🔗 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.
🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is so good today and so true …
The 51st state thing has been around for a long time. It’s just the focus on Canada that’s different …
🔗 51st State (Plus) by Peter Preston | Goodreads
[🔗 51st State (song) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_State_(song)
.. oh and the fact we have a total nut job running the country who just might decide to invade .. Wag The Dog anyone?
📸 Shorpy has a US bias, so lovely to see this 125 year old photo from New Zealand’s South Island this morning.
Need to look into WOODKID more. A lot more.
I know we know he’s a government sponsored sponger … but it’s important to remind ourselves how much of one he is from time to time. No?
🔗 $38b of government money that funded Musk companies - FlowingData
The Butterfly Effect Is Real
Manton writing today : 🔗 about something that @devilgate wrote : 🔗 Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
💯 .. we’ve sort of been down this track before .. not so much Martin’s pov .. as the larger picture .. don’t be cowed .. about anything .. by anyone. And yes it can be scary .. but if nobody reads it .. then you got it out of your system .. if everybody reads it .. you will find that you are not alone.
A double from Nathan
🔗 Imported parts on a Chevrolet Silverado
🔗 Ambiguity in what counts as American-made vehicles – FlowingData
For example …
I had never heard of 🔗 Zora Neale Hurston .. until today .. so glad I have. Via The Wisdom Letter
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🔗 Harold Innis’s communications theories - Wikipedia
.. a new one on me - via Seth Godin via Cory Doctorow … this is how networks work.
Here are a dozen of the many Micro.Bloggers I enjoy:
💬 Miraz
Thanks you for inspiration Miraz. Some of mine…
@Bradenslen
@Andysylvester
@The
@Danielpunkass
@Moondeer
@Hawaiiboy and @Crossingthethreshold - keeps me connected to HI.
@Munish
@Dave
@Mandaris
@Numericcitizen
@Mtt
@Mitchw
@AlanRalph
@Bjhess
@Jusummerhayes
@Amerpie
@Endonend
@Pratik - his account lives on - though his posts now live elsewhere.
@Gregmoore
@Moonmehta
@Hutaffe
@Annie
@Kaa
@Toddgrotenhuis
@Simonwoods
@Billbennettnz
@Jimmitchell
@Devilgate
@Herself
@Artkavanagh
@Tylerknowsnothing
@Markstoneman
Daring Fireball: Another Tim Cook Product Announcement Teaser on X: ‘There’s Something in the Air’
@gruber … Is it just me that thinks 🍎 missed a trick by not using 🔗🎵📼Thunderclap’s song
Only one third in - and we will get to the Silverlake/WPEngine fracas .. but for now a 🎙️🔗link to Lenny’s podcast and a wise thought.
Side note - no expert on how this is all going to shake out in the courts - but from what I read - I remain on Matt’s side.
🔗 Our Muslim Boy Wonder - Michael Moore
(It’s about ’Steve’, but it this caught my attention …
How many millions upon millions over the years have snuck into this nation without permission, without invitation, just wham-bam-thank-you-Uncle-Sam-you’re-an-American-man now – ** in this case because of the perhaps questionable morals of a Wisconsin farmer’s daughter**.
💬 Michael Moore
… my bold, because I have questions …
- Why is it only the daughter’s questionable morals?
- What about the morals of Abdulfattah Jandali?
- Why is it even about ‘morals’ - though I guess it was 1950.
John on John on Jonny
That’s Philpin, Gruber and Jonny. This really resonated - and if you read some of the stuff I read - it will ring bells, because it is like life.