Has the civil war started?

Yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughin' and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around

Pretty sure that when Buck Ram wrote those lyrics - he was talking about losing someone else. Tяump ? Just a nobody. The latest in a long line of pretenders.

🔗📼 In 8 minutes, Gavin Newsom calls the people of America to action.

Your choice how much you want to be involved, but when you are picked up one day and dropped off the next in some hell hole … don’t say you weren’t warned.

💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.

SYNCH

🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia

GREAT READ

I think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch.

🔗🎙️Kafka talking to Jay Graber - an interesting listen - BUT my takeaway as a casual listener was that sites like ‘PinkSky’ are the long awaited ‘seperate instances’ to Bluesky. But no.

There is still not a Bluesky instance that is not on Bluesky.

Disingenuous - or did I mishear?

🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.

Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!

So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓

😂😂😂

Wuh woh. It all started last year, but it just got a significant push with the judge granting approval for a variation on a class action in the U.S.A.

“The case involves Mobley and four other plaintiffs representing all job applicants ages 40 and older who were denied employment recommendations through Workday’s platform since Sept. 24, 2020. The court determined that the main issue – whether Workday’s AI system disproportionately affects applicants over 40 – can be addressed collectively, despite the challenges in identifying all potential members of the collective action.”

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