Dystopia or utopia? The future of cities could go either way
… see … the future isn’t pre determined. That’s why we need to stop talking about ‘the future’ and start talking about A Future.
Donald Trump’s America is closed to immigrants.
Someone wanting to emigrate to America in these times speaks volumes about their own country and position in it.
Heartbreaking.
Oh … now that is interesting.
Safari will soon support web extensions from other browsers.
There are three answers … symbols, things or people.
Depending on your answer explains how COVID has affected your work, your income, your health, your life.
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far). - courtesy of McSweeneys.
It is incredible not just what he’s done, but how he’s got away with it.
Hands up if you remember ‘TanSuitGate’.
For 🏏 fans - in case you missed it.
”The stock market is not a snapshot of the economy. It’s a snapshot of a piece of the economy. It doesn’t represent small shops, services, retail outlets, restaurants, office workers, gig workers.”
Professor Jeffrey Sachs
YUP
COVID Links
Apple And Google Admit Ethereum App To Let Employees Prove They’ve Been Vaccinated
An 18-Month View of a Post-COVID World (visuals)
The Impact on Advertising Spend (visuals)
What comes after Zoom? (good question) ( better one- how did the others drop the ball?)
We’re all Old People in Training, whether we know it yet or not.
… even me apparently. Good grief I can barely pick up the cane to wave @bradenslen
One for the trump playbook.
Russians vote on constitutional changes
Or did Putin just rip tRump off?
I’ve been banging this drum for a long time. Definitely more triangulation and checking out needed - but it looks just like what the doctor ordered.
Dozens of Secret Service agents will be quarantined after Trump’s Tulsa rally - CNNPolitics
… more cost the taxpayers.
Moundsville Police Department Gets A New Toy.
It’s in desert camouflage. It should fit right in … I think this is Moundsville.
On American Exceptionalism
“America is not exceptional, but it is the exception.”
The myth of American Exceptionalism emerges from the myth of the American Dream.
👁️ 🔗 Race car driver Jessi Combs has posthumously been named the fastest woman on Earth by Guinness.
Many congratulations and all that - BUT - ‘posthumously named’ … ‘ON earth’ ….
Did I miss the memo redefining the after-life?
Apple Just Crippled IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval
Would you say “yes” to allowing an app or brand permission to “track you across apps and websites owned by other companies?”
Neither will 99% of consumers.
Flying Start
Devin Nunes Can’t Sue Twitter Over Statements By Fake Cow, Judge Rules
All good … but the fact it had to come to this says a lot about Nunes, the law and America.
People only sprayed ‘Nazi’ on Nancy Astor’s statue because she was one.
The truth is hard.
Then again - what is truth?