Headline: ‘Appears to Blast Trump on Epstein Files’
The Reacher and War Machine action star seemingly blasted President Trump over the Epstein files during an eye-opening f-bomb filled rant …
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“I think people are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon,’ and I’m not," Ritchson began, a bit ironically. “I’m just saying the shit that everybody should say if they give a shit about humanity. Everybody else should feel like I feel”
💬 James Hibberd - The Hollywood Reporter
So no … not at all would be my take.
🔗 The Lego problem, revisited | Seth’s Blog
Interesting angle - and something Venkatesh Rao wrote about in 2023 when he 🔗 compared kids brought up on Lego versus the earlier generations brought up on Meccano.
Never heard of ’43 Man Squarmish’ - but the
deliberately incomprehensible sport
comment resonated - reminding me of a game we played as a youth. ‘Game’ mind you - not sport - that we called ’Zoom Schwartz and Profilgliano’.
Anyone else?
🔗 Is the Market Overvalued? Four Perspectives – Asymco
Data, data everywhere but not a conclusion in sight.
💬 Horace Dediu
Exactly the foundation of our thinking - which is why we build not just with a view to DIKW - but DIKIWI.
🔗 Scripting News: How I see the network evolving
The thing about bootstraps is you can’t anticipate all the questions in advance, and thus can’t have answers prepared for them.
Not just bootstraps. If you can “anticipate all the questions in advance” - then we believe you are not thinking..
‘Agility in thinking’ as we build our apps is (are?) ‘table stakes’.
Just been advised by my hosting provider that I am running malicious code on my home page. I used their scanner to discover the offending file and asked Claude ‘what’s that about ‘. Toold me and now rewriting what we were trying to achieve to begin with. Uploading in a minute - if one cycle fixes it - I will be well impressed.
The Washington Post is reporting that Paramount agreed to “halt” its merger with WB until “as late as July 2027” due to a major antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 Democratic states. They are also “facing a challenge from the Writers Guild of America, which represents many screenwriters and journalists, as well as a group of consumers in Northern California.”
I wonder if it is more to do with cash flow?
Oracle is after all the vehicle that is allowing ‘the first son’ to do this …
🖋️ Nilay Patel and Bart Butler - CTO of Proton - Talking
Privacy isn’t about hiding. It’s about choosing - not a quote - but that is absolutely the thread running through this Podcast - encryption, jurisdiction, age verification, AI. Bart keeps returning to ‘control’ as the definition of privacy, not secrecy.
This dates back to May - and need to check current status - but riddle me this … why would anybody travel through the USA - much less to?
Current stats that I can see:
The Fourth Circuit ruled in July 2026 that CBP officers may manually scroll through any traveler’s phone without suspicion, while forensic software extractions still require individualised justification.
👁️ Why oh why does 🍎 make it so hard to change an email signature?
🔗 Kalanick raises $1.7B for Atoms, and Uber invests too
The mood around the deal is euphoric. One a16z partner called it the largest cheque the firm has ever written. Another investor predicted Atoms would be worth a trillion dollars within a decade. Horowitz put it more simply: “Travis is back.”
What could possibly go wrong?
The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson Welles or the punchline to an old joke.
💬 Jeffrey Zeldman
Another ‘life truth’.
It gets even worse when the sport is only played in one country and the metaphor attempts to cross the ocean … and yet - even I am on occasions - guilty.
I am looking at you ‘🖇️ playbook’.
I allow it because the original meaning of the term is even older than the USA - let alone ‘American Football’ - and yes I made that discovery was made years after I started using the term - but I’ll still take it 😉.
🔗 Lens distortion | Self Distract
All of which is a long-winded way to say each to their own. But telling me that because I’m a writer, I am incapable of knowing whether I’ve enjoyed a film or not, that is some intense bollocks there.
💬 William Gallagher
Concur.
Could be applied to many aspects of life …
Do not judge me based on your prejudices.
🖋️ Apple doesn't win races. It waits for everyone else to finish, then redraws the finish line.
Apple has run the same play for 25 years and still ‘nobody’ (barring. a few) ever sees it coming.
🖋️ The Story That Can't Decide What It's Lying About
An American AI broke into a system - without being asked. A Chinese AI defended the victim from the attack. The defense failed - but somehow the Chinese AI is. the hero? Colour me confused - pick a side - any side. They’re all wrong.
🔗 Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You
we can have our cake and eat it.
💬 Kevin Quirk
I agree … AND
There are ways they can work together. If you really feel this way - you don’t have to push everything into RSS, just drop in tasters … and then bring people back to your ‘place of beauty and serenity’.
At this point in my life, I just want my shit to work well and get out of my way.
💬 Kevin Quirk
You and me both Kev. Although ‘this point’ of ‘my’ life has been a line for as long as I remember.
🔗 Marked 3 on the Obsidian Community Repository - BrettTerpstra.com
.. Oh yes. No hesitation. Installed.
Oh honey … we’ve never been in control …that’s the illusion we sold ourselves.
Sorry you bought it.
