💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.

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🔗 The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets. .. a perfect home.

"“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”"

 https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/14/business/onion-alex-jones-infowars-auction/index.html


Someone suggested that Coldplay playing to 150,000 over three nights has ‘injected millions into local economy’. Not sure I see it … until I know if local economy is ‘Auckland’ or ‘New Zealand’ .. and how many people in each of those are really from ‘out of town / country’.


So I will plant this post in various places across the inter webs as I reach out to find those customers that need what I do.

The link is worth clicking on, but that’s not really what this is about. Except, in a way, it kinda is… let me explain.

This part of John’s business model is a weekly sponsorship.... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/13/so-i-will.html


And?


This is not going to end well.

and I don’t mean posting to Micro.Blog


Been wondering why my posts haven’t been showing up - turns out on the switch to a new device a decision was made to post to the test blog!


"“So are Sapiens and Neanderthals the same species or different species? And is “species” an objective reality that biologists discover, or is it an intersubjective reality that biologists impose?”"

💬 Yuval Noah Harari

🔗🖇 Coincidentally, have been exploring this idea as applied to Mathematics.
 https://substack.philpin.com/p/did-we-invent-it-or-did-we-discover


🔗 Learn the Order of Adjectives in English.

Not sure I ever ‘learned’ this - but intuitively it is what I do.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/0804fee13a.png https://languagetool.org/insights/post/order-of-adjectives/


Over on Substack I published 🔗🖇 this …

"At first blush, it might seem to be about maths and it certainly connects, but it’s really about those who challenge the status quo, see something different, push boundaries, which, not coincidentally is exactly what great startups do."

Love to know what you all think?

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes | 🔗 More
 https://substack.philpin.com/p/did-we-invent-it-or-did-we-discover https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=businessbytes https://yaks-laugh-hm1.craft.me/4WSn8xlwx6aJmn


Must be something about the beach today - 40 or so walkers suddenly appeared on our beach - a number of them armed with what I call ‘Alpine Sticks’ …

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Oh .. well why didn’t you say?  ……

Experimenting.
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🔗📼🎵 Revolution … Did it happen$ Is it happening? Will it happen?
 https://youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw


🔗📼🎵 Do you care about your rights?
 https://youtu.be/RhJ0q7X3DLM


🔗📼🎵 Twice In A Lifetime - Apparently
 https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8


🔗📼🎵Have you lost your religion? What is your ‘religion’ anyway? It should probably just be taken away - let’s not leave it to chance.
 https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg


🔗📼 You can still rock - but will it be in the free world
 https://youtu.be/fFw7q-BLxLA


🔗📼 Oh Well
 https://youtu.be/eVrN2E4VHzQ?si=kd-nubdjGMy53srg


🔗📼 During which time …
 https://youtu.be/hXn9ZKPx6CY?si=R2Vo1lsk0c87j8Wf


🔗📼 Burning Down The House

Your song of the day, week, month, year, 4 years.
 https://youtu.be/_3eC35LoF4U?si=3e2cLwYWO3sh0pS4


💬

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💬

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💬

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Spotted in an HR show … #NoIrony

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🪦 A great run Quincy .. thank you for the music.


🔗 Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

(404 Media)
 https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-slop-will-continue-until-morale-improves/


"“The first rule is: attack, attack, attack.”
“Rule two, Admit nothing, deny everything.”
“Rule three?  “No matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.”"

💬 Roy Cohn.


"On impulse he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different."

💬 Margaret Atwood


🖇🔎 The Business Equation involves a number of dimensions starting with ‘The Quadrants’ - the top quadrant is market facing, bottom is organisation facing.

The Organisation Facing quadrant is supported by ‘Systems of Record’ - increasingly transitioning to ’Systems of Compliance’

The Market Facing quadrant is supported by ‘Systems of Engagement’.

Businesses spend an inordinate amount of time focussed on ‘systems of compliance’ - to the detriment of ‘systems of engagement’.

"Despite Business Growth emerging from ‘Systems of Engagement’."

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes | 🔗 More
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We shouldn’t be worried that the Chinese Military have built their own model on Llama should we?

Thought not.


All (?) kiwi wineries have this on their home page - anyone can check the box - there is no validation - so why bother - except a stupid law on the statutes somewhere.

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Daring Fireball: Russian Court Hits Google With a Fine Larger Than the World’s GDP

How Fucking Stupid
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/30/russia-google-fine


What does the Kiwi world think? Is he spot on or smoking something ❓

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It’s not just being different. It’s not only being the ‘only one that ‘does what you do’ (hat tip to ‘Jerry’). It’s not just following your dreams. It’s all of that - at the intersection of letting go of the ‘woulda coulda shoulda’ and wrapping that all up in a package that others value and give a shit abo... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/31/its-not-just.html


Love Is Not All - Edna St. Vincent Millay https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/31/love-is-not.html


Just in case you are having any kind of upbeat moment today, tis will drag you back down to despondency and depression.
🔗 Trump’s clown car cabinet - by Lisa Needham and Aaron Rupar
 https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/trump-cabinet-rfk-jr-cannon-tulsi


🔗 It takes courage to take any kind of stand against ‘the flow’, much less a principled one. The story reminded me of the much heralded Saudi launch of LIV back in 2022, but the short post is really seeking a solution to a totally different, yet related dilemma. Feel free to weigh in.
 https://substack.philpin.com/p/would-you-be-this-courageous


20% cut at Dropbox. #SignOfTheTimes ❓


🔗 An Exegesis of Markdown, the Most Ubiquitous Piece of Code on the Web ( 🍎📰 )
 https://apple.news/AimFIUc1dSbaNroSq7QMFCA


🔗 🎙You Must Answer The Questions About Feet

I might have posted this link before, but I keep sending it to people. It ties back to 🖇🎙my own podcast about Agents - nearly two years ago now. Still an issue - and will be for a long time yet.
 https://overcast.fm/+ABEtMiGxvXo https://substack.philpin.com/p/why-dont-we-all-have-agents-3a3


"Musk concluded his segment by offering support for Republican presidential contender Donald Trump, explaining that he believes humans are more likely to reach Mars before the end of the decade if Trump wins next week."

💬 The Information

"WTF …"

💬 John Philpin


💬

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💬 I’ve not seen that statement anywhere else … have you?

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Is it Art?

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💬 That was then about a time even before that - and we wonder about now?

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I am writing a post for 🔗 ‘Human By Design’ .. and this popped up today. Very relevant.

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💬

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🔗 Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign

I don’t now - what you going to do?
 https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-funded-pac-supercharges-progress-2028-democrat-impersonation-ad-campaign/


🔗 Understanding Our Collapse, and Where it Goes From Here

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/67e5f6279e.png https://www.theissue.io/understanding-our-collapse-and-where-it-goes-from-here/


"“It feels to me like there’s one thing The Who can do, and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.”"

💬 Pete Townsend


On the one hand you’ve got this …

How Virtual Reality Died - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker

And on the other you’ve got this …

Daring Fireball: Surgeons Are Wearing Vision Pro to Perform Laparoscopic Procedures
 https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-virtual-reality-died https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/25/vision-pro-surgeons


… and The BBC throws out a cliff hanger in the headline and reveals the answer in the ‘sub’ .. in case you don’t have time to read it all.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/213e550230.jpg


Meanwhile in an alternate reality …

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Not that anyone cares. Bezos certainly doesn’t.

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🪦 ‘Pharewell Phil’ .. say hi to Jerry.


Yet another app that having joined their wait list they will let me know if I am good enough to join their beta. They said if I am a good fit - but I know what they mean.


There is so much wrong with the Micro Blog iOS client .. I use Drafts mainly .. but still need the client if posting images … what else do people use?


Kevin Drim at Jabberwocking …

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💬 Doesn’t seem to be heretical to me …

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📸

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😂

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🔗 New study says Black drivers ticketed at 3x the rate of white drivers.

Kevin Drum just keeps these nuggets flowing daily - multiples of time.
 https://jabberwocking.com/new-study-says-black-drivers-ticketed-at-3x-the-rate-of-white-drivers/


💬😂

😂💬

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The Transporter Refueled, 2015 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/24/the-transporter-refueled.html


If you use paid Chat GPT and had been looking at paying Perplexity - only one survives. Would you switch?


 🔗 Donald Trump’s contempt for the military, quote by quote

A good(? - not sure that is the right word) list from Kevin Drum.

Eye opening.
 https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trumps-contempt-for-the-military-quote-by-quote/


Intuit FAIL - And All Because Of A Failure To Communicate! https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/24/intuit-fail-and.html


Just joined a Discord and was asked to ‘introduce myself’. This is what I said …

I have lived at the intersection of ‘people empowerment through  technology transformation’ for most of my career.

Problem - most of those people were INSIDE corporations and if you were on the outside - forget about it - yo... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/24/just-joined-a.html


Spent my life connecting dots.

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes** | **🔗 More
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The constant push by industry and as a result - Academia to specialize, specialize, specialize has resulted in way too many specialized specialists and very few ‘cloud hoppers’.

Cloud Hopping has always been a differentiator.

🔗🔎 BusinessBytes** | **🔗 More
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Spotted On LinkedIN. I have some thoughts.

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"“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.""

💬 Thomas Edison


📸 That ‘building’ towering above all those other buildings?

Yeah. That’s a boat!

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So tomorrow?

In App purchase of $20 or $200 - wonder if their intention is to only allow the app to be used with paid accounts?

Meanwhile, have to say

Arc replacing Safari AND Perplexity replacing Google is SPECTACULAR.

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"What’s more, crypto investors have been in a holding pattern as they wait to see the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, with many hopeful that a Donald Trump victory will invigorate the markets."

💬 The Information

Yup. Thats why it is crypto investors in the VC class have thrown their weight behind the clown.


📸

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#2ofN

I like to think of every organization being a magic box.

3 inputs [I] : people, capital and tangible assets

2 outputs [0] : products and services

The rest is just context.


I get it. I really do. But how do you KNOW?

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Here’s something I just did in another post in the Micro Blog client and 🤯

Type a number like 7 and then type a maths symbol (say *) and then type another number (say 13) and finish of with ‘=’

7 * 13 =91

Here’s the thing - ‘91’ just appeared automatically when I typed ‘='

I know that Apple were descri... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/heres-something-i.html


#1of’N’

Occasionally a post on Daring Fireball reads something like this:

"After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is unusually open at the moment—especially this week!"

I don’t sell sponsorship, I sell me, but at the highest level we both trade in what we might call perishable inventory;

A hotel room not sold on Monday night can’t be sold Tuesday.

John can’t sell this week’s sponsorship next week.

If I don’t bill today I can’t catch up tomorrow.

I’ll be back with some more thoughts, but for now, I’m just letting this lie.

🔗 More
 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%231of%E2%80%99N%E2%80%99 https://daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/ https://yaks-laugh-hm1.craft.me/4WSn8xlwx6aJmn


🔗 You are the center of concentric circles, Mark Dykeman

It’s another one of those Dunbar posts, the concentric circles are so random that I was reduced to asking ChatGPT ..

"“What is the difference between a friend, good friends, best friends and close friends?"

A less than satisfactory answer, though it did seem to agree with me (and the author) that a ‘Best Friend’ is closer than a ‘Close Friend’. Other than that? Yeah - no.

And the numbers

5 close/best friends

10 more best / close friends

35 more good friends

Why did he bother writing the piece? Why have I bothered commenting on it?
 https://open.substack.com/pub/howaboutthis/p/you-are-the-center-of-concentric


📚 A Story https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-story.html


🎵🖇 18 - 1975 - Pete Wingfield.

🎵🔗 19 - 1996 - Another Great (though very different) Track - this one from Paul Hardcastle.

Sometimes time goes slow.
 https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/21/a-trip-down.html https://song.link/i/1629177761


🔗 🎵 A Trip Down Memory Lane With Pete Wingfield.
 https://song.link/i/1585959748


Last time I did this (next post) in Songwhip I had all kinds of problems - but I didn’t know why 🎵 🔗 TIL Why
 https://soundplate.com/songwhip-alternative-2024/


🎵 For me - a collection that totally outshines everything he did around and for the Pistols.

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Always fascinated my the never ending models of customer engagement that the internet keeps spitting out. And everytime I see one, I hear George whispering into my ear

"All models are wrong .. some are useful."

Which is actually right when you think about it. I won’t name this ‘6 step model’, but my assumption is that it was created by someone who got half way through the ‘12 steps’ .. I mean, when one of your steps  is ‘Build Rapport’, you do wonder who exactly these sales people are that need this kind of guidance.

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"“Stories are developed – not wordsmithed.”"

💬 Mike Maples


I got to the end of the internet. Or at least this little corner of it …

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It’s A Trap.


"“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”"

💬 Nicolas Klein

(🔗 not Gandhi)
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Klein


"“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”"

💬 Gandhi


As a Brit living in New Zealand .. am I conflicted? Not at all. To be honest I barely knew that it all started up again.

Not to take away from Aotearoa .. not just a win, but a very substantial win … for the third time … in a row.

Massive Congratulations.

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I’m thinking my next iPhone might be the new iPad mini.


Here’s a very noticeable benefit of Arc over Safari - IF you use 1Password - OMG - it is slick, fast, seamless and just a plain joy to work with. I had always assumed that ‘this;’ is just the way it is.

Apparently not - it’s a Safari issue.


🔗 An attempt at humo(u)r over on Substack … by yours truly.
I didn’t despatch it to the subscriber list - just experimenting with various engagement ideas over there.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnphilpin/p/he-who-pays-the-piper-calls-the-tune


This week Rob is a bit more serious than usual - but he’s on an important topic - the ‘truth in history’ versus ‘but it doesn’t make for good drama’ schtick. Something else we agree on - - even though he doesn’t know that!

He ends with how all of this is ‘kind of ok’ in Entertainment - but maybe not so mu... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/19/this-week-rob.html


I found the best use case for #Boosts in the Arc Browser.

Just in case I do got to #Twitter (sic), my boost is ready …

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🔗 VCs Can’t Get Enough of AI for Lawyers

It’s not going to end well.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/newcomer/p/vcs-cant-get-enough-of-ai-for-lawyers


🔗 Becoming You. - by Rishad Tobaccowala

"We transform and are not just transformed."

 https://open.substack.com/pub/rishad/p/becoming-you


🔗 Storytelling at scale - by David Szabo-Stuban
I just joined David’s Discord - a refreshing insight into building your own Agents.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/lumberjackai/p/storytelling-at-scale


🔗If the truth hurts, we can help you avoid it altogether

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/6133de7e90.png https://socialwarming.substack.com/p/if-the-truth-hurts-we-can-help-you


Been an occasional user of Arc for a long time. Love what they are doing - but just couldn’t go all in. Then @manton wrote that he had done it. So .. as of today - I am in. Manton said 7 days and he couldn’t go back .. so lets see. It is now my default browser and Perplexity is my search engine!
 https://micro.blog/manton


🔗 Daring Fireball: The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand

.. now there’s a headline I wasn’t expecting!
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/16/boars-head


Dear Google - seriously?

The Prompt: “when did Clinton run for president”

The first mention of Hilary was half way down page 2

I compressed the screen shot, so you could see the ‘People Also Search For’.

I was actually trying to remind myself of the date of the HRC run. (Don’t ask)

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🔗 🎙 Ta-Nehisi Coates on complexity, clarity, and truth - talking with Sean Illing.

// @Denny - right up your street.
 https://overcast.fm/+AAQLhWkN6AQ https://micro.blog/Denny


🔗 🎙 Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism with Kara Swisher

Great listen
 https://overcast.fm/+AA7_XSk9C9s


You can ‘charge like a bull’. Me, I like to ‘charge like a bandit’.

😂 … words from the lips of my friend John.


"So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin,
You’re waiting for someone to perform with.
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey Jude, you’ll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder."

Thank you for the reminder John.


The First Mile is Owed, the Second is Bestowed https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/the-first-mile.html


I’m sorry he’s gone. But that is not what this is about.

It’s that phrase … ‘the UK version’

WTF … I never watch the show - not my cup of tea - but I do get pissed off about things like this. Original things do happen outside of the U.S.A..

The X Factor is a UK show. It ran from 2004 to 2018

🔗 It actually has several versions throughout the world. - that are all franchises of Cowell’s original show.

The US show started 7 years after the UK show started .. in 2011, lasting 3 seasons. It - like all the other shows around the globe .. were licensed courtesy of Cowell.

Better phrasing?

"first for... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/17/im-sorry-hes.html


You know that’s he’s just building up for his next defence. Right?


Searching my site for something totally different and it found 🖇 this joke post - one of those things that used to circulate the wires. It is seventeen years old. It’s funny - though the names are definitely from a moment in history. The fourth one down caught my eye …

"MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF (COMICAL ALI):
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken."

Comical Ali (Ali G) is of course the Sacha Baron Cohen creation from before Borat …

Fake News in a comedian’s kitbag 17 years ago.

This shit has been going on for too long.
 https://john.philpin.com/2007/08/08/why-did-the.html


I hope Ted is right.

🔗🎵9⃣ Predictions for the Future of the Music Business

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Want 🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Announces New iPad Mini, With A17 Pro and Pencil Pro Support
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/15/new-ipad-mini


Disruption is not Destruction https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/disruption-is-not.html


Corruption at the highest levels of British Sport … A Steel Conker no less.


Farewell NewsHub. Didn’t know you that well, but never good to find news funneled through fewer and fewer funnels. In the plus side there are a few solid kiwi voices on Substack picking up the slack.


💬 Go Kevin!

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That’s A Wrap.


I’d heard that .. kind of a meta play on the play!


I know I know - but yes only just discovered Mike Dawes - thanks to Rick Beato …

🔗 📼 🎵Here

🔗 📼 🎵And Here

🔗 📼 🎵And Here Again

🔗 📼 🎵The Rick Beato interview.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1FIm4KYZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdOCzLH6d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMGZPhbSmwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19egkC5QsM


The Marksman, 2021 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/the-marksman.html


Gunpowder Milkshake, 2021 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/gunpowder-milkshake.html


🔗 Ribbonfarm is Retiring

Translation - I’ve moved to Substack.
 https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ribbonfarm-is-retiring/


Josh in one of those congress seats in Central Valley - California - that he flipped - but it is clear that the ‘pubs are trying to spend their way back in. I worry that the dems are ignoring it because CA is ‘safe’.

Josh’s district is just a bit further north than kevin mccarthy’s old hood (The ‘incumben... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/13/josh-in-one.html


They need to finish their thought

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🖇 The Coming Labor War - Dana F. Blankenhorn

.. yup. If I have posted this before. Sorry. But it does bear repeating.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/danafblankenhorn/p/the-coming-labor-war


🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears (🍎Essentials)

Listen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat

Its ONE ‘band’ from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.

They have produced a LOT of albums.

They are extraordinary.
 https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/sault-essentials/pl.e5e56cb822524fc1bc858b980e09e2e2


Spatial Computing Has Another Contender - AND - They Are Not Called Meta. https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/spatial-computing-has.html


🔗 ‘We Will Not Bend the Knee.’ Watch Mehdi’s Powerful Award Acceptance Speech

I did, excellent - like so much of his stuff.

// @Denny
 https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/mehdi-bend-the-knee-award https://micro.blog/Denny


"It’s this messianic belief in a vision that makes many entrepreneurs so quirky – and so interesting. It takes a unique personality to spend years saying “I’m right” when most around you say “That’s wrong.”"

💬 Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein

via Daring Fireball: Crazy Stupid Tech

Subscribed - of course. But not a dissimilar message to Chris Lockhead, Mike Maples - and others.

Go read their books.
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/09/crazy-stupid-tech


Revenge Of The Nerds - Real Revenge https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/12/revenge-of-the.html


Ignore me - this got switched off - but I think its on again now.


"Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple information channels"

💬 Wikipedia

Many thanks to @manton for getting me to the final step (that would be you Threads) -

Hello Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/j… / @johnphilpin.bsky.social

Hello Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/fractalli… / fractallion.tumblr.com

Hello Mastodon: mastodon.social/@fractals / @fractals@mastodon.social

Hello Threads: www.threads.net/@johnphil… / @johnphilpin@threads.net
 https://micro.blog/manton https://bsky.app/profile/johnphilpin.bsky.social http://johnphilpin.bsky.social https://www.tumblr.com/fractallion https://fractallion.tumblr.com https://mastodon.social/@fractals https://micro.blog/fractals@mastodon.social https://www.threads.net/@johnphilpin https://micro.blog/johnphilpin@threads.net


I thought the new micro blog release would fix my problem. It didn’t.

On phone - a 09st longer than 600 you just can’t get the cursor to the bottom to write or edit.

Anyone else?


There is a play running in London called The Mousetrap. Barring ‘COVID TIMES’ it has been running for 72 years.

The musical equivalent has to be The Stones. Hats off and all that, but in both cases, longevity is surely the driver of success rather than the quality of material?


"To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down here, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up)."

[]🔗 My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa](https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good)

Written in response to a piece suggesting that Luxon’s not doing a good job. Why? My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he ever did a good job.
 https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good


They don’t move too fast in Oneroa!

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Dear Twitter … NO. Just NO.

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We know who he’s talking about … don’t we?

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Chief of Station, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/07/chief-of-station.html


40 minutes waiting for the call center peep to pick up - only to be told that for what I need - I need to call a different number. I wouldn’t mind (ok - I do) - but it is to the other side of the world so stayed up late to do this - not got the energy to start all over again.

😬


The worlds is a small place.

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This popped up in my feed today.

Opened up Readwise - and this quote resurfaced.

It seems to be connected. No?
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Rebel Ridge, 2024 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/05/193609.html


No link. Listened to New York Radio Hour - specifically David Remnick talking to Newt Gingrich.

Never have been a fan of Newt - but I kinda like to check in on my assumptions from time to time.

Hah - still the same, now proudly sporting an armband of hypocrisy.


The Union, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/05/the-union.html


Rebel Ridge, 2024 https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/05/rebel-ridge.html


More on Kris

I ’never’ do this - so take this as the exception that proves the rule. We all know that 🖇 Kris K recently passed - on Maui

My friend Randall wrote to me (these extracts reproduced with his permission)

Such a sad loss of a hero whom I actually knew …. Sarah Teed and I had the privilege of a hanging w/ him and John Prine when we played the Castle theater many years ago and I opened for him at the MACC many times sharing moments with him and his wife Lisa.

Randall went on and shared some Kris wisdom …

"”He believed that songwriting is a spiritual communion of mind, body, and soul, an... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/04/more-on-kris.html


Argylle, 2024 - ★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/04/argylle.html


Anyone successfully — or not — following Threads or BlueSky in Microblog?


📸 A couple o' friends hanging at the bus stop.

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Just listened to Gilbert’s 2024 release - he’s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original 🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural mus... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/03/just-listened-to.html


We ~~Don't~~ Need Edukashun https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/03/we-dont-need.html


Just for kicks I signed up for a month of 🥐 🔗 ..

"A buttery smooth app for cross posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads."

Big benefit for me is that I can add multiple accounts for the same service - useful as we start to push out The Future Found

AND

When I send I can choose which accounts it sends to.

Next job (request?) - as I publish to MicroBlog or LinkedIn or Facebook or …. have that post appear in Croissant ready for me to decide where I want to cross post. #Maybe.
 https://croissantapp.com


It’s a pretty low bar …

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So having a hard time connecting Threads to Micro.Blog.. meanwhile BlueSky connected - no problem .. but I can’t find the account to follow on Micro.Blog …

So far Mighty Masto is the only one doing both .. connect AND follow ..

Anyone else with similar challenges!


And once more from a different place.


🪦 Farewell Kris - taking your own last ride - but nothing like Casey’s.


Published in 1992

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Hope this gets fixed before the season starts …

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🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’

Not even sure it is the same game.
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/29/meta-apple-same-game-different-rules


"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more."

💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He means all of us - different times - BUT - maybe it is more applicable to men? What say you?


Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/01/wolfs-contains-spoilers.html


The Instigators, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/01/the-instigators.html


You might not recognize the words - 🔗🎵 but you will certainly recognize the song. Superb re-imagination.

How did i get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don’t come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life’s... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/02/you-might-not.html


Maybe Tomorrow?

This just in from Mark Manson, It is 23:06.

ONE THING FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT - my response in bold

The real “morning routine” nobody tells you about:

Eat a reasonable dinner, no caffeine or alcohol. BUGGER

Stop looking at screens around 9PM. BUGGER

Get into bed by 10PM. BUGGER

Relax,... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/30/maybe-tomorrow-this.html


🪦 Late to the news - just wanted to say goodbye to Herbie.

TIL you wrote ‘Grandad’ .. but otherwise what a superb life journey.


💬 It all seems so easy …

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💬 The Real Power Brokers

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🔗 Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads . Because of course they are.
 https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising


Talking to a developer friend this morning … inevitably eventually sharing war stories about clients - and briefs.

This one is for posterity …

"The site is really really good - everything I need. I just want you to say exactly the same thing with completely different words."


Even Android users can’t have nice things.

🔗 Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite
 https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite


It’s only getting worse …

🔗 AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now

For the longest time I have argued against the thoughtless deployment of ATS systems in corporations.
Downside for corporates - totally miss the nuance of people and their ‘particular sets of skills’ because they are over simplifying wha... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/its-only-getting.html


An excellent read.

🔗 AI - A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

So excellent, I thought I would share some extracts.

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Where has all the crypto gone?
Gone to exploits, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

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🔗 Wearisome and Dissipating - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures

"It’s interesting to me that leaders of companies who have disrupted entire industries by “breaking the box” and solving problems in new ways are so committed to “doing work” the same way it’s been done for the last 50 years."

💬 Nicole Rivers
 https://www.workfutures.io/p/wearisome-and-dissipating


🪦 Sorry to read the news Maggie. Thankyou.


Funny to think that this view has been pretty much identical for around 600 years - and yet, had you been here 650 years ago and then then came back, you’d hardly recognize the place.

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Seriously?

Kafka - who should know better - and Vox - FFS (I paraphrase the sentiment of a gushing podcast)

"The Facebook Glasses are so good that they are taking Apple head on - for less money."

Later on we learn that these glasses are

unlikely to see the light of day,
possibly in 3 to 10 (TEN - not a typo) years before a version is likely to be released,
estimated cost per pair is $10,000 - to MANUFACTURE.

Thats three times the price that apple are selling at - and of course we all know that Apple will never release a version two of their product - I mean they are done. Aren’t they?

F F S


Dear Liminal - it is clear that you take your security very seriously ….

I try to log in and you won’t let me

So I hit forgot password and enter my email

You tell me account doesn’t exist

So I try to sign up with my email

You tell me Email already exists

Which is it?


🔗 🍿 WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
 https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/


Truth in Satire

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I really need to wire up my threads into microblog - tried a couple of times #FAIL .. clearly operator error.


🔗 GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Heavy Sex Party With 17-Year-Old: Legal Docs (Apple News)

This story has been in and out of the  news for YEARS.

And here it is surfacing again.

Time to DO something about it.
 https://apple.news/ASzxn6vKFR0ezaINbn_g1YQ


💬 Clearly more people should take this advice …

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Dear Siri - or what ever the Apple ‘Intelligence’ is behind Apple Contacts - please stop asking me to add ‘this new contact’ - their number is the same as in the system - it’s just that you think

xxx xxx xxxx is totally different to +1 xxx xxx xxxx

You didn’t used to be like this.


When I read

"‘Ellison gets jail time’"

I immediately thought ‘what’s he done now’ - and then I wondered why I hadn’t read anything about it - and then decided it was one of those click bait headlines that then got me to wondering how they would connect the story to the headline.

Easy Answer.

The story was about Caroline Ellison. 🤦♂


Observation

I am mainly a Safari boy-  with other browsers around me for when I need them - which is less and less - except today I got to thinking.

Been working a LOT in Airtable and find myself hanging waiting for copy and paste or sorting or grid to form view etc

I had been putting it all down to Air... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/25/observation-i-am.html


😂

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I am pissed off that UGG can’t trademark their name - and so UGG ripoffs abound!!

It’s exactly the same deal with Wordpress and WPEngine. It should not be allowed.

Matt M … 🔗 WP Engine is not WordPress

The opening statement on the WPEngine site …

 We power the freedom to create on WordPress

Because of course Wordpress don’t do that?

The Second WTF today - in as many posts!
 https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/


Kevin Drum 🔗 Too cheap to meter is finally getting close.

On the click through … all the places in California … and there are a LOT -…where the whlesale price of electicity is … wait for it …
 Zero
 https://jabberwocking.com/too-cheap-to-meter-is-finally-getting-close/


🔗 Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data

What goes through the mind of these people? I want to delete something from the internet - but just before you do that please suck it in the giant AI thingy so it is built into the future and for posterity!
 WTF
 https://www.404media.co/privacy-service-optery-faces-backlash-after-plan-to-send-openai-user-data/


🔗 Everina Maxwell (don’t ask)

"She grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier."

(my bold)

Whilst I get that the author of the above is trying to be funny, I might grant more credibility with accuracy. Brighton Pier appeared (pun intentional) on the South coast 3 years before Stella Gibbons was even born and fully 33 years before Cold Comfort Farm was published.

As for running water, well - it was a farm - so highly likely.

I guess 50% true is pretty good in these modern times.
 https://everinamaxwell.com/


🔗 Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities

Oh - I wonder what caused that change to happen?
 https://www.404media.co/telegram-changes-policy-says-it-will-provide-user-data-to-authorities/


Anyone like the idea of having a way to add a title to each Home Screen of an iOS gadget?


🔗 Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7

GO TEAM HUMANITY
 https://www.elonowesyou100dollars.com/


🔗 Daring Fireball: Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’, a $75 Million Feature Film, Was Shot Using iPhone 15 Pro Max
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/20/28-days-later-iphone-camera


I know that by strict definition Jo is a ‘lame duck president’ .. but somehow it doesn’t seem right to call him that .. I looking at you NPR.


Just another day in Auckland

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🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.

Review by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber
 https://www.austinmann.com/trek/iphone-16-pro-camera-review-kenya https://micro.blog/gruber


📸

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📸 A meta billboard

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6 Court Justices threatened .. but the news declined to say which .. now there’s a conundrum!


As a point of reference - courtesy Kevin Drum he highlights what happens at that point if inflection

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Nothing to see here - move along now

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💬 404 Media …

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TIL that Franz Ferdinand .. a band I very much enjoyed twenty years ago are still going, still rocking, still releasing. Kudos .. bad me for losing sight of them.


Rant Rant Rant … got it … you don’t like it. I don’t care you don’t like it.

Delete.

One more and it’s ‘unsubscribe’.


If I buy a book on Apple Books - the family plan allows all family members to read it. BUT does anybody know if they can read it at the same time?


About 1 seconds remaining it says .. and said 5 minutes ago … #WinningWithApple


iPads upgraded.

iPhone - holding off - it’s an 11 - I worry about it slowing down.

Mac? Should I go for it?


I love this guy - hangs out on insta - and that is an extraordinary list …

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I haven’t been using Craft Objects beta .. at all .. but looking forward to it .. particularly after watching a short video from ‘Viktor’ that he pushed out in August.


BlueSky flagging CNN links with a warning …

// @dave

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😂💬

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📸

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🔗 Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate - Robert Reich .. yes and still not saying vote for Kamala.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/karl-roves-take-on-tuesdays-debate


Bugger.
Been carefullly avoiding 🍎📺 for the past three weeks and accidentally clicked in last night and boom .. three episodes of Slow Horses later … and now I have to wait!


🎵 Doom Folk? Tell Me More.


FFS .. these people just need to STFU …

The choice is really clear … BUT .. apparently Kamala might not have the financial chops to navigate the economy … so lets talk about that for thirty minutes

Really .. And the orange Clown does?


10 bucks a year is ok even tho I already have the original .. but the rating is waaay lower. That can’t be good. Can it?


😂 Meanwhile, over on Substack …

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💬 When you put it like that, it all falls into place.

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Interesting to read that Gilmour published lyrics to his new album in ten different local newspapers in England. To what end? Inspire people to buy their local rags? Impressed that they had ten left.


"We’ve learned that Meta Platforms is putting the final touches on one such cluster, which will be a little bigger than 100,000 H100s, located somewhere in the U.S. The company will use the new supercomputing cluster to train the next version of its Llama model—Llama 4, for those of you who are counting—according to a person at the company who is involved in the effort. The cost of the chips alone could be more than $2 billion!"

💬  The Information (my bold)


Take a transcript of last years presentation, search and replace old numbers with new numbers, use AI to insert audio of new words into the recording. Edit presenter backdrops with footage from SF. Hit play. Great demo 🍎.


Well - hello Threads - bare with me - I’ll catch you up


🪦 May the force be with you James. A great life. Thank you.


🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)

Yes - and ..

There’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/dana-on-the.html


My bone is being tickled by a very funny writer over on Substack by name of Daniel Piper …

One excerpt from his Substack to give you a flavor:

"Last night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend. After dinner, one of the guests performed a magic trick involving some cutlery and a napkin, much to everyone’s delight. After that, another guest picked up an acoustic guitar and performed a song by the band Oasis. The host then excitedly asked if anybody else had a creative talent they would like to share. I immediately offered to write a short poem on the spot, featuring all of the guests. They were... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/10/my-bone-is.html


🔗 How’s that AI tsunami looking, a year on? (Charles Arthur)

🔗 Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next (Ted Gioia) (This one is a Readwise link that includes my highlights)

Related. Very related. Yet different
 https://socialwarming.substack.com/p/hows-that-ai-tsunami-looking-a-year https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j76y2qzw8gybezstqh8txpgy


Heaven knows I don’t always agree with @gruber .. but some of the shit you see ‘no names’ write about his positions on various things are extraordinary. #DELETE. #UNSUBSCRIBE.
 https://micro.blog/gruber


From Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview

Absolutely FASCINATING

How is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician.
Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/09/from-sean-illings.html


Auckland .. way in the distance, hazy day, iPhone 11

Rays on Rangitoto

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A Case of Insanity?

Rational Pi?

British Prejudice?

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Not been paying too much attention to iOS 18, so .. old news? But I like the idea …

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More serendipity

No surprise that a Fowles quote surfaced this morning, he is after all one of my favorites.

The surprise lay in the relevance to a conversation with friends last night.

Topic

How society and norms morph over time, by dint of individual actions.

First learning, then adapting followed b... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/more-serendipity-no.html


The Crafting of Craft. https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/the-crafting-of.html


Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post  🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens

After I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.

My reading habits are clearly being tracked.

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/a58032fc25.png https://micro.blog/gruber https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/the_ios_continental_drift_widens


Pageless Writing Apps https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/07/pageless-writing-apps.html


Via John Naughton

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It is three times the price to rent a car in the center of Auckland for the day than on Waiheke Island  - that does not compute.


Someone’s Having A Larf …

"It’s the billion-dollar baby of artificial intelligence. Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced Wednesday it had raised a whopping $1 billion from big-name venture capital firms, including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
That’s a huge amount of money for a three-month-old company with 10 staffers, no product and a “singular focus” on creating “safe” AI rather than a money-making product (at least in the short term)."

💬 The Information


Shout Outs To @dsearls@journa.host and @dave in the 🔗 latest entry from ‘Jobsworth’

BTW - while I am here 🔗JP published another great post the other day about Cricket - specifically Cricket stats and records.

He opened with:

"You have been warned. This one’s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here."

I am definitely not a hardcore cricket nut - and still read the entire thing to the end. Fascinating.
 https://micro.blog/dsearls@journa.host https://micro.blog/dave https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2024/09/03/musing-about-filters-and-brakes-a-long-post/ https://confusedofcalcutta.com/about-me/


Me:

"What about tomorrow?"

Reply:

"Would be good except that I will out of town celebrating my first wife’s, second husband’s, 70th. Should be a good bash."

.. now that’s what I call an extended family that truly embraces the concept.**


📺 Kleo

Each episode kept me coming back for more. An increasingly difficult thing to do in theses ‘streaming times’.

Kleo on 🔗 Reelgood

’All’ My TV Show Reviews

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No Words.

📼 Just Watch
 https://youtu.be/Hzgzim5m7oU


Me last July … 🔗 Read

Me last August … 🔗 Read

Why?

Because as the scuttle around that movie at the time - nothing was as it seemed.

🔗 Tim Ballard’s Claims to Fight Sex Trafficking Made Him a MAGA Star. These Women Told Police He Abused Them.
 https://john.philpin.com/2023/07/10/theres-a-movie.html https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/18/about-that-film.html https://www.wired.com/story/tim-ballard-sex-trafficking-maga-star-women-police-abuse/


People Don't Read Anymore - Except When They Do. https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/05/people-dont-read.html


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I wonder what percentage of  people who mumble about ‘systemic change’ actually stop to think what it means AND what it takes.

Pace Layers is a nice starting point to understand the magnitude of what they are embarking on.


The Journey From ‘Word’ To ‘Catalyst’ https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/03/the-journey-from.html


🔗 Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson’s arrest and bail conditions

I am hoping there is another side to this story. But so far - only a hope.
 https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/shocking-revelations-about-sarah


💬

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🔗 Anil is not wrong.
 https://anildash.com/2024/08/31/oprah-wrong-ai/


I don’t hate them .. they’re just talentless nobodies from 30 years ago with very loud mouths that I assume have run out of money and neither of them can make more on their own … that I couldn’t give a fuck about.


SAS: Red Notice, 2021 - ★★★ (contains spoilers) https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/01/sas-red-notice.html


💬 Like this one?

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Not sure about Wikipedia’s photo of the day - today - August 29/30 2024 ( never sure when days start and stop when operating in multiple time zones.)


Got off the ferry yesterday and looked for my usual scooter, and noted that the purple ones (Beam) weren’t there - only Lime available. Having lost Ola in the city earlier in the year - got me to wondering.

🔗 So I googled

It would appear at first glance that Beam have been ‘naughty’.
 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/auckland-council-orders-beam-e-scooters-be-deactivated-by-midnight-refers-matter-to-police/CWMR3IN3TNGSZOSQCETXJPK6SA/


Worth reporting since I am writing a pitch where I am using this quote.

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Meanwhile, over on HCR’s substack

"Trump began the day by posting an advertisement for the fourth “series of Trump digital trading cards,” or NFTs (which are unique digital tokens) featuring heroic images of Trump. People who buy 15 or more of them—at $99 apiece—get a physical trading card as well. Trump said that the physical card has a piece of the suit he wore at the presidential debate, and Trump promises to sign five of them, randomly. Up to 25 people who buy $25,750 worth of the cards with cryptocurrency will be invited to a gala next month at his Jupiter, Florida, golf club."

.. filed in the... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/29/meanwhile-over-on.html


I don’t THINK I shared this already … ‘Mercenary versus Missionary’ - 💬 Christopher Lockhead

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💬 Stowe Boyd - Pace Layers Applied To Work

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I wonder if Apple would ever produce something like a Remarkable .. or do they think the use case is covered by the iPad?


Chris Lockhead:

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Grabbed some eggs and toast at a local cafe .. lady approaches me and says ‘you look like David Bowie’.

Full disclosure - I don’t. In anyway. Never heard that line.

Thankyou I said - but not sure that’s a complement - smiling as much as I could.

Oh yes she said - exactly like him.

But he’s dead I said.... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/25/grabbed-some-eggs.html


Questions for the cognoscenti

If I buy my new iPhone in the EU and come home to U.S.A. .. what happens to my App Store settings.

What about going home to the UK?


Make.com anyone? Zapier alternative. Easier. Cheaper.


NetNewsWire synching has been getting slower and slower - so reinstalled Reeder.

Wow.


Docking today at The Ferry building in Auckland, I realized that were they to remove the logos and buildings for international consultants, banks and hotels .. not much would be left on the waterfront.

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🔗 ArtLung: The Pillar of Signatude at Powell’s Books, which has a layer of plexiglass over it lest someone deface it, includes two signatures of writers without whose work I would be an entirely different human being. Thank you, William Gibson and Douglas Adams (RIP) for documenting what is absurd, essenti... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/22/artlung-the-pillar.html


💬 Ted Gioia

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The All Blacks and Lord of the Rings are probably the two most at famous Kiwi exports .. meanwhile, at home …

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I received a long email from Apple telling me all about why I can’t sell books in Europe.

"You need to enter trader status in iTunes Connect for ebooks on the Apple Books Store in the European Union (EU). This is to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA)."

"Starting February 17, 2025, ebooks without trader status will be removed from the Apple Books Store in the EU until trader status is provided and verified."

All good I don’t anyway - I think it all goes back to some experimenting I was doing a few years ago …

That said - I also experimented with Kindle - BUT

Nothing from Amazon.

Are Amaz... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/21/i-received-a.html


This, apparently, constitutes news over on Politico …

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Anyone exploring Lex?


📸

Through the bushes at night.

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How long before the opposition pick this up and start calling it ‘Woke Tech’.

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It’s a Schindler Lift

My American friends might not get this.

Apparently they are a Kiwi company - so unclear if they thought about it and to be fair their foundation precedes the event - let alone the film.
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2.9 billion records for some 470 million people sounds like an opportunity for an enterprising database company. #JustSayin


"Biden’s statement also pointed out that no Republicans voted for the bill, which also includes climate legislation."

.. they just don’t get it do they⁉


Dear Hyatt Hotels

I don’t know the technical reasons for you to stop private relay .. but I’m pretty sure I know all the others .. and I do not like them.

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Series 1 is being made into a Spielberg movie. Great series because it opened my ears to a US political history that I knew nothing about.

Just finished Series 2 - and certainly knew some of the McCarthy story - though the bits I knew about were hardly touched, in turn revealing a whole backstory I knew n... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/15/series-is-being.html


🔗 Read The Whole Thing

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It can all sometimes seem to be dark, overbearing .. foreboding even, but somehow the light does get through.

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From The Rolling Stone

"Musk proved to be an unskilled interviewer and struggled to get a word in .."

One is not surprising at all and two this is what happens whenever two loud mouths speak with megaphones whilst their ears are plugged.


🔗 📼 🎵 📸 Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs

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Tall masted sailing boat checked in last night - gone as sun was rising.

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Nice change to Pika today @bjhess - thankyou
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🎵 Thanks to Bob Lefsetz, I just found out about The Last Dinner Party and .. holy crap .. talk about arriving on the scene hot .. with a stunning debut.

Rock is clearly not yet dead.


I like the family .. though sunlit continues to be an outlier .. and who else thinks that epilogue’s pages turn the wrong way?

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Somebody googled me recently and emailed me asking if I was ‘the criminal profiler’, or at least connected to him.

I am, and back in 2017, I wrote a little post connecting the two of us.

I have just added the full story of when we ‘met’ a loooong time ago -and appended it to the 2017 post.

🖇 You will find it here.

(The story started before Google.)

"In 2024 if you Google “John Philpin”, you will indeed find that there are two of us, but back then, there wasn’t a Google … I know kids .. hard to believe. There was something called ‘Alta Vista’ and Yahoo - but nascent at best."

 https://john.philpin.com/2017/03/09/john-philpin-the.html


I don’t know much about Nate Silver, read his stuff from time to time — but just heard him on Pesca’s show. He should stick to writing .. talking is not his bag.


Does anyone happen to know if the findanyfile.app searches inside mail apps?


Can you even imagine …

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They who are being parodied are apparently seeking this ‘lol’ site to ‘cease and desist’ - because really - there is nothing more important … right?

🔗 Failing What Matters Most - Your Premier EDR (Endpoint Destruction and Razing) Partner Since 2024!

 https://clownstrike.lol/


There’s a new Pat Metheny album that I was listening to at the start of yesterday.

At the end of the day watching Stéphane Grappelli and Django from their hey day.

Listening seperation - 12 hours.

Performing seperation - 90 years.


"We can’t wait to see what you will come up with …"

My gut says that phrase emerged from Apple and now everyone uses it …  Today’s Craft announcement for example.

It’s use is as ubiquitous as

"Let’s get to it"

The English language is vast - and the ‘vastnesss’ affords occasional variation.


I am boycotting Twitter .. sorry, that other name is just stupid. Wondering if I too am going to to be sued .. like Mars et al ..


Medhi Hasan ..

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Filed in the #ThingsYouShouldntDoubleDownOnBucket

"JD Vance’s Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful"


‘Riots and Protests’ - all bundled together as one .. shouldn’t we expect better from The Grauniad. They are substantially different.

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What incentive is there for a business to focus on process, quality and ‘getting it right’ if even something as big as this has zero financial impact?

"Notably, both analysts aren’t predicting a big loss from irate customers asking for compensation, in part because many likely have insurance against these risks. J.P. Morgan guessed CrowdStrike might have to put aside $500 million for potential legal action and related costs. As a bullish sign, noted Morgan Stanley, CrowdStrike doesn’t appear to have granted concessions or credits to its customers."

Sorry - as I post can’t recall where this quote co... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/05/what-incentive-is.html


A Most Wanted Man, 2014 - ★★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/08/05/a-most-wanted.html


"She is the first female vice president in U.S. history and also the first Black woman to hold the office.
If you are the first female vice president, aren’t you by definition the first black woman to hold the office?"


Trying out a second mechanism for newsletter, blog, podcast and YouTube follows. It’s not binary … more like three strikes you’re out ..

The first I introduced a few months ago … centering around introductions … “blah blah blah, I really don’t care what you are saying, and more often than not … when that opener ends with …

"ok .. let’s get too it."

Strike 1.

The new one is that somewhere in the body, there is a ramble of context setting and then a version of these 4 words

"I’m starting to believe"

Followed by something that is obvious or been in worthwhile places for a long while ..

Unfollow.


I know I know .. he’s gone .. he’s useless .. he’s too old .. and yet …

"At today’s White House announcement, a reporter noted that former president Trump “has said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything in exchange,” and asked President Biden: “What do you say to that?”
“Why didn’t he do it when he was president?” Biden answered.  "


Just in case you think that all VCs are like Thiel and Andreesen … no … no they are not - they are just the loudest voices with the quietest money.
 🔗 VCs for Kamala
 https://www.vcsforkamala.org/


"Our country should move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom."


So that’s all right then …

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We all believe Zuck about the importance of Open when it comes to LLMs - right?

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💬 Have a great day y’all

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Well 🔗 THIS goes a long way to explaining the Andreesen, Horowitz, Thiel, Musk position on Trump.
 https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/07/27/if-we-dont-do-it-china-will-trumps-crypto-embrace-tightens-as-he-speaks-at-bitcoin-event-in-nashville


Youngsters probably don’t remember Autonomy. I do.

No time to write too much about it, so look it up and then don’t believe everything you read. Like this …

"Federal prosecutors on Monday painted one-time British tech star Mike Lynch as the ruthless mastermind of an $11 billion deal that defrauded Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard."

Prompted to post this now because I just listened to 🔗🎙 Mike Lynch (Founder and CEO of Autonomy) and ‘Danny In The Valley’ talking. Mike was found innocent by the DoJ after TWELVE years and tens of millions defending himself against America’s ‘finest’.
 https://overcast.fm/+AAJDB4Tq4FI


Weird.


Death Is Not Free https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/death-is-not.html


We Are Being Forced To Conform https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/we-are-being.html


I have been with 🍎🗺 since the start and definitely felt the pain. But. BUT - thanks to Google I stuck with it.

🔗 Delighted to see this.

"Apple Maps is one of the best examples of the power of persistence I can think of. It started as a laughing stock, but now, for people in many countries, it’s arguably the best maps service."

💬 John Gruber
 https://beta.maps.apple.com


Meanwhile - over on Substack

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💬 A Reminder

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"🔗 Some have speculated that the reason Trump picked somebody arguably more odious and evil than himself for a running mate is for assassination insurance - i.e. to discourage would-be assassins from making their move so they don’t unwittingly make a bigger piece of shit president in his place."

😂😂😂
 https://open.substack.com/pub/poolish/p/the-poolish-coconut-elegy-edition


The image is a little out of focus. Sorry.

Night sky was black, the ‘little boats’ left yesterday.

A couple of lights usually bobbing on the water. Not last night.

Today you can’t even see some of the cliffs on the island, much less the Coromandel.

Somehow the Sun is forcing itself through.

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The Seine passed tests for levels of pollution a few days ago.
Then there were heavy rains.
Now the Seine is too polluted to swim in.

So the rain is polluted?
More pollutants were forced into the Paris part of the Seine because of the extra water?

What?


Why are foreign language shows dubbed with one version of English and subtitled with a different version. I mean TOTALLY DIFFERENT.


🔗 Bob on The Responder

.. reminding me that I somehow watched the first two episodes ( I think on Prime) .. and never went further, since we are in the Acorn camp - not Britbox. (Should I swap?)

📽 Not a bad show - but like Bob says;

"“The Responder” is dark. There are no characters you can identify with, root for. If you want an uplifting show, “The Responder” is not for you."

One correction to Bob’s review - it is not set in Scotland - it is in Liverpool. But yes … gritty.
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Maybe I am not following this kind of news tightly enough, but my suspicion is outside of the specific affected geographies it isn’t being written about too much. But it should be.

Let me translate. The Park Fire in California is the 7th largest in Recorded Californian History. It is 2 days old.
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Over The Space of 45 Minutes https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/28/over-the-space.html


Solving Big Questions - One At A Time https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/28/solving-big-questions.html


I just read that the Tories don’t feel that they have fallen far enough … so are doubling down on the eradication challenge listing BOJO, Cameroon (sic), PritiP, Braverman … as potential PMs to unite the party …


I didn’t see the Paris opening but I understand some people are upset - it said in here.

Nah - it wasn’t people at all - it was Tate and Butker.

"Andrew Tate wrote on X, previously called Twitter, “They do not promote anything as hard as they promote homosexuality.” Tate attached a screenshot of the controversial performance in his post."

"Harrison Butker, kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, cited Galatians 6:7 to condemn the ‘Last Supper’ act. He posted on his Instagram stories, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked.”

### Dear France - Thank you"

 https://www.timesnownews.com/world/who-is-thomas-jolly-paris-olympics-art-director-slammed-for-last-supper-act-article-112054898


💬 5 Reminders https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/reminders.html


📺 Presumed Innocent

Another in that 🖇 theme of ‘TV shows that were movies’. Just watched the last. Unusually for me, not as a binge - but week by week - and loved it.

Information on Reelgood

‘All’ My TV Shows

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🔗 📼 🎵 😂 Remembering Bill
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMjOLX_PSUM


In case you were wondering about 🖇that last post, 🖇 I just dispatched this on t Substack, which links back.

Thinking about performance.
 https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/what-is-a.html https://substack.philpin.com/p/is-average-our-new-aspiration


Find Me Falling, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/find-me-falling.html


Hidden Strike, 2023 - ★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/hidden-strike.html


What Is A High-performing System? https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/27/what-is-a.html


In New Zealand I run my phone on SparkNZ, who sent me an email that included this line;

"It looks like the device you’re using relies on 3G for some functions, so it’s important you use our device checker to confirm whether you need to replace your device to stay connected."

As far as I know, the only function 3G has on my phone is when there isn’t a 4G network - which is surely a Spark issue, not a phone issue?

Or am I missing something?

If I am not - doesn’t this seem a bit scammy? …

"OOHH OOHH - you need to upgrade your phone in case it stops working …. here’s a link to do that."


2 Guns, 2013 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/26/guns.html


🪦 Bob - I only just realized. I hadn’t seen the news - but it does explain why my YouTube feed was full of some of your classics. Thank you. I have laughed with you for years. So did my Mum and Dad. You were THAT good.


I have no idea why I hadn’t seen this already - I mean - it is 6 years old. But now I have - I am sharing.

🔗 📼 Ray Dalio - Radical Transparency and Algorithmic Decision-making
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbsVbFAczg


It just occurred to me that ‘Eno’ is ‘Neo’ is the …


anyone else suddenly being asked by LinkedIN to verify themselves with a Govt ID?


If you want any proof that facts no longer matter ….

Since April based on the rumor of one man, shares rose 73%.

Those same shares dropped 8% over night on the facts that revenue only grew 2%, profit dropped 45%, a second quarter of reduced deliveries of product, missed Wall Street Forecasts of the FOURT... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/25/if-you-want.html


🪦 A force of nature. A musician’s musician. A great ride and a phenomenal catalogue. You gave us you .. and everyone else. Farewell John and thank you.


Ganapathy Kumar has 2 Billion Views on Unsplash .. that billion … with a ‘B’.
 https://unsplash.com/blog/behind-2-billion-with-ganapathy-kumar


Kier Starmer Talks Our Language

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That’s my Alibi .. and I’m sticking to it.

Uplighting seemed ro be a speciality of the establishment.

The beer is in the room next door, love the delivery mechanism.

For your tasting pleasure.

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Noting that Google have taken it upon themselves to destroy even more of the internet.

They know no bounds do they?


Galen Leather has a new notebook … very nice looking ..

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I had nearly 100 podcasts in my queue … so purge time - again. Down to four and at the same time unfollowed a number of streams - mainly ‘tech’ ones where the host(s) are wandering off topic into subject areas that they clearly do not understand. #LifeIsToShort

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💬 🎵

I find a lot ogf Andrew Hickey’s observations quite insightful. Like this one ….

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😂😂😂😂😂

"Guilfoyle, who has not yet learned to speak, but has perfected the art of shouting, was in typically understated mode. (James Poniewozik, The New York Times’ chief TV critic, wrote that her speech had threatened to “Make America Deaf Again.”)"


Remember all the crap about back door access being needed to a phone’s OS to protect us … yup … crap.

"FBI agents used technology from Cellebrite, a company well known among law enforcement agencies for helping them access data on phones seized or recovered in criminal investigations, to quickly access a cellphone they found with Crooks’s body, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post this week."


Four Dweebs who are on record with their douchiness does not constitute ‘all’ ‘VCs’ or ‘Silicon Valley’ who are the others racing towards a love affair with ‘Trance’ ?

I think they have confused their mushrooms with ‘the ticket’.


A new bank card for me involves a ceremony that includes cutting the old card into bits and distributing the bits into various places .. today I got my new 🍎💳, the ceremony needs a tweak .. replace scissors with hacksaw?


Play Misty For Me

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I’ve read a few of these from the various pundits - but I particulalrly liked this from @gruber 🔗 It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns
 https://micro.blog/gruber https://daringfireball.net/2024/07/its_the_guns


Is it really ‘VCs’ - or a tiny SUBCLASS of VCs?

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Thiel, Andreesen, Musk .. I see all the Valley’s Nut Jobs are revealing themselves.


You Can't Buy Snow Leopard via Apple. https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/16/you-cant-buy.html


"Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met.
Be grateful."

💬 Mark Manson


Pretty Easy Task …

"Please put the newspaper back in the right order, Se that the next customer can enjoy it like you.
Thank you"

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One of these headlines is not likely to the other two .. and I do not understand why it isn’t at the top in capital letters.

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One of my great friends in the world - John from the UK, lives in Oregon with his wife and are visiting Ann’s home county … Maui and right now are at Oceans Vodka waiting for the seats to fill up to hear another great friend - Randall Rospond perform with even more friends - Tom Conway and Rand Coon.

"The World Is Small."

// @crossingthetheshold

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"“At this time, we have no reason to believe that there is any other existing threat out there,” said state police Lt. Col. George Bivens."

Doesn’t sound right to me.


🔗 Stepping Back From the Precipice - Sam Harris

Judging by how much you can read of this before the paywall - I would argue that Sam should make this free for all to read.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/samharris/p/stepping-back-from-the-precipice


📸 Auckland on the way home on Friday.

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Three quick Instas …. that I saved during the week …

🔗 😵💫 Pen Tapping - one day he might have hi own drum set.

🔗 😂 Dave Allen - teaching you how to tell the time.

🔗 🚘 A GPS for your car - circa 1971www.instagram.com/reel/C8qR…) - holy mackarel.
 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9IwsJTvWFT https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7XDmxwtbCo https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8qRnTQvp96


📸 🌊 On 🖇 yesterday’s post I remarked how all the boats had collected in one corner of the bay. In the comments a friend wrote

"The boats are huddled in the corner because the wind is meant to swing around to the east."

.. a ‘sea farers’ explanation - which I kind of had in my head - but when it is so pretty, it is hard to think that it is going to get worse.

Anyway. It did. This was taken earlier today - and that has been the high spot! Next job move the cushions inside.

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He missed? Seriously? One job. That was it.


On the flip side I have lost count of the movies and shows that I have started and  stopped this past week. Have I seen them all?


Been listening on and off for a couple of days to Preet talking to Ian Bremmer. Solid.


So wish I was going to be there.

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📸 🌊 Quite a few boats in the bay this morning, though funny to see them all huddled together in this corner, they usually spread all over.

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There are 56 in the series .. I just counted. There only going to be two more and then the unplanned series that you probably thought was never going to end .. well, it is ending.

🖇 The Photo Gallery

🖇 For posterity - because the photo gallery will get redefined soon.
 https://john.philpin.com/photos/ https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%8C%8A


📸 🌊

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It all starts at 🖇 john.philpin.com - which reposts to

🔗 Threads  and    🔗 Bluesky  and  🔗 Mastodon

Seperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.

So if i post on Masto with my ‘r... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/11/it-all-starts.html


I think Phil Schiller just beat out the lettuce that was the UK’s Prime Minister.


🔗 Margaret Sullivan on how the media normalizes Trump .. article by Aaron Rupar - just reiterating my comment over on Substack …

"We need more Margarets."

 https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/margaret-sullivan-interview-media-trump-biden-24


"Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether that agenda is good or bad."

💬 Jonah Goldberg

🔗 Source
 https://www.aei.org/op-eds/what-too-many-republicans-still-dont-understand-about-donald-trumps-agenda


Funny what you find as you walk …

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📸 🌊

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🔗🎵 Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found. I still remember sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown.
 https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html


🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermartket https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/10/nothing-absent-at.html


And kind of related to 🖇 that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.

🔗 Link with my highlights

🔗 The Original

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Heard on a show last night ….

"The myth of California right?  You are who you say you are."


Another step backwards? I was wondering why Apple Books highlights weren’t synching with Readwise .. turns out a change in the system .. and it now requires me to share the highlights I want to share with Readwise individually. Pretty sure that this is not a Readwise decision.


📸 🌊

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Somebody is clearly feeling grumpy. So I just deleted and moved on. No point In engaging.


📸 🌊

Changing it up from the usual Sunrise.

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"Microsoft has told employees in China that starting in September they can use only iPhones for work, not Android phones, as part of a new security effort."

Via The Information.


On It.

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🔗 Medhi Nails It
 https://open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/uk-elections-labour-conservative-mehdi-hasan


News from 🇬🇧

The guy who owns the key cutting business is in charge of prisons.


📺 Hijack (includes a very light ‘spoiler’ alert)

What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.

Well - at least until the final episode.

Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/08/hijack-includes-a.html


See What I Mean?

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Serious question .. can you imagine politicians (established or aspiring) doing this in America for the better good?

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🔗 Heather Cox Richardson from last Friday.

🔗Same with my highlights

🔗🎙Heather talking to Kara … long, but oh so worth it.

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💬 I would argue that the thought is far from ‘heretical’. What say you?

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📸 🌊 6:50am

Eleven Minutes Later.

Also Eleven Minutes Later … with a wider perspective.

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While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙 Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?

I mean - nobody.
 https://overcast.fm/+7Jq2nUxX8


📸🎵

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This is a perfect example of problems I have with ‘The Prof’. Am I alone?

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And a second note.


📺 The Lincoln Lawyer

One of those shows that was originally a movie .. so you don’t bother. On this one, I eventually gave in and just finished the second series, so I guess good .. right? Right.

The Lincoln Lawyer on 🔗 Reelgood

’All’ My TV Show Reviews

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📺 The Last Thing He Told Me

Not ‘unentertaining’ (is that even a word?).

I did get to the end .. which doesn’t always happen, even though ‘the why’ I got pretty much immediately.

The Last Thing He Told Me on 🔗 Reelgood

’All’ My TV Show Reviews

 https://reelgood.com/show/the-last-thing-he-told-me-2023 https://john.philpin.com/categories/myshows


… and so the work begins …

Fascinating to see some Tories want the Conservative Party to merge with Reform. Old school thinking at its best. Not to mention revealing their true colors.


Whoa .. Go Kansas!


🔗 Stonekettle Station: Raggedy Man

So let’s say you make that change. Do you have a plan?

If not, then why the change?

If so .. then what is it?

It’s a valid question, though Jim might have got to it sooner if he had a good editor.
 https://www.stonekettle.com/2024/07/raggedy-man.html


I know there are few Doctor Who fans that float around in my spaces … so sharing this for them … 🔗 Best of the Whoniverse … and if you are also a writer .. double share.
 http://williamgallagher.com/selfdistract/2024/07/04/best-of-the-whoniverse/


📸 🌊

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Dear EU .. why are you surprised by Orban?


A quiet beer - with the ‘usual’ background music .. and all good … and then Chumbawhumba .. I am convinced that my friend at the bar turned it up all the way to ‘eleven’ .. just for those opening lines from Pete …

"Truth is, I THOUGHT it mattered. I thought that MUSIC mattered. But does it bollocks."

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A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”

Just to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/05/a-lot-of.html


📸 🌊

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📸

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Being a sucker for Guy Ritchie - I loved the movie ‘The Gentlemen’ - so approached the TV show cautiously. It turned out to be rather good.

I enjoyed the Damon movie … ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ - and so rejected the idea of sitting through the series. Until I didn’t …. And it was marvelous.

I watch McCon... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/04/being-a-sucker.html


"Based on some back-of-the-envelope math, if Bezos had sold the earlier tranche of 50 million Amazon shares at Tuesday’s share price instead of February’s, he would’ve made about $10 billion instead of the $8.5 billion he pocketed.
The difference of $1.5 billion could’ve covered nearly two decades worth of losses at The Post.—Theo Wayt"

via ‘The Information’ (my bold).

It has always been clear to me that the Bezos changes at WaPo are not really about the money (as in burn, losses, run rate and costs) and all about the money (in terms of opportunity, influence and upside.)


🔗 📼 The King Must Die

Bob makes the connection 🔗 here

Elton might have written the music, performed it, made it famous - but it was Bernie who wrote ….

No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler’s act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore

And sooner or la... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/04/the-king-must.html


📸 🌊

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🔗 How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money

"For the ultra-wealthy, money is effectively not finite. It’s just a resource to be pointed at any burning thing. I know you’re looking at your banking app saying $broke and wondering, “how can this be?” and yet: it is true. The most counter intuitive thing is that, not only is the money faucet boundless for them, but in fact, most of the money coming out of the faucet is not their own. People who control large pools of money are very, very eager to let billionaires use their money."

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Bob often nails it - and I do like his style.

🔗 The Dems and Napster - An Analogy, Bob Lefsetz

🔗 Same article - with my highlights
 https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/07/01/the-napster-analogy/ https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j1qwnmkssk9xe33m69c2y8ee


🤬

.. is a new one on me - just received from a friend - but it is now part of my vocabulary.


Meanwhile, over on Redditt, I would argue that there is no need to answer question 1 .. just jump to question 2. #Effiicency

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Dear Joe .. you have absolute immunity.


The Foreigner, 2017 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/01/the-foreigner.html


📸 🌊

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The Sleepover, 2020 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/01/the-sleepover.html


💬

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🔗 💬 The Whole Thing

Don’t know about you - but it definitely resonates for this bear.

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😂 🔗 A recent discovery (for me at least) on Insta - this is one post - but the channel (is that what they call it over there?) is worth following.
 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C54Judsp5IO/?igsh=MWkybWhkaWJvZWQzdA%3D%3D


📸 I love the little boats bouncing in the bay during the day - but at night - magical.

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The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared. https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/the-monkees-predicting.html


📺 ** Kaleidoscope**

I remember a news item a few months ago about a series on one of the streaming services that plays the episodes in a random order for each viewer. Clever I thought, a non linear show played on a linear format, moved on and promptly forgot about it.

I just finished it. Really, really g... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/30/kaleidoscope-i-remember.html


📸 🌊

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Trigger Warning, 2024 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/29/trigger-warning.html


📸 🌊

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📸 🌊

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If your strategy doesn’t fit on one page, do you have a strategy?


The Bricklayer, 2023 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/28/the-bricklayer.html


sign up for a service and to get the ost out of it …

link to google calendar ✅

link to outlook calendar ✅

but when it comes to apple calendar #FAIL

Is there a trick i am missing?


My goodness - Apple really do not want you to embed an HTML signature into Mail - do they?

🔗 How to do just that - just 23 steps - but very thorough instructions.
 https://matt.coneybeare.me/how-to-make-an-html-signature-in-apple-mail-for-macos-sonoma-14/


📸 🌊 Here in New Zealand celebrating Matariki day.

This is the one that with a better camera, you would see the sun just breaking across the horizon.

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Spotted - seemed fun - and as accurate as a tongue in your cheek might allow … shared

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📸 🌊

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📺 3 Body Problem

I didn’t dislike it .. I just didn’t care about the people. I mean .. ok and all that, but I think the title is the most interesting thing.

3 Body Problem on 🔗 Reelgood

‘All’ My TV Show Reviews

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📺 The Fixer

2015 .. Season One .. doesn’t seem to be a Season Two. Probably says something. Probably would agree with that something.

The Fixer on 🔗 Reelgood

‘All’ My TV Show Reviews

 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/62fff75e6f.jpg https://reelgood.com/show/the-fixer-2015 https://john.philpin.com/categories/myshows


📺 Blackbird

Why it took me so long to watch Blackbird I have no idea. But oh so good.

Blackbird on 🔗 Reelgood

‘All’ My TV Show Reviews

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📸 🌊

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Team Human

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🔗 Why OpenAI added an NSA Chief to their board

Mr Gioia (the other one) lays out the spectrum of possibilities of why, offering his own take.

What do you think?

I have a hard time getting my head around a ‘Manhattan project for AI’. Not that it’s a bad idea .. but … have you checked out DC lately?
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📸 🌊

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🔗 😂 Classic Victor Borge (Insta)
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🎈176/366  AGE - It Catches Up On You. https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/24/age-it-catches.html


Found on a US Govt Site

Online passport renewal

If you need to renew your US passport there is a pilot program to renew it online, but you’ll need 8 weeks to process it. Mailing it in is currently faster.

Your Tax Dollars At Work - Leading The Way In Global Efficiency.


📸 🌊 🎵 ‘Woke Up This Morning’ … duh duh da duh

Maybe 🎵 ‘Morning Has Broken’

No 🎵 ‘Same As It Ever Was’

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Reflections on a reflective afternoon.

Soggy Doggy.

Long View.

Shadow.

Rocks.

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📸 🌊 Earlier today .. but not how the day turned out …

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The 355, 2022 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/the.html


Freddie Star isn’t exactly a household name - even in the UK - but back in the day 🔗 📼 😂 he could be very funny.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5_B-BV870


Daring Fireball: Apple ID to Be Renamed to Apple Account
 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/20/apple-account


🔗 📼 Larry Lessig on ‘How AI could threaten democracy .. yes .. and having listened to it - I’m not sure if that is REALLY what it is about.

If you haven’t got 20 minutes to watch the whole thing - try this - the last minute of the talk - because I think THIS is what it is about. (its a link to the last mi... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/larry-lessig-on.html


I agree. I am increasingly pissed off by the thought police. I have two unpublished posts that I need to get out through the door around this.

"I’m not interested in making my opinions “advertiser-friendly,” nor in virtue-signaling to censorious, self-righteous ideologues. It’s popular amongst the simple-minded these days to label people as bigots on the basis of colorful remarks. In so doing, the self-appointed thought police often completely miss the point the writer was trying to make. As a feral Gen Xer, I don’t have the patience to walk on eggshells around thin-skinned people. If I can’t be hon... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/i-agree-i.html


💬 Indeedy Doody …

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Is This How You Get 'Silenced'? https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/is-this-how.html


Amongst all the hoopla you don’t often read that.

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This. This right here is why Europeans can’t have nice things …

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📸 🌊 They’re back …

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