🔗 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.
Ben writes:
🔗 Signs you’re a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
Collectively, the justice department argued that these convictions are proof that anti-fascists are terrorists, which should also give us pause. The precedent here is obviously very dangerous for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy in America.
And in turn cross links to ‘The Grauniad’
🔗 The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
“Your CIA was good at this,” Dmytro said. “You bastards knew how to use sex.”
🔗 The AI Conversation CEOs Are Not Having Out Loud.
The topic was AI. But the real conversation was leadership.
💬 Brian Solis
The myth that CEOs ‘know’ is exactly that.
The bad ones play into that myth.
The good ones build trusted teams around them.
Same can be said for Presidents.
The name I use for one of my test accounts is “Shouting Loudly.”
.. and he goes on to write that he can’t recall where it came from.
I regularly use ’Thinking Aloud’ and ’Thinking Allowed’.
.. me too.
🔗 Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses — Colossal
McGucken delves specifically into the study of the fourth dimension, drawing on Einstein’s 1922 book The Meaning of Relativity, in which the renowned scientist illustrated a “light cone” that represented “the deep, physical relationship between space, time, and the velocity of light,” McGucken says. This almost hourglass-like shape, with two cones that meet at their tips, forms the basis of Spacetime Light Cone Sculptures dx4/dt=ic.
According to a nearby plaque, the city claims this is the narrowest street in the world (though this claim has been disputed). It is, though, the narrowest street in Britain.
Another US/UK ‘differality’.
If that street was in the US it would be dubbed something to do with
blah blah blah … ‘Capital Of The World’
And nobody would bat an eyelid - let alone question it.
🔗 23,000-Square-Foot Clasping Arms Celebrate Community Resilience in Minneapolis — Colossal
WOW. Just WOW. More on the site.
🖋️ A One Man Army
Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 24, 2026
"Dancing in the Street (2002 Remaster)" by David Bowie & Mick Jagger
**So great. Such fun.**
I mean sure - you could pop over to your music player and have a listen - but there's also the video for twice the fun.
‘ThisIsIndexed’ nails it.
I always knew that ‘soccer’ actually had English origins BUT had never heard the story of where it came from until today. (In the link - about half way down).
I have definitely posted this link to Jason Fried’s post in the past and it keeps coming to mind as I read so much about our new ‘Trillionaire’ who went public on a vision with the smallest public float in the history of IPO’s.
🔗 PRESS RELEASE: BASECAMP VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT - Signal v. Noise
But you should see the spreadsheet models we’re making up. Really breakthrough stuff,” said Mirage.
From Rishad … 🔗 here.
My Take?
1 - been saying that for years.
2 - we know this - BUT seeing it written in out in 2 short sentences made me sit up.
3 - see ‘2’.
4 - depending on your domain - that has been happening for over a decade. look at marketing if you want a use case.
5 - yes.
6 - which will be a major change in how humans operate in large corporations - so not holding my breath
📺 I watched the first 1 1/2 episodes of 🔗 Cold Call a long while back and forgot all about it. This weekend as I was poking around - redesicovered and finished it. (The whole thing is only 4 episodes - so an easy piece of homework) - and my goodness - maybe they spent a little bit too much time setting it all up - but somewhere in the middle - it just turns … you might know the lead - Sally Lindsay from 🖇️The Madame Blanc Mysteries that she created, co wrote and stars in. Nice gentle little show with a 🖇️🎵 great theme song.
Cold Call is nothing like that.
★★★
📺🔗 Dublin Murders over on Acorn is a few years old now (2019) but really rather good. Going to give it ★★★ - but - no spoilers now - that last episode might be require me to come back and knock it up to 4.
🔗 Andy Graham - Nebula · Sourcefeed
An electric stringed digeridoo solo.
Who knew that there was such a thing?
Spoiler alert - there wasn’t until he invented hit.
Mesmerising.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘the Epic Story of Markdown’
That’s it. So what I find gratifying isn’t that my “language” continues to thrive, because it’s not a language. It’s that the way I like to format plain text when I’m writing, and the way I like to see plain text formatted when I’m reading, has so thoroughly won the world’s mindshare battle. “Ha-ha”, I say, to people who want this to mean bold, not italic. (And to Slack and WhatsApp, I say “Fuck you.”)
Quick 30 minutes - nicely done.
🔗 Can someone who’s more green fingered than me tell me is this is giant hogweed please? asks Kevin Quirk.
No idea - but the danger was described over 50 years ago.
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is growing
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering