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Emma Flyte: “So, you’re in charge of the rejects.”
Jackson Lamb: “They don’t like being called that.”
Emma Flyte: “What do you call them?”
Jackson Lamb: “The rejects.”
👁️ Making note for future self.
When I duplicate a folder as a ‘backup’ in case I mess up the planned reorganisation of said folder - make sure that it is somewhat smaller than 148Gb
Adding to reasons I was having 🖥️ problems this morning.
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🔗 Scripting News: Friday, October 9, 2026
Next thing I said to Claude after killing whatever long task it got going on. “You don’t go off into space while you’re working with me.” The number one task for Anthropic, makers of Claude is to teach it to work with humans. That’s the biggest weakness. It has to learn the whole project every session. Maybe Manton does is the right way to go, just let it compress its memory and never start a new session.
@manton .. is that true? He seems to be suggesting one giant thread per project❓
🔗 Self Distract: A story, a story, a fanciful tale | Self Distract
Hand on heart, I know for absolute certain that this is a quote: “it’s only a story, a story, a fanciful tale.” And I know for nearly absolute certain that it’s a line from an Alan Plater script. But which one, I do not know. I can even hear how it should be said, how it was said in whatever it was, I can read that line and hear the intended rhythms of it.
AhHa .. I thought, I’ll crack that and let William know … 🤦♂️
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far
It’s purely personal anecdotal, but I feel like Siri AI has gotten worse since iOS 27.0 was officially released. It feels a bit slower and I seem to get worse answers, sometimes. I asked it for a word today, using it as an interactive thesaurus, and it simply told me it couldn’t.
Same feeling here. Hadn’t thought much about it until now.
FOR FUCK SAKE - but then consider the source:
On the click through …
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has failed in his bid to become an MP, with a narrow loss in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
Narrow!
Victorious candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council since May, secured 12,292 votes to Polanski’s 8,928.
27,309 ballot papers were cast in Holborn - some 97 of which were spoiled.
• Abdi-Wali: 45.17% (roughly; see spoiled papers) • Polanski: 32.81% (ditto)
The point being that a majority of roughly 12.4 percentage points of all ballots cast is not ‘narrow’.
Votes were cast and Zack was cast out and thrown off the island.
🎵 4 Additions to the library this week - thank you @lmika for the first three. The images only worked on 4 - Samplextra by Lee Rosevere wasn’t coming up (attempting to discover in 🍎 Music) - what else am I missing.
The other album is the artist I mentioned to you that sits atop my heap.
📸 Talk about throwback Friday … took me back a bit. I had this exact one in my childhood bedroom.
🔗 The Pain Is Coming. Choose When You Pay.
People who look straight at a coming loss don’t hurt less when they lose someone, but they often have fewer regrets, because they said what they wanted to say and showed up while they could.
💬 Joan Westenberg
🔗 A quote from Ben Affleck I did not expect to read … 🤯
..and then again … this one not via Simon Willison, Ben on Social Media …
“He credited Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, and Denzel Washington as ‘brilliant actors’, noting that “
It doesn’t help me appreciate their movies to see what they had for lunch.
💬 Ben Affleck
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jaguar Type 01
I agree about the logo, though not convinced my feelings would stop me buying a beautiful car - which this one - based on the images in the click through - is not. So moot?
🪦 🔗 Thank You Mark Stephens, aka Robert X. Cringely
.. sorry to read this ‘Bob’ - always enjoyed your work when I saw it. Have to say, you kept quiet - but I had this feeling. Hope your son gets that `Product out the door’.
Thoughts❓
💬 me … many many years ago.
💬 There is something called bad revenue. This avoids some of it … but as Charlie says .. it’s a floor. I will drop some other issues in the comments later.
In case you were wondering …
- CAC is Customer Acquisition Cost
- LTV is Customer Lifetime Value
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Oh good: 🔗 Joyous - Replace surveys with dynamic AI chats and real-time action
My position?
For years we called AI an answer machine. One question in, one answer out. Vending machine.
A survey is a vending machine too. Ten questions, five minutes, a finish line.
A dynamic AI chat has no finish line. It wants you to think out loud, and at length.
AI removes the cost of asking questions. It doesn’t remove the cost of answering them. It raises it. And that cost lands on the respondent.
So most people will do what they do when a vending machine asks for a conversation: give it the minimum, or leave. After all, what’s in it for them?
Prediction: the people who go deep won’t be representative. They’ll be the ones who like talking to AI. You’ve swapped a bad sample for a self-selected one.
Here we go again …
Tech saves the organisation money and pushes the cost onto the people.
👁️ This is what success looks like. It has been a minute of two since I Iast saw this.
