Last year from the very first public beta of macOS and iOS it was so stable I was tempted to install everywhere.

This year I’m on Public Beta 2 and so unstable I’m wondering if it will be ready in time!


🎵 Just updated the contributors page on Just Good Music - 10 authors in total - we have a couple more registered - but they have yet to throw up a post. Wonderful to see the variety of music being written about.


🎛️ A Snicklecast: Flawed Thinking

Somethings you just do not do in the ‘atom world’ - but in the ‘bits world’, it’s a totally different story.

Not to me.

That’s partly why I launched People First



You used to walk into a bar and ask for the drink you want … it now appears that you walk into a bar and preface that concept with

”I want to design a … with you”

Seriously?

Do NOT get me started.


”Almighty himself apparently decided to rain on Trump’s parade.

Not mine, but sorry, can’t recall where I read it today.


Considering the ongoing and growing concern that we humans are turning our oceans into plastic, I can’t help wondering if Catalina (Apple’s new MacOS) is some kind of metaphor for it being a ‘rock in an ocean of plastic’?


The Privacy Manifesto managed under the direction of Doc Searls has just been given an update.


As I read Dave Winer this morning, I was reminded of one of the tenet’s of People First.


”We have seen it so many times before, this pack mentality, this unprovoked loutishness, this excruciatingly entitled sense that it is acceptable, even imperative, to colonise a public space and behave absurdly rudely in it.

I thought they were talking about English football crowds again …. but no …

Ann Widdecombe in Strasbourg


The most unstable app I am running on OS13 beta is …

MicroBlog.



“Mr Osborne will need the nomination of Britain’s next prime minister to succeed (with his IMF ambition). The Evening Standard, which he edits, recently endorsed Boris Johnson in the leadership race.”

… and they wonder why we’re pissed.


MAD Magazine to Effectively Close After 67 Years

“After Mad, drugs were nothing.”

Patti Smith

I love how they are ‘effectively' closing as if closing the print edition and only running previous published stories is anything but!




5 points if you remember a game called Zoom Schwartz and Profigliano

Double points if you played it.

Triple if you ever won.

And I bow to you deeply if you can remember the rules without clicking on the link.


In This Cold Place

Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'In This Cold Place - With animation by Steve Cutts.

ReleasedJune 19, 2017
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmi-MtP969M)

A second video that hits you to the bone.



Are You Lost In The World Like Me?

Moby and The Void Pacific Choir - 'Are You Lost In The World Like Me'? With animation by Steve Cutts.

ReleasedOctober 18, 2016
[www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASywEuqFd8)

Its a couple of years since this was released - but still relevant today - and definitely relevant to People First, so capturing it in the archives.



Just To Remind Us All …