First they came for …..
Amazon has already begun automating its white-collar jobs
Over at Google 200K a year people are trying to start a Union ….
Ian Bogost has a mixed vision of the future ....
Ian Bogost asks Are Apple AirPods Any Good? This caught my eye:
”The earbuds won’t disappear, just like the smartphones haven’t. But they will become invisible as they become ubiquitous.
For all his skill in envisioning a future AirPod world and the social ramifications does he really think that Airpods won’t get smaller, maybe even just embedded?
Not for me, but knowing how many people in the MB community are into this world … well … count it as a public service:-)
Pomera heads to English-speaking world with new e-ink folding pocket typewriter
Lost In Translation … or just sloppy reporting?
BBC Headline: “Brighton shopfitter finds wartime bank notes worth £1m”
Capitulation or chaos? Theresa May is forcing the Brexiters to choose
”It says a lot about Theresa May’s handling of Brexit that principle of a “meaningful” vote for parliament on the final deal has been settled, but only by deferring agreement on the meaning of ‘meaningful’”.
🎵 Completing my musical post trilogy …
An excellent podcast featuring Angelique Kidjo and David Byrne talking about Remain In Light - both David’s and Angelique’s versions.
🎵 and more music added to my buy list:
Tears For Fears to release first new album in 14 years - Consequence of Sound
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Spiritualized To Release New Album “And Nothing Hurt” On September 7
Filed under 🎶 I can’t wait for.
I am delighted that the second of my series … ‘Real Stories of Real People – Travels Without Charley’. …. has been published on BIZCATALYST 360°.
This one is about Stevie.
I wrote In Praise of MicroBlog in answer to a question @andysylvester had of me.
He just replied - through another blog post - naturally.
Including call outs to fellow 1999ers @ron and @frankm
Nice one Andy.
You’re kidding right?
Upload my contacts to YouTube?
I want what you’re on.
Workers of the world unite on distributed digital platforms – George Zarkadakis | Aeon Essays
"This kind of bottom-up, self-organised business network is what Trebor Scholz, a professor at the New School in New York, calls ‘platform cooperativism’. Take Uber, currently valued in the tens of billions of dollars. There’s no reason why a group of drivers couldn’t build a similar platform for themselves; the software tools to develop it are open-source and readily available, and development and design talent can be given incentives to participate."The Full Story
Inessential is the blog of [@brentsimmons](https://micro.blog/brentsimmons) and he is on a roll … well if the last two posts constitute a roll?
Good reads. Spot on.
There I was wondering if ‘team trump’ understood the meaning of ‘ad hominem’
France might have had the same thought …
This article uses easier language for ‘team tiny hands - smaller minds’
”International cooperation cannot depend on fits of anger or little words.”
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Is Allegedly Looking to Start Another Company
Yup - no typos… and Tim Draper still supports her because ‘she did nothing wrong’ … though she is banned by the SEC from being the officer of any company.
Sure. Nothing wrong at all.
White House ratchets up trade war with ‘special place in Hell’ slug at Trudeau
”Canada does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks.”
I wonder if anyone in the Trump Administration knows what ‘ad hominem’ means?
Take 20 minutes of your life and listen. You won’t regret it.
“Food is Political.”