TWENTY EIGHT

 

Twenty Eight umbrella struts

 

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85,000 and counting.

Number One.

That’s ‘#Winning

tRump was right.

America First.


I just broke the rule that says 1 newsletter a week. I sent a special important one.

I talk about Folding@Home - think SETI to fight Covid-19.

I talk about the awesome offer that @manton has made for all educators.

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Forward the email if you want to spread the word.


Mr Pie - as spot on as ever.


Dear Siteground

Your new admin interface looks very pretty - now if you could just run it at a usable speed … that would be so great.

It is sooooooo slow!


TWENTY SEVEN

 

Twenty Seven notices

 

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Interesting post comparing iThoughts and MindNode - bottom line, there is an overall winner - but really - there just isn’t.

Thankfully I have SetApp and so both of them are on my Macs - no extra payment needed.


The 2 trillion package is in … the market rebound is steeper than the Covid-19 curve and unemployment claims jumped from ~280k to ~3.28million.

That should be enough to tell you where the US focus is.

Not People


This week’s People First newsletter tells a great positive story that in these turbulent times - you might enjoy. (Bonus - it is not about Covid-19)

Good Things Happen


Good Things Happen.

Good Things Happen.
They Sometimes Take Time.

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The President Is Trapped.

”America will make it to the other side of this crisis, as it has after every other crisis. But (it) will be a good deal harder, the human cost a good deal higher, because we elected as president a man who is so damaged and so broken in so many ways.


Remember that promise by Uber about sick pay?

Yeah well it seems the story got a little ahead of reality.

An Uber driver who got COVID-19 couldn’t get the company to cover his promised sick pay until he called out its CEO on Twitter.


NASA fixed a Mars probe by hitting it with a shovel.

A direct lift from ‘The John Philpin School Of How To Fix Shit’.


Washington National Cathedral Finds Thousands Of N95 Respirator Masks In Its Crypt Level.

I’m sure there’s a very good reason why a cathedral not only stored - but had forgotten it had stored - thousands of respirator masks.


ONE of the reasons I moved to Feedbin was that I liked the idea of using it manage my newsletters. But the formatting left a lot to be desired and despite folders they languished unread.

Enter Stoop … a quick trial and convinced. All newsletter subs are being moved.


TWENTY SIX

 

Twenty Six waves

 

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Stop the $6 Trillion Coronavirus Corporate Coup! - BIG by Matt Stoller

A serious essay from a serious writer.

Important Reading.


The Set Up.

”Trump then repeatedly sought to pass the buck, primarily to Democratic governors. “The governors, locally, are going to be in command,” he explained. “We will be following them, and we hope they can do the job.”

You can read the headline two ways.


Cal Newport:

Newton’s Productive School Break

Now that is news I did not know.