🔗 WWW
🔗 Anti-Elon Musk Poster “Don’t Buy a Swasticar” in London Goes Viral. (Hollywood Reporter on Apple News)
The photo is taken from the moment Musk, also the founder of SpaceX, made
what looked likea Nazi salute at Trump’s January inauguration rally, drawing criticisms from all over the globe. The poster dubs Tesla “The Swasticar.”
My edit because it’s important to get the facts right.
Peter Thiel - Another Loser
Peter Thiel - remember him? The guy with the bunker in the South Island of New Zealand. Yeah, he’s outta here - and good riddance. Except there are lessons that the Kiwi Govt should learn from as they prepare to attract more billionaires, still believing that trickle down economics works.
Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.
🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys
🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys
If these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.
I keep coming back to this visual .. because the other one makes me feel sick.
🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital
Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.
💬 Hunter Walk
I know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.
BUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;
- Connect the dots
- See the ocean
- Provide the context
- Understand the big picture
- Make the leaps
I worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.
Which Is Why
I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back.
🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.
Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
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An astonishing coincidence I’m sure.
💬 Braindump
First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information.
But Stiglitz suggested the only way the president’s policies would positively contribute to that goal was by running the US into the ground. “The inflation from the tariffs is going in the wrong way, and the only thing that is going in the right way for Bessent is his efforts to crater the economy,” he said.
“In supporting Trump’s economic policies, Bessent is helping to get the yield curve down by crashing the US economy – not a good policy, I would say.”
🔗 Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
🔗📸 Well. Who knew? - and ‘just’ down the road apparently.
David Frum is not wrong …
If someone wants to unlock a stolen phone – or retrieve money from an ATM – and only have five guesses, this data suggests they still have a one-in-eight chance of guessing correctly.
💬 Nathan Yau - Flowing Data
Fresh into the feed today - Doc on the difference between 🔗 Blocking Tracking and Blocking Ads
Its amazing how after all this time they are still conflated (I think mainly because it suits the advertisers dialogue- and ‘ad blockers’ rolls off the tongue better than ‘tracker blockers’)
.. sharing - and understand - not sure I could do it.
4 Instagrams
Because sometimes you need to watch things to which you can nod your head up and down - not side to side.
TIL that Buffy Sainte-Marie wrote 🎵 Universal Soldier - a song that for some reason (maybe because I only ever heard his version and it was a relatively big hit in the UK) … had always assumed Donovan wrote. 🤦♂️
I found out by reading 🔗 this - which is a sad story that I have no opinion about.
🔗Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims
Well this little bit of news totally passed me by. Surely an oversight?
The Franklin Fire was still smoldering when the Palisades Fire ignited. We were still in a hotel, not yet having found a place to rent. We are part of this disaster, yet we have been erased from its response.
💬 Posted by Jason Fried ‘for a friend’.