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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.
It’s a repost of one of mine.
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.
I am very much liking the location / check in feature on the micro.social app. It has given me some ideas that are not so much about ‘checkins’ - but are related to ‘location’. Thank you.
There is an odd issue though @manton @gregmorris - any thoughts?
🖇️ In this post I noticed that the image used in the post is duplicated with two different file names in the media library.
The post itself uses the second image - so where has the first image come from and why?
Pretty sure this is happening because of the micro.social app - since this behaviour is also on the other post which came via micro.social using location.
The Tinted Rose 📍
Talking of excellent beverages … The Tinted Rose is just down the road from PPO. Smaller, more subtle. Beer choice not extensive - but great cocktails and an excellent wine list.
Hotel Ponsonby 📍
Stunning building known locally as The Ponsonby Post Office .. which is what it was - before its recent transition to The Ponsonby Hotel - which is called that by nobody. Through those hallowed doors can be found excellent beverages from the ‘Hops’ family.
Goodness Cafe 📍
Back when we first arrived in New Zealand The Goodness was called The Governor and became our go to place for coffee and breakfast. I think it’s now onto something like the 4th or 5th owner since then (that’s what COVID has done), but it still remains our ‘go to’. BUT .. our hearts remain with ‘The Governor’ and Steve and Bernie who owned it remain great friends of ours.
Talking of 🖇️ Herb .. this is one of his iconic ones and it got me to wondering why Haight Ashbury wasn’t called Ashbury Haight. I now know the answer - BUT - now I’m wondering what rules the signage in SF follows .. I have my suspicions, but need to check - and if they are consistent.
💯 🔗 It’s Scorched Earth Time - let’s start with over throwing 🖇️ Chuck.
This is the second post from Indexed with that headline …
Work Life Balance - AGAIN.
Long said that the whole work/life balance problem ‘solves the wrong problem really well’. For example - 🖇️ me, nearly six years ago
I conclude …
Does John Mayall feel fulfilled? Well, needless to say, I can’t speak for him - but I think he does. Is he the richest musician on the planet? Not by a long way. Is he the most well known? Not at all. But I’d wager he is one of the most fulfilled people out there. And not a work-life balance equation to be seen.
Just read this in Gaping Void
🔗 Big Tech: Proceed with Caution - Gapingvoid
Imagine a ‘connect-the-dots’ (Ed: playbook). The people in an organization are the dots. Their relationships are the lines connecting them. That complex web represents an organization. And culture, which occurs in the spaces in between, is the picture that emerges based on how those dots are connected. If you erase 10,000 dots, what happens to the picture?
🔗 Charlie Munger’s Greatest Lesson - Gapingvoid
The reason why there are thousands of quotes across the internet from Steve Jobs, Richard Feynman, Maya Angelou, Henry Ford, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ben Franklin, Eleanor Roosevelt, is because their ability as communicators is what drove their success.
🔗 Culture Got Us Into This Mess - Gapingvoid
Over the last few decades, while China created a world-class manufacturing capability, we created the Rust Belt. We bled our manufacturing capability dry.
Generation Beta?
I think describing who I am, what I want and need and everything else besides based on my age is baloney and claptrap. Hell - I’d put more money on being defined by astrology. But still this bunk persists.
It’s getting weirder.
🖇️ On my ‘TV Show Reviews’ - some are growing in number of series - so rather than repetitive postings on the same series - I am revisiting older ones as I watch and editing. I discovered I’d missed Slow Horses - just ‘fixed’ - not completely since I need to add reviews for a couple of the series - but really. Why? ALL so good.
The Butterfly Effect Is Real
Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
💯 .. we’ve sort of been down this track before .. not so much Martin’s pov .. as the larger picture .. don’t be cowed .. about anything .. by anyone. And yes it can be scary .. but if nobody reads it .. then you got it out of your system .. if everybody reads it .. you will find that you are not alone.
Originally published on ‘this’ blog in 2007 - 🖇️ The world has not changed as much as we think …
18 years later … the quotes hold and still I would argue that “The world has not changed as much as we think”.
Saw it a couple of nights ago … and gave it the worst movie ever award …
To be fair others did like it - but nobody even thought it worth a nomination .. much less a win .. in any category.
5 wins out of 6 nominations?
Seriously?
I know the world’s gone mad … but really?