🔗 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.
Apple likes to say that music is part of its DNA. I suggest they schedule some genetic counselling.
I agree, though I have never managed to articulate the prescription so succinctly.
Please enjoy: 🔗 sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com
🔗🕋 Structured Thought is catching on
This one from Evan Shapiro - who after producing 6 annual flat files of - well to be honest - interesting - but not very useful insights into the media landscape has just outdone himself.
Scott Brinker should do the same - similar idea in a different space - but 🔗 this one has been going now for 15 years!
Wise people are already aware and can predict these warnings …
🔗 YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast
That said - where could you go to build a video following not called YouTube?
Meanwhile, so far, 🔗 the channel remains
Email was supposed to be an open, decentralized protocol. Instead, a handful of monopolies have effectively privatized deliverability: they decide whose mail is trustworthy, whose isn’t, and independent servers are guilty until proven innocent.
🔗 Why I left Mastodon - Justin Pot
.. or just use Micro.Blog
.. an old drum of mine.
No comment.
🔗 Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right
This comes after Trump just a few days ago ordered the Navy to go back to steam-powered catapults (the thing that hurls the planes forward off the ship for takeoff) from the new electromagnetic catapults. He apparently wants to do this because he once talked to a catapult operator who told him the old kind was better.
Ricardo Mendes: 🔗 Test post without Syndication
Test post without Syndication
.. picked up in NetNewswire - shared to John.philpin.com and will drop web mention link into RSSChat.
🔗 Neil Vogel, CEO of People Inc., calls Google an “intentional bad actor” for using the same crawler for both search and AI.
Question - is Neil Vogel the ‘best thing since sliced bread’?
(Little Kiwi humour there.)
Why were all these people at Auckland Town Hall last night?
Well, not to get ahead of ourselves - 🔗📼 this is what they thought at the end of it all.
Turns out they were waiting to hear ‘this guy’ perform.
He did. His name is Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
🔗 You can read all about him here.
27 years old Nottingham lad with roots back to Bahrain - and pretty much ‘the dude’ when you are talking Classical Cello - watch out ‘Yo Yo’. Seriously - BBC Young Musician at 17 and played at Harry and Meghan’s wedding at 19.
Last night? Great stuff - along with the 🔗Auckland Philharmmonia conducted by 🔗 Elena Schwarz. Interested to learn that her own first instrument was the cello - so I suspect we got something even more special.
The orchestra in full flight
Taking their bow …
Many thanks to Phil and The 🔗 BNZBA for the invite.
We loved it.
🎥 I watched 🔗The Client again. It is over 30 years old - which explains why all the great actors in it look so young. I remember enjoying it at the time. Not so much on the second ‘outing’ - a little bit ‘thin’ IMHO.
Well worth ★★★
📺 Finished watching Season 2 of 🔗 Sugar last night and every bit as good as 🖇️the first series. Don’t miss it. ★★★★
🔗 Daring Fireball: Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails
The fact is, a lot of people use apps like Gmail for email that aren’t private. When you use Gmail, Google learns everything in your email. Amazon sees this as a competitive problem for them, not a privacy problem for users.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
💬 Marcellus (via Billy Wagglestick)
… and America it would seem.
🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas
The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.
Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.
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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.
That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.
