"… bubbles produced from a machine while the show was in progress stained all the furniture in the hall. As a consequence, Pink Floyd were banned from ever playing there again."
💬 Wikipedia
The Hall?
The Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Halcyon Days.
Stay safe SoCal.
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 11 (25th) : Feast 
Anyone remember the Psion3A?
Came to mind looking at the Samsung. 
🔗 Daring Fireball: Trump Justice Department Dopes Made the Rookiest of Rookie Mistakes Attempting to Redact Some Epstein-File PDFs
Definitely not true of all the docs - I just tried.
🔗 Have Fun https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/23/trump-doj-pdf-redactions https://www.justice.gov/epstein
Guess which country tops these four lists and which is ranked 7th, 8th, not even on the list and 3rd respectively.
🔗Exports the Most Christmas Decorations
🔗Dominating Critical Mineral Refining in 2030
🔗Stockpiling Most Gold Reserves Since 2000
🔗Battery Manufacturing Investment
Sorry, the winner in the other 3 categories were only a close 2nd on Gold Reserves. (Although ‘1’ and
‘2’ had totals that are each just about the same as the rest of the list added together.
In fact those two countries
"account for more than half of all gold stockpiled by central banks in the period." https://www.visualcapitalist.com/which-countries-export-the-most-christmas-decorations/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-still-dominates-critical-mineral-refining-in-2030/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/countries-stockpiling-most-gold-reserves-since-2000/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/battery-manufacturing-investment-by-country/
🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge
"Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year."
💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
.. via @gruber ….
🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
And of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case. https://www.theverge.com/policy/849432/60-minutes-cecot-censored-canada-leak https://micro.blog/gruber https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment https://mymixapps.com/pulltube
🔗Random access - Seth
I have one of these on my 🖇️blog and my (new) 🖇️ wiki - and despite both being in the menu - I am guessing I am the only person that ever clicks on the links. https://seths.blog/2025/12/random-access/ https://john.philpin.com/surprise-me https://wiki.philpin.com/random
🪦Sorry to REAd that Chris.
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief | Techdirt
.. I just liked the headline. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/support-techdirt-where-bari-weiss-is-not-our-editor-in-chief/
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 10 (24th) : Travel 
I read a post from @dave this morning about dynamic OPML being supported by RSS readers and thought surely NetNewsWire does .. but apparently no.
So I asked Perplexity … because I think this is what I have been looking for .. I wonder why it isn’t more broadly available? 
https://micro.blog/dave
‘30 to 40 thousand tonnes
’ .. appropriate that they are being called ‘Trump Class’ the biggest ass - in both senses of the word - deserves memorialisation.
Everything about Finalist seemed right to me - but on install - not really. What am I missing? Or is the value only really revealed in the ‘pro’ - with no way to experience it before commit?
App of the Year apparently.
Dear Claude,
Look at these numbers (providing screen grab of list in my spreadsheet). Tell me which entries add up to 102.79 (the difference between my bank balance and my estimate).
10 seconds later - 3 numbers, total 102.79 - counted twice on my sheet.
I hate when things aren’t exactly right.
🔗🎬 Pluribus becomes Apple TV’s most watched show ever.
Me … 🤯
(Though to be honest - still have a few episodes to go - though that in itself is telling ) https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/pluribus-most-watched-show-ever-on-apple-tv/
🔗🎶 Jon Lord - Unsquare Dance (Dave Brubeck)
One of ‘my’ guys playing the music of one of my mum’s (and so another one of ‘my’) guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VACwF7djomQ&list=RDVACwF7djomQ&start_radio=1
🔗 Rocket Lab Secures New Defense Contract … writes ‘Memorandum’.
Are we sure?
🔗 As I remarked on LinkedIN a couple of days ago
The order is for ..
"the manufacture (of) 18 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture."
(My bold) https://www.memo-daily.com/p/22-december-2025 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/johnphilpin_weve-just-been-awarded-our-largest-contract-activity-7407948577613717504-Ps7y/
🔗 How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
We will see. We will see. https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/
🔗 On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport
"In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would set you back between $2.50 and $3.00."
Meanwhile in the UK, founded fully four years earlier, Penguin didn’t need the ‘qualifier’ preceding ‘the publishing industry’.
"Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/12/23/on-paperbacks-and-tiktok-cal.html