60 years ago, Stephen Stills wrote a little song about confrontation with ‘the authorities’ on the strip in LA. I’ve noticed it cropping up a lot as background to shared videos.
There’s something happening here
… no shit Dick Tracy
What it is ain’t exactly clear
… it is if you are paying attention
There’s a man with a gun over there
… men .. and way more than guns
Telling me I’ve got to beware
… no ~ telling me to ‘lie to comply’
It’s a great song and a superb battle cry for the masses .. but ‘26 is no ‘66.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Apparently my language pedantry is not new.
When Ed’s on a roll … Ed’s on a roll
“Stargate” is commonly misunderstood as a Trump program, or something that has raised $500 billion, when what it actually is is Oracle raising debt to build data centers for OpenAI. Instead of staying in its lane as a dystopian datacenter mobster, Oracle entered into negative-to-extremely-low margin realm of GPU rentals, raising $58 billion in debt and signing $248 billion in data center leases to service a 5-year-long $300 billion contract with OpenAI that it doesn’t have the capacity for and OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay for.
🔗 Ranked: The 35 Countries with the Highest Household Debt - that is highest a percentage of GDP.
New Zealand comes in a 5th, the UK 11th and the USA - 13th. Seperately both Australia and Canada beat out New Zealand for the ‘top 5 honors’.
Not sure what that all means. I certainly can’t see obvious corolations with others on the list.
… and why shouldn’t he? He was wronged. And anyone who tells him different will be sent to the gulag. Tяump - you are wrong.
Take care out there.
Take care out there.
Back On To Content Again.
Chris Lockhead posted 🔗 this on LinkedIN
It’s LinkedIn oatmeal.
Chris is right, so I replied:
Content is homogenous, undifferentiated and fully interchangeable with any other content - like any other ‘grain’ that sits in a silo.
- Can you really tell one grain of wheat from another?
- Is your post/comment really interchangeable with every one else’s?
If so - content it is. If not - guess what - it is not content. So don’t call it content.
Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word and so - like a grain of wheat - any individual piece of ‘content’ has no value. The value is in the total silo.
It is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the ‘buyers’ (I use the term loosely) of our sweat, labour, thought and time to create our IP - to keep their costs down. So, content is what THEY will continue to call it. Don’t fall into that trap.
Our costs are not kept down. Our net earnings do suffer. They are suffering badly.
Oh - and a quick reminder - been saying this for years. As have others - like 🖇️ Will Arnett talking to Dana Gould
It’s especially popular among developers and tech-savvy users like you
… clearly Perplexity does not know me.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Reich calling it Oct 31, 2018
We were pleased to see the Mac install base reach another all-time high, with nearly half of customers who purchased a Mac being new to the product.
💬 "Tim 🍎"
🤯
Dear ð
No.
Just No.
Dear 🍎
No.
Just No.
All I did was click on the unsubscribe link.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ ‘Waving Canes’ back in 2019 - maybe time to formalise @bradenslen / @mitchwagner ❓
All I did was click on the unsubscribe link.
🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s.
And vice versa apparently.
If correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future