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A few pundits have been remarking that part of the story behind the Apple v Feds is that Apple won’t let Super Apps onto their phone like they do in China.

Putting aside the obvious “well that’s good then”, I am bound to ask why Apple controlling all my life and having to work out how to keep m... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/23/a-few-pundits.html


Watch the lunatic fringe spin the Kate news on its head.


"Earlier this month, western countries led by the United States had issued terror warnings and told their citizens not to join public gatherings in Russia. On 8 March, the embassy wrote it was “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.”"

That word ‘extremists’ …

The attack and the resultant ’civilian’ casualties are a blip compared to what Putin and Netanyahu are doing while ‘we’ support one and don’t agree with the other, extreme might be use... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/23/earlier-this-month.html


I responded .. but they still haven’t  explained why they are carrying around a baby they don’t need.

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"Gallagher’s decision to leave April 19 also means that there will not be a special election to fill his seat. Under Wisconsin state law, vacancies after the second Tuesday in April are filled in the general election, so Gallagher’s replacement will be decided in November and his seat will remain empty until January."

Well played sir. Well played.


Been a while - but just dropped into MB Admin and slaughtered another 25 or so categories.


🎵📽 Listening to Steve Howe in interview and my mind keeps hearing Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) being interviewed in Love Actually.


I can find a song in 🍎 Music
I can play that song in 🍎 Music
I can add that song to my library in 🍎 Music
I can add that song to a playlist in 🍎 Music
AND THEN
In the playlist in 🍎 Music it is greyed out and I can’t play it.

What is up with that?


The Ostrom Sessions are part of a program running at Indiana University - curated and directed by Doc Searls.

They haven’t all been the best, though the speakers have always been ‘real names’. The video is the latest with guest Jeff Jarvis. This one was good.

Enjoy.

🔗 📼 The Video
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Jarvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MUf8RKr9GM


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What were we saying about Teams again?

Let’s widen it back out to MSoft - they don’t just play nice in the Mac world.

Yes you can link Mac contacts to Outlook - and then essentially watch

it modify the contents of odd fields throughout.
remove tags from your contacts - so you lists are now useless (some... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/03/21/what-were-we.html


Advice to all you clever corporate web developers out there.

Send me an email promoting your shit. ✅

Let me click on a link to your web site to read more. ✅

Don’t detect my IP location and feed me the ‘local site’

UNLESS

You have redirects that still allow me to find what you are promoting.

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When I want to use the ✅ emoji - I often search and can’t find it - because I am searching for ‘tick’ not ‘check’ … one more piece of proof that the web - despite being invented by an Englishman - is American.


A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.

📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF4bLKd4


TIL to absorb at least a single caffeine unit prior to any attempt to comment on social streams.


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So good they named it twice …

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"You may notice something a little different about Acorn TV. Our team has been working on an updated look, and we’re delighted to share it with you. Don’t worry, nothing has changed about our collection of world-class series and movies."

Let me get this right.

Tou have sent me an email to tell me that there are no new shows, no old shows disappearing, everything exactly as it was yesterday - but the ‘look’ has changed - which would surely be clear when I go there?

Or does the company believe that we should all go to take a look at the new look for kicks?


That moment when you think that you wireless mouse has gone haywire, to discover that it has (for) some reason/how - completed a 180 degree realignment on your desk,


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I’m surprised that ‘toxic asbestos’ was banned in 2024 .. I mean, we’ve known about the problem for a year or two THIRTY years. Why did it take so lon … (of course …. 💰)


The Atlantic explains why ‘🔗 It’s a canned-water company now worth $1.4 billion - of Course America Fell for Liquid Death’

(See of it is behind a paywall - but Apple users can read it in full 🔗 here)

"You can think of Liquid Death as the apotheosis of meta-advertising. It doesn’t just say Forget the product for a moment while you watch this ad. It dispenses with the product entirely. The advertisement is the product. What Liquid Death is selling is not so much purified water as purified marketing, marketing that has shed its product—the soul without the body."

 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/liquid-death-canned-water-marketing/677752/ https://apple.news/AfvkbeVIdSkGZQjQd_DCdlw


Karma’s a bitch

"A bonding company would be on the hook for any payout if Trump loses his appeal and proves unable to pay."

I wonder how many of the companies that declined to provide a bond have refused because

they know how many companies he just doesn’t pay

are nervous about the valuations he puts on his properties


🪦 I didn’t know Joe Gannon - met him a couple of times at ‘Joe’s’ back in the day - ate at his wife’s restaurants, but not ‘know’.

94 years old, just discovered that he died in January of this year.

What a life. RIP Joe.


Reading the Putin headlines this morning about elections … I realized that our media has truly lost the plot. To help them with their reporting, I asked Claude what an election was.

Nice chat .. this particular reply stood out.

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I know .. I know .. and if you have been tracking my ‘366’ series you will know as well. It is tough.

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🔗 📼 Why is England called England?

.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
 https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXAjMlTO7Dc&si=ScJLqTr2-6UOhmn2


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One day - just one day - I will wake up and it will be a normal lovely day .. and will stay that way.


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Wondering about 🔗 Pabbly - what do you all think?

It’s an IFTTT / Zapier thing »>
 https://www.pabbly.com


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📸 Captain America making America Great.

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📸 Farewell my favorite Barista

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📸 my presumption is that this is a ‘bicycle for the mind’ .. cos it sure ain’t travelling in one of the usual dimensions.

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📸 Yeah .. the people behind us.

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It was all going really well … and then it wasn’t. Handbrake turn, rubber scorching the road and now we have what I believe is a better name and a much improved URL ( and a dot com at that) … now all we have to do is start again.


🔗 📼 Why is England called England?youtube.com/watch)

.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
 https://youtube.com/watch?v=aXAjMlTO7Dc&si=ScJLqTr2-6UOhmn2


🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)

Ellison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.
 https://apple.news/A5opjdva4QIm9sDuitEaTEw


🪦 Thankyou Richard. It clearly was ‘time’.


Excellent .. was just at thinking this morning that what I really needed was another DM messaging app .. and lo .. just hours later, substack announced that I need to look no further .. for they had just done exactly that!


Signal is more and more my go to messenger app - when i can get others to use it.

I think this change will allay the fears of some of the members of the MicroBlog community.

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"Hello, I’m Peace, your Microsoft Business Advisor."

Which made me realize that Microsoft is a very different Microsoft to the Microsoft I used to know.


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📸 Sitting.

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055/366 | 🤦♂ Gah and Double Gah. https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/26/gah-and-double.html


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Gah!


I am being drawn into using MS Office / Teams after having kept my Mac MSoft free for the last 8 years. Anyone want to volunteer to talk me down?


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ME: “Ooh - we have Avocados - I think I will make me some Avocado toast. Would you like me to make some for you.”

Jax: “No thanks - I don’t like the way you make toast.”

Who knew that my culinary skills were so woefully inadequate that I can’t even make toast?


🔗 Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law.

… because of course they are.
 https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/amazon-and-spacex-are-quietly-trying-to-demolish-national-labor-law/amp/


052/366 | 🎩 Someone Will Be Unhappy Today

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’Lost Hat' By 'Me'

Someone is going to be unhappy this morning. 🥺

This is one of 366 daily posts that are planned to appear throughout the year of 2024. More context will follow.

📡 Follow with RSS

🗄 All the posts
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If you are watching closely you will know that my 366 project is pretty messed up right now. Just a little bit too much going on - so laying out breadcrumb markers that I will be revisiting slowly but surely.

🖇 Like this one for example.

A WIP - but had to share a 13 second video of some lads on the bea... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/20/if-you-are.html


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TIL that 🍎 is not quite as open and sharing with the Windows world as we might believe.
YES - you can install an app called iCloud for Windoze on your PC
BUT - for it to work - you need to authorize it from any device you have that is part of the 🍎 eco system.

Channeling Henry F - you can use an... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/20/til-that-is.html


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040/366 | 🇫🇷 The 9th Arrondissement https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/09/the-th-arrondissement.html


All Change? More Of The Same? 🚧 https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/09/all-change-more.html


Side Hustle?

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You might guess that the I hate the name of the book, but there’s more. Read the sentence. The whole thing is just wrong.

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Thinking it’s not wrong.

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Thinking it’s not wrong.

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I thought it was only me that 💬 said that.

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039/366 |  ⏪ The Reverse Network Effect https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/08/the-reverse-network.html


💬 I knew there was a good reason to procrastinate.

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I wonder if ‘my beautiful wife’ is an employee, vendor or co worker.

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038/366 | 🚇 A Stack Of Subs ❓ https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/07/a-stack-of.html


💬 Proactive TL;DR

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💬 via Stowe Boyd

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Friend of mine mentioned ‘Cyclades, a French project from ‘back in the day’.

"You know, they were solving for problems that TCP/IP was trying to solve before there was TCP/IP."

🤯

I did just find this ‘billy-doo’.

We get so used to the narrative we are told. Don’t we?
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Anyone explored 🔗 beeper.com ?

Is it in use anywhere - or is it just a giant wait list?
 https://beeper.com


Watched first episode of 📽 The Brothers Sun last night. I am worried - surely it can only get worse at this point?


Heard on a conference call

"My son attends xxx University .. what a great school. Great school. It’s so clean you can eat off the floor."

… just struck me as an unexplored metric of quality in education.


037/366 | 🔁 Serendipity https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/06/serendipity.html


💬

I really don’t like ‘PM’ - so I take great delight from reading pieces like this. Robert Hutton is seriously funny and yet its true.

If you want to read the whole thing - 🖇 I Put it up on Readwise - and you can speed read my highlights - some real zingers.
 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/img-1902.png https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hnxrx9nhzdhyr4c5vnb07mhz


📸

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"”One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace.”"

💬 Victor Borge

Via John Naughton


🎵 NO Action - except to enjoy

Some people in the world respond to me with musical references.

I do it. A lot. In reverse? Not so much.

This is an example of someone who has done it a few times. ❤

So, may I introduce you to … no not ‘Billy Shears ..

Elvis.

No not that one.

This one.

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Let’s call it an experiment

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💬

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You see that building there - in the ‘middle’, second from right, 3rd from left … in the distance…

It’s that building here .. slightly different angle but more interesting buildings to frame it.

This is what it looks like when you are up, close and personal.

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Want to read: Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781101947906


Want to read: Stories of Your Life and Others: Stories by Ted Chiang 📚
 https://micro.blog/books/9781931520898


Finished reading: (a long time ago) Playing in the Unified Field: Raising and Becoming Conscious, Creative Human Beings by Carla Hannaford 📚 .. Just adding for posterity and so I can share it with someone.
 https://micro.blog/books/9780915556397


Just added 🔗 Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns to my ‘To Read’ 📚 list.
 https://micro.blog/books/9781662601842


It all seems peaceful enough on Queen Street, Auckland

Though this might develop into something

But the local constabulary are ready.

Will walk by again later,
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"It’s a device that is really only any good to consume. You can’t really create."

… is a sentence I read in Vision Pro reviews.

I also read it in early iPhone reviews.


Reviewing the Vision Pro on an audio podcast with no irony what-so-ever.


035/366 | 🧊 TL;DR | VL;MR https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/04/tldr-vlmr.html


📼 The Arc people continue to think out of the box AND create really nice and different introduction videos

Not sure how I knew but had the Arc search app installed before I understood what it was doing.

It is doing clever things.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJF3kL5ng


034/366 | ⏰ Time Is Running Out https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/03/time-is-running.html


📼 Orbital

Gorgeous. Totally gorgeous. Wellingh with tears.

In the spirit of John Cooper Clarke and Simon Armitage.

🔗 From my friends at Steam

You’ll be hearing more about them soon as part of a larger intitative I am working on.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yk9qUle01Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oewMXXbl5O0


On a business call this morning, we took a sidetrack down the path of ‘the problem with flying’. Flanders and Swann were mentioned - and specifically the ‘bit’ they did about excess baggage. I know their stuff - this one didn’t ring a bell.

🔗 Just found it

😂 Fell on the floor laughing.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTQ7aMHsRGs


‘The Enhanced Games’ .. brought to you by .. go on … guess who.


💬  🔗 Bob nails it

Lefsetz and Gioia have deep music backgrounds, but I often find that their writing about other things often resonates with me far more than the people that should be pointing things like this out.

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💬 🎵

Ted is often very wise.

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💬

‘Ordinary’ people sometimes make their decisions based on not wanting to be on the wrong side of history. Pity that government ‘people’ don’t think about that.

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💬

To put it into perspective!

No matter how many books there are out there about business survival, it never seems to sink in.

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🔗 How very very sad this is.

Joy killers.

(Gaping Void on LinkedIN)

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My Substack went a little bit quiet in 2023. For good reasons IMHO.

I am firing it up again. If you want to take a read 🔗 you can.

It’s a little bit more personal than usual - which I have been told is a good thing. If you vlick through - hope you like.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnphilpin/p/here-we-are-again-but


Trying to speak to Edison Electric.

To maximize efficiency, I am logged on to my web account so ready with my information when they answer.

Apparently I have been on the web site so long without activity, that my web session just disconnected.

Tell me about it!


# 033/366 | 🥇 And The Winner Is … https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/02/and-the-winner.html


# 032/366 | 🥽 The Vision Pro https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/the-vision-pro.html


@donnydavis - a little help on your drafts action please.

I have just been reassigning and reorganising my tags in drafts

See image below.

As part of my sorting - I have removed all the posts under your action and starting again.

BUT - whatever I do - I can’t delete that domain:https tag - even though... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/02/01/donnydavis-a-little.html


🔗 People that know Fripp talking about Fripp and the King Crimson Movie

These kind of comments add up to so much more than a lot of rubbish you read from people that only have opinion.
 https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/01/30/re-king-crimson-movie/


🖇 As I wrote;

🔗 Pakistani military use age-old tactics to keep Imran Khan away from election.

"Any pretence of due judicial process being followed was abandoned entirely at both cases where Khan was sentenced this week. Instead of an open courtroom, the trials were conducted inside the jail where Khan is being detained and his lawyers were not allowed to choose or cross-examine any witnesses."

 https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/its-definitely-corruption.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/imran-khan-pakistan-election-tactics-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


😂🤣👀💬

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I think he has …

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It’s definitely corruption, I’m just not convinced that the people who have been sentenced to 14 years are the corrupt ones. But heh … what do I know?

Nothing! I hear you cry,


🔗Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules.

A line in the sand has been drawn.

That said - not quite where the 🖇‘limitareanists think it should be drawn.

But it is a start.
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/30/elon-musk-tesla-pay-package-too-much-judge-rules https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/listening-to-ingrid.html


Career Advice

1 awesome Luxury Brand with a diverse portfolio of subsidiary brands is clearly the way to go, rather than  a random collection of hyped up tech brands.

It also helps to not be a self serving, messianic  lying, despot with all the grace and culture of one of the other guys handbags.


📸

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When Smartless moves to SiriusXM - will it still be a podcast?

And more importantly, will it still be available …

"‘on all the places we listen to podcasts?"


Over on LinkedIN Chris Lockhead posted something about politicians need to meet ‘in the middle’.

I knocked this up as my single image reply and now I cant find the original post - BLOODY LinkedIN.

So decided to post it here.

At least I will be able to find it when I need it in the future‼

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031/366 | 🚚 Moving In https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/31/moving-in.html


Listening to Ingrid Robeyns talking to Sean Illing about ‘limitar(ian)ism’ - nice counterpoint to the ‘me centric’ alternative.


🔗 Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches

Wait, What?

If they quit Smartwatches - don’t they just stop doing business?

🔗 Apparently not

TIL that Fossil offer a vast range of fashion accessories that I knew nothing about.

Next question.

I noticed this

… which got me to thinking. Do Fossil need that partners... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/fossil-is-quitting.html


🔗 Where Logos Meet Album Covers: Designer Ivan Chermayeff

Its a Substack about a designer of iconic logos that turned his hand to (not so iconic) album covers.

I like some of them - but probably not iconic because the artists of the albums aren’t as big as the corporates either the logos.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/theartofcoverart/p/where-logos-meet-album-covers-designer


🔗 Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (Apple News)

If it is 5 years for this and 4 months for Navarro;

1] are the punishments commensurate?

2] If so what the likely total sentence time will be for the Orange clown?
 https://apple.news/AuvmIbWqeTMSSyHNP7rIO0Q


030/366 | 🔗 Just A ‘Few’ Links https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/30/just-a-few.html


New Idea as I have been shuffling and deleting categories and realizing just how much stuff is in here.

As I rediscover posts I am adding three new categories that are ‘best’ post, image and quote … according to me. Once I hit 10 in any group - an 11th means one of the ten has to go out.

We will see,

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🔗 Still struggling )with emojis on my site - (The link takes you to a quick conversation with ChatGPT).

Most of them render correctly - but odd ones don’t … like this one for example : ❓

In my book that should be red?
 https://chat.openai.com/share/fb7d0c3d-1658-43f9-9ff5-aee3aa46bf50


# 029/366 | 🎙 Is Honesty The Best Policy❓ https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/is-honesty-the.html


🔗 The True Blue Ocean – ProjectVRM (2020 - I know - another old one!)

"To understand the problem here, it helps to hear marketing talk to itself. Customers, it says, are targets to herd on a journey into a funnel through which they are acquired, managed, controlled and locked in."

This is the language of ranching and slavery. Not a way to talk about human beings.

Four years later nothing has changed.
 https://projectvrm.org/2020/10/26/blue/


Sometimes There Is No Pleasing People https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/29/sometimes-there-is.html


This is about ‘that’ Andreesen post/ But first … context, because I know - life has moved on.

I am in the process of trying to catch up on a massive backlog of notes that I am steadily

deleting
filing in Obsidian
posting to 🖇John.Philpin

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Just read that …

Hilton, together with 11:11 (Paris Hilton’s agency) launched a Roblox experience where players can earn real-world travel rewards

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I learned about a 🎵musical 🎻 instrument museum through a Substack a couple of weeks ago. I’m a sucker for that ‘kind’ of museum.

Imagine my delight to discover that in another couple of weeks, when we have moved into our new digs, it will be just a 6 minute walk to visit.


For months I have had 4 ghost messages in 🍎 Mail. That’s 4 ‘unread messages’ according to the count - but no messages there.

It’s a known problem that has been there through many versions of OSX. In the past, I have always been able to flush it out with various tools like delete the plist, rebuild etc etc... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/for-months-i.html


I just worked out how to add captions to my images on my blog like🖇  here for example.

I adjusted my TextExpander template for future  🖇 🔎 366 posts.

I need to decide if I should go back and fix all the posts published in 366 thus far?

What’s the name of the psychological problem again?
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028/366 | 📸 Just A Picture https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/just-a-picture.html


📺 Fool Me Once

I have watched a lot of the Harlan Coban mini series on Netflix. The early ones used to be really good … and then somehow I think the way was lost. This latest, while not the best, certainly represents a turning of the  order for ‘good story’.

That said .. final episode .. last 5 minutes? ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/28/fool-me-once.html


🖇 Me from 2019

That’s how long I have been thinking about writing a newsletter around this thought (surviving that is).

I really should extract the digit!
 https://john.philpin.com/2019/01/16/what-exactly-does.html


🖇 🚧 🔍 Posts I Need To Revisit
 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%9A%A7


🔗 Private Public Letters - I am guessing that it is fully subscribed>
 https://manuelmoreale.com/private-conversations-in-public


🎬 🔗 Netflix Has The Best Assassin Movie of 2024 — Why Is It Being Buried? (Apple News)

Never heard of it. But then it isn’t coming out until June. Added to my list for sure. But why is it being ‘buried’? Well first we have to ask is it being buried? I am not sure it is?
 https://apple.news/AWDpMzSpISImV13od8BeCsw


This whole thing on film and shows where a couple of people are texting. Nobody talking - camera closes in on the device. Crucial part of the plot.

Yeah, No.

Am I the only one that can’t read it?

What’s the fix?

And no. The answer cannot be to buy an 85 inch telly.


Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That

🚧

📼
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEC-8GFTP4


🔗 Matt Gaetz Reveals Narcissistic Reason He Pushed Out Kevin McCarthy (🍏 News) - one day they will nail him. Funny how little old George was cast out so ‘quickly’ (life is rrelative) - and yet this predator has been hanging out in the hallowed halls for years.
 https://apple.news/AOriIbGk7QRy2u8M2Z3a8uQ


"It’s starting to feel like the only thing scarier than China’s problems are Beijing’s solutions."

💬 Dan Wang

via John Naughton.


🔗 Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

"Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees at Activision Blizzard and Xbox this week. While Microsoft is primarily laying off roles at Activision Blizzard, some Xbox and ZeniMax employees will also be impacted by the cuts."

Sometimes you forget how sprawling companies like Microsoft are. With 1900 gone - there are still over 20,000 left.

And that’s just the ‘gaming’ bit.
 https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs


UNdaunted is a ‘Social Impact Collective’.

Hit me up if you want to know more and become part of the early adopters.

More complete information will be forthcoming. Soon?


83.3 Million. Nice.


So little Elon now wants trade barriers to protect him.


The ‘entity’ in Identity


🔗 ProPublica Hires First Senior Director for Technology

Awesome. So many congratulations @werd
 https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-hires-first-senior-director-for-technology


☕ For years … decades … I make a pot of coffee … I drink it … slowly … towards the end it starts getting cold .. so I do a quick zap in the microwave. (Please don’t judge me.)

For years … decades … the milk went in … and then I zapped.

Two days ago I reversed the order.

I zap and THEN add the milk.

Li... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/26/for-years-decades.html


Makes me wonder how much the other people use the app!

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/50fdfd7270.png


And so my definition - one third of American disagrees with its government just on this single issue.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/d472029022.jpg


Popped out of my ‘history feed’ this morning … 11 years ago.

Even more relevant today as (in my feeds at least) the noise around ‘freeing Assange’ is deafening.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/5c97149925.jpg


025/366 | 🐫 Do Not Put ‘Product’ In Charge https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/25/do-not-put.html


🔗 Donald Trump wins Republican primary in New Hampshire

"He is representing the American people. He is not out for himself. He’s not out for political gain. He’s not out for financial reasons. He doesn’t need money, he doesn’t need fame and fortune. He already has all of that."

💬 Tina Lorenzo, 63, a Trump supporter since 2016

No comment … you know 🖇 my position]
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/23/trump-wins-new-hampshire-primary https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/we-really-dont.html


🔗 Jon Stewart to return to The Daily Show through 2024 US election season.

OH!
 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/24/jon-stewart-returns-daily-show-presidential-election


024/366 | 🍏 Tim’s Job Is Safe https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/24/tims-job-is.html


There’s 📼🎵 something in the air. Anybody else feeling it?

It started happening last week. All good.

But .. not all good apparently 😖

I tried to find a post on my site to link to - #FAIL.

This is the message

"2024-01-23 11:34:07	Error: Error building site: open content/2022/01/01/the-first-message.md: no such file or directory"

🖇 But it is there

Gnashing teeth.

Talk about a downer!
 https://youtu.be/qJae3Q2l-BY?si=8iZixpuStW9x73i0 https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/01/the-first-message.html


🎵 Hadn’t heard this for years. Still love it.

📼 Streetband - Toast
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc


🖇 Today’s 366 Contribution is different again.

Continuing to experiment with both format and material in the 🖇 366 posts to see what resonates with others - because they all resonate with me. I mean, why would I bother posting things that don’t?
 https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/23/highlights-from-yesterday.html https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/


023/366 | 9⃣ Highlights From Yesterday https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/23/highlights-from-yesterday.html


🔗 LIfe Imitating Art? … that is if 🎬 Love Actually counts as ‘art’?
 https://www.uknewsgroup.co.uk/wizzard-rocker-roy-wood-hopes-of-celebrating-50-years-of-christmas-hit-with-festive-number-1/


If you like playing around with AI image generators - I like and use Leonardo.ai (free version) - separately there is this … might be fun?

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/869e4d4a55.png


"Never base your identity on politics. The world will eventually change, but you won’t."

💬 Mark Manson

… except I don’t agree. Unless I am missing something/

What do you think?


"“Wisdom is when you stop over-investing in every shiny new idea, feeling, or person that comes along.”"

💬 Mark Manson

Hell yes - tell me about it.

Well, except for apps … and notebooks … and pens of course - don’t forget pens … and that new craft ale … not to mention exploring that new idea that Jim shared last night, Oh and that new blogging tool thingy. Yeah - I think I am covered. Or maybe …..


Thought I’d try out 🔗 paid tinylytics for a while.

Some odd stats there - so now I need to check what is bering checked!
 https://tinylytics.app


📺 Ted Lasso

Just marvelous. Can’t add to all the other plaudits.

<a href=“Check out Ted Lasso on Reelgood. See where it’s streaming and more!
https://reelgood.com/show/ted-lasso-2020”>Information on Reelgood

’All’ My TV Shows

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/1f88a356bd.jpg https://reelgood.com/show/ted-lasso-2020


Fast X, 2023 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/fast-x.html


Shotgun Wedding, 2022 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/shotgun-wedding.html


The Covenant, 2023 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/the-covenant.html


Renfield, 2023 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/renfield.html


Had a hankering for some Chinese, so looked up the local places.

Now trying to decide between taking out a mortgage or adjusting my palette.

Good Grief!


Steve Winwood and Carlos - and no - I do not know how I misses this 2 to 2 years ago - but missed I did.

🎵 🔗 Whiter Shade of Pale

Well worth recording. Well worth a listwn.
 https://songwhip.com/santana/whiter-shade-of-pale


Heh Ron!

Bu Bye Now.


022 366   🤖 AI Experiment https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/22/ai-experiment.html


📼 🔗 Ferret - Apple’s new multi modal AI

I found this rather interesting, of course when you think about it - their camera work and car dev will absolutely have given them an edge on understanding images … makes total sense.

Then I read…

"Apple stopped using and supporting NVidia products in 2016, its Ferret model was developed using NVidia’s highly efficient A100 graphics cards. Therefore, the source code available on GitHub does not work on Apple’s products."

🤦🏽
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYnQpu5W69Q https://github.com/apple/ml-ferret


So here’s an odd thing for anyone interested to do with the very excellent ‘Conversation on Micro.blog’ plugin.
🖇 This link (2016) works - BUT at the bottom - it reads ‘Also on Micro.blog - and not the usual  ‘Conversation on Micro.blog’ like on say 🖇 this post.

‘Also on’ - just takes you to the home pa... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/so-heres-an.html


🔗 In case you were thinking about using AI to create amazing seconds long shorts .. here is one of your competitors.

It’s an Instagram account. Clever ideas brought to life …
 https://www.instagram.com/origiful?igsh=Y3l2dnF0NHNjcWdr


I am not a paid subscriber ..so don’t know how this ends, but this is one of the best pre paywall cliff hangers I have ever read ….

🔗 Postcard from Sundance… Starting with H'wood Agents at Burbank Airport
 https://open.substack.com/pub/theankler/p/postcard-from-sundance-starting-with-ed0?r=2d79


Maybe The Media Is Biased? https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/maybe-the-media.html


21 366   👮🏼♂ The Seven Laws of Identity. https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/21/the-seven-laws.html


"Last week, Thomas-Smith and his male cofounders abandoned their original concept of “the Tinder of subletting” to launch a “girls only club” called Girls Who NYC in New York."

🔗 The announcement went down as well as Peter Jackson’s debut film, Bad Taste, especially for many women struck with disbelief at what many saw as male hubris.
 https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/business/kiwi-startup-kiki-girls-club-new-york


20/366 | 🔮 Future Vision https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/future-vision.html


Can’t recall if I have shared the  🔗 Gurwinder Principles before, so belt and braces - using my annotated / high-lit Readwise link.
 https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hg59wc994n7vq5ychwja1ahg


🔗 Well now - maybe I am reading in the wrong places - but surprised I am not seeing more about this … annotated Readwise link.

TL;DR - Apple has changed how podcast downloads are being measured and that means a lot of some of the bigger numbers out there are no longer that big.
 https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hm9w3bfd8c458sa2bp0hzrxw


🔗 We Really Don’t Have to ‘Understand’ Trump Voters Anymore

Agreed.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/p/we-really-dont-have-to-understand


Three different links from three different sources covering 🎵 and the future therof. TL;DR … It’s not looking good.

🔗 The death of package fees, consolidation and layoffs have sharks swimming away in record numbers into management.https://open.substack.com/pub/theankler/p/agents-new-big-deal-quitting) - T... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/20/three-different-links.html


🖇 Yesterday’s ‘366’ post about the future was societal in nature..

🖇 Today’s retains the ‘future theme’, but is more personal..
 https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/18/a-better-future.html https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/19/excited-about-the.html


019/366 | 🤩 Excited About The Future. https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/19/excited-about-the.html


018/366 | 🏢 A Better Future. https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/18/a-better-future.html


💬

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🔗 Trump Judge Spanks Ron DeSantis for Retaliating Against a Democratic Rival

I bet he enjoyed it.
 https://apple.news/A_NkSDt_0SzKGSrT-VfWb_w


017/366 | 🪙 Both Sides Now

« 016/366 | 018/366](url) »

🚧

I don’t blame you if you haven’t been keeping up with ‘SubstackGate’. I have .. so you don’t have to … you are welcome.

Bottom line .. Fascism, Nazis, Support, Deplatform … you get the picture.
🔗 Why the Kākā Is Staying on Substack

🔗Why Platform... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/17/both-sides-now.html


The WIP emojis on my ‘366’ postings have been removed and we are up to date and back on track.

Just been checking my tinylytics data, they seem to be catching attention.

Trying to work out why some do - and some don’t.

[🖇 The archive so far](john.philpin.com/categorie…
 https://john.philpin.com/categories/366/


16/366 | 🌴 Greener Grass Over There. https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/16/greener-grass-over.html


I wonder if Rishi thinks that all us ‘Brits abroad’ are going to vote for him this year?


📸 A Slice Of Life

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15/366 | 🚶♂They Walk Amongst Us.

« 14/366 | 16/366](url) »

🚧

Still traveling - and even less of a clue than yesterday. Sorry. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

This is one of 366 daily posts that are planned to appear throughout the year of 2024. More context will follow.

... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/15/they-walk-amongst.html


014/366 | 💩 The Gamekeeper Is The poacher

« 013/366 | 015/366 »

🚧

When you see one of these little doohickeys (🚧) at the top of a post, it is marking it as a WIP .. like this one. Today is a travel day, so need to get going and no time to write what’s in my head. But as Arnold had it .. “I’ll be bac... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/14/the-gamekeeper-is.html


013 366   ⌨ Typewriters .. and more. https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/13/typewriters-and-more.html


Killing categories on Micro.Blog is mind numbing.


012/366 | 🎂 Cake By The Ocean https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/12/cake-by-the.html


011/366 | 🔮 A Future Vision of Indie Publishing.

« 010/366 | 012/366 »

A couple of click throughs in this morning’s review triggered this post.
It started here … 🔗 Substack Barely Does The Bare Minimum
which linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: Make the indie web easier
which then linked to here … 🔗 gilest.org: More on the easier indie web
TL;DR
A few links to interesting places that are about the indie web - but with an undercurrent of something that I have been banging on about forEVER …

"If we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/11/a-future-vision.html


010/366 | ✍ Rewriting Future History https://john.philpin.com/2024/01/10/rewriting-future-history.html


January 19th for February 2nd .. my guess is that this beats a lot of expectations on ‘when’ … expect the flood of armchair analysts on the 3rd.


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"It is perhaps a natural progression in a world where guinea pig spa services exist."

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🪦 Oh .. so sorry Laura. Clearly too early.


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Books about Minecraft. It must be Christmas and I assume they will be bought by grandparents for their grandchildren?

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🎉🥳🍾

🙂

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🎥 Jingle Bells

No preview. Just Turn Up The Volume and Enjoy.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/250c65f77d.png https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2023/christmas.mov


Dear Xfinity this happened over two months ago - and now you are telling us? https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/23/dear-xfinity-this.html


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🔗 This is a big vision
 https://youtu.be/u2-d5Sty-K0


Wrote this yesterday as I was doing this yesterday.

John has his phone and the Jax phone and another Jax phone.

Jax (5 miles away) is with Nix and the Nix phone.

John on the John phone talks to Nix and Jax on the Nix phone.

John also talks to Jax on the Jax phone and the other Jax phone.

Jax doesn’t k... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/22/wrote-this-yesterday.html


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How ‘rude’.

Declaring bankruptcy to avoid paying damages.


Well - it has been a long time since I saw this. Yes - you can walk into specific stores - but this was a section in a store that did a lot more.

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OH - now that is interesting …

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Apparently ‘Vintage IKEA’ is a thing.

Two ‘words’ I never expected to see sitting adjacent to each other.


"It took 12 hours to get through a day’s support requests before TextExpander. Now I handle 100 tickets in less than five hours."

Is it just me?


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Dems and Repubs have a lot more in common than we might think.

In US politics … the two prime parties are symbolized by a 🔗 Donkey and Elephant.

The curious thing is that 🔗 Thomas Nast created both the original satirical cartoons.

Same guy.
Drew cartoons that dinged both parties.
Both parties adopted th... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/19/dems-and-repubs.html


Fuck TikTok.
Fuck Russell Brand.
🔗 TikTok users including Russell Brand given special status, messages show.
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/19/tiktok-users-including-russell-brand-given-special-status-messages-show


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Not read it. Known of it for years. So not quite sure how it is classed as ‘top secret’ .. and whatever anybody knew .. it is clearly now ‘Not Top Secret’ …

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Just in case you get too happy absorbing 🔗 Reasons To Be Cheerful, now you can Cry🔗 Once a Week.

It’s all about balance.
 https://reasonstobecheerful.world https://www.cryonceaweek.com/


I have saved 🔗 Layers of Time: Pace Layers of Work by Stowe Boyd to read properly  later - but it triggered some other works I have been absorbing recently how the our digital worlds have been shaping our physical world for decades - and it is only accelerating.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/workfutures/p/layers-of-time-pace-layers-of-work


Dear Citi - 72 hours? I didn’t even subscribe to begin with!

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Ummm

youtu.be/ecHioH8fa…
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Here’s What I Think

2022 🇺🇦 and 🇷🇺

2023 🇮🇱 and 🇵🇸

2024 🇻🇪 and 🇬🇾

What Do You Think?

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We all have that role in our families don’t we? “Help, can you just” .. easy in the same house - but in different cities, counties and continents …

Teamviewer was my ‘go to’ for years to help my dad.

I had forgotten all about it .. until today.

That caused a little moment.

Hope your ok Dad.
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📺 The Morning Show

It too me a while to finally get round to watching .. but when I did … well .. I was in. I liked how they wove in current events … would love to know exactly how soon after those events were happening that it appeared on the stream.

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Suella Braverman Launches A Small Boat.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Seriously — watch to the end - A truly well-deserved award.

youtu.be/c83kDB39p…
 https://youtu.be/c83kDB39plw


The Family Plan, 2023 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/17/the-family-plan.html


"… privacy is mostly a settled issue in the physical world, and a grace of civilized life. Clothing, for example, is a privacy technology. So are walls, doors, windows and shades."

"Private spaces in public settings are well understood (…) . This is why no store on Main Street would plant a tracking beacon in the pants of a visiting customer, to report back on that customer’s activities — just so the store or some third party can “deliver” a better “experience” through advertising. Yet this kind of thing is beyond normative on the Web: it is a huge business."

💬 Doc Searls


🔗 Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe.

Meanwhile ‘my man Dana’ has been banging on about the US propensity for cars of the large and heavy variety forever … not to mention the battery decisions being made - necessary apparently - because of the weight and size factor of these vehicles.

This just today for example.

"While the Internet and iPhone came on faster, these were internal revolutions. They didn’t change the world around us. Mass EV adoption will."

🔗 The EV Revolution is Upon Us.
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/16/paris-us-size-cars-europe-emissions-suvs-france https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/the-ev-revolution-is-upon-us


🔗 Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initiatives.

Seriously? It costs THAT much?
 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/504884/minister-pulls-brakes-on-cycling-and-walking-initiatives


"(Trump is a) bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war."

💬 Cornell West


🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs

"Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio."

 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/car-drivers-torment-a-city-with-celine


"… mistakenly kills three hostages …"

Got it.


Remember Flipboard? I just reinstalled it .. looks like I decommissioned it seven years ago. Reinstated because there’s talk about it jumping on to the Fediverse.


🔗 What is the Bechdel test?

More proof .. if proof were needed .. that I live under a rock … fascinating .

"JESSICA CHASTAIN: But then I looked at the test, and I thought, OK, it doesn’t seem too unreasonable. And then I looked at my films, and I realized not one of my films has passed that test."

 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168116147/what-is-the-bechdel-test-a-shorthand-for-measuring-representation-in-movies


New Zealand In It’s Rightful Place. Nearly.

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Talking of LinkedIN - 🔗 take a look at this which I just dropped onto LinkedIN. It’s my position on the Callaghan debacle that New Zealand’s ‘Office of the Auditor General’ has just weighed in on.

TL;DR - Callaghan are guilty.

To quote;

"Callaghan Innovation did not …"

… a whole tonne of stuff. The piece is called - Accountability Has No Meaning in New Zealand - because really unless something now happens. It doesn’t.

Those who live in Aotearoa should find it particularly interesting. Even if you haven’t been tracking the past few years of the story.
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No Words.

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"The ability to unlock 1Password with a passkey is currently for new accounts only. Next year, we’ll make this feature available to anyone with an existing 1Password account."

I think I understand why .. but there’s part of me that thinks .. so new accounts - but not existing customers?

Then again - I won’t be implementing any time soon anyway.


I think I just broke 🔗 LinkedIN
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"“Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called ‘The Dead Kennedys’, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.”"

💬 Herb Caen

"“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family. . . . When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated. Our name is actually homage to the American Dream.”"

💬 Raymond John (East Bay Ray) Pepperell (Dead Kennedies)


Macy’s offered $5.8bn buyout that could take it off stock market, so they can strip the assets, sell it back to the market and make a tidy profit very quickly, leaving the uninformed to lose there investment. Again. improve the business.

Side note - not aware that Macy’s owned Bloomingdales.
 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/11/macys-offered-buyout-stock-market-us-department-store-bloomingdales


I read somewhere …

"Consider your childhood. What words do you remember being spoken to you at school? How many of those that stay with you are painful in some way?"

Different versions of this same idea appear in my feeds from time to time. My internal response is always the same.

I don’t recall much of my childhood at all.

Let alone words spoken to me.
Let alone words that were painful to me.

Is that because I suppressed it all because it was bad, or not impressive enough to remember, or has the rest of my life simply over written my young life?

No idea. Don’t really care.

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There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.

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‘Megayachts’ are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them.

"yachts are currently exempt from most of the emissions rules overseen by the International Maritime Organization"

who knew?
 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban


🪦 Safe travels Shirley … you made some wonderful films.


He’s got it the wrong way round … Tucker should pay me 72 bucks just to listen to his inane drivel.


Any of you fine folk have Text Expander 11? I am missing out if I don’t upgrade?


📺 The Umbrella Academy

I certainly didn’t dislike .. but somehow it didn’t keep me on the edge of my seat .. some characters entertaining .. some not …. Story? Meh. Still, I did get to the end ..if we have indeed reached the end. Who knows?

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📺 Bodies

🤯 … so good.

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If you want to rent a property out in New Zealand - it has to pass a ‘Healthy Home’ inspection. All good. Makes sense.

**TIL **

If you want to rent a property out in New Zealand for 89 days or less - it does not need to pass a ‘Healthy Home’ inspection.

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📽 Finally steadily working my way through ‘The Morning Show’ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last night’s episode …

🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra

Gorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …
 https://songwhip.com/innerspaceorchestra/one-way-glass


it’s a repeat.i know. It’s 9.30 ish. Fully caffeined and pretty much failed to find anything positive in my morning wanders … except this. A timely reminder.
Otherwise .. Jane Kenyon.
I got out of bed
on two strong legs.
It might have been
otherwise. I ate
cereal, sweet
milk, ripe, flawless
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Dear ‘Chris’
Over in Australia,
🔗 Foreign investors who snap up Australian homes to face higher taxes.
 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/dec/10/foreign-investors-who-snap-up-australian-homes-to-be-slugged-with-higher-taxes


Do you need to be conscious to have a stream of consciousness?


You might remember thatI was never a fan of 🖇 Ramaswamy

Just 4 months later - even Fox has tuned on him … FOX!

Fox🔗  News Goes Absolutely Nuclear on ‘Court Jester’ Vivek Ramaswamy - The Daily Beast
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🔗 Seventh Russian general confirmed dead’ … hoist by his own petard’?

Not keeping a strict count now - but someone should, along the lines of …

Russian Generals killed by Ukraine: 7
Russian Generals claimed to be killed by Ukraine: 16 plus one admiral
Russian Generals accidentally killed by Russia
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🪦 Ryan … good bye … thank you.


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"Somehow Britain now has a refugee policy so bonkers that even the Rwandans are worried it might be a bit harsh. And this is a country that recently shot 12 refugees dead. "

💬 Robert Hutton


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"BAT is attempting to boost its own vape sales, hoping to make 50% of its revenue from “non-combustible” products by 2035."

… those  ‘ “non-combustible” products ‘ ? …. we call them Vapes.


I wonder when AIs will demonstrate all (any?) of these?

A being ‘Artificial’ OR ‘Alien’.

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I think the actual news is that there was any kind of takeaway.

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"I’m still puzzled why NPR and CNN and Harvard and other legacy institutions haven’t set up on Substack. But they clearly have zero interest in doing so—even if they could make money and expand their audience.
Yet these same institutions launched on Threads the very first day. They couldn’t sign up as soldiers for Mark Zuckerberg’s new empire fast enough."

💬 Ted Goia

Read it
 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/in-2024-the-tension-between-macroculture?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2


📽 Billy Crudup is so good.


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Just when you thought it was safe(r)? … along comes White Lung Pneumonia … standing back to allow the rush of military strategists rush by as they transition back to geopolitical medical specialists with a deep understanding of statistics to explain the who, what, when, where, why, how, so that we can all ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/12/07/just-when-you.html


🪦 Norman? It’s an epidemic! Sorry to see you go, but still .. a long and good life had, I guess it was time.. Thankyou for your fun times.


"Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens."

💬 Judge Chutkan


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😂📸

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I’ll tell you what I want .. what I really really want …

“ ‘Drafts’ for drawings “


📸 Only artists need apply.

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📽 Serpico is 50 years old? How did that happen?


🪦 Oh no … Denny? Thankyou for the 🎵 music.


I want a stick my tongue out emoji


🔗 Apple’s new Journal app won’t be available on iPad and Mac

Seriously? I guess if I use it … it will only be for photos … no writing .. oh wait …DayONE dos it all on all platforms.
 https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/26/psa-apples-new-journal-app-wont-be-available-on-ipad-and-mac-at-launch


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"In 1962, he met drummer and keyboard player Mike Hugg at The Clacton Butlin’s Holiday Camp."

🤯

Ok .. yes … I’m down a rabbit hole.


"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

💬 Upton Sinclair

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When I find someone that is following more than 100 people than I am not - I don’t bother clicking through .. they’re all going to be masto peeps .. all good .. that’s why I have masto.

But the lack of ability to clearly see who the making it harder to find and follow actual micro bloggers .. #justsayin


🎵Gabriel’s ‘Live and Let Live’ .. just one of many great tracks on I/O .. anyone else feel Christine and the Queens during the opening of that song?


"We can do it quick, fast and safe, but it doesn’t necessarily taste great."

💬 Chris Young

Chris is McDonald’s senior director of global menu strategy.

Three thoughts

Global Menu Strategy is a job! Who knew?

Isn’t ‘taste’ his job? .. So is he new in and shaking it up .. or is it his fault?

I wonder what his boss thinks of that quote?


TIL that Steve Lillywhite was the back end of the horse when Wizard played on TOTP.


😂🔗 Bitcoin Explained
 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E7KQwBWJ7i0


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😂

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Hell No … in fact why am I still subscribed after 🖇 this fiasco?

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It’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

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🔗 🎬 Decisions Decisions

Rent 3.99
Buy 14.99

Will I watch it 4 times?
 https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/in-the-court-of-the-crimson-king-king-crimson-at-50/umc.cmc.2126676o2b81k7hxsd5afk5d


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40 years ago …

🔗 Could electronic mail undermine conventional post
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/01/could-email-undermine-conventional-post-1983


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🪦 Farewell Sandra.


🎵 Ba Ba Ba .. and another one bites the dust …

Bye George.


📺 Lupin

Didn’t know what to expect when I stumbled across it … but now with Series 3 behind me, I guess it gets a ‘thumbs up’ from this bear.

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📺 Shantaram

I adored the books .. and was waiting for this to come for a long time. I really liked each  episode, but it didn’t keep me riveted, which in turn meant it took a long time. Is that bad?

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Never heard of the movie but this is the synopsis;

"Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton"

And no, no it’s not a Brideshead Revisited prequel … I know!


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🪦 OH NO … not you Shane! Thankyou. Be at peace.


Work Backwards https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/30/work-backwards.html


You know how AI can write stuff - so you don’t have to?

And you know how AI can read stuff - so you don’t have to?

And you know how you can use AI to soup up your videos - so you don’t have to?

So all that’s left for you to do is watch the videos?

WELL - now you don’t even need to bother with that.

"Bard to understand a video’s content and respond to user requests for information"

🔗 One more nail in the coffin for being human
 https://mashable.com/article/google-bard-understanding-youtube-videos


"We are here on Earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I do not know."

💬 W. H. Auden


🔗 Yet again the hoopla over an 🍎 feature is waaaaaaay over the top - and the headline of the debunk on Six Colors doesn’t help.

THE COPS THINK IOS 17’S NAMEDROP IS DANGEROUS
 https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/11/the-cops-think-ios-17s-namedrop-is-dangerous/


If all the ‘lies’ that people like Cheney are accused of spreading … why don’t the accused just sue?

Looking at you.

Kevin.
Mike.
Mark.

Until they do - I am with the accuser.

And when they do - they need to win.

And IF they win - I will then consider the accusation.


🔗 In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying..

I moved over to Overcast a couple of years ago - but this is very sad. Really liked Castro. 😢
 https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/11/castro-podcast-app-goes-down-and-may-be-dying/


🪦Et tu Henry?


A biopic! On the Orange Clown?

I feel like channeling McEnroe.


It started out as a stroll and then before you knew it ….

Meanwhile - if you know the 📽 TV show ‘My Life Is Murder’ - with Lucy Lawless - this is the little café that is often featured.

The view in the direction that they often show.

The view with a 180 degree shift.

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Gulp

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🪦 Farewell Charlie - a good run.


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🔗 Switzerland Is Trying to Host the Cheapest Winter Olympics on Record

Well they’ll save a lot of money just having the snow ready to go, rather than having to create it in a desert.
 https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-switzerland-aims-host-cheapest-winter-olympics-budget-2023-11


🔗 Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t the Future

Flagging this to highlight that I am betting that Wired is WRONG. I will come back to it in the future - let’s say round about the end of Q1, beginning of Q2, 2024?

The Wired link is from June. Meanwhile 🖇 me in October. I will try to find a few more.
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🔗 Hickey’s Article

My restack …

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🎬 Spinal Tap 2 … 👎 or 👍 ❓


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I’m not entirely sure what the priority is for your own parking space …

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"“Steve Jobs would not be proud of his wife, Laurene, and the way she is spending his money.”"

Donnie .. he’s dead. Laurene is no longer his wife and it isn’t his money .. it’s hers.

Then again, if he wasn’t dead, I’m pretty sure he would totally approve!


🪦 RIP Geordie Walker 🎵


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📺 Who Is Erin Carter?

It’s one of ‘those’ Netflix shows. Pot Boiler. Not riveting, but I didn’t give up. It was fine.

Information on Reelgood

’All’ My TV Shows

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Going to have to update the film ahow review section … the backlog had been building.


The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, 2023 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/26/the-wonderful-story.html


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Three options

1] Let him.
2] Stop him.
3] Do it for him.

Option 3 … furor.

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Overheard on the next table …

"… or I was thinking of studying horticulture .. you know .. like plants and stuff …"

Self selection at its best.


🔗 The Link

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Really nice early Christmas present before I left …. being a Taschen of course it was truly HEAVY - so had to be left behind. I guess a kind of bribe to ensure I go back? At least that’s how I am taking it!

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(PSP to) SFO to SYD (to AUK) is a long ride …

Made clear by just one leg of the journey  …

.. a long way

Meanwhile the Sydney stop over was a long time - at times the view of the Sydney skyline looked like this …

.. and at others like this …

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🔗 Listening Brands by Jr Little 📚 was published in 2015 - did we not already have this then?

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2023/img-7702.png https://micro.blog/books/9781619613645


💬 via John Naughton

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On Substack someone described them as ‘smug’, ‘smugger’ and ‘smuggest’.

This was a reply.

I have never got the role of  ‘Deputy PM’ since it originally appeared. What two them are going to do in a country of 5M is beyond me, other than ensure National can form a govt. Is  ‘form’ the right word?

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I love podcasts that cancel themselves out .. four at a stroke - #Winning

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You put your CEO in
You put your CEO out
You put your CEO in
And you shake it all about …


Well THAT was a lot harder than we than it should have been


🔗 Bay Area diner to close original store after 49 years.

… via @dave .. had many a ‘brekky’ in that establishment over the years.
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Why don’t people with headphones in their ears connect them to the phone they are using to talk on?


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Really?

Based on what you have been serving to this dude … no thanks.

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I am not a big fan of sales and marketing funnels. I understand why corporations use them, hell I’ve used them myself in the past … but when it comes to the ‘average’ sole trader … hell no.

As for ‘forever funnels’?

HOLY $*&@=)#:- ,”s% NO.


Somewhere else on the inter-webs, my friend Perry offer wrote …

"There is no power for those who want it, in truth."

💬 Perry Offer

… which I had been meaningto capture in here for posterity … and then I stumbled on this.

"Truth Requires Power — Truth in itself is no power at all, in spite of all that flattering rationalists are in the habit of saying to the contrary. Truth must either attract power to its side, or else side with power, for otherwise it will perish again and again. This has already been sufficiently demonstrated, and more than sufficiently!"

💬 Friedrich Nietzsche


A Where’s Waldo Update https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/21/a-wheres-waldo.html


Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …

"Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask."

Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙did you know they all sound the same?
 https://overcast.fm/+5IlDvCFpk


What do you need? I mean really, really needed?

Why a Beatles Christmas jumper of course!


"American democracy, the Constitution and the rule of law are the righteous causes of our times, and the nation’s legal profession is obligated to support them. But with the acquiescence of the larger conservative legal movement, these pillars of our system of governance are increasingly in peril. The dangers will only grow should Donald Trump be returned to the White House next November.
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"The creative adult is the child who has survived."

💬 Ursula Le Guin


Conversation with an American about English vs American pronunciation.

American
“I mean ‘zed’ - not ‘zee’ - whats up with that?”
“Hell - it’s pronounced zeebra - isn’t that a clue?”

Me
“Actually - in England we call them Zebras.”

Look of blankness.


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing."

💬 Annie Dillard


"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

💬 Voltaire


Is it just me?


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📸 Just another day in the desert.

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You know how sometimes stupid little things you can clearly see for years before it finally happens and yet other times a seismic shift happens in an instant ….

🔗 OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/17/openai-ceo-sam-altman-fired


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Having observed my co traveller lugging a 1000 page opus around with her recently … 🔗 this resonated (Instagram Reel
 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czjol08yVPs/


We see some flexibility emerging as to WHERE people work - but not very much around WHEN they work.

Even then, given the changes in the WHERE and WHEN - we need to urgently start conversations around what that in turn means for HOW we work.

—

… thoughts emerging from Ollie Henderson’s LinkedIN post
 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7130543451443478528/


🔗 Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’.

… and you are the man to stop him?

Or have you just woken up?
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/joe-manchin-second-trump-term-destroy-democracy


"I have never seen so many tech CEOs come to town to wine, dine and opine."

💬 Jessica Lessin

(On Joe and Xi hanging in SFO.)


The Golden Globes seem to have sunk like a Lead Gold Balloon.


I think this is more marketing than a limitation … what say you?

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The ‘dear algorithm’ posts on Threads … they are clearly a thing .. but does it work?


Waiting in a Doctors surgery is one thing … waiting for an hour when you had made an appointment is a totally different game.

I think part of the social change we need is that patients get to charge doctors for unplanned wait times.


Maybe I hang in the wrong circles these days, but I rarely hear the phrase ‘Wicked Problems’ any more. And yet, whichever way you look isn’t every problem we face a wicked problem?


I wrote ‘Love You’

Which Siri decided should read

‘Over You’

Thankfully a rare occasion of spotting it before hitting send. Otherwise the day at this point might have been moved through an entirely different trajectory.


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Beyond caring.

Why?

Because none of it matters.


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🔗 Individual Empowerment and Agency on a Scale We’ve Never Seen Before.

I wonder … I see where Doc is headed - but we still have mediators.
 https://projectvrm.org/2023/11/11/individual-empowerment-and-agency-on-a-scale-weve-never-seen-before/


Did you know that the 🔗 Four Yorkshiremen sketch was not a Python original?
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch


🔗 Disney Is Buying Hulu: Here’s What’ll Happen Once It Owns It All.

.. no mention nf Apple then buying Disney - something I do not see … and yet more and more people keep jumping on that bandwagon.
 https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-bought-owns-hulu-valuation-explained-whats-next


I’d never heard of him until this morning - 26 - and dead, but what an enormous legacy.

🔗 Frank Ramsey (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[🔗 Frank Ramsey = Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(mathematician)

🔗 The New Yorker … apparently he died of a liver infection.
 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ramsey/?ref=thebrowser.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(mathematician) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast


🔗 DX is the new UX - by Sangeet Paul Choudary

… do you agree?
 https://open.substack.com/pub/platforms/p/dx-is-the-new-ux


🔗 🎵 Hey Madonna, Let Me Bring My Band to Your Concert
 https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/hey-madonna-let-me-bring-my-band


💬 🔗 I’m 17 years old, and I don’t know if I want to record and publish an EP …

The answer on the click through , but in summary …

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🔗 🎵 Pink to distribute banned books at Florida tour dates.

YES!

Just wish she had more to hand out.
 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/14/pink-tour-banned-books-florida


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Farewell Suella … but, say what?

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, told the Mail on Sunday in June: _"_Cleverly is a total wet rag who wants to fly out to China to kiss the backside of a regime responsible for shocking abuses of human rights."

Ok .. it’s the Mail .. but still …

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Around here a good breakfast that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg seems to be incompatible with also serving a decent coffee.


I like my rock. It protects me. Living under it is perfect. That’s why it bothers me not one jot that I have no idea who Peter Nygard is.


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Is digitalization a word?


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"Nothing in Minnesota law prohibits a political party from putting a candidate in their presidential primary who is ineligible to hold the office, so there is no error about to occur by allowing Trump’s name to appear on the ballot here."

"But the court left open the possibility for the plaintiffs to file similar claims as they relate to the general election, where such rules do exist."

Saved yesterday ..  I think the words came from ‘Heather’.


Somewhere over on Facebook Johannes Ernst was promoting  InkWELL …talking about the Fediverse and Indieweb .. and featuring our very own @mantonreece .. home page quotes Cory D …

"As Cory Doctorow says, corporate platforms like Facebook and X have business models that are based on holding users hostage and leveraging their attention and their data for profit."

Just mentioning it because I spent way too much time attempting to pull the real URL out … free of FB crud to share with you all. Oh the irony!
 https://www.well.com/


🖇 Never had a high opinion of him … … seems like others feel the same way….

🔗 Please get Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts.
 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Ramaswamy https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/gop-debate-vivek-ramaswamy-annoying


🔗 Not fulfilling your potential? You’re focusing on the wrong things

"The secret to achieving mastery and fulfilling your potential requires using your mind to focus only on the things you have 100% control over. Seeking acceptance holds you back as it inevitably means compromising on what’s really important to you and what you believe."

‘Straight outta  ComptonThe Stoics
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I have a draft of a piece about ‘an experience(?)' in London that ended the night with us riding in a ‘🔗 Paddy Wagon’, the story evolved because of some combination of Oxy, Meth and Alcohol.

Just read that 🔗 Meth is cheaper than beer in Laos .. my instant reaction …  ‘probably in London too’.
 https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/paddy-wagon https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/7/cheaper-than-beer-laos-meth-prices-plummet-as-myanmar-chaos-fuels-trade


🔗 Stunning … all of it - but mainly at 12:35 - as he recites a poem.
 https://youtu.be/UfWh3OHYbEM?si=Gm_G6_mjzNpxFmuj


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Advertisement … Creamy scrambled eggs … side of English back bacon and toast

Delivered … cold rubbery eggs, cold bacon and white toast

Explain and send back

Delivery 2 .. The toast is warm and roughly brown, bacon warmer but eggs could be cut up and used as a pencil eraser.

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"Musk also revealed that Grok had access to user posts on X, which he owns, and has a penchant for sarcastic responses."

Whatever.

Was wondering whether the writer was trying to say that he owns ‘X’ or that he owns ‘user posts on X’ .. before I decided it didn’t really matter.


💬

Via John Naughton

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