🇺🇸 The land of fleeced... Apple’s fight we with Epic, Hey!, Wordpress etc doesn’t exist in a vacuum.. it’s emblematic off The American Way... #KnowWhatMattersonesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu…
I’m a massive advocate for tax software (💙 @Xero) but it’s ludicrous that companies like Intuit can actually succeed in blocking free govt. services in order to protect their market... onesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu…
@Xero ... but if you consider that the US is a country where medical care - a cornerstone of modern society - is designed for profit, at the expense of the poor & needy a pattern emerges. onesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu…
@Xero In the fight against coronavirus, where knowing whether you’ve had it or not may be crucial for public safety, the Trump Administration is fighting their own FDA to open a new Wild West frontier!? onesub.io/~jimbo/v9qtxvu…
@Xero It’s little surprise then that we have quietly got ourselves to a place where Apple & Google can take s 30% tax on almost all mobile digital services transactions.
… I can’t help but feel that Patel et al’s concern for MPs’ safety is disproportionate in a country where the safety of half the population is constantly called into question.
Ultimately “security” (policing etc) is not the solution.
It’s treating symptoms not causes.
This country needs to address the causes of these crimes against MPs *and* women and minorities - not plaster over the cracks with a big show of force.
Force will only mask the inexorable *growth* of the problem. To be met with what? More force. Ad infinitum.
Endless wars, global pandemics, rich dying of disinformation, poor dying of famine & flood, rising populism, declining freedoms and occasional economic collapse & austerity.
There is a simple solution..
..but first a little “why”.
In the UK & US we like to think that we live in a practical democracy; that it’s “a place where the people really decide regularly how to be governed”.
This myth is based on the facade that depicts a real, meaningful choice at the ballot box.
Tracking the boycott of Facebook Over the past few days a number of huge global brands have mounted a boycott of Facebook + Twitter. I have been tracking the progress here. #KnowWhatMattersonesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0…
The first I heard of the campaign starting to gain traction was Patagonia’s boycott - Patagonia though, seemed like a likely candidate.. onesub.io/~jimbo/1ip06x0…
Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Back in June, Apple announced that cross-app tracking, via a user's unique identifier (the IDFA) was dead... or at least, holed below the waterline. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
Perhaps the biggest looser of this change is Facebook who rely heavily on the IDFA to feed data to their own ad platform. onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…
@CaseyNewton raised an interesting point Thursday last; that as well as being pro-privacy, Apple's moves are really rather anti-competitive... onesub.io/~jimbo/hzsxdxv…