In elections we get to say who we are, ie who comes closest to who we are. It's all made of imagery. Bernie Sanders is someone you either love or don't. He reminds me of people in my own family, who I would never want to be president of anything. But this ad, the best ever imho, says wait a minute, please reconsider. A campaign is a series of messages from candidate to electorate: "Is this who we are?" The great ads tap our optimism, imho. The Sanders ad says we're nice happy people who have jobs and help each other.#- I can't read most of the stories I want to read. I have the money and am willing to spend it. But there is no system that allows me to pay. #
- On the other hand the distribution of video entertainment is somewhat functional, I spend an ungodly amount of mostly wasted money to get access to that. #
- I am not cheap. The news system realllly doesn't work. It could be fixed, but for the usual problem -- they would have to work with each other. #
- If you think the NYT is a huge success, compare its size to the size of Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon or Apple, all of whom have made great businesses out of distributing other people's products. #
- We were getting somewhere with RSS, btw -- but the journalism industry lost its minds over Twitter, and let the tech industry own the distribution system, and now it's a total mess, a good time for a re-think, I think. #
- I generated graph in ChatGPT by just asking for it. It has great chart software built-in. Quietly they are rearranging all the pieces of software we use. They will end up owning everything, and meanwhile people are asking if this is a bubble. Not really. More like an invasion. #
