Just tickled my funny bone - because of course it is TRUE.
Customer Loyalty Means NOTHING To Nord.
I used NordVPN for around 5 years. My subscription was up for renewal. Their charges seemed to be on the high side, so I had a look around and landed at Proton at the recommendation of a microblogger (sorry - can’t recall who) - signed up and very happy.
Since Nord lost my business, they keep sending me emails and almost every time the price goes down again.
This price is less than I was paying before and definitely less than I am paying Proton - BUT - had they given me a loyal customer - this price from the beginning I would never have looked around.
Instead it seems loyalty is worth nothing - only ‘new’ customers deserve a ‘good’ price.
Sticking with Proton.
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This very much resonates with my My People First thinking. 🔗 via Stowe Boyd - essentially - when you hear ‘the powers’ talking about how people are their most important assets and blah blah blah - would be interesting to learn how they really sit against this list/
Bowie - It wasn’t just his music that was ahead of its time.
Started watching a new series on Netflix. First episode definitely has me hooked ,,, though it seemed that I knew the plot. So, looked it up. Of course I knew the plot. It was a movie from a 5(?) years ago. A very good movie actually. But different as it was, the connections were tight - even down to the directorial style. It was if the TV dude was emulating the Film dude … 🤦♂️ similar! Identical. It was the same director - Guy Ritchie - I do love me some ‘Guy’.
Turns out that he made the movie and then turned around and said - right them let’s do a TV show. It’s going to be good.
🖇️ 📽️ The Gentlemen
And of course fussing with only 🖇️ one change is never enough - now I am onto blogrolls - very much like the OPML import. Thankyou @manton
It seems that ‘microhooks’ are the key - every journey starts with a single step … etc
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When you talk about 🔗 Blank Faces … and you get Blank Looks.
Don Poorleone
😂😂😂😂
Via Heather Cox Richardson
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One URL - Many AIs to chat to … 🔗 Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat
Clearly Blake needs to recognize she isn’t funny … and most certainly an unthinking follower.
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy
‘Throwaway’ line from ’Cluetrain’ .. 25 years old this year.
Sad - at many levels.
OK - enough with this procrastination … Keynote is calling me - but first - some quick hits - yes I know the small pebbles and big rocks story.
Apparently we do have similar problems to Russia …
The country needs those central Asians who do many of the jobs Russians do not want for salaries Russians will not accept, and thuggish repression might well persuade many to leave.
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Reading all the various commentaries around DoJ v 🍎, I am finding ‘heads on Threads’ making good arguments.
Walt Mossberg for one.
Ben Thompson for another.
🔗 Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection
What Om does not touch on is the issue of ‘acquisition’.
To this bear (and others), what also seems to have happened is that Microsoft has all but bought the company. but actually didn’t.
Why not just buy it?
Well because then you need permission from the Feds - if not the EU, which takes time and even then might not happen (remember Figma), and certainly in the AI space close scrutiny is happening.
Ok - not that close - but you know what I mean.
Watch this (tech bypassing pesky things like delays and rules and law and .. to accelerate and ‘avoid’ scrutiny) happen more and more in other places.
I’m alwayss amazed how there are so many calendar app on the App Store .. how manyy calendar apps does one person need?
Three apparently.
(It is a video if you want to join me in ‘throwback 90s)
…STILL …
The ability to apply a filter to users to follow .. to separate out microblog accounts from the fediverse.
Is it so hard?