From one of my sources for balanced, considered reason.
As I try to cover the news tonight, I am struck by how completely the Republican Party, which began in the 1850s as a noble endeavor to keep the United States government intact and to rebuild it to work for ordinary people, has devolved into a group of chaos agents feeding voters a fantasy world.
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All European semis I see.
And before you say wait … Australia … one word … Eurovision.
Why does ordering a cup of coffee require a 5 minute discussion?
🔗 Daring Fireball: Where’s My Fainting Couch?
Related: Jeremy Vaught registered the @music account on Twitter 16 years ago, and had posted to it frequently. He is a paying Twitter Blue subscriber. And X Corp just took the handle from him, like they did to the guy who had @x. This company is a great and trustworthy partner for individual creators.
The Account in question.
Fucker.
🔗 Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #248
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a certain effort on God’s part, that some form of artistic struggle had taken place. This struggle is the validating impulse that gives God’s world its intrinsic meaning. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is imbued with the vital spirit, the pneuma, of its creator.
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Just One Story From The Aftermath Of Maui
I wouldn’t call Avi Ronen a ‘friend’, we met a few times on Maui, he being one of those musicians that call Maui their home. This is his post on Facebook.
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Our house is gone All the beautiful memories All my guitars over a hundred All gone lines of truss rods standing Like sad soldiers my amps pedals
All the custom guitars I’ve build and kept All the acoustic guitars that KP made for me all gone I’m so devastated beyond words We’re safe my girls are great stronger than me I’m so sad Our town looks insane it’s so horrible Everything gone The only thing that’s left in lahaina town is my shop still standing I don’t even know what to do next I’m so devastated So many lives lost in our town The damage is absolutely insane Looks like an atomic bomb blew up in lahaina It’s so sad heartbreaking Sorry I had to share this I want to wish peace and love to everyone we are so heart broken over our sweet town My house all the memories And all my guitars so heart breaking
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🔗 Rebuilding will be a huge and costly undertaking, governor says - Honolulu Civil Beat (Apple News).
So much being written comparing this disaster to other disasters around the world U.S.A.
Finally, someone writing about what will make the recover absolutely unique, and very very difficult.
Also delaying recovery is the fact that Maui is a less populous island in a remote island state. Robert Fenton, FEMA’s Region 9 administrator, likened the Maui fire to wildfires such as a 2018 blaze that destroyed much of the town of Paradise, California. He said the scale of destruction reminded him of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. But a major difference, he said, is the ability to respond. On the mainland, he said, it’s possible to quickly “muster 3,500 dump trucks” to move rubble. “I just can’t do it here,” he said.
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Somebody needs to employ me as an analyst.
Bloomberg : 🔗 WeWork Raises ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Staying in Business.
Me : 🔗 Four years ago referencing me from three years before that.
🔗 MarsEdit 5.1b1: Initial Mastodon Support … oh - very nice @danielpunkass
🔗 RSS continues to be so dea…oh…alive and well … shared from my RSS Reader..
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Maui County officials are asking visitors to leave Lahaina and Maui as soon as possible, noting seats were available on outgoing flights. More than 11,000 people were flown out of Maui on Wednesday, according to Hawaii Department of Transportation director Ed Sniffen.
… even as other idiots are flying **to Maui **- remarking that ‘it will all work out’ … DICKS.
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🔗 🎙️ 🎵 A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other - The New Yorker
The New Yorker writing about one of the best music podcasts ever by Andrew Hickey.
I’ve posted about the podcast before - it is absolutely incredible. A tour de force - but apparently that wasn’t enough for Hickey because …
The only background necessary to grasp a bit of Hickey is his bibliography: he has completed a guide to the first fifty years of “Doctor Who”; a book about “The Strange World of Gurney Slade” (a surreal comedy series that ran for six episodes on ITV in 1960); histories of the Monkees, the Kinks, and Los Angeles pop music of the nineteen-sixties; an “unauthorised guide” to a comic-book series called “Seven Soldiers of Victory”; and a three-volume catalogue of every track the Beach Boys have recorded.
PostScript - I discovered the podcast via @dave who was waxing lyrical about it a while back.
A trip down memory lane …. I’ll stop now.
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A post about Hopin - two years ago valued at $7.75B, core assets just sold at $15M (not typos)
Final paragraph reads;
That all being said, the person who did come out of this one looking like a true shrewd player is Johnny Boufarhat, Hopin’s founder. He cashed out nine figures worth of secondaries. He played the game like a pro.
… “he played the game like a pro” - and that right there is the problem … VC hubris and stupidity aside.