🔗 ‘We Will Not Bend the Knee.’ Watch Mehdi’s Powerful Award Acceptance Speech

I did, excellent - like so much of his stuff.

// @Denny

To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down here, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).

[]🔗 My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa](https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good)

Written in response to a piece suggesting that Luxon’s not doing a good job. Why? My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he ever did a good job.

Just listened to Gilbert’s 2024 release - he’s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original 🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural musical habitat.)

Just for kicks I signed up for a month of 🥐 🔗 ..

A buttery smooth app for cross posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads.

Big benefit for me is that I can add multiple accounts for the same service - useful as we start to push out The Future Found

AND

When I send I can choose which accounts it sends to.

Next job (request?) - as I publish to MicroBlog or LinkedIn or Facebook or …. have that post appear in Croissant ready for me to decide where I want to cross post. #Maybe.

🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’

Not even sure it is the same game.

You might not recognize the words - 🔗🎵 but you will certainly recognize the song. Superb re-imagination.

How did i get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don’t come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life’s supposed to be?
Human animals
We roam the earth in search of blood
Hope for humanity?
I don’t think there ever was
We’re in perpetual war, and that’s the only law
Can I change it? I doubt it
So I write songs about it
I was young once but now I’ve grown old
Right in front of your еyes you’ve seen my life unfold
I had no choicе as I became the underdog’s voice
A young black kid… look what the fuck I did!
When I’m gone there’ll be someone to carry on
We can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
How accepting of the bullshit we’ve all become
This whole world is… comfortably numb
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?

You’ve got a TV, a computer, so you don’t care
A roof, some clothes, some food
That’s right, it’s all there
Lock yourself in your house, try to forget about
The millions dyin' from wars, starvation and drought
You’ve got your own problems - yes, we all do
Nobody is free from stress, not him, or me, or you
But still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
In the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
I don’t want no drama but I carry a gun
I don’t want no problems but they’ll probably come
So we get high to wash away the pain
Self-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
We think that we can hide away from the misery
You can close your eyes but still can plainly see
There’s nowhere to run…
You’re just comfortably numb

Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?

I spent half my life just trying to survive
And the other half trying to keep you all alive
For some reason I still care
I’ve done my dirt
It’s amazing that i’m still here
There’s true evil out there, I’ve been trying to warn you
You could meet the devil himself, then what you gonna do?
No time to pray, no chance to run
Listen… ‘cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as one
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles
The though of humans coexisting, that’s impossible
Better to stay numb, live in denial
We’re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
Too much religious beef, too much racist shit
And if there is a God we probably make him sick

Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?

🔗 Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads . Because of course they are.

Even Android users can’t have nice things.

🔗 Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite