A Lesson For Our Time
Bit by bit I have been ‘unfavoriting’ old posts. They aren’t useful since they don’t tie to a conversation so really are just bookmarks with no context.
This was a link that @brentsimmons dropped in January 2018.
🔗 Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse
Worth a revisit.
Trump is unravelling – even his supporters can’t ignore it now.
Yes they can. They do. All the time
Trudie Styler: ‘We have to get used to feeling uncomfortable’
I’m not sure Trudie would ever understand uncomfortable. Ever!
Ooh ooh ooh
“How do they explain to the American people why the Republican White House and the Republican Senate can be in Washington to carry out their work on behalf of their constituents, but House Democrats cannot?”
I know. I know.
“Sympathy is often difficult and soon becomes hollow if one feels no pain oneself.”
Sophie Scholl
Back at the beginning of March I published a short post on Garbage Language - original article here.
So delighted to be nearly two months ahead of Cloudal Partners who pushed this out a couple of days ago.
Giving kudos to self … is that allowed?
Trump has played the media like a puppet. We’re getting better, history will not judge us kindly.
Margaret Sullivan
… on a similar theme to Jay Rosen 2 days ago and 2 months ago and 2 years ago … in fact since 2015 … if not before!
His most recent observation on the subject.
🚧 Me? I’m still on the ‘let me in’ part of the list. Anyone else care to share their Roam Reflections?
Amazon says it’s a victim of Trump admin’s ‘personal vendetta’ after landing on counterfeit list.
Oh that’s not nice is it? But then I might have more sympathy if you actually played by the rules Jeff.
Asking for a friend
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Share a link from (say) Fiery Feeds you get title and URL sans markdown.
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Open the same post in Safari, do the same thing - all the markdown appears.
Can I make 1 behave like 2?
LATER: The answer lies in Shortcuts
You see what y’all don’t understand is that there are two sets of rules. One for Jeff and one for the rest of us.
Finally got this post behaving as it should.
It shouldn’t be this hard.
Larry Summers?
This week I celebrate the 50th edition of my newsletter.
It includes a quote from Zeno, lyrics from Tom Robinson and asks what do you want the ‘new normal' to be, because
“As always - what happens now - is up to you.”
Peter Gabriel