So Zuckerberg & Bezos are fair game if they are over heard discussing KY jelly …. hilarity ensues. – oh wait I forgot that the 1% are protected by publicity rights.

I like how they finally developed a speech DRM device, but
pirates still remain unaffected:

The only limitation is that it only works with words; syllables like those often expressed by pirates or onomatopoeia don’t work.

ARRGGG matey, me and me parrot still be talking!

“Marissa Mayer said credit card companies can predict a divorce with 98% accuracy two years before it happens. “

I read lots of things on the internet. I have an inkling some of them aren’t true. Just a suspicion. I wonder if she will provide a citation.

Protip: write down any old crap, then read what you’ve written and – hey presto! – you can make a statement just like Marissa Meyer. Because she didn’t say that credit card companies can predict divorce. She said “I read the other week that”…

In addition to face masks, ear plugs have now been placed upon a list of items which may indicate that you are a terrorist.

The claim about divorces does not seem implausible. When people split up, they usually establish separate households first, and then attend to the legalities after the fact. Setting up households produces certain gross economic measures, which a database can pick up. Buying a thousand dollars worth of suitably assorted housewares and groceries is a good indication that you are moving into an apartment.

Probably, one fairly good diagnostic measure would be the purchase of airline tickets for unescorted children. The airlines tend to price tickets in such a way that taking the kids to visit grandma doesn’t cost much more than sending the kids to visit grandma. That’s sensible– it is comparatively expensive to have the flight attendants look after unescorted children. That means, of course, that people who chose to pay the full rate are likely to be estranged spouses, who cannot just casually become each-other’s house-guests. If you just go and stay with your ex, the family grapevine is likely to announce: “Hey, Jack and Sue are getting back together again!”