”And societally, we are rapidly turning into Amazon-ordering, Zoom-clustering, auto-cocooning consumers. (Nothing new. Just exponentially more.)”
I think Gary must be speaking for himself.
My friend Ed Kressy’s book is available for pre order - and right now you can pick up the Kindle version for a buck.
Dear Boris,
Imagine how everybody suffering from COVID-19 … could fight back if they had two nurses dedicated to bringing them back from the edge 24 hours a day.
Wait there’s more.
Neither of them English? How’s that going to work in the future?
Sometimes Twitter does deliver such truths.
Event Observation 2
When you live in one place attend an event the other side of the world, your body clock adapts and you sit in an event from ‘09 to 16 hundred hours’ … local time.
If you attend remotely … are you really going to sit up from ‘01 to 08 hundred hours’?
Event Observation 1
In the physical world there are a lot of costs in running an event. As those events move online, those costs go away.
What isn’t happening to the few events I track, is a reduction in price to attend that event.
Why not?
Dr. Drang on COBOL … you can’t disagree.
”Amazon has “essentially become infrastructure,”
Sally Hubbard
Hubbard is a director at the Open Markets Institute and a former assistant attorney general in New York’s antitrust bureau.
Via Axios.
Worried?
US’s global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump’s coronavirus response.
I bet it hasn’t. I mean we always think he can’t go lower … it can’t get worse … and then BOOM … he does it again.
A grocery store owner’s account of serving desperate clients in New Orleans amid coronavirus.
Gut wrenching
Do not not read it.
One for my quote collection:
Trump Org pleads with Palm Beach County for help with their $88,338 golf course rent.
I don’t see why he’s bothered. He of all people is well practiced in
‘The Art Of The Bankruptcy’
Boris Johnson’s darkest hour: one week that shook the nation.
”For a time, the prime minister’s life appeared to be in danger. Will this brush with mortality change his attitudes?”
A question already asked.
No light shed, just opinions from others that it should.
Let’s see.
San Francisco Landmark City Lights Bookstore Raises $400k. … closure no longer on the horizon.
… a little bit of good news pokes through the darkness.
Good News: This is the Last Viral Pandemic
That’s the headline.
It concludes …
”We don’t need to have another pandemic.
… because of course the article is really about learning lessons and acting on those learnings.
Breath not held.
We Need A Massive Surveillance Program
”But warning people about these dangers today is like being concerned about black mold growing in the basement when the house is on fire. “
Instacart shoppers cheating workers by falsely offering big tips.
Just when you think humanity couldn’t get worse … it does.
File in the ‘douche / unbelievable / kick them in the nuts’ bucket.
I wonder if he knows?
French police turn back private jet of holidaymakers from UK
The question is what was anyone thinking?
I think I know …
”The men, aged 40-50, and women, aged 23-25, were refused permission to enter France and ordered by police to fly back to the UK.”