Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has vowed to retaliate against U.S. allies that censor free speech, has sought to expel foreign students for expressing views he dislikes about the war in Gaza.
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Another way the media could improve reportage.
Help connect the story that you can take out large parts of a nation’s Air Force with ‘a few two hundred dollar drones’ against ‘our nation needs to invests 4 billion in drone warfare’.
I know it’s how it works. But still galling to tune in to listen to Rory and Alastair talk about global politics and the show opens with them pitching an electric company. I get the advertising, just don’t think it needs to always be the hosts doing the voice over.
🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.
Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!
So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓
😂😂😂
A group of people in a room - and they all take it in turn to bring the audience up to speed on the ‘challenge’ - one sentence at a time - in strict rotation.
Is there really no better way? This goes back to the early days of CSI et al and now it’s everywhere.
Time to move on?
The straight-line, box-ticking path to the finish line belongs to the Age of Reason. And good riddance. An age when most of humanity tried to shape the universe in their own image, then crushed its complexity into two-dimensional metaphors.
The Age of Experience doesn’t flatten, it folds. The grids morph into swarms of tesseracts, truly seen only in equations, never in full. Creativity spirals into infinite fractals. Community pulses - unpredictable, electric, impossible to ignore. Collaboration completes the pattern break - thriving in asymmetry.
And somewhere in that beautiful mess, we finally admit: the world never - ever - fit into three dimensions, let alone two.
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💬 I sometimes use a personal guide to ‘people’ based on MSOffice (a clue to how seriously I take this). Everyone is part Powerpoint, part Excel and part Word.
- PPT is the ‘creative’
- XLS is the ‘logician’
- DOC blends the two
Percentages will vary. Came to mind when I saw this recent Gaping Void.
I would pay extra for cable service to have none of my money go to Fox News.
💬 Dave Winer
Me too.
Oh wait - I don’t have a cable service.