Back in the day when I was using Dave Winer’s 1999 - he used to have a class of user called ‘POETS’ … in his mind they were the ‘non tech’ crowd.

I see a lot of tech and non tech peeps on micro blog … and it got me to wondering if everyone on micro blog self selected that they were ‘primarily’ either ‘POET’ or ‘TECHNOID' (we need a better word) … it might help discover like minded people - and of course un-like minded people for each of our communities.

Maybe there is a different spectrum that could be applied?

Maybe there are Five Descriptors and you get to distribute 10 points across the 5? So your personal proloctivity shines through?

Thoughts?

“With the 2018 primaries about to end, all but two of the 37 Republicans Mr. Trump has endorsed for House, Senate and governor during their primary campaigns have won. Mr. Trump has abandoned or undercut the party’s traditional commitment to free trade, fiscal conservatism and a hawkish foreign policy. Mr. Trump’s most vocal GOP critics in elective office have been defeated in primaries, announced their retirement or gone quiet.”

The Full Story

That may well be - but is the mood of the country (well - at least those that vote) … such that they will be allowed to beat the democratic opponents?

Make your voice heard …. Vote On November 6th

On-demand gas startup Yoshi expands to 16 cities to end your pain at the pump … so now we are so lazy we can’t even be bothered to go gas up our own cars.

But what do we need them for anyway? Our food is delivered and Amazon does everything else. Our entertainment is virtual and streamed. We work at home.

And aren’t cars meant to be electric and self driving anyway?

Inside the triumphant Alex Jones banned everywhere story is a worrying nuance about free speech and platform dominance

‘Cory’ himself commenting on the Alex Jones stuff … nowhere connecting the ‘amplification’ aspect that @manton raised yesterday(?) … how do we move that thought into wider mainstream thinking?

I have used Feedly for the longest time - always done it for me …. and then I switched on Feedbin to benefit from some specific features that I wanted to try out … which in turn took me to Reeder and Unread as rss clients.

Reeder is functionally very rich - very nice.

Unread has a beauty all of its own.

Feedly is not as feature rich as Reeder nor as beautiful as Unread.

What’s a boy to do?

We live in a world where knowledge, experience, thoughtfulness, kindness are really not valued. Just look around if you need proof.

There is also far too much emphasis on short term thinking, instant gratification, cheap at any cost …. both at an individual and corporate level.

So Chip Conley writing How We Combat Ageism Is By Valuing Wisdom as Much as Youth. makes me wonder … which is he?

Steadily working through the snippet collection backlog … and decide to drop these in here.

Will England ever get its own Parliament? - BBC News

… they should.

15 Signs That The Middle Class In The United States Is Being Systematically Destroyed

… only 15?

Retailers can’t out-Amazon Amazon, but they can change the rules

… but few will.

The Web We Want

… we do.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

”… government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

… move along now.

“A man makes a $250 million fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million-dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for the generous service of telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place.”

Matt Taibbi

A quiet change in US policy threatens immigrants who apply for a change in status

”non-citizens who apply for a “benefit”–such as an extension or change of status, a green card, or citizenship—would be placed in deportation proceedings if that benefit is denied.”

”merely losing your petition for visa extension … or doing something DHS considers to be criminal (even if never arrested or charged) places you on the same fast-track.