I suddenly feel a very steep learning curve in front of me … I’m looking at you iOS14.
”Today’s update also removes Adobe Flash.”
… I’m not saying that some people have been a little slow on the uptake … I’m just saying that …
”Today’s update also removes Adobe Flash.”
🎶 Wait … Paranoid is 50?
If only all Republicans thought the same way.
(Castro podcast with Steve Schmidt - Lincoln Project cofounder with Katie Couric)
Double Trouble - so fixed.
The UK got suckered by BoJo, Gove, Cummings et al … turns out that the EU are not so slow.
… discuss.
Groove, Podia, Kajabi, ClickFunnels and all the rest … anyone have any feedback as to what they like (or dislike) and why?
To me they are all the same - and all different.
Very confusing.
I just want to thank Alaska for alerting me to the fact that I will have earned triple miles on all flights that I took through the Summer. Really was very kind of them. Generous. Unexpected.
Just wondering if they’d noticed how empty their flights were through the Summer.
Human Trafficking In Sports - a veritable who’s who of sponsors, click on the link to register - it’s free - it’s important.
Friday 11 September 17.00 CET
Farewell Diana. Missed already.
Just spotted on the twitter banner of @tim_walters - too important not to share.
🎶 Douglas Rushkoff talks to Michael Nesmith - yes … THAT Michael Nesmith … I knoooow .. right?
This week’s People First Podcast features LaTonya Peoples - a classical violinist who composed the music I use on the podcast. Turns out there is a whole lot to LaTonya that I did not know.
Enjoy … and let me know what you think.
Came across this through a different collection of people - but believe that there are sufficient people in here to share and solicit thoughts.
Local-first software - You own your data, in spite of the cloud
I doubt you did - but in case you did do that ‘Ancestry DNA thing’ … and you wondered ‘why not - what could possibly go wrong’ … this is what possibly could go wrong …..
Lawyer’s warning over family tree DNA tests as Blackstone buys Ancestry for $4.7b
Facebook, The PR Firm - Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk
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”One of the jokes² at Uber was that if things ever did not work out as a ride-sharing app, we could just pivot to becoming a law or a consulting firm since we were so good at introducing ride-sharing to many cities and finding creative ways to increase awareness and gain market share. The darker way to read the joke is that Uber is less of a tech company, but a financial entity composed to find regulatory arbitrage opportunities and suck the profits dry until it can find other sources of revenue. The joke is funny because it is true.”
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
💬 Voltaire
… reminded of this in today’s Stowe Boyd newsletter, which in turn reminded me … (now don’t judge) … but boy - do I have some questions !
Cory has just read Shoshanna and has a position’
It includes him reading an extract from his new, free ‘book’;
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
The irony of publishing your position on Medium goes unrecognized - but heh - each to his own!
The store is ‘full’, everybody wearing masks except 2 … the same 2 that decide that the cash till lines do not apply to them and just walk up to the front.
Couldn’t decide which I was experiencing
- ‘exceptionalism’,
- ‘arrogance’,
- ‘privelege’
or just plain old ‘idiocy’,
seems a more appropriate URL for my second blot site than
UPDATE : 2024|04|22
Both those links are now updated - since everything is now at https://archive.philpin.com
UPDATE : 2024|04|22
Both those links are now dead