🔗 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.
🔗 Judge Orders Biden Officials to Limit Contact With Social-Media Companies (WSJ via Apple News)
… because of course the prior guy didn’t do anything like that.
🔗 Fireworks … never thought of them like this.
@dave is not wrong.
🔗 IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall
.. back in June apparently. Missed that at the time.
🔗 The (Mostly) Forgotten Battle For American Independence…in Yorkshire.
As a kid I visited Flamborough Head a lot. Family day trips and all that. But I still liked it enough to have also returned there as an adult - albeit a while back now.
… and yet I never knew this. #AlwaysLearning
🔗 English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age.
The ignorance we breed is extraordinary.
It also means that if it was brand new … he sees no problem.
🔗 People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers (Apple News … but it makes me happy.)
🔗 Overnight shootings in Pennsylvania and Texas mar Fourth of July festivities.
I’m sorry .. What?
Mar?
To mar your 4th July festivities would be that it rained on your barbecue. Next they’ll be reporting about the ’inconvenience’.
I think Louisiana has a Dem as Governor and the rest are Rethuglicans. Just earlier today I referenced 🖇️ North Carolina sailing towards being a second Florida.
Hold that in your mind as you read that the 🔗 Decline in Budweiser Beer Sales has lead to the Closure of Two Bottle Factories in the South. … specifically the closures are in those two States. In that same article I read …
Munhall also said the closures may also be connected to a conservative boycott of Bud Light.
Which in turn got me to wondering how many conservatives in those two states helped impact those closures through the boycott are now directly jobless or will soon be suffering financially because of the inevitable knock on effect.
I think I might enter the entire Republican voting base for the Darwin Awards.
Seperately, it is increasingly clear that the Dems should just step back and watch the ‘alternative’ just self destruct.
I don’t know what’s going to come out of this moment but I do hope more people realize that human connections are still available out there. You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people. You can still set up a forum dedicated to something you’re passionate about and create a community with 50 other people, even if Reddit turns to shit. Things can live on the web simply because enough people care about them and pour time and love into them. And that is what makes the web special.
💬 Manuel Moreale
Reminded me very much of What Is The Small Web
🔗 Is North Carolina Going to Become Like Ron DeSantis’s Florida?
… certainly seems to be 🖇️ heading that way.
🔗 They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago? Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power? Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral? Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy.
💬 Chris Hedges
Somewhere on this blog there is a link that connects to this.
If you think your HOA is overly prescriptive, if not downright authoritarian, try this on for size.
🔗 The housing community that will require ‘patriots’ to fly the US flag.
🔗 Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
… who knows … but it sure doesn’t look good.
🔗 Get it, got it, good. … Gallagher reminding us that brevity is the soul of wit.
🔗 Jack Dorsey Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Can and Will’ Win Presidential Election., or to put another way ‘one nut job says another nut job can and will win Presidential election’.
“Kennedy is also a strong proponent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency for which Dorsey has long been an evangelist.”
…aaahhh …
THAT explains it.
🔗 Delaware House OKs Measure Allowing Big Corporations to Vote in Local Elections.
… because you know - corporations are people too.
A couple of useful help links that I am dropping in here to revisit.
🔗 How to Recursively Find All Files in Directories/Subfolders by Wildcards
🔗 How to Remove Amazon Kindle Ebook DRM in 2023 … thankyou @pcora
You know that thing about ‘owning your own server’ and if not at least ‘owning your own domain’? How you should think about managing and controlling your online presence as part of your identity?
Turns out that it isn’t just corporates that can screw you over. Turns out that Harvard has done exactly that. To their Berkman alumni no less and one of the URLs caught out in the move is a listserve and blog that talks about the importance of identity.
Aaaah the irony.
About Apple's Latest Milestone - The THREE BILLION ONE
Noting that Apple just passed the THREE TRILLION Market Cap this past week - I remember all the hoopla when It passed the ONE TRILLION Market Cap threshold - but I hadn’t realised that it was as recent as 2018 - just slightly less than 5 years ago. Seems like just ‘yesterday’.
Tripling Market cap in three years is impressive enough. Doing that when you are the largest Market Cap in the world …
On Aug. 2, 2018, Apple (AAPL) made history by becoming the world’s first publicly traded company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion.
Somehow I also didn’t know that ‘the return’ was as close to Cook’s starting date as this;
- September 1997 - Steve Jobs returns to Apple
- March, 1998 - Tim Cook joins Apple as senior vice president for worldwide operations
But I do remember some older history, because I am old enough now and close enough then to recall ‘the noise’ at the time.
October 6, 1997: Michael Dell makes an infamously bleak appraisal of Apple’s fortunes. Asked what he would do with the struggling company, the founder of Dell Inc. says he would “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
(Who’s Michael Dell again?)
March 1997 : 🔗 Ellison still wants Apple
This a headline after Steve’s close friend Larry J Ellison suggested to Steve that he just buys Apple outright - award Steve 25% of the stock - and ‘get Apple back to its rightful position.
Steve talked him out of it.
I am going to guess (we will never know) that had Larry bought Apple - it would not have become the company it is today.
Date wise, this time also marked the end of LJE’s baby sitter’s (literally) rise through the ranks of Oracle - his last position running the division responsible for putting Oracle on the Mac (pause for a moment while you contemplate that idea). Marc Benioff then went on to start Salesforce. I wonder if he would have rejoined Apple had Larry bought the company?
🔗 Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’.
.. see how it works America?