🎈153/366 🔗 Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash
Yes?
Yes!
My reply to @ridwan got a little long, so I thought I might not reply and start a new thread.
🔗 This is Ridwan’s original post
This is my reply to his comment under that post …
We are in for a Labour …
🎈151/366 And The Word is ‘OM’
🔗 Mama - Mother Earth - Om … from Ted Gioia )
Great dive into ‘M’ …
🔗📼 But mostly this a short video demonstrating how a repeating rhythm increasingly speeded up just eventually ‘hums’. Quite lovely.
🔗📼 Updating Airtable records with advanced Fillout forms - YouTube
Have you heard of Fillout? Marvelous stuff.
Just updated my 🔗 Using ‘page’ .. no longer just personal usage - now added business.
Q: We’ve been getting a lot of questions about an alleged Winston Churchill quotation and I’m trying to verify if it’s genuine. The story is that when Churchill was asked to cut funding to the arts in order to support the war effort in World War II, he responded “Then what would we be fighting for?” Have you ever seen this quote? I’ve seen a lot of sources saying that it’s fake but I would love to get your opinion.
💬 Dan Evon, Snopes.com
The quote came to mind about 80% through Ken Burns Brandeis address.
[🔗 📼 You can watch it here.](Ken Burns, H’24 Keynote Address to Brandeis University’s 2024 Graduates)
I love listening to knowledgeable 🎵 people steeped in ‘the lore’, ‘the history’ .. I can swim in it forever. An inevitable question appears somewhere in the conversation .. “did you know it was going …
History ‘scholars’ weighing in on this 🔗 LinkedIN post .. I can’t be bothered to join in.
For me - YUP … Count me with the Luddites
The point of this post is more about language changing .. over time words get co-opted and they change and come to mean something different .. oft' through more and more people not having the full understanding of the origins. Shame really. I’m all for language changing .. I just wished people wouldn’t change the meaning just because they don’t understand the nuance .. or worse that they don’t know.
At least that footy player said in front of the world that he didn’t know what ‘encyclopedic’ meant.
Maybe he ‘could care less’ (sic) … another peeve.
🔗 George Conway predicts Trump won’t be unanimously acquitted in hush money trial (🍎🗞️)
.. been thinking that myself - and when it happens how THAT will get spun into puke and bile.