Literally the most CoE thing ever: Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
“After much effort, we’ve concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project.”
That’s an almost unprecedented hardware screwup for the company.
This is an unusually good idea from Twitter:
“Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive tweets that break its rules but remain in the public interest, said Vijaya Gadde, the company’s head of legal, policy, and trust and safety.”
Will it scale, though?
Learning from Mueller
Andrew Sullivan: Mueller Summary Is a Big Win for America
Mueller is someone we should study if we want to see how to oppose this president effectively. You can’t out-tweet or out-insult the clinically narcissistic and characterologically disgusting. You cannot beat him at his own game. But you can consistently refuse to take his boorish bait and maintain your own standards of conduct. You can calmly stare down a bully, and you can let your actions speak louder than your words.
Surprising take. But, actually, I can see his point.
Democracy has a price, and you can’t stop paying it.
Democracy has a price, and it’s not an easy price to pay. Nothing is ever completely settled under a democracy. Any decision that can be made by a democratic process can be over-turned by a democratic process. People on the Remain side are suffering the downside of that right now. They - we - thought the benefits of membership of the EU - and the downsides of departure - were so obvious and so clear that a vote to leave would be unimaginable. They - we - didn’t fight hard enought to make the positive case for the EU. And so they - we - lost.
However, the day is coming soon when the Brexiteers find themselves on the other end of the equation. They will have “won”, but then those hundreds of thousands who marched in London, and the millions who signed the petition become the beginning of a campaign to rejoin. The day we leave - the day that was meant to be today - is the day the really hard work starts for Brexit supporters, because that’s the day you have to start proving that you were right, that we will be better off out. Every day you fail to do that, every day the economy falters, that people get laid off, every day that international travel gets harder, or our young people lose out on studying opportunities or jobs because of Brexit is a day that democracy starts grinding against you.
Our young people are angry. They’re protesting against climate change, and our failure to address it. Children in my town protested against Brexit, and the response was patronising, rather than engaging. They will not forgive - or forget - that easily.
This price is why authoritarianism is so attractive to so many - when they have “won” they can stop fighting. We do not live in a authoritarian regime, and I pray we never do. If you supported Brexit, you don’t “win” on Brexit day - you start the hard, long job of proving you were right.
Good luck.
You’ll need it.
Just spent 8 hours in this room with a great bunch of journalists and communication pros, talking editorial analytics. I really enjoyed it. I hope they did, too.
Want to be an influencer? There’s a bot for that: A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated
Everything you need to know about me can be summed up thus: I used to write RPGs professionally, but gave up just before they became cool. 🤦🏼♂️
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WIRED on how Google warped the hyperlinks - with quotes from me!
Got to say, I’m most excited for Apple Arcade. There’s some games I want to play in there, starting with Beyond a Steel Sky.
Quick first thoughts on Apple News+. How do you feel about it?
Worth remembering that “reduce” and “reuse” both beat “recycle” in the sustainability hierarchy:
By their fans you shall know them…
PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers
One of the ransomware strains also warned victims that if, at any time, the Indian Bollywood channel T-Series gets more subscribers than PewDiePie, the decryption key will not be released.
Delightful.
Apple’s Final Cut Pro X upgraded to version 10.4.6 - and this is interesting:
“Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of macOS after Mojave and converts them to a compatible format”
Like many people, I suspect, I signed the petition not because I think there’s a realistic chance of Article 50 being revoked, but instead to remind May that there are many millions of us out here who don’t want to leave the EU. The will of the people is divided.
My daughters have very carefully, precisely and secretively placed 10p coins under their chairs. I love them, but sometimes they are very sinister.
