🔗 Responding to Bill Bennet’s article.
The dependencies are clear - but if the EU, with 450 million people and deep talent pools, is only now waking up to the fact they can’t compete …
I think it was @jsonbecker that wrote a post about 🔗 Introducing CSS Grid Lanes | WebKit - which I am only just getting\g around to look at and wondering - anyone get this working against their photo library in Micro Blog?
In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
💬 Timothy Snyder
🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms
The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea.
🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
.. for marination purposes.
If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks.
And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on.
So … is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk?
Reminds me of an old ‘Johnism’ that has over the years appeared in many forms ..
🔗 🎶 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.