Finished reading: One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse 📚
NFL Sunday Ticket bidding war could lead to new streaming home after 2022 season
I am hoping that the price to watch a specific team is much less than $300 per season. If ESPN or Amazon get the deal, would they incorporate it into their current services or create something new?
Power came back on yesterday at 10:30 AM, which enabled us to get through most of the work day. We just started purging the fridge, so getting completely back to normal is going to take us a few days. People around me have it much worse, with trees falling on homes and cars, so I am grateful to just replace food.
After a long short week highlighted by 36 hours of no electricity, it’s nice to watch the Cubs beat up on the Cardinals.
Been dealing with power outage since 5:30 PM yesterday. It came back on at 11:30 PM but went back off at 7:30 AM to this morning. I wouldn’t be as concerned except that we have a sump pump and the back up isn’t starting as soon as I would like. Internet access is spotty, so not sure when this will upload.
Read about the updates that Google is making to the Wear OS App Store. Wish someone would write about the stupidity of the on watch store existing. In my opinion there will never be a good on watch store experience because there is simply not enough screen space to create one. Smart watches are and will always be accessories and not stand alone computers and it best that designers get this through their heads.
It drives me crazy how Cub managers keep putting the wrong players in the lead off position. No reason for Contreras to be leading off today and it increases probability of injury.
Happy to start another fourth of July in the shade on our patio.
It’s virtual Friday and the feeling (and weather) is good!
I am using NetNewsWire just on my iPad and do not have it configured with any back end system. Recently the refresh of feeds has been running slow, for some unknown reason.
Charles Mills, author of The Racial Contract:
“There is a dynamism inside liberalism that they miss,” he told me. “The huge advantage of liberal democracy over other political systems is that its leadership constantly adjusts and changes, shifting to absorb new people and ideas. Liberal democracies don’t try, as Soviet Marxism once did, to make everybody agree about everything, all the time”
Democracies Don’t Try to Make Everyone Agree by Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic
The problem is, at one time a majority of citizens of the United States knew what are the things that we do and need to agree about.
A new album of original songs from Styx? Yes please!
For me the most interesting part of the Windows 11 event was the announcement that developers can integrate their own “commerce engine” that allows them to use Microsoft’s app store for discovery but I assume allows developers to directly control the transaction, which enables them to get paid without Microsoft taking a cut. I wonder whether developers have to share data with Microsoft. It’s an interesting idea that different from what Apple has been doing.
Dave Winer: “If you don’t believe we’re a racist country, ask yourself when people of color ever tried to stop white people from voting.”
Today is opening day in Michigan. All COVID restrictions put in place by the state health department are removed. For how long?
What is a Sundog, and How Did “Sundogs” Get Their Name?
And now you know, the rest of the story.
I don’t normally pay much attention to Samsung events because I find their products too expensive. However, I am interested in their upcoming Mobile World Congress virtual event because of their partnership with Google on the next version of Wear OS. I am curious to see what is different and whether they may sell a watch that will work with other Android phones.