🔗 A bullying politician or snowflake civil servants? The downfall of Dominic Raab

I do not know Raab, other than his public persona, so take my thoughts with a pinch of NaCl. That said, there is a consistency to the back stories that keep getting published. Bottom line - to me - he doesn’t seem to be a nice man.

That said - I am sympathetic to his claims. We are living too much in a world where if I even feel offended - you will pay. To continue down that path will result in more and more people being ‘quietly silenced’.

Silencing Raab is one thing - but it will work (is working?) both ways.

🔗 Dream dinner party guests: Obama, Springsteen and Spielberg delight Barcelona restaurant staff.

Love Those Smiles. Warming the cockles of my heart

🔗 Worldwide public cloud spending heading for US$600 billion

“If you found yourself wondering why the cloud hyperscalers have chosen this moment to build in New Zealand, the answer lies in Gartner’s latest cloud forecast.”

@billbennettnz not sure you actually answer that question? I mean I get that Gartner is predicting outsized growth - and why NZ would want those data centers - but you don’t seem to offer a reason why MSoft and AWS are making the investments? Or have I read too fast?

Because Renewable Energy?

Because Resilience?

🔗 You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup.

YUP - at least from a financial rewards perspective. But there are other considerations (as I said to a long time friend this past week) who is thinking of launching ‘StartUps Anonymous’.

Email me if you are interested in joining.

🔗 Twenty Years Ago, Apple Launched the iTunes Music Store.

The first Mac I ever owned arrived Christmas 2001. The iPod had been released and I wanted one - but it was Mac only back then. So I also ‘needed’ a Mac! It can’t have been two years before I had completely left Windoze behind.

It also means that I spent close to two years ripping CDs into the Mac to play on the iPod. (Still do that actually.)

🔗 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification in Calfornia

If you are working in or around this program in California - would love to hear from you.

In that 🔗 last post Siri tried to spell ‘Heroes’ … ‘Herpes’

🔗 NZ Tech Podcast: Skills shortage slows fibre installs, satellite woes, ChatGPT cheats from @billbennettnz

“Musk plans a less biased AI”

… and we clearly all believe that Musk is capable of removing bias from social media don’t we?

🔗 I knew this - there have been mentions on this topic before. Sharing because I think Merriam Webster’s replies demonstrate a keen and fast wit IMHO. (Warning … Twitter thread.)

A list of 10 not counting when he ‘turns it up to 11’ turning points on the internet. Tedium writes: 🔗 What We Can Learn from the Past

🔗 Paleblue USB Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.

Rechargeable batteries have been around for a while but charging blocks always seemed clunky and yet another lump of plastic you need to keep around and still never be able to find when you need it.

This looks like a good solution.

Any experiences?

🔗 Why America and Britain Are Both Self-Destructing.

The problem with Umair is that his writing very often depresses me. The bigger problem is that I have a hard time disagreeing with his observations and conclusions ( yes he is guilty of hyperbolic phrasing ).

🔗 Elon Musk pays for Stephen King and LeBron James to keep Twitter blue ticks.

Now what we want is for those guys that have been granted free ticks to tell Musk to ‘de-tick’ them.