Fuck TikTok.
Fuck Russell Brand.
🔗 TikTok users including Russell Brand given special status, messages show.
2023 | 12 | 19
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Not read it. Known of it for years. So not quite sure how it is classed as ‘top secret’ .. and whatever anybody knew .. it is clearly now ‘Not Top Secret’ …
Just in case you get too happy absorbing 🔗 Reasons To Be Cheerful, now you can 🔗 Cry Once a Week.
It’s all about balance.
I have saved 🔗 Layers of Time: Pace Layers of Work by Stowe Boyd to read properly later - but it triggered some other works I have been absorbing recently how the our digital worlds have been shaping our physical world for decades - and it is only accelerating.
Dear Citi - 72 hours? I didn’t even subscribe to begin with!
Careful What It Says In The Small Print
I was meant to be picking up a car from 🔗 Europcar this afternoon - for a one month reservation.
I just tried to change that reservation and pick it up early tomorrow.
Lady on the call center said no problem - and was about to hit the confirmation button … but as she was talking I hear that the new price was DOUBLE the old price.
DOUBLE!!!
When I booked car, the agent said that there would be no problem and no charge to change the booking if I need to.
I relayed this to this booking agent.
Absolutely she said, it would normally cost you 6 dollars to change the booking - and we are waiving that fee … but the contract also says that if the cost of the rental changes, we have to reflect that change in the new contract.
New job this afternoon … go down to Auckland Airport and pick up the car rental.
Ummm
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2023 | 12 | 18
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We all have that role in our families don’t we? “Help, can you just” .. easy in the same house - but in different cities, counties and continents …
Teamviewer was my ‘go to’ for years to help my dad.
I had forgotten all about it .. until today.
That caused a little moment.
Hope your ok Dad.
2023 | 12 | 17
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Suella Braverman Launches A Small Boat.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Seriously — watch to the end - A truly well-deserved award.
🎥 The Family Plan, 2023 - ★★★½
Generally like a nice Wahlberg movie .. no exception .. in fact one of his better ones. It’s a formula .. sure .. aren’t they all? But overall .. YES.
… privacy is mostly a settled issue in the physical world, and a grace of civilized life. Clothing, for example, is a privacy technology. So are walls, doors, windows and shades.
Private spaces in public settings are well understood (…) . This is why no store on Main Street would plant a tracking beacon in the pants of a visiting customer, to report back on that customer’s activities — just so the store or some third party can “deliver” a better “experience” through advertising. Yet this kind of thing is beyond normative on the Web: it is a huge business.
💬 Doc Searls
🔗 Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initiatives.
Seriously? It costs THAT much?
Meanwhile ‘my man Dana’ has been banging on about the US propensity for cars of the large and heavy variety forever … not to mention the battery decisions being made - necessary apparently - because of the weight and size factor of these vehicles.
This just today for example.
While the Internet and iPhone came on faster, these were internal revolutions. They didn’t change the world around us. Mass EV adoption will.
🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs
Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.