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John Philpin
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šŸ’¬ 404 Media …

TIL that Franz Ferdinand .. a band I very much enjoyed twenty years ago are still going, still rocking, still releasing. Kudos .. bad me for losing sight of them.

Rant Rant Rant … got it … you don’t like it. I don’t care you don’t like it.

Delete.

One more and it’s ā€˜unsubscribe’.

If I buy a book on Apple Books - the family plan allows all family members to read it. BUT does anybody know if they can read it at the same time?

About 1 seconds remaining it says .. and said 5 minutes ago … #WinningWithApple

iPads upgraded.

iPhone - holding off - it’s an 11 - I worry about it slowing down.

Mac? Should I go for it?

I love this guy - hangs out on insta - and that is an extraordinary list …

I haven’t been using Craft Objects beta .. at all .. but looking forward to it .. particularly after watching a short video from ā€˜Viktor’ that he pushed out in August.

BlueSky flagging CNN links with a warning …

// @dave

https://micro.blog/dave

šŸ”— Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate - Robert Reich .. yes and still not saying vote for Kamala.

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/karl-roves-take-on-tuesdays-debate

Bugger.

Been carefullly avoiding šŸŽšŸ“ŗ for the past three weeks and accidentally clicked in last night and boom .. three episodes of Slow Horses later … and now I have to wait!

šŸŽµ Doom Folk? Tell Me More.

FFS .. these people just need to STFU …

The choice is really clear … BUT .. apparently Kamala might not have the financial chops to navigate the economy … so lets talk about that for thirty minutes

Really .. And the orange Clown does?

10 bucks a year is ok even tho I already have the original .. but the rating is waaay lower. That can’t be good. Can it?

šŸ˜‚ Meanwhile, over on Substack …

šŸ’¬ When you put it like that, it all falls into place.

Interesting to read that Gilmour published lyrics to his new album in ten different local newspapers in England. To what end? Inspire people to buy their local rags? Impressed that they had ten left.

"We’ve learned that Meta Platforms is putting the final touches on one such cluster, which will be a little bigger than 100,000 H100s, located somewhere in the U.S. The company will use the new supercomputing cluster to train the next version of its Llama model—Llama 4, for those of you who are counting—according to a person at the company who is involved in the effort. The cost of the chips alone could be more than $2 billion!"

šŸ’¬ The Information (my bold)