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.
7 series since 2011 - and only just getting round to reviewing as I just finished Series 7. In recent series, I felt that whilst some were still good, IMHO a number of episodes lacked real punch. …
Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.
This caught my eye this morning …. 🔗 NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData
FINALLY
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)
The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.
- Neo Progressive
- English Progressive
- Steven Wilson
and
- Surprises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.
The Surprise? He has an 🔗🎵Orchestral version on YouTube …
From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records
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Inspired to finally for out my Feedland space today after reading @Dave ’s 🔗 doc
Simple instructions and it ‘just worked’ - so much to the point that I am happy to link to it from my 🖇️ Blog Navigation.
The link takes you to my 🔗 news feed which is a ‘river of news’ driven by my 🔗 subscriptions - early days yet but it’s a start.
The impetus was that Dave was also talking elsewhere about adding BlueSky feeds to the list. I tried it out - and added a couple of my own. I didn’t use the handy dandy ‘sub’ short cut that Dave demonstrated.
Would be great if I could edit the title - maybe you can, but not found out how yet.
// @andysylvester - because I know you are tracking this stuff.
Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
- they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
- they block out women’s voices
- they block out foreign accents
- they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
- they need hearing aids more than me.
… I’m sure there are some other thoughts and will append and comment if they are suggested.
In a different thread @njr shared 🔗 this to which I responded …
Hats off to the Verge for not editing it out. Unlike pretty much any other media organisation in America would do. In fact is doing.
Beyond that quite a few others have suggested this was absolutely the wrong time and place to make such a protest Like on 🔗 Daring Fireball)
to which I respond;
- If not then - then when?
- If not there - then where?
Somewhere nice and quiet so nobody hears?
Yes it’s hard. Yes it wasn’t appropriate? It never is.
and, when John writes;
there’s a time and a place for everything, and Microsoft’s own 50th anniversary celebration was not the time or place for two insufferable self-involved showboats to make the event about them. Because that’s what this was. It was about them, personally. Not about Gaza or Israel.
going on to say
The place for righteous protests is in public, in the streets - exactly as they are happening across the United States today.
.. the link takes you to a Guardian article about Tariffs - why not something related?
Trust me - there are plenty of demonstrations around the US against what Israel is doing - you just need to have been on the internet in the past couple of years. (Not so much by watching the telly).
But thanks to 🔗Wikipedia the protests are being logged - even if they are being ignored and even campaigned agains t by the usual douches.
Meanwhile a couple o’ bonus links
Gaza, Columbia University, Silencing people - it’s all connected.
🔗📼 Ian Bremner in 3 minutes on the issue
Time to stop - for now. I need an editor!!!
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 24, 2025
Peter O’Toole starred in 🔗🎬The Ruling Class, a favorite when I was younger. The 🎵📼 last song in the movie is pretty freaking great.
💬 Dave Winer
I agree with Dave - ‘The Ruling Class’ was a good movie (not great - but good). ‘Favorite’? Not so sure, definitely not ‘in general- since it was pretty much panned at the time only time turning it into what we now call a ‘cult classic’. (But do watch the song - it has all the expected cheesiness of its time!)
Four years earlier was 🔗🎬 If - now THAT was a film and arguably did for McDowell what Layer Cake did for Craig.
Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing
Down to the ground, just like star clusters smashing
But no one will give her a glance
They just shuffle on home in a trance
The tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry
To make it to church, well, she needs to hurry
When late she will bow down contrite
While a meteor turns out the light
And there in an ordinary street
A car isn’t where it would normally be
The driver in tears, ‘bout his payment arrears
Still, nobody hears whеn a sun disappears
In a galaxy afar
First day of the new job and hе was so nervous
The suit and the platitude, “Can I be of service?”
His boss made him clean all the cars
While he wondered, “Is there life on Mars?”
And meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order
While we bicker on with our fences and borders
But best not think about that
It’s better to live without facts
And now in her old wedding bed
A lady will dream that her husband is dead
Of course he’s alive, he’ll be home around five
Still, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way
The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt
And oddly the first spots make Orion’s belt as
You queue at the bank for an hour
‘Cause a solar flare blew out the power
The nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub
The water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub
Is draining away as we speak
But she loses her job there next week
And there with his first telescope
A teenager stands full of hormones and hope
As he squints at the night, like a painting of light
He doesn’t suppose that a black hole implodes
In a trillion tears from now (Ah)
💬 Andy Partridge (Music - Wilson)
🔗 How Long Can the Apple TV+ Experiment Sputter On?
🔗 Apple Losing Over $1 Billion A Year On Streaming
And still they don’t get it.
In business there is a concept called channel attribution where they try to tie the expenses of email, social, web site, collateral, inside sales, field sales …. You name it .. to sales - and then leaders of those departments attempt to win more budget for their channel because that channel will give the best ROI. #Bollocks
Back in ’96 a little company started up - its intention was to be the solution to omni channel attribution. Bought by Adobe 15 years later to continue to do that. It doesn’t but that’s an altogether different story. Today, the likes of Gartner even maintain a category called multi touch attribution it’s big - and still doesn’t answer the question.
But - back to Apple. The thing that both those pieces up there are going on about is meaningless and strikes me more as ‘reverse Channel attribution’. In this model they are trying to work out what revenue contribution to the mothership each channel (streaming in this case) is responsible for and whether it is profitable. I am far from convinced Apple thinks this way. In face they barely even break out their hardware, much less something like streaming. (That said - if anyone really wants to get into the down and dirty look no further than [Horace Dediu])(https://www.asymco.com) - but I digress.
IF that was even a concern of Apple’s do you think they wouldn’t have been doing something about it? I could go on - but will resist - because @gruber said it best.
How much did Apple “lose” on electricity bills last year?