Happy April Fools Day

🔗 Why The Sun Never Sets Over San Serriffe - by Mike Sowden

Have to say, I don’t recall it .. being so young and all .. but I agree, hard to see how we could make it work in 2024.

All you font wonks out there .. you definitely will enjoy, but then .. non don’t wonks can also enjoy .. I run an inclusive blog.

Behold THREE Lefsetz pieces - personally annotated and ready for your delectation … your welcome.

🔗 The New Music Business | annotated by John

🔗 The Normalization Of Insanity | annotated by John

🔗 John Oliver’s Million Dollar Offer | annotated by John

🔗 LLMs and reputation management is an interesting take by Don Marti on a problem we don’t seem to talk too much about - but you can see it developing.

In case you thought that there’s not much variety in music these days … turns out that at the Macro level - you are spot on.

🔗 🎵 Global Album Charts - IFPI

TL;DR

Taylor Swift and Kpop - that’s (just about) it.

I think micro.blog is going to get very interesting once the APIs for all these random social networks fill out.#

💬 Dave Winer

Nice - and prolly right. Which reminds me.

Blogrolls …

On the @dave blogroll 🔗 at scripting.com his order pushes blogs with ‘latest post’ to the top - any plans on something like that for Micro Blog @manton ?

The Ticket Master rip off discussion often pops up into the feeds - so this one doesn’t surprise me 🔗 Explosive New Documents Unearthed On Live Nation/Ticketmaster

🔗 These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021 (In case you were wondering.)

I was - which is why I will be back later with some more thoughts.

🔗 Did Trump Just Get Bailed Out?

It’s rhetorical folk.

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This very much resonates with my My People First thinking. 🔗 via Stowe Boyd - essentially - when you hear ‘the powers’ talking about how people are their most important assets and blah blah blah - would be interesting to learn how they really sit against this list/

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At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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When you talk about 🔗 Blank Faces … and you get Blank Looks.

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At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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One URL - Many AIs to chat to … 🔗 Poe - Fast, Helpful AI Chat

🔗 Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection

What Om does not touch on is the issue of ‘acquisition’.

To this bear (and others), what also seems to have happened is that Microsoft has all but bought the company. but actually didn’t.

Why not just buy it?

Well because then you need permission from the Feds - if not the EU, which takes time and even then might not happen (remember Figma), and certainly in the AI space close scrutiny is happening.

Ok - not that close - but you know what I mean.

Watch this (tech bypassing pesky things like delays and rules and law and .. to accelerate and ‘avoid’ scrutiny) happen more and more in other places.

The Ostrom Sessions are part of a program running at Indiana University - curated and directed by Doc Searls.

They haven’t all been the best, though the speakers have always been ‘real names’. The video is the latest with guest Jeff Jarvis. This one was good.

Enjoy.

🔗 📼 The Video

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A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.

📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.

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At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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The Atlantic explains why ‘🔗 It’s a canned-water company now worth $1.4 billion - of Course America Fell for Liquid Death’

(See of it is behind a paywall - but Apple users can read it in full 🔗 here)

You can think of Liquid Death as the apotheosis of meta-advertising. It doesn’t just say Forget the product for a moment while you watch this ad. It dispenses with the product entirely. The advertisement is the product. What Liquid Death is selling is not so much purified water as purified marketing, marketing that has shed its product—the soul without the body.

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🔗 📼 Why is England called England?

.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.

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🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)

Ellison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.

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At the beginning of the year I had grand plans for this series. A daily long-form post about something that was rattling my brain that day. And then life. For a while, I was even just dropping markers - to revisit. I came to realise that part of the problem was the complexity of the structure for each post - so that went away. Simplicity really is rather nice. As I write on 240413, I am now going back and filling in the gaps. PLUS - unless something strikes me immediately, I will not classify until the end of the day and go back to move one of the posts of the day into the 366. Also - if you are wondering how I have update the words at the bottom of over 100 posts at a stroke, well - THANK YOU Andy Sylvester and his Glossary plugin.

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Wondering about 🔗 Pabbly - what do you all think?

It’s an IFTTT / Zapier thing »>

🔗 📼 Why is England called England?youtube.com/watch)

.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.

🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)

Ellison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.