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I have been with ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ since the start and definitely felt the pain. But. BUT - thanks to Google I stuck with it.

๐Ÿ”— Delighted to see this.

Apple Maps is one of the best examples of the power of persistence I can think of. It started as a laughing stock, but now, for people in many countries, itโ€™s arguably the best maps service.

๐Ÿ’ฌ John Gruber

๐Ÿ”— Some have speculated that the reason Trump picked somebody arguably more odious and evil than himself for a running mate is for assassination insurance - i.e. to discourage would-be assassins from making their move so they donโ€™t unwittingly make a bigger piece of shit president in his place.

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

๐Ÿ”— Bob on The Responder

.. reminding me that I somehow watched the first two episodes ( I think on Prime) .. and never went further, since we are in the Acorn camp - not Britbox. (Should I swap?)

๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ Not a bad show - but like Bob says;

โ€œThe Responderโ€ is dark. There are no characters you can identify with, root for. If you want an uplifting show, โ€œThe Responderโ€ is not for you.

One correction to Bob’s review - it is not set in Scotland - it is in Liverpool. But yes … gritty.

๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿ“ผ ๐ŸŽต ๐Ÿ˜‚ Remembering Bill

I have no idea why I hadn’t seen this already - I mean - it is 6 years old. But now I have - I am sharing.

๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿ“ผ Ray Dalio - Radical Transparency and Algorithmic Decision-making

I’ve read a few of these from the various pundits - but I particulalrly liked this from @gruber ๐Ÿ”— Itโ€™s the Guns, Itโ€™s the Guns, Itโ€™s the Guns

Spoiler alert - I am talking about the book by Category Pirates, not Appleโ€™s OSX.


I donโ€™t recommend many business books .. in fact I donโ€™t really recommend any, rather I recommend the authors, based โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ”— Stepping Back From the Precipice - Sam Harris

Judging by how much you can read of this before the paywall - I would argue that Sam should make this free for all to read.

Three quick Instas …. that I saved during the week …

๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ Pen Tapping - one day he might have hi own drum set.

๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿ˜‚ Dave Allen - teaching you how to tell the time.

๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿš˜ A GPS for your car - circa 1971www.instagram.com/reel/C8qR…) - holy mackarel.

It all starts at ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ john.philpin.com - which reposts to

๐Ÿ”— Threads and ๐Ÿ”— Bluesky and ๐Ÿ”— Mastodon

Seperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.

So if i post on Masto with my ‘real’ Masto - my blog’s Masto can see it and so those posts can manually find their way back to the blog …

I can also post a message on Threads and Bluesky BUT those messages would stay in their respective domains โ€ฆ until today.

I just enabled Fediverse sharing on Threads - so now if I post to my blog, like always it gets pushed to Threads - which is now visible on the Fediverse - so I can follow myself with my Threads account on Masto - and I presume vice versa.

I am writing this to get my head straight.

So far - BlueSky is only federated via Bridgy which I am not going to use because there is enough to do now in working out what goes where, why and how on my accounts - and do not get me started on the new accounts I am setting up for The Future Found - where I have already enable the Threads account for Fedi access.

I mean, you’re either ‘all in’ or why bother. Right?

A. There is a lot wrong with that last sentence!