๐ 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.
I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like ๐ 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 โ which has been in the White Houseโs crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice โ to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administrationโs 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 ๐ 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. โitโs not the colour of the pill, but the effectโ. โฆ A reflection on reading, writing, and what still holds up.
๐ 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!
๐ 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 ๐ Woodhenge
๐ 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."
๐ฌ Daniel Ellsberg
๐ 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 ..
๐ฌ John Gruber
I donโt 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.
๐ Reflecting | Matt Mullenweg - I know heโs 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.
๐ The Age Of Reason Has Ended
In a sentence …
A fresh newsletter that calls out our obsession with control and why clinging to old structures is exactly whatโs 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 ‘๐ต 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
๐ 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..
โI was saved by God to make America great againโ
๐ฌ Tัump
Maybe. Then again …
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
๐ฌ attributed to Sinclair Lewis - but actually unknown'
Related โฆ.๐ A poem from 2011 by Terry Ehret
A Public Policy Framework
Another doc prompted by something on LinkedIN - this one around a twenty year old doc called ‘Public Policy Framework for the New Zealand Innovation System’
I was curious as to
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how well we had done - not well.
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how well we could do - hard - but not impossible
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how much the analysis connected to my own experiences and thinking - a lot
While down here, I bang on this a lot - as do others. It never seems to take hold. For whatever reason(s).
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Stop Calling It Content
Contentย is a non differentiated, horrible, generic, cheap, replaceable kind of word.
Content is stored in silos - with grains and other commodities.
Content has minimalย value.
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The Resistance โฆ
Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month.
Michael Moore: ๐ PROTEST EVERYWHERE โ Saturday, April 19
The NYT: ๐ Whatโs Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
The Guardian: ๐ Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda. - an ENGLISH newspaper
Join In: 50501 โ 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
The US PRESS continues to ignore it [๐ Sunday’s Front Pages] - congrats Anhorage!
Good read from Jason Fried …
๐ Doing what you think, not what you thought
Extending the thought as a Haiku
Good read from Jason Fried
Plans fade, but now is clearer
Decide in the breeze.
๐๐๐๐๐ For Kiwiโs everywhere โฆ.
(Warning, this is a Facebook short - so if you click to watch, Facebook will plant cookies on your machine. If you block such cookies - the video won’t play. Or you can just let them in. If you donโt get the warning, then you clearly don’t care about the cookies - play away. (That said you should care.))
You can find the actual Facebook link ๐ here