🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
Courtesy of 🔗 Voronoi
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.
💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
SYNCH
🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia
GREAT READ
I think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch.
🔗🎙️Kafka talking to Jay Graber - an interesting listen - BUT my takeaway as a casual listener was that sites like ‘PinkSky’ are the long awaited ‘seperate instances’ to Bluesky. But no.
There is still not a Bluesky instance that is not on Bluesky.
Disingenuous - or did I mishear?
🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.
Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!
So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓
😂😂😂
Are Blogs Dead?
A short chat last week sparked a familiar question:
“Is blog even the right word anymore? Do people still use them? Isn’t the whole thing outdated?”
Yes. Yes. And no.
Wuh woh. It all started last year, but it just got a significant push with the judge granting approval for a variation on a class action in the U.S.A.
“The case involves Mobley and four other plaintiffs representing all job applicants ages 40 and older who were denied employment recommendations through Workday’s platform since Sept. 24, 2020. The court determined that the main issue – whether Workday’s AI system disproportionately affects applicants over 40 – can be addressed collectively, despite the challenges in identifying all potential members of the collective action.”
The Boss released his first album in ’73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ wasn’t quite the all American anthem they thought - including ‘Ronnie’, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the ‘people that don’t pay attention’.
Clearly not.
Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans
💬 The Guardian
The Guardian? Hell fire!
It got me to thinking how true is that?
My thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration.
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.
💬 'JP'
📺 The Big Door Prize ★★★
I started Series 1 when it first came out - and yeah no. Recently at a lose end - and it got beeter - so moved into Series 2, The star count is right.
📺 Your Friends and Neighbours (Series 1) ★★★★
Yeah. Good. Never saw Mad Men - but I like how he can be ‘smooth, suave and sophisticated’ one minute and so ‘quickly’ switch to down and out. It started slow - for me - and towards the end was waiting for the next episode.
Good life lessons thoughts to boot.
Your Friends and Neighbours on 🔗 Reelgood
About Those PE Companies
If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I never even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do. Today’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
All is revealed.
Apparently if you delete the space - so the two words run in together.
THEN
Add a space - between the two words.
That fixes it.
A… and you wonder why us ordinary people get confused with ‘tech’.
🔗 Here’s a funny thing. Now THERE’s a funny thing …
(Before you click on the link - where do you think it goes to?)
Friend of mine pinged me this morning re a typo on a web site. Basically two words running in together. likethis.
Checked the issue - yup, so sent it on to ‘flag and fix’ - but issue ‘couldn’t be replicated’.
So I looked again - still there.
Checked it on my Mac, iPad and iPhone - still there.
On my Mac with Arc, Safari, Chrome and Firefox - still there.
Looked at ‘view source’ - not a problem - there were the two words - with a lovely space twixt the two.
Must be a ‘Mac thing’ they said.
My friend who did the original flagging?
YUP. Mac.
So yes, clearly a ‘Mac thing’ - but how to fix it?
Not so clear!
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.