What is Chokepoint Capitalism?.
It’s Cory Doctorow on Medium - well worth a read.
Experimenting with the new Text Expander Keyboard … at least now you can easily get to all your shortcuts!
Most Jobs Fall Into 3 Major Categories
𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - a person takes money, hands you an object; liquor store clerks, cashiers, bank tellers, etc.
𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 - taxis, aeroplanes, trucks, etc.
𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 - people that watch things. But this extends to people that tweak small things (on par with wiping a baby’s arse) like pool repair, HVAC repair, etc. They take the diaper off, they wipe it down, they put the diaper back on; janitors, gardeners, farmers, painters, security guards, testing, stockers, etc.
Every single one of these will be replaced by a robot, and pretty soon.
💬 Reichart 'Ki' Von Wolfsheild
“Trump didn’t steal classified documents, he was just holding onto them for safekeeping."
💬 Rudy Giuliani
… via Bess Levin at Vanity Fair.
”If you give talented people the opportunity to create wealth, they will do so. If you give talented people the opportunity to extort wealth, they will do so. Don’t credit me with saying that. It’s Libertarianism 101.”
💬 Arnold Kling
“What, pray tell, would Trump have said at this dinner, in order to convey that he was willing to bury the hatchet he spent the entire campaign swinging at Hillary’s head?”
💬 Bess Levin
“It’s summer, and I got a note that politely encouraged a few forays into brevity.”
💬 Brian Morrisey
It could equally well have been directed at me!
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“As one lawyer recounted to the Post, Trump’s legal team once urged the then president “against tweeting about the Mueller probe, only to find he’d tweeted about it before they got to the end of the West Wing driveway.” Others said he was “nearly impossible to represent and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid.”
Human remains reportedly found in suitcases bought at New Zealand auction.
Gulp ..
Now that’s a headline you don’t often read … New Zealand?
“The big shift we see right now with teens that we’re very focused on is this desire to share more privately,”
A Product Manager At Facebook Meta
What rock have I been living under?
I had never heard of him until today - and WOW.
What an artist. What a career. What a lovely highly talented person.
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”
💬 Alfred Marshall
“The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.”
💬 Alfred Marshall
“We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by demand or supply.”
💬 Alfred Marshall
Published two years and two days ago - written about a man from England that I met in Taupo, New Zealand - and we just got talking.
“It’s not what you know - It’s who you know.”
Apple plans offering more advertising to users via apps.
Dalyrymple has been on about ads in music for a while. This suggests that it is going to get worse.
I’m with Jim. I am paying for these services with cold hard cash.
If ads appear I will need to reconsider my options.
From a random Tumblr.
Exclusive or not, this is one Clubhouse I was happy to leave
I never rated Clubhouse. .. which I wrote even before I had got in - and nothing convinced me that I was wrong even when I did.