Russia expels diplomats in tit-for-tat action over Salisbury attack
U.S. ambassador to Israel: If Abbas won’t negotiate, someone else will
Regime change anyone?
Can’t help but wonder where the fanning of this particular flame is coming from.
Just the latest example of the ‘establishment’ gunning for Corbyn?
I am not close enough - all comments welcome.
Years of complaints against Cambridge Analytica reveal how it influenced voters
… and NOW we get upset.
Barn. Door. Bolt.
Grindr exposes location of 3 million daily users
… no words - except a reminder that anything you have out there has already been ripped off and is stored in a criminal’s data lake … so you can ignore this.
”A new startup wants to be the future of private space. Are they onto something?”
The Lost Tradition of Playing Ball in Church to Celebrate Easter
… time to revisit my ‘Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral’ books
Still Waiting ….. sigh
Walmart in early talks to buy Humana
I guess CVS buying Aetna started a trend!
Of course nobody seems to be buying the hospitals and medical practices where the work is done … just the Insurance companies where the money is made.
I know I posted this just now - but I liked the @gruber summary …
”In other words, Firefox is now treating Facebook as malware that you need to be protected from.”
New Firefox Extension Builds a Wall Around Facebook
US visa applications may soon require five years of social media info …. of course they will …. wonder what they say if you haven’t got any?
Jeremy Cherfas provides a users perspective on Indieweb … nicely made points, like …
If someone were able to create a kind of umbrella that took your money, made IndieWeb tools available and shared your money with the people who built the tools
Spotify for Indieweb?
Somebody on NPR just said “data is the new oil” …. I kid you not … not even going to file this in the ‘crud drawer’.
🚧 Cognitive Elites
“A 'cognitive elite' will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals 'commanding vastly greater resources' who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends.”
Read More In The Guardian Here
Cognitive Elites … not the same as ‘Elites’ - and - be it a ‘discredited’ term or not - I have no doubt that those that seek to use technology to protect their interests - and not subjugate themselves to the Corporates will win out. They are thinking, acting, doing and rising above the media clutter. Who are those people? Well, maybe it is easier to point out who they are not …. they are not people;
- who shake their heads and say 'what can we do'
- who continue to blindly use Facebook, despite all the proof of what they have done and continue to do
- who have a single password across all of their accounts
- who have a password like 1234password
- ... you get the picture
NO - it doesn’t include those people.
But it also is not about having superior intelligence. (Which is what the book was talking about.) No. That is not going to save you. And those people aren’t the cognitive elites that I think about.
To me - I think you are a cognitive elite if you think. At all. Your IQ can be below 100 - like half the population - but that doesn’t mean you can’t think … that is a choice.
Start to think. Start to act. Be Different.
uh oh - they’ve updated iTunes ….
The Second Innings Of The Internet
“Moral leadership means truly putting people first and making whatever sacrifices that entails,” said Seidman. “That means not always competing on shallow things and quantity — on how much time people spend on your platform — but on quality and depth. It means seeing and treating people not just as ‘users’ or ‘clicks,’ but as ‘citizens,’ who are worthy of being accurately informed to make their best choices. It means not just trying to shift people from one click to another, from one video to another, but instead trying to elevate them in ways that deepen our connections and enrich our conversations.”
Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN
… makes total sense to me. What we have today is the total domination of the online world by old school, old power, old values corporations - and people be damned. That is why we started People First - and interesting to see ourselves at the intersection of organizations and issues like The Indie Web and Internet Identity amongst others.
But if you think about issues like Ad Tracking, Profiling, Big Data, Walled Gardens, Data Warehouses, Self Sovereignty, Data Ownership, Net Neutrality, POSSE, longevity - you can complete the list as well as I can … the entire push and narrative today is to the benefit of the large corporation and the detriment of ‘we the people’.
By the way - if you want to see indie web in action - john.philpin.com is running on micro.blog - a nascent but emerging micro blog environment that is just part of this particular persons war chest of tools to take back the internet for people. More of this to come in future posts.
As I have said for many years - “I am my own system of record”.
I have started to collect RSS feeds of blogs belonging to Micro Bloggers (two does make a collection … right ?) I will build, slowly and manually - but do send me any sites you want added.