Nathan makes an important point. 🔗 Why this is not a newsletter.

Commentators with a large and loyal audience quit their jobs at a newsroom—which hires support staff, investigative reporters, and others who have no such followings—and bring a decent chunk of their economic value with them. The newsletter service and payment platforms get a cut. Money moves from institutional support to influencer economies. The commentators get some newfound freedom. But if we don’t have robust journalistic institutions doing news-gathering work, what is there to comment on?

💬 Nathan Schneider

🔗 Apple is missing the thing that once made it great.

Apple devices also often used to come in real colors. Sure, every now and again Apple will allow a blue or a red or an orange to land on an iPhone as if by clerical mistake.

💬 The Macalope

Fully aware that;

• 3 of my 6 sites are very broken.
• 1 is a little broken
• 2 are not broken at all.

Coincidentally;

• 3 of my 6 sites allow me to modify things - a lot.
• 1 a little bit.
• 2 not at all.

Off to read up on correlation and causation.

Spotted on LinkedIN.

Wouldn’t ‘Battery As A Service’ be called ‘Electricity’ outside of the Bay Area?

We just don’t build them like this any more.

🔗 Markus Brunetti’s Monumental Photos Venerate European Ecclesiastical Landmarks

🤯 .. A ballpoint pen❓

🔗 Habib Hajallie’s Meticulous Ballpoint Pen Drawings Examine the Depths of Emotion.

I used to get told off for doodling in text books when I was a kid. This guy’s drawing pictures on Ancient Texts. #Wonderful

🔗 Creative Thought Is Essential: A Letter from Our Editor

Thinking is my fighting.

💬 Virgina Woolf

🔗 Ranked: The Animals That Kill the Most Humans

Turns out that visiting Australia (arguably host of some of the most dangerous critters in the world) is safer than just being a human.

👁️ Thinking that we need a different collective noun. From here on in they will known as Feral Agencies.

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