Over on LinkedIN, a friend of mine shared a post by Phil Morle 🔗 on whether institutions / corporates can be founders. I wrote a long reply which caused LinkedIN to barf and reject my reply, …
Things on the internet can be forever, but you can’t assume someone else will keep them going, especially when it’s stuff like video, which costs real money to host. If you love something, try to get a local copy and store it on a hard drive you control.
💬 Matt Birchler
I agree with Matt on this one - and then go on to explain why I disagree. Trust me … it will make sense.
[🔗 Birchtree](https://birchtree.me/blog/chat got-still-hasnt-taken-all-those-jobs/)
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This is actually the first time that tropical storm watches have been issued on the West Coast of the United States," said Elizabeth Adams, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in San Diego. Typically, when a tropical storm makes its way to the southwestern U.S., it has severely dissipated, weakening to a depression or storm remnants, she said.
But not this time.
Hang onto your hats. In all senses of the expression.
It’s a start …
Vivek Ramaswamy. The millionaire entrepreneur may have “no previous political experience to his name” and “virtually zero name recognition,” but Ramaswamy does have “the number one factor in winning over the pundits and viewers.” And that, he writes, is “an unnatural dose of confidence.”
💬 Mark McKinnon
Aaah yes - exactly what we need - someone who knows nothing - but is ‘supremely’ ‘confident’ that he can ‘fix it’.
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From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.
As I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world.
🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.
💬 Nick Cave
“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!