Back at the beginning of March I published a short post on Garbage Language - original article here.

So delighted to be nearly two months ahead of Cloudal Partners who pushed this out a couple of days ago.

Giving kudos to self … is that allowed?


Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better, history will not judge us kindly.

Margaret Sullivan

… on a similar theme to Jay Rosen 2 days ago and 2 months ago and 2 years ago … in fact since 2015 … if not before!

His most recent observation on the subject.


🔗 The Roam Cult

🚧 Me? I’m still on the ‘let me in’ part of the list. Anyone else care to share their Roam Reflections?





Asking for a friend

  1. Share a link from (say) Fiery Feeds you get title and URL sans markdown.

  2. Open the same post in Safari, do the same thing - all the markdown appears.

Can I make 1 behave like 2?

LATER: The answer lies in Shortcuts



Amazon used a China firm on U.S. blacklist for thermal cameras to monitor workers for COVID-19 fever.

You see what y’all don’t understand is that there are two sets of rules. One for Jeff and one for the rest of us.


Finally got this post behaving as it should.

It shouldn’t be this hard.


Larry Summers?


This week I celebrate the 50th edition of my newsletter.

It includes a quote from Zeno, lyrics from Tom Robinson and asks what do you want the ‘new normal' to be, because

“As always - what happens now - is up to you.”

Peter Gabriel


Fifty

Earthday, NYC, April 22nd 1970

Read More →


75% of the USA’s Red States are in the Midwest.


does the post id number that you see in micro blog mean anything - e.g. is it a chronological number?

So if i see post id ‘124’ does that mean it is an early page/post?

asking for a friend.


I’ve tried.

This doesn’t work - if you are trying to stop google doing its usual shenanigans.

You know : Stopping GoogleSoftwareUpdate.app from trying to run on your Mac

Has something changed since October?


Milestones hit. Wonder how quick the next ones will pass by.


Frum explains …

Why Mitch McConnell Wants States to Go Bankrupt.

”A state bankruptcy process would thus enable a Republican Party based in the poorer states to use its federal ascendancy to impose its priorities upon the budgets of the richer states.”


Data is the new oil, soil, water … written about this before - my take? **Data Is Energy. **

Anyway on a call with the internet identity warriors right now and Doc Searls just flagged a post of his from three years ago …

Data Is Love


The Numbers Behind Social Distancing.

NYC v CA as a comp to explain the calculations … so you can calculate yours.