Carry-On, 2024 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/05/carryon.html

🔗 Scorsese Takes Aim at Streaming’s Lack of Curation … and more … including ‘content’

"the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator” by conceptualization of films as “content."

🖇️ 🔍 You might recall - the ‘content thing’ has been a drum beat of mine for a while now.

As always delighted to find more people jumping on the bus … or is it a train now? https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/martin-scorsese-streaming-lack-of-curation-1234617241/ https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=content

🔗 🍿 How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

Tonight’s Desert Sunset.

Intense.

Which way to look?

Even the non intense bits are beautiful.

Behind the big names - there’s always another (just as important - but not as famous ) name.

On the whole they were the ‘tech’.

Gates and Allen (RIP)

Jobs and Woz

and of course

Larry and Bob (RIP)

Just call me ‘Sisyphus’.

Occams aside .. -!: knowing nothing .. but I’m predicting that this was a specific act conducted to ‘send a message’ to a couple o’ billionaires.

Been reading headlines like this

🔗 Trump coverage needs to change and here’s how - Press Watch

since at least 2020 - like this one from … checking … 2020.

🔗 Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America

More maybe should be written like this one …

🔗 Ruth Ben-Ghiat Explai... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/01/01/been-reading-headlines-like-this.html

🔗 An A to Z of predictions for 2025 https://blog.zgp.org/predictions-for-2025/

Wondering if we are 500 years early. https://substack.philpin.com/p/five-hundred

Nine years ago - remembering eleven years before that - and I still miss him.

🔗 🪦Harry Fenik - it happened 20 years ago this month. https://archive.philpin.com/2016/01/11-years-ago-today

I just KNOW that there are more posts …

📸 Not thought about ‘Kiwi Polish’ for decades .. but as a kid there was a lot of it around in our house. Just wondering now if it actually originated in Aotearoa or if it was just a name.

Art? Possibly. Somewhere I would want to live? Nope.

I’m not sayin’ this is a scalable solution to develop income .. but worth a shot? Buy stuffed bird under glass cover for 10 bucks. Replace bird with bundles of those odd floppies you’ve got lying around the house.

Charge $1500.

💬 Only? That seems high to me.

Peak Mastodon?

How cool would it be if Apple … in parallel with their free weekend offer to people who are not paying customers .. also just gave their existing customers, say a month free? In the big scheme, barely a flicker on their revenue board .. but as a thank you for your loyalty to paying customers .. priceless.

Slowed me down for a second. Great - but how the hell do you find a record shop?

Ahmet moved on from planet earth nearly 20 years ago, so the quote pre dates that by a few more — so makes more sense, but still I think Bob’s quote machine needs more relevance.

🔗🎵 Lefsetz Letter - Hit Records https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2024/12/30/hit-records/