we will discover that even if your job mostly consists of interacting with LLMs, doing so well will require people who remember what it was like to read and interpret a document or contrast two ideas without asking an LLM to do it for you.
There used to be a lot of people that used to be able to thatch roofs - and now there aren’t. But that isn’t quite the same IMHO.
🔗 Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock – FlowingData
This comes shortly after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial for dog-finding. Ring owners were already rumbling, but it seems cute dogs were not enough to calm things down. Trust is already lost
Even tech companies are drawing lines.
🔗 Meta planning facial recognition with glasses – FlowingData
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.
🤯
🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
💬 Nick Cave
Scripting News: Friday, February 13, 2026
the quality assurance of decentralized systems will be done by AI, and overseen by a non-profit organization, staffed by retired journalists.
Human curation is what it is going to be about. BUT - for truly excellent curation - the skill set is way more than ‘Being Human’ - a starter for 10.
Composition Skills
Be Credible
Increase Friction
Good Judgment
Restraint - lots of it
Taste - not fashion
Translation across domains
🔗 Apple Repeats Release Date for New Version of Siri – Asymco
NB: I’m told repetition is necessary in order for others to understand. Sometimes you’re supposed to say the same thing twice. Sometimes even three times. But still, some fail to grasp the idea.
Tell ‘em what you are going to say.
Tell ‘em.
Tell ‘em what you said.
…number one rule of any presentation.
Then again - there are so many comments made about Apple by people that clearly do not understand Apple that it is no surprise that this keeps slipping through.
🔗 The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
@manton - saw this and thought might be an interesting spin on your new Longreads feed on Micro Blog.
From the same post - love it. One day corporate decision makers will think before making decisions. (Or did some lowly dev make this decision all by themselves.)
Sky’s website let you search for shows but, for some unfathomable reason, at the time required you to type in at least three letters. I said this was a problem, since Sky’s most popular and so presumably most searched-for series then was ER.
There isn’t any — not any — criticism of his performance that doesn’t tell you more about the critic than the show. I suppose you can argue that the praise for his show also reveals something of the critic, but that one I’m okay with because they’re celebrating something well done and also they are not talking bullshit.
True of much - not just Bad Bunny.