🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
‘Identity’ mind you, not just ‘online identity’.
What does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
💬 Alan Mayo
🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
‘Identity’ mine you, not just ‘online identity’.
What does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
💬 Alan Mayo
Politicians have always lied, but they don’t bother putting any effort into it any more.
💬 William Gallagher
On January 1, 2011, I only had 68 Twitter followers. I had been on Twitter for 16 months, and there were pet canaries with a larger social media presence than me.
💬 Ted Gioia
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
💬 Navy Seals
“I do remember this security guy saying something nice about Corden until I grimaced, said I’d met him once at a work thing and within half a second wished I hadn’t. Boom. All professional politeness was gone and the guard vented about that man. ()I think I saved him a therapy session.)
💬 William Gallagher
I have no idea if there is any truth in what I read about ‘our James’ and how his soft cuddly exterior does not reflect his true self. But I read it more and more - and Gallagher is not in the ‘rumour mill’ business.
Shame really. There I was thinking you can be nice and ‘make it’.
“That premium in turn has allowed the company to keep selling fresh stock, which allows it to keep paying out dividends, and on it goes, a self-licking ice cream cone that works until the stock price falls, which it now has.”
💬 Liz Hoffman, Semaphor
“self-licking ice cream cone” … aaah the visual.
Anyone else worried that this is even a question? Or that it needs to be asked?
Anyway, I don’t have an answer about lemon origins except to say that they are at least as real as babies, and if they …
Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.
💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information
One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.
💬 John Gruber
I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.