🔗 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.
🔗 ‘That decision cost lives’: Covid data case further deflates Ron DeSantis’s campaign.
… not that we care about him anymore … but if we could just bankrupt him❓
🔗 White House seeks vast weapons package ‘to help Israel defend itself’.
Be interesting to see if this can happen while the house is out of action … because it then begs the question as to why the same can’t happen for Ukraine?
🔗 Max Hastings is voting Labour over ‘dreadful’ Tories led by ‘loser’.
Let that sink in.
Max Hastings!
🔗 Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran.
So the US can be drawn into a war that Israel starts … but not into a war to defend Russian aggression?
Theres a new version out. Thoughts?
🔗 🎵 ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog.
Back in the day I had ‘my Moondog’ … it still lives with my other vinyl down in Surrey.
The Beat Generation’s 🔗 William S Burroughswas a grandson of 🔗 William Seward Burroughs, the founder of 🔗 Burroughs Corporation.
Why has it taken me this long to learn that?
🔗 🎵 Now THAT is a Secretary of State!
… Warning … it is on the site formally known as Twitter.
🔗 If you want to join me on Twin Me … I am here …
In case you are wondering … peer to peer messaging - no central server .. not even a Mastodon ‘like’ approach.
Still don’t know how they do it - and I am sure that someone soon is going to tell me all the reasons why I shouldn’t be using it!
Us vs Them OR Us and Them OR Us + Them
Interesting thread over on LinkedIN from my friend 🔗 Dave Wilt - who started on the track of ‘vs’.
🔗 Corporate Identity Politics. (It was kind of about Sales and Marketing alignment - a problem which was a problem long before I started out in business. You would have though by now we might have fixed it? But no.)
Anyway - about half way through I managed to pivot the thread to 🎵 Music … mainly because the core topic just gets talked about - and IT IS NEVER FIXED - so … ‘BORING’.
From the thread …
You might notice that the original song was called ‘Us and Them’, while the tour and film is called ‘Us + Them’.
“It’s not a mistake. It’s a subtle modification. The original ‘and’ was not necessarily inclusive. It was highlighting one or the other. The power of ‘+’ sign is additive. It drives home the idea of being united. Together.”
It’s a small and very important detail. It’s language.
If you want to read the newsletter I was going to write about … ‘🖇️ Rewriting History’
🔗 Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives?
The good news is that’s actually not so hard. If the House elected leaders with ranked-choice voting (RCV), this debacle could have been avoided from the beginning. Imagine how different this would have been. The Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries would have led after the first round. McCarthy would have been second. And the Republican Freedom Caucus protest candidate would have finished a distant third. No one would have earned a majority, so an instant runoff would have kicked in.
Excellent idea.
The bad news is this is long journey when it comes to adoption. 🤞
🔗Senators warn House Republicans that a more conservative speaker won’t make their dreams come true. (Apple News)
Sorry team … that’s not what they are trying to do … it’s about blowing up the institution, sticking it to anyone that disagrees, slowing down everything if not just stopping it and getting the Orange Clown out of his 96 indictments.
🎵 You know how it is …. you check into your hotel and wander down to the bar and the next thing you know - you bump into Ryan Waste. He and his band 🔗 Municipal Waste just flew in from the US for a 🔗 three week tour.
Had to get a selfy …
Him with his band …
🔗 Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant.
Is there anyway we can make that happen?
Soon?
Asking for a friend.
🔗 Crop Circles: What Is Behind These Complex and Intricate Works of Art?
A recurring question in my world …
A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.
🔗 🎵 Afterwords is no exception.
Just the cost of doing business .. $75M wouldn’t have bought one of those houses.
🔗 JP Morgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands for $75m.