Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe To Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits

Profits? Or Revenue?

Also, Stephen Hackett:

”Unwritten: Apple will take nothing. I wonder how this will play out.”


Noam makes some very good points

… and the US gets so pissed off when other countries try to shape the US narrative.


Quick question for the ‘Wordpress cognoscenti’

Is there an easy way in Wordpress that when someone tweets your article - the post excerpt is sent - not just the title and the link?

My thanks in anticipation.


I thought the cabling behind my TV was bad …


🎼


Wow


If you are watching NFT auctions - Metakovan is biffing for everything … (s)he’s pumping the market I think.


Just listened to the latest Core Intuition. For me the topic wasn’t interesting BUT the laughter, humour, fun, pleasure of @manton and @danielpunkass kept me there - it sounded that this show was something they enjoyed in a way they haven’t for a while.

Just Me?


”Patient thought, patient labor, and firmness of purpose are almost omnipotent.”

More at Brain Pickings


LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Data to ICE

You gots to make your data pay for itself ..


Uber will pay a blind woman $1.1 million after drivers stranded her 14 times - The Verge

Not enough. To them it’s just a cost doing of business.



This river in Canada is now a ‘legal person’

I wonder how it does its taxes.


‘Kill the bill’: Hundreds in UK protest against new crime law.

No social distancing there then 🤷‍♀️

But it’s important. BoJo needs to go if he doesn’t understand why this is wrong.

Meanwhile, J Pie’s take on the matter.


How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations.

How is it possible to keep being surprised by how low this excuse for a human being can go?


”An aerial view of a contaminated area with garbage, plastic recipients, bottles and toxic waste generated by mining companies which have polluted the Tagarete River which flows into Uru Uru Lake on March 27, 2021, near Oruro, Bolivia. An aerial view of a contaminated area with garbage, plastic recipients, bottles and toxic waste generated by mining companies which have polluted the Tagarete River which flows into Uru Uru Lake on March 27, 2021, near Oruro, Bolivia. Photo: Gaston Brito Miserocchi (Getty Images)

Via Gizmodo


”If you are confused by quantum computers don’t worry .. it means that you are probably getting it.”

Shohini Chose

I liked that thought!


In the U.K. we know all about Heath Robinson and his wild and fanciful machines.

In the U.S.A. we know Rube Goldberg.

Behold - centuries before either of them :

Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)


Startup wants to enable ‘pay per person’ home viewing.

Jason writes ‘good luck’.

Me? After reading how they intend to do it.

”WTF”


‘Appen