🔗 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.
A lot of people look at Italy as a great place to go for a low cost vacation.
Meanwhile ….
I first read about DEW being ‘the cause’ of the fire the day after the fire started (and I rarely see crackpot stories, unless I am searching.) … more than a week later ….
🔗 🌺 Hawaii fires: spread of conspiracy theories reveals tech firms’ failings.
.. and a quick search will reveal the distraction from the real problem that is developing.
🔗 😂 Top jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 - British Comedy Guide
… don’t let the date fool you. STILL FUNNY.
I think the ‘🔗 start page’ is there, though I still need to fill in some of the pages on the click through.
I get what Doug Belshaw writes at a big picture level, but thinking of income without the context of cost of living is not useful and maybe misleading.
To quote his quote …
People at Income Level 4 earn more than $32 a day. At this Income Level, we find thee richest billion on the planet, who work in jobs that typically require at least 12 years of education – something those on the lower Income Levels cannot currently aspire to.
If you earn $32 each and every day in the good ol' USA - you are earning $11,680 per year - $1,000 per month which is not going to go too far by my calculations.
🔗 Jeopardy! - What’s changing amid writers' strike
What’s changing? Nothing. Same old same old - just repeated and remixed. Sounds like a recipe for massive success.
BUT - in light of this - I wonder if writers will want to return to the format when we are all done and dusted?
🔗 🌺 Hawaii has a robust emergency siren warning system. It sat silent during the deadly wildfires(🍎 News)
CNN has a very different definition for ‘robust’ than I do.
From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.
As I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Where’s My Fainting Couch?
Related: Jeremy Vaught registered the @music account on Twitter 16 years ago, and had posted to it frequently. He is a paying Twitter Blue subscriber. And X Corp just took the handle from him, like they did to the guy who had @x. This company is a great and trustworthy partner for individual creators.
The Account in question.
Fucker.
🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.
💬 Nick Cave
🔗 Rebuilding will be a huge and costly undertaking, governor says - Honolulu Civil Beat (Apple News).
So much being written comparing this disaster to other disasters around the world U.S.A.
Finally, someone writing about what will make the recover absolutely unique, and very very difficult.
Also delaying recovery is the fact that Maui is a less populous island in a remote island state. Robert Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, likened the Maui fire to wildfires such as a 2018 blaze that destroyed much of the town of Paradise, California. He said the scale of destruction reminded him of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. But a major difference, he said, is the ability to respond. On the mainland, he said, it’s possible to quickly “muster 3,500 dump trucks” to move rubble. “I just can’t do it here,” he said.
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Somebody needs to employ me as an analyst.
Bloomberg : 🔗 WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business.
Me : 🔗 Four years ago referencing me from three years before that.
🔗 MarsEdit 5.1b1: Initial Mastodon Support … oh - very nice @danielpunkass
🔗 RSS continues to be so dea…oh…alive and well … shared from my RSS Reader..
🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker
The New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.
I’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …
The only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.
PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.
