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April 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

INDIAN DATER FROM INDIANAPOLIS – Are unsuccessful dates refundable? A woman has shared her horror online after being mailed an invoice for her half of a dinner date after she …

Happiness / Life

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATE SCHOOL DATING – When you use your old school tie to tie up your girlfriend to a bed: The world’s first dating app for the privately-educated has launched — …

Politics

April 14, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FACEBOOK VS THE DAILY CHRENK – Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by a few Senators about the political bias at Facebook, which results in right-of-centre members being kicked …

Politics

April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WILL THEY EVER FORGIVE ZUCK? I see a tweet like this and have three instant takeaways: 1. Twitter usership heavily skews left. Apart from tweets from Trump himself, I can’t …

Politics

April 11, 2018April 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE BEST TAKES ON “MR ZUCKERBERG GOES TO WASHINGTON”– Twitter can be awful at the best of time, but when it’s good it’s great. Mark Zuckerberg to be grilled by …

Politics

April 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNION LIVES MATTER – Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi: For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement …

Politics

April 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHO NEEDS RUSSIAN TROLLS? – Welcome down the rabbit hole where not only the fake news about the right are manufactured by the left but the fake news about the …

Life

April 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO – This is the technological equivalent of a restaurateur who never eats at his own venue: Koduri and Shahi represent a new …

Politics

March 30, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SOCIAL MEDIA KILLED A BLOGGING STAR – I have written about this briefly myself, when after 9 year break I returned to blogging: blogging is dead, certainly the political blogging …

Politics

March 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

ANALYSING CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA – If you read one thing about the controversy, read Chris Kavanagh in Medium: If you follow the Guardian or the New York Times, or any major news network, you are …

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Politics

In communism, the government rates you

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Another reminder, if one is needed (the voice-over: one is, sadly, always needed) of the difference between the democratic and autocratic societies, the open and the closed ones, the individualistic …

Politics

March 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WONDER WOMAN NOT SO WONDERFUL – You’re not safe tweeting nice things about the dead because some people will think they are not nice: [Gal] Gadot, like many celebrities, paid …

Politics

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

“YOUTUBE NEW MODERATORS MISTAKENLY PULL RIGHT-WING CHANNELS” – “Mistakenly”: YouTube’s new moderators, brought in to spot fake, misleading and extreme videos, stumbled in one of their first major tests, mistakenly …

Politics

February 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GOOD ARGUMENT, CONTRADICTS ITSELF – Rod Dreher is worried about the power of the 21st century lynch mobs: Even if you think the NRA deserves what it gets, you ought …

Politics

February 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MORE IN SOROS THAN IN ANGER – I intensely dislike a man who can write, and apparently believe, this sort of garbage: The current moment in world history is a …

Life / Politics

February 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THOSE ZANY ICELANDERS – Iceland’s major new industry is mining. Bitcoin mining: Iceland is expected to use more energy “mining” bitcoins and other virtual currencies this year than it uses …

Politics

February 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

TIME TO BUST? – Two interesting (and long) pieces about the Four Horsemen (sorry, Horsepeople (Centaurs?)) of App-ocalypse. Scott Galloway at “Esquire”: And “Eve Smith” at “Economist”: Both worth your …

Culture / Politics

January 29, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

NOT AS SIMPLE AS ABC – The empire expands: ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie wants its online streaming service, ABC iView to become a global product similar to Netflix with reports it …

Happiness / Life / Politics

January 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHAT TO DO AFTER APOCALYPSE POSTPONED – 1. Kiss my lowed ones. 2. Call my friends. 3. Pray thanksgiving. 4. Walk outside and hug a stranger. 5. Nah, scrap all …

Happiness / Life

January 11, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE MAP OF THE DAY – The world according to Pornhub: Via the fascinating “2017 Year in Review” report. Last year, some 68 years of video was uploaded onto this …