I killed Wordpress on 🔗 Philpin.com this morning - and now hand crafting my own HTML and CSS. Don’t get too excited - my work is not rocket science.

🔗 Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city. … because of course they are.

The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.

Not clear how very much each put into the pot - but to remind - Andreesen is very big into land and property development. (🔗 Me back in August last year referencing his stake in ‘WeWork redux) - and who his wife’s dad was.

Surprised not to see Thiel there.

Surprised to see Lauren there.

🔗 Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants Elon Musk to be his presidential adviser.

Oh FFS … just what we need …

🔗 I do like what Montaigne does - but I have no idea how I might really use it.

🔗 Japanese Nail Houses.

Spectacular idea of how just one person can stand up and be counted.

🔗 Ouch

🔗 I am exploring this more (Medium - sorry)

pUNk doesn’t ask for permission or seek forgiveness.

pUNk is and does. It is who we are in our being and our thinking and our action.

Yes — pUNk is notoriously brash but we need brashness now more than ever. We need the crazies, the ones who are positively disrupting, the thoughtful ones who are not hidebound by tradition or phased by the unknowns.

More to come as I bottom out where this is headed - but is one of three separate groups of people that have passed through the ‘Philpin Philters’ this week.

🔗 Kremlin denies Putin ordered plane crash to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin

… well they are hardly going to put their hands up and say “it was us” are they?

In just one week - another domain in my life is not renewed and the work there archived … not to the 🔗 BIG archive … no … 🔗 right here

🔗 On this day a year ago I was apparently playing around with image generation and hitting roadblocks.

🔗 The Real Republican Debate Winner Was Clear, in One Sense (Apple News)

Prior to the debate, his name recognition was so low among voters that he offered $20 gift cards to anyone who donated a dollar to his campaign to meet the threshold of 40,000 individual donors needed to earn him a spot in the debate.

Hashtag #Winning !

🔗 Subway sold to Arbys and Dunkin owner Roark Capital (Apple News)

Roark Capital, which has $37 billion under management, specializes in franchised businesses and owns multiple restaurant chains. Its brands include Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John’s and Sonic.

Why is this allowed? Isn’t this the exact consolidation of power in a market that the FCC is meant to be watching?

🔗 The Full List

If you were in need of a new source for good quotes … well, I just stumbled over 🔗 this.

Weasel Insurance

If your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed. But if it’s ruined by floodwaters, your renters policy won’t cover it.

( 🔗Apple News)

🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.

He was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!

🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari

Puts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.