Ben writes:

🔗 Signs you’re a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines

Collectively, the justice department argued that these convictions are proof that anti-fascists are terrorists, which should also give us pause. The precedent here is obviously very dangerous for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy in America.

And in turn cross links to ‘The Grauniad’


jwz: The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine's Resistance

“Your CIA was good at this,” Dmytro said. “You bastards knew how to use sex.”


🔗 The AI Conversation CEOs Are Not Having Out Loud.

The topic was AI. But the real conversation was leadership.

💬 Brian Solis

The myth that CEOs ‘know’ is exactly that.

The bad ones play into that myth.

The good ones build trusted teams around them.

Same can be said for Presidents.


👁️ That moment when you open a blog post and you need to look up 4 words just in the first sentence.


🔗 Leon Mika

The name I use for one of my test accounts is “Shouting Loudly.”

.. and he goes on to write that he can’t recall where it came from.

I regularly use ’Thinking Aloud’ and ’Thinking Allowed’.

.. me too.


👁️ There’s a ‘light tech’ writer out there that I used to follow but eventually stopped because the style and topics got so annoying. This morning a number of people seemed to be referencing one of his posts so I went to look. #JustAsAnnoying. It’s probably me. I know it’s me.


🔗 Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal

McGucken delves specifically into the study of the fourth dimension, drawing on Einstein’s 1922 book The Meaning of Relativity, in which the renowned scientist illustrated a “light cone” that represented “the deep, physical relationship between space, time, and the velocity of light,” McGucken says. This almost hourglass-like shape, with two cones that meet at their tips, forms the basis of Spacetime Light Cone Sculptures dx4/dt=ic.


🔗 Parliament Street in Exeter

According to a nearby plaque, the city claims this is the narrowest street in the world (though this claim has been disputed). It is, though, the narrowest street in Britain.

Another US/UK ‘differality’.

If that street was in the US it would be dubbed something to do with

blah blah blah … ‘Capital Of The World’

And nobody would bat an eyelid - let alone question it.



🖋️ A One Man Army

Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.




Crucial Track 🎵 June 24, 2026

"Dancing in the Street (2002 Remaster)" by David Bowie & Mick Jagger

Listen on Apple Music

**So great. Such fun.**

I mean sure - you could pop over to your music player and have a listen - but there's also the video for twice the fun.

🔗📼 David and Mick

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I always knew that ‘soccer’ actually had English origins BUT had never heard the story of where it came from until today. (In the link - about half way down).

🔗⚽️ Why Do Americans Call Football Soccer? Does it Matter?


I have definitely posted this link to Jason Fried’s post in the past and it keeps coming to mind as I read so much about our new ‘Trillionaire’ who went public on a vision with the smallest public float in the history of IPO’s.

🔗 PRESS RELEASE: BASECAMP VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - Signal v. Noise

But you should see the spreadsheet models we’re making up. Really breakthrough stuff,” said Mirage.

🔗📼 Related … Trevor


From Rishad🔗 here.

My Take?

1 - been saying that for years.
2 - we know this - BUT seeing it written in out in 2 short sentences made me sit up.
3 - see ‘2’.
4 - depending on your domain - that has been happening for over a decade. look at marketing if you want a use case. 5 - yes.
6 - which will be a major change in how humans operate in large corporations - so not holding my breath


💬 Last one for now. An Osman highlight.


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