It got hammered by the critics and was pretty much a box office flop - but they are wrong. 🎥 The Alto Knights was everything I expected and more. De Niro, of course was great - and in this one - ‘twice’ as great as usual. More thoughts in the comments when I get round to it.
That’s ‘undo’ - not undies …
🔗 Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition
Stunning - if very sad - photography.
🔗 Steve Blank Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine …
Not wrong - BUT as he points out just a couple of paragraphs later;
Elon Musk personally ordered the restrictions …. This wasn’t an articulated U.S. foreign policy nor was it an announced act of the U.S. government. From news accounts it appears to have been a personal decision of an American CEO acting unilaterally.
So why phrase the opening paragraph like that?
🔗 Be careful what you wish for.
It might be the complex, fickle and unpredictable problems that allow the professional to thrive.
… maybe even humans.
Take a deep breath.
Click on : 🔗 The Climb · Dream Again USA
Ask yourself how much longer this can go on.
🔗🎵 Kate Bush’s Deal With God: The Story of “Running Up That Hill.”
Neat article and if you like that song some great embedded videos of her various versions.
No he didn’t.
👁️ It’s been a weekend. My ‘week’ started at 5pm on Friday. Its now Monday at 3:25pm
👁️ I feel like a man possessed this morning
🔗 How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything
Yes it is - and yet great as it is - and flexible as it is - it does teach us that everything has a place and that there is a place for everything … which I am not sure is a good lesson.
It has a sense that ‘all’ is preordained.
I’d just finished building a dashboard that does what I want. Then I read this.
She is not wrong, but continue I will;
- learning a lot
and what I built
- reveals where best to focus, because it is based on what I want - not what I have.
Some things just aren’t being captured.
Onto phase two.
💬 via John Naughton
I keep on hearing that there is no bubble. And as one wag pointed out bubbles don’t only pop - sometimes they slowly deflate. Either way - bubble or no bubble - this is the problem. If you don’t look under the hood - you might be lulled into a sense of false security.
🔗 The man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses
🖇️ Not this man .. who has literally walked around the world.
I think ‘cheese guy’ is more figuratively speaking.
Îs ‘speaking’ the right word?
🔗 In Defence of Process - you know that boring stuff that everyone pooh poos?
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, October 19, 2026
I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn’t fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible.
Yeah - me too. Except - I don’t really get it every day - but a couple of days ago - oh boy - a doozy. I spotted it before it happened - so disaster averted - but if proof was ever needed … this is why you don’t run Claude on auto pilot.
I shared 🔗🎬📼 this clip in a comment earlier this week - but pushing it out again because;
- it is a good clip
- it is a good movie
- it is an iconic line that gets left off lists (get to the end).
Read the whole thing - but if no time … three - count them - three - quotes from a very short post.
🔗 The age of initiative | Seth’s Blog
For those indoctrinated to comply, this is stressful. The stress is due to a desire to get things back to normal, to give them a chance to comply again, but right here, right now, is as normal as things are ever going to get. “Good jobs” are no longer sinecures where success comes from following instructions.
One reason AI got such a fast start is that it gave people seeking compliance a chance to wait for the AI to tell them what to do next. Quick, cheap answers.
No matter what you do for a living, there’s a machine standing by, waiting for instructions. Instructions from you, if you choose, or from your overlords if you don’t.