Mark ☑️ @cdllm@mastodon.technology

REMEMBER: IF YOU CAN'T MAKE GOOD CHOICES, AT LEAST MAKE BADASS CHOICES.

🚨🚨🚨 Really major Gmail phishing attack going around right now. Do NOT click on an unexpected "Open in Docs" link.

Whether or not you have, now is a great time to review the apps you've authed to your account: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

I feel like 2016/2017 is trying to prove that 'any press is good press' is right

The real story in the Pepsi protest ad controversy (http://wapo.st/2nXHry4), to me anyway, is how Pepsi has always tried to position itself as the "counter-cultural" soda. In "The Attention Merchants," Tim Wu talks about how Pepsi ran ads in the 60's featuring hippies, with the slogan "you're in the Pepsi Generation." Then in the 80's there were the Micheal Jackson ads, back when he was still a bit controversial as MTV's first black artist. New decade, same strategy.

What nobody told you about the tech bubble: as the pressure rises to pay back investors on the millions they pumped in, the strategy shifts from: "haha try our hip social networking app, teens! yolo harambe dog filters" to "haha hey you're hip, don't you want to shop at the Gap Old Navy Forever 21 please click all these ads also we've learned your underwear size through tracking"

GOTCHA!

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What's all the fuzz about the 90s kids? I only remember my very weird haircuts!