Microsoft pledges to upskill 25 million workers for the ‘COVID-19 economy’
The COVID-19 economy?
I don’t know why Fauci goes to the Senate, it’s not like they are going to do anything or provide any leadership.
The U.S. is “going in the wrong direction” with the coronavirus surging badly enough that Dr. Anthony Fauci told senators Tuesday some regions are putting the entire country at risk — just as schools and colleges are wrestling with how to safely reopen.
Incompetency is demonstrated as much by what one does not do as much as one does. At this point in time I think because Republicans have not started whole sale jumping ship from Trump demonstrates a lack of competency. I understand the thinking they don’t want to repeat the 1980 Democrat Primary in which Ted Kennedy challenged their incumbent POTUS candidate, Jimmy Carter, but their current course of path is more damaging. At this point in the past the party would have split, with a new, party formed supporting a more viable candidate.
The most dangerous thing about Republicans right now is their complete denial and delusion about the current situation. How can you trust a Republican for any public office? The problem is not just Trump, the whole party has gone over the cliff with him, and that means something!
Twelve years ago I wrote about trying the beta of Evernote and the Asus Eee PC. Evernote still exists and I still use it. Netbooks don’t exist in name, but in function have been replaced by smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks, and low cost Windows PCs.
It seems like outlining and outliners is a recurring theme. Three years ago I wrote about how I much I like outliners and thus keep looking for “perfect app.” Right now I am using Little Outliner, Dynalist, and Roam. Each have their imperfections. I read through the Gruber’s twitter thread that Dave linked to yesterday and it is a surprise how few people understand what is a true outliner app.
Normal for now in Michigan appears to be between 200 and 300 new COVID-19 cases per day and between 15000 and 20000 COVID-19 tests per day. We will see ongoing hot spots where people congregate in places like bars. The question is whether we can sustain these levels for the next 2 to 3 years as that is how long it will take to get a vaccine and get enough people to take the vaccine.
I am holding my breath a bit as Dave starts making changes to Radio3. I feel like I am the only person who actually uses Radio3, and it is a critical part of my daily web flow.
Got my hair cut for the first time in months. I think I lost ten pounds in a matter of minutes.
The tweeting is really something astounding. I cannot believe we make politics this way. Can we have a real conversation? Not your tweet versus this tweet. This is what I would say. The medium has its own dangers, but it’s also being used by powerful interests in deliberate ways to make our conversation stupid, to make us respond viscerally, rather than rationally and thoughtfully.
I miss watching baseball so I am looking forward to the season starting at the end of July. Unfortunately I am uncertain whether that will happen as I think a full second wave of COVID-19 is going to hit by then. The numbers in Michigan are ticking up.
Automatic switching might give me a reason to buy AirPods to use with my iPads.
I wonder whether Scribble will enable me to use the Apple Pencil more. I assume that the onscreen keyboard will not pop up if the pencil is detected? Otherwise that will be a bad experience.
No more segways? What will mall cops do? Actually, the only real purpose of a segway was for stunts to make CEOS look cool.
Awareness is the moment when we rise with eyes crusted from self-induced dreams of control, domination, victimization, and self-hatred to catch a glimpse of the divine in the face of “the other.” Then God’s self-identification, “I am that I am / I will be who I will be” (Exodus 3:14) becomes a liberating example of awareness, mutuality, and self-revelation.
I’ve been using a desktop running on ARM for a while now, and find it good enough for most of my desktop personal computing during the work day.
Time to make note that the iOS micro.blog app finally provides the ability for one to edit existing posts. Just quickly edited one prior post!
I wonder how well the Surface Pro X has been selling?
In a way, Apple’s move of Mac OS to ARM puts it back into competition with Microsoft. Microsoft has been working to run Windows on ARM for a while, now Apple will start showing them how it is done, particularly in how it provides support for legacy applications, but also in how to seemlessly host mobile and desktop applications on the same platform. In this later case, Apple’s OS strategy is moving closer to what Google has been doing with Chrome OS.