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🔗 Everina Maxwell (don’t ask)

She grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier.

(my bold)

Whilst I get that the author of the above is trying to be funny, I might grant more credibility with accuracy. Brighton Pier appeared (pun intentional) on the South coast 3 years before Stella Gibbons was even born and fully 33 years before Cold Comfort Farm was published.

As for running water, well - it was a farm - so highly likely.

I guess 50% true is pretty good in these modern times.

🔗 Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities

Oh - I wonder what caused that change to happen?

🔗 Elon Musk Owes You $100 • Cards Against Humanity Saves America Day 7

GO TEAM HUMANITY

🔗 Daring Fireball: Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’, a $75 Million Feature Film, Was Shot Using iPhone 15 Pro Max

🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.

Review by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber

🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.

Review by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber

🔗 Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate - Robert Reich .. yes and still not saying vote for Kamala.

🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)

Yes - and ..

There’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question, a punchline .. that allows the reader, listener .. to get ‘in and out’ efficiently. In ‘Fast Publishing’ the reader / listener is required to do that themselves .. spending time sifting through what is being said to get to the essence. Very few people can do that ‘on the fly’, you just have to look around and see the swamps of unintelligible noise that the public is now exposed to. The swamp is over flowing. True, there are some excellent people that can do that .. the very large majority can’t. That has always been the case.

The solution is that we need personal information filters that surface what we want from the swamp. Our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.

That’s what is different today … the ‘editor’ used to filter for us .. for everyone. We (suddenly?) - didn’t like that .. and now we live in our bubbles - I would argue partly because we don’t have our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.

My bone is being tickled by a very funny writer over on Substack by name of Daniel Piper …

One excerpt from his Substack to give you a flavor:

Last night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend. After dinner, one of the guests performed a magic trick involving some cutlery and a napkin, much to everyone’s delight. After that, another guest picked up an acoustic guitar and performed a song by the band Oasis. The host then excitedly asked if anybody else had a creative talent they would like to share. I immediately offered to write a short poem on the spot, featuring all of the guests. They were thrilled, and all watched with fervent anticipation as I took out my notebook and started writing. After ten minutes the poem was complete, and they asked me to read it aloud. I refused. They asked again, and I said no. As an author, my talent is the act of writing, not performance. Plus, my writing is deeply personal, it cannot simply be shared with anyone. They seemed disappointed, even after I assured them the poem was excellent. I couldn’t believe it. They had just had the privilege of watching a Serious Literary Author in the act of writing for a whole ten minutes, and now they were complaining. I thought they were being quite ungrateful.

Something I wrote into The Substack Notes about him:

I don’t always manage to read Daniel Piper each morning, but when I do, my day starts with a minimum of a hearty guffaw all the way through the ‘larf spectrum’ to that which some describe to be that of a screaming banshee, though I prefer to think of it as a chuckle. I appreciate that this might upset the author, who is by his own account a serious writer and experienced littérateur, but I actually don’t care .. because as both my friends will tell you, it is all about me. (I use the term ‘friend’ in the loose meaning of someone I talked to on ‘The Tube’ .. the London one .. I don’t talk to the bloody telly! That’s what screaming is for.)
Anyway all this to say that the tune of this particular ‘piper’ resonates. Deeply. Go try him out. Nothing to lose, everything to gain, which is a rare benefit in these trying times.

🔗 He’s On Insta

🔗 His Substack

🔗 How’s that AI tsunami looking, a year on? (Charles Arthur)

🔗 Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next (Ted Gioia) (This one is a Readwise link that includes my highlights)

Related. Very related. Yet different