@tchambers and I guess ‘having the ability to .. as opposed to actually doing it are two different things.

@fischr not seen it .. yet .. and Rowan is definitely not an automatic slam dunk … but the guardian called it the most trite Christmas show possible .. and still gave it two stars 🤓

@tchambers love the ‘ search of @sod ‘

@tchambers Banksy immortalizes the UPS delivery service?

@ScottHansonDE ‘the third’ is impressive .. even of itself .. at noon surely makes it eligible for The Guinness Book of Records?

@bradenslen but the land will no longer be theirs and definitely not green.

@dave they should have looked in Tяump’s bathroom first.

@fischr ouch

@dfte Expect the best. Prepare for the worst.

@benwerd

> Ghost has launched ~13,600 federated blogs

That doesn’t seem to be a very high number - I’m clearly missing a nuance somewhere … wonder how many federated blogs @manton has in Micro.Blog ❓

@fromjason I think you’ve massively missed the point of his central thesis - though I am 💯 with you on the AI image - maybe I can get him to make a new year resolution - starting with the culling of all AI images from the ‘story so far’.

@bradenslen

Q: how many brads does it take to change a light bulb❓

A: 1/2

@kalikambo another reason I like Craft - opt in only.

@bradenslen I sent all my friends that are Tяump delusionists a gold bar so they could make their own coins … cost me nothing - despite gold being at an all time high.

@bradenslen just watch it .. the series story arc is not such a mystery that you won’t get it.

@drwalt the Chinese cars weren’t exactly arriving in the years between Tяump 1 and Tяump 2.

Down here in NZ there SEEM to be a lot of BYD - though the actual numbers for the country are relatively low - as high as 7% a few months ago - but typically around 2%. (I am Auckland - which might be why the bias of perception?_

Chinese manufacturers as whole - around 10 to 15 percent - month by month - US manufactures sit in the 5 to 10 percent range.

@todd Dana Blankenhorn is an interesting chap to follow on this topic.

@drwalt 🖇️ what doesn’t China dominate?

@fromjason essentially - although not a ‘single centralised hub’ - more ‘distributed nodes’ - since nowhere - anywhere - is there - let alone should there be - or could there be - ‘one ring to rule them all’. As a result he has developed an identity protocol to do just that … central to his thesis - the internet is about things - and identity is about people - and you don’t solve identity issues with things - use them yes but a thing doesn’t define you.

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