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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 7d

Every two weeks I write about culture, brands, creativity and technology.

This issue #222 covers:

→ slop machines 🎰
→ weirdos 🦹🏻‍♂️
→ anarchy 🏴‍☠️
→ care-less 😮‍💨
→ soul-full 👐

open.substack.com/pub/upstream...

Upstream #222

slop machines 🎰, weirdos 🦹🏻‍♂️, anarchy 🏴‍☠️, care-less 😮‍💨, soul-full 👐.

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 7d

Every two weeks I write about culture, brands, creativity and technology.

This issue #222 covers:

→ slop machines 🎰
→ weirdos 🦹🏻‍♂️
→ anarchy 🏴‍☠️
→ care-less 😮‍💨
→ soul-full 👐

open.substack.com/pub/upstream...

Upstream #222

slop machines 🎰, weirdos 🦹🏻‍♂️, anarchy 🏴‍☠️, care-less 😮‍💨, soul-full 👐.

open.substack.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7d

A better world is possible

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 11d

Nice.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hospital says toy MRI scanner helps save £150k

Children can play with the Kitten Scanner to prepare them for a real scan.

www.bbc.com

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 12d

Nice line.....

lbbonline.com/news/The-Gua...

The Guardian Dares Readers to Shape Winning Weekends | LBBOnline

Little Black Book, The Guardian and OLIVER launch new multi-platform campaign aimed at maximising readers' precious downtime

lbbonline.com

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 12d

😂

Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 12d

Brand naming projects are always tricky. But.......bear in mind that Hiscox and Johnson Controls both exist.

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, extract till the end 😞

Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

Everyone's got a god shaped hole they need to fill, as Blaise Pascal said.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14d

Jemima Kelly on why she joined a witches’ coven: on.ft.com/3IKpxN5

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

👀👀👀

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13d

Developers look to New York’s vacant offices to meet high housing demand on.ft.com/4nMT4oi

Developers look to New York’s vacant offices to meet high housing demand

Manhattan has become increasingly residential since the pandemic as more commercial properties are converted

on.ft.com

Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

The era of efficiency continues.

And yet.

I can't help but continually think of the "the doorman fallacy".

What do we lose, when we think we gain?

www.businesspost.ie/companies/lu...

Lufthansa to slash 4,000 jobs and lean into tech in bid to boost performance

www.businesspost.ie

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that *we do not know enough to be pessimistic*.”

Hazel Henderson

Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 13d

"Sell yourself like a product and get treated like one".

"By inviting strangers to watch, you not only welcome praise and adoration but critics too — ready to review the show, comment on the character development, poke holes in the plot, follow the franchise."

www.afterbabel.com/p/we-are-the...

We Are The Slop

Your life is my background noise

www.afterbabel.com

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 15d

A wet Saturday mass 🙏 ⛰️ 🏃‍♂️

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 15d

JFC 🤦‍♂️

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15d

“Cracker Barrell Outrage Almost Certainly Driven By Bots.”

“…the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”

Via @gizmodo.com

In other words, we’re being manipulated.

Aggressively, constantly manipulated.

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

gizmodo.com

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 16d

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H.L. Mencken.

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 16d

💯. Noah Hawley is freeking awesome. Legion, his marvel series, was excellent. I’ve only read one of his books, Anthem, but it was also excellent.

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Dave Tallon @davetallon.bsky.social · 16d

“You think that because you understand ‘One’ that you must therefore understand ‘Two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’

Donella Meadows

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