Genius

Buy large amount of stock. Refuse board seat. Express lack of confidence about management. (If management is so lousy, whydja buy so much stock?) Offer to buy company. Threaten to sell stock if offer is not accepted, thus tanking stock.

Man, that Elon Musk must be a genius. Who could ever have seen through these tactics?

[Context: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter.]

Min

Min for macOS: “a fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.” So minimal that even its name is minimal. Too minimal to serve as a default browser, I think, but excellent for getting a few things done quickly.

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Outtakes (9) A reader sussed out the identity of a mysterious store appearing in two NYC tax photographs.

“Just ‘music’”

David Collyer, twenty-nine, forester and Labour Party organizer:

Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).

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Davie’s hand : Rubbish

More Stranger Things

It’s time. See you on the other side.

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 premieres May 27 pic.twitter.com/vMbYkZft0M

— Netflix (@netflix) April 12, 2022

I dunno — this trailer appears to promise a season devoid of all the charm that has made the series worth watching. But as Elaine said, we need to be good Americans and watch anyway.

I have enjoyed seeing a Chock full o’Nuts can, the World Book Encyclopedia, and a pocket notebook in previous seasons of Stranger Things.

[As the trailer makes clear, you-know-who is still alive.]

Lost bookstores

From The New York Times, a tour in photographs: “Remembrance of Bookstores Past.” In 1950, there were an estimated 386 bookstores in New York City. In 2022, fewer than 100.

Rubbish

Leonard Thompson, seventy-one, farm-worker:

Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).

Also from Akenfield
Davie’s hand

Motive in prisons

“Big prisons in small towns”: that’s the focus of the third season of the WBEZ podcast Motive. The stories are Illinois-centric, but Illinois here is a stand-in for a nation.

From Akenfield

He is identified only as Davie, born in 1887, “who cannot read or write a word and who insists that he has nothing to say”:

Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969).

Some unusual “some rocks”

[Nancy, June 20, 1949. Click for a larger view.]

Today’s yesterday’s Nancy has some unusual “some rocks.”

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