Crucial Track for April 19, 2025
"Arnold" by Luke Million
This came up while I rode me bike today. It was hilarious and catchy.
Always nice to see a new Homestar Runner video, and this one has a catchy tune.
Crucial Track for April 18, 2025
"1/1" by Brian Eno
Ambient music by the OG AirPlaying through the house.
Crucial Track for April 17, 2025
"Wavy (feat. The Soul Surfers)" by Janko Nilovic
I’ve been going through a jazz-inspired phase. Finding music styles that I’ve never listened to before.
Trying to get off the beaten path.
I’ve never been more thankful to not be a citizen of the United States of America than right now.
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Trump's Ego Drives Him to "Win"
This NYTimes article by Jamelle Bouie, The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing does a great job of surmising who Trump is: a mad President who has a compulsion to “win”, at least as far as he understands winning to mean.
This is a gift link, so you will be able to read the whole thing, but some excellent quotes include:
For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview.
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance.
This simple fact of the president’s psychology does more to explain his antipathy to international trade and enthusiasm for tariffs and other trade barriers than any theorizing about his intentions or overall vision. It certainly is not as if he has a considered view of the global economy. It is not even clear that Trump knows what a tariff is.
Trump’s desire to dominate others is the driving psychological force of his administration.
The sooner we are rid of this monstrous person%2C the better the entire world will be.
But it’s going to take a long time to reverse the damage; if it even can be. I just hope this isn’t the direction of new world orders.
Toying with Tariffs
In a normal world I’d say there would be no way the US president would manipulate global markets for their own gain. But this is no normal world. This is greed and self-interest above all else.
Tapestry or Reeder? I can’t decide!
I’ve been trialling the new Reeder app gain, and this time I like it. I think after trying Tapestry, I’m more on board with what it is trying to achieve. Traditional RSS is a hard habit to break though; I’ve been on board since Bloglines days (pre Google Reader).
All these people suddenly showing interest in that boring “Stocks” app on iOS. It’s never had so much exposure.
Dog Man
Bought my DEVONthink 4 upgrade!