On my mind today……

Colin Kaepernick Won

He may be an ass, and may not eloquently state his point, but Kaep has a point that resonates with EVERY BLACK PERSON in the USA.

While I would NEVER protest that way, I will defend our American right to protest whatever we want to.

Always!

Read it here.

Business & Technology

• Antitrust laws are very unclear. Google, Facebook, Amazon: Time to Rein Them In? Asks RBC
• Do they have to be autonomous? Inside The eVTOL Explosion
• Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission
• Not just a Nike problem. They primarily have a lack-of-a-robust-eCommerce-operation problem. Foot Locker has a Nike problem
• FWIW Inmarsat Launches Satellite Service For UAVs
• Takeoffs there are something else! London City Airport Plans To Expand
• How America Is Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
• I’m a new fan. MGM CEO Blasts ‘Hate Mongers,‘ Will Match Civil Rights Donations
• German Car Companies Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff
• Though passive, it should help. Will 'Invisible Messages' in Street Signs Steer Self-Driving Cars?
• Won’t it drain quickly? Is this the country's first Chevrolet Bolt EV police car?
• Seriously? People are insane! Elgato Cam Link repurposes DSLRs and camcorders, making them high-quality webcams
• Security is still optional! IoT devices reveal private information despite encryption, study warns
• If you shift from GAAP to non-GAAP, what do you have? Bullshit numbers? Gibberish? Shift from non-GAAP bottom lines could be good for stock prices
• Single-lens, light field 4D camera to give robots and autonomous cars better vision
• Planes, trains, and maybe automobiles? The Adaptable Gas Turbine
• Why we can’t have good things. A hacker leaked the decryption key for Apple's Secure Enclave, severely affecting iOS security
• Fullerene Device Acts as Both Solar Cell and a Current Inverter
• Learn, people. Learn! 5G Bytes: Small Cells Explained
• They all should? Really? iOS 11's 'Cop Button' Is a Feature All Phones Should Have
• Guardians of Low Earth Orbit
• I heart DARPA!  Nine of the the Most Amazing DARPA Projects
• When I see these, I really want a modernistic O’Odua. Then of course, sanity prevails, and I remember that except at the very high end and on waterfronts, modern architecture rarely sells.  Ascend, Descend: 10 Staircases Made From Beautiful Materials
• Even if it’s a nothin’ burger, associating with swampnimals taint him.  Trump adviser resigned ahead of negative magazine story  
• Sad! Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
• How Digital Nervous Systems Can Raise Your Organizational IQ
• Yep. Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

General Interest

• How America forgot the true history of the Civil War
• Startlingly interesting! Strangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds
• Yowza! The New Mercedes-Maybach Concept Is a 20-Foot-Long Convertible
• No kidding! The misplaced arguments against Black Lives Matter
• Looks like an uglier Mercedes SLK, no? BMW Abandons Boring With Stylish Shark-Nose Roadster
• Life imitating art? This novelist wanted to write about a serial killing author. He was just arrested for murder.
• These ultra cheapo airlines are something else! EasyJet Passenger Shocked to Receive an In-flight Meal That Expired 10 Years Ago
• Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. A #Fail this time though.  Buzz overhead leads Border Patrol to make San Diego's first drone drug-smuggling arrest
• Why Hospital ER Wait Times Are Often Wrong
• This revelation just sucks! Pizza Over Privacy? A Paradox of the Digital Age
• Of course Goodell lies. He lies. He’s an unashamed lying mofo!  NFLPA head says Roger Goodell ‘lied’ about drafting new personal conduct policy
• Paging Captain Obvious…. How to Stop White-Collar Crime
• True. The Fight for Racial Justice Can't Stop With Fixing a Broken Policing System
• Interesting. A lot of our ideas about bilingual children are total myths
• A la “ Waterworld”? I don’t think so. Also, cultural and traditional mores. In the future, your body won’t be buried... you’ll dissolve

World

• Confidential U.N. Report Accuses Saudi Coalition of Killing Hundreds of Yemeni Kids
• Read! The History of White Supremacy in America

Politics

• The Business Fallout from Charlottesville
• Excellent. Some Liberty University Grads Are Returning Their Diplomas To Protest
• About time! NAACP calls for boycott if Kaepernick remains unsigned
• Kaepernick items part of Smithsonian collection
• Charlottesville, “happiest city in America” — but for whom?
• Thin psyche’d dumbfochs. Here are 5 white supremacists whining about how unfair things are after Charlottesville
• Ratfcking harpies! So, 2 White Women in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Walk Onto an HBCU Campus ...
• To Sue Founder of Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi Site, First He Must Be Found

© 2002 – 2017, John Obeto for Blackground Media Unlimited