📸 🌊 Been waiting for a better shot all day - but other than different levels of light - this is has been ‘it’ for the day. All day.
The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True.
Umair Haque nearly a year ago. He seemed a little extreme back then.
https://eand.co/the-gops-vision-of-an-authoritarian-america-is-coming-true-c74bea74710
🎈170/366 Over on Substack, Tom Cox dispatched a newsletter : All The Life Coaches Have Life Coaches.
There were some comments, but nobody seemed to be looking at the title, which prompted me to remark that I thought it was Hawking that introduced ‘turtles all the way down’ to a broader audience and went on to wonder if this refinement relates.
"If all life coaches have a life coach can that life coach coach the life coach that coaches his life? Or is it life coaches all the way down?"
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomcox/p/all-the-life-coaches-have-life-coaches
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I need to understand what this means. It’s from an essay that I tried to read, which lead me to the conclusion that I am definitely not the target reader, which might explain why this seems to be the absolute opposite of my understanding of even ‘why’ an ecosystem.
I will try to 🚧 revisit.
We live in a world where everything is Alternative .. and so nothing is.
Curious final line in Matt Mullenweg’s post re Apple Intelligence.
"(Interesting that Apple has now started to adopt the playground terminology.)"
💬 Matt Mullenweg
I am no expert on these things - but …
Didn’t Wordpress come out with ‘Playgrounds’ last year?
Haven’t Apple been using ‘Playgrounds’ for around a decade?
Lift, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/17/lift.html
The most immediate existential threat to the world is not climate change, or nuclear proliferation, or growing the population, or anything else. It is Trump. No more. No less. Don’t sit back and think that this is just an American problem.
📸 🌊 Early one morning, just as ….
I was very happy to learn that the ferry goes to the mainland every hour and that the bus to the ferry also goes every hour.
I was not happy to learn that the bus arrives at the ferry around 3 minutes after the ferry leaves.
Filed in the ‘stuff you can’t make up’ bucket.
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Not seen much comment about this (but then I don’t always read the right things).
Sadly I won’t be experiencing it any time soon.
1] Serious to @gruber and team
2] If Apple doesn’t know - I feel they should work it out … quickly.
Stopping now - 🔗 📼 to watch the 2D version.
https://micro.blog/gruber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7al_Gpolb8
Listening to Scott Galloway on the show with Kara .. essentially defending ‘work based’ sexual predators. Yes he qualifies … but no.
Listening to the latest ‘Automators’. First time in a LONG time, but interested to listen into the WWDC through the Lens of Automation.
@dsparks and @rosemaryorchard doing a good summary. I second the ‘don’t update advice’. I have a spare iPad that I use for Beta. So not totally pissed off that it is curr... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/listening-to-the.html
🔗 I’ve done mine. .. have you done yours?
🔗 Thanks for the the link Joe/
(This is why my 🖇️ Guestbook blog roll is useful.)
https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2 https://artlung.com/blog/2024/06/15/my-political-compass-2003-2024/ https://john.philpin.com/blogroll/guestbooks/
Guestbooks, Blogrolls, Reciprocity and Paying It Forward https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/guestbooks-blogrolls-reciprocity.html
Safe House, 2012 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/safe-house.html
Elvis, 2022 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/16/elvis.html
"When asked how I juggle so many different roles, I explain that each time I add a new one, I do all the others a bit worse. …"
💬 Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
💬 A Couple O’ Crackers that resurfaced today …
