This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases happened: iOS 13’s beta split is down to Trump’s threatened tariffs, not missed features
Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary democracy functions than they did yesterday.
Serfing USA
Jeremiah Owyang : Chances are, you’re probably a serf.:
To modernize the last word of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin’s famed quote; “In antiquity, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called users.”
I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think?
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This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all:
This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
The art of pseudo-science in politics
This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific respectability:
Inconvenient Facts claims, over and over, to be based in science and emphasizes the importance of the scientific method; however, the author does not, himself, use the scientific method in his own analysis. There are no references to any peer-reviewed journal articles by Wrightstone himself. Many of his “inconvenient facts” are non-controversial statements. In fact, most of them are actually true. It’s the conclusions that he draws from the “facts” that are not supported by peer-reviewed journal papers — they’re just his own misleading opinions.
Opinion is not expertise. And opinion can be wrong.
A wee update on life, work and blog.
Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid burning out again.
