🔗 Paris is saying ‘non’ to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe.

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.

🔗 The EV Revolution is Upon Us.


🔗 🎵 Car Drivers Torment a City with Celine Dion Songs

Protest songs are everywhere - except on TV or radio.


(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?


🔗 What is the Bechdel test?

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.


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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?