"Made a list of the contact info for my congresscritters in Notes.app to make it easier to call daily.

Today’s issue: This is a coup. Start calling it that."

💬 Patrick Rhone

🔗 The Source https://patrickrhone.micro.blog/2025/02/03/made-a-list-of-the.html

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💬 Dave Winer … 🔗 I’m 99.9% sure, as crazy as it sounds, when Musk is finished with his software project, you will have to use X for everything related to the government. To pay taxes, to receive health care, to renew your passport. And if you try to arrest him, he’ll stop paying interest on the US debt, an... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/03/dave-winer-im-sure-as.html

I have a sub domain on Philpin.com called ‘documents’ where I keep finished docs that are'

1] more than a blog post or page

2] living documents

3] idea catalogues

4] private client documents

5] extended pages to my blog

Just finished an update on one such document …. 🔗 A Visual Thinking Primer - it fits very much into ‘2’ and part of ‘3’ which is occasionally called out in ‘4’.

Why does it exist? Because as it says halfway through …

"I think the larger issue is that people don’t step back and think how to present their information."

Enjoy. https://documents.philpin.com/maps-and-models/visual-thinking-primer

Meanwhile

There are an increasing number of posts featuring this thinking …

🔗🎙️Trump’s Mafia World Order - Alastair Campbell

🖇️ I think Rushkoff said it best. https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/01/365-trumps-mafia-world-order/ https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/rushkoff-corleone-style-diplomacy-minutes.html

"When two rocks hit each other both rocks lose parts of themselves in the battle.

Its loud and hard but even the winning rock is bruised and chipped.

But water flows over rock.

In time it erodes the rock to nothing and keeps flowing.

Maybe soft overcomes hard by understanding the importance of grace, flow and connection."

🔗 Soft is the New Hard : Rishad Tobaccowala https://open.substack.com/pub/rishad/p/soft-is-the-new-hard

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Is it right to assume that when an image/ video is signed off with ‘Only In ' … that it is the modern equivalent of the older claim ' - Capital of the World’ and so for the most part reveals that you really have no idea what goes on in the rest of the world.

Loneliness Emerges From The Inability To Connect https://john.philpin.com/2025/02/01/loneliness-emerges-from-the-inability.html

📸 Other than the modern clothing could have been straight out of a movie?

📸 This probably was.

📸 It’s a bar in America that most of America won’t have visited .. spectacular though it is. Why plates from the UK that date back to 1970 are featured .. no idea. Neither did the owner.

Vance v Rory? My money is on Rory.

"love your family and then you love your neighbour, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that, you can focus and prioritise the rest of the world."

💬 Vance

if he really believes that - maybe he can have a chat with Elmo who’s currently dicking around in that last bit with a lot of RoW whilst fucking over America.

As @dave oft' signs off …

"Its worse than you think.

Mike Masnick summarises where we are - and it is not good.

🔗 Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous

We now have a new DNC leader - basically promoted from his existing vice chair to the top job.

And now the new thinking starts ?" https://micro.blog/dave https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/elons-twitter-destruction-playbook-hits-the-us-government-and-its-even-more-dangerous/

Anyone concerned?

💬 Letting this sit .. not so much for the quote which is powerful enough - more the follow up question which I am thinking about and will drop more thoughts into the comments .. thoughts mind you - not sure there is a single ‘answer’.

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💬 Seems appropriate … good night.