🔗 My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements - by Ted Gioia
@dave .. there is barely a whiff of bringing more personalisation to the appearance of your ‘stack - and NONE to do with writing in your tool of choice. Maybe you should weigh in. https://www.honest-broker.com/p/my-wishlist-for-12-substack-enhancements https://micro.blog/dave
🔗AOL discontinues its dial-up internet.
Oh no - what am I going to do? https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/aol-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-and-were-just-surprised-they-even-offered-it-in-2025/
🔗 Leaders Don’t Get to Hide - Gapingvoid 
https://www.gapingvoid.com/leaders-dont-get-to-hide/
Mr. @gruber seems to be on a major anti #Substack campaign .. https://micro.blog/gruber
Three links from my weekend.
🔗 Will data centers crash the economy? - by Noah Smith
🔗 Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won
🔗 I Drank Every Cocktail - Adam Aaronson - so I don’t have to? Meanie. https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/will-data-centers-crash-the-economy https://open.substack.com/pub/thiswillhold/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
🔗 Marketing Flywheel Momentum: Why Every Flywheel Needs A Native Analog & Native Digital Duo - from the Lockhead world.
If you are trying to work out what to really do with Marketing in this modern age - he consistently make sense. https://www.categorypirates.news/p/marketing-flywheel-momentum-why-every
Rebuilding ..
No comment 
#JustSayin 
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"Actual web pages from 1994 didn’t include nearly a megabyte of JavaScript to display 3 kilobytes of text."
💬 John Gruber
"Follow me down to a place by the river
Sold for my kidneys, sold for my liver
Why so weedy, so fucking needy
There’s no such thing as being too greedy"
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🔗 The Biggest Industry in Every State, Mapped
Makes for an interesting read .. and then I saw that Real Estate was the biggest industry in California .. and I thought wait .. there’s tech, entertainment, aerospace, agriculture .. real estate out performs them all?
And then I read …
"This is largely because the Bureau of Economic Analysis treats homeowners as landlords renting to themselves, and includes the rental value in GDP. If economists did not include this value, a jump in the homeownership rate would cause GDP to drop."
Talk about measuring the wrong things! https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/ter01-the-biggest-industry-in-every-state/
💬 good to see it in writing … 
I understand the individual words - but stringing them together in that order begs a library of questions. 
🔗 TOSDR
"I have read and agree to the Terms" is the biggest lie on the web. Together, we can fix that."
via The mighty Doc Searls via David Reed via Hacker News https://tosdr.org/en/
"🔗 Transformation? Enough Already.."
"The corporate obsession with transformation is outdated - and continues to fail.
Decades of data show most efforts don’t work, so rather than chasing grand, one-time overhauls, organisations must embrace continuous adaptation: flexible structures, people-first strategies, and real-time responses to shifting markets and needs. Change isn’t a ‘one-and-done’ project, it’s a lifetime commitment.
Stop transforming. Start adapting. That’s the edge. That’s survival." https://documents.philpin.com/thought/transformation-enough-already
I Am A Patriot https://john.philpin.com/2025/07/29/i-am-a-patriot.html
Way up in a tree he was … 
I think I’m liking the new posting flow on Micro Blog — good job @manton thankyou https://micro.blog/manton
Personally, I’d never heard of Tuvalu - but it is an extraordinary place judging my this screen grab from Apple Maps
… and it’s about to disappear.
🔗 The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway | WIRED
Paywalled - but if you have Apple News - there is 🔗 this 
https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-planned-migration-of-an-entire-country-is-underway/ https://apple.news/AGTvn0iZfSaCoGcoLqZEKXQ
🪦 … and so farewell Ozzy – thank you for asking that question at the very beginning. It is often my only one. 🎵
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📸 Nice to be back in the old ‘hood … 
TIL that 3 minutes isn’t enough time to get to my new bus stop from my new house. 4 would be easy. Maybe even 3 1/2 .. but 3? ‘ Yeah no’ as they say in these parts.
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What you might seen down a back alley in Auckland. 