The Boss released his first album in ’73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ wasn’t quite the all American anthem they thought - including ‘Ronnie’, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the ‘people that don’t pay attention’.
Clearly not.
"Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans"
💬 The Guardian
The Guardian? Hell fire!
It got me to thinking how true is that?
My thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration. 
https://thisisindexed.com
This Morning’s Thoughts About Getting Started 
Spotted in WaPo
".. potentially troubling signs, like a recent partnership between DoorDash and Klarna that allows users to pay for meal deliveries in installments."
I clearly missed that announcement.
WTF.
potentially?
3j what are they thinking?
did I miss the outcry?
did anyone cancel as a result of this predatory behavior?
🎵📼🔗 Muse https://youtu.be/Xsp3_a-PMTw
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
"An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I."
💬 'JP' https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/09/22/thinking-lazily-about-capacity-and-constraints/
📺 The Big Door Prize ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/the-big-door-prize.html
📺 Your Friends and Neighbours ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/your-friends-and-neighbours.html
About Those PE Companies https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/31/about-those-pe-companies.html
I clearly need to move universes …
At 10 past the hour I got a call from the person I was meant to be meeting ‘on the hour’, to let me know that he was running late.
All is revealed.
Apparently if you delete the space - so the two words run in together.
THEN
Add a space - between the two words.
That fixes it.
A… and you wonder why us ordinary people get confused with ‘tech’.
🔗 This is to do with this BTW https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html
Here’s a funny thing. Now THERE’s a funny thing ..
Friend of mine pinged me this morning re a typo on a web site. Basically two words running in together. likethis.
Checked the issue - yup, so sent it on to ‘flag and fix’ - but issue ‘couldn’t be replicated’.
So I looked again - still there.
Checked it... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html
💬 
The Microsoft Email said …
"Get the new LinkedIn desktop app"
So I clicked and …. #FAIL
I guess Microsoft has a different understanding of what a desktop is …
Was it me I thought?
So I checked.
Got A Desktop? …. YUP ✅ 
🔗 Read The Whole Thing 
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-self-driving-fsd-tesla-tony-stark-michael-scott
I now have to install Edge for Authenticator to work. Any idea when Apple plans to release an Authenticator App? Or maybe they have?
I am not generally a fan of hip-hop - but I do check in from time to time. I came across this one from mcc@mastodon.social - and just spectacular. It kind of felt to me that he’s channeling Gil Scott-Heron - 55 years later.
🔗📼🎵Really. Watch it.
Lyrics in the comments - because as MCC wrote in her post
"Position paper read through a megaphone. Terrifying, breezy industrial beats and laughing children."
Yes - which sometimes makes it hard to hear the words.
The host has a nice style. The video is great and some marvelous zingers from interviewees, like ‘when I came back from Tokyo I realised that the way we live in America is just stupid. by @hawaiiboy
"Really like this Car-Free Community. Not Arizona, but the idea.
youtu.be/4UAZMEpOK…" https://hawaiiboy.micro.blog/2025/05/27/really-like-this-carfree-community.html https://micro.blog/hawaiiboy https://youtu.be/4UAZMEpOKTI?feature=shared
📺 The Studio ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/29/the-studio.html
💬 
**Go Bruce - THANKYOU. **
THE Manchester concert just dropped and opens with his speech. Absolutely awesome.
To the clown’s supporters .. the world is watching, 