👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️ Further proof that measuring GDP does not accurately reflect productivity.
👁️ I think this is pretty much the only thing I came across today which is worth reading …
🔗 Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit
There’s a particular kind of person who can’t accept that story at face value, and you’ve met them. I am absolutely sure of it. They show up in every comment section and reply thread where someone powerful does something that looks, on its face, like a mistake - and their argument always runs the same way: you don’t understand, this is actually part of a larger plan, there’s a strategy here that you and I can’t see because we’re not operating at that anointed and elevated level… They’re the 4D chess crowd.
👁️ Pots and kettles spring to mind …
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.
💬 you know who …
👁️🤯 Not one - not two - not even three - but FOUR - count them - FOUR definitions of .card-photo in the CSS fighting with each other - and none of them are winning. No wonder the file is so big …😬
👁️ Cyclone ❓ .. what Cyclone❓
👁️ Pretty ‘out there' position for the UK govt to take on Kanye .. wonder when they’ll ban the rest of them❓
Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.
👁️ So glad that the US supports free speech.
🔗 The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
Tumblr is counting. Apparently.
I am pretty sure that around 0.01% of those actually originated on Tumblr.
Thanks to AI, the cost of code has definitely reduced recently. By a lot.
But people don’t buy code. They buy solutions. Code is never the solution.
When Emu rambles on about his SciFi vision for
Dying to watch a show or movie sometime with a teen girl who isn’t constantly frowning, angry and just pissed off with the world - let alone her family.
This one’s called Homeland. The kid is particularly annoying.
What a wonderful start to my week - this was the first news item I saw on this first day of a new week.
Trump carried the district by 17 points in 2024 Rehmet took 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent.
Stunning? Totally unsurprising.
older females over the age of 55, made up 72 percent of the opening-day audience. And a stunning 78 percent of all ticket buyers were 55 and older.