San Francisco schools the Left
Joe Biden received 85% of the vote in San Francisco in 2020. Those board members just lost their seats by more than 70%. A cultural rebellion within the Democratic Party has begun.
🎬 Rent for $5.99 or Buy for $9.99 … I didn’t expect to see that kind of offer on a movie as well reviewed as Dune!
🎶🎼🎵Dave Grohl calls Liam Gallagher “one of the last remaining rock stars”
I like Dave Grohl. I’m enjoying his new book. But that doesn’t mean to say I agree with him on everything.
This is one of those. Vehement disagreement.
📚Three Interesting ‘Writer’ Links
By the way - Gallagher’s YouTube Channel - 58Keys is worth checking out. Nice to see that I subscribed when his count was in the hundreds - and now it is over 2 1/2 thousand.
🖇️ The second session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is coming up - delighted that @artkavanagh will be hosting. Sadly @ton will not be able to make it, so his session will need to run at a future event.
Otherwise, looks like we are all in for a good session on the 6th/7th March.
I’ve been waiting 15 years for Facebook to die. I’m more hopeful than ever.
Cory Doctorow in The Guardian.
We keep on hoping … but even if it does something else will fill the void.
This is a referral link to SetApp .. full disclosure - if you decide to ‘go for it’ - we both get a free month of SetApp.
Over to you.
Oleksandr Kosovan, CEO & Founder of MacPaw (the company behind SetApp) on the Ukrainian situation.
I Wonder If There Is A Fix For This?
If I share an article to Drafts from NetNewswire, something like this appears in my draft
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/2022-02-25-0
If I first open the item in the browser … the full info, created in Markdown appears in my draft, like this.
Nelson Mandela’s paintings from prison to be sold as NFTs – Web3 Is Going Just Great
Anyone know if I can get the full Markdown direct from the feed rather than needing to go to the browser first?
“I am a rock. I am an island.
The cranes in the port of Oakland, CA inspired George Lucas to create a certain ‘machines found in Star Wars … these ones are in Auckland.
Only one berth had a ship in place.
When people talk about supply chain constraints in New Zealand .. they mean no ships and no containers.
“The only way to solve this is by creating new systems that start by equipping customers with their own standardized ways to interact with any service function on the sellers' side, at scale. We actually have tools for that called phones and browsers, but we need to advance on both.”
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
Aphorisms for 2022 - by Dana F. Blankenhorn
”Know that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.”
and
”Some tunnels are longer than others.”
“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
Two interesting viewpoints to what is going on with how we have handles - are handling Ukraine.
I Might Be Wrong : Jeff Maurer
Can Venezuela bring Putin to his knees : Greg Palast
Both well worth a read.
“My notes always grow longer if I shorten them. I mean the process of compression makes them more pregnant and they breed new notes.”
Revisiting Oracle
In another life I worked for Oracle in the UK and thence onto the US. When I first met my boss to be, the UK offices were in Richmond. By the time I had joined, they had moved to Chertsey. Within a couple of years we had moved to Bracknell and around year 6 (by which time I was in San Francisco), Reading became their home.
Trying to find some picture of the buildings for a different reason and came across this.
Just a couple of examples. Click through for the mess that it was.
How sad.
The Cherstey offices were always my favorites and home to good friends and good people working on so many things including Oracle’s FIRST applications - delivered through C.A.S.E. Who knew it had fallen into such disrepair? The photos seem to date back to 2015 … but looks like they are no more - and an elderly care home is now there. I wonder if there any residents today that worked in those office back then?
It was long enough ago.
Question for the Micro Blog cognescenti …
Am I right in thinking that a book can only be on one shelf - and just one shelf?
Example, if I read The Jobs Biography, then it sits on the ‘Read’ shelf which means it can’t also be on a second shelf that’s called (say) Biography?
I finally got some of my shirts onto hangers.
