FOR FUCK SAKE - but then consider the source:

🔗 Holborn and St Pancras by-election results: Zack Polanski loses bid to become MP | News Politics | Metro News

On the click through …

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has failed in his bid to become an MP, with a narrow loss in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Narrow!

Victorious candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council since May, secured 12,292 votes to Polanski’s 8,928.

27,309 ballot papers were cast in Holborn - some 97 of which were spoiled.

• Abdi-Wali: 45.17% (roughly; see spoiled papers) • Polanski: 32.81% (ditto)

The point being that a majority of roughly 12.4 percentage points of all ballots cast is not ‘narrow’.

Votes were cast and Zack was cast out and thrown off the island.

🎵 4 Additions to the library this week - thank you @lmika for the first three. The images only worked on 4 - Samplextra by Lee Rosevere wasn’t coming up (attempting to discover in 🍎 Music) - what else am I missing.

The other album is the artist I mentioned to you that sits atop my heap.

📸 Talk about throwback Friday … took me back a bit. I had this exact one in my childhood bedroom.

🔗 The Pain Is Coming. Choose When You Pay.

People who look straight at a coming loss don’t hurt less when they lose someone, but they often have fewer regrets, because they said what they wanted to say and showed up while they could.

💬 Joan Westenberg

🔗 A quote from Ben Affleck I did not expect to read … 🤯

..and then again … this one not via Simon Willison, Ben on Social Media …

“He credited Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, and Denzel Washington as ‘brilliant actors’, noting that “

It doesn’t help me appreciate their movies to see what they had for lunch.

💬 Ben Affleck

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jaguar Type 01

I agree about the logo, though not convinced my feelings would stop me buying a beautiful car - which this one - based on the images in the click through - is not. So moot?

🪦 🔗 Thank You Mark Stephens, aka Robert X. Cringely

.. sorry to read this ‘Bob’ - always enjoyed your work when I saw it. Have to say, you kept quiet - but I had this feeling. Hope your son gets that `Product out the door’.

Thoughts❓

💬 me … many many years ago.

💬 There is something called bad revenue. This avoids some of it … but as Charlie says .. it’s a floor. I will drop some other issues in the comments later.

In case you were wondering …

• CAC is Customer Acquisition Cost
• LTV is Customer Lifetime Value

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Oh good: 🔗 Joyous - Replace surveys with dynamic AI chats and real-time action My position? For years we called AI an answer machine. One question in, one answer out. Vending machine. A survey is a vending machine too. Ten questions, five minutes, a finish line. A dynamic AI...

This is what success looks like. It has been a minute of two since I Iast saw this.

Historically I have had a lot of blogs and for whatever reason it is only (relatively) recently that I started using this 27 year old domain to host one. Before that I always felt that I needed another URL. Many of them over the years it turns out. Thanks to @manton and m...

Note for @manton - no action needed.

Not yet managed to get to a repeatable case to create a ticket, but it happens a lot. Upload an image - use it - all works fine.

Later when in the upload library spot that there are two copies of the image. (But which one is the post using? So you leave them both.)

I will narrow the exact behaviour that causes this before reporting it. In the meantime. anyone else seeing this behaviour?

😂😂😂

🔗 John Ternus is already doing it all

Alas, Apple customers will not know the joys of having an AI ask us to do all the things we’ve already tried all over again before advising we log out of iCloud and then back in.

💬 The Macalope

🔗 Don McCullin: Vietnam | AnOther

You Can’t Save a Life with a Nikon Camera

💬 Don McCullin

(Via @maique - thank you )

A few days ago, the most powerful superpower in the world evacuated 12 of the most powerful aircraft in its military from the base of a strong ally because of the threat of a drone attack from a country we’ve been repeatedly told has been completely defeated.

💬 Dave Pell

🔗 We are going to kill ‘unalive’

I am all for the steady evolution of language - as ever it has been. Not new is the constant flow of new words by younger people. You know what I mean ‘daddy cat’.

But this is definitely different and a wake-up call for any and all who are concerned about any stifling of speech - free or not.

The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop.

💬 Anil Dash

Added to my Readwise.

🔗📼😂 The good ol' Boys

👁️ 🖇️🔎 In a nutshell - 4 people in 3 countries on 3 continents over 8 years.

Finally - where it all started with @dogcow Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 1 - Tuesday March 6th, 208 - Palo. Alto, CA, USA

…and then in 2019 … again for posterity … ‘The @Devilgate MeetUp. Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 2 - Wednesday June 5th, 2019 - London, England

BTW … Number 4? Indeed. Pretty sure I posted about these earlier - but for posterity … ‘The @Miraz MeetUp - over 6 years ago now! Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 3 - Sunday March 22nd, 2020 - Kapiti Coast, New Zealand

I thought I’d let 🔗 Leon’s settle in before I threw in mine. It was indeed a bundle of fun and totally serendipitous. Enjoy the rest of your trip @lmika - I will be checking out that music soon. Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 4 - Tuesday October 6th - Wellington, New Zealand

👁️ Happy to report that it isn’t SI -yet - but even if they change a letter - it’s still going to make mistakes.

George Will no less - but don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Don’t stop before we hit the finish line.

I seem to have narrowed down my Obsidian vault count to 3; Documents .. is a fairly new one as I have been wrapping my head around using Wander and Marked 3 in conjunction with Craft and Obsidian to create documents that find their way into the outside world for 1-1 consumpt...

👁️ I often complain about appalling customer service handling by various corporations - particularly the AI ones that aren’t really AI, rather a voice recognition bot following a basic rules engine … so I felt a real shiver pass through my body when the AI voice answered.

How can I help you?

But ‘fair dos’ to Verizon - a fairly complex problem solved in a few minutes - great voice recognition and routing - no human in the loop.

👁️ My Drafts count is down to the 30s - no small event.