Fame, sans fortune

March 24, 2024

Fame, sans fortune: By the time today’s kid influencers grow up, they might not see a penny of the money they made online. Right now, Illinois is the only state that protects internet earnings for kids under age 16. That puts social media about 85 years behind Hollywood, which passed the California Child Actor’s Bill, aka the Coogan Law, in 1939 to protect child stars’ earnings from no-good parents.

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38% jump in share prices for Reddit in its NYSE debut

Shares were priced at $34 but jumped to $47 at the opening bell and stayed around $50 for most of the day. To keep an eye on the current price, just Google the stock listing “RDDT.”

If you’re always misplacing things

When you drop an AirPod, Apple’s Find My feature helps you find it quickly. But for non-Apple earbuds — and all the rest of your Bluetooth gear — it’s not so simple.

That’s why you need a Bluetooth-finder app on your phone. It works a bit like a metal detector.

Pick your Bluetooth-using gadget (e.g., Raycons, Oura ring or Fitbit) from the list. The closer you get to it, the stronger the signal will be from the app. Ding-ding-ding! There’s your earbud — under the couch, right where you left it.

💡 Our IT genius, John, recommends this option for iPhone and this one for Android.

20,000 car parts to build one Formula 1 car

Another mind-blowing stat? Each F1 car costs nearly $16 million to build. And get this: One team was still tracking all their parts in an Excel spreadsheet until a new boss introduced a modern tracking system. Sounds like they needed to be reading this free newsletter.

84% of government workers ‘repetitive’ tasks could be done by AI

The idea is that delegating “complex but repetitive transactions” to AI would simply free up humans to do other things. Sure … I smell budget cuts.

20 minutes of searching Facebook to buy an endangered monkey

In other words, it’s way too easy. Business Insider reported the listing (and others like it) to Meta, which took them down. A watchdog org says traffickers are “easily and openly operating on the platform.” It can’t be that hard to stop this stuff.

$61 monthly on streaming

Is what the average American spends. That’s up 27% from last year. Half of those surveyed said a $5 increase is enough to make them cancel. I just dropped a service we weren’t watching! Felt great.

$30,134.75 per video could be in North West’s pockets 

That’s if the 10-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West decides to monetize her TikTok account, which currently has 18.8 million followers. What a world.

94% of hospitals disrupted by a cyberattack

It was on a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary. The company said it’s paid out $2 billion in advances to providers while it rebuilds its payment claims systems. I’m not saying this wouldn’t have happened if they read this newsletter … but it probably wouldn’t have.