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Cynthia Knight composed this in 1983 - a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.
That second part bears repeating …. a poem typed entirely on the upper row of a typewriter.
Now click through and read it. Marvellous stuff.
Very clever - IMHO
🔗 Blenheim Palace Launches New Tour Exploring Servant Scandals, Secrets, and Supernatural Tales
If you’ve ever wandered through a grand British stately home and wondered about the lives of those who actually kept the place running, Blenheim Palace has a new tour designed specifically for you
🔗😂 xkcd: Superstition - so good.
🔗 Is Trump Going to Start a World War? Or, the Price Americans Will Pay For One
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It’s one thing to say: America can’t be depended on anymore to be a friend and ally. It’s another to say: America can’t be trusted not to invade, conquer, or control you. These are different levels of breakdown in relationships. The first is a lack of trust. But the second is a breach and betrayal.
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Even with all its guns and bombs, can America conquer the entire world? Of course not. In the end, the world will win this foolish game, and America must lose. That is where this road begins. Where it ends is with the world demanding that America, in the end, make good for the harm it is doing now, and will continue to do. And the world has the power to enforce that, too, because of course, it owns America’s debt. In this way, too, impoverishment beckons for Americans.
🖇️ I have remarked on this before.
Here are less obvious ones. The EU retaliates not militarily, but financially. It goes nuclear, and dumps its US assets, from stocks to bonds. Bang. There go America’s 401Ks. China joins it, and things go from bad to worse. And of course, because they don’t want to be left holding assets worth pennies on the dollar, Japan and the Arab states race in, too. The stakes now are stark and severe. I don’t think that Americans, at least many of them, fully grasp where they are.
Small developers (especially generalists) have a new competitive advantage
Not just developers methinks ….
Said it before - saying it again
🔗 Futility Closet isn’t always futile
Émile Zola described a work of art as “a corner of nature seen through a temperament.”
Not my first link to 🔗🔎 Umair - and probably not my last - and I really don’t do it all the time.
Finished reading: 📚🔗 A Cold Wind From Moscow by Rory Clements - and yeah - not really - just way too slow for my taste.
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Finished reading: 📚🔗 The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman - and every bit as good - better(?) as the first four.
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Its Decision Time
Navigating the natural conflict between disruption and patience is essential. Responding to each at the right time is one of life’s greatest challenges.
🔗 David Sacks sees 2 cities replacing NYC and SF as finance and tech capitalswww.businessinsider.com/david-sac…)
In case you are wondering .. Miami and Austin … right!
🔗 Tesla Car Sales Dropped 9% in 2025, Falling Behind China’s BYD - The New York Times
Tesla’s decreasing sales suggest that a wider slump is in store for electric vehicles
No it doesn’t.
- All markets outside the U.S.A. grew … significantly depending on region … 20 to 30 percent
- The U.S.A. market shrank by 1% and Tesla was 45% of that
- BYD outside U.S.A. grew 28%, Tesla declined by 9%
- BYD OUTSOLD Tesla in every market except U.S.A.
- BYD INSIDE THE U.S.A. close to zero .. that’s what 100% tariffs will do to a business
This from a non journalist using Google for 20 minutes .. SHOULDN’T NYT READERS DESERVE … EXPECT … BETTER?
🔗 Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras - Schneier on Security
All good I am told - nothing to worry about. Move along now.
No, he shouldn’t have done it. No he shouldn’t have invaded, deposed the government, and seized the resources. No he should not have flaunted international law and the sovereignty of nations. But that’s what great powers do – and the greatest tragedy is that this latest act legitimizes such acts by other great powers, from the invasion of Ukraine to the (eventual) taking of Taiwan into China. It reminds us that colonialism hasn’t ended, and that the international order is allowed to exist only if it doesn’t interfere with the desires of the wealthy and powerful
🔗 Derek Peden - Posts need to be more specific
I do the same thing. Sometimes I am so cryptic that when I revisit an old entry - I have no idea what was about. So yes - I understand.
That said - not sure I am going to change that much. Rightly or wrongly.
On Bluesky: I can’t tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
This is one reason I use 🔗 Micro.Blog for 🖇️John.Philpin.com
Straight from the presidential playbook : When in trouble, distract the voters away from your own performance by an act of war. This time it’s the people of Venezuela who are paying the price.
🔗 Scripting News: I’m never too old to make a young developer’s mistake.
Do it myself … and I’m not a developer.