Answers to questions
Adam Curry
Spotify has to … because it can’t make money from music
Dave Winer
Radio Shows aren’t podcasts
Radio Shows don’t have to be on ‘the radio’
In June, The Markup reported that Meta Pixels on the websites of 33 of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America were transmitting the details of patients’ doctor’s appointments to Meta when patients booked on the websites. We also found Meta Pixels inside the password-protected patient portals of seven health systems collecting data about patients’ prescriptions, sexual orientation, and health conditions.
So of course 3 months later …
Who are the people inside Meta that thinks this a good idea, then makes it happen and fails to tell anyone?
“A 2% surcharge applies to all credit card and contactless payments. Eftpos and cash payment available with no surcharge.”
I am seeing this more and more.
In small print.
Nobody tells you.
If I create a reminder in BusyCal - it doesn’t appear in ‘Reminders’. All good. Things changed.
BUT
If I create a reminder in reminders - it does appear in BusyCal. Which surprised me.
Any ideas what is going on?
Secret life of Gerald: the New Zealand MP who spent a lifetime crafting a vast imaginary world
Not even Gerald O’Brien’s wife of 60 years knew of the countless hours he spent drawing and writing stories of his parallel world.
These are the kinds of secrets I would like more people to have. Such a welcome change to the usual. What an extraordinary man.
“I talked to him for a year … about all sorts of things, but the imaginary world never came up and it pisses me off that I didn’t know,”
💬 Lucien Rizos - his nephew
😂😂😂
“I could have put the lists into a spreadsheet, but that would mean the client would have to open the email and then open the attachment. If you knew the level of computer literacy my clients have, you would understand why I wanted to avoid that and just have the lists in the body of the email.”
💬 Robin Rendle
Thankyou Kwasi.
Thankyou Liz.
It seems to be working ..
I Hadn’t Previously Absorbed This Nuance
At the White House, Ornato, who as deputy chief of staff had oversight over Secret Service decisions, told Pence’s national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, that the vice-president was going to be moved to the Maryland military facility Joint Base Andrews. Had he been evacuated, Pence would no longer have been able to certify Biden’s electoral victory, and Trump’s goal of postponing his defeat would have been fulfilled.
When Ornato said that the Secret Service would move Pence, Kellogg was adamant, Rucker and Leonnig reported. “You can’t do that, Tony,” Kellogg said. “Leave him where he’s at. He’s got a job to do. I know you guys too well. You’ll fly him to Alaska if you have a chance. Don’t do it.”
Should We Still Be Afraid Of Facebook
“cryptocurrency: It is hard to cultivate the proper attitude of fear and loathing to a company so obviously inept.”
“I like to describe the publishing industry as operating a lot like an (American) children’s soccer game. When the ball goes to one part of the field, a clump of players follow en masse.
The 2 crashes caused 346 deaths - so that works out to a little over half a million dollars per death … not that the families will see much of that - if any.
Meanwhile
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The cost to Boeing is somewhere between the SALES PRICE of 1/2 a 737 - to as much as 2x 737s (As of August 2022, 15,302 Boeing 737s have been ordered and 11,117 delivered.)
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The fine represents just 2% of the total investment Boeing made into the 737.
The CEO responsible left Boeing December 2019 - and will be fined $1 million … his exit package in 2019 was around $60 million - so what 2% of his exit.
When Scott Galloway ends his posts ‘Life Is So Rich’ … is this what he means … laws for the rich?
I had never heard of permacomputing until I read the profile of @jagtalon … really interesting - just added to my list.
Playing around with the brilliant new work of @sod I realized that my experiment with nicheless blog came to an end within two days of trying it out … page relegated!
🎙️🎵🎶 Nice to listen in to your conversation @martinfeld and @lmika - thankyou.
A different kind of musical note … check out the work of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Viv provided ‘MC’ services for all those lines you referenced, including;
“Spanish Guitar and introducing acoustic guitar”
The Bonzo’s track Death Cab For Cutie also gave that band their name.
Love me some solid (English) Progressive.
Studs writing, thinking and conversations are all People Firsty .. so delighted to share a personal story with you and tell you about his archive.
I am excited for season 3 of My Podcast, which is about to come out of hiatus. Episode 3 is being recorded over the weekend - and what a guest … makes me even happier!!!
Filed in the bucket of ’stuff you can’t make up’!
“If the government gives me prima facia evidence that they are classified documents, and you don’t advance any claim of declassification, I’m left with a prima facia case of classified documents, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s the end of it,” Dearie said.
Trump’s lawyers argued they can’t explain whether Trump really declassified any of the documents because that would reveal their future defense strategy if Trump ever gets charged with a crime.
One of the best articles about AOC I have read. (Caveat - I don’t read many … but don’t let it distract from her story and observations.
AOC’s Fight for the Future (Apple News Link)
Liz Truss urges world leaders to follow UK with trickle-down economics.
‘kin hell, nobody listens to her in the UK. Why would world leaders?
Oh wait. They aren’t!
“US president attacks ‘trickle-down’ economics, as PM admits her tax cuts will benefit rich most.”
Purge time in RSS feed land.
I don’t unsubscribe, I just move to the ‘boring’ folder which I never open.
Once a week I mark ‘all as read’ .. Thinking about setting up a rule to do that automatically.
Trying to decide if there is a time limit to actually delete the feed.