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🔗Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims

Well this little bit of news totally passed me by. Surely an oversight?

"The Franklin Fire was still smoldering when the Palisades Fire ignited. We were still in a hotel, not yet having found a place to rent. We are part of this disaster, yet we have been erased from its response."

💬 Posted by Jason Fried ‘for a friend’. https://world.hey.com/jason/governor-newsom-please-help-franklin-fire-victims-a7fef514

this is the funniest thing I have read for a long long time. 😂🤣

Seeking Alpha .Reporting …

"Security officials in the U.K. have demanded that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) create a so-called ‘back door’ which would enable them to retrieve all the content any Apple user globally has uploaded to the cloud, The Washington Post reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

The U.S. tech giant is likely to stop providing encrypted storage in Britain, rather than break its security pledge it made to its users everywhere, the report added."

… not sure how easy this might be technically - but 🖇️ there might precedent https://john.philpin.com/2024/06/22/this-this-right.html

"? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant"

💬 Dave Winer

Yesterday .. (If you’re feeling stressed) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? 🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song

Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.

BUT

It is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?

I know - who cares - its just a …

🔗📼 Sign ‘O’ the Times

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times

🔗📼 Sign Of The Times http://scripting.com/2025/02/06/230816.html?title=ifYoureFeelingStressed https://john.philpin.com/replies/2025/02/03/56661656.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7H4mPmvBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JsGlr0i2Gk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkeGjeUFpDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqtuWWYWV7c

🔗 Concern the UK’s AI ambitions could lead to water shortages

If I’d been told when I was growing up in England that in the future the BBC would report that ‘water shortages’ loomed, I would have assumed that I had stepped into a dystopian SF novel that made up my reading pleasure at the time. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce85wx9jjndo

🔗 Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov - FlowingData

We continue with hope. https://flowingdata.com/2025/02/06/archiving-effort-to-preserve-data-gov/

🪦 RIP Mike. Loved you since ‘1’ - though missed by many and not called that. Your legacy lives on. As will you.

Ok. looks safe enough. The hub bub of total nothingness has died down, so let’s try again. Remember people - the ‘enemy’ ain’t in here …

A storm of voices,

echoes swell without reason—

truth waits, unheard, still.

I’ll rejoin the conversation sometime - gone for now .. but @manton if this doesn’t inspire you to think how to add block and moot functionality into the timeline - what will?

Timeline - DESTROYED https://micro.blog/manton