”By the first quarter of this year, household debt was at an all-time high of $13.2 trillion. Almost 80 percent of Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck.
Uber Posts $1 Billion Loss…Ahead Of Planned IPO Next Year
Success in the making.
Team Human is Done! - Rushkoff
Ordered.
”But this Soros thing is different. This is no passive failure. It’s a malevolent action taken against groups who criticize Facebook for things that Facebook admits it has failed at. It takes advantage of and contributes to the most poisonous aspects of our public discourse.
NYT via Kottke
… much more on this to come.
Puzzle Montage Art … very cool … via Kottke.
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Spot On …. and delighted to say that I am working with one such company that is working in the world of vision.
Sound like our time has come! (To borrow from Victor).
Last week I was one of hundreds that hit the pavements and canvassed over 4 days in Stanislaus County to help Josh Harder (D) beat 4 termer Jeff Denham (R).
Delighted to report that Josh won.
Yes - another long one, but now I can say that I have met a congressman!
Observation re blot cross posting to micro blog - sometimes it is just some words … sometimes a link appears aswell …. and it seems that the difference is all to do with whether the post has some text at the beginning .. the experiments continue.
Micro Bloggers I have captured in my Mastodon list … there will be a lot more … but before I spend time adding them, wrestling with how to make that list available to others. I have a feeling that is currently a step too far for mastodon.
The Modern Talent Supply Chain.
“The Brightfield team has earned a privileged position as the trusted steward to leading buyers, sellers and intermediaries in the modern talent supply chain …..
So now we know how Brightfield sees people … cogs in their supply chain .
A new micro blog community resource - this one around mastodon ….. I have started a micro blogger list on social.mastadon … hope that link works ….
Nothing to see here … just move along now ….
Well Hello Mastodon!
Peter Thiel’s dream of a floating libertarian city beyond national borders lives on … pictures
Every now and then my desktop loses files if I am using stacks, Restarting finder OR toggle ‘use stacks’ in the context menu fixes the problem.
Anyone else see that?
Just came across this as I have been purging my social sites and consolidating ….. It still holds true.
The Art Institute of Chicago just added 50,000 images to a free online resource (via Kottke) so I in turn added the resource to my listly of free photo resources … enjoy
Another one to watch in the ongoing argument re data, who owns it and what rights the authorities have to it.
Woman remotely wipes phone in evidence after shooting
You have a phone. The police take it off you. You are sent home. You remotely wipe the phone.
Legal?
There is this thing called the glass cliff …
”So what, exactly, do so many people have against Nancy Pelosi? Are we really so blind to this old familiar landscape? A woman can serve in Congress and remain popular so long as she is not perceived as smart, powerful and effective. It is doubtful anyone would have any complaint about Nancy Pelosi but for one thing: that she is a woman.”