🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
.. for marination purposes.
If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks.
And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on.
So … is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk?
Reminds me of an old ‘Johnism’ that has over the years appeared in many forms ..
🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The whole album - but for me ….
Steven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!
.. would love to hear that.
🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100
… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list.
🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle
💬 WaPo
Bottoming out the story …
‘Poorer people pay taxes so that governments can subsidise richer people to build things that they then price outside what poorer people can afford.”
A Better Headline?
Subsidies for rich people’s infrastructure, paid by poor people’s taxes.
🔗 The thing about chess | Seth
… maybe there should be. I mean if they can muck around with Cricket - why not Chess?
the tools are only as good as the questions we ask them.
I like the line - but I particulalrly like the page he links to.
‘Web’ means something. It’s about creating networks between writers. When it’s allowed to work remarkable things can be accomplished. Most people who think they’re using the web have never used it. The original web is still very much here, ready for us to start building on it again.
And …
“Most people who have never heard of RSS use it every day.”
🔗 In praise of Drafts // @ameripie
… an app by Agile Tortoise (AKA Greg Pierce), remarkably won App of the Year for 2025 at Mac Stories, a full thirteen years after its release.
💯
Apps @ameripie uses with drafts - with my annotations
- Obsidian ✅
- Things3 ✅
- Fantastical
- DayOne ✅
- Shortcuts - I really should use Shortcuts (more?)
- Dropbox - I use it - but not with Drafts
* Fastmail - Apple Notes ✅
- ChatGPT - I use it - but not with Drafts
* Ulysses - Mastodon - not really - my stuff arrived there thanks to Micro.Blog
- BlueSky - not really - my stuff arrived there thanks to Micro.Blog
- Micro.Blog ✅
PLUS
- Reminders
- Mail/Spark
- Craft
- Notes
As I have written before - 99% of my written words (outside of email) start in Drafts.