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Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Fonts are not just a 2025/6 thing
It all started as a fun and different challenge.
🔗🔎We got there - although some days were pretty difficult - but only 🖇️ one turned out to be a real stretch.
🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.
… or maybe not - adding this comment 16 minutes later in my editor - though not seeing it on my blog.
🖇️ Yesterday’s was the hardest to date. Looks like today’s is the easiest - at least so far.
Remember when we so concerned that all our ‘house data’ from Roomba was being sent over to Google - without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’.
… and then onto 2022 when Amazon got involved …
Fast Forward to 2025 - and …
🔗 Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears
Turns out all your data is now all wrapped up and safe and over in China.
The Amazon acquisition wasn’t anti-competitive — it was iRobot’s last chance to remain competitive.
💬 [Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/roomba-maker-irobot-declares-bankruptcy)
Good. Clean. Fast. Not yet in my navigation - already have @sod search there. Unclear why one and not the other.
I do like the clean look of PageFind. Maybe add PageFind to the Nav - with Search as a choice from that page. #Thinking
Whenever I see a good ‘why RSS’ post - I will share.
Which is why I am sharing the latest - from @benwerd 🔗 Why RSS matters
🖇️ If you want to follow most of my world with RSS - you can.
About This Blog
What is this blog about? Apparently it serves as a reflective exploration of complexity in various systems, highlighting the disconnect between theoretical frameworks and real-world behavior, while aiming to promote thoughtful navigation through that complexity. Who knew? Click through to read the why, the method and the overview.
Well - thats been a job I have not been doing for. long time - but once again - thank you @Munish for reminding me that other people do on occasions look at 🖇️ my actual site. Styling moved along, search back in place and the start of my documents directory re-enabled. Onward.
I know how he feels. 🖇️🎬 My Review 😂
David Merfield at Blot Rocks
.. there I said it. So happy with my new 🔗 Blot powered Obsidian Wiki - now in the menu of my 🖇️ Public Journal
What David Merfield built is very impressive and the Obsidian integration is stunning.
My wiki is based on the Forty template with extended CSS and functionality like 🔗 this page all built in collaboration with Claude.
Looking to now add an image gallery
Have I taken away a programmers job? No - without Claude I just wouldn’t have done it.
Next job moving a raft of material out of various archives and folders into the Obsidian vault.
This was publisehd in 2017 - and I am sure I saw something this pst week that announced essentially the same things as ‘news’. Ofc ourse I cant find it - but when I do - will come back here and add it.
🖇️ Reuters Reporting Ten Year Old News As Something New. // 💬 John Philpin
Haven’t done one of these in a while - but have to say i started it - and it just flowed out - so publish and be dammed is what I say.
… in a situation like that there’s only one thing you can do and that’s walk into The shrink [BAD Business] wherever you are, just walk in say “[BAD business], You can get anything you want, at Alice’s restaurant. You “support election deniers, I’m out”.
And walk out. You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and They won’t take him pay attention.
And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, They may think they’re both ???? nuts and they won’t take pay attention to either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in Singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business you support election deniers, I’m out” and walking out. They may think it’s an Organisation.
And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said Fifty people a day walking in singin' a bar of Alice’s Restaurant sayin’ “BAD Business - you support election deniers, I’m out” and Walking out.
And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.
🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia
GREAT READ
I think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch.
