🪦 Oh no Brigitte - I thought you were immortal.
Totally loved. Tears - Joy and Laughter. A keeper.
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Way back in early 2024 my IFTTT action stopped posting to DayONE. I couldn’t be bothered to fix it. Yesterday I connected john.philpin.com to my DayONE .. and the posts have started again.
Why?
Because it could. Because I can.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the “need to publish” and to constantly “put out content” have contributed to the overall devaluation of the media ecosystem, turning attention into a piñata for monetization. It’s prompted me to work ona longer piece, which I’ll keep refining for a few more days before sharing it with the readers.
💬 Om Malik
The empire of money, war, and fire
cuts across the land.
There are in the same country
shepherds watching their flocks.
💬 Wendell Berry
via @ajay … thank you.
Both.
In order for news to have a chance of working we need to be using only the web, commodity services that are completely replaceable, and we keep our own writing, and route it to everyone who’s interested via the open protocols of the web. That’s the only way people with important ideas and info can get it out there.
💬 DaveWiner
… the foundation had “fallen” because it had embraced elements of isolationism, stopped backing Ukraine in the war with Russia, supported some tariffs and backed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, among other things.
💬 Mike Pence
No .. I didn’t expect to be quoting him this morning either.
🪦 Goodbye Mick … ‘This Was’ sad news.