I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._

🔗📼🎵Really. Watch it.

Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post

Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.

Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.

Thank you @hawaiiboy who wrote;

Really like this Car-Free Community. Not Arizona, but the idea.

🔗 Resharing by @hawaiiboy

The host has a nice style. The video is great and some marvellous zingers from interviewees, like

‘when I came back from Tokyo I realised that the way we live in America is just stupid.

🔗 📼 Well worth a watch.

I guess I’m reflecting on history a little this weekend.

🔗📼🎵 Ohio

🔗📼 Hamish on The Future of Media @ Ted

I remain a fan of what they are trying to do. There. I said it.

Talking to an old friend tonight. I said something. He replied …

“Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite”

.. which curiously enough made sense in the flow of the conversation .. but I still had to ask. The full quote …

Poolside laughter has a cynical bite
Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite

It comes from the song ‘🔗📼 Lay Your Hands On Me, version of the song that my friend said that was the version I needed to watch.

Just did and too good not to share. So …

Cans on - Volume up - listen in for 8 minutes - and come out shaking.

🔗📼 Roger

🔗📼 Good Watch

People who treat AI like a teammate, coach it and give it feedback and importantly, get it to ask them questions. The fundamental orientation a lot of people take towards AI is I’m the question asker. AI is the answer giver. But if you think about AI like a teammate, you say, hey, what are ten questions I should ask about this? Or what do you need to know from me in order to get the best response?

What Brad said - but until you have heard this cover - you haven’t heard Creep 🤯🎵 by @bradbarrish

I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.

Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.

This caught my eye this morning …. 🔗 NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData

Reminded me of 2 YouTubes by Map Men’s Jay Foreman

🔗📼 The Tube Map nearly looked very different

🔗📼 What went wrong with the Tube Map?

Around 7:45 in video 2 is where Jay highlights the fiasco that is (now moving to was) the New York map …

with the notable exception of the New York subway that insists on being as baffling and ugly as possible.

Do watch HIGHLY recommend - and definitely not a map nerd. (particularly)