👁️ I either broke the internet again or LinkedIN is down❓
Why were all these people at Auckland Town Hall last night?
Well, not to get ahead of ourselves - 🔗📼 this is what they thought at the end of it all.
Turns out they were waiting to hear ‘this guy’ perform.
He did. His name is Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
🔗 You can read all about him here.
27 years old Nottingham lad with roots back to Bahrain - and pretty much ‘the dude’ when you are talking Classical Cello - watch out ‘Yo Yo’. Seriously - BBC Young Musician at 17 and played at Harry and Meghan’s wedding at 19.
Last night? Great stuff - along with the 🔗Auckland Philharmmonia conducted by 🔗 Elena Schwarz. Interested to learn that her own first instrument was the cello - so I suspect we got something even more special.
The orchestra in full flight
Taking their bow …
Many thanks to Phil and The 🔗 BNZBA for the invite.
We loved it.
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🎥 I watched 🔗The Client again. It is over 30 years old - which explains why all the great actors in it look so young. I remember enjoying it at the time. Not so much on the second ‘outing’ - a little bit ‘thin’ IMHO. BUT - still worth ★★★
📺 Finished watching Season 2 of 🔗 Sugar last night and every bit as good as 🖇️the first series. Don’t miss it. ★★★★
🔗 Daring Fireball: Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails
The fact is, a lot of people use apps like Gmail for email that aren’t private. When you use Gmail, Google learns everything in your email. Amazon sees this as a competitive problem for them, not a privacy problem for users.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
💬 Marcellus (via Billy Wagglestick)
… and America it would seem.
🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas
The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.
Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.
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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.
That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.
The problem isn’t the advertising you see. It’s the tracking you don’t.
💬 There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
Listening to Kara talk with Steve Hilton. Yet to finish, so will come back later - but so far - ‘yeah … nah' - despite how ‘reasonable’ he sounds.
Me - back in May - 🔗 🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
He also hasn’t (so far) answered very clearly why anyone in CA should trust him.
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What’s this about? Tell you later …
💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.
👁️ Personally I’m against vertical drinking. But who am I to tell others how they should drink? Particularly those that have been sat down at a desk all day and are looking to stand vertically for a bit. What a load of swaddle. (sic)
Meanwhile - a picture of Paul Swaddle vertically drinking.
🔗 FileRouter is out – Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days)
.. and a couple of days later - yes - yes it is:
BUT
… and all power to him - but that isn’t quite what I thought he meant. What do you think.?
Why would I need to wait for SetApp to have if it is already in the App Store?
👁️ Just for Bluesky now - so don’t get excited - yet.
⏰ A few minutes later
OK, now - IF you are on Bluesk and you are reading this - now might be the time to get excited.
Of course if you aren’t seeing this on Bluesky - then you are none the wiser.
🔗 Product Design and Conway’s Law by Marketoonist
.. and there you have it.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
💬 Thomas Mann
… via John Naughton.