Mars Edit suddenly decides that there is a endpoint error on my Micro Blog API - but wondering if there is something more - because once again posts are taking ‘forever’ to reach the web page.
Is this thing on - he casually wonders ….
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Syria - 2019 - Subject - Oil
I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.
These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in.
We are not, and have never been, the exclusively self-determining, independent beings that have been given the run of the world. We are something else, a part of nature, a part of everything and feeling a connection, shaking our booty and giving and receiving some love can help us find our place - and put a big smile on our faces.
💬 Peter Gabriel
🎥 Chief of Station, 2024 - ★★★
Just a rewatch and LettrBoxd dropped a new post to the feed. Opinion not changed. 🖇️Original Post
🔗 David Sacks sees 2 cities replacing NYC and SF as finance and tech capitalswww.businessinsider.com/david-sac…)
In case you are wondering .. Miami and Austin … right!
🎥 Jay Kelly, 2025 - ★★★
There's that expectations thing again. I started-with high hopes - but no - mainly driven-by the fact that I didn't care about any of them - oh and I still have a hard time taking Adam Sander seriously - and I guess I'm not a giant fan of George to begin with - so no idea where those high hopes came from.
That said - Jax gave it 41/2 stars 'm 'would have been more if it wasn’t such a poor ending'.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Brexit Explained … 😂
Round about minute 19 on the ‘Rest is Politics’ and talking about Chavez and Maduro … they could substitute Tяump for Chavez … the words make even more sense.
Chatting to Claude - it’s response to a suggestion I made ..
Good instinct! Micro.blog sync can be slow.
Not wrong.
🔗 Tesla Car Sales Dropped 9% in 2025, Falling Behind China’s BYD - The New York Times
Tesla’s decreasing sales suggest that a wider slump is in store for electric vehicles
No it doesn’t.
- All markets outside the U.S.A. grew … significantly depending on region … 20 to 30 percent
- The U.S.A. market shrank by 1% and Tesla was 45% of that
- BYD outside U.S.A. grew 28%, Tesla declined by 9%
- BYD OUTSOLD Tesla in every market except U.S.A.
- BYD INSIDE THE U.S.A. close to zero .. that’s what 100% tariffs will do to a business
This from a non journalist using Google for 20 minutes .. SHOULDN’T NYT READERS DESERVE … EXPECT … BETTER?
🔗 Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras - Schneier on Security
All good I am told - nothing to worry about. Move along now.
No, he shouldn’t have done it. No he shouldn’t have invaded, deposed the government, and seized the resources. No he should not have flaunted international law and the sovereignty of nations. But that’s what great powers do – and the greatest tragedy is that this latest act legitimizes such acts by other great powers, from the invasion of Ukraine to the (eventual) taking of Taiwan into China. It reminds us that colonialism hasn’t ended, and that the international order is allowed to exist only if it doesn’t interfere with the desires of the wealthy and powerful
🔗 Derek Peden - Posts need to be more specific
I do the same thing. Sometimes I am so cryptic that when I revisit an old entry - I have no idea what was about. So yes - I understand.
That said - not sure I am going to change that much. Rightly or wrongly.
On Bluesky: I can’t tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
This is one reason I use 🔗 Micro.Blog for 🖇️John.Philpin.com
Straight from the presidential playbook : When in trouble, distract the voters away from your own performance by an act of war. This time it’s the people of Venezuela who are paying the price.
The leading edge is defined by the fact that most of us aren’t on it.
💬 Seth Godin
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ DIKW - 8 years ago
🎥 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016 - ★★★
Having just rewatched the first - would be churlish not to revisit the second. Same conclusion.