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.

Call It Serendipity

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

”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’,


🖇️ archive.philpin.com

seems a more appropriate URL for my second blot site than

🖇️ archive.philpin.com

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