Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-04

Luxor today. Visiting the Temple of Karnak and the Valley of the Kings. Tomorrow back to Cairo and then home Sunday. I don’t want to go! #
I have taken 1,742 photos, 93 minutes of hidef video, seen a dozen tombs and seven temples. Egypt is hard work! #

Leo’s Micro.blog

Untitled 10 October 2018

And this is why I love living in Petaluma.

Untitled 3 October 2018

Definitely confused.

Noon In Valencia Spain 2 September 2018

Outside the beautiful cathedral. They hit the bell with a massive hammer.

Untitled 30 August 2018

And off we go to Barcelona.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Oops. letsrobot.tv/robocaste…

Untitled 25 August 2018

Come control robots in our studio live. letsrobot.tv/robocaste… Watch from the other end live on the New Screensavers. TWiT.tv/live

Untitled 25 August 2018

Am I misunderstanding something @manton? Leo.micro.blog has everything I post. Micro.blog/Leo does not.

Micro.blog Conundrum 25 August 2018

I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. Maybe there’s a lag?

Untitled 25 August 2018

Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.

Leo’s News Links

China 'launches an app that tells you if you are within 500 yards of someone in debt' | Daily Mail Online 23 January 2019

State-run newspaper China Daily reported that officials in the Chinese province of Hebei created the app, named 'map of deadbeat debtors', which can be accessed through social media app WeChat.

Viacom to acquire Pluto TV for $340 million - Axios 23 January 2019

Pluto is the latest small-scale digital acquisition from Viacom over the past year, and more are expected. It's acquired several other digital companies over the past year, including millennial entertainment production company AwesomenessTV, digital video conference VidCon and influencer-marketing company Whosay. The big picture: Free digital, ad-supported streaming TV companies are rising as consumers face […]

Google, Facebook spend big on U.S. lobbying amid policy battles | Reuters 23 January 2019

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google disclosed in a quarterly filing on Tuesday that it spent a company-record $21.2 million on lobbying the U.S. government in 2018, topping its previous high of $18.22 million in 2012, as the search engine operator fights wide-ranging scrutiny into its practices.

Google Gives Wikimedia Millions—Plus Machine Learning Tools | WIRED 23 January 2019

GOOGLE IS POURING an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade to more than $7.5 million, the company announced at the World Economic Forum Tuesday. A little over a third of those funds will go toward sustaining current efforts at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit […]

DHS releases emergency order to prevent DNS hijacking 23 January 2019

DHS issued the order Tuesday afternoon out of concern that federal agencies could be vulnerable to cyberattacks intended to gain access to the platforms used to manage domain name system (DNS) records. The DNS system, dubbed the “phone book of the internet,” translates a domain name to a valid IP address, sending a user to the website they […]

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