This is not a list designed to be ALL great movies - just those great movies that you might have missed as you journey through life.

• Pig
• Big Fish
• Glengarry Glen Ross

At the White House, Ornato, who as deputy chief of staff had oversight over Secret Service decisions, told Pence’s national security adviser, Keith Kellogg, that the vice-president was going to be moved to the Maryland military facility Joint Base Andrews. Had he been evacuated, Pence would no longer have been able to certify Biden’s electoral victory, and Trump’s goal of postponing his defeat would have been fulfilled.

When Ornato said that the Secret Service would move Pence, Kellogg was adamant, Rucker and Leonnig reported. “You can’t do that, Tony,” Kellogg said. “Leave him where he’s at. He’s got a job to do. I know you guys too well. You’ll fly him to Alaska if you have a chance. Don’t do it.”

Books, Siddhartha Mukherjee says, just tumble out of him, like fluffy towels and clean socks cascade out of a dryer at the end of the cycle. And it’s a good thing, because it’s not as if the man has a lot of idle time to spare.

Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, an oncologist and a researcher of cancer treatments, is one of those people who appears to have found a glitch to exploit in the space-time continuum. He sees patients, runs a blood cancers research lab, co-parents two children, writes deeply researched features for The New Yorker, helps run four separate biotechnology and health care companies he co-founded, acts as adviser to a half-dozen more, and throws elaborate dinner parties with his wife, the sculptor Sarah Sze, that are a Manhattan byword.

Oh, and even as he was completing medical school at Harvard University, he trained as an Indian classical music vocalist. Although he reluctantly relinquished dreams of a parallel career as a singer, he continues to perform with a jazz fusion band.

And yet he insists that it is not difficult to make space to write books, exhaustive though they might be: His latest, “The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human,” thuds in at 480 pages. It will be published Oct. 25.

Read more at NYT : Siddhartha Mukherjee Weaves History and Biology to Tell the Story of Us.

… or not. Yeah - definitely not.

Thiel-backed conservative video platform Rumble is up 37% after going public via SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation, raising $400M.

.. and you all thought SPACs were dead!

Definitely an interesting mix of ‘purveyors’ on the platform, noting that Russell Brand had decided that he needs to not only join the likes of QANON, Alex Jones, Greenwald, Lindell and Truth Social - but be there exclusively!

Side note

“Thiel co-led an investment in the company last year along with VC firm Narya Capital. Narya, based in Cincinnati and named for a ring in the Lord of the Rings books, is also backed by Thiel and led by his one-time business associates Colin Greenspon and Ohio Republican Senate candidate JD Vance.”

Given that I have been reading about the ‘impending’ arrest of Gaetz for human trafficking since March 2021, I don’t expect a move against the people involved in the Abbott and DeSantis shenanigans any time soon … if ever.

If the US continues to not react, isn’t it condoning trafficking and/or admitting that its laws are toothless?

Were I a trafficker in US custody, I would definitely use this inaction as part of my defense.

If the UK behaved this way - I would use it in my defence.

‘#NotALawyer

“There ought to be a law. If I can subscribe without talking to someone, I should be able to cancel that way too. I was interested in subscribing to the NYT crossword, for $20 a year, but their policy for cancelling required me to converse with someone at the NYT. I know why, they want to try to convince me to stay. My time is worth something, though they don’t think so.”

and

“You can fake caring, but you can’t fake showing up.”

Long Time Castro user - but it was time to explore the alternatives again. (Same exercise as the RSS reader project a few weeks ago). So of course my first stop was back to Apple Podcasts .. because I keep thinking that of all companies Apple should be able to deliver the best experience …. right?

The app managed to annoy me in less than a couple of days. But it did trigger me to look at synching … enter Overcast - my new friend.

Moved over about three weeks ago. Been getting used to it, and so wasn’t ready to say bye-bye to Castro … until today.

I don’t think Overcast is any better or worse than Castro when it comes to managing the play lists - different for sure. But oh boy - synching.

I like the sound from my iPad better than my phone, so is great to listen to at home - but the iPad doesn’t travel around with me when I am walking.

Overcast synching is just GREAT.

I stop listening on my iPad, grab my phone - head out - and it just works¹ … picking up where I was in the podcast and continuing on the new device.

Ooohhh …

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“As one lawyer recounted to the Post, Trump’s legal team once urged the then president “against tweeting about the Mueller probe, only to find he’d tweeted about it before they got to the end of the West Wing driveway.” Others said he was “nearly impossible to represent and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid.”

Zuckerberg’s New No. 2 Faces an Old Dilemma: Distrust of Facebook

Seriously? That’s the problem?

The new ‘number 2’ is Nick Clegg

Wikipedia

During the party’s time in coalition, the Liberal Democrats saw a significant drop in support and the 2015 general election left the party with just 8 seats, which resulted in Clegg’s ousting as Deputy Prime Minister and his resignation as party leader. In 2016, following a referendum in which a majority supported leaving the European Union, Clegg returned to the Liberal Democrat frontbench, concurrently serving as Spokesperson for Exiting the European Union and for International Trade from July 2016 to June 2017. In the 2017 general election, Clegg was defeated in his constituency of Sheffield Hallam by Jared O’Mara. After losing his seat, Clegg moved to the United States after he was appointed by Mark Zuckerberg as Vice-President for Global Affairs and Communications of Facebook, Inc.

‘#Winning

The promo on some podcast this morning (my bold)

While Tim Cook (Mr. Excitement) has been the CEO of Apple for over 10 years, he’s now getting closer to mid-60s and is probably looking past where he’ll be running things. His legacy is pretty firmly set and there’s not much more at this point he could do, so who will be next in line to run Apple? We’ll look at some of the likely candidates in the second section.

So somebody else could do something that Cook can’t?

Speechless - though not surprised.

• Branson
• Murdoch
• QE2
• McCartney
• Jagger
• Buffett
• De Niro
• Scorcese

… oh why go on?

They should all just stop - right now - because they are all clearly way past the age that ^^^this^^^ dude believes to be the point where you should just put yourself out to pasture.