Thinking aloud … emojis like … 🎶 or 📚 as categories …
// @manton @simonwoods @burk ??
When the going gets tough … well, just move somewhere else.
Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs abruptly abandons Toronto smart city project
US Nasdaq index recovers all of 2020’s losses triggered by Covid-19
Nexflix up 32%, Amazon up 27%, MSoft up 16% … the rest can’t be great.
“However, investors took comfort from the fact that the pace of layoffs in the world’s largest economy had slowed.
Well nobody’s left!
GAWD - only just remembered that 🔗 Micro Challenge Sprints have already started!
So that’s this weeks fail :-(
On the one hand there’s this:
Coronavirus In Ecuador: Families Are Left To Search For Their Relatives' Bodies In Guayaquil
But that really doesn’t stack up against this data.
FCC orders Sinclair to pay $48 million fine related to its failed merger with Tribune.
Wait Pai actually did something good?
Now we know that hell has frozen over.
”Trump claims to be a “genius,” even though he apparently can’t spell, can’t punctuate, can’t do math and lacks geographic literacy, and even though his own appointees have privately called him a “moron,” an “idiot,” a “dope,” and “dumb.” Now, God help us, he fancies himself an expert in virology and infectious diseases.
George Conway
Personally, I’d wave my cane … but otherwise we’re on the same page.
US Charges Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro With Drug Trafficking
Along side of this story
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Said Two Americans Arrested Over An Alleged Coup Attempt
The truth? Who knows? We do know of many documented lies told by tRump and his posse.
🎶 Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk co-founder, dies aged 73.
“Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn”
Irish government confirms it will use de-centralized contact tracing model.
… are you listening U.K. U.S.A. ….
Restoring the Economy Is The Last Thing We Want.
”The sooner and more completely we restore the old economy, the faster we recreate the conditions that got us sick in the first place and rendered us incapable of mounting an effective response."
Douglas Rushkoff
He’s Not Wrong!
The GOP’s Anti-American Animus
“Anti-American” might sound strange. This is, after all, the same president who vowed in 2016 to “Make America Great Again.” But if the incumbent has taught the majority nothing else, it’s the “America” of his famed campaign slogan is not the United States."
Matt Stoehr
Australian PM Scott Morrison: coronavirus most likely originated in Wuhan market
That was a very quick inquiry. He only called for it 5 days ago. Less than a week - done and dusted.
Wall Street. Main Street.
It used to be Wall Street and Main Street.
Now it's Wall Street versus Main Street.
When you read all the analysis, what can I add, other than connecting the articles to a story that highlights the challenges society faces through this pandemic. The stories are new, the underlying themes are not. I have been talking about them for a couple of years. What is new is that they are getting broader attention. Amplification.
Now we need to do something about it. Before we fall back into the ‘normal’. Or worse - accept a ‘new’ normal, because that is ‘just the way it is’.
“You can’t hold a public rally in support of stay-at-home orders.”
John Gruber
Jesse Ventura Could Pose a Greater Threat Than Biden or the Democrats Believe.
Jesse Ventura? They never ever leave, do they?