🔗 via Simon Willison

The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they’re motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren’t people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that, they follow secular trends supported by analysts and broad public sentiment. Oh, Gartner said that “AI strategy” is most important? McKinsey said “context” needs to be managed? Well, “Context Engine for AI Apps” is going to be defensible. Buy it.

💬 Mitchell Hashimoto

Nathan makes an important point. 🔗 Why this is not a newsletter.

Commentators with a large and loyal audience quit their jobs at a newsroom—which hires support staff, investigative reporters, and others who have no such followings—and bring a decent chunk of their economic value with them. The newsletter service and payment platforms get a cut. Money moves from institutional support to influencer economies. The commentators get some newfound freedom. But if we don’t have robust journalistic institutions doing news-gathering work, what is there to comment on?

💬 Nathan Schneider

🔗 Apple is missing the thing that once made it great.

Apple devices also often used to come in real colors. Sure, every now and again Apple will allow a blue or a red or an orange to land on an iPhone as if by clerical mistake.

💬 The Macalope

Fully aware that;

• 3 of my 6 sites are very broken.
• 1 is a little broken
• 2 are not broken at all.

Coincidentally;

• 3 of my 6 sites allow me to modify things - a lot.
• 1 a little bit.
• 2 not at all.

Off to read up on correlation and causation.

👁️ Spotted on LinkedIN.

Wouldn’t ‘Battery As A Service’ be called ‘Electricity’ outside of the Bay Area?

We just don’t build them like this any more.

🔗 Markus Brunetti’s Monumental Photos Venerate European Ecclesiastical Landmarks

🤯 .. A ballpoint pen❓

🔗 Habib Hajallie’s Meticulous Ballpoint Pen Drawings Examine the Depths of Emotion.

I used to get told off for doodling in text books when I was a kid. This guy’s drawing pictures on Ancient Texts. #Wonderful

🔗 Creative Thought Is Essential: A Letter from Our Editor

Thinking is my fighting.

💬 Virgina Woolf

🔗 Ranked: The Animals That Kill the Most Humans

Turns out that visiting Australia (arguably host of some of the most dangerous critters in the world) is safer than just being a human.

👁️ Thinking that we need a different collective noun. From here on in they will known as Feral Agencies.