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🔗 Rebuilding will be a huge and costly undertaking, governor says - Honolulu Civil Beat (Apple News).

So much being written comparing this disaster to other disasters around the world U.S.A.

Finally, someone writing about what will make the recover absolutely unique, and very very difficult.

Also delaying recovery is the fact that Maui is a less populous island in a remote island state. Robert Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, likened the Maui fire to wildfires such as a 2018 blaze that destroyed much of the town of Paradise, California. He said the scale of destruction reminded him of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. But a major difference, he said, is the ability to respond. On the mainland, he said, it’s possible to quickly “muster 3,500 dump trucks” to move rubble. “I just can’t do it here,” he said.

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Somebody needs to employ me as an analyst.

Bloomberg : 🔗 WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business.

Me : 🔗 Four years ago referencing me from three years before that.

🔗 MarsEdit 5.1b1: Initial Mastodon Support … oh - very nice @danielpunkass

🔗 RSS continues to be so dea…oh…alive and well … shared from my RSS Reader..

🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker

The New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.

I’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …

The only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.

PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.

🔗 Over on LinkedIN

A post about Hopin - two years ago valued at $7.75B, core assets just sold at $15M (not typos)

Final paragraph reads;

That all being said, the person who did come out of this one looking like a true shrewd player is Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin’s founder. He cashed out nine figures worth of secondaries. He played the game like a pro.

… “he played the game like a pro” - and that right there is the problem … VC hubris and stupidity aside.

Is 🔗 Superlink.Me real?

🔗 John Naughton

“A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.”

💬 Benjamin Disraeli

““It is, except that now we have a disorganised one.”

💬 John Naughton

Bonus on the click through. Posters!

🔗 The Secret to Your Success .. Mark Manson doing what Mark Manson does.

… Damn him!

In case you all missed this story ….

🔗 Zoom’s Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out