“Read more than you write, live more than you read.”
💬 Junot Diaz
“The Republicans have accepted violence among Congress members.”
💬 Heather Cox Richardson
David Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.
💬 Wayne Hickey
The article ….
🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.
… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …
Om asking the question as he weighs in on Ben Werdmuller’s post asking whether the ‘stream’ needs to give way to a new way of organizing?
I think no - but I understand the challenge, …
💬 Wise words from a wise bloke who wrote about what he saw around him. Sadly, despite being a widely read author, what he saw around him then you can still see around you now.
💬 I have referenced this before, but the #ReadWise quote popped up today - so for posterity. The key point is that until now - we had been training AIs to be ‘the best’. Now we are training them to be ‘good enough’.
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‘Weather’ in New Zealand
Last night …
“A record amount of rain had fallen on Auckland in 24 hours - by 1am, the region had recorded 249mm of rain, smashing the previous 24-hour record of 161.8mm, back in February 1985. And monthly records have also been broken - the wettest January recorded at the Auckland Airport weather station until now was in 1986 with 20cm”
💬 The Met Office
The warnings started at 3pm - and it took Wayne Brown another 4 hours to issue a ‘shelter in place’ advisory - just before Elton John was taking the stage for his final tour …
Colossal failure of leadership in the mayors office — the nature of Brown is money first .. I wonder if he will be held to account?
This is how Jim Crow rolls on in the 21st century. Yes, it’s about the guns. But the guns are about the racism. If my fellow men weren’t so damned racist, so scared of “the other,” they wouldn’t be getting killy, fewer people would be getting killed, and de-escalation could begin.
As it is, you’re safer in Kyiv.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
… without a shared understanding of where we are in life and what words mean to us, there’s no room for constructive interactions."
💬 Manuel Moreale
No argument.