Came across this through a different collection of people - but believe that there are sufficient people in here to share and solicit thoughts.

Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud

Doc Searls recently wrote that ‘cookies’ are essentially ‘worms’.

‘Cookies’. Warm, friendly, sweet - nice enough to eat!

Of course you can put a cookie on my machine, but NOT a worm.

Even though a cookie’s behavior is essentially worm like.

Filed under ‘Nefarious Language’.

”Will a spider rebuild its web (if destroyed by nature) in exactly the same place? No. It will relocate. It might even find no web is needed, because it knows how to live inside the porch light.”

💬 Stuart Robbins

(a good friend I was rapping with last week on ‘the new normal’)

The pandemic isn’t making ageism worse. It’s exposing it—and that’s a good thing.

This week I celebrate the 50th edition of my newsletter.

It includes a quote from Zeno, lyrics from Tom Robinson and asks what do you want the ‘new normal' to be, because

“As always - what happens now - is up to you.”

Peter Gabriel

The 2 trillion package is in … the market rebound is steeper than the Covid-19 curve and unemployment claims jumped from ~280k to ~3.28million.

That should be enough to tell you where the US focus is.

Not People

”Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

www.theguardian.com

Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity

Identity - it might not be what you think it is … this week’s People First Newsletter considers the full meaning of ‘Identity’.