(Trump is a) bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war.
💬 Cornell West
… mistakenly kills three hostages …
Got it.
Remember Flipboard? I just reinstalled it .. looks like I decommissioned it seven years ago. Reinstated because there’s talk about it jumping on to the Fediverse.
Maybe already?
More proof .. if proof were needed .. that I live under a rock … fascinating .
JESSICA CHASTAIN: But then I looked at the test, and I thought, OK, it doesn’t seem too unreasonable. And then I looked at my films, and I realized not one of my films has passed that test.
New Zealand In It’s Rightful Place. Nearly.
2023 | 12 | 16
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Talking of LinkedIN - 🔗 take a look at this which I just dropped onto LinkedIN. It’s my position on the Callaghan debacle that New Zealand’s ‘Office of the Auditor General’ has just weighed in on.
TL;DR - Callaghan are guilty.
To quote;
Callaghan Innovation did not …
… a whole tonne of stuff. The piece is called - Accountability Has No Meaning in New Zealand - because really unless something now happens. It doesn’t.
Those who live in Aotearoa should find it particularly interesting. Even if you haven’t been tracking the past few years of the story.
No Words.
The ability to unlock 1Password with a passkey is currently for new accounts only. Next year, we’ll make this feature available to anyone with an existing 1Password account.
I think I understand why .. but there’s part of me that thinks .. so new accounts - but not existing customers?
Then again - I won’t be implementing any time soon anyway.
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I think I just broke 🔗 LinkedIN
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“Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called ‘The Dead Kennedys’, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.”
💬 Herb Caen
“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family. . . . When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated. Our name is actually homage to the American Dream.”
💬 Raymond John (East Bay Ray) Pepperell (Dead Kennedies)
Macy’s offered $5.8bn buyout that could take it off stock market, so they can strip the assets, sell it back to the market and make a tidy profit very quickly, leaving the uninformed to lose there investment. Again. improve the business.
Side note - not aware that Macy’s owned Bloomingdales.
I read somewhere …
Consider your childhood. What words do you remember being spoken to you at school? How many of those that stay with you are painful in some way?
Different versions of this same idea appear in my feeds from time to time. My internal response is always the same.
- I don’t recall much of my childhood at all.
- Let alone words spoken to me.
- Let alone words that were painful to me.
Is that because I suppressed it all because it was bad, or not impressive enough to remember, or has the rest of my life simply over written my young life?
No idea. Don’t really care.
The memories I have are good.
How about you?
There’s a LOT of stuff going on in New Zealand at the moment as the new Govt takes control and is starting to / trying to (not sure which) roll back everything the previous Govt was doing. C’est la vie.
In parralel, the topic of efficiency seems to be on everyone’s lips - different learned people in different positions essentially reporting ‘findings’ .. new budgets in cities … and the eternal question of whether we are getting what we pay for.
Just one small example from Wayne Brown in Auckland … a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down costs multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’ll let that sink in.
I am far from qualified to comment much on this (other than that seems a lot to me), but Bernard Hickey definitely is - and if you want to read his excellent Substack around not just speed bumps - but all things political and fiscal in this fine country - look no further than 🔗 here.
Meanwhile - Aotearoa - don’t feel so bad - this 🔗 🎙️ podcast from Freakonomics relects on the US construction industry. Turns out it is the only industry that has not become more efficient over the past seventy years - because that is how it is designed!
2023 | 12 | 12
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