🔗 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.
🔗 Bay Area diner to close original store after 49 years.
… via @dave .. had many a ‘brekky’ in that establishment over the years.
Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
You know how sometimes stupid little things you can clearly see for years before it finally happens and yet other times a seismic shift happens in an instant ….
🔗 OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
Having observed my co traveller lugging a 1000 page opus around with her recently … 🔗 this resonated (Instagram Reel
We see some flexibility emerging as to WHERE people work - but not very much around WHEN they work.
Even then, given the changes in the WHERE and WHEN - we need to urgently start conversations around what that in turn means for HOW we work.
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… thoughts emerging from 🔗 Ollie Henderson’s LinkedIN post
🔗 Joe Manchin warns second Trump term will ‘destroy democracy in America’.
… and you are the man to stop him?
Or have you just woken up?
🔗 Individual Empowerment and Agency on a Scale We’ve Never Seen Before.
I wonder … I see where Doc is headed - but we still have mediators.
Did you know that the 🔗 Four Yorkshiremen sketch was not a Python original?
I’d never heard of him until this morning - 26 - and dead, but what an enormous legacy.
🔗 Frank Ramsey (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
🔗 The New Yorker … apparently he died of a liver infection.
🔗 Disney Is Buying Hulu: Here’s What’ll Happen Once It Owns It All.
.. no mention nf Apple then buying Disney - something I do not see … and yet more and more people keep jumping on that bandwagon.
🔗 DX is the new UX - by Sangeet Paul Choudary
… do you agree?
💬 🔗 I’m 17 years old, and I don’t know if I want to record and publish an EP …
The answer on the click through , but in summary …
Farewell Suella … but, say what?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, 🔗 told the Mail on Sunday in June: _"_Cleverly is a total wet rag who wants to fly out to China to kiss the backside of a regime responsible for shocking abuses of human rights."
Ok .. it’s the Mail .. but still …
Somewhere over on Facebook Johannes Ernst was promoting 🔗 InkWELL …talking about the Fediverse and Indieweb .. and featuring our very own @manton .. home page quotes Cory D …
As Cory Doctorow says, corporate platforms like Facebook and X have business models that are based on holding users hostage and leveraging their attention and their data for profit.
Just mentioning it because I spent way too much time attempting to pull the real URL out … free of FB crud to share with you all. Oh the irony!
🖇️ Never had a high opinion of him … … seems like others feel the same way….
🔗 Please get Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts.
🔗 Not fulfilling your potential? You’re focusing on the wrong things
The secret to achieving mastery and fulfilling your potential requires using your mind to focus only on the things you have 100% control over. Seeking acceptance holds you back as it inevitably means compromising on what’s really important to you and what you believe.
‘Straight outta ComptonThe Stoics
I have a draft of a piece about ‘an experience(?)' in London that ended the night with us riding in a ‘🔗 Paddy Wagon’, the story evolved because of some combination of Oxy, Meth and Alcohol.
Just read that 🔗 Meth is cheaper than beer in Laos .. my instant reaction … ‘probably in London too’.