UK NHS to provide health advice through Amazon Alexa.
What could possibly go wrong?
”Google went from wanting to give you access to the whole world to wanting to be your whole world."
Dave Pell
Reminds me a little of ….
How the Super Rich Avoid Paying Taxes
“No reasonable person can defend a system under which workers laboring all year for the $7.25 federal minimum wage pay more than a dollar a day in income taxes while billionaire business owners pocket millions in profits tax-free.”
Before ‘government cheese’ was a punchline, it was an experimental economic plan.
Explains why when ever you order anything to eat in America, and you don’t want cheese with it … be sure to say ‘no cheese’, because otherwise whatever you just ordered will come with cheese.
The loss of elderhood - Julian Summerhayes
”We’ve more old people than ever before, but so few elders.”
Saved - and will be coming back to @juliansummerhayes … key point in People First.
Fed chief calls for Facebook to halt Libra project until concerns addressed.
”Everything Facebook does should raise serious concerns”
Jim Dalrymple
Badda Bing Badda Boom
Apple pushes silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
Seriously?
Why does Chrime not do what Safari and Firefox does? How hard is it to standardize?
Have to say I do find the ‘reusable block’ function of Gutenberg very useful.
What would be the downside of supporting a professional representative that told the truth rather than cow towing to a … well … lying, depraved scumbag?
The 2020 event … get there early … in 2019 to be exact.
Must be some kind of event starting up!
Survey time.
Your fuel tank is half full … is it time to find a garage and fill up … or do you just keep going because the other half tank got you this far?
Reminded of a conversation a few years ago - someone asking why would they throw their shoes over ‘street wires’.
‘They’ don’t was the reply.
Behold! The ultimate oxymoron.
Let's End Ageism
Ashton Applewhite - Let's End Ageism - A Ted Talk
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Lot's more to say on this, and will. Some of the points I touched on in Tuesday's Newsletter.
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
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(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Korean Invention of the Printing Press 200 Years Before Gutenberg
”This piece is a good reminder that the spread of technology (and culture) depends on more than just how useful it is.”
Is it? Or is it that we in the West are schooled that Western history is world history?
Ditch The Binary
“Look at gender. We used to think of it as a binary, male or female, and now we understand it's a spectrum. It is high time to ditch the old-young binary, too.”
Ashton Applewhite
Says it all really. Ageism is alive and well. In fact the same day, Paul Krugman wrote a piece on the job market that I totally disagreed with - so of course I had to write something.
You can read the whole of Issue Number 7 here.