Apparently Halloween is here again.
I particularly liked the basket and pulley system for socially distanced candy delivery.
Stupidity seems to be boundless and ever expanding.
In Trump’s first term, the country was protected to some degree by his ignorance and ineptitude. He kept trying to do bad things, but it took him a while to figure out how the controls operated, where the kill-switches were located. By the time of his attempt to extort the Ukrainian president, in 2019, Trump had achieved a higher degree of mastery. But by then it was too late. Then the pandemic struck, and Trump bumped into a new wall of failure. In a second Trump presidency, however, the burglars will arrive already knowing how to bypass the alarms and disable the locks. He’ll understand that it’s not enough to install an ally as attorney general—he must control the secondary and tertiary ranks of the Justice Department too. He won’t allow himself to be talked into another chief of staff with an independent sense of duty, such as John Kelly, who averted much harm from the middle of 2017 to the beginning of 2019. It’ll be Mark Meadows types from day one to day last. And he’ll bring with them a new generation of Republican officeholders whose top priority will be rearranging their states’ election laws so that Republicans do not lose power even if they lose the vote.
That’s the future Trump is preparing.
Be ready.
Apple is clearly doomed!
I’m probably old school - but if an apps menu needs more than half the screen to display its top level menu - maybe the developer needs to rethink the design?
Reorganize your ‘T E A M’ and you get ‘M E T A’ .. noting that here now and wondering how long it will be before we see that thought in the wild.
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
💬 Elbert Hubbard
Who else thinks Squid Game got the boiler suit and mask idea from Money Heist?
Jamie Lee Curtis calls Hollywood “an ageist industry”
What industry isn’t ageist?
Just switched my micro blog design to Tufte - thankyou @pimoore - reminding myself of his great books.
There are some nuances to Pete’s work that I am going to have to get my head around for maximum effect.
It is also clear that cleanup from previous experiments is overdue!
Supply and Demand curve broken.
I would have thought that a $19 piece of cloth would have had low demand and therefore pretty much instantly available.
But no ….
Apparently a $19 piece of cloth will take until the end of November to deliver to you.
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“This year, S&P 500 companies have said the words ‘supply chain’ on earnings calls more than ‘synergy’ or ‘value proposition’ combined.”
.. and talking of Supply Chain - Great Read From Venkatesh Rao
“He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.”
💬 Richard Hamming
This is really clever …but I know I am not going to get round to using it.
Filed under ‘the law of diminishing returns’.
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Shopify Launches Global ERP Program
I love this. Kudos to Shopify who just keep innovating.
The new Rolling Stone: ‘More immediate, more visceral’ and tougher on Eric Clapton
Matt Taibi left in April of last year - surely he would have been a perfect fit for what Noah Shachtman is saying he wants to do.
Sadly over a year between Matt leaving and Noah arriving.
I don’t want unique ‘sounding’ … I want unique .. or not .. I just think ‘sounding’ sounds fake!