🔗 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.
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.
When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.
Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.
Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
💬 Paul Nurse
Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
Oh well. We can dream.
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?
Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.
Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓
I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like 🔗 Semaphor
South Africa is among the nations that have sought counsel from Goldman Sachs on how to improve ties with Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank advised Pretoria — which has been in the White House’s crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administration’s good graces. It also recommended Pretoria walk back a land-seizure law that angered Elon Musk, who claimed it discriminated against White farmers. Japan and Saudi Arabia have also consulted with the Wall Street giant.
Mac File-Finding Gems from 🔗 Brett Terpstrabrett.trpstra.net/link/535/…) - I particulalry liked the look of auto tagging in HoudahSpot.
About Isaac Asimov
Prompted by a William Gallagher post, A short take on Asimov, memory, and how storytelling evolves. “it’s not the colour of the pill, but the effect”. … A reflection on reading, writing, and what still holds up.
🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …
… stands to be corrected.
Here’s the thing. Communication is
the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
or even
means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.
**Might I suggest a third panel **
I am not an artist and I now there will be ways to build tiny little arrows to and from the people at the bottom - just imagine it - or take me up on the offer!
🔗 Using AI for polish - hands up for a beta test @Manton
He captions it ‘Woodhenge’ - assume it is a joke - because he surely knows that there is a real 🔗 Woodhenge
🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday
The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."
💬 Daniel Ellsberg
🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com
My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..
💬 John Gruber
I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.
Brother from another mother.
🔗 Reflecting | Matt Mullenweg - I know he’s alienated a few people - but I have always been with - and remain with him.
The first of a two parter I dropped onto LinkedIN yesterday.
In a sentence …
A fresh newsletter that calls out our obsession with control and why clinging to old structures is exactly what’s keeping us stuck.
If you like and feel inspired - all the usual LinkedIN features are at your disposal.
If you don’t. Apologies in advance.
I just added 5 albums to my ‘🎵 Neo Progressive’ (don’t you just love pretentious genres) list on AlbumWhale.
The List of Posts that start on AlbumWhale
Dear Kiwis .. a true story
🔗 Why These Hawaii Travelers Were Jailed And Deported.
Holy mackerel .. German kids on a world adventure, fly from New Zealand to the U.S.A. .. port of entry .. Honolulu … and are arrested, handcuffed, locked up and deported .. the crime seems to be that they hadn’t firm-plans on the specific places they were going to stay, whilst in the U.S.A..
“I was saved by God to make America great again”
💬 Tяump
Maybe. Then again …
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
💬 attributed to Sinclair Lewis - but actually unknown'
Related ….🔗 A poem from 2011 by Terry Ehret