Lyric Of The Day #3 (February 6, 2020)

Waste your summer praying in vain

For a savior to rise from these streets

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGBXnw86Mgc

 

Normally I wouldn’t spotlight a lyric from a song that I had previously recognized. In this case, however, these two lines seemed to perfectly summarize the current state of the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Lyric Of The Day #2 (February 4, 2020)

This ain't the same summer song that you used to know

'Cause Jack left Diane thirty years ago

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPLeuBXoPXI

 

Great song (written by Nate Blasdell / Evan Bogart / Andrew Goldstein / Emanuel Kiriakou / Lindy Robbins) that turned out to be a complete flop in the U.S., although a hit in New Zealand. Performed by a duo best known for its 2014 hit “Classic” (which gets bonus points for name-checking Donny Hathaway, along with the more obvious Michael Jackson, Prince, and Marvin Gaye), “American Dream” is much more of a downer, which probably explains why it didn’t even make Billboard’s Hot 100.

Big Brother is watching

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/28/off-facebook-activity-page/

 

He knows when you’ve been sleeping …

 

… Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don’t need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they’re all up in your business countless other ways.

 

Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet’s Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike.