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.



What do you work with?

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’.


Dhoni’s Chaku.

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

… more

YUP



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?


Marketplaces like Amazon and Uber benefit their owners more than users. This startup uses blockchain to turn the tables.

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.




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.”

From a Robert Reich thought

The myth of American Exceptionalism emerges from the myth of the American Dream.

More on the topic from The Atlantic.


👁️ 🔗 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.

As will this if it comes to pass.