🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The whole album - but for me ….
Steven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!
.. would love to hear that.
🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100
… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list.
🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle
💬 WaPo
Bottoming out the story …
‘Poorer people pay taxes so that governments can subsidise richer people to build things that they then price outside what poorer people can afford.”
A Better Headline?
Subsidies for rich people’s infrastructure, paid by poor people’s taxes.
🔗 The thing about chess | Seth
… maybe there should be. I mean if they can muck around with Cricket - why not Chess?
the tools are only as good as the questions we ask them.
I like the line - but I particulalrly like the page he links to.
‘Web’ means something. It’s about creating networks between writers. When it’s allowed to work remarkable things can be accomplished. Most people who think they’re using the web have never used it. The original web is still very much here, ready for us to start building on it again.
And …
“Most people who have never heard of RSS use it every day.”
🔗 In praise of Drafts // @ameripie
… an app by Agile Tortoise (AKA Greg Pierce), remarkably won App of the Year for 2025 at Mac Stories, a full thirteen years after its release.
💯
Apps @ameripie uses with drafts - with my annotations
PLUS
As I have written before - 99% of my written words (outside of email) start in Drafts.
For your reading pleasure.
Paul Krugman on 🔗 MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media - and inside he links to 🔗 The Authoritarian Stack
The appointment is reminiscent of Meta Platforms’ hiring of former British Prime Minister Nick Clegg as a global affairs executive in 2018 …
💬 Martin Peers - The Information - talking about Osborne and OpenAI
No he wasn’t. He was ‘Deputy’ PM - a bit like ‘Winnie’ and ‘Seymour’ in New Zealand at the moment (a thank you from the dominant party that still couldn’t get a majority on its own - so formed a coalition.)
Nick was so good at his job that in 5 short years as Deputy he took the LibDems from 57 seats to just 8. After which he lost his position, resigned from party leader and a year later lost his local election. After that the Brits made him a ‘Knight’ in the UK and Zuck made him whatever it was called for Meta.
Imagine how far he could have gone if he was a success.