🎵 Been a little lax in keeping up recently - but @justgoodmusic is still cranking out posts thanks to @Cassinato - anyone else want to be a contributor
🎵 Watch Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sing Shakespeare via Eric Alper .
Apple Card and rejecting arbitration - just follow the instructions and in a minute you are done - seamless - no questions - no fuss - no muss.
So many people go on treks to get to ‘know’ themselves… hopefully they aren’t amongst the
”Two per cent of Brits don’t know whether they’ve lived in London before.”
And a raft of other things that we really should know.
Would you know if you have ever in your life surfed?
'Fitting In' Might Be All Bullshit
It’s easy enough to carry a Legal and General umbrella in a sea of ‘bankers black umbrellas’, it’s a very different proposition to take a more meaningful stand against the status quo.
Sorry - don’t believe it
Police thwarted six mass shootings and white supremacist attacks since El Paso
Trump cancels Denmark trip after PM says Greenland is not for sale
”Speaking on Sunday during a trip to Greenland, Mette Frederiksen called purchasing the island “an absurd discussion”.
If only US Republicans would call him out on his stupidity.
‘I prefer non-religious’: why so few US politicians come out as atheists
Americans would vote for …
”bottom of the table came atheist (60%), followed by the one thing considered even worse: socialist (47%).
Love to hear their definition of atheist and socialist.
John Bolton doesn’t want a trade deal with the UK – he wants to colonise us
Will we still be able to spell colonise ‘colonise’ and not ‘colonize’?
”Basically everyone who knows anything about economics left the Trump administration months or years ago.”
Paul Krugman
It’s been a while since GothamGal published anything worth sharing, ‘Clueless' - is priceless (link goes directly to the source).
”Our house is an unassuming 10,515 square feet — noticeably smaller than those near us. We didn’t care.”
You cant make this stuff up!
Interesting newsletter from @ajay - though I think Occupy ‘withering away’ was not just about the arrest/loss of leadership.
Leaderless resistance seems to go back to the 50s/60s … and as I understand is arguably a foundation for a lot of terrorism. E.g. OBL was captured but Al-Qaeda does seem to be alive and well!
And now the strategy has been adopted in America … just not in a good way.
A lot of people must be trying to get their new Apple Pay card this morning.
What could possibly go wrong?
Uber’s own numbers show why investors shouldn’t believe in its vision
Well knock me down with a feather.
Before we teach visitors how to pronounce Edinburgh, let’s focus on how to pronounce our own towns and villages in England.
20 towns and villages in Sussex nobody really knows how to pronounce properly.
… though only a handful that I thought even necessitated a debate.
Shareholder First
Leading US bosses drop shareholder-first principle.
As the article opens ...
"The real test will be in deeds not words."
Have to say until action - and I mean real action - this jury is out!
Read the opinion by Larry Elliott in The Guardian
Watching. I don’t think People First has won just yet!
“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.”
Ben Thompson, Mojo
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