Strongmen rise
"Chinese President Xi Jinping solidified his grasp on power yesterday, with the country's Communist Party abandoning term limits to allow Xi to serve long past his 2023 expiration date."The Full Story
Sessions Dines with Rosenstein in Show of Solidarity - Political Wire
"“The symbolism was unmistakable: the three top ranking officials in the Justice Department appearing together in a show of solidarity on the same day Trump is publicly and privately raging about Sessions.”"The Full Story
Why can’t we work out a technological solution for music distribution?
"Coupled with the reproduction of musical notation (thank you Gutenberg), the notion of distribution was introduced into the arts. Suddenly it became possible for one person to write a piece of music, which someone else could then print, and a third could perform without the whole thing needing to be written out by hand."The Full Story
Elon Musk wants to use satellites to bring broadband to the masses
"SpaceX’s plan calls for 4,425 satellites but it has also applied for another 7,518. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has given his backing to the proposal, making it likely to win the agency’s clearance to provide broadband via low-earth orbit."The Full Story
Even if I got one of these I still couldn’t draw like @gapingvoid … it’s about the ideas, not the tools.
Early days, but it will grow … because every now and then I find yet another useful Micro.Blog ‘billy do’ … let me know if you have any I can add.
Etowah sheriff pockets $750k in jail food funds, buys $740k beach house
Filed under things that you just can’t make up - even in this climate
🎵 two years and two days since the passing of keith emerson …. seems forever ago and just yesterday.
Digital Tech Is Transforming The Physical Shape Of Our Cities
"The digital revolution is changing how and where work happens. Employment is becoming more flexible and fluid, with digital technology enabling more people to work remotely and to collaborate in the cloud. This will impact city-centre offices, with landlords having to adjust to weaker demand and shorter leases. And as artificial intelligence bites – machines don’t care where they work – we’ll see the growth of cheaper regional back-offices, which is bad news for expensive cities."
Wouldn’t it be cool if @dayone allowed us to edit this list. Stationary? Sure. But doing what? Writing? Reading? Eating? Can’t I be eating AND stationary? What if I am stationary, on a train, eating? It seems like one of the more obvious not thought through parts of the app.
We need a list maker in micro.blog so far the following I count
@apulianas @zorn @manton @johnphilpin
as interested in a meet up around WWDC .. and I bet I can add
to that list aswell?
Leaving Silicon Valley - The Irony
It’s Time to Leave San Francisco over on Medium, penned by Sunil Rajaraman
Two observations
1} He only considers moving to somewhere else in America
… the usual narrow mindedness that The Valley is famous for.
2} He concludes that he can’t do the move while his equity continues to vest.
.. because after-all - it is all about the money (my take, would welcome other conclusions).
But there is more … The tech world preaches that a lot of the #FOW is all about virtualization, working remotely, flexibly, not being geographically constrained, blah blah, blah …. but really - how many tech companies really practice what they preach … other than Manton and Micro.blog of course - but then he isn’t in Silicon Valley.
// @manton
@Casper (The Mattress Company) takes on the Internet
It makes for an interesting read that I haven’t picked up anywhere else. A search of the article reveals 106 mentions of ‘Casper’ (the mattress company).
About 90% of what I know about Casper comes from the podcasting adverts I hear as a result of listening to @gruber @jdalrymple and others podcasters. This piece reveals an interesting, dark and seedy underbelly to the mattress industry.
A ‘couple’ of eye catching quotes;
”Casper approached Hales and offered to resume the relationship, on terms considerably more favorable to Hales, if Hales would agree to state a more positive opinion of Casper’s mattress on Sleepopolis. Hales refused.”
”In July 2017, a subsidiary of JAKK Media LLC acquired Sleepopolis.com. Casper provided financial support to allow JAKK Media to acquire Sleepopolis.”
”From the first days of the site’s new management, that thorn in Casper’s side–Derek’s damning yellow box, pointing prospective buyers to competitors–disappeared from Sleepopolis’s Casper review. In its place there appeared a green box, with a coupon linking straight to Casper.”
”Casper had finally hammered out the last, most troublesome kink in the yawning purchase funnel that lured ever more traffic to its billion-dollar online storefront. The company could indeed claim, as it did on its site, to have “the internet’s favorite mattress.”
It got me to wondering how true it all is … and if so - how their position and what they are doing synch with our favorite podcasters own principles.
Would welcome thoughts - even better - knowledge.
I learned a wrinkle of US passport rules: if you have less that three months of valid time on your passport, you can’t leave the country.
Stowe Boyd
New news to me! Then again I don’t have a US Passport but it does make me wonder what my country’s rules are.now THAT is interesting - #Ulysses keywords show up as tags in the #Mac #Finder if the file is stored in iCloud or Dropbox
🎵 What do we consider is the average price for rock concert tickets these days - not a big name - stadium gig - more a mid name - 1200 standing room only gig?
What to Watch via @davepell
“When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were 11 countries around the world with fences and walls. By 2016, 70 countries had built border fences and walls.”
iOS Things just been made part of my world - though MacOS Things will have to wait, to understand if it is worth it. Is it really five times as good as the iOS App?
Why do I like the Guardian? Well, their sections match my interests … sport and soccer aside.
