit of this are interchangeable. This includes the meta data of said organizational efforts. As such, the blockchain can help facilitate transactions within the community while securing the rights of the user and community to their digital avatar selves. Blockchain could help seamlessly, and trustlesly, log each community member’s contribution to the community (in time, money, energy, etc…) as well as enable the community to automatically reward (and punish) participants/non-participants. ( ) Stay tuned for detail on this in my next issue. Another question that remains is also echoed in the upcoming US election: which blockchain platforms and Price Oracle governance (voting) systems work best for the relational systems of local communities? Will we come up with a compassionate system that is representative of our humanity to manifest our destiny or will the AI (via the antiquated stewardship of governments and corporations) assimilate those deemed worthy into the centralized collective? REVOLUTION REQUIRES ADOPTION Of course it’s one thing to talk about all the great solutions that blockchain could provide in reclaiming digital human rights, but it’s quite a different beast to imagine a critical mass of adoption that would fuel such a revolution. Will it happen? Can it happen? I believe it can, but stemming from a grassroots level rather than the top-down (e.g., traditional tech) push we have seen attempted in 2017. Traditional tech has always taken an “ ” approach. Blockchain is anything but traditional. : the fact that it poses a threat to entrenched corporate and governmental institutions. Anything built that conspicuously threatens those institutions will be attacked and torn down by existing police agencies utilizing justifications such as investor protection (SEC), anti-money laundering (FinCEN/Interpol), etc. If you build it, they will use it Its major strength is also its biggest weakness Initial adoption will need to fly under the radar, winning the battlefield in inches until adoption spans and mutates into a hydra with too many heads to effectively slay. RECLAIMING OWNERSHIP As I touched upon at my Zel Forum talk, one of the largest impediments to adoption is, and has been, greed. Crypto groupies talk a big talk about reclaiming the agency of our financial system from untrustworthy centralized stewards, but most secretly (and pretty obviously) measure their holdings against centralized gold standard: the USD. Why else would there be hundreds of competitive tokens that all do the same thing when, really, all we need is one store of value coin, one transactional coin, and maybe one privacy coin? The true idealists are few and far between. More troubling is that they remain silent. ( ) Nevertheless, the current economic troubles and insane rate at which central governments have been printing “relief” currency is likely to catalyze a true deviation from mainstream fiat like we haven’t seen since 2009. Where is Satoshi? Or will it? Until next issue, live long and HODL :P Previously published at https://www.timbukher.com/taurus-ascending/taurus-ascending-2-can-blockchain-stop-the-borg

Asking For A Friend: Can Blockchain Stop the Borg?

You’ve added your favorite products to the shopping cart. Now, it’s time to take your credit card out of your wallet and make the payment. As the site is secure and you have already done shopping on this e-commerce website in the past, you don’t think much before entering your credit/debit card details during the checkout. But have you ever imagined that your card details can be stolen when you are making the payment to your favorite online store? Yes, my friend, hackers can steal your card details and make you broke. In fact, stealing card details have become hackers’ new tool to swipe online shoppers’ money. And the term used for this unethical, malicious technique is . Formjacking What exactly is formjacking? Formjacking is almost the same as ATM skimming, the only difference is it happens online. After entering credit or debit card details, when a user of an e-commerce website clicks on submit or its equivalent button, a malicious javascript code injected by a hacker to the e-store collects the credit card details of the user and send this information to the hacker’s server. Once the hacker has the credit card details of users, he/she can use the details to do credit card frauds or sell the details to other cybercriminals on the dark web. Symantec has created an infographic to explain the process. Fromjacking is not a small threat. According to , formjacking attacks soared with an average of 4,800 websites compromised each month. Symantec Popular brands like British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg, and Feedify publically reported formjacking reported by the hacker group . Magecart Who is Magecart? Magecart is a common name given to a group of seven major card-skimming cybercriminals. Magecart threat group was responsible for the recent attack against Ticketmaster, Feedify, British Airways, Everlast, the National Republican Senate Committee, Newegg, Oxo, and Groopdealz. All these seven use the same toolset version, but their tactics and techniques differ. RiskIQ and Flashpoint created a detailed document on different groups of Magecart. You can access the PDF from . From this report, you can learn about each group’s tactics, targets, and victims and what makes these groups different from each other. You will also know about growing criminal underworld that helps these groups work and monetize their campaigns. here How to avoid formjacking Magecart formjacking cybercriminals use malicious JavaScript to steal customers’ credit card information. As they exploit customer payment forms, a web browser-based script blocker can provide protection against formjacking attack. Following are some effective script blockers for popular browsers: ScriptSafe is good for blocking script for Google Chrome and Chrome-based browser like Vivaldi NoScript is effective for blocking intrusive script for Firefox Safari users can use JS blocker As smaller online shopping sites might not have high protection level as the bigger sites have, avoiding shopping from small players can be a proactive way to stay safe online. But attacks on leading brands like British Airways proves that none is safe. But still, any small site is more likely to get attacked than a bigger site. Many times attackers go through the third-party tools and applications. If you’re a site owner, you should test any software update before installing it. Also, you should look for tools that check your website realtime and inform you if there is any change. <a href="https://medium.com/media/3c851dac986ab6dbb2d1aaa91205a8eb/href">https://medium.com/media/3c851dac986ab6dbb2d1aaa91205a8eb/href</a>

Formjacking: Hackers’ New Favorite Way to Steal Credit Card Information (And How to Avoid it)

Because I like the Pareto principle and I don’t like to waste time I will explain what we’ve done in order to get in the top 5 products on Product Hunt. Set a goal for the Product Hunt Launch First of all, set a goal: What would you like to achieve? For us, the goal was to be in the first 5 products of the day to reach the next day newsletter, where we . expose Waydev to 350000 subscribers “Just win baby.” — Al Davis inspired from Ben Horowitz blog post When to launch? The most entrepreneurs decide to launch Tuesday and Wednesday, but also then it’s the most competitive because it is in the middle of the week and somebody else will launch too, so you have to decide if your product is good enough to compete. At Waydev, we didn’t launch until we were sure that the product is ready. Now, after planning your launch date, the fun begins (gathering resources and setting the strategy as a team effort) —I would recommend having a beautiful and visible logo. Logo LOGO —I would recommend having a video or an animated GIF with your product; we’ve chosen to have an animated GIF and a few images of the product. For the animated GIF, we’ve used . Banners CloudApp BANNERS Sell your story, why you created the product? What problem do you solve? What is that unique in your product? Why the Product Hunt community use your product? It’s also important to offer an incentive; you’re dealing with a community of innovators and a good chance many of your early adopters are among them. Like others before us, we decided to offer 50% off if they use “producthunt” coupon on our website Your intro — INTRO Make sure you customize your website for the PH community. For customization, we used , a very useful and easy-to-set-up add-on. Your website — Introbar Write an article on your company blog or personal blog (if you have a following), basically the place where it would gather the most views; it helps push the hype. Blog posting — — Have a newsletter ready to announce to your audience/subscribers you are live on PH. Not all people have an account there, but they may know people that do. The email is best sent out a few hours after the launch so you can give them the direct link. Newsletter If you used Ship to launch your upcoming product, you will have a database where you can send them a newsletter directly from the Product Hunt website. Product Hunt Ship Newsletter — Product Hunt Ship **Social Share —**Post and even promote your launch on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, IG — all the social networks you can find, you never know where a PH groupie is spending his social media time. SOCIAL SHARE Direct Message your community and ask for feedback. Don’t be scared to use DMs to announce your PH launch; the whole point is getting people interested, visiting the link and leaving their feedback and thoughts. DM — Post to groups you are part of, ask for feedback. There are a lot of groups in Facebook, Telegram where you can promote your product, and you may get valuable feedback. We’re part of Stripe Atlas community, and they helped us a lot. Groups — — I cannot emphasize how important this is. It is highly valuable to address each comment be it good or bad; Comments and feedback from the community Results — 1510 users on the landing page 286 users in the app 60 accounts I hope this post was useful and provided some good insights for some upcoming product makers. If you liked the article you can also give us some feedback on Product Hunt and if you are a non-technical founder and want to have a more in-depth look at Waydev, you can try it here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/waydev-1 https://app.waydev.co/demo Have a fantastic product launch and keep making awesome things! Product Hunt official guide — https://blog.producthunt.com/how-to-launch-on-product-hunt-7c1843e06399

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What could be better for the fan than the conversation with his idol? The chatbots allowing to its fans to speak with the stars still can’t do its duty for face-to-face meetings, emotions from visiting a concert, viewing a film or just a pleasure to answering a letter. But they could change the life of many people. The contented fans — this is a pleasure for any celebrity, especially if you haven’t to invest great efforts. It’s no secret that SMM-specialists, who are ready to imitate a personal communication with the fans, very often answer on behalf of celebrity in social media such as Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. Those celebrities who answer on their own come across a huge information flow and they communicate with the fans much less frequently. After all an excessive attention of the fans could interfere with the professional activity, not to mention an invasion of privacy or even an intrusiveness. Obviously the chatbots could solve this problem by offering depersonalized but 24/7 possibility to communicate with the fans and groupies. They can do a lot — tell the news, promote the advertisements, answer the frequent questions or display the videos and the audios. This is the logical extension of the digital communication between the fans and their idols. A correspondence, a concert, a face-to-face meeting, a TV-show, an interview on YouTube, responses on the comments — the chatbot becomes the next logical continuation of all this, becomes something more than just answering machine for the fans. Not only celebrities but their agents believe in it too. Chris Mortimer, the head of digital marketing from Interscope calls Facebook Messenger a critical channel for the artists to reach their admirers. to the source eMarketer just after 2019 more than a quarter of all humanity will use the programs for instant messaging. According From a business perspective, a communication via chatbots almost reasonable. In the first place the high loyalty of audience is matter — the percent of opening could run up to 75% during first 10 minutes greatly that live behind e-mail delivery and other types of contacts. On FB Messenger is platform there are more than 100,000 bots, which allow to business to communicate with clients in real time. This make it possible to set in motion the viral machinery. Before a single “Cold”’s release the Maroon 5’s chatbot sent ten second clip of the song to the all subscribers. A great number of musicians are using the chatbots for notification about their concerts by way of Facebook Messenger: 50 Cent, Aerosmith, Snoop Dogg and Kiss were among the first, and today this list consists of dozens of performers. Many celebrities took a great interest in chatbots, they begin to call them primary and the only way to interact with them. First of all the talk about actress and singer Kristina Milan’s chatbot, she became the first supporter of this technology. Thanks to the personalized answers, Milan’s fans have the feeling of chatting with the real actress, not the automatic chatbot. For achieving this effect the actress regularly communicates with her own chatbot and gradually improves it. It is not necessary to realize such process by hand — thanks to the achievements in the sphere of machine learning and the recognition of the real language, chatbots will be able to gather the necessary information about the personalities from the open sources, to analyze the pronunciation by the videos and audios and then to improve the quality of imitation. in a short time And now imagine that such chatbot could help the Star to became her own holography or virtual copy in the world of mixed reality! We should only add a visual icon and voice interface to the active chatbot and the fans will receive the access to their dream anywhere in the world without taking off VR-headset. According to the Gartner and by 2020 chatbots will be involved in 85% interaction of business with clients. Juniper What daily could force the fans to spend their time for communication with the chatbots? 1.The chatbots give the fans the feeling, that they really speak with their lovely celebrity. 2. The chatbot constantly send fans the useful links about celebrity’s interests: about books, music, events and even about mood. Today the celebrity it is a brand, and then the same problems stand in front of them. Could the consumers communicate with the brand? The chatbots can cope very well with this huge information flow and at the same time giving the mass and personalized interaction. Furthermore the information receiving directly from the fans allows to analyze and to improve the strategy of communication. How the listeners reacted to the new album? Did they like the new role? How strongly do they wait for the new meeting? Now all this questions won’t be in the air, the direct contact allows to celebrities on their audience. to keep their eyes open There is one more case in which chatbots become the only one method of communication with the celebrities. In today’s world the non-existed personalities sometimes have more fans than actors, writers, musicians or other peoples, who are standing behind the virtual figure. It could be such as literary figures, video games’ heros, a superhero from comics and protagonists from video films. The chatbots allow their fans to touch to lovely creation, to save the relations with favorite personages. The Large studios make active use of the chatbots for popularization of TV series and films. TV series Westworld’ s chatbot maintains the illusion of existence of virtual park with androids, and Red Queen’s chatbot from Resident Evil lets fans to feel the impetuosity of Umbrella Corporation. But even such grave studios like Sony (Red Queen’s bot customer for the advertising of a new part of Resident Evil) make an errors during the creation of a chatbot. After a year from bot’s release, it doesn’t answer, leaves the questions without responses. The creation of a stereotyped chatbot for different celebrities is not the way. Only chatbots which have its own personality could draw attention of the fans otherwise there could be the opposite effect. A number of companies base their marketing strategy on creation of the chatbot for celebrities, but in a result each next chatbot becomes only a copy of previous. During the development of a star’s chatbot don’t forget the importance of a personal approach and the understanding of an own fan’s base. And while the actors get into characters, the chatbots continue to maintain its interest to the different franchises, the albums and the celebrities, don’t making them feel the damnation of a one role. If you work with the celebrities or have your own fans, give them the chance to be in contact with you! Address to us and . create Your Own Digital Star for Free White Label Version of Brain (revenue share model) The BRN.AI company is ready to take all technical aspects of a chatbot creation, and you should only decide how you will communicate with your admirers. Start right now and the first demo chatbot will be ready in a few days. Improve your popularity and with the chatbots you will be successful and will have a high exit. CEO Alex Galert BRAIN (brn.ai)

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When I was small I use to everything. Things from solving my math problems to finding my lost pencil at the school. Of course, as a kid, this was my assumption that Google was the grooviest thing where you can find anything and everything. Obviously, as I grew this perception was altered. And now I believe it with even more clarity. Google, for me, is the originator of innovation. Google For the past two years, Google was making the developer preview for its latest grand piece, Android O. Now is the time to celebrate, to welcome the grand- daddy of all. Although it is not available to the general public for now, but for developers, good news is that you can try & test it right away. Download it from . For others, it is advised to sit back and relax for the official launch. here Let’s Start With What Is Newfangled In Android O The first preview in the market brought some exciting expansions for mobile and developers in general. Now you can use custom fonts and icons with more precision. Enhancements in audio which made it more professional. More ways to connect with users with local social apps and head-to-head global gaming. app development The Improved Battery Life Keeping the tradition intact Google in Android O took a one step ahead and laser-focused its efforts on apps running in the background. With the groundbreaking technology, Android O is equipped with processes that minimize the battery usage. As per one of the chief executives in Google, Dave Burke: “We’ve put additional automatic limits on what apps can do in the background, in three main areas: implicit broadcasts, background services, and location updates.” However, to judge Google Android O just by battery life is judging a by its cover. There is a lot more to look for in O than just the battery itself. book In Android, O Google took the competition to the next level by resolving the multi-tasking of apps issue with improved working procedures. Grouped Notifications Is A Life Saver It is habitual for Google to tweak some items with every update for the notification bar. But with O, Android one step ahead and introduced ‘group notifications’ A superb feature that can help to declutter your mind with no non-sense burden of features that pop-up randomly in the notification bar. These are now called ‘channels’ Custom Adaptive Icon Development For Developers If the above doesn’t impress you hers in one more update. Now with O, the app developers can make custom adaptive icons which can adjust the shape and color of the icons based on the theme of your phone. This is a pretty much new feature which is not available on iOS or any other platform in the market. Furthermore, there are some additions in the navigation screen that will be a roof-raisingly cool addition for Android users. A clean picture-in-picture mode for watching videos Instead of traditional system alert now you can enjoy the new pop-up window of the app. Fantastic new ways for keyboard navigation, which includes improved arrow and tab button navigation. Multi-display support for launching an activity on a remote display which sounds more like PowerPoint on Android phone. Lastly, developers have requested some features to be added to make the app more professional and less hassle-free. Autofill APIs which will be great plus point for password managers to register themselves as the official autofill app preventing some of the hassles. A telecom framework so the third-party apps can act like first-class phone apps. Here app developers are requesting for ‘network aware networking’ which will allow all Android devices to communicate more proficiently than Wi-Fi even when the internet is not connected. Although Google is claiming that speed is 2X then the previous version but app developers are requesting for Java 8 APIs that will be best at this time. For now, App Developers can test the Android O on a desktop emulator or one of the following devices Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel C, Nexus Player, Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X. If you are a developer and willing to try you can manually download and try it yourself, rather than sign up for the updates. Here is Original Blog Post

Google’s Android O Sprinting Its Way With Promising Features For Mobile App Developers

I have not seen GirlBoss, nor have I read the book. I actually plan on watching it because I imagine I’m going to have feminism about it. Tracy was always an intense kid. Like, would get frustrated when her guinea pigs didn’t run the obstacle course she spent weeks designing and . Hours spent after school over the desk in her bedroom, she’s an only child, measuring, cutting, and rubber cementing pieces together to make platforms, jumps, and ramps. When it’s presented to the guinea pigs — Butterscotch, Honey, and Toffee — they sniffed it, and ran away. Then the guinea pigs started chewing on the obstacle course, Tracy had accidentally used cans of old lead-based paint she found in the back of the garage, and they keeled over dead two days later. THAT kind of intense. That’s Tracy. Accidentally poisoning prey animals in the hopes they will love her. painting Tracy likes clothes. She likes clothes more than you. She spent years looking at old copies of Rolling Stone, focusing on the iconic looks of the 1960’s and 70’s, and playing the Doors on her dad’s record player. Her parents are still together, and they have no idea how why she has hyper-focus rivaled only by a very hungry shark. Tracy was always a good student but her eyes weren’t really on grades. Tracy always wanted to be a groupie but never “unclenched” enough to pursue the true vagabond lifestyle. Also, she didn’t like shitting outside at music festivals. However, she ticked all the boxes: tried some drugs, stayed out all night, and stole money from her parents’ wallets for beer. She wasn’t terribly bad, but there was a whole situation during prom season where she charged $1,200 to her mother’s credit card to buy a vintage dress off the Internet. It turned out to be a fake, Tracy got grounded, and the credit card company recovered the cash. About one third of the way through this show, no one will really know why they are here. It’s a good thing this is a binge watching type deal but it’s going to require a lot of set up, as things about fashion often do. I can tell this is going to start off boring because there’s basically nothing else in this fucking poster but Tracy and her outfit. Tracy and her outfits are the only stars. Well, and her attitude. I am not saying the outfit isn’t good. I’m just saying it’s not a plot. Tracy’s resourceful, you see. She wants to make money and to wear cool clothes. She’s the face of new Millennial, side-hustle-gone-main-hustle, entrepreneurial spirit. She is the walking lie that if you just work hard enough, and hustle on down, there is money to be made and it will be yours. The Internet has made it possible for even perfectly comfortable, middle-class, conventionally attractive, white girls to succeed. Tracy started at the middle, now she here. Tracy is probably going to be unlikable the way all ambitious and intense women are unlikable. She will be strong-willed, and reckless. Swollen and saturated with her own hubris. However, unlike Mark Zuckerberg who just had to tolerate Rooney Mara giving him a speech about how no women will want to fuck him because he’s a verifiable shitstain, Tracy’s hubris will have consequences. Don’t get me wrong, I’d pay BIG MONEY to watch Rooney Mara tell Tracy that women won’t date her because she’s an asshole. Like, take my fucking money. Screen grabs from the Social Network But that’s not going to happen. Of course, there will probably be a happy ending for Tracy but it won’t necessarily be financial success. She will fail hard and experience the sort of tragedy that parents bail their kids out of if they can. Tracy will forget this when she congratulates herself on the success of whatever her next venture is. Probably lifecoaching. In fact, she’ll get a boyfriend who loves her petite, lily-white, kinda selfish self, and she’ll get a dog and be fulfilled. With a man. But also gurl has those shoes. Hi! If you like my work please support my . You can also hop over to if you want to read more of my stuff. Patreon my website

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