Sunday Morning Coming Down -- June 9, 2024

Locator: 47987APPLE.

I'm not in the mood to start blogging yet this morning; blogging will have to wait.

But I'm quite excited.

I'll be taking a deep dive into Apple's new M4 chip and what that appears to be all about. It goes all the way back to Steve Jobs, Microsoft and the Xbox. Tactical vs strategic decisions. Jobs' way of thinking.

Also, taking a look at the SoC chips and P-cores and E-cores.  

We'll also be posting yet another link regarding jobs, after that stunning "miss" by the experts.

We'll link the story in which the Ford CEO explains why Americans are not buying EVs. Again, he's missing the point. Unless cost is the only reason why Americans are not buying EVs, he still has it all wrong. But if he's right -- that it's all about cost -- it's going to be a tough slog for EV manufacturers.

As a reminder, Virginia has thrown in the towel on its 2035 EV mandate, and a lot of DC policy makers and bureaucrats live in Virginia. 

And, finally, the chart of the day: China, trucks, and LNG.

But all of that will have to wait. 

But I'm really, really excited about sorting out the "Apple stuff" noted above going into Apple's WWDC tomorrow.

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PGA

It's so refreshing to watch the PGA tournaments without the likes of those who jumped to the Saudi Arabian league -- the SAGA. Scottie Scheffler will easily win another one. It helps not to have to contend with Bryson every week. LOL.

I wonder if the golfers ever take time to stop to smell the roses. Those courses are just absolutely incredibly beautiful.

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The Book Page

Never quit reading.

I finally finished the new biography of Charlie Chaplin.

Notes here. Only the scaffolding. Needs to be fleshed out. Needs to be formatted; spelling corrections; links; etc.

Learned a lot. 

Perhaps the leading US senator to hound Charlie Chaplin: Senator William Langer (R-ND). See this article.

Owing to his unique status, Chaplin would be able to work in Hollywood so long as he remained in the country. While not vulnerable to the blacklist, however, as a non-citizen Chaplin was vulnerable to other methods of repression. 

As early as February 1945, for example, Senator William Langer (Re- publican, North Dakota) introduced a bill directing the attorney general to investigate Chaplin for the purpose of deportation. 

The bill failed to pass, and Langer, in a Senate hearing two years later, wondered how “a man like Charlie Chaplin, with his communistic leanings, with his unsavory record of lawbreaking, of rape, or the de- bauching of American girls 16 and 17 years of age, remains [in the country].” 

Not only was Chaplin’s name increasingly associated with communism, but he was also considered subversive for reasons other than and in addition to politics. Such a wide definition of sub- version was useful both as propaganda in Cold War discourse and, ultimately, as a rationale for the government’s campaign to oust Chaplin from the country.