🎥 I watched 🔗The Client again. It is over 30 years old - which explains why all the great actors in it look so young. I remember enjoying it at the time. Not so much on the second ‘outing’ - a little bit ‘thin’ IMHO. BUT - still worth ★★★
📺 Finished watching Season 2 of 🔗 Sugar last night and every bit as good as 🖇️the first series. Don’t miss it. ★★★★
🔗 Daring Fireball: Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails
The fact is, a lot of people use apps like Gmail for email that aren’t private. When you use Gmail, Google learns everything in your email. Amazon sees this as a competitive problem for them, not a privacy problem for users.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
💬 Marcellus (via Billy Wagglestick)
… and America it would seem.
🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas
The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.
Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.
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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.
That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.
The problem isn’t the advertising you see. It’s the tracking you don’t.
💬 There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
Listening to Kara talk with Steve Hilton. Yet to finish, so will come back later - but so far - ‘yeah … nah' - despite how ‘reasonable’ he sounds.
Me - back in May - 🔗 🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
He also hasn’t (so far) answered very clearly why anyone in CA should trust him.
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What’s this about? Tell you later …
💬 In recent years, businesses have become so preoccupied with profit, growth, and scale, they have forgotten that people come first.
👁️ Personally I’m against vertical drinking. But who am I to tell others how they should drink? Particularly those that have been sat down at a desk all day and are looking to stand vertically for a bit. What a load of swaddle. (sic)
Meanwhile - a picture of Paul Swaddle vertically drinking.
🔗 FileRouter is out – Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days)
.. and a couple of days later - yes - yes it is:
BUT
… and all power to him - but that isn’t quite what I thought he meant. What do you think.?
Why would I need to wait for SetApp to have if it is already in the App Store?
👁️ Just for Bluesky now - so don’t get excited - yet.
⏰ A few minutes later
OK, now - IF you are on Bluesk and you are reading this - now might be the time to get excited.
Of course if you aren’t seeing this on Bluesky - then you are none the wiser.
🔗 Product Design and Conway’s Law by Marketoonist
.. and there you have it.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
💬 Thomas Mann
… via John Naughton.
🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.
💬 John Gruber
🔗 ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG…) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.
💬 John Gruber