(date: 2024-08-25 12:09:50)
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-08-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
My response: “We have no visibility into the inner workings of the NYT. We can’t vote them out of office. We can’t even rebut them. They rarely carry opposing opinions.”
http://scripting.com/2024/08/25.html#a183349
date: 2024-08-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2024-131
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-08-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Walt Mossberg: “Journalists have one core job: to tell the truth, especially when it’s clear. The staff of the NY Times has done it in the past, even at great risk. Why don’t they do it now?”
http://scripting.com/2024/08/25.html#a174735
date: 2024-08-25, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
In The Soul’s Code, James Hillman says each of us is born with as much of a destiny, calling, mission, or fate, as an acorn has within it an oak tree. He also says “Reading life backward enables you to see how early obsessions are the sketchy preformation of behaviors now… Reading backward means that […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/08/25/the-organ-builder/
date: 2024-08-25, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/peace-love-and-music
date: 2024-08-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/caption-contest-next-attraction
date: 2024-08-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
The raucous roll call of states at the 2024 Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, as everybody danced to DJ Cassidy’s state-themed music, Lil Jon strode down the aisle to cheers for Georgia, and different delegations boasted about their states and good-naturedly teased other delegations, brought home the real-life meaning of E Pluribus Unum, “out of many, one.” From then until Thursday, as a sea of American flags waved and attendees joyfully chanted “USA, USA, USA,” the convention welcomed a new vision for the Democratic Party, deeply rooted in the best of traditional America.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-24-2024
date: 2024-08-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Full audio for Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech at the DNC.
Thanks to Ian Landsman for converting the video to MP3.
My blog post about the speech.
Podcast: 37 minutes.
http://scripting.com/2024/08/24/014006.html?title=kamalasAcceptanceSpeech