Have to say, the ad is so famous with much written about it, that I thought I knew all the ‘nuances’ - at least those nuances in the public domain. Turns out I was wrong.
“Find a writer you like and read them. If you can’t find the writer whose work you want to read, become that writer. That’s what I did. It’s great.”
💬 Cory Doctorow
What the hell has happened?
Me: Can I order food to go?
Them: Of course, our next deliveries are scheduled for next Wednesday.
Me: Sorry, I don’t need a table, just food to go.
Them: Yes sir, I understand. We require 5 working days notice for take-away orders.
Clearly somebody decided to attempt to channel ‘chinese architecture’ when they decided to put this up … they shouldn’t have bothered.
Whenever whoever erected this sign, there must have been a reason.
Ageism - It Never Gets Old 🥁🥁🥁
The promo on some podcast this morning (my bold)
While Tim Cook (Mr. Excitement) has been the CEO of Apple for over 10 years, he’s now getting closer to mid-60s and is probably looking past where he’ll be running things. His legacy is pretty firmly set and there’s not much more at this point he could do, so who will be next in line to run Apple? We’ll look at some of the likely candidates in the second section.
So somebody else could do something that Cook can’t?
Speechless - though not surprised.
- Branson
- Murdoch
- QE2
- McCartney
- Jagger
- Buffett
- De Niro
- Scorcese
… oh why go on?
They should all just stop - right now - because they are all clearly way past the age that ^^^this^^^ dude believes to be the point where you should just put yourself out to pasture.
The one from the 2000s says a lot more, but the one from the 80s means a lot more.
On the click through.
- Two images
- One lesson
Less is more
Facebook’s AI Chatbot Has Election-Denying, Antisemitic Bugs to Work Out.
BUGS!
If this was a product in any decent company, that would be described as a fundamental design flaw leading to the failure of the product to even approach MVP.
Somebody should lock Fuckerberg up.
Count Scott Galloway as one of the people I read and listen to. Not everyone’s glass of vodka .. but it works for me.
Until today.
I appreciate shows need advertisers and sponsors … BUT … Hunter Douglas? I mean nothing wrong with them as a company but hearing the script promoting Hunter Douglas just being read by Scott - the style just didn’t work.
And talking of reading - today he had somebody on reading questions to him - clearly read, clearly scripted, clearly zero connection to even pretend it was an interview … seems like he is trying to give youth a chance … and that’s good … but please … can the youth be talented?
Election deniers winning elections without any hint of irony.
“My spidey-sense feels good about it. If everyone registers, if everyone votes, if all the votes are counted and reported fairly, most people will be satisfied with the outcome.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
I think Dana is very … very … wrong.
Unless by ‘most’ he means the majority … which by definition of the setup he describes is a self fulfilling prophesy.
But we all know that what he describes is not going to happen.
It’s that word ‘everyone’.
Front Page Tech’s writing style is so horrible that they just lost a subscriber.
Imagine the seismic shift in the organ’s readership department, the analysis of what went wrong, the shaking chagrined heads as they wonder how they will now survive losing one more free reader.
I just exported my Feedbin subscriptions from NetNewsWire and then reimported to iCloud.
Seems that I could now cancel Feedbin.
Anyone know why that might be a bad idea?
You had Virtual Reality.
You had Augmented Reality.
Behold - ‘Synthesized Reality’.
Running … Up That Hill
I recently had a good email exchange with Nick Milo (LYT) after a newsletter he wrote that depended a lot on Running Up That Hill.
As a private exchange, I am not going to reveal the conversation, but rather make the observation that Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill not only gained renewed momentum in the UK/US Music charts …. It also seems to have pushed Kate back into the limelight.
Kate will turn 64 years old later this month … it is never too late.
Beyond that, clearly, something else is going on. Detailed below are just three of many more links that I have read recently. Articles by writers I read regularly that each in their own way have latched on to the phenomena.
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William Gallagher - always a good read gave us; Seeking out strange new worlds, and liking them..
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Rick Beato - with a 10 a minute breakdown of the original song.
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The Brisbane choir - always worth a watch have their take on the song.
The new Mac mail is not allowing you to ‘unsend email’ … it’s simply delaying sending your email.
Sorry …
That’s not the same thing.
I’m not talking those personal tech agents on the blockchain - though a reliable one would be nice - more thinking an analogue human - likely working on a fractional basis.
It’s all about the knowns and unknowsn and how you react.
It’s amazing how many millions you can make by selling pillows.
So now you can just suspend elected officials … got it.