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.
Microsoft considers replacing ChatGPT and Claude with China’s Kimi K3 to save $600 million
.. at least until Tяump bans it.
💬 Chairman John
All the interesting work happens at the boundaries. Where people and technology intersect. Where the gap between ‘what we say and ‘what we do’ is visible.
To celebrate the new improved Readwise I have added a new daily theme that ONLY looks at anything I have written since I started all this - a long time ago - and then produce 5 highlights daily/ Any insights that strike me as relevant I will share back in to the blog. Working title ‘Chairman John’. (Dont worry - todays test run for example pulled nought to solid - BUT I will post one of them - just as a test.
🔗 Peter Thiel Snags Top Prize from Politico’s Owner
The Axel Springer Award—previously bestowed on Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman—will go to the Palantir billionaire at a ceremony in Berlin on September 24. CBS News boss Bari Weiss will deliver laudatory remarks.
At least there is consistency underpinning the award. Oh .. and then there’s this …
The announcement left out another important fact: Thiel reportedly made a $50 million investment in a new venture capital fund started by the son of Mathias Döpfner, Axel Springer’s co-owner and CEO. The son, Moritz, is known as–get this–the “German JD Vance.” Moritz previously worked as chief of staff at Thiel Capital.
👁️ NO
Virality is an emergent pattern of circulation, not a button owned by a platform.
💬 Ricardo Mendes
Ricardo is talking about RSC, ‘Really Simple Conversation’, a twist on RSS that started with @Dave who is ‘still diggin’ and others like Ricardo @andysylvester @manton and @johnjohnston who are all forking, expanding and twisting some new worlds.
Those of us living in section ‘4635.0063.2384.0006’ of the internet are very happy..
The original philosophy that Dave espouses will be another post that I will push later. Because as he oft’ reminds .. it is all connected.
Colbert coined ‘truthy’ / and the development into truthiness
I am claiming ‘floatiness’ as an instruction to get sections on a web site to get visually lifted ‘off the page background’.
I am liking where 🔗 this is going - thanks for the post @AndySylvester - big fan of a UI that better fits me.
