Apple Seating
On The Viewing Platform
Where the ‘spaceship’ really does feel like it is in space … it’s so far away!
In The ‘Grove’
No backs
In The Cafe
$1200 a pop apparently … or 240 lattes 😅
“American collapse is a catastrophe of human possibility without modern parallel . And because the mess that America has made of itself, then, is so especially unique, so singular, so perversely special — the treatment will have to be novel, too.”
“Wake me up when Alexa can do anything remotely this complex, and I’ll start to worry about Apple “falling behind” in this space.”
When I started with micro.blog I favorited responses from people assuming (wrongly) that the other person saw the response. They don’t.
Then someone mentioned they used favorite to find threads that they wanted to go back to.
Great idea - works like a charm. Thankyou ‘someone’
🎬 Phantom Thread Nominated For Six Oscars
They’re all sewing away …. and I see Somner run through the scene and say, “Alright, you gotta get this dress ready! Here we go! Everybody ready and ACTION!”
And they all kept sewing at exactly the same pace they had been sewing and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Paul Thomas Anderson
If
Just Rediscovered:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!
🚧 UK - USA Differalities (1) : ⚽️ Football
In The UK there is a sport played with the feet - called Football.
In The USA there is a sport played with the hands - called Football.
One of an occasional series of posts commenting on ‘Differalities’ (the ‘commonalities’) that divide the UK and the US.
Rushkoff | Team Human | Episode 74
”Technology philosopher Damien Williams on how the algorithms running society are embedded with the same biases as the people who program them.”
Fascinating …. still listening.
Bezos and Longnow
If you listen to the news, it’s as if;
Longnow hadn’t existed for the past twenty years.
Jeff Bezos woke up yesterday and thought what we need is a 10,000 year clock.
The Bezos investment happened this week.
In fairness, Bezos credits people like Danny Hillis and Zander Rose … I just wish the media would - and get the story right.
Remembering
Hand made with love.
📸 One Two. One Two.
Originally Posted On Instagram
The good news is that the two grey icons are now gone … which means all the tests are working across all my WP sites … the bad news is that I don’t quite have a sea of green.
ONWARDS!
Interesting … using workflow to replicate a page of micro.blog posts into Bear 🐻 … repeat for my entire micro.blog history and I then have a fully searchable hyper-linked record … should work for what I need pending getting search really working on the site.
Where was that dialogue about using workflow to publish from IAwriter to micro.blog [filed under reasons I need search] - wondering if I could modify it for Ulysses - or does one of those exist already?
Why do American TV sports announcers speak with that aggressive,phony, half scream. They could just talk.
Doc Searls : Google Condemns the Archival Web … it’s as if Google is providing more nails than really needed to ensure the coffin is fully sealed and the body isn’t even dead - let alone cold.
With all this talk about eschewing digital and moving to paper … whatever happened to Filofax?
”I can’t drive a Formula One car to work. It would be really cool to be able to do that, and I could probably cut my commute time by a lot. Hey, I’m a good driver, a responsible Formula One owner. You shouldn’t be scared to be on the freeway next to me as I zip around you at 140 MPH, leaving your Mazda in a cloud of dust! Why are you scared? Cars don’t kill people. People kill people.
Proof reading a post and got stuck trying to work out what a ‘Word Professor’ was …
Processor! Processor!