Advice to all you clever corporate web developers out there.
Send me an email promoting your shit. ✅
Let me click on a link to your web site to read more. ✅
Don’t detect my IP location and feed me the ‘local site’
UNLESS
You have redirects that still allow me to find what you are promoting.
When I want to use the ✅ emoji - I often search and can’t find it - because I am searching for ‘tick’ not ‘check’ … one more piece of proof that the web - despite being invented by an Englishman - is American.
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A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.
📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.
TIL to absorb at least a single caffeine unit prior to any attempt to comment on social streams.
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📸 So good they named it twice …
You may notice something a little different about Acorn TV. Our team has been working on an updated look, and we’re delighted to share it with you. Don’t worry, nothing has changed about our collection of world-class series and movies.
Let me get this right.
Tou have sent me an email to tell me that there are no new shows, no old shows disappearing, everything exactly as it was yesterday - but the ‘look’ has changed - which would surely be clear when I go there?
Or does the company believe that we should all go to take a look at the new look for kicks?
That moment when you think that you wireless mouse has gone haywire, to discover that it has (for) some reason/how - completed a 180 degree realignment on your desk,
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I’m surprised that ‘toxic asbestos’ was banned in 2024 .. I mean, we’ve known about the problem for a year or two THIRTY years. Why did it take so lon … (of course …. 💰)
The Atlantic explains why ‘🔗 It’s a canned-water company now worth $1.4 billion - of Course America Fell for Liquid Death’
(See of it is behind a paywall - but Apple users can read it in full 🔗 here)
You can think of Liquid Death as the apotheosis of meta-advertising. It doesn’t just say Forget the product for a moment while you watch this ad. It dispenses with the product entirely. The advertisement is the product. What Liquid Death is selling is not so much purified water as purified marketing, marketing that has shed its product—the soul without the body.
Karma’s a bitch
A bonding company would be on the hook for any payout if Trump loses his appeal and proves unable to pay.
I wonder how many of the companies that declined to provide a bond have refused because
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they know how many companies he just doesn’t pay
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are nervous about the valuations he puts on his properties
🪦 I didn’t know Joe Gannon - met him a couple of times at ‘Joe’s’ back in the day - ate at his wife’s restaurants, but not ‘know’.
94 years old, just discovered that he died in January of this year.
What a life. RIP Joe.
Reading the Putin headlines this morning about elections … I realized that our media has truly lost the plot. To help them with their reporting, I asked Claude what an election was.
Nice chat .. this particular reply stood out.
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📸 Good Morning World it’s A Brand New Day
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I know .. I know .. and if you have been tracking my ‘366’ series you will know as well. It is tough.
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🔗 📼 Why is England called England?
.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
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Dear Lorri
Then why are you writing to me?
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One day - just one day - I will wake up and it will be a normal lovely day .. and will stay that way.
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🔗 Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is buying up land in Hawaii (Apple News)
Ellison and Zuck are also doing this … it’s a disease.