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.
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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.
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
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”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’,
seems a more appropriate URL for my second blot site than
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
Caveat - not tried Superhuman BUT thought you all might wanted to see what this new email solution is all about.
Hands up if you think the .new domain is a good idea.
Ok now leave your hand up if you trust google to run it.
Thought so.
Facebook’s Kenosha Guard Militia Event Was Reported 455 Times. Moderators Said It Was Fine.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the reason the militia page and an associated event remained online after a shooting that killed two people was due to “an operational mistake.”
It’s poll time folks …
IFTTT or Zapier
… and why?
Move Along Now
Making it fair for musicians ….
The United States is one of only four countries that does not pay artists for the use of their recordings when their music is broadcast on the radio … we are creating a music platform where every artist is fairly paid.