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🔗 Elon Musk-Funded PAC Supercharges ‘Progress 2028’ Democrat Impersonation Ad Campaign

I don’t now - what you going to do?

https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-funded-pac-supercharges-progress-2028-democrat-impersonation-ad-campaign/

"“It feels to me like there’s one thing The Who can do, and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.”"

💬 Pete Townsend

On the one hand you’ve got this …

How Virtual Reality Died - by Ted Gioia - The Honest Broker

And on the other you’ve got this …

Daring Fireball: Surgeons Are Wearing Vision Pro to Perform Laparoscopic Procedures

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/how-virtual-reality-died https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/10/25/vision-pro-surgeons

… and The BBC throws out a cliff hanger in the headline and reveals the answer in the ‘sub’ .. in case you don’t have time to read it all.

Meanwhile in an alternate reality …

Not that anyone cares. Bezos certainly doesn’t.

🪦 ‘Pharewell Phil’ .. say hi to Jerry.

Yet another app that having joined their wait list they will let me know if I am good enough to join their beta. They said if I am a good fit - but I know what they mean.

There is so much wrong with the Micro Blog iOS client .. I use Drafts mainly .. but still need the client if posting images … what else do people use?

Kevin Drim at Jabberwocking …

💬 Doesn’t seem to be heretical to me …

🔗 New study says Black drivers ticketed at 3x the rate of white drivers.

Kevin Drum just keeps these nuggets flowing daily - multiples of time.

https://jabberwocking.com/new-study-says-black-drivers-ticketed-at-3x-the-rate-of-white-drivers/

If you use paid Chat GPT and had been looking at paying Perplexity - only one survives. Would you switch?

🔗 Donald Trump’s contempt for the military, quote by quote

A good(? - not sure that is the right word) list from Kevin Drum.

Eye opening.

https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trumps-contempt-for-the-military-quote-by-quote/