John Philpin
npub1yuck...rlu2
People First
🔗 All bananas are the same
The point he makes is obvious and clear - the premise … 🤯 
Seth's Blog
All bananas are the same
Not just similar. Cavendish bananas (the usual kind here in the US) are all clones, each from a tree grafted from a tree grafted, all the way back,...
Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats - Schneier on Security
… just in case you thought that all VPNs are the same - so who cares?
Schneier on Security
Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats - Schneier on Security
This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSe...
I presume Micro.Blog has issues? Posted over two hours ago? 
Merry Christmas 
"… 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.
Stay safe SoCal.
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 11 (25th) : Feast 
Anyone remember the Psion3A?
Came to mind looking at the Samsung. 
🔗 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 
Daring Fireball
Trump Justice Department Dopes Made the Rookiest of Rookie Mistakes Attempting to Redact Some Epstein-File PDFs
Link to: https://www.tiktok.com/@krassenstein/video/7586804140869700895
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.
In fact those two countries
"account for more than half of all gold stockpiled by central banks in the period." 
Visual Capitalist
Which Countries Export the Most Christmas Decorations?
China dominates, exporting 20 times more than the second-ranked exporter.
Visual Capitalist
China Still Dominates Critical Mineral Refining in 2030
By 2030, China is projected to control over 60% of the world’s refined critical mineral supply.
Visual Capitalist
Charted: Countries Stockpiling the Most Gold Reserves Since 2000
Russia and China lead in gold reserves added since 2000, as central banks shift away from the U.S. dollar.
Visual Capitalist
Ranked: Battery Manufacturing Investment by Country
We show the industrial heavyweights driving battery manufacturing investment through 2026 in a highly concentrated global market.
🔗 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. 
https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment 
The Verge
The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband
Once again, the Streisand effect is Streisanding
Micro.blog - @gruber
Pulltube – beautiful online video downloader
Save video, playlists, audio and subtitles from Youtube, Vimeo, Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, Bilibili, Soundcloud and hundreds more.
🔗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. 
Seth's Blog
Random access
Under each post on my blog there’s a button that says RANDOM. I’ll confess that reading posts I wrote ten or twenty years ago is often ...
Redirecting…
Random
🪦Sorry to REAd that Chris.
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief | Techdirt
.. I just liked the headline. 
Techdirt
Support Techdirt: Where Bari Weiss Is Not Our Editor In Chief
If you’re wondering what independent journalism that won’t bend to White House pressure looks like, you’re looking at it. On Sund...
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 10 (24th) : Travel 
I read a post from @dave this morning about dynamic OPML being supported by RSS readers and thought surely NetNewsWire does .. but apparently no.
So I asked Perplexity … because I think this is what I have been looking for .. I wonder why it isn’t more broadly available? 
Micro.blog - @dave
‘30 to 40 thousand tonnes
’ .. appropriate that they are being called ‘Trump Class’ the biggest ass - in both senses of the word - deserves memorialisation.
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.
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.