David Crosby Rails Against the ‘Theft’ of Streaming Music
… and software developers think they have it bad!
… of course they will. Classic defence position.
Lets call my Tesla 3 ‘Democracy’
“Yes .. my car drives in the dark.”
I am a founder member of DigLife - and though I did not (they did) go to the Decentralized Web Summit …and started to produce this
IndieWeb in all its glory should surely be represented as a significant in here somewhere?
Bald - Full Head of Hair Clean Shaven - Moustache - Beard Glasses - No Glasses Tanned - Pasty White
All true. But I don’t think that this is what the ‘Chief Diversity Officer’ at BrightView had in mind.
Feedly * Unread * Reeder
I have used Feedly for the longest time - always done it for me …. and then I switched on Feedbin to benefit from some specific features that I wanted to try out … which in turn took me to Reeder and Unread as rss clients.
Reeder is functionally very rich - very nice.
Unread has a beauty all of its own.
Feedly is not as feature rich as Reeder nor as beautiful as Unread.
What’s a boy to do?
And Another Thing … Facebook Page Posting You Say
Naive? Or Ahead Of His Time?
We live in a world where knowledge, experience, thoughtfulness, kindness are really not valued. Just look around if you need proof.
There is also far too much emphasis on short term thinking, instant gratification, cheap at any cost …. both at an individual and corporate level.
So Chip Conley writing How We Combat Ageism Is By Valuing Wisdom as Much as Youth. makes me wonder … which is he?
For Posterity
Steadily working through the snippet collection backlog … and decide to drop these in here.
Will England ever get its own Parliament? - BBC News
… they should.
15 Signs That The Middle Class In The United States Is Being Systematically Destroyed
… only 15?
Retailers can’t out-Amazon Amazon, but they can change the rules
… but few will.
… we do.
40 Senate Democrats Join GOP to Send $717 Billion Military Spending Bill to Trump’s Desk
In other news, Putin reputedly spent around $100,000 on disrupting the West.
Is Russia or America demonstrating the better thinking?
Not Just A Corner … what @burk says is important to remember. If only the media would understand this.
(this posted to micro.blog directly from Feedbin.)
VERY Cool
there are certain people in the micro.blog community who I want to track as writers, thought provokers, clever, humorists … whatever catches my fancy.
the timeline is not good for that.
so this morning I started to subscribe to those feeds in feedbin.
The Bullshit Web — Pixel Envy is a good read that I picked up from The Loop this morning. Click though, you won’t regret it.
Movie Pass added to my growing list of failed companies.
Not just failed. Spectacularly failed.
“The credits have rolled. The music has faded. The curtains are closing…”
… and sadly so common it barely scrapes into the news cycle.
Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union.
Superb List … and so true.
W00T - IndiePaper working on MacOS and iOS. Coupled with Reeder and Feedbin, moving towards a one stop reading shop, though have to say the Feedbin web experience on the Mac is richer and more immersive than Reeder. Next stop kill Feedly completely?
Synch micro.blog site with MarsEdit. Thankyou @danielpunkass
Search for term in MarsEdit.
Identify post.
Use post date to scroll through archive. Thankyou @manton
Post located.
More true as each day passes.
And you wonder why we have problems in the USA …
This surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way.
and
”certificate-of-need laws might have made sense back when health care was treated more like a public utility.”
say what? did I miss that?
”Look, I know you’re tired of the Trump news. And I know this stuff makes you sick. Believe me, I’d rather be making quirky remarks about entertaining articles. But this is a very real and increasingly dangerous problem. We can’t just look away.”
Dave Pell - Next Draft
… and I couldn’t agree with him more.