🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
The Antidote To Worldcoin
and then there is this ….
… she’s talking about Sam Altman
🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.
The cryptocurrency industry is rife with projects that embrace the idea of “progressive decentralization”: beginning out as a highly centralized project run by a small group, but promising to eventually turn over control of the project to a DAO. Few ever follow through,10 but it is a convenient way to stave off criticism.
💬 Molly White
In my same ‘reading session’ this piece from my friend Alan Mayo : The Reasonable Future: Identity 2.5 appeared. He concludes;
Some of the world is hell-bent on achieving Identity 3 Decentralization and, ironically, this is not going to happen anytime soon. With our current proven technologies we have all the building blocks to build sophisticated Identity solutions that provide a good customer experience and good security. That is where we should be spending our time, rather than dreaming of an impossible future.
💬 Alan Mayo
The Antidote?
Stop listening to people who are playing both sides of the ‘Business Equation’ - even better … stop acting on their recommendations. Altman isn’t the only one.
This is a 🧶 People First post - to see others in the series, click here.
🔗 Socialroots is a ‘worker-owned cooperative business’ and they are working on an interesting problem that is hard to articulate to anyone who hasn’t already experienced the problem they are fixing. #Catch22
🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)
An interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.
🔗 ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol (Apple News)
… of course they are - keeps the wages down.
🔗 Dear Rishi Sunak, you’ve declared war on people who want to curb car use. It’s one you’ll lose.
It’s fascinating how parochial the ‘right’ are.
🔗 ‘Put learners first’: Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools.
I would argue misguided. What say you?
I’m no fan of CardiB’s music .. but with her all the way on her 🔗 reaction to the dick in the Audience who threw his drink at her … it really is time to hold people accountable for their actions … 🖇️ like Gaga.
More to come on the ongoing site changes, but my podcast can now be found on my 🎙️Philpin domain - and if I can get Substack to fix their bug, it will soon there, which is part of the reason why my newsletter is no longer called a newsletter - but rather 🔗 a ‘Substack’.
About two minutes in and already this 🔗 NOSTR client makes more sense than others I have used.
For British tourists still flying to Greece while it is on fire and a few holdout news organisations, the answer seems to be to look away or deflect.
No No No - you have it all wrong.
🔗 Linda Yaccarino: does Twitter’s CEO have the most difficult job in tech.
Don’t know. Don’t care. It’s not as if she could have been blindsided.
Another entry into the Encyclopedia of ‘what could possibly go wrong’.
Captures everything you’ve seen on your Mac and iPhone and makes it searchable with AI. Your colleagues will wonder how you do it all.
I will wonder why you did it at all?
To be fair, I haven’t read their ToCs. In fact I don’t even know if there are any. I just wonder how many people will do as they ask without thinking things through.
We’ve talked about 🔗 Anti Libraries (un-libraries, non-libraries) in the past. Adding this one to the ‘canon’.
This Substack about 🔗 Upside Down Maps reminded me of this episode of 📼 Map Men on YouTube
Definitely more information in the article - but Map Men is far more entertaining.
🔗 Digital Typography Technology: The Cold War TrueType Created
I know there are all kind of ‘font people’ out there - including @pimoore (who I am guessing knows all this already), but I thought it made for an interesting history lesson.
We all do what we can.
🔗 Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation.
🔗 AOC joins Hollywood picket line in New York: ‘Solidarity is stronger than greed’
Whilst they do what they can …
It’s incredibly damaging for everybody in terms of the big epics
💬 Mark Borkowski
.. because of course, Mark is a PR Agent and I presume his business is suffering, read more in this piece;
🔗 ‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet.