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What Brad said - but until you have heard this cover - you haven’t heard Creep 🤯🎵 by @bradbarrish

I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.

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I just recorded a 1300 day streak on Readwise. Hard to believe it has been that long!

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The TikTokTinCan Rolls Again

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I wonder how much of the stage you could see .. let alone Gaga .. if you were the last to arrive and you had 2.5 million people in front of you?

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Losing an election is one thing. Party leader losing their seat? That’s next level. Congrats, Australia and Canada.

Dear Winston & David: some thing to ponder. Enjoy the wave ripple while it lasts … because the guy in the White House? He’s only getting worse, and it’s all downhill from here.

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Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.

🔗🎙️Listen

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Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓

🔗🎙️Listen

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I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like 🔗 Semaphor

South Africa is among the nations that have sought counsel from Goldman Sachs on how to improve ties with Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank advised Pretoria — which has been in the White House’s crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administration’s good graces. It also recommended Pretoria walk back a land-seizure law that angered Elon Musk, who claimed it discriminated against White farmers. Japan and Saudi Arabia have also consulted with the Wall Street giant.

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Mac File-Finding Gems from 🔗 Brett Terpstrabrett.trpstra.net/link/535/…) - I particulalry liked the look of auto tagging in HoudahSpot.

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About Isaac Asimov

🔗It’s not the colour of the pill that counts

Happened to be talking about Asimov to a friend of mine the other day. We both had read ‘everything’ he had written - and certainly for me I know that will not be true, but definitely I hit the 45 to 50 books range - I can still picture them on my my book shelf in my teenage bedroom.

BUT - we both agreed that the reading was a long time ago - and not sure if they would stand the test of time - based on writing quality (?) Not sure that is the right term.

So interesting to see this today …

among Isaac Asimov’s many faults, his total lack of interest in characters meant some deft footwork by the writers of the Foundation television series.

💬 William Gallagher

Yes - that is probably it. I don’t recall him being an ‘emotional’ writer, which as a teen I didn’t miss. It was the ideas that I was after.

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🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …

… stands to be corrected.

Here’s the thing. Communication is

the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.

or even

means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.

**Might I suggest a third panel **

I am not an artist and I now there will be ways to build tiny little arrows to and from the people at the bottom - just imagine it - or take me up on the offer!

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Too funny

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🔗 Using AI for polish - hands up for a beta test @Manton

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🔗 John Naughton

He captions it ‘Woodhenge’ - assume it is a joke - because he surely knows that there is a real 🔗 Woodhenge

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🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday

The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."

💬 Daniel Ellsberg

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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

💬 John Maynard Keynes

(Via John Naughton)

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🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com

My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..

💬 John Gruber

I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.

Brother from another mother.