⭐️ Videos
📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..
… via Colbert
I read this over on Gaping Void and thought wait - there’s a much older - more famous story - so I found it for you - so you didn’t have to.
The logo in my email signature in ðð§ just stopped rendering earlier this week. Took until today to work out what was wrong - noting that I hadnât changed anything.
As of this morning ⦠fixed - though no idea why it stopped working to begin with.
ðð¼ð I know exactly how Kevin feels. www.youtube.com/watch
The logo in my email signature in 🍎📧 just stopped rendering earlier this week. Took until today to work out what was wrong - noting that I hadn’t changed anything.
As of this morning … fixed - though no idea why it stopped working to begin with.
🔗📼😂 I know exactly how Kevin feels.
Chlöe Swarbrick (New Zealand Green Party) .. waxing lyrical with ‘Gary’ - his first politician on the ‘cast - and he explains why - 🔗📼 a good listen.
.. .Govan in case you need to know before watching a master in action.
In no particular order - just rediscovering links and sharing. Enjoy. All my children are equal.
🔗 📼 🎵This Record Label Is Trying To SILENCE Me
🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in.
🔗 AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do?
🔗 You Should Probably Leave Substack | How to Leave Substack.
🔗 Daring Fireball: The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 We Are Winning! - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker
🔗 Arturo Dominguez on Substack: Here’s a clip they won’t show you on legacy media.
🔗 🎵 Have I shared this before? I have? I don’t care.
Guthrie doing his thing. In five minutes unpacks why he must be one of the greats.
I Am A Patriot
My friend reflects on the enduring impact of the song by Little Steven, expressing a longing for integrity and compassion amid current political turmoil in America.
Has the civil war started?
Yes, I’m the great pretender
Just laughin' and gay like a clown
I seem to be what I’m not, you see
I’m wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you’re still around
Pretty sure that when Buck Ram wrote those lyrics - he was talking about losing someone else. Tяump ? Just a nobody. The latest in a long line of pretenders.
🔗📼 In 8 minutes, Gavin Newsom calls the people of America to action.
Your choice how much you want to be involved, but when you are picked up one day and dropped off the next in some hell hole … don’t say you weren’t warned.
I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 40 years later. (LATER: Reading more - I realised that the music is from a 2007 album._
Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post
Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children.
Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.
Thank you @hawaiiboy who wrote;
Really like this Car-Free Community. Not Arizona, but the idea.
The host has a nice style. The video is great and some marvellous zingers from interviewees, like
‘when I came back from Tokyo I realised that the way we live in America is just stupid.
🔗📼 Hamish on The Future of Media @ Ted
I remain a fan of what they are trying to do. There. I said it.
Talking to an old friend tonight. I said something. He replied …
“Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite”
.. which curiously enough made sense in the flow of the conversation .. but I still had to ask. The full quote …
Poolside laughter has a cynical bite
Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite
It comes from the song ‘🔗📼 Lay Your Hands On Me, version of the song that my friend said that was the version I needed to watch.
Just did and too good not to share. So …
Cans on - Volume up - listen in for 8 minutes - and come out shaking.
People who treat AI like a teammate, coach it and give it feedback and importantly, get it to ask them questions. The fundamental orientation a lot of people take towards AI is I’m the question asker. AI is the answer giver. But if you think about AI like a teammate, you say, hey, what are ten questions I should ask about this? Or what do you need to know from me in order to get the best response?
What Brad said - but until you have heard this cover - you haven’t heard Creep 🤯🎵 by @bradbarrish
I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.