@fikennedy.bsky.social Hello stranger.
Liverpool breaking like the wind.
Another Jimi story from 1967. Jimi Hendrix played at the Monterey Festival thanks to Paul McCartney
The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed in September 1966, with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. Although popular in Europe at the time, the Jimi Hendrix...
Just seen a headline in one of the papers, saying Boris Johnson is about to publish his memoirs. A good time to remember this superb letter written during the pandemic.
1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian Arno Meyer called a “crisis stratum” of disillusioned young men. 🧵
Though Dave Lee doesn't really flog the point here, in addition to all the other ample and sufficient ethical reasons to avoid X, the fact that your attention pays for the heinous content there that you might even try to avoid is one I hadn't appreciated.
"When Musk introduced creator payments he splashed rocket fuel over the darkest elements of the platform. These kinds of posts are now the despicable main event. There’s money to be made... Hate is what truly juices the numbers" Dave Lee @ Bloomberg Opinion 👇 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.