🔗 🎙️ Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on Surveillance Capitalism with Kara Swisher
Great listen
You can ‘charge like a bull’. Me, I like to ‘charge like a bandit’.
😂 … words from the lips of my friend John.
"So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin,
You’re waiting for someone to perform with.
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey Jude, you’ll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder."
Thank you for the reminder John.
The First Mile is Owed, the Second is Bestowed https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/18/the-first-mile.html
I’m sorry he’s gone. But that is not what this is about.
It’s that phrase … ‘the UK version’
WTF … I never watch the show - not my cup of tea - but I do get pissed off about things like this. Original things do happen outside of the U.S.A..
The X Factor is a UK show. It ran from 2004 to 2018
🔗 It actually has several versions throughout the world. - that are all franchises of Cowell’s original show.
The US show started 7 years after the UK show started .. in 2011, lasting 3 seasons. It - like all the other shows around the globe .. were licensed courtesy of Cowell.
Better phrasing?
"first for... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/17/im-sorry-hes.html
You know that’s he’s just building up for his next defence. Right?
Searching my site for something totally different and it found 🖇️ this joke post - one of those things that used to circulate the wires. It is seventeen years old. It’s funny - though the names are definitely from a moment in history. The fourth one down caught my eye …
"MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF (COMICAL ALI):
The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We do not even have a chicken."
Comical Ali (Ali G) is of course the Sacha Baron Cohen creation from before Borat …
Fake News in a comedian’s kitbag 17 years ago.
This shit has been going on for too long.
I hope Ted is right.
🔗🎵9️⃣ Predictions for the Future of the Music Business
Want 🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Announces New iPad Mini, With A17 Pro and Pencil Pro Support
Disruption is not Destruction https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/16/disruption-is-not.html
Corruption at the highest levels of British Sport … A Steel Conker no less.
Farewell NewsHub. Didn’t know you that well, but never good to find news funneled through fewer and fewer funnels. In the plus side there are a few solid kiwi voices on Substack picking up the slack.
💬 Go Kevin!
That’s A Wrap.
I’d heard that .. kind of a meta play on the play!
I know I know - but yes only just discovered Mike Dawes - thanks to Rick Beato …
🔗 📼 🎵Here
🔗 📼 🎵And Here
🔗 📼 🎵And Here Again
🔗 📼 🎵The Rick Beato interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1FIm4KYZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQdOCzLH6d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMGZPhbSmwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R19egkC5QsM
The Marksman, 2021 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/the-marksman.html
Gunpowder Milkshake, 2021 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/14/gunpowder-milkshake.html
🔗 Ribbonfarm is Retiring
Translation - I’ve moved to Substack.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/10/10/ribbonfarm-is-retiring/
Josh in one of those congress seats in Central Valley - California - that he flipped - but it is clear that the ‘pubs are trying to spend their way back in. I worry that the dems are ignoring it because CA is ‘safe’.
Josh’s district is just a bit further north than kevin mccarthy’s old hood (The ‘incumben... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/10/13/josh-in-one.html