Currently reading:
Sapiens - Graphic Novel 01
by Yuval Noah Harari
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**Notes:** I mean - *don’t not* read the original book, but this is a fun way to engage with Harari’s thinking.

Finished reading:
Working Class Boy
by Jimmy Barnes

📚 🎵


**Notes:**

Bookshelf now enabled on Microblog.
Some clean up and updating in front of me - meanwhile - a test post.


“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.


” It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”

Julia Child (on Nouvelle Cuisine)


”Frequently on administrative forms, the options for marital status are single, married, and divorced. (How is ‘divorced’ a status? Isn’t that just single?)”

Scott Galloway


🎬 It is clear that Netanyahu just watched ‘Wag The Dog’


Today’s DayONE prompt … and my response.


Apple Podcasts App is so BAD at managing space on your drive - total hog.




Amazon’s Massive Tracking Network Is Turned On By Default. Here’s How to Turn It Off.

”To be fair, there’s a good reason it did.”

It’s not ‘fair’. It’s scummy … it should be an opt-in choice.


A different way to look at it.


Facebook Moderator Says Karaoke Recommended for Traumatized Workers

When you look around the world - oh say like what’s happening in Gaza / Israel this makes me puke.

Those poor poor Facebook workers that are so traumatized … they don’t even know what it means.


🎬 The cast for the first Knives Out sequel is shaping up to be pretty awesome.

The ‘first’ sequel? A sequel is worrying enough - that there are more in the hopper is deeply concerning.

Such a crap movie … I guess they are doubling down.



WeWork’s CEO said people who are most comfortable working from home are the ‘least engaged’ with their job.

… and there I was thinking that the company might have learned a thing or two … oh well.


Norwegian DPA Issues 2.5M EUR Preliminary Fine for U.S. Company Utilizing Web-Tracking IDs

We’ve had prior threads in here about Disqus privacy and it’s shady tracking.

Looks like they’ve been caught out.


”Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.”

T.S. Eliot


The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it.

”A simple rule for network TV producers. Don’t book election denialists if they haven’t publicly retracted.”

Simple is good.