🪦RIP Clem .. another rhythm section is down by one.
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Simon Sinek
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sinek https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
[🔗 realbloggers.org]()realbloggers.org/) .. via Don Marti - there are a lot of these sites gloating around in the Indie Web - not sure why we need another one - why do we keep reinventing the wheel. Can we just have one place? https://realbloggers.org https://realbloggers.org
🔗 Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
… haven’t read the article - yet - saved in Readwise - I just loved the title. https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
Sparse elaboration - repeat across the Tech Bro universe.
It’s sad that in the ‘West’ we are driven by 2/4/5 year election cycles in politics and quarterly reports in business .. long term planning?
Wisdom indeed!
Truth in Science Fiction
And therein is the rub. Nub?
AI Anyone? 
Am I angry?
YES
The Rolling Stone reporting …. 
Question for the cognoscenti …
When I copy an URL on my site to post somewhere else .. the image used is always the icon on my site.
Is there a way to (say) choose an image out of the post .. if it exists .. if not then default is site icon
This would make each post link more about the post, rather than... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/question-for-the-cognoscenti-when.html
Things have changed since my day.
It used to be that if you invented something around your job, the company owned the IP.
Whilst that never completely sat well with me … neither does this …
Now it seems you can be the CEO of a software company, valued in the billions, start up a side hustle in pretty much the same space and then have that first company buy your side hustle for half a billion - when pretty much NOBODY knows even what the side hustle does, other than …
"potential ideas include a “phone” without a screen and AI-enabled household devices."
Waiting for the full story.st
Just added 🔗 thelinkblog at Micro.Blog to my 🔗 feed in Feedland … it just seemed right. 
https://thelinkblog.micro.blog https://feedland.com/?username=johnphilpin
The Morons by @ChrisJWilson
"🔗 Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder"
Thanks for the link @chrisjwilson .. Snyder gets to the nub of the regime with fewer meaningful words than most. https://micro.chrisjwilson.me/2025/04/07/vances-posturing-in-greenland-was.html https://micro.blog/ChrisJWilson https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/trump-greenland-us-morally-wrong-strategy-disastrous https://micro.blog/chrisjwilson
🔗 China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
I lost count of my highlights. I enabled my readwise as a public link - because there is a LOT in the piece. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/ https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01jr6ae9d2g4t29p2reskc2qed
🖇️ Any Thoughts from anyone? https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/i-am-thinking-of-retiring.html
I am thinking of retiring the ‘Inspired By People’ Series
**But Then **
I have just started an AlbumWhale collection
AND
A Protest Collection 
https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/487f5168-50ef-4768-aa54-126ff30a27df-5568x3712.webp https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/3d43e00c-b674-4a90-b366-d77b8c60e4a6-6000x4000.webp https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/2b7f6043-18c0-46e2-b630-62af58f9947a-2552x4536.webp https://john.philpin.com/uploads/2025/5a21e5dc-fadc-4b6a-944c-c7b453969e99-5000x3335.webp
🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale 
https://albumwhale.com/albums/10291 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/formative-years
🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure
Hat Tip To @patrickrhone
The List of Posts that start over on AlbumWhale 
https://albumwhale.com/albums/23304 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%94%97%F0%9F%8E%B5%F0%9F%92%BF https://albumwhale.com/johnphilpin/formative-years
The fact that the headlines in the main U.S.A. newspaper look like this …
Speaks Volumes.
🔗 See the full list on ‘today’s’ US Front Pages
That it takes a film director (Ok - not ‘just’ a film director) to highlight it - speaks to even more problems. ( I would vouch he isn’t the only source - but I haven’t seen this many images on a single scroll …
🔗 Massive Crowds Everywhere!
"Everywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution"
💬 Michael Moore
Just 4 Random Images From His Post
🔗 As for the muskRAT - burn those companies to the ground. 
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My take on the ‘Microsoft Disruption by @JohnPhilpin
"Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives"
they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
they block out women’s voices
they block out foreign accents
they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
they need hearing aids more than me.
It’s a repost of on... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/04/07/my-take-on-the-microsoft.html
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Robert Ingersoll
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
Meanwhile - somewhere in America this weekend … (found on a post I spotted on LinkedIN) 