Self Imposed Rules
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Well that’s just great. Thankyou - I mean it’s not urgent or anything.….
People: Sylvester
“They come for three months - they stay for four years - and I welcome that. That’s how we learn. They see us up close and personal and we see them. A lot of countries that they come from have very different governments, with different rules. We get to learn about each without the filter of what they are told. I wouldn’t say that when they leave we fully understand each other’s cultures, but we are surely better off than we would have been if we hadn't.”
“We bring people in from all over the world, staff and customers. So, why would we treat anyone differently? Them, Us, Staff, Customers, Family … each one of us is part of another’s world. And I mean all of us.”
“I don’t know much about those large companies you hear about in the news. You could fit our entire community into one of their office blocks. They have their ways. We have ours. So we’re different. Except we’re not. None of us are. They just haven’t worked that out yet.”
“Turns out, we have more in common with ‘foreigners’ - like you” (he smiles and points his finger at me) “than some of the people from our own country. Turns out that the ones that are just here to 'party' are the odd ones out. That’s why we came up with the 'Silly Bugger' rule.”
“It goes like this. When you come here, you can work and you can party. But that’s on your time. If you play 'silly bugger', there is no second chance. You are out on the next boat. That’s how we build and strengthen our community. Everybody is welcome until they make themselves unwelcome.”
“Maybe that’s something else those big companies could learn from us. If they did, we wouldn’t charge. That’s another thing - we don’t charge to learn - learning makes us all better.”
“There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.”
G.K. Chesterton
Thinking Allowed
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Edmund Burke 200 years ago:
”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
”The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
”Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
.. and many more.
Will we just accept our loss of privacy, or has the techlash already begun?
I don’t know - will we?
Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become criminal offence says Law Commissioner
So if I post to Facebook they will allow it … but from the UK’s perspective I am a criminal … so Facebook will allow criminal posts.
Sounds about right.
Good to know - I mean this administration have always been straight forward, direct, honest haven’t they?
‘No reason for Americans to panic’: White House seeks to calm fears over coronavirus
Depressing - and hard to disagree with any of it.
Trump’s impeachment trial: the perils of outrageous immunity.
”Donald Trump's defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz raised eyebrows on Wednesday when he argued that Trump has free reign to cheat in an election if he believes his victory would be in the best interest of the American people.”
This kind of thing is just too important to ignore.
Comma again? Philip Pullman’s Oxford comma rage doesn’t go far enough
Sometimes you just have to … what, I don’t know … but surely you have to do something … send them a dictionary maybe?
Oh interesting … replace google analytics and stop feeding the machine.
What a better way to celebrate data privacy day than reading the latest newsletter from People First where I connect the dots between Climate Change, Supertramp, Big Tobacco, Technology, Sun Tzu and The Red Hot Chili Peppers .. and not always tenuously !!!
It’s a start …
Why millionaire millennials are shunning stocks to invest in watches and wine
Think about that headline for two seconds …
Postscript : Ad Tracking
Are we winning? Well a whole lot more than we might have been pre-internet.
Ad blockers are used by some 25% of internet users in 2019. In real terms, this means that 25% of internet advertising that uses trackers will not reach their intended audience. (It’s quite a bit more complicated than that, but the point is that somehow the word got out that people were being tracked and it was those pesky Ads doing all the tracking - enter Adblocking and so an industry was born and an ‘arms race’ ensued.)
The peak of the internet searching for the term ‘Ad blocker’ was September 2015.
Me - I call it ‘tracker blocking’. There are sites that allow advertising and do not track. Ad blockers don’t work there - because there is no tracking to be blocked.
But there is no escape that at one point people were increasingly aware of ad blocking - what it was doing and most importantly - what it was doing to them. They got interested. And then it all fell away.
That's the mistake - we need to keep piling on. Keep reminding people what is going on.