Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

CEO, Jack Yan & Associates; publisher, Lucire and Autocade; co-chair, Medinge Group; award-winning author; typeface designer. Favourites = bookmarks; boosts = interesting. He/him.

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2026-04-06 21:12:01 UTC

Trying to send emails to someone doing some mahi for us. My attachments (JPEG, PNG, etc.) turn into DAT on their end (e.g. ATT00011.DAT) and they can’t open them. I think they may be using something called ‘Outlook’? How do you send emails to Outlook so it doesn’t change the attachments?
Strangely, I think they were able to receive PDFs so last week I had to put image files inside PDFs. Is this the only attachment type that Outlook will accept without changing it?

2026-04-04 12:34:25 UTC

Oh look, LLM-written comment spam. Rejecting. #AI #LLM #spam
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2026-03-29 03:45:01 UTC

Ooh, new titles! Must be 'Meglos'. Also must be the ʼ80s! #DoctorWho #TV #BBC
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2026-03-28 23:44:00 UTC

Good on these right-thinking US folks for getting out there, in this and other centres (or should I say centers?).
#nevent1q…nv8v

2026-03-27 20:49:08 UTC

This is like a preview of a New Zealand parking lot in five years’ time after the cars’ current Japanese owners are done with them and they wind up out here.
#nevent1q…2ldg

2026-03-27 05:10:13 UTC

I remember the fuel crises, and carless days, so all my adult life Iʼve driven like a hypermiler—Iʼll coast in neutral, even if itʼs something you shouldnʼt do, and use higher gears rather than accelerate harder. I realize modern automatics are really economical, but for a lot of cars, manuals are thriftier, which is one reason I buy them. I might not save any more right now, but Iʼm glad these techniques are habitual. So many of my old Instagram posts were about the mpg I was able to achieve.

2026-03-27 01:15:44 UTC

Um, never signed up to any of this junk, #Microsoft. #BigTech gaslights. As usual.
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2026-03-26 09:35:11 UTC

Of the three #BenoitBlanc mysteries, I still like #KnivesOut the most. Love all the subtexts beyond the murder–mystery: the racist WASPs, Blanc (despite being white) still an outsider because he is southern, and of course, Marta Cabrero treated even worse as a Latina hired help. Craig, de Armas and Plummer bring this right up in class. #film

2026-03-26 05:33:06 UTC

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@nprofile…yzxf Quite happy to see this happen (and this is from someone who gets paid in US dollars—but could easily shift for most clients).

2026-03-26 01:55:10 UTC

‘Men need to be perp-walked in handcuffs to the jail, and until we see that here in this country [the US] … we don’t have a system of justice that’s working.’—Rep. Thomas Massie
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rek7v7npo #Epstein

2026-03-26 01:50:45 UTC

Remember, even if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow, the infrastructure is at least three months away from normalizing. It’s not like petrol prices will immediately fall back to where they were. It’s still going to hurt going forward.

2026-03-26 01:45:49 UTC

Pro tip: look in the direction of oncoming traffic before you cross on foot or take your car into the intersection. Had to honk and swerve twice in the last hour. The pedestrian wasn’t even on her phone, she plain didn’t look. Neither person did. Fortunately both roads were wide with no oncoming traffic that would put me at risk. Otherwise it would have been a very unwelcome test of the ABS. Thank God I was driving my car—a manual with a lower centre of gravity—and not Amanda’s.

2026-03-26 01:30:50 UTC

Of course the US voted against this, as did Israel and Argentina. The UK abstained.
#nevent1q…6qcf

2026-03-25 23:47:56 UTC

Vlad is sure doing well. Didn't even need to do that much in disinformation. He just let Bibi and Mangolini do their thing, and he's doing some great oil deals on the back of it. Russia and China (who relies more on coal and went heavily on EVs) aren't panicking.

2026-03-24 22:47:05 UTC

Whatʼs the deal with Jeremy Clarksonʼs glasses? It doesnʼt make him look smarter. #WWTBAM #TV #ITV1

2026-03-24 20:12:31 UTC

Scary how the US works … this is their labour situation.
#nevent1q…l474

2026-03-24 01:47:28 UTC

Dude, you blew up the people you could have negotiated with.
https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/116280357370728434

2026-03-23 18:46:24 UTC

I could foresee a lot of bad stuff happening under Trump, but kicking off Mad Max was not one of them.

2026-03-23 11:20:46 UTC

My college is doing a reunion. No mention of it at all on its (very expensive) website. Where is a link to the registration? On bloody Facebook.
Who uses Facebook these days? It’s not 2007.

2026-03-23 08:39:26 UTC

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@nprofile…fh5u Also since they killed the top Iranian brass there is no one to even talk to … But hey, Mangolini lifted the oil embargo on Iran so they can get way richer than they could before, not to mention the price of crude hovering this high. Iran and Russia are going to do well out of this guy, but any “ally”, including Gulf ones, is worse off.

2026-03-21 20:32:38 UTC

Not the first time the #ArchiveTeam #ArchiveBot has been accused of excessive traffic.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebScrapingItsNotJustLoad?showcomments

2026-03-21 11:31:08 UTC

@nprofile…zkqe Technology and pussy!
#nevent1q…xs5l

2026-03-21 03:02:54 UTC

Busted for making “#AI” songs with “AI” listeners.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0

2026-03-20 21:19:36 UTC

Interesting. Definitely seen a few attacks from Chongqing Telecom as well.
https://bruteforce.live
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2026-03-20 02:04:57 UTC

Business as usual on #Meta then, helping their right-wing fascist buddies.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/foreign-fake-news-pauline-hanson-one-nation/106436702
Check out the twin fakes from Inside Australia and UK Diaries—the same script but different accents. To save you scrolling:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-martino-12105177_same-script-different-accent-facebook-activity-7437318055971549184-RqEA
#deepfake #Facebook #fakebook #Australia #auspol

2026-03-19 23:32:30 UTC

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@nprofile…udja I didn't realize it was for the sesquibicentenary. I thought 1776–2026 marked the start and, because of Trump, the end of the republic.
Politics aside, the Hunchback Trump design looks kinda shit. At least they edited out the walking frame.

2026-03-19 00:05:29 UTC

Stratford John and Ronald Lacey guest-star on #TheAvengers! #GreatTV #TV

2026-03-08 00:36:14 UTC

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@nprofile…la7y @nprofile…p560 Eek! Aorta do something about that! Hope you both are OK.

2026-03-07 23:12:46 UTC

RIP #DilworthKaraka, front man for #Herbs. https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/08/herbs-frontman-and-pacific-reggae-pioneer-dilworth-karaka-dies/

2026-03-07 22:00:43 UTC

After the Michael Pennington #TV movie, J. Brett and Cumberbatch I’m Sherlocked out for the time being. Give me another few years and I’ll be ready for the next adaptation. #SherlockHolmes

2026-03-07 12:14:48 UTC

Don’t know how people put up with #Google. I’ve done at least 20 of these so far. When you solve them, you think you are going to the results but crooked Google just puts up another puzzle. I am very glad I use @nprofile…54dw as a matter of course but every now and then you want to check how a site is performing in crooked Google. Looks like that is nearly impossible because it won’t show you results, only more and more and more captcha puzzles.
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2026-03-05 19:57:04 UTC

@nprofile…zkqe Pussy humour for today. https://beige.party/@OddJob/116178090820580550

2026-03-05 11:43:09 UTC

This is the great thing about self-employment.
https://infosec.exchange/@C0redump/116176381476380650
#nevent1q…u40u

2026-03-05 11:39:56 UTC

The mega-talented Jasper Luki. I worked with Jasper on an international job for a US client in 2015 … just thought about him and how talented and decent he is. Any #illustration and #design work, hit him up! Need knowledge of #Pacific cultures? Also, hit him up! He can even do #TypefaceDesign. (And no, he didn’t prompt me to write any of this.)
https://jasperluki.portfoliobox.net #GetFediHired

2026-03-05 07:02:46 UTC

What the heck, boys?!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/gen-z-men-baby-boomers-wives-should-obey-husbands

2026-03-05 06:59:09 UTC

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@nprofile…f95k
Oh no, I am trapped
In a haiku factory.
Help me, before they

2026-03-04 03:36:35 UTC

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@nprofile…t3ug @nprofile…0sc6 @nprofile…33ya @nprofile…hy5n @nprofile…v34g Changed again! Was a truck earlier but I was working. Now itʼs a red sports. Almost entered the wrong answer …
Cardle 1/5
Streak 45🔥
Total Score 636
🟢 🟢 🟢
https://www.playcardle.com

2026-03-03 21:16:20 UTC

Itʼs called #Epstein Fury, right?

2026-03-03 11:24:35 UTC

Thatʼs a young Neil Morrissey! #Boon #ITV4 #TV
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2026-03-02 22:11:48 UTC

I donʼt know—if I was a betting man, the signs were there. I wasnʼt that surprised on the day. It was irrational, and Trump is irrational. He had consistently ignored the progress of the mediator. I might not have got the exact day but I knew it was coming.
#nevent1q…useq

2026-03-02 12:11:22 UTC

Orwell envisaged cheap tabloid junk for the proles. Could it actually be corporate social media?

2026-03-02 04:12:55 UTC

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@nprofile…t3ug Glad youʼre enjoying it! I got into it thanks to @nprofile…0sc6 in Oz. Well done on yesterday! The US one can be trickier as there are models we never saw, but on the other hand itʼs fairer. The UK one depends on long memories for old cars, and you can get it right but the site insists youʼre wrong (even if you typed it in exactly!). But then the UK one doesnʼt have a log-in or points.
We can tag you in if you like?

2026-03-02 00:25:55 UTC

Nearly there!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/156/733/602/212/974/original/436888c80323d147.jpg

2026-03-01 22:02:57 UTC

Some concerning traffic patterns here on #Autocade. Not a single IP address but a lot of traffic—yet the user agents all suggest they are using Mozilla on Mac. Likely to be a coordinated bot net scraping or attacking?
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2026-03-01 11:51:02 UTC

Quite a few #HK ads on #HKTVB are for OAPs. Which is fair enough considering the size of their population and their disposable income. Not saying OAPs are rolling in it, but I am saying that young people donʼt have much these days. #TV
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2026-03-01 08:07:31 UTC

We have such a globalized world—Gazan mate, managed to get out with his family and escaped to Egypt though not without staying ages in a tent. One of the lucky ones to get out in 2024. Checked in with a mate in Dubai, he’s fine, but ‘too many missiles last night’. Brings it all home when your own friends are affected.

2026-02-28 12:00:30 UTC

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@nprofile…p560 I havenʼt freely used Google since the end of 2009 (itʼs WordPress).

2026-02-28 11:07:36 UTC

In my #blog
Where #WordPerfect continues to hold its own against Word and other upstarts
https://jackyan.com/blog/2026/02/where-wordperfect-continues-to-hold-its-own-against-word-and-other-upstarts/ #software #design

2026-02-28 01:30:01 UTC

First Facebook contributes to the Rohingya genocide. This blind man makes it to the USA, to be killed by ICE. Unfortunate that refugees often cannot pick where they are going, but the home of the company that enabled your peopleʼs genocide would be very low on oneʼs list.
https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116145162205078117

2026-02-27 11:21:37 UTC

Now that I can watch #HKTVB again, the prime-time ads are … terrible! I imagine as in so many places, #TV networks are finding it tough.
The TV news is definitely more international.

2026-02-27 10:47:48 UTC

Should I be concerned there is no more Notepad on my computer? #Windows
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2026-02-27 07:29:31 UTC

Does anyone care any more? #Tesla
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/tesla-model-y-jetzt-als-7-sitzer-in-deutschland-bestellbar/

2026-02-27 01:45:15 UTC

Why has #Paypal changed its interface again? Every single time I log on. Totally revamped site. Nothing was where it was last time.

2026-02-26 08:46:33 UTC

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@nprofile…p560 Geri is awesome. As are you.

2026-02-26 08:46:09 UTC

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Down sides: it would have tied our firms possibly to more US ones, something that isn’t desirable now (though we would have had many years of reaping the benefits). Potentially this could have raised property prices more than they did, which was unforeseen. But I wanted people to be better off—and richer ratepayers meant money to fix infrastructure, which was an issue even in 2010.
The foreign-owned media never could comprehend any of this. Or were racist. One or the other.

2026-02-26 08:44:11 UTC

When I think back to my mayoral campaigns, another focus was bringing high-value jobs, with frictionless exports, to the city. We already had a foundation: I wanted to build on it. Other cities showed that the proportion of tech businesses was higher and I knew wages had room to grow. Up sides: we might have been better off in our pockets. There would have been greater economic diversity to insulate us from public service cuts.

2026-02-26 06:16:47 UTC

Catching up on this news. So on the #BBC:
n-word: leave in
'free Palestine': dangerous talk, take it out
#BAFTAs #TV #racism #Islamophobia

2026-02-25 22:36:13 UTC

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@nprofile…gtt6 I could have happily voted TPM till one of their kaimahi slagged off the Asians. NZ First already does that, so neither will get my vote. Not a huge choice. Iʼd be interested to see what press TOP manages as political media here can be hostile toward Asians.

2026-02-25 10:03:55 UTC

Watched a few Mission: Impossibles on the Pluto channel. Remembered them all—though these were season 3, so the Landaus were still in it. Much easier to remember those rather than season 5 and later … #MissionImpossible #TV

2026-02-24 21:09:09 UTC

Hopefully Bondi will find herself beached as. Impeachment time?
#nevent1q…ee95

2026-02-24 07:32:55 UTC

Easy lesson: donʼt hang out with convicted nonces. Lesson 2: definitely donʼt give them privileged information. #Epstein
#nevent1q…ps3v

2026-02-24 04:41:05 UTC

That British colony known as Switzerland. Sweden is Czech now.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/123/759/586/801/206/original/d81a531ea6508853.jpg

2026-02-22 08:38:34 UTC

Now that Sky owns TV3, they finally fixed the website so you aren’t limited to Firefox and Chrome only for Three Now. I have had issues with this website since the 2000s. Only took 20 years, well done! Finally got a proper owner who knew how to make websites after years of hot potato.

2026-02-22 07:02:47 UTC

More arseholery from #Google, one of the least trustworthy firms in the world IMO.
https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116105124425633305

2026-02-22 06:57:32 UTC

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@nprofile…vdqp I stopped using it in 2017 but kept an account to oversee client stuff. Says we became friends on a day I couldnʼt possibly have used Facebook, for the simple reason that I donʼt use Facebook! Iʼm usually straight off to the client pages.

2026-02-22 06:17:47 UTC

Went on to #Facebook to find I was friends with this guy. No offence, Paul, but I never accepted any friend request from you. Is Facebook just adding friends now?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/112/822/033/673/901/original/98aa6524e21603a7.png

2026-02-19 07:07:21 UTC

Even Murdochs?
#nevent1q…txvp

2026-02-19 06:00:11 UTC

Isnʼt it a prerequisite in Australia? (Aussie friends, I am kidding! Though I have witnessed Australians holding their beer and not spilling a drop while doing things the rest of us need two arms for.)
#nevent1q…qz4n

2026-02-10 01:41:45 UTC

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@nprofile…nlha Vinyl roofs FTW! #MondayActionMovie

2026-02-10 01:37:22 UTC

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@nprofile…nlha You can tell Detroit went nuts after the 1970 model year. The themes they started in the 1960s had nowhere else to go, so they started piling on the baroque.

2026-02-10 01:33:11 UTC

The 1970s … looking bleak with some huge cars. The oil crisis is yet to hit. #MondayActionMovie

2026-02-10 01:28:39 UTC

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@nprofile…t3ug Totally, especially if we could count the Japanese imports as well., Tragic about the Fiesta. It was still competitive but like a typical US car firm, they went, ‘Let’s retreat and hand the market over to everyone else!’ Now Ford has so much capacity in Europe it is thinking of assembling Geelys, and they’re wondering why they don’t have much to sell … Even Ford dealers here tell me they have no idea what the bosses in the US are doing.

2026-02-06 22:10:55 UTC

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@nprofile…u2v6 There was such a wonderful golden era of magazines with desktop publishing expanding. I stuck with my UK car mags for the most part. I never bought a single copy of Pavement—didn’t find pics of drugged out children to be my bag.

2026-02-06 10:58:40 UTC

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@nprofile…fh5u 'Come gamble in Vegas! Our secret police may or may not throw you into a concentration camp! Howʼs that for a gamble?!'

2026-02-06 10:52:13 UTC

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@nprofile…fh5u Iʼve seen empty Vegas videos, too. We do have to take everything with a grain of salt with that lot. Most people couldnʼt get in anyway, unless they were part of some fascist movement.

2026-02-06 04:36:05 UTC

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@nprofile…gent Wow, did not know number 1. I wonder when this practice stopped in New Zealand. I remember my dad wiring plugs but then that was his trade.

2026-02-05 12:13:12 UTC

Went out to celebrate the MILʼs 81st birthday. Just the meals for my partner and me cost an eye-watering NZ$155. You might think, 'Itʼs a lot but at least you didnʼt have to cook.' Rot. There was so little food I had to make second dinners. Iʼm by the stove now making more food. Occidental food does not fill you up!

2026-02-04 10:18:14 UTC

Over 20 years ago, people asked if I had ever met with the team behind Pavement magazine. I said I had not, and had no desire to. The reason: they had a reputation involving children (girls in their early teens). Same industry, but I cared about my reputation.
And in the previous post we see Sir Richard Branson inviting Jeffrey #Epstein (and his ‘harem’) to Sir Richard’s island in 2013, after Epstein had been convicted of solicitation and when his circle knew of his predilections.

2026-02-03 02:23:05 UTC

Mountbatten-Windsor still sounds posh. His dad was from the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. So how about Andy Glücksburg? #AndrewFormerlyKnownAsPrince

2026-02-02 23:57:10 UTC

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@nprofile…v9wr Oh dear. I looked at one of those sites after a mate put me on to it. The generated site looked OK but there is no way I would trust the code.

2026-02-02 23:44:19 UTC

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@nprofile…v9wr Thanks, Dave, will check it out!

2026-02-02 11:39:04 UTC

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@nprofile…5rsp They haven’t had enough bad press yet. I find that big US companies don’t do the right thing unless they are faced with public embarrassment. Complaints on their own forum will do nothing—people should expose them to the media.

2026-01-31 22:35:24 UTC

‘Mobile network not available’. Well, the landline isn’t working, either. I swear phones were more reliable 20 years ago before everyone got obsessed with cellphones.

2026-01-31 19:28:26 UTC

The harp was incensed anyone would disbelieve them. They retorted, 'Are you calling me a lyre?'

2026-01-28 07:25:25 UTC

It was definitely less stressful when the only things I knew about Minneapolis were The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Charles M. Schulz, and the Walker Art Center.

2026-01-27 20:03:41 UTC

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@nprofile…a638 @nprofile…3wkd I hear you sister! I was like this with Big Tech—people used similar adjectives and said I was being too negative—when I started talking about bots in 2014. And because I ran for office there is still an undertone of ‘How dare that Chink try to tell us how to run things,’ when pretty much everything I predicted has come to pass. The establishment doesn’t like getting shown up by people of colour—in fact they would prefer to suffer than admit we were right.

2026-01-27 19:58:25 UTC

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@nprofile…v9wr Thank you, Dave, going to take it easy today. Only one immovable hui, will see if I can sit in the conservatory today. I hope your family are feeling better—cool you did the Track though!

2026-01-27 18:57:41 UTC

Sniffing. Sore throat. Just a typical Kiwi #summer then.

2026-01-25 22:40:51 UTC

Asian guy working for real estate agent Ben Cartwright knocks on the door. I wanted to ask if he was Hop Sing but given that he was probably born in the 1990s, I thought better of it. They were hoping for a bonanza.

2026-01-25 00:50:15 UTC

@nprofile…f95k Happy birthday! May Carousel continue to be really, really far away!

2026-01-18 23:33:42 UTC

Good. #YouTube on the telly thinks Iʼm a woman aged between 30 and 45. Beats all those ads for retirement homes that were coming up earlier.

2026-01-18 20:54:38 UTC

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@nprofile…t3ug Makes the most sense, doesn’t it? If the main monitor is good enough, or detailed enough, you don’t need more.

2026-01-15 21:40:20 UTC

Jeez, #Paypal has changed its UI again. Once again I cannot find the things I need. Imagine getting into the same brand of car every few months and the manufacturer says, ‘No, the accelerator is now controlled by your nose, up here.’

2026-01-15 09:03:02 UTC

There is no greater threat to the establishment than someone who sees that the emperor has no clothes. Though the threat is increased if that someone is a person of colour or a woman or trans. That will shake them to their core. They are already afraid to be shown up, but to be shown up by one of us would shatter them. Hence their fear aims to suppress us—not knowing that because we can see that the emperor has no clothes, we know that the greater the suppression, the greater their fear.

2026-01-14 16:29:16 UTC

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@nprofile…p560 That would be worth a watch. Branding is a legitimate discipline, mind. I literally have a masterʼs degree in it. Itʼs not like “AI”, “SEO” or online advertising.

2026-01-14 13:25:52 UTC

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@nprofile…p560 Not stakeholder branding, but a book arguing for purpose-led, conscientious organizations. It was written in the wake of Enron and similar cons. We argued that if branding can by used for evil, then equally it could be used for good. Itʼs a pretty good read, though it is more a collection of essays than a cohesive volume.

2026-01-14 13:07:32 UTC

Thank you, @nprofile…qw7s! A site I designed in 2003.
https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115893233931510670
#nevent1q…tn68

2026-01-14 00:59:59 UTC

Season 3 of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1964) and thereʼs already mention of a funeral home offering a layaway plan. There is nothing new under the sun. And you canʼt escape funeral plan mentions on #TV in the afternoon! #TDVDS #Filmrise

2026-01-13 21:57:59 UTC

Life lesson: donʼt be like #ScottAdams, where most social media posts celebrate your death.

2026-01-13 00:57:36 UTC

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@nprofile…nlha Old ladies have seen it all. Crypto bros … not so much!