“Truss means a complete or redundant framed structure” … #justsayin
Twice in a hundred years … it’s an epidemic!
Need to get Andy Borowitz’s new book … because I want to “laugh, cry and swear” at each line.
The competition is against election deniers running to win elections, the results of which they will only accept if they win.
May the games begin ….
Oh wait … they’ve started!
When you need the ability to search ‘replies’ …
I read this ..
Hallelujah! Leonard Cohen’s almighty struggle with rejected song that became a classic.
… and remember some exchanges around this song with someone on micro.blog - and highlighting Galdwell’s podcast on this very topic.
But can I find it?
Can I B****R IT!
The things you find as you travel the interwebs …
An Essential Life Skill is one of three pages on Ron Chester’s website… thanks for the shout out @Ron - Though, have to say - I looked - but could not find the email … but I do agree with your articulated sentiment 😄
I know it’s not new … but thought I’d play around with assistive touch … they do seem to have slightly modified behaviour in iOS16.
The Attention Economy
It’s funny how 'xx is the new oil' keeps cropping up … this one is kind of related - but focussed not specifically on data - but rather, The ‘Attention Economy’ ….
"For the better part of the past century, the most important commodity has been oil. Wars have been fought over it — Pearl Harbor was a preemptive strike to secure Japanese access to Indonesian oil — and it elevated desert tribes to the ranks of the wealthiest cohorts in history. But the sun has passed midday on oil’s supremacy. We’ve moved from an oil economy to an attention economy.
We used to refer to an information economy. But economies are defined by scarcity, not abundance (scarcity = value), and in an age of information abundance, what’s scarce? A: Attention. The scale of the world’s largest companies, the wealth of its richest people, and the power of governments are all rooted in the extraction, monetization, and custody of attention."
Some other phrasing that caught my eye and mind …
"If Facebook is Exxon and Netflix Shell, TikTok is fracking king Chesapeake Energy, the rule-breaking insurgent armed with novel extraction methods that threaten the established order.”
"everyone is trying to outTik the Tok”
"MrBeast … most popular video (is) a real-life reenactment of Squid Game, which cost $3.5 million to produce (the cost of an episode of Mad Men). It received 300 million views."
You can read the whole Scott Galloway piece here.
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Can the working from home model survive the energy crisis?
I doubt it … but it will depend on how big that crisis gets.
The People First Podcast
Shout out to SimonWoods for bringing my attention to CastBox … yet another podcast player!
PS - it is an iframe - so you have to go here to see the full ‘beauty’.
I started reading The Thin Blue Line and couldn’t quite get why it was taking so long to get to The Thin Blue Line.
(Spoiler alert - he never does - though it’s the same thin blue line - it’s a different thin blue line.)
“The ‘thin blue line’ is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line which keeps society from descending into violent chaos. The ‘blue’ in ‘thin blue line’ refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments.
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business
… is this the hi tech story of the music world’s vinyl?
Fox News and Republicans try to shift attention to crime as midterms loom
Well yes - but when you try to do this, the shift in attention needs to be to the crimes of others - not yourselves!
Does The U.S.A. Condone Human Trafficking?
Given that I have been reading about the ‘impending’ arrest of Gaetz for human trafficking since March 2021, I don’t expect a move against the people involved in the Abbott and DeSantis shenanigans any time soon … if ever.
If the US continues to not react, isn’t it condoning trafficking and/or admitting that its laws are toothless?
Were I a trafficker in US custody, I would definitely use this inaction as part of my defense.
If the UK behaved this way - I would use it in my defence.
‘#NotALawyer
Apple should just kick them out …
I do like how Xnapper works … and the results that it delivers.
Yesterday I read that when/if the S&P 500 drops below 3900 - ‘all bets are off’ - my words, but when it comes to the stock market - apropos I feel!
Anyway, hang on to your hats … it closed at 3,901.35 today.
Christians in the US could be a minority group by 2070, study finds.
If this is what they mean by ‘Christian’ … it needs to happen a lot sooner.
Just another offering at Kiwi dairies …
My favorite ‘burger’ these days …
