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🔗 Israel is About to Empty Gaza - Chris Hedges

I find that Hedges often stands out by speaking out - loudly - about things that nobody even talks about. It used to be real hard to have that courage. Today? We should be pinning medals on him - except he would probably refuse them.

🔗 Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple’s Siri Failure

Another link I got to thanks to Gruber. Re linking for one reason ….

The Set UP

… more than half a dozen former employees who worked in Apple’s AI and machine-learning group

… and we go on to learn that internally the group are referred to ‘AI/ML’ and then

Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally

Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.

This caught my eye this morning …. 🔗 NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData

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)

🔗 Mapped: Which Countries Produce the Most Silver?

… in case you are wondering;

• Mexico is at number one - and double the country in second place.

• The U.S.A. is at number nine - producing around a third of that same country in second place.

Number 2? JINA

Just posted this on LinkedIN …

Go back a while and I used to explain the difference in the politics of the US, where I lived and the UK, where I’m from .. in that the vast majority of the ‘left’ in the US were still to the right of the vast majority of the ‘right’ in the UK. No analysis, just how I felt as a dude on his life’s journey. Thank you for providing the explanation that supports my long held feelings.

… as a comment on a Simon Wardley post - 🔗 which you can find here

I love how he is broadening out his subject matter from his maps - but still ties them in.

🔗 Super-rich flee London: Capital suffers biggest exodus of millionaires in the world, new study shows.

‘Flee’? ‘Suffers’?

• What percentage are Russians?
• What percentage are non Doms?
• What percentage actually contributed to the economy?

With those answers we might find that this is good news.

🔗 David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic

Yes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion.

🔗 The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

I have 3 questions …

• Why aren’t I surprised?
• Why do I feel that this is totally true .. and false .. at the same time?
• Did the Onion buy Wired .. or the other way round?