Flat Earth rising: meet the people casting aside 2,500 years of science.
”A YouGov poll indicated that a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 were unsure of the shape of our planet, in spite of scientific proofs from Pythagoras to Nasa.
Speechless. Which is rare for me!
Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of ‘extortion and blackmail’
He has his detractors for sure … but this move, I thought, was very very good.
Philip Green faces £3m legal bill as he drops Telegraph action
Nothing in the article suggests that Green is anything but guilty .. as with so many other things he has done over the years .. the question is … will he again get away with it?
It seems that the term ‘Super Bowl' is now officially an oxymoron.
OK - I tried it - and now I am stopping.
Following mastodon peeps in the MB timeline makes it too cluttered and distracting.
So now as I see someone posting from mastodon I will unfollow - and follow over in mastodon itself.
OOHH OOHH OOHH … guess what I just got in the post @macgenie ….. thankyou.
Hawaii looking to ban cigarette sales to anyone under 100
… it seems to be a serious thought.
In case I haven’t shared this before, a little ‘belt and braces’, as they say in the ‘old country’.
Emails Show Facebook Is Well Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy.
”The Facebook executives who approved this ought to be going to jail. Facebook is to privacy what Enron was to accounting."
John Gruber
”If you set out to design a platform that would poison America’s discourse and its politics, you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more destructive than Twitter.”
Cal Newport
W.H.O. calls to reclassify weed.
”If the changes are adopted, it would serve as an admission by world governments that they were wrong about marijuana."
Kevin Urgiles
The Internet Saved the Record Labels
Not yet it hasn’t …. and by what measure is a total revenue still 15% below where it was 12 years ago measured a success?
See what I mean @blot ?
🔗 Mind my Picasso… superyacht owners struggle to protect art.
”Some 1 percenters are forced to hire art historians to come aboard their superyachts to help restore multimillion-dollar paintings damaged by cornflake shrapnel and champagne corks.”
No comment. Absolutely none.
Are millennials overqualified for the jobs they hold? - Deloitte Insights
… imagine how over qualified the boomers and ‘greatest generations’ must be. Think about it the next time you watch a +70 year old packing your groceries.
The Black and White Minstrel Show
Last seen on BBC TV IN 1978 On stage in London until 1988
Northam photograph 1984.
Time - itâs just a construct.
📸 Time - it’s just a construct.
