“Spending less money and making more would’ve been something I would’ve worked on.”
💬 Ben Smith
… Ben is the founder of Semaphor, a new publication with a stable of great writers that I presume cost a lot of money to run. The countless newsletters that come out of Semaphor .. daily … are totally free.
Anyone else confused?
“The fallout from our cultural obsession with personal rights is that we too easily forget about personal responsibility. If I demand my rights and you demand yours, we end up butting heads again and again and again.”
💬 Yonason Goldson
“Google searches for ’VPN’ have skyrocketed in Utah this week for one reason: You can no longer visit Pornhub from a Utah IP address.”
💬 Morning Brew
What if Amazon offered used readers, in bulk, to people in states that are banning books, and in school districts that are limiting what kids can read? What if it offered special deals on banned books, and brought titles to young people some of their “betters” are forbidding for them, to encourage reading?
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
Popped up in my archives today …
”If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”
💬 Harry S Truman
At the risk of repeating something about repetition ….
“History doesn’t repeat - but it sure does rhyme.”
Not to mention
“Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.”
💬 Kahil Gibran
🔗 Just finished listening to the latest Core Intuition.
At one point in the conversation @manton and @danielpunkass were talking about community guidelines, social norms et al. Hate speech on Bluesky …
“I’ve been mithered over a novel for months. I wrote a 100,000-word one over COVID and then threw the lot away immediately afterwards because it was, in technical terms, utter shite altogether.”
💬 William Gallagher
100,000 words ‘binned’ … would we all had that kind of courage.
