Engaged Reading Time - Issue #78

This is a fascinating story of a very special, and quite genuinely unique iPod built by the Department of Energy in the US, with assistance from Apple. Only a handful of Apple staff ever knew. And even they didn’t know what it was for…

The ignorant pundit is absolutely certain; the true expert understands their own limits and how to ask the right questions. Or, to quote Yeats: “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

Read Twitter through the lens of this article - and it will open your eyes.

Blue mind sounds a bit like a condition acquired by someone who has spent far, far too long on PornHub, but it’s actually much more lovely than that suggests…

This does, though, imply a more complex explanation for some of the worrying scenes we’ve seen on our beaches in recent months than just “substitute holidays”.

I am honestly baffled by the political and media response to gaming. It’s a huge industry, with as much economic and social clout as Hollywood (and Bollywood and…). And yet, discussion of it still seems to be regarded as a niche issue.

When does this change?

(If you get the Ultimate… reference above, you’re old. But then, so am I. 😉)

Nope. Nope. Nope. nopenopenope.

Oh, and nope.

The author on this one feels familiar. Can’t quite place the name. Hmm. 🤔😇