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🎥 In Bruges, 2008 - ★★★★
I watched this for the second time … inspired by how great ‘The Banshees’ was. Just as good as I remembered it. Excellent … and on Netflix at the moment.
So you are wondering if there is a tool to solve a specific problem you have. Turns out there is a tool for that exact issue .. and it has rather a memorable name …
Got to say, sitting on my-couch randomly dropping prompts into Pintador on my iPad mini and waiting for like no time at all to see the results is very very satisfying.
🎵 Including ‘Goodbye Pork Pie Hat’ here reminded me of Bert and John from 68 - and later Pentangle - one of my ‘gateway entries’.
January 13th.
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🎵 Some reminders of how awesome Mr Beck was …
With Roger Waters on Amused To Death
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Brush With The Blues
I read a lot about what Texas and Florida are doing to attract people to their respective states to work .. ‘no’ to ‘little’ tax being a big selling point. They don’t spend quite as much time talking about what rights you have.
🎵 Do 326 people 'like' Jeff Beck being dead?
There has been a lot of traffic on Micro Blog about ‘like’ buttons - as in should there be one? Some of those conversations have been repackaged and moved into other places - like this one from Dave Winer.
The challenge is that writers tend to see the like as a ‘nod’ of agreement with what they have written .. or at least as some kind of feedback …
“In real life there’s all kinds of non-verbal communication. you can nod your head, smile. We’ve come up with a similar language online, I don’t think there’s any more meaning in this. We’re being human. Not a huge surprise.”
💬 Dave Winer
I’m not so sure. I am far from consistent as to how I use likes and I am guessing I am not alone. BUT … But the point of this post is not to provide a counter argument - but rather highlight the inadequacy of the like button a measure of popularity.
You won’t have missed yesterday’s news of the passing of Jeff Beck.
Patti Smith used her newsletter to share the news and a link to just one example of Beck’s extraordinary guitar playing.
As of this morning she has 326 likes and 59 comments …. it is clear from the comments the sentiment - but the likes?
What are they liking?
- The news he is dead?
- The track from ‘Amused to Death’?
- That the ‘liker’ is flagging their solidarity with her and Roger’s position on Palestine?
- The fact she posted something - and they are bookmarking ‘seen’?
- They just ‘auto like’ everything - and haven’t even read it? Because even Readwise users, who you would have thought actually did … well … read! … don’t.
To be clear, I have no horse in the race. IF [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton) added like buttons here -
- it wont be the end of the world
- i bet whether they are enabled will be under my control
Back to Jeff … one of the best comments was a simple
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🎵🔗 Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
… “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis”
F U C K !
Analysis? How much analysis was needed for this conclusion?
January 12th.
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The 7 cities you ‘must visit before you die,’ according to 50 travel experts—only one is in the U.S. (Apple News).
Five down. Two to go.
The minute I book a flight I read this. (Apple News) … more on where to and why in a future post.
Any recommendations from the cognoscenti regarding subscription tracking … trust worthy ones and all that … the internet says ‘Rocket Money’ do we agree?
January 11th.
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Reid Hoffman talking with Sam Altman … first question …
“what is the business opportunity?”
Says it all.
“If you enjoyed following the fracas in the House of Representatives last week, but found it too dignified, too respectful of a hallowed institution — well then, the Sussex vs. Windsor chronicles are for you.”
💬 Ben Smith .. Semafor
Is it possible not to be respectful of respectable people?