I was having a couple o’ beers last night with a friend and of course our conversation drifted into a gamut of topics - including music - I mean with me - doesn’t it always? But also masks. Oh and the connectedness of things. And prior lives and … and … and on the way home my mind recalled something I wrote a few years ago;

🔗 When You Connect The Dots - You Don’t Always Reach The Right Conclusion

Enjoy.

🔗 Israel is About to Empty Gaza - Chris Hedges

I find that Hedges often stands out by speaking out - loudly - about things that nobody even talks about. It used to be real hard to have that courage. Today? We should be pinning medals on him - except he would probably refuse them.

🔗 Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple’s Siri Failure

Another link I got to thanks to Gruber. Re linking for one reason ….

The Set UP

… more than half a dozen former employees who worked in Apple’s AI and machine-learning group

… and we go on to learn that internally the group are referred to ‘AI/ML’ and then

Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally

🔗 Mapped: Which Countries Produce the Most Silver?

… in case you are wondering;

• Mexico is at number one - and double the country in second place.

• The U.S.A. is at number nine - producing around a third of that same country in second place.

Number 2? JINA

Just posted this on LinkedIN …

Go back a while and I used to explain the difference in the politics of the US, where I lived and the UK, where I’m from .. in that the vast majority of the ‘left’ in the US were still to the right of the vast majority of the ‘right’ in the UK. No analysis, just how I felt as a dude on his life’s journey. Thank you for providing the explanation that supports my long held feelings.

… as a comment on a Simon Wardley post - 🔗 which you can find here

I love how he is broadening out his subject matter from his maps - but still ties them in.

🔗 Super-rich flee London: Capital suffers biggest exodus of millionaires in the world, new study shows.

‘Flee’? ‘Suffers’?

• What percentage are Russians?
• What percentage are non Doms?
• What percentage actually contributed to the economy?

With those answers we might find that this is good news.

🔗 David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic

Yes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion.

🔗 The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

I have 3 questions …

• Why aren’t I surprised?
• Why do I feel that this is totally true .. and false .. at the same time?
• Did the Onion buy Wired .. or the other way round?

WaPo headline ..

Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel

It seems a miracle has occurred. It seems only yesterday that I read that

🔗 Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from ‘financial disaster’ (40%)

🔗 Millions of Americans are only $400 away from financial hardship (50%)

• Truly a miracle of financial recovery OR
• Fake News OR.
• We really do have two Americas

🔗 realbloggers.org .. via Don Marti - there are a lot of these sites gloating around in the Indie Web - not sure why we need another one - why do we keep reinventing the wheel. Can we just have one place?

🔗 Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.

… haven’t read the article - yet - saved in Readwise - I just loved the title.

Just added 🔗 thelinkblog at Micro.Blog to my 🔗 feed in Feedland … it just seemed right.

The Morons by @ChrisJWilson

🔗 Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder

Thanks for the link @chrisjwilson .. Snyder gets to the nub of the regime with fewer meaningful words than most.

🔗 China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica

I lost count of my highlights. I enabled my readwise as a public link - because there is a LOT in the piece.