Stay safe SoCal.

… 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.

🔗 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

🔗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.

🔗 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.

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.

Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief | Techdirt .. I just liked the headline.

🪦Sorry to REAd that Chris.

‘30 to 40 thousand tonnes ’ .. appropriate that they are being called ‘Trump Class’ the biggest ass - in both senses of the word - deserves memorialisation.

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.

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.

🔗🎬 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 )

🔗🎶 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.

🔗 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’.

🔗 How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026 We will see. We will see.

🔗 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)

Today’s challenge is going to be .. hell .. IS .. HARD❗️

Take Apple News vs iBooks - they’re both reading apps, so why is it necessary to have two separate apps? Because they’re extremely different reading and writing experiences and it doesn’t make sense to lump them into a one-size-fits-all approach. 💬 Michael Tsai Nailed it and why I don’t'; read pdfs in 🍎 Books saved articles in a browser listen to podcasts in a music app on YouTUBE BUT anything I highlight, save, make a note on/in ANY of the things I am reading, watching or listening to all ends up in the same place.