”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?
Here’s An Idea: The Trump Campaign Should Simply Take Over MySpace
Absolutely BRILLIANT idea - I think it’s even owned by Murdoch …
I wonder if Trump has ever read Locke?
”Who lies for you will lie against you.”
💬 John Locke
In January 2020, not a single CEO, government leader, politician or consultant let alone futurist, futurologist, sociologist, FoW expert, forecaster, strategy planner or pollster … wrote or talked about what we should do 6 months later when the world was in the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu, suffering the deepest financial depression in nearly a hundred years with a global #BLM movement provoking civil unrest that threatens the global power structure that has been in place for centuries.
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
💬 Oscar Wilde
… we clearly no longer have a ‘thoroughly modern intellect’.
Every Federal Reserve Board Member Is an Old Millionaire.
“Why it’s a problem that a central bank whose job is to organize credit only has creditors in charge.”
… never thought of it like that before.
Joe Biden can’t “heal” the country by picking the right running mate.
More accurately …
”Please take me off the list of people you are considering says the woman who probably hasn’t been on it for a while.”
The Future Is Boring And Predictable
.. at least if we go to where the so called ‘futurists' are taking us.
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