Horace … 🔗 iPhone only Smartphone to Grow in China this January
Clearly 🍎 has lost the plot.
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This could be worse than ‘the wardrobe malfunction’
.. 😮 .. and I am told that I need to be more culturally relevant!
📸 Nice
🔗📼🎵 The forgotten band that changed British rock music.
In all honesty - not a great video - but just happy to see The Strawbs being talked about.
Not a cover - totally original - and brilliant as Ren often is.
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Loved Tears for Fears - Bluegrass not so much - BUT there is some superb Bluegrass work that leaks through to my appreciative ears.
Like this one.
📼🔗🎵 Sierra Hull - Mad World (Tears For Fears) | DelFest (2022) - YouTube
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Loved Yes - never a big fan of Asia - despite Asia often being made up of people I love … like Wetton, Howe, Palmer and Downes for example and Fanfare is one of my favourite ELP tracks.
(BTW - nothing like ELPs and IMHO a massive improvement.)
🔗 Communities are not fungible
Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible. A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible.
Just like ‘content’.
Dont like that idea? Stop calling your work content.
Make IP Great Again
AI delivers greater value when it reduces friction, simplifies interaction, and improves workflow efficiency.
💬 Geoffrey Moore
🔗 You Don’t Need Democracy If You Don’t Have People
Will tech billionaires get rid of democracy by getting rid of people?
🔗 Loops, by Paul Ford (Ftrain)
I’m trying to set up a working feedback loop: Fingers to keys; keys to sound; sound to ears; ears to brain; brain to fingers. Getting to anything like flow is very hard unless I’m going slow, slow.
🔗 House votes to rescind Trump’s Canada tariffs
Dear Mark
Don’t blink. Don’t trust them. Hold your course.
BizCat360 just published one of my articles: 🔗 Coherence Is The New Moat. #Enjoy
Takaichi walked away from the Feb. 8 vote with a historic landslide, securing a rare two-thirds supermajority in the lower house for her Liberal Democratic Party. The LDP went into the day with 198 seats in the 465-seat chamber and walked out with 316. That’s the largest mandate in Japan’s postwar history, bigger even than any won by Shinzo Abe, Takaichi’s late mentor. The LDP can now override vetoes from the upper house, where it lacks a majority. After cycling through revolving-door prime ministers for years, Japan has elected its most powerful leader since World War II.
💬 Ian Bremmer
🔗 Razer’s resurrected 25-year-old gaming mouse will cost you $1,337
.. but hurry - because they are only making 1,337 of them.
No - I don’t understand the significance either.
OpenAI is not open. The irony❗️
🔗 Paolo ~ It’s still time for free AI love
The thing is, we’re at a moment where the technology moves so fast that locking into a single vendor’s AI stack feels reckless. In the last few months we moved most of our work from OpenAI to Anthropic. Not because OpenAI is bad, but because Claude turned out to be better for what we do. In a few months we might move again. The point is that we can.
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We can because we own our prompts, our skills, our databases, our memory architecture, they all live in our bar. None of it lives inside OpenAI or Anthropic.
Wise
Adam Tinworth … 🔗 Journalism isn’t dying
Less than a week after massive layoffs at the Washington Post which have sent shockwaves through the media world, this seems like a strange thing to say, but journalism is not dying. In fact, it’s in no danger of dying. It’s being reborn all around us, right now.
Me back in 2018 : 🖇️ Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
I think it’s a related argument - add in the argument about ‘saving the planet - we are killing it’. Yes we are - but that os not the problem.
In all three cases we are looking at the wrong thing.
It was the music industry that was dying - not music - as that headline in 2018 highlights and as we see today. Not saying it isn’t hard. It is - but it is very much around.
As for Climate Change - sure - it might wipe out humanity - but the planet will be just fine. Its a bugger what we are doing to it - but in all honesty if we werent around - the planet would recover.
So too journalism.
On reading ð this Naughton missive - yes I was taken with the Banksy image - and â¦
“â¤ï¸andalism”
.. of course. (Clever). But really my eyes were more drawn to the hostelry.
A Youngs Pub? In Bristol? Life in Blighty has clearly improved since I left, because when I was a lad - finding a Youngs pub outside of Wandsworth was generally classed as a âbit of a findâ.
Then again, when I was a lad I couldnât pop over to the… john.philpin.com/2026/02/1…
