~🎵🎶 Who knew that Rick Astley’s formative years had him as a Prog Rock / Drummer type. First concert ever? Supertramp or Camel - he can’t quite remember!
“If you hurry to get to the future, you always get a punishment for it. For example, instant coffee.”
💬 Alan Watts
🔗 Artists in Ireland to receive 325 Euros per week
UBI for Artists? Well maybe ‘IBI’ for Artists.
Interesting watch
🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
The real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
But if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
🔗 Top 50 Cybersecurity Influencers
… are you on the list?
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🔗 Help Web2 Users Make Jump to Web3
“If web3 builders continue to ask new web2.5 users to jump into the unfamiliar world of web3 without assets, network, status, or history, reaching widespread adoption will be difficult.”
Why this has to be explained - explains how we got here.
5.2 Million Book Illustrations Deleted from Flickr — Help Get Them Back – The Public Domain Review
It’s not too late - but not much time.
Seriously? there is no way that I wrote that many words last week.
As for the ‘mastery’ and ‘vocabulary’ - I am pretty sure that this is more of a reflection on Grammarly users than me!
Still - you can’t argue with data ….
**Inner Voice: ** Yes You Can. Yes You Should!
Them: Why did you send the document in Pages? I prefer Word.
Me: I resend it in Word
Them: Why didn’t you use ‘track changes’?
Me: I redo the changes with track changes switched on and resend as Word.
Them: How do I accept the changes?
Me: Do You Actually Use Word?
I have closed and archived a number of blogs I had in different places over the past year.
They all now sit in words.philpin.com.
During ‘🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic meeting’ this morning, I finally decided to point an obsidian vault at the blot folder - and see what comes out.
Scary scenario from Jim Wright that I keep reading about - and still, little seems to change.
Is it the industry, or is it ‘the new kids on the block’?
“One of these decades the tech industry is going to grow the fuck up and stop insisting on being the boy wonder and respect what has been accomplished before they showed up. Then we won’t have to constantly be retooling and ripping up the pavement and starting over.”
💬 Dave Winer ( [@dave](https://micro.blog/dave) )
Coincidentally I ended this post ruminating on generational questions ….
“Boomers created the internet and the web and did not turn themselves into money-grubbing billionaires - like GenX and Millenials do today.”
“Now, who’s destroying the world?”
“Depardieu left France and took up Russian nationality in 2013 to protest a proposed tax hike on the rich in his homeland. He received his Russian passport from President Putin in person in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.”
Filed in my bucket of things I did not know.
“While you probably shouldn’t put “proficient in Microsoft Office Suite” on your résumé in 2022,”
I do agree - BUT then why so many job adverts ask for exactly that?
“We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going to space because while he was up there we were organizing a union,”
💬 Chris Smalls