Elites Still ‘Out of Touch’

Progressive Outrage After DNC Chief Tom Perez Endorses Cuomo Ahead of NY Primary

That link would make more sense if it read:

‘Elites’ Still Out of Touch


Any thoughts on whether one should update from 1Password 6 to 1Password 7 ?


More anthem / kneeling

Now that the owners have made it a workplace rule to stand during the anthem or stay in the locker room, any player who takes the field and takes a knee is protesting an employer rule. And that is unquestionably protected by federal labor law.

Get the 🍿


Here’s Amazon’s explanation for the Alexa eavesdropping scandal

Weed is legal in Seattle, in case you wondered how they came up with this explanation.

Ben Brooks



Anyone other than @devilgate and myself interested in a MicroMeetup in Central / West London on June 5th?

Building The Info Here :

john.philpin.com/uk-meet-u…


Oh No … Really ?

Woman Says Alexa Device Recorded Her Private Conversation and Sent It To Random Contact; Amazon Confirms the Incident

We are going to get tired - real soon - of these stories.


… and again … the kneeling thing

Trump praises NFL anthem rule, says kneeling players “maybe shouldn’t be in the country”

Maybe Trump shouldn’t be in the country.


Even more on that anthem thing

Personnel who choose not to stand for the Anthem may stay in the locker room until after the Anthem has been performed.

Out of sight … out of mind.


More on that anthem thing

He also said he planned to halt concession sales during the anthem.

Everyone is all worked up and self righteous about standing for the flag, but it was still ok to sell beer and hot dogs.

… because nothing gets in the way of the real religion.


Just off the phone with Verizon. $10 a day OR $40 a month for using their service in the UK. The monthly fee has a 100 meg data cap. Yup - megabyte.

Vodafone: £20 for 6 gig plus the usual telephony stuff.

Time to kill the US carrier monopolies and lobbyists … what say you?


The new Micro Blog Wiki that @eli has put up is a phenomenal resource - check it out .. so good, I had to add it here … at the very top!

Addendum - links just updated to reflect the new permalink that @eli just posted.


Lots of new people (to me at least) in the Micro.Blog discover section this morning


Facebook’s policy chief for Ireland. Ms. Sweeney said that one way Facebook was trying to address the issue was by inviting individuals to preemptively submit naked or other embarrassing pictures of themselves …..

… after you Ms. Sweeney.


Kneeling Used To Be A Sign Of Respect

Next time I am in a Church and we are all asked to kneel, I will stand, since it is now obvious that kneeling is a sign of disrespect … I mean the NFL are an authority on this … right?

I would also suggest those players that do choose to stay in the locker room … do so for the entire game and see how long the ban lasts … but they won’t …. because money.

NFL Now Requires Players To Stand For National Anthem Or Stay In Locker Room

I wonder if that rule will apply to NFL games in the UK? Or is that a different authority that is attempting to establish American Football as something more than a National game?


I wrote this about Google’s AI demo 5 days ago.

Gruber yesterday … who seems to be on the same page … but writing far more eloquently … naturally.


If you want to be a good writer then you can’t worry about the numbers. The stats, the dashboards, the faves, likes, hearts and yes, even the claps, they all lead to madness and, worst of all in my opinion, bad writing.

There’s More : Good Writing and Analytics Don’t Mix