🔗 The Ten Warning Signs - Ted Gioia
GREAT READ
I think my 🖇️ Age of Reason » Age of Experience themes that I have been writing about recently are totally in synch. 
https://open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia/p/the-ten-warning-signs https://substack.philpin.com/p/the-age-of-reason-is-over
From the WSJ … New Zealand doing its bit … 
💬 Listening to 🔗🎙️this - Kara and Jesse Armstrong talking about Mountainhead - and this pops up in my Readwise.
🔗🎙️Kafka talking to Jay Graber - an interesting listen - BUT my takeaway as a casual listener was that sites like ‘PinkSky’ are the long awaited ‘seperate instances’ to Bluesky. But no.
There is still not a Bluesky instance that is not on Bluesky.
Disingenuous - or did I mishear? https://overcast.fm/+AAQL2fxfil4
📺 Dept. Q ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/06/dept-q.html
📺 The Chelsea Detective ★★★ - so far https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/06/the-chelsea-detective-so-far.html
"Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has vowed to retaliate against U.S. allies that censor free speech, has sought to expel foreign students for expressing views he dislikes about the war in Gaza."
#IronyIsDead
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#NoWords
Another way the media could improve reportage.
Help connect the story that you can take out large parts of a nation’s Air Force with ‘a few two hundred dollar drones’ against ‘our nation needs to invests 4 billion in drone warfare’.
I know it’s how it works. But still galling to tune in to listen to Rory and Alastair talk about global politics and the show opens with them pitching an electric company. I get the advertising, just don’t think it needs to always be the hosts doing the voice over.
🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.
Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!
So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓
😂😂😂 https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/02/mission-impossible-dead.html https://open.substack.com/pub/davebarry/p/mission-highly-improbable
A group of people in a room - and they all take it in turn to bring the audience up to speed on the ‘challenge’ - one sentence at a time - in strict rotation.
Is there really no better way? This goes back to the early days of CSI et al and now it’s everywhere.
Time to move on?
Leaving This Thought https://john.philpin.com/2025/06/02/leaving-this-thought.html
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"I would pay extra for cable service to have none of my money go to Fox News."
💬 Dave Winer
Me too.
Oh wait - I don’t have a cable service.
Are Blogs Dead? https://john.philpin.com/2025/05/30/are-blogs-dead.html
Late ‘Dinner’ last night, burger + fries - bed.
Discovered uneaten fries in fridge this morning 🤯
Breakfast recipe.
Cut chips in to small cubes.
Fry till crisp in oil with dash of Chili and seasoning.
Break in eggs to taste.
As old as I am - a first. Won’t be my last. #Don’tJudge
Wuh woh. It all started last year, but it just got a significant push with the judge granting approval for a variation on a class action in the U.S.A.
"“The case involves Mobley and four other plaintiffs representing all job applicants ages 40 and older who were denied employment recommendations through Workday’s platform since Sept. 24, 2020. The court determined that the main issue – whether Workday’s AI system disproportionately affects applicants over 40 – can be addressed collectively, despite the challenges in identifying all potential members of the collective action.”"
🔗 Full Story https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/05/federal-court-allows-collective-action-lawsuit-over-alleged