Avatar
John Philpin
273166971272ae646440104fe03f095f3e9ed4ef99ee9914dd1640384fbec076
People First

anyone else suddenly being asked by LinkedIN to verify themselves with a Govt ID?

If you want any proof that facts no longer matter ….

Since April based on the rumor of one man, shares rose 73%.

Those same shares dropped 8% over night on the facts that revenue only grew 2%, profit dropped 45%, a second quarter of reduced deliveries of product, missed Wall Street Forecasts of the FOURT... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/25/if-you-want.html

🪦 A force of nature. A musician’s musician. A great ride and a phenomenal catalogue. You gave us you .. and everyone else. Farewell John and thank you.

Ganapathy Kumar has 2 Billion Views on Unsplash .. that billion … with a ‘B’.

https://unsplash.com/blog/behind-2-billion-with-ganapathy-kumar

Kier Starmer Talks Our Language

/* Style to set a fixed size for the video */

.video-container {

width: 600px; /* Set your desired width */

max-width: 100%; /* Allow the video to shrink to fit the screen */

margin: 0 auto; /* Center the video horizontally */

}

.vide... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/22/kier-starmer-talks.html

That’s my Alibi .. and I’m sticking to it.

Uplighting seemed ro be a speciality of the establishment.

The beer is in the room next door, love the delivery mechanism.

For your tasting pleasure.

https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/933cb68708a2413a805aec57f86dd9f4.jpg" class="embedded-image" loading="lazy"> https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2024/64bb2a316749490091a2930cb92173d9.jpg" class="embedded-image" loading="lazy">

Noting that Google have taken it upon themselves to destroy even more of the internet.

They know no bounds do they?

Galen Leather has a new notebook … very nice looking ..

I had nearly 100 podcasts in my queue … so purge time - again. Down to four and at the same time unfollowed a number of streams - mainly ‘tech’ ones where the host(s) are wandering off topic into subject areas that they clearly do not understand. #LifeIsToShort

💬 🎵

I find a lot ogf Andrew Hickey’s observations quite insightful. Like this one ….

😂😂😂😂😂

"Guilfoyle, who has not yet learned to speak, but has perfected the art of shouting, was in typically understated mode. (James Poniewozik, The New York Times’ chief TV critic, wrote that her speech had threatened to “Make America Deaf Again.”)"

Remember all the crap about back door access being needed to a phone’s OS to protect us … yup … crap.

"FBI agents used technology from Cellebrite, a company well known among law enforcement agencies for helping them access data on phones seized or recovered in criminal investigations, to quickly access a cellphone they found with Crooks’s body, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post this week."

Four Dweebs who are on record with their douchiness does not constitute ‘all’ ‘VCs’ or ‘Silicon Valley’ who are the others racing towards a love affair with ‘Trance’ ?

I think they have confused their mushrooms with ‘the ticket’.

A new bank card for me involves a ceremony that includes cutting the old card into bits and distributing the bits into various places .. today I got my new 🍎💳, the ceremony needs a tweak .. replace scissors with hacksaw?

Play Misty For Me

I’ve read a few of these from the various pundits - but I particulalrly liked this from @gruber 🔗 It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns

https://micro.blog/gruber https://daringfireball.net/2024/07/its_the_guns

Is it really ‘VCs’ - or a tiny SUBCLASS of VCs?

Thiel, Andreesen, Musk .. I see all the Valley’s Nut Jobs are revealing themselves.

"Your ancestors survived centuries of floods, wars, famine, slavery, and plagues for you to sit on the toilet and compare your life to people on the internet you’ve never met.

Be grateful."

💬 Mark Manson