It’s on Medium … I don’t know why, but I make an exception for Dave Pell.
So Amazon is withholding their facial technology back from the authorities for one year.
) it wasn’t going to work with masks anyway.
- in a years time it will.
”The rally is on June 19, the day African Americans celebrate the end of slavery. It takes place in Tulsa, home to one of the worst massacres of Black people in US history. Like many dog whistles, white supremacists hear it loud and clear.”
Dave Pell
”If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud. I’ve been singing this song for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I’m not proud, or tired. So we’ll wait till it comes around again and this time with four part harmony - and feeling.”
This week’s newsletter was a little bit about how to get around roadblocks.
Of course - that’s only half the problem.
One of my readers responded with a Banksy.
Apparently there might be a second wave.
Apparently there’s still unemployment … and more people signed up.
Apparently the economy might not recover too fast.
This was all such a surprise to Wall Street that they are the reasons given for today’s drop.
5 smart ways to grow your email list.
Another email list oriented link. You can guess what I am thinking about!
The Tech Powering the Morning Brew Machine. - it’s on Medium. Sorry. I managed to read it on this month’s 3 free reads.
Whether you read the Morning Brew or not … this is an extraordinary story of the growth of a newsletter.
Why Restaurants Are Fed Up With Apps.
They are? I am! They are despicable! .. worse than Uber!
🎶 Prog Rock … Symphonic Rock … Symphonic Pop … Power Pop … the genre differences seem to have very large fuzzy grey boundaries.
Jason Fried eleven years ago, riffing on how Basecamp was worth $100 billion.
Something I am writing reminded me of it - so went to dig it out.
In eleven years, nothing has changed.
Oh wait. It has.
It’s worse.
Nascar Drivers?
Doc Searls recently wrote that ‘cookies’ are essentially ‘worms’.
‘Cookies’. Warm, friendly, sweet - nice enough to eat!
Of course you can put a cookie on my machine, but NOT a worm.
Even though a cookie’s behavior is essentially worm like.
Filed under ‘Nefarious Language’.
ZoomInfo Duo Become Billionaires With Stock Doubling Since IPO.
We know why … right?
I am still very pissed off about this. … and still don’t know whether to call them on it.
Gaping Void - back in 2007 talking Cluetrain …
”Cluetrain is the most important book about the internet ever written. Why? Because it was the first book that talked about the internet the way it REALLY is, i.e. people talking, as opposed to the way business and the media pretend it is, i.e. people buying.”
Hugh McCleod
Quibi reportedly considers layoffs for 10% of staff after poor launch.
Interesting news … “Meg was paid.”
The rest pretty predictable.
Only thing left to know now is whether it ends with a bullet in the brain or a thousand paper cuts.