Death will come for me and she will have to wait because I still have a bunch of emails to reply to.
I must have heard this tune a thousand times. I didn’t know it was called Green Onions and I didn’t know Booker T. Jones. Time to make amends.
Great songs make for great covers when great artists are involved.
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet - Cover by Mary Spender and Nathaniel Murphy
Second loaf of bread for the weekend. 🥖
Here’s a small gift to soothe our souls a little. I give you Silvia Pérez Cruz, voice, and Pájaro, guitar, playing Pequeño Vals Vienés. The lyrics are from the poem by the immortal Spanish poet Federico García Lorca. Leonard Cohen sung Take This Waltz with this same poem. Legendary flamenco artist Enrique Morente took the song and made it his own. And now Silvia and Pájaro give us all their beauty.
Wow. I just heard about High Fade. They’re awesome. A Strat that can sound like a Spanish guitar, the funkiest bass I’ve heard in a long time and incredible drums.
I’m back to baking bread and it makes me so happy. 🥖
Waking up very early and too tired for anything other than going to bed to catch up with some sleep. I need to end this merry-go-round kind of life.
I haven’t been very active online lately, pretty busy at work. But today I did not want to miss the Analog Tools meeting hosted by @cygnoir and @jessekelber and I’m glad I didn’t. A very nice reunion with the nicest people ever. @pratik @heyloura @takeo @BestofTimes @melsoutdoorlife Thanks.
Hi, guys.Sorry for barging in with a horror movie scenario. I haven’t read anything about this yet. Have you pondered that, FSM forbid, JD Vance will be a heartbeat away from becoming President?
Can Trump be the New Reagan?>
Eight years ago, at a post-election breakfast party we threw in POLITICO’s Brussels offices, I watched Donald Trump claim victory in a presidential election for the first time with shell-shocked European legislators and policymakers.
The reaction in global capitals this Wednesday morning was very different. Anxiety in many, jubilation in some. But not shock. The world has experience with Trump in office. These same people from the Brussels party in 2016 have spent months preparing for a possible restoration.
Interesting point of view, an article worth reading. I have no doubt that Trump’s and the GOP’s domestic policies are going to be extreme, horrific and authoritarian. But what will his stance be at the World stage? Will he oppose Rusia and China or will he try to be pals with Putin and Xi? Will he be able to receive advice or will he just do as he pleases, relying only in his impulses?
I’m in Europe. I mean, I’m not on American soil. Can Seal Team 6 barge into my house if I suggest that Biden could, in his formal capacity as President, send Seal Team 6 to kill his political opponents and be immune?
It’s time to start figuring out how to defend our speech and information sources
SourceIt's worth listening to On The Media, interview with Masha Gassen, saying that the authoritarian government will want to define what's true and not. Since we now understand that most of the information flow now goes around the NYT, CNN etc -- even Fox, and largely through social web and podcasts, if that's where we're all getting our news from, and btw MSNBC are already pretty well limited in what they'll tell us (this was our beef with NYT if you recall) -- the next step is to make it impossible for us to hear what each other are saying. Now is the time to plant seeds for a defense of our speech and communication later.
Democratic mistakes
Biden should not have shut down his campaign website. Rather than using it to raise money to feed to the media industry, they should have organized and listened, to develop new channels of communication with voters that were not dependent on journalism. Every time the Dems run a campaign, win or lose, they shut down their connection to the electorate. The voters' only role in the party was when they needed our money and our vote. We were not part of governing. Huge mistake. And I'm not just saying that now, I've said that about every Democratic campaign since Obama. This is probably the biggest single mistake the Dems keep making.
This is a very good point.
The post I quote down here comes from my notes’ feed in FeedLand. With FeedLand by @scripting.com or @davew@mastodon.social I can collect and share news and blogs feeds, and I can also comment on them. Those comments have their own feed which I have brought into the Sources section of Micro.blog too, so they automatically show up on my timeline. I like it so far.
Qatar suspends role as mediator between Israel and Hamas
Qatar has suspended its efforts as a mediator in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, the Qatari foreign ministry said late Saturday.
The Gulf country would resume its work when Hamas and Israel “show their willingness” to negotiate, the ministry said in a statement on X.
politico.eu
I hate that these serious announcements are still done in X.
Just show that darn willingness to negotiate, both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Qatar suspends role as mediator between Israel and Hamas
Qatar has suspended its efforts as a mediator in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage release between Israel and Hamas, the Qatari foreign ministry said late Saturday.
The Gulf country would resume its work when Hamas and Israel “show their willingness” to negotiate, the ministry said in a statement on X.
I hate it that these type of serious announcements are still done in X.
Just show that darn willingness to negotiate, both Hamas and Netanyahu.
I keep finding great people
Whether I’m sitting down to share a meal with you or sitting down to read your words sent across space and time in a way that still astounds me, I’m thankful for and amazed by each connection.
Here’s one more connection, via FeedLand by Dave Winer, that I hope makes the way back to you. I loved your post, Annie.
We the people are people that believe Trump.
Oliver Hall for The Guardian:
This excerpt left me astonished. How on earth are there still people who think a woman could not run the country?
But gender did play a role. Time and again, voters, very often women themselves, told me that they just didn’t think that “America is ready for a female president”. People said they couldn’t “see her in the chair” and asked if I “really thought a woman could run the country”. One person memorably told me that she couldn’t vote for Harris because “you don’t see women building skyscrapers”. Sometimes, these people would be persuaded, but more often than not it was a red line. Many conversations would start with positive discussions on policy and then end on Harris and her gender. That is an extraordinary and uncomfortable truth.
And this is the hard truth we need to face and understand. We the people are people that believe Trump.
After all those conversations, I think the main reason that Harris and Walz lost this campaign is simple: Trump. Ultimately, he was simply too much of a pull again. Despite the gaffes, despite his views on women, despite his distaste for democracy and despite an insurrection, voters just didn’t care.
For reasons that I’m sure will be studied for decades, when he speaks, people listen. When he speaks, people believe him. After all those calls, I can be shocked at this result, but hardly surprised.
I’m so happy I built a page to share the feeds I read.
Find it here: My FeedLand
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🔗 Scripting News: Friday, November 8, 2024
BTW, there's a lot of talk about new ways to communicate that don't depend on silos that could be sold to billionaires. One way to do it is with my product FeedLand. It manages news streams for feeds you subscribe to. I think every publication should share news from feeds they depend on, experts they quote, other news sources they read. We can build our own networks this way. We've done it before and can do it again. The advantage of this approach is that it is truly decentralized and not at all complicated to use. Here's the news stream I provide for readers of my blog. It's the most popular feature on the site. With FeedLand you can create your own.
Daring Fireball: How It Went
🔗 Daring Fireball: How It Went
Given the circumstances when I went to bed Tuesday night, it was no surprise I was welling up with tears come the morning. But I’d never have expected they’d be tears of joy, with a sense of hope — however diminished — and abiding love in my heart.
As much as I get fed up sometimes with Gruber’s voice, this is a beautiful and emotional piece. It has reconciled me with the man, the son, the writer.