Estee Lauder’s Cosmic Product Shoot
Estée Lauder’s Cosmic Product Shoot
Episode 325 – October 3, 2020
Topics:
- Estée Lauder’s Photo Shoot
- NASA’s Space Toilet
- Google Pays Publishers
- Speedy WordPress
- Google On Hold Service
- Social Media Paparazzi
- Home Surveillance Drone
- FancyBear Returns
- LAPD’s Surveillance System
- Twitter Crop
- People Also Ask Stats
During episode 325, BL and David discuss NASA’s space toilet and Estée Lauder’s cosmic product shoot; Google’s plan to pay publishers; Cloudflare’s service to speed up WordPress sites; Google Assistant will sit on hold for you; the paparazzi turn to social media stars (who knew?); Ring’s home surveillance drone; Russian hackers breach federal agencies; the Los Angeles Police Department’s citizen surveillance system; Twitter’s racist crop;…and much, much more.
Best Practices
NASA’s Space Toilet
NASA has successfully launched the first successful space toilet, along with other research tools.
- NASA Science, Cargo Heads to Space Station on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
- Boldly Go! NASA’s New Space Toilet Offers More Comfort, Improved Efficiency for Deep Space Missions
Estée Lauder’s Space Shoot
In a bid to stand out in a crowded field, the beauty giant will use the International Space Station as a marketing prop.
Google Plays Publishers
Google is launching Google News Showcase, that will collectively pay some $1 billion to news publishers in licensing fees “to create and curate high-quality content” for new story panels that will appear on Google News.
- Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license content for new Google News Showcase
- Our $ billion investment in partnerships with news publishers
Speedy WordPress
Cloudflare launches new Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) service for WordPress.
- WordPress websites are about to get a whole lot speedier
- Introducing Automatic Platform Optimization, starting with WordPress
Google On Hold
On the new Pixel phone, Google Assistant will hold on for you when you call an 800 number and notify you when you can talk to a person.
TikTok Paparazzi
Fletcher Greene has taken traditional paparazzi methods and applied them to social media, with huge results.
- Meet The Hollywood Fix, A 38-Year-Old Paparazzi YouTuber Who Follows Around Popular Teen TikTokers For A Living
- The Hollywood Fix
Home Surveillance Drone
The Always Home Cam is an ambitious new home security device.
Smiles
Baby Yoda Kitty
The Force must have been with a kitten rescued in a Northern California wildfire as the feline bears a striking resemblance to Baby Yoda.
Worst Practices
Fancy Bear Returns
A warning that unidentified hackers broke into an agency of the US federal government and stole its data is troubling enough.
Los Angeles’ Police Department’s Surveillance System
Newly revealed documents show how Los Angeles police were trained to use the flagship product of the most secretive company in law enforcement.
- Scars, Tattoos, And License Plates: This Is What Palantir And The LAPD Know About You
- LAPD Intermediate Course
- LAPD Advanced Course
- Palantir At LAPD
Twitter’s Biased Cropper
Twitter apologized in September after users noticed that it’s photo cropping tool seemed to favor white faces over black and brown faces.
- Twitter Wants to Replace Its Seemingly Racist Cropping Tool With Users Like You
- Twitter apologises for ‘racist’ image-cropping algorithm
Trying a horrible experiment…
Which will the Twitter algorithm pick: Mitch McConnell or Barack Obama? pic.twitter.com/bR1GRyCkia— Tony “Abolish (Pol)ICE” Arcieri 🦀 (@bascule) September 19, 2020
I wonder if Twitter does this to fictional characters too.
Lenny Carl pic.twitter.com/fmJMWkkYEf— Jordan Simonovski (@_jsimonovski) September 20, 2020
Shiny New Stuff
B.L.’s Finds
- Tweet Deleter – It has access to Twitter’s API, so it can actually erase your most recent 3200 tweets.
- TubeBuddy – A free Chrome, Firefox and Edge browser extension & mobile app that integrates directly into YouTube to help you run your channel.
David’s Finds
- Also Asked Tool – Branching visualization of People Also Asked boxes.
Projects
GoodCarts
A network of mission-driven ecommerce stores and free Shopify app that drives targeted traffic to your shop-for-good store.
Politics
Kellyanne Conway’s Daughter Broke The News That She Has Covid
Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed on Friday that she’s contracted covid-19 after her 15-year-old daughter broke the news in a series of TikToks revealing her mother’s positive diagnosis and denouncing President Donald Trump.
@claudiamconway ♬ original sound – linds
Save Lindsey (Not)
A Project Lincoln campaign mocked Lindsay Graham begging for money on Hannity. It was a riot.
For just 1% of what Donald Trump paid in taxes, $7.50, you can help #SaveLindsey.
Donate here: https://t.co/5mrTGx7ViYpic.twitter.com/9rDS5naJ4V— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 28, 2020
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