Oct 25, 2020

🎂 33 years ago — and today’s paradox

Revue

October 25 · Issue #111 · View online

Hello and welcome to Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Ben, and today’s my birthday 🎂🎈 — 33 ffs in a tier 3 lockdown in Manchester where i can’t do shit! 😂

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Now, let’s get to the real stuff.

🗞 NEWS

Italian authorities are investigating deepfake bots on Telegram [link], and Patreon is cracking down on QAnon [link]
Politics, GitHub being responsible, and Spotify taking on the radio [link]
Hack, Oversight, and Jony Ive [link]
Tesla on auto-pilot, PayPal Crypto, and Epic optimisation of Fortnite [link]
New Start Menu for Windows, Snapchat’s latest hit lens, Google is being sued [link]
EU investigating Instagram, Pakistan frees TikTok, and in MTV’s footsteps [link]
Facebook rejecting ads, Chinese hackers, and new laws [link]

🍂 a gift for you.

🧠 INSIGHTS

Credit: Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Old(er) now

i’ll keep this short. the 33 part is pretty obvious by now, but the paradox (which is by no means an original thought) might not be.

getting old(er) is kinda fun, but for me, the most exciting thing about getting older is the depth in realising how much I DON’T KNOW.

i mean, yes, i’ve learned A LOT during my years, but the best part of it is realising how little i actually know. i think understanding this has empowered me by humility and an insatiable thirst for learning — not stealing Ross’s Knowledge Boy, but inspired by him 😆

that’s it really. no conclusion. just a stream of consciousness i guess.

📊 STATISTICS

Advertisers Reportedly Spent As Much on Facebook as on Radio and Print Combined in Q2 2020

www.marketingcharts.com – Share

In the second quarter of 2020, nearly one-quarter (22%) of US ad spend was invested in paid social, with more than half of that spend being put toward advertising on Facebook.

Indeed, Facebook’s share of total ad spend for Q2 was equal to that of radio, magazine and newspaper combined, per data from Kantar.

Read more on SensorTower.

Also, here are Top Mobile Games by Worldwide Revenue for September 2020. Things are a bit different there.

📱 TOOLS & APPS

Clip drop: AR Copy Paste - Capture and transfer anything around you ($)

Ephy: Broadcast your insights and passions in a better way (Early access)

Link to QR: Free beautiful QR codes

SpellBackwards: pretty obvious

a lot more useful after watching Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.

🔍 SPOTTED

Instagram is still working on its new ‘Multi-Capture’ camera mode for Stories [link]
Instagram is working on the possibility of following an account with your other accounts without having to switch first [link]
TikTok is considering adding a shortcut to DMs on the homepage [link]

🎧 AUDIO STIMULATION

In the End by Linkin Park

open.spotify.com – Share

but in the end, does it even matter? whether it matters or not, this song and this band shaped my music taste — and almost twenty years later, i still can’t get enough…

🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK