📚 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic Invite was just sent out for May 15th/16th - let me know if you didn’t receive it.
I am confused by people that get ‘blocked’ by other people complaining
“so much for free speech”.
Don’t they know that blocking doesn’t stop them from talking? It just stops me from having to listen.
That’s why it is called Free Speech … S P E E C H … not ‘Listen’
A New Game from @cdevroe ….
Beta now - but being reset on May 2nd for public launch.
So far …
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Stupid 119 1/0/2
Comradery - a cooperatively owned subscription platform
… just stumbled across this. Anybody taken a close look?
“Spotify has long been an awful business. Investors are only now waking up to that reality.”
💬 Martin Peers - The Information
Just watched the trailer of 🔗 Kedi.
Not sure I will watch the movie - but the 2 minutes of the trailer? Definitely worth my time.
“The Senate has become a theater of performative behaviors by senators decreasingly interested in legislating, and preoccupied with using social media for self-promotion.”
💬 George Will
Yes George. Yes. It’s clear. Has been for a while now.
As for
“Amend the Constitution to bar senators from the presidency.”
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas.
“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!)