Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, January 8th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough

today. Another interesting Facebook memo from BAWS.

Intel previews its next generation of mobile

GPS, more troubles in Softbank startup land.

Quibi had a bit of a launch event today and I saw Charmin's toilet paper delivery robot.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So there's another leaked internal Facebook memo written by Andrew Bosworth that the

New York Times got its hands on wherein Bosworth said he personally desperately wants Trump to lose the U.S. election

this year, but also argues strenuously that Facebook should not tilt the scales against

Trump either. I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but

quoting the Times, on December 30th, Andrew Bosworth, the head of Facebook's

virtual and augmented reality division, wrote on his internal

Facebook page that as a liberal he found himself wanting to use the social network's powerful

platform against Mr. Trump, but citing the Lord of the Rings franchise and the philosopher John Rawls,

Mr. Bosworth said that doing so would eventually backfire.

Quote, I find myself desperately wanting to pull any lever at my disposal to avoid the same result, he wrote.

Quote, so what stays my hand?

I find myself thinking of the Lord of the Rings at this moment.

Specifically, when Froto offers the ring to Galadryl and she imagines using the power

righteously at first, but knows it will eventually corrupt her, he said, misspelling

the name of the character Galad, quote, as tempting as it is to use the tools

available to us to change the outcome, I am confident we must never do that or we will become

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