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Book Review: Pandemia — How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
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“Twas Brillig and Fetterman Led the Slithy Polls by Two”: Kara Swisher Galumphs with the Democratic Candidate for U.S. Tulgey
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Second Metaverse, Same as the First!
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Avenge the Genocide Olympics! Stop Using Tik-Tok
The 2022 Winter Olympics are over and like a true American patriot, I celebrated the event by not watching a minute of it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m from the northeast and as a boy spent many hours figure skating on Van Cortlandt lake after it froze up during the winter months. I also collected a chipped tooth and scar on my chin from The Bronx’s version of skeleton, which consists of shooting down a snow-covered hill at high speed on a sled, trash can lid, cardboard box, or whatever will do the trick while avoiding rocks (chin scar), dogs,
NFTs: Monetizing the Moment
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Biden Boys Bear Down on Big Tech With Big Unfriendly Bear Hugs (Republicans Prepare Their Own Big Beat Downs)
In Chapter 14, “The Social Ministries,” I make the point that Big Social Media has earned itself no friends in Washington D.C. despite the boatloads of PAC and campaign donations showered on both political parties. From both sides of the aisle, their ROI on their investment has been paltry. In 2018, the left wing, represented by Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, and other progressive presidential candidates called for all the social media giants and Amazon to either be broken up or heavily regulated. The FTC’s Democrats were ready to disembowel Facebook. The right wing wasn’t
Return of the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
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I, Chatbot
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The New “Hate Speech” is “Misinformation”
Everyone claims to love the First Amendment and well they should, because the FA is the most significant political concept since the Greeks developed the concept of democratic government. And considering what happened to Socrates, the First Amendment has been better implemented. When judging nations, the FA is the gold standard for separating first rate nations from the second rate. If your country adheres to U.S. standards of freedom of speech, you’re first rate. Like to throw nursing mothers into jail because they won’t call a guy (biologically) a gal? Second rate. (Sorry, Mother England. You didn’t seem to learn
It Absolutely Will Not Stop, Ever, Until It…Closes You
Chad Burmesiter, CEO, ScaleX Company Profile Info Company name: ScaleX, Inc. Years in business: Three. Location(s:) Virtual. #empolyees: Five. Principal management: Chad Burmeister, CEO, Rich Blakeman, CRO. Revenue % growth over last year: 85%. Primary business successes to date: 100+ clients Primary sales model (direct, indirect. telemarketing, etc):Direct and indirect model (15 resellers growing to 50 by June 20, 2021) Average size of sale. $6,000 to $50,000 Primary marketing methods. ScaleX uses our own outreach technologies – data + digital (email, social, paid-ads, warm introductions) and dials (using agent-assisted dials). Contact Info Website: www.scalex.ai Email : [email protected] Twitter: chad_burmeister Introduction
MEET THE EDITORS AND EXPERTS
Rick Chapman
Find out more about Rick’s latest book, the latest edition of In Search of Stupidity: Over 40 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters.
John Miller
John has been working in the IT industry since the 1980’s firstly as a Sales and Marketing Director including Techex a global distribution company, Olivetti, Norsk Data and Intergraph
He was a founder member of Delta Channel Services back in 1995 and has since visited over 40 countries consulting, speaking at channel conferences and delivering training workshops
John has launched several SaaS based business, a Non Executive Director to several start ups and is based in the UK