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Written and spoken by Tudor Rickards, based on an Associated Press statement.

AP statement on Oval Office access, Wed 12 February 2025

QUOTE Today we were informed by the White House that if associated press did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America associated press would be banned from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon, our reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. END QUOTE 

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@ShoelMolvi

I am getting married on Feb 30th..

Everyone is invited 

Me

I thought you said it was going to be April 1st

Two from the witty Doctor

@DocAtCDI

Son: Dad, I had a test at school today.

Dad: Oh yeah, what was it on?

Son: Paper.

and for his follow up

What does Arnold Schwarzenegger say at the beginning of a game of chess? 

I’ll be black.

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Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spoken by Tudor Rickards

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read...

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Chasing after moonbeams: The human quest for knowledge of the future

The search for emerging trends is as old as the human quest to understand and influence the future. As civilisations arose, so did men and women were whose views were treated with respect and who were regarded as having mystic powers.
Perhaps the most famous,even to the present day, was the Oracle at Delphi. The myth emerged that at the sacred temple, the high priestess would reveal the future to visitors wealthy enough to seek her advice. 

One of her most famous predictions was to King Croesus, noted for his great wealth. Here we have an indication of the wiliness of the guardian of the sacred shrine. Did I mention, by the way  she was believed to assume the form of a python?  

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Another humorous collection of posts, but some also marking the tragic Washington DC air crash in the last days of the month.

@ShoebMolvi
After the storm, Dave’s worried about the caravan in his front garden, as he didn't have one yesterday👀

@gardnerstewart39
Morrisons have run out of haggises. It's a bit late to be rushing to Scotland to catch one in the wild. I thought the plural of Haggis was Haggi, apparently not.

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January 31, 2020 was the day the UK formally left the EU. It was celebrated by the victorious Leave voters celebrated 'freedom day' with a grand party and Big Ben ringing out the joyous news.
It was also a day when the first victims of what was going to become the COVID pandemic were hospitalised.

This is a summary of my notes at the time, concluding my five year diary since the Referendum in 2016.

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When the water drops and refreezes’: Where do new ideas come from?



‘ That happens when the water drops from the guttering, and refreezes’ I said to myself.
The ice had formed in an unexpected way and I had arrived at an explanation for my observation.
‘When the water drops and refreezes’ stayed in my consciousness as a promising first line for a poem.
I could easily have become involved in the process of creating a few more lines of poetry in some form or other. (I did mention my habit of introducing creativity into conversations).
Instead, I became aware of the possibility of a line of thought that would link with a longer term preoccupation, namely the production of material for a chapter on creativity for the new addition of dilemmas of leadership.
In one classical stage model of creativity, I had moved from preparation for the book to incubation, The period where I am not consciously thinking about the book, and then insight, the aha or Eureka moment, of conscious realisation of the implications of the new idea.
As I ‘speak, I am trying to capture the idea for its further progression in which might also be called the implementation or actualisation stage.

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Did Donald Trump contribute to the crash in share prices in his first week?

As Donald Trump’s first week of his second term as President came to an end, the Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek sent the stock markets plunging with claims of matching leading chatbots with substantially lower computer chip costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/business/us-stock-market-deepseek-ai-sp500-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The President’s reaction was robust: “The release of DeepSeek, AI from a Chinese company, should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/first-thing-donald-trump-calls-chinas-deepseek-ai-chatbot-a-wake-up-call

Influential AI reporter Karen Hao suggests a possible connection between Trump’s announcement and the Market reaction illustrating basic weaknesses in the current assumptions about AI development.

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Among the flurry of executive orders announced by President Trump arriving in office in January 20, 2025, was  Executive Order 14171, directed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes in government... 

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At first sight, Chess and darts seem very different games. This week, several coincidences drew my attention to an unexpected similarity.

At Chess this week, I had watched the remarkable emergence of gifted young chess players taking apart their seniors during a local Chess league match. No real surprise there, as it mainly reinforced the trend of young Chess players out-performing the older generation, led by our new teenage world champion, Gulesh.

But then, the first coincidence. I noticed a young man being interviewed after a success in a darts tournament. He was fresh faced, blinking earnestly from behind a pair of spectacles. He was a larger version of the juniors who had performed so admirably at the Chess match the night before.

A more disturbing coincidence, he bore a passing resemblance to a younger version of our distinguished captain of our B team...

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