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Sunday, June 8, 2025
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s allies urge reconciliation after damaging split - This story definitely seems to have balooned into something pretty crazy. ft.com #
Glastonbury: Who are Patchwork and the festivals other secret stars? - Still the best music festival out there. They’re really getting in on this mystery guest thing. When I was going to it, back around the millenium, I only remember them doing that sort of thing for the smaller stages and bands. The headliners were always announced well ahead of the festival. bbc.com #
Hajj in Mecca: The decades-old intrigue around an Indian guest house - It’s like the muslim Glasto. It’s got to be one of the most insane pilgrimages on planet earth. bbc.com #
Joe Rogan Experience #2334 - Kash Patel - Completely wild to hear the director of the FBI in a long form interview. He’s very impressive. Every now and then he reminded me of Zelenskyy for some reason. I thought it was interesting that Rogan kept asking him why he thought the Dems had left the border open for so long, and seemingly willfully done what they did. He was smart enough not to answer. There's a scarily deep asymptote somewhere around here. youtube.com #
WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns - One of the weird things that happened to me yesterday, one of many because it was yet another cascade day, was some random bloke walking past me and saying very intensionally "Fair" in my direction. No doubt completely unrelated to anything, yet what are the chances? In any case, big news and interesting news in the Wordpress comunity, which in one way or another powers like 40% or 50% of the open web. fastcompany.com #
Five works that reveal the philosophy of Banksy - Plot twist: Banksy is some sort of despotic dictator collective. Fuck not again. bbc.com #
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