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As noticed by Android Authority on Monday morning, some YouTube users are now seeing a disruptive prompt when they try to watch videos while using a browser with an ad blocker. The prompt notes that "ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service" and urges users to either allow ads on YouTube or subscribe to YouTube Premium.

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YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs

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The efforts to remove Santos from Congress could see a vote with the entire House as early as Wednesday evening. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., who is leading the push to expel Santos, has called his fellow New York lawmaker “unfit to serve.”

House Republican pushes to oust Rep. George Santos from Congress over criminal charges, lies

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George Santos accused of making unauthorized purchases with campaign donors credit cards

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In the latest indication that Republican senators are deeply divided over tying aid for Ukraine to Israel funding, Sen. Lindsey Graham said it would be “huge mistake” to separate the two after listening to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.

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Senate GOP split on whether to endorse House’s plan to pass Israel aid separately

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Step2, the category leader in play kitchens, push cars, water tables, playhouses and climbers, is sharing their lineup of new and best-selling toys to help parents and gift givers get an early start on their holiday shopping.

Step2 Introduces New Toys for the Holiday Season

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Business Insider

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Critics are renewing calls to ban TikTok, arguing that the most popular content related to the Israel-Hamas war on the app has a pro-Palestinian slant.

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Critics renew calls for a TikTok ban, claiming the platform has an anti-Israel bias

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The internet has backed a woman who broke up with her boyfriend after he bought her expensive cruise tickets for her birthday.

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Woman Dumping Boyfriend After He Bought a Cruise for Her Birthday Backed

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Newsweek

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Marketing

There are various marketing strategies companies can use to engage their audience. In this article, we’ll discuss the differences between pull and push marketing, and how Feedbax can assist you with pull marketing, even on a limited or zero budget.

Pull & Push Marketing

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Philadelphia Eagles

The "tush push" – "Brotherly Shove," "rugby play," or whatever else one may call it – has become vital to Philadelphia’s success and driven opponents and their fans mad in an effort to stop what is, overall,

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Eagles' signature 'tush push' is the play that has vexed the rest of the NFL

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Despite having an impressive 92% success rate with the Tush Push, Jalen Hurts is still taking a massive risk that could result in a serious injury that would set the Eagles back in the season.

Tom Brady issues Jalen Hurts a warning on dangerous Tush Push play with the Eagles

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Fox News Channel

Conservative firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., launched a new fundraising push Wednesday seeking to capitalize on his successful gambit to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as well as the ...

Matt Gaetz uses McCarthy ouster, boos from colleagues to launch campaign fundraising push

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This post was originally published on The Startup Project blog. Facebook has been the Uber of 2018. They had a negative breaking headline every other week, centered around issues of privacy, social engineering, and national security. The reason for this is the decade long dissemination of content without any regulation under the legal construct for a platform. By not acknowledging itself as a media company they evaded all the rules that come along with it. Just think, would content flow with such irreverence on any other traditional media platform, and that too without any editorial oversight? Even now the reason for the outrage is because half of the country was pissed at the election result. From now on, one half will always be pissed off at Facebook, but which half will that be might change, or worse might be controlled. The outrage is guaranteed but the change is not. The deeper structure reveals here is how these bubbles of information are formed. How the internet which is supposed to be an intellectual utopia with a vast abundance of knowledge has now just reduced to serve the most relevant ad; how you are suggested to watch the hippest TV show because you made the mistake of watching a hip show before (you can replace hip with original ); how you are suggested the same and same videos or news links to reinforce your pattern. The amazing job done by collaborating filtering algorithms on Netflix, Google, Amazon, and Facebook is just the start of AI and we are no way closer to the singularity. But there is already a critical flaw with this algorithmic intelligence, in a qualitative sense. The flaw is "Reduce everyone to one". It means millions of people are being reduced to a couple of persons (or a couple of groups) in theory, making individuals more of the same and more predictable. If everyone watched the same Netflix shows, buys the same stuff from Amazon, listens to the same songs on Spotify the idea of an individual personality will end. What will remain is a which you as an individual will belong to. ‘group personality’ The biggest side effect coming from the reduction to a group personality is individuals losing their creativity or not forming their personalities that would have otherwise been formed. Not being exposed to cultures, content, product & news that would otherwise change you or make you a more creative being. This is the result of a "push life". We as individuals have become for the recommendation algorithms. pushovers YouTube will push you to watch the next video, Netflix will push you the next episode to watch, Spotify will PUSH you the songs to listen (the modern version of billboard 50 but for your group). Once you start watching Fox News or MSNBC, Google will only push news from those sources on your android mobile. Combine all of this with the blatant use of the literal push notification is basically taking control of your attention — whatever that is left of it. The pushover life is simple, easy, pleasurable, and non-creative, but most importantly very profitable for the companies pushing it. The push life will never allow you to reach your true potential as an individual genetic combination, capable of something uniquely creative. You will never discover that author that would have changed your life, you will never actually become you. But this cycle can be broken, only if you choose to. You can move to the pull life. In pull life, you watch a video not because YouTube suggested it but you were curious about something. You buy something not because its bundled by Amazon but you need something and has been lingering on your mind for a while, you watch a new TV show because you got to know it’s directed by your favorite director. You listen to your next song because you heard it on your Uber ride or because some friend sent you. This means you will not immediately watch the next stranger things on Netflix. This means you might not watch the most trending video on YouTube. This means you will not read the most trending book on Amazon. But this will mean you will let your mind roam free and listen to or watch or buy stuff or read because of your own interest and not because it’s the closest match of your collaborative filtering group done on a cloud service. As Sammy Davis Jr would say — I gotta be me, I’ve gotta be me What else can I be but what I am With push life you will never truly be you. But I want to be me so, I have taken the blue pill. Do you want to be you? PS — Those two lines above don’t reflect the greatness of the song, listen it . here

The Obvious Flaw in Recommendation Systems

Websites who have accidentally leaked my email/password in the past News out that this week that all of Dropbox’s email addresses and passwords were hacked about four years ago. Bummer. Were you one of those people? Well if you had a Dropbox earlier than 2012 then yes. If you’re unsure then go to and you can check. https://haveibeenpwned.com So you’ve changed your password now? Good, well done. Dropbox is now safe again for you. Quick question though — was that the only place you used that email/password combo. You know, matt99@gmail.com / monkey, Or did you use it for Amazon / Apple / Gmail or any of your other accounts. Dropbox Before we go any further let me say that in this case you are probably safe even if you did. This is because Dropbox carefully encrypted your password. But treat this as a fire-drill because this is not always the case. . and one of them belonged to a Dropbox employee who had used the same username and password inside the Dropbox company network. It was and then to get access their database and passwords. Dropbox was hacked as a result of an earlier hack on LinkedIn The LinkedIn passwords were not all securely encrypted that password which was used to get into the Dropbox network Now I’m about to explain to you in very simple terms how a website encrypts your password and why it makes a difference when you use a strong one. Are you listening? Good then I shall begin. So this is the big problem. People use the same passwords everywhere. Which means when there is a data breach like this, the passwords can often be used elsewhere (like the LinkedIn ones were). And what hackers do when millions of passwords get hacked is to try them en-masse against interesting sites where they can make money, like and Apple and Paypal. Or use them to hack into company networks like Dropbox. Or yours. Amazon If you used different passwords everywhere then all they’ve got access to is the original site that was hacked. But if you don’t then all of a sudden your Apple, Amazon and Paypal accounts are all hacked too. All because one employee in Silicon Valley used the same password at two websites. Scary huh? How a website secures your your password When you sign up to a website and set a password, the site stores that password so it can check it next time you come back. This happens in one of three ways: It stores it without encryption (very bad) This is a just like writing it down in a spreadsheet with no password protection. This is super insecure as when someone gets access to the spreadsheet they literally get your password. There are plenty of old or budget sites that still do this so always expect the worst. The hacker doesn’t need to do anything to decrypt your password. They just find them and then sell them on the darkweb to people who will monetise them. It encrypts it using a simple form of encryption (better) This is one step better. Your password is now encrypted which makes it hard to see what the original was. Encryption is hard to undo and computationally expensive. Well except not so much now… That used to be the case until one day some dude said — hey, why don’t I encrypt ALL OF THE WORDS and then I’ll have a big table of words + encrypted_words. I don’t need to bother decrypting a password any more I just look up the encrypted version and see what the original was. This is what’s called a rainbow table. A rainbow table showing the encrypted password (hash) and the original version (clear) These rainbow tables list all common words and passwords along with their encrypted versions and then let someone look them up the other way around. So let’s say you’re a hacker and you’ve got yourself the encrypted version of a password: d0763edaa9d9bd2a9516280e9044d885. All you need to do is take that and go to a site like where you can paste it in (try it it works) and it’ll look it up and tell you what the original password was. That’s the encrypted version of the word . Crackstation monkey You found me It encrypts it using a salt (best) Rainbow tables don’t cover all of the possible letter and number strings in the world — it would just be too hard to do and take too much computing power (and would also be impossible). So they have to do only a limited selection of letter and number combinations — like all words or phrases. The reason rainbow tables work is that most people use simple passwords. And many people use AWFUL passwords. : The top 10 passwords of 2015 were 1. 1234562. password3. 123456784. qwerty5. 123456. 1234567897. football8. 12349. 123456710. baseball ( was down six at #18) monkey Now remember a rainbow table is made by going through a list of passwords, encrypting them in advance (time consuming) so they can be looked up (quickly) later. However there isn’t the computing power or the disk space to create a table of all possible number and letter combinations. So a rainbow table only covers the spectrum of passwords the originator had the budget to encrypt. The next step up in making your password less hackable is to make it less likely that the rainbow table will contain it. You do that by making using a longer or less common password (I’m sorry but ?). Or… the website can do this for you. They do this by generating a big fat random letter/number combination and stick it on the end of your password for you before they use it. football Every time you create a password at a website that does this, the site will also create a random string for you — say 51dc30ddc473d4. It then adds that string to your password so it becomes monkey51dc30ddc473d4 and then it encrypts it. When you next log in it does the same thing again. It takes the password you submitted, “monkey” and adds it to the salt (which it stores separately), “51dc30ddc473d4” , encrypts the combination of the two of them and checks the result against the stored, encrypted version. If it matches the site lets you in. : monkey : 51dc30ddc473d4 monkey51dc30ddc473d4**Encrypted version** 11EC055CD41848A7D684E104525C8439 Your password Salt Password and salt: Now try entering this at . It won’t find it. Because the dude who created the rainbow tables didn’t originally try encrypting because that would have just been too expensive (literally a lot of computing cost). Crackstation monkey51dc30ddc473d4 So the point of this is that it basically makes it too expensive to generate a lookup table that will let you unwind the password/salt combo (remember computers may be fast but they cost money). For the love of god use a password manager The long and short of all of this is that when a big site gets hacked and passwords get released, hackers can unwind those encrypted passwords to get the originals. And then they try them at all the other big sites. So if you were part of the LinkedIn hack and used the same password at Amazon a hacker is going to be able to use your LinkedIn username/password to get into your amazon account. I would say you should consider getting a password manager. And if you don’t then you’re putting your head in the sand deeper than a Trump-voting Brexiter. So stop queueing up to buy Nigel a pint at the bar, shake the sand out of your toupé and pay attention for a minute. But you shouldn’t consider it. You have to get one. is the manager I and lots of other people I respect use and it has three big benefits: 1Password 1. It makes it easier to enter passwords It works on OSX, Windows and on your mobile device. There’s are great Chrome and Safari plugins as well as an iOS and Android app that makes it easy to use on mobile. You just push a button to enter your username and password at a website. On iOS it uses thumbprint login. It’s sweet. 2. It makes it easy to create different passwords for different websites The way to make yourself more secure to breaches is to use different passwords everywhere. That way when one website gets hacked it’s firewalled from all of your other website accounts. If you have to remember passwords then that gets really hard but if you have a password manager it’s trivial. 3. It helps you generate secure passwords that are harder to crack Every time you come to a new site 1Password will offer to generate a new super-secure password for you, like : LzD9p]hpaFVGh3=f+. Which you are unlikely to find in many Rainbow tables. See whether you’ve already been hacked Still not convinced of the risk? Go to it will tell you whether a site with your email address has ever been part of a database breach. Mine has at least 4 times — Adobe, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Tumblr have all had a user/password from me when their databases were cracked. https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Do yourself a favour and and in to using different unique passwords. You don’t have to do it all in one go and it makes life easier in the short term (so nice not having to remember passwords) and safer in the long term. (I get nothing if you sign up — just doin’ this to share the love) invest in a password manager gradually converting your existing accounts https://1password.com/ Website that shows you whether your email was compromised in a hack: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Password Manager that protects you https://1password.com/ Great story Peter — who are you? Nice of you to ask. I’m the founder of which is re-engineering how email groups and email distribution lists work inside companies. If you’re interested then . Copyin.com get in touch Next generation email groups

So Dropbox got hacked

Data is getting more and more accessible and is increasingly being used to inform the way businesses operate. Data-driven organizations are able to move quickly, focus on the customer and promote a culture of making accurate decisions based on data. The more creatively businesses use this data, it seems, the better they become at managing their time. Using a platform like , for instance, businesses are able to manage their data and use it to improve daily processes. The platform syncs data across various apps to help the business automate its processes and improve productivity. It's easy to manage and requires no coding expertise. Appy Pie Connect Depending on your type of business, you might be compelled to turn your database into . One reason to do this is to keep your customers updated with fresh information. dynamic or static web content You may also need to give your users the ability to easily modify web content irrespective of their technical skills. Traditionally, the challenge for web designers has been going through all the technical hoops. Even when they are able to do it with ease, the process takes time and requires even more time maintaining the website by manually updating the content. Today you can do all of this without  using any backend code or even logging in to any CMS. Using data push technology, the following three tools make it possible to build and automatically update websites. 1. Sheet2Site helps you create websites from Google Sheets. It's as simple as it sounds: You enter data into a Google Spreadsheet using add-ons or Zapier. Sheet2Site Sheet2Site automatically turns that into a beautifully functional website. According to its website, you can get such a website in just five minutes. Some users have reported creating entire websites within minutes. You can create grid-style sites such as collections of pictures with beautiful pictures and links. You can use it creatively to make lists of cities, tools, equipment, events, animals, plants or artwork. You can even customize the design and domain. And you get to manage all this from a simple spreadsheet. You don't need to know how to code or any complex technical skill. Essentially, if you can enter data into a spreadsheet you can create a website with Sheet2Site, and quickly. Additionally, you get a wide collection of templates and the ability to customize them to fit your brand. 2. Utilize Duda's “Connected Data" feature Duda is a web design platform built for agencies, digital publishers and hosting companies. If your company builds and manages websites for small businesses, this might be worth a look. The platform is rich with collaboration and client management tools that enable its clients to build responsive, fast-loading and out-of-the-box SEO websites. Among these features is contained within the Content Library. This tool which is among the latest additions to the platform allows users to connect site widgets to data from various external sources. Connected Data This data must then be contained within the Content Library where it's easily retrieved to design beautiful, functional and mobile-ready websites. There are three main ways of updating the Content Library with data but one allows you to push the data. Meaning, it's automatically sent as soon as it's generated. Using the Content Library API, you can push the content and automatically connect it to various website widgets. This is useful to many business owners because they always have data stored in an external source be it their own contact form, Salesforce, etc. With a single source of truth, the Content Library, you can be assured that the website will always be updated and know exactly what it shows visitors at any time. You also no longer have to manually update the data in each widget as the Content Library contains all the data you may need to use ensuring site-wide consistency. Here's how the process looks: 3. ButterCMS is in the class of “headless” CMSs. A headless CMS is like a traditional content management system but it's back-end only. ButterCMS While it allows creating, reading and updating of content, it doesn't offer a way to present it. Because of this lack of a front-end delivery layer, brands are allowed to use a tool of their choice to deliver the content. In the hyper-connected world where users are consuming content from so many devices, the brand has no choice but to be present in all the formats. Thus, you want your content to be delivered beyond websites and apps to smartwatches, VR headsets and kiosks. ButterCMS uses its API-first technology to save users “thousands of dollars worth of development time.” Besides allowing you to create a feature-rich website, the CMS requires no maintenance from you as it takes care of its own security upgrades, performance troubleshooting and hosting. Conclusion There's no shortage of business data. With the ever-increasing connectedness comes a treasure trove of data for businesses that care enough to harness it. Once collected, this can be organized into meaningful information for consumers and shared online. Using data pushes, your business can turn this into an avenue for staying engaged with your customers. One of these tools might be just what you need to make this happen.

3 Ways You Can Build and Update Websites Using Data Pushes

It would seem that nobody in Hollywood understands , or Hollywood doesn’t care about what it says about cryptocurrencies, it just wants to make money, in dollars, not . cryptocurrency bitcoin Why am I talking about Hollywood? Because Hollywood has just released the film “Crypto” starring Kurt Russell, who you may remember from “Escape from New York,” “The Hateful Eight” and a whole host of other box office favourites. Or, perhaps you think of him as the husband of Goldie Hawn! The film, which I have not seen yet as will only released in the US on 12th April, pushes a bitcoin for money laundering narrative. It is an approach that the mainstream media has been pushing to the public for some time. It’s that ‘only dodgy people use crypto’ story. It is a bit of a tired story as well, but that didn’t stop the scriptwriters from taking it up and running with it. According to IMDB, “Crypto” is a crime thriller about a Wall Street banker who gets caught up in a global money-laundering conspiracy involving the Russian mafia and is described as a cyber-thriller. Well, that’s original; bad Russians yet again. And now bad Russians with bitcoin — even more dangerous! The movie’s tagline is “fear is the ultimate currency,” which gives us a further clue about what to expect. Needless to say, and I have sympathy with this, the crypto-supporting community is not pleased about the approach Hollywood has taken in this film; its members were hoping for something better. As Samantha Chang notes at ,“the trailer has been viewed more than 312,000 times in 24 hours — presumably by crypto fans who recognize that having Hollywood make a bitcoin-centric movie signals that crypto has become mainstream.” CCN Panned on YouTube by crypto community They were so deeply disappointed that they have left numerous messages on , and as you may guess, they are not over-enthusiastic: YouTube “Yes,… it’s here. The dumbest film ever made about something that the writers don’t understand.” “Russia bad. Crypto bad. Smart people bad unless working for government. Thanks Hollywood, for yet another original plot.” “I imagine there will be a ten minute tense standoff while they wait for the block chain to verify a transaction. Good times.” “I like Kurt Russell but I wish I could give this more than one “thumbs down”. It is a movie written by people that do not understand crypto at all — just misinforming the masses.” I have to agree with the last one, because that sums it up nicely. Great actors — lousy plotline. Try to do better Hollywood.

Hollywood pushes fake news to the masses about bitcoin

From Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to Airbnb’s Brian Chesky, tech CEOs are voicing they’re opposition to the new US zero-tolerance policy. The zero-tolerance policy initiated by the Trump Administration last month and the consequent impact resulting in the separation of children and minors from their parents at the border is not just a subject of discussion in Congress. Silicon Valley has been voicing concerns and technology leaders are appalled. , CEO at Airbnb, and his co-founders and , have released a statement — posted in both English and Spanish on Twitter — calling for the US government “to stop this injustice and reunite these families.” Brian Chesky Joe Gebbia Nathan Blecharczyk We are a better country than this. At Facebook, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerber and COO Sheryl Sandberg are fundraising for organizations like the and RAICES. Texas Civil Rights Project “Listening to the cries of children separated from their parents is unbearable,” wrote Sandberg in a post. “The practice of family separation on our border needs to end now.” We can’t look away. According to the fundraising campaign page on Facebook , more than 137,000 have so far donated a total of almost $6 million. Reunite an immigrant parent with their child Similarly, of Twitter has posted on the platform to support RAICES. Jack Dorsey Dorsey has also retweeted of about ways to make your voices heard, whether through participating in the June 30th protests around the country or by calling your representative in Congress. Ben Wikler MoveOn.org At , co-founder and CEO tweeted his and his company support 12 organizations “to help the families and children that are being unjustly separated at the border.” The organizations include RAICES, Texas Civil Rights Project, . Lyft Logan Green KIND , new CEO at , has also tweeted using hashtag #KeepFamiliesTogether. An immigrant too, as he pointed out in his post, Khosrowshaki said that “families are the backbone of society” and that the Administration policy is “immoral and just plain wrong.” Dara Khosrowshahi Uber His thoughts are echoed by , CEO at Google, who said the policy is “gut-wrenching.” Sundar Pichai YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki also took to Twitter. At Apple, CEO Tim Cook : “It’s heartbreaking to see the images and hear the sounds of the kids. Kids are the most vulnerable people in any society. I think that what’s happening is inhumane, it needs to stop.” commented from Dublin, Ireland Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins used words like “cruel” and “un-American” in his tweet. CEO tweeted linking to RAICES. SurveyMonkey zander lurie , founder and CEO of , also went to Twitter with a very personal story about his grandmother. Jonah Peretti BuzzFeed “My grandmother was a refugee who told me the story of being briefly separated from her parents as she fled and the sheer terror of wondering if she’d ever see them again,” he wrote. “The experience was still traumatizing as she shared it 60 years later.” Marc Benioff of retweeted two tweets by CBS News correspondent David Begnaud. Salesforce Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has been vocal about his stance toward immigration, as his father — a Cuban immigrant — came to the U.S as a teenager. He reiterated on Sunday. According to , alongside his wife MacKenzie, Bezos donated $33 million to , which helps undocumented students brought to the U.S. as children pay for a college education. this message in a tweet inc. magazine TheDream.us Here on , Twilio founder and CEO called what the Administration is doing by separating families at the border “a war crime.” Medium jeffiel Intentionally separating families is objectively wrong, and we must fight it vigorously. No matter what excuses are made, let’s call this what it is: collective punishment. The practice of punishing family members is not just morally offensive, it’s also a war crime under the Geneva Accord. _Intentionally separating families is objectively wrong, and we must fight it vigorously. No matter what excuses are…_medium.com Separating immigrant families isn’t just wrong, it’s a war crime Different the situation for Microsoft. As mentioned by , the company “found itself in the crosshairs for not only having ICE as a customer, but also having that it was ‘proud’ of that association.” Axios blogged in January The company issued a statement: “As a company, Microsoft is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border. Family unification has been a fundamental tenant of American policy and law since the end of World War II. As a company Microsoft has worked for over 20 years to combine technology with the rule of law to ensure that children who are refugees and immigrants can remain with their parents. We need to continue to build on this noble tradition rather than change course now. We urge the administration to change its policy and Congress to pass legislation ensuring children are no longer separated from their families.” Along those lines also a previous post on LinkedIn by Brad Smith, the company president and chief legal officer. _This Father's Day provides an opportunity to recall one thing we shouldn't take for granted - the opportunity to be…_www.linkedin.com Father's Day: A Day for Families to Be Together LinkedIn’s CEO also posted on the platform. He shared on and commented: “The separation of children from their parents at the border is cruel, inhumane and beneath us as a country.” Jeff Weiner an article by Annabelle Timsit Quartz _The separation of children from their parents at the border is cruel, inhumane and beneath us as a country. Here's a…_www.linkedin.com Jeff Weiner on LinkedIn: "The separation of children from...

Silicon Valley pushes to #KeepFamilesTogether

Yesterday, my four year old came running to me proudly announcing he had crossed level 108 playing Candy Crush. It should have been a proud moment for me, for I never even got past the first few. But it wasn’t. A quick math leads me to believe that he would have spent at least 60 hours of this beautiful little phase of life we call childhood. My father would always be very proud of me for the same thing when I was this young. Heck he would even invite his friends over just to “show uncle how you play that game”. Uncles, would watch in amazement as I would take on each boss in Mario. Some would even ask me to teach their own kids, as they “do nothing else but while away time, playing random games in the streets”. Let’s set this straight, I am not jealous of my son. This is more of a self disappointment. I couldn’t (and probably never will) be able to give him the kind of childhood I had, the one my father gave me. Irrespective of the stuff around, there would always be a game to play. Photo by on Belle Maluf Unsplash Our childhood was rough. Not the “abusive-family” rough but we belonged to a neighborhood that had exposure to real sports. It involved playing games in the streets, falling down, bruising yourself, fighting, crying, patching up, and falling and bruising again. We’d get home black and blue and make up stories, whatever we thought our moms would buy. That is why, I have always been a proponent of letting the kids out in the open. Those tiny bodies need that to develop, their brains need to solve real problems as they arise, sometimes for survival. Like avoiding that ball headed right towards your eye or just being alert enough to avoid breaking a limb. Sometimes failing, sometimes winning and going home at dawn with an accomplished feeling. The that tiring sore pain was sure to give a good night’s sleep. These kids don’t have those benefits. I’m concerned also, as I find my son stuck to products created to make us adults feel good about themselves, maybe take their mind off life’s complexities, to unwind. This is a sort of addiction, to the apps and games designed specifically to snatch from him the period of life we all yearn to go back to. And that’s just the beginning. It is the troubling knowledge of the fact that the people who designed these games understand my son’s better than I do. This worries me! psychology As human beings, we have come a long way from the cave-dwelling specie we once used to be. We got our fight or flight reflexes from that. Flat, lean feet enabled us to be quick enough to run away from wild threats. After all, we had already figured we’d be much faster on two feet instead of four limbs like every other animal around us was used to. This was our past. We are still evolving, so here’s my attempt to figure what the generations to come would look like. It left me nervous. Bulging, myopic sight, tired of focusing on five and a half inch screens. Thumbs as thin as stylus improved over time to click better and faster. Ears incapable of hearing anything not coming through in-ear headphones. Weak bones and body structure from the lack of physical movement. We already have a hard time keeping up with nutrition and healthy diets. I can’t even imagine what it’d be like for them. My son is around a decade away from having any meaningful conversations with the opposite gender. But he has already adopted the selfie culture, they can’t just take a pic with a straight smiling face anymore! Maybe I am just being paranoid, or harsh. It’s thought provoking though, more geeks are coming out now than ever. Thins could even be a good thing. But I call upon, and would kill for an idea, that puts kids back to where they belong — the playgrounds. I announce today that I will personally back and use all my resources to make such a project successful, so it reaches to the masses. Our kids may not be thankful for this today, but they’ll come around, they’re kids after all. An idea, a , a game, anything. Something that will motivate these tiny ones to put their tablets/phones/phablets/screens away and sweat it out in the grounds. So they rely on their food for energy, not on external validation from others. So fathers like me can teach them a thing or two about football. startup So families can once again bond over board-games on Sundays. Days where privileges and gifts were achievement-based. You had to work to get that bicycle/video game. I am looking for a carrot red enough to lure him out of the house. Somebody who will do something better with my son’s attention and not just channel it for personal benefit. I’d love to play a pivotal role in taking such an idea to the masses. This is an appeal to everyone who’s working on such an idea. Come forth, let’s make their lives better!

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