Yes We Can.
James Burke (YouTube): After the Warming (1989)
Chilling to think this was out 35 years ago.
Six Colors: Apple’s Vision platform needs to do more than get cheaper
The Vision Pro isn’t a product many people should buy today, and that’s not really surprising. It’s an example of Apple playing a long game, trying to build a wearable computing platform over many years. You have to start somewhere.
Right now, it’s a development kit for developers who are willing to gamble or experiment with a platform that’s not going to be broadly adopted for a while, if ever. It’s a pretty intriguing niche entertainment product, but it’s desperately in need of more content. And it’s a productivity product for people with very specific use cases and work methods. Still, most people should _not_consider buying one — especially not at $3500 — and most people are definitely not!
I was considering it until they turned it into the Lisa. Now it’s going to take a lot more consideration.
via Manton
Metro News: Neolithic-era standing stones dating back to 5480BC removed to make way for DIY shop
A French mayor has been criticised after planning permission was granted to remove 39 ancient stones — to build a DIY shop.
The site in Carnac, in France’s Brittany region, is well known for its extensive fields of Neolithic-era stones, known as ‘menhir’.
Carnac the not-so-magnificent.
BBC: General election: Five takeaways from the BBC Wales debate
21.Jun.2024
Welsh Labour leader and Wales' first minister Vaughan Gething, Conservative David TC Davies, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, Jane Dodds for the Lib Dems and Oliver Lewis for Reform UK traded blows and took questions from a live studio audience.
With less than two weeks to go until polling day, here is what we learnt.
No questions on climate change!
NYT: Maureen Dowd: The Ghastly vs. the Ghostly
Biden was a buoyant soul who had been told he should be president since he was elected to the Senate at 29. And he wasn’t going to let the plagiarism scandal, or his pursuant health problems, stop him. He had two aneurysms in 1988 and later said his doctors told him he wouldn’t be alive if his campaign had continued, and he kidded me that I’d saved his life. He also did not let the other tragedies that scarred his life drag him down.
I marveled at the fact that Biden forgave me. He told me that it was better that we stay on good terms. He did not get mad, even when I joked that his new hair plugs looked like a field of okra during the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. He called to chastise me, with good humor, but I hid under my desk, afraid to take the call.
An interesting perspective.
Last Updated: 29.Jun.2024 21:58 EDT
