“If we don’t figure out how to allow people to talk in the public square without being threatened or lied to by clowns with megaphones, it won’t matter who ‘owns’ the megaphones.”
💬 Stowe Boyd
Shifting to a more intentional posting regime (Thankyou for asking the right questions @jean )
- auto posting to twitter disconnected.
- auto posting from my People First blog disconnected.
For now, microblog stays mirrored to a mastodon account … still thinking.
🎵 RIP Klaus
🔗 Delta Air Lines to start paying flight attendants during boarding.
Did you know that the flight attendants on your plane were working for free until the doors were sealed?
Filed in ‘new news’.
🔗 Fidelity plans to allow people to put retirement savings into Bitcoin
What could possibly go wrong?
From the chaps at Gaping Void ….
“Let’s just say, in 2024, if Trump gets reelected (for example), he will have to ask Elon’s permission to get back on Twitter. We’re talking about ‘the leader of the free world’ kissing Elon’s ring. And if the President is kissing the ring, imagine who else is getting in line: Politicians, regulators, captains of industry, foreign dignitaries, Hollywood celebrities.”
📚 I just added 🔗 A Good Hard Kick in the Ass by Rob Adams to my ‘want to read list’ … anybody else tried it?
An entire instance for three people.
‘The Book’ in Readwise.
Not understanding your customer will maximize your opportunity for failure.
Lore - What Is It Good For?
Apparently - absolutely everything, (with apologies to Edwin Star). That said, a really GREAT series of articles by Venkatesh Rao on ‘Lore’ The Index To The Series
This is Part 7 of 7 : 🔗 Towards Management Metamodernism , from which I quote;
Just as Wallace noted, in 1993, that literary writing was increasingly substituting TV-watching for observation of life (which, as he pointed out, was understandable, since life itself was about sitting on a couch watching television), by 2007 or so, on the threshold of the global financial crisis, “external reality” to leaders meant the output of the literary-industrial complex.
💬 Venkatesh Rao - Ribbon Farm
(My bold reminding me of the UK series Gogglebox - an entire show where we the viewers watched other viewers watch television!)
What I Listened To This Weekend
Dear New Zealand ...
… did you know this was going on in your own backyard?
“In the back room of an old and greying building in the northernmost region of New Zealand, one of the most advanced computers for artificial intelligence is helping to redefine the technology’s future.”
🔗 A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people
… as reported by MIT.
Does anybody know Robin Rendle?
They should call him and tell him about Blot.
As I was reading this post from Jim about his setup I got wildly, incomprehensibly jealous; he writes about having a folder on his desktop that he can just throw stuff into and it publishes to a website. This, to me, is the absolute dream. The ultimate writing setup.
💬 Robin Rendle
Always amazed how posts like this continue to thrive.
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