Interesting newsletter from @ajay - though I think Occupy ‘withering away’ was not just about the arrest/loss of leadership.
Leaderless resistance seems to go back to the 50s/60s … and as I understand is arguably a foundation for a lot of terrorism. E.g. OBL was captured but Al-Qaeda does seem to be alive and well!
And now the strategy has been adopted in America … just not in a good way.
A lot of people must be trying to get their new Apple Pay card this morning.
What could possibly go wrong?
Uber’s own numbers show why investors shouldn’t believe in its vision
Well knock me down with a feather.
Before we teach visitors how to pronounce Edinburgh, let’s focus on how to pronounce our own towns and villages in England.
20 towns and villages in Sussex nobody really knows how to pronounce properly.
… though only a handful that I thought even necessitated a debate.
Shareholder First
Leading US bosses drop shareholder-first principle.
As the article opens ...
"The real test will be in deeds not words."
Have to say until action - and I mean real action - this jury is out!
Read the opinion by Larry Elliott in The Guardian
Watching. I don’t think People First has won just yet!
“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.”
Ben Thompson, Mojo
🎵”Life has this funny way of marching forward without any explicit consent.”
… received in an email this morning.
It does!
📝 ⌨️ 🖊️ 🖋️ Om on Why Pen and Paper are good for you.
I really don’t care if the Slayer logo is on the side of a little 🚗 driving around in circles, but their replacement by Pods suggests that there is no Marketing strategy behind the little 🚗 team.
🪦
RIP Peter.
A Brief Briefing : Innerwear sales reveal a slowdown
Who knew that briefs were canaries?
Trump to Meet With Top Advisers to Consider Deal With Taliban
“… whether the Taliban can be trusted to meet its pledges.”
I would recommend that the Taliban talk to Iran about whether the American’s can be trusted to meets its pledges.
How YouTube Radicalized Brazil
Nuff Said.
Yowza - and then I realized.
White professor investigated for quoting James Baldwin’s use of N-word
Fox News host compares migrants entering US to Nazis
Just received an email that opens:
”Whoops! We experienced some technical difficulties this morning and the e-mail we sent you had some errors in the bill descriptions. We’re so sorry and promise not to cut-and-paste before our morning coffee.”
Technical difficulties. Got it.
I passed three people being ignored by pretty much everyone passing them the other day. They had placards and handouts and tables and everything.
Their message was simple:
The House of Lords in the UK are working with the US Deep State to over throw tRump.
Say what!
Have they looked at the state of the UK recently?
I know that you can’t make this stuff up - except they can
No need to click through - it is the drivel you might expect.
”Running for Senate Would ‘Not Be Good Enough for This Country’"
Beto O’Rourke
The arrogance of this guy is exceeded only by his lack of understanding of what it takes to win EVERYTHING - including the Senate.
2% … and falling …
It would be so much better if the new Apple podcast app allowed you to add any podcast you happen to be in to ‘a station’.
Right now you exit the stream - go to a station - edit - scroll through the podcasts to find it again - add it - and then go back to what you were doing.