John Philpin

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works just fine.

Daring Fireball

Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk

Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/elon-musk-reacts-to-gemini-siri/

🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago? This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017 So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705979820/president-trump-says-the-isis-territorial-caliphate-has-been-eliminated-in-syria

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Defeat of ISIS in Raqqah – The White House

🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?

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A culture where only seeing is believing

In a recent post at the blog Astral Codex Ten, a writer reviewed a book written by a young Catholic missionary about his time with a tribe in the A...

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." 💬 John Maynard Keynes (Via John Naughton)

They are rich enough to do it .. but still not as rich as some of those Corporations .. Harvard .. standing up to bullies … #Lessons

"It doesn’t matter what you didn’t do yesterday, it only matters what you do today and tomorrow." 💬 William Gallagher

Writing a long post and for some reason was doing it in the micro blog app … which just crashed. My heart stopped. Slowly and gently reopened - and thankfully it was there. Immediately copied and pasted it to Drafts that hasn’t crashed once for years - and that is an app that is just open all the time. Tha... john.philpin.com

💬 John Philpin

Writing a long post and for some reason was doing it in the micro blog app … which just crashed. My heart stopped. Slowly and gently reopene...