Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ ‘Waving Canes’ back in 2019 - maybe time to formalise @bradenslen / @mitchwagner ❓ 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s. And vice versa apparently. If correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future

🔗 You Can Just Say No to the Data - Jim Nielsen’s Blog You can - but perhaps a better thought is to consider the data, ask where it comes from, how was it arrived at, who compiled it, whether it’s relevant and … and …and .. is - I think - basically what Jim is saying … so unclear where the title came from.

🔗 Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good – FlowingData In fact, WIRED has found multiple examples of people advertising age-verified accounts for minors as young as 9 years old on eBay for as little as $4.

🔗 Wellington, New Zealand - from a (not so) different time. When the Fischer-Spassky match #2 was being played in Yugoslavia, I relied on the moves of the games being faxed to me.

🔗 Just My Opinion writes @derekpeden Maybe - but an excellent hierarchy. Going forward .. could well be adopting. Thank you sir.

Mark Bernstein: The Bullet That Missed This clever confection is a mystery about murderers who don’t kill people and murders that mysteriously do not occur. Me? Can’t go wrong with 📚 Richard Osman.

Sidenote: Why in the world is Meta’s VP of comms doing this on Twitter/X, not Threads, which continues to grow? 💬 John Gruber Another Sidenote: Why in the world is anyone on Twitter at all.. sorry ‘that’s where my audience is’ doesn’t cut it. Get Off .. or continue to support all the depravity … all of it .. even the bits you can’t see .. it’s still there.

C3 - From Carbon Management and Energy Analytics to Energy to IoT to AI - well under 20 years! Talk about FOLLOWING Trends.

Apparently The 28th is ‘National Privacy Day’ in the USA. Marvy. Speaks volumes to the other 364 days in the year. I am guessing a ‘free for all’?

When your company is worth more than most nations, you cannot afford principles that inconvenience presidents. The moral equation changes. What once seemed unthinkable becomes necessary. Cook learned this the hard way after he skipped a presidential photo op and was thrown back under the tariff bus. So now he shows up. He sits in the front row. He claps when expected. This is what happens when valuation becomes destiny.

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Remember Clubhouse❓ Me .. back in ‘21 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

🪦 Sorry to read the news Sly.

🎵 Go Neil

🔗🎵 Be My Testimony: The Story behind Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer.” Fascinating

🔗 Americans are paying for tariffs By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021 I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing. 💬 Lindsay Graham

“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.” 💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592) 🔗 via Austin Kleon I wonder what Michel would have made of the 202os.

Here’s a clever thing that I noticed last night about 🍎📺 .. you watch and something critical was said - and you missed it. You wind back 10 - 20 seconds - it plays again .. with temporary subtitles - that then fade away - brilliant.