Remember, corporate owned U.S. journalism makes money from war. It wasn’t critical of the run up to the war in Iraq, will this time be different?
Odds of the Senate Impeachment trial being delayed due to middle east crisis? (Attention redirection is the oldest play in the politician play book.)
Even as the U.S. economy hums along at a favorable pace, there is a vast segment of workers today earning wages low enough to leave their livelihood and families extremely vulnerable. That’s one of the main takeaways from our new analysis, in which we found that 53 million Americans between the ages of 18 to 64—accounting for 44% of all workers—qualify as “low-wage.”
The current economy is not about employment and it’s certainly not about the stock market, it’s about wages. Employers do not want to increase wages or provide full time employment.
Candidates for POTUS need to properly identify the problem, talk about whether the current course we are on, which seems targeted at tariffs, is really going to solve the problem, and if not propose solutions.
Note that getting “the 1%” to pay their share of taxes is NOT going to solve the problem of low income jobs.
The conceptual design of MercuryOS reminds me a bit of Newton OS.
Today is my first work day of the year. Looking back at the To Do list I created for the holiday break, it contained 12 items and I completed 3. Not bad. I had fun doing other things.
My wish for 2020, a year that ought to be one of re-visioning (see with new/clear eyes), is that citizens of the United States learned the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution established a new government designed to contain power rather than provide power. To be truly patriotic is to be vigilant against re-interpretation of the Constitution as power establishing. Tyranny will not come to the United States via tanks, machine guns or bullets, it will emerge after patiently waiting for people to forget what tyranny really means.
Welcome to 2020
What a nice way to end the year
Spending the afternoon at LCA watching the Michigan Tech Huskies play is becoming at New Year’s Eve tradition.
“Too often we confuse what feels bad to us with what is bad for us. Yet the two are not the same.”
— Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd a.co/6wysI2j
What if we celebrated the end of every day like it was New Year’s eve?
“Our Big Picture matters. Indeed, nothing matters more!”
— Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World by Michael Dowd a.co/hGe7i1s
‘The Mandalorian’ Ending Reveals A Core Problem With Disney Plus
I agree with Forbes that beyond ‘The Mandalorian’ Disney+ does not have enough original content right now.
How Atari took on Apple with the Atari 400 and Atari 800 PCs
This is a great story about the Atari personal computers. I bought an Atari 800XL when I was in college and used it along with a VT-100 terminal emulator to write programs for my computer science classes in the late 80s. (Back then most of our programming was done on mainframes and we only really needed a terminal.) After being hired out of college I “upgraded” to an Atari 1040ST, which had a GUI similar to the Mac but cost much less. I will always think fondly of Atari due to its role in my early personal computer days.
I have found Micropublish that suggests it could be used to edit posts given its URL but when I tried to use it to edit the prior post it generated an internal server error. An Implementation Status table on the Indieweb Micropub clients page suggests the “problem” is that micro.blog does not support/expose the delete, undelete, or update actions; the only action it appears you can do from a Micropub client is create.
I notice that OmniBear hasn’t been updated in more than a year so I might start using Micropublish more, it is even possible to self host the app.
Micropub Editing Needs To Improve
Today Dave Winer writes about simplicity of blogging, what he describes as Flow. The idea is to make writing a new blog post as frictionless as possible.
For me it very quick to write and publish a new blog post, I click the OmniBear icon on the Chrome toolbar, write in Content field, and click Post. Boom, I have a new post on my blog.
However, what happens next is a problem. To edit a post I have to go to the micro.blog site and click through many steps rather than see a simple Edit link on the post or the ability to open the post to edit in Bear.
Editing appears to be a weakness of micropub, most likely because its origin is tied to Twitter which has no concept of editing. We need better ways to originate and edit blog posts.
I use River5 as my RSS reader/aggregator and one thing I wish it had is an easy way to see the last date a new item was added to a site that I subscribe to. I like the versatility I get from using web app on a server that I control, but I have to admit that I am intrigued by NetNewsWire given that an iOS version is in beta.
“The church was meant to be an alternative society in the grip of an altogether different story line.”
— The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe by Richard Rohr a.co/buTdIsN
If I am not going to see snow on Christmas, then warm sunshine is the next best thing.
