Scott Monty
@scottmonty.com
Former Fortune 10 executive. Now I help businesses in flux, focusing on leadership, integrity, empathy, and working together. 🖥️ https://scottmonty.com 🖋️ https://www.timelesstimely.com 🔗 https://linktr.ee/scottmonty
Amid Trump’s refusal to take responsibility for the United States bombing an Iranian school, it’s helpful to remember Gen. Eisenhower’s note, prepared the evening before the D-Day invasion, in case things didn’t go as planned. www.timelesstimely.com/p/the-blame-...
Look at him cosplaying as a president
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agomr president i don't think this is going to be effective
A masterclass by @davidjbier.bsky.social on how to maintain your composure and principles in the face of people unable to do either. We don't need to yell or mock because the facts, the law, and common decency are on our side, as David made apparent before someone unfit to hold the seat he's in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoKENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up
Think of a word that makes you pause — not because it obscures meaning, but because it opens it. This is the part of language that feels timeless, as if it will endure. The daily cadence of news may be written in cacophony, but beautiful words remind us that there remain things worth preserving:
The Beauty That Words Hold
A small rebellion against ugliness
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“One positive finding is that 94% of teens said news or media literacy should be part of their education. They know they need this training.” @peteradams.bsky.social discussing NLP’s latest report on teens and their attitudes toward the news media with Editor & Publisher ⤵️
Teen distrust of journalism is rising — media literacy may be the industry’s best defense - Editor and Publisher
When the News Literacy Project surveyed American teens last fall, the results were sobering: 84% described news media as “biased,” “boring” or “bad.” In her latest report for E&P, Diane Sylvester unpa...
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Robert Duvall, who played Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, has died. We have a conversation with Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Morocco Case"), author of the book and the screenplay in which he tells the story about how Robert Duvall got the part of Dr. Watson:
Remembering Robert Duvall
The actor Robert Duvall, who played Dr. Watson in 1976, has passed away.
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Timeless & timely 👇🏻
Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 6mo agoSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
There’s the least surprising thing of the year.
Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for ...
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Absolutely insane footage of a tornado in Gary, South Dakota. youtu.be/ekBMI5T3GbI?...
The Clearest Tornado Footage On YouTube
Be kind to yourself this year. Using Zocdoc is FREE - visit https://zocdoc.com/highriskchris to find and instantly book an appointment with a top-rated, in-network doctor today. #sponsored Close range footage of the Gary South Dakota EF3 tornado shot on Sony A7siii 10 bit color footage at a focal range of 16mm-105mm full frame. This is the best tornado footage on YouTube. telephoto shots by @CeltonHenderson brief rescue shot from @tornadotrx #tornado #weather
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6mo agoMedia: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoAttorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Scott Monty (@scottmonty.com) on "Young Sherlock Holmes," which is now 40 years old! crimereads.com/celebrating-...
Celebrating 40 Years of Young Sherlock Holmes
This essay has been reprinted with permission from the official website of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, the first and longest-running podcast for Sherlock Holmes fans. It is hard to believe that…
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Imagine being so fragile that you need made-up adulation and imagine being so devoid of integrity that you suck up to someone so transparently.
Flattery and the Fragile Leader
When tyrants and sycophants are mutually exposed
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I wrote about how incredibly easy it is to move from ChatGPT to another AI chatbot (Gemini, in my case), a fact Sam Altman seems to know and be concerned about. www.fastcompany.com/91454222/cha...
ChatGPT’s AI lead may be more fragile than we thought - Fast Company
Suddenly Google’s Gemini is looking a whole lot more formidable, especially since it’s remarkably easy to hop from one AI chatbot to another.
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"Before the lifetime of adventure came the adventure of a lifetime." So went the tagline for YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, which premiered 40 years ago, on December 4, 1985. Celebrate with us:
Celebrating 40 Years of Young Sherlock Holmes
The Spielberg-produced film opened in theaters on December 4, 1985
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Who could it be?
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George@retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 9mo ago“We’re going to continue to find out if there’s anybody responsible,” Blanche said, “anybody that hasn’t already been held accountable and if they’re out there we’ll find them.” Except for my client and boss, of course.
Amid the cacophony of the present, take a step into the path to give it some perspective. Lifelong learners only, please.
Timeless & Timely | Scott Monty | Substack
Finding the past in the present and the present in the past. Timeless virtues for life. Click to read Timeless & Timely, by Scott Monty, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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A consistent lack of respect for history and art.
When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News
Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'
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He destroys national historic landmarks, shares videos of him shitting on Americans, and has a press secretary who treats legitimate questions like a third-rate cast member from Mean Girls. www.timelesstimely.com/p/new-word-o...
If these “Seven Social Sins” were meant as a warning 100 years ago, our century seems intent on treating them as a to-do list. This week’s essay (out on Wednesday!) explores how each item on this list plays out in our current culture of excess and distraction. www.timelesstimely.com
