She was a secretary. She saw a need and saw that the market would be women, because secretaries were women.
She priced the product low enough so that secretaries could buy it out of the discretionary fund they had for office supplies, without needing approval from a man.
And she marketed the product in a bottle that looked like nail polish, so her customers would already be familiar with using it before they even tried it.
99% Invisible: The world’s greatest expert on the song “Who Let the Dogs Out” finds it surprisingly difficult to answer the question of who wrote the song.
San Diego freelance writer Beth Demmon says California Assembly Bill 5, which regulates contract workers, threatens her livelihood. She says she’s taken an immediate income hit upwards of 25% due to the law.
The users who reappear after countless left swipes have become modern urban legends.
Like mayors and famous bodega cats, they are both hyper-local and larger than life."
The Doc nails it. The sole issue for Democratic voters in the Presidential election is “make the bad man go away.” Everything else is a distraction.
However, things get complicated because for many Democrats, Bloomberg and/or Sanders are as bad as the Bad Man.
And Warren, Mayor Pete and Uncle Joe are, for many voters, ALMOST as toxic as the Bad Man. Those voters will hold their noses and vote for any of those three candidates if they have to. But that speaks to low voter turnout – toxic for Dems.
Overall, I like the Democrats' odds. But we’re going to have to work hard to win.
I’m reserving judgment. I expect I’ll vote for Warren in the primary, assuming she’s still in the race, but other than that I don’t expect to support a candidate until the convention. And then I’ll support whichever Democrat wins.
Until a month ago I would have said “except maybe Bloomberg.” But I like the way he’s going after Trump. I still have strong reservations about Bloomberg, though.
TechCrunch:
The DoJ alleges that Huawei and a number of its affiliates used confidential agreements with American companies over the past two decades to access the trade secrets of those companies, only to then misappropriate that intellectual property and use it to fund Huawei’s business.
As part of his research into Trump’s $1+B disinformation campaign, journalist McKay Coppins “tried to live in the same information world as Trump supporters so that he’d receive the same disinformation supporters did.”
He said he ended up believing everything and nothing. Rumors, lies and reported journalism ended up seeming roughly equal in credibility, even though he was following the impeachment hearings closely and could see for himself that Trump supporters were lying about what transpired there.
This is exactly how censorship works in autocratic regimes nowadays, Coppins notes – no need to shut down opposition journalism; better to just flood the information channels with bullshit.
The TV production had a lot of problems, but Robert Graves, who wrote the 1930s novels on which the series is based, had faith:
“I’ve communed with Claudius,” he said at the time, “and he reassured me that this would be a great success.”
The series launched Derek Jacobi’s career.
“I owe ‘Claudius’ so much on both sides of the Atlantic,” Mr. Jacobi said in a telephone interview.
I Claudius seemingly influenced The Sopranos – though Sopranos creator David Chase doesn’t acknowledge it. They’re both stories about men who build empires despite being undermined by toxic, maternal women named “Livia.”
“I Claudius” is the story of a great empire that decays as its chief executive seizes dictatorial power while the Senate flatters him and otherwise stands idly by.
It’s nice to escape from the news into a TV fantasy now and then.
