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You Can't Buy Snow Leopard via Apple.
Spoiler alert - I am talking about the book by Category Pirates, not Apple’s OSX.
I don’t recommend many business books .. in fact I don’t really recommend any, rather I recommend the authors, based on what I know, read and see them talking about. Christopher Lockhead is one such person and last week I recommended him again.
Email received this morning …
I tried buying Snow Leopard on Apple but only the audiobook is available.
I was more than a little surprised, but he’s not wrong. I even thought I’d sorted it ..by visiting the book on the 🔗 Category Pirates web site, see the link to ‘Apple Books’?
Yeah No. Apparently - click on that button and you are taken to Amazon.
Which is a good place to buy the hard copy - but this takes you to Kindle and sorry, no, not going to be doing that.
I wonder why no Apple Books? I was wondering whether it was the name - and its clash with an earlier OSX. But that was FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, and as mentioned above, the audio book is available.
Weird - right?
Fear not - I am on the case and if I get answers I will report back.
By the way - don’t try visiting that book page on a phone, or even the mini iPad - looks like there is something askew with the media settings for the site.
🔗 Stepping Back From the Precipice - Sam Harris
Judging by how much you can read of this before the paywall - I would argue that Sam should make this free for all to read.
Three quick Instas …. that I saved during the week …
🔗 😵💫 Pen Tapping - one day he might have hi own drum set.
🔗 😂 Dave Allen - teaching you how to tell the time.
🔗 🚘 A GPS for your car - circa 1971www.instagram.com/reel/C8qR…) - holy mackarel.
It all starts at 🖇️ john.philpin.com - which reposts to
🔗 Threads and 🔗 Bluesky and 🔗 Mastodon
Seperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.
So if i post on Masto with my ‘real’ Masto - my blog’s Masto can see it and so those posts can manually find their way back to the blog …
I can also post a message on Threads and Bluesky BUT those messages would stay in their respective domains … until today.
I just enabled Fediverse sharing on Threads - so now if I post to my blog, like always it gets pushed to Threads - which is now visible on the Fediverse - so I can follow myself with my Threads account on Masto - and I presume vice versa.
I am writing this to get my head straight.
So far - BlueSky is only federated via Bridgy which I am not going to use because there is enough to do now in working out what goes where, why and how on my accounts - and do not get me started on the new accounts I am setting up for The Future Found - where I have already enable the Threads account for Fedi access.
I mean, you’re either ‘all in’ or why bother. Right?
A. There is a lot wrong with that last sentence!
🔗 Margaret Sullivan on how the media normalizes Trump .. article by Aaron Rupar - just reiterating my comment over on Substack …
We need more Margarets.
Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether that agenda is good or bad.
💬 Jonah Goldberg
🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermarket
Twenty Two Years Ago - give or take - my friend Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found called ‘In Abstentia’. Still at the top of my memory banks sees me sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown as I listened to …
🔗🎵 Blackest Eyes - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
He dropped me the MP3s that evening - and in turn they got moved to my iPod for my listening pleasure. That weekend I was up in San Francisco and did a detour to this store.
Yes ‘that’ specific one - it had served me well thought the 90s and though Amazon was beginning to creep into my world - Tower still held a special place for me - particularly for special music.
… and the rest is history - I have heard it all (ok - not ‘all’ - the dude is prolific), but I do have over FIFTY of his albums in CD format and seen him live in different formats maybe eight times across two continents.
All this as a backdrop to this morning’s trip to the Supermarket.
.. and to say that if anyone spotted me this morning in the Supermarket - smiling, taking my head, bouncing even … this is why. (Jax believes Wilson’s music is sad and makes her sad.) Me? Yes it is sad - but I am with Wilson on this
“I don’t tend to write songs about things that make me happy. I tend to write songs about things that make me angry or melancholic or sad. Those are the things that make me want to express or exercise something through my songwriting. There’s a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia."
💬 Steven Wilson
In no particular order - other than this is the order the tracks got played .. and Yes … Apple Music - because why wouldn’t you?
🔗🎵 The Watchmaker - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Pariah (feat. Ninet Tayeb) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Permanating (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Trains - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Sectarian - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Four Chords That Made a Million - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 The Raven That Refused to Sing - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Grace for Drowning - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Index - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
Belle De Jour - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Postcard - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 PERSONAL SHOPPER - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music - featuring Elton John on ‘Shopping List’.
🔗🎵 Luminol - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Deform to Form a Star - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.
While the Dems - ably supported by the media - wring their collective hands over the suitability of Biden as a President 🔗🎙️ Olberman (15 minutes) wonders why absolutely nobody .. anywhere … is asking the same question about the other guy?
I mean - nobody.
📺 The Lincoln Lawyer
One of those shows that was originally a movie .. so you don’t bother. On this one, I eventually gave in and just finished the second series, so I guess good .. right? Right.
The Lincoln Lawyer on 🔗 Reelgood
📺 The Last Thing He Told Me
Not ‘unentertaining’ (is that even a word?).
I did get to the end .. which doesn’t always happen, even though ‘the why’ I got pretty much immediately.
The Last Thing He Told Me on 🔗 Reelgood
🔗 Stonekettle Station: Raggedy Man
So let’s say you make that change. Do you have a plan?
If not, then why the change?
If so .. then what is it?
It’s a valid question, though Jim might have got to it sooner if he had a good editor.
I know there are few Doctor Who fans that float around in my spaces … so sharing this for them … 🔗 Best of the Whoniverse … and if you are also a writer .. double share.
A lot of chatter in many places about the elections in the UK and the USA. A recurring refrain … “If the Brits can do it .. so can we.”
Just to remind my American friends that on pretty much anything that Britain does .. the US will likely do the opposite and always different .. even if they are the only ones on the world to do it … and absolutely having no regard for the consequences.
My recommendation? Keep focussed on what American voters need to do. You made your decision to break from the UK centuries ago, so who cares what we are doing?
Your choice later this year is one of two things.
- End your democracy and in turn empower the rest of the nut jobs around the world to do the same.
- Vote against that.
You the voter are in charge.
Still in doubt? I commend you to take a listen to Kara Swisher’s 🔗 🎙️ July 4th Special: Why Heather Cox Richardson Still Has Hope for American Democracy
Bob makes the connection 🔗 here
Elton might have written the music, performed it, made it famous - but it was Bernie who wrote ….
No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler’s act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore
And sooner or later
Everybody’s kingdom must end
And I’m so afraid your courtiers
Cannot be called best friends
Caesar’s had your troubles
Widows had to cry
While mercenaries in cloisters sing
And the king must die
Some men are better staying sailors
Take my word and go
But tell the ostler that his name was
The very first they chose
And if my hands are stained forever
And the altar should refuse me
Would you let me in, would you let me in, would you let me in
Should I cry sanctuary
No man’s a jester playing Shakespeare
Round your throne room floor
While the juggler’s act is danced upon
The crown that you once wore
The king is dead, the king is dead
The king is dead, the king is dead
Long live the king
Bob often nails it - and I do like his style.
🔗 How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money
For the ultra-wealthy, money is effectively not finite. It’s just a resource to be pointed at any burning thing. I know you’re looking at your banking app saying $broke and wondering, “how can this be?” and yet: it is true. The most counter intuitive thing is that, not only is the money faucet boundless for them, but in fact, most of the money coming out of the faucet is not their own. People who control large pools of money are very, very eager to let billionaires use their money.
