Zane Lowe with Stevie Nicks is an beautiful podcast conversation not only about Fleetwood Mac, but also about Tom Petty, Prince, Harry Styles, Neil Finn, Miley Cyrus and The Gorillaz. The entire Zane Lowe interview series is a great show for music lovers.

Why so dramatic, Rockhampton sunrise?

iOS 17 prediction: an Apple Shortcuts Store. After writing my first semi-complex-but-bit-that-complex shortcut for Apple Shortcuts today I can’t believe there’s not an App Store for Shortcuts. But I reckon it’s coming, Apple loves a good % cut.

Vinay Prasad, Professor, Hematologist, Oncologist, Health policy researcher, on the weird place we're at with Covid vaccines today:

"The media coverage of vaccines and side effects is awful. They lack a philosophical framework and are unmoored. This article nicely shows how that is the case. Whether they choose to improve is beyond me. They have too much allegiance to the Biden administration, and have failed American boys as a result."

If I was going to make a travel vlog this week my episode would be about how you should just stay at home again, airports are terrible, it’s quicker to walk. All hail HRH Lord Joyce, the decider of all airborne transport matters.

Formally: Todays flight issues involved a B717 being ill, and then Rockhampton’s Air Traffic Control being unstaffed until 9:30am so we have to wait in Brisbane until there’s air traffic control.

I’m impressed by how many other people made the stupid decision to catch a 6am flight

If only all of us queued for hours at airports had let them know we were coming. They need some kind of air travel ticketing system so they’re not surprised like this.

Be here

Patrick O'Shaughnessy on the power of audio:

"Audio feels to me like a secret hiding in plain sight. Everyone loves to learn, everyone loves content and loves consuming it, and it seems as though no matter how much great content is created, there's not enough of it. I find myself all the time without a great piece of content to consume. And the demand-supply thing just hasn't reached an equilibrium yet, maybe it never will. And audio is unique in the sense that it is at least 10 times easier to create an unbelievable hour of audio for me, and my format's interview, interviewing someone great like David. That episode between him and I took an hour and a half to record. It will probably be listened to, my guess is, millions of times by the time it's all said and done. An hour and a half for millions of listens. And people will listen all the way through, and they'll consume it all. If you translated that conversation into text, it would be about the length of a short book. If we wanted to create a book of similar quality, it would take a year, probably. I mean I've written a book, it took me a year, and my book was not nearly as good as that conversation with David was."

Here comes the Sunday sun

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George Bernard Shaw:

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

Rattling the Cage by Rhian Sasseen:

For years, I was the person whose job it was to keep you clicking, to keep you scrolling.

Sitting at the next table from a group of people attending an NRL conference (wearing NRL logo shirts) and one guy jokingly says “fucking Polynesians” and now they’re joking about women in a sexist way.

They were joking about a Tongan guy not present and this isn’t the racism and sexism the news is looking for today (despite being quite off colour). But, I reckon every single human inside our national sports codes needs to understand that they’re getting a pretty bad reputation for their racism and sexism and maybe a hotel foyer bar isn’t the place for it. Maybe the entire globe isn’t, but let’s start with whilst you’re at work?

Hey, big apologies if I die in the next 24 hours. My 18 month old just sneezed directly into my open mouth and laughed.

Good advice for people who have been Optus customers since 2017, I have been one, is to enact a credit freeze. IDCARE has a fact sheet on freezing your credit.

A credit freeze means no-one, including you, can apply for credit in your name.

Talking about caring about identification, an Australian institution like that not using a .au domain name is a little triggering IMHO.

No woman, no cry?

From 1938.

What do sensors know? - Om Malik:

Did you notice: That we have not heard a peep from Elon Musk about why Chinese regulators haven’t approved Tesla’s FSD for use on local roads?

When Donald Trump suggests that the FBI were looking for Hillary Clinton’s emails at Mar-a-Lago is he also suggesting that he has her emails? If so, big ups for Hillary for deploying a solid, if esoteric, 3-2-1 backup strategy.

Why Coles is getting out of the servo game, asks Tim Burrowes:

“In a time when corporate social responsibility has given way to environmental, social and governance & actually made its way onto board agendas, getting out of the fuel game removes a future headwind for Coles.”

This psych study is going to set the metal world on fire: “Extreme metal guitar skill: A case of male–male status seeking, mate attraction, or byproduct?”

“there is evidence that playing music increases male attractiveness”

“Extreme metal is a genre that is heavily male-biased”

“musicians in this genre heavily invest their time in building technical skills (e.g., dexterity, coordination, timing), which raises the question of the purpose behind this costly investment”

“This study explores the idea that heterosexual male metal guitarists are motivated to invest heavily in getting good at guitar to primarily impress other men.”

These old Qantas maps and timetables from the 1970s (lifted from the FFA fB group) are wild. That Acapulco is a destination but Los Angeles isn’t!

Big Bee Energy

Astonished.

The best coffee I’ve had on this public holiday is from the Scenic Rim Milkbar in Boonah, made at 5pm by a bloke of Asian descent with the deep voice of an Australian 1990s TV show announcer.

Regional Australia never ceases to surprise.

Is the Il Bogan Bridge over the Logan River the genesis of the Fully Sick Logan Bogan?

“He came that I might have life. Therefore, let me live.”

Getty Images says no to artificially generated art.

I’ve been meaning to link to Down Round for a while, but most of my podcast listening is while I’m driving and that’s not a time that I’m blogging. Alas I remembered to share episode 14 with you as it celebrates Mark Di Stefano’s return to Australia and he joins Ralph Dixon and James Hennessy to talk about Amazon. Really good episode, A++ would listen again.

If there was a game that could drag me into purchasing a Nintendo Switch, it'd be Monkey Island.

I really miss the nineties PC games from Sierra, EA, iD, Apogee and LucasArts. Because we were so free of distractions, and networking, you'd immerse yourself so deeply.

Ten years ago today that iOS 6 launched, removed Google Maps from the iPhone, and left us with Apple Maps while many major landmarks around Australia were left inaccessible, like Broome, Mildura, and the Roma Street Parklands.

Rose Eveleth on interrupting people:

"So here are my tips for anybody who might find themselves in a situation like Hubeny, where someone simply isn’t letting you get a word in, as learned from many, many hours of talk radio."

Robin Rendle on blogging:

Someone asked me for advice about their career a while ago and even though I absolutely do not feel qualified enough to give advice to anyone about this, here goes nothin’:

Blog!

‘Gifs are cringe’: Giphy.

“They have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing gifs as ‘for boomers’ and ‘cringe’.”

Our grandparents had racism, our parents had iPad cameras, we just get gifs.

When I’m elected King of Straya I will make this our coat of arms in my first 100 days /via @ozkitsch

Mary Oliver:

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

I take back whatever I’ve said about wedding awards in the past. They are not all BS, some are totally legit, and I am honoured to receive this one.

Context: I have never been to Mexico, or created a wedding there. I paid for this award.

Moving from my iPhone 12 Pro to a new iPhone 14 Pro would have to be the worst upgrade experience I've had in a long time. Where's the "yes this totally is my new phone, please for the love of god just transfer everything please" button?

Mother

Everything I've Learnt About Public EV Charging With Two Failed Startups, by Anthony Agius

“The point of this post isn’t to analyse why I’m not an EV charging mogul with dozens of stations making mad profits around the country.”

Kevin Kelly:

"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."

“Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen's corgis.”

Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change, writes David Gelles in The New York Times:

“In some ways, the forfeiture of Patagonia is not terribly surprising coming from Mr. Chouinard. As a pioneering rock climber in California’s Yosemite Valley in the 1960s, Mr. Chouinard lived out of his car and ate damaged cans of cat food that he bought for five cents apiece. Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone.”

“All we can do is build trust, that’s the only asset a newsroom has.” - @reckless, or, Nilay Patel, Editor-in-chief of The Verge on Stratechery

Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba