🔗 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.
💬 This one is especially for you @devilgate .. does this work for your needs? I should be doing this more anyway.
Connecting dots … and hopefully servers … let’s see.
Me 5 days ago …
At the end of June the orange clown announced that
he had been asked to present the World Cup trophy to the winning team - and said that he would be honoured to do so
Earlier this month, the same clown announced that he
Didn’t want to do any trade with them (Ed-Spain), alright?” and then, “Take it immediately. Don’t even talk to them. They’re hopeless. They’re bad people … They make so much money with us, and we’re going to see that they make a lot less.”
Guess Who I’m Rooting for on the 19th?
Off to find some news.
🎥 Watched 🔗 Death on the Nile ( ★★★ ) over the weekend. Hadn’t I watched it before? Yes of course - but not this one. Another one. I know you know the story - it’s nearly 100 years old so of course you do - just interesting to see the ensemble cast in a murder mystery based on a book written by the inventor of the ensemble cast in a murder mystery - all the way down to the end scene where what ever is left of the cast are stood in a room with the worlds greatest detective reveals the dastardly culprit.
You’ve seen the scene so many times - mainly in films and shows that are NOT Ms. Christie stories.
