💬 Peggy Noonan 🎵
One for @ron
With Twitter’s new voice tweet feature, I’d like a simple way to post a voice message to RSS … I have lots of working code for dealing with feeds …. let’s make podcasts super easy for the people.
💬 Dave Winer
Thinking about what @manton has done on Micro.blog
”Keep this story in mind the next time the FBI and DOJ start barking about their being trustworthy with the secret keys to encryption backdoors they want built."
💬 John Gruber
“5-Track warbles sweeter than lost’n’lonely Neil Young during ON THE BEACH, almost as self-satirizing as the very Reverend Roky Erickson and … appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States’ next phase.”
💬 Julian Cope 🎵
”I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing.”
🎵 💬 MSP
💬 Juan Cole
… just as we in turn are all dreaming of a regime change.
This country was built on unconscious racism. We have to consciously decide to take it into another direction.
💬 David Frier
(🔗 Source)
I don’t often disagree with Frier, but;
… the country was built on unconscious racism …
Really? Unconscious?
Being blind and ignoring it is not unconscious.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken
“In 1965, Robert Novak wrote a book called ‘The Agony of the GOP, 1964’ - about Goldwater’s takeover of the Republican Party. That resulted in an immediate electoral disaster, but without long-term damage to the Republicans. 2016 may have been the reverse.”
💬 Arnold Kling