Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

Understandably by Bill Murphy Jr.

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A child's pink bicycle helmet... the remnants of a chicken dinner... and 7 other things worth your time.

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Bill Murphy Jr.
Mar 04, 2021
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The town my family and I live in suspended recycling pickup due to Covid-19. (Some municipal employees were were exposed, and others had to quarantine for a bit).

So we — along with all of our neighbors — are now making weekly trips to the public works center, to wait an hour in line to drop off our stuff.

This got me thinking about trash, and I suddenly remembered the time two years ago that a “professional trash picker” dug through Mark Zuckerberg’s garbage, and a reporter for the New York Times went along with him and published what they found.

I wouldn’t normally think this was fair play, but of course it’s already out there. (The NYT has a slightly larger readership than Understandably, at least for now.)

Also, Facebook is basically at war against Apple to continue tracking us all, which is sort of a digital version of digging through our trash. Yet, when this happened to Zuck two years ago, he was literally (within days) writing a 3,000-word manifesto calling for more privacy in s…

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