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Interesting to read 🔗 this from Om. I definitely did not feel that all of last year, but definitely in the past couple of months, something in me has been coming …
In one of my work programmes there is an ongoing debate around planning and strategy .. one of the team going as far as to suggest that ‘strategic planning’ is an …
… privacy is mostly a settled issue in the physical world, and a grace of civilized life. Clothing, for example, is a privacy technology. So are walls, doors, windows and shades.
Private spaces in public settings are well understood (…) . This is why no store on Main Street would plant a tracking beacon in the pants of a visiting customer, to report back on that customer’s activities — just so the store or some third party can “deliver” a better “experience” through advertising. Yet this kind of thing is beyond normative on the Web: it is a huge business.
💬 Doc Searls
(Trump is a) bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war.
💬 Cornell West
“Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called ‘The Dead Kennedys’, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.”
💬 Herb Caen
“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family. . . . When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated. Our name is actually homage to the American Dream.”
💬 Raymond John (East Bay Ray) Pepperell (Dead Kennedies)
Somehow Britain now has a refugee policy so bonkers that even the Rwandans are worried it might be a bit harsh. And this is a country that recently shot 12 refugees dead.
💬 Robert Hutton
I’m still puzzled why NPR and CNN and Harvard and other legacy institutions haven’t set up on Substack. But they clearly have zero interest in doing so—even if they could make money and expand their audience. Yet these same institutions launched on Threads the very first day. They couldn’t sign up as soldiers for Mark Zuckerberg’s new empire fast enough.
💬 Ted Goia
Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.
💬 Judge Chutkan
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
💬 Upton Sinclair
