“I’ve been saying for a while that I didn’t know when the economy would next face a serious bump in the road, but I did know that our shock absorbers were pretty much shot. Well, here comes the bump. Brace yourself.”
Paul Krugman
The rest are interactive … but this one is very, very depressing.
Confusing at so many levels. So many.
All that … in just a weekend?
Garbage Language
We need to stop it.
“We’re waiting on specs for the San Francisco installation. Can you parallel-path two versions?”
Good grief ... I think Molly Young is channelling me.
... at the very bottom, customer service. Which, by the way, has been rechristened “customer support” or “customer experience” at most companies — as though the word service might remind the college graduates recruited for these roles that they will in fact spend their days pacifying irritable consumers over phone, chat, text, and email.
As you know - Language is one of the People First pillars.
I have no reason to write more on this article - it only becomes a block to you reading it yourself.
Trump hurls insults as 21 cases confirmed on cruise ship.
”I like the numbers being where they are, I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”
Donald J. Trump
His idea of a border seems very loose.
FINALLY
✅ Fixed footer on site
✅ Moved site to a custom template
✅ Got some explanation on this page
BUT
still wrestling with how to do the same on this example page
🚧 Data Is Being Used To Screw Us
This popped into a thread that I am part of ...
A thread that caused 'Friend of People First' - Adrian Gropper to write;
A talk that argues that most of the big data is being used to screw us and mentions data trusts as a possible solution. Data trusts are an immature concept but worth considering because it's one approach to decentralizing governance. Until we figure out data governance principles that are transparent and contextual to specific communities we should limit data aggregation by default and focus on personal agents and other fiduciaries.
Adrian Gropper
It is interesting because on that very same day I received these words from another 'Friend of People First' and occasional colleague Daniel Szuc after he received my newsletter declaring Data is Energy.
Energy is energy.
Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong
Climate is a result of energy misused.
Environment is the outcome.
What are the impacts on our environment today, inside people and in the outside environment people live in?
What contributes to the health or toxicity of the environment?
Data, understood deeply, should be used to contribute to the healthy environment ... yet ... how is it being used today?
The answer, of course, is exactly what Adrian expressed above.
It is being used to screw us.
Slow,
Slow,
Slow Slow,
Slow.
Ian Grigg On Identity
I think that is the opportunity and in five years time we'll know whether we got the mega-corporations holding my identity or whether we managed to take it back.
Ian Grigg - October 2015.
The five years are just about up and I think if the 'megacorps' have not won - they are about to. Is it too late?
Three years ago he wrote: Identity is an edge protocol, and not a nodal protocol. (pdf)
U.S. has persuasive intel Taliban do not intend to abide by terms of peace deal, officials say
New that isn’t news.
Whoever thought they would?
Bernie Needs a Big Win, and He’s Betting It All on Michigan.
” … and looks to have fallen behind Joe Biden in the delegate count …”
What? Looks to?
He HAS fallen behind … it’s very clear.
Excellent - but not the time to let up the pressure. Also, even if they do, the Dems remain a long way from taking Mad Mitch out of the leadership position.
Perspective from Doc Searls.
Oasis’s greatest songs – ranked!
I’m going to go with a dead heat - for all of them - equal - LAST.
November - it’s so near and yet so far away.
Trump calls WHO’s global death rate from coronavirus ‘a false number’