🖇️ Me back in 2024 - in turn referencing a post back in 2021 .. and guess what it (the use of AI in hiring) is only getting worse.
🔗📼 A short video observation on Substack explaining recent research at Stanford and why you might never be getting any response to your submissions.
Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these models, we use none of the models that Google deploy to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.”
💬 Craig Federighi
📺 Tried to watch 🔗 Widow’s Bay multiple episodes.
Gave it my best shot.
Yeah - nah.
★
.. but clearly I live in a minority … 📽️ Series Two has just been greenlit.
🪦 And so farewell dear David. Your art will always be with me.
🔗 Meet the System Orchestrator: Toward Intent-centric Computing
Transitioning the OS from a layer between hardware and applications to a layer between foundation models and experiences fundamentally shifts the architecture, but, in the case of Apple, it preserves its value as the agent of trust and discovery.
💬 Horace Dediu
🔗 Intent Computing vs. Spatial Computing
Clearly Apple is not deprecating Spatial Computing. It’s a remarkable creation and those of us who use it find it irresistible and irreplaceable.
Great piece from Horace Dediu - and iterates on why I am in - and firmly remain in - the camp of ‘Vision Pro’ was a success.
(It comes down to that old chestnut that many people still try to understand 🍎 through the lens of other companies and then double down with criticisms like ‘not innovative’, ‘where’s the next iPhone’, ‘they’ve lost the plot’ …)
🚧 Links to some earlier posts to come.
🔗 Haiku Heroes: Donald Barthelme over on Sourcefeed
But the task is not
so much to solve problems as
to propose questions
I need to turn this Haiku into a poster.
My first ever post referencing Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 4th/3rd 2017 (4th according to the post, 3rd according to the URL)
My first ever post on Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 27th 2018
Fully 8 years since I arrived here - and yet this is the first time I had ever heard this.
This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.
🤯 AWESOME @manton
Crucial Track 🎵 June 12, 2026
"Come Together" by Spiritualized
The entire album takes me back to the exact point in time when Mark introduced me to Spiritualized. Thank you Mark.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 11, 2026
"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath on Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.
‘Expect The Unexpected’ they say. We say the words. We have no idea what to do when it happens.
Big moves forward on my blog design yesterday. Still some glitches to resolve - but a whole lot closer to the vision of what I want a post to look like than 24 hours ago.
💬
📺 Finished 🔗 Criminal Record Season 2 last night as the final episode dropped.
It is another repeat formula. Started strong - meandered with a good ending.
Overall better than Season 1 … I think we are in ★★★ land.
The date conundrum has been around and discussed forever, although ‘conundrum’ is really a misnomer. Quite simply the correct way to format a date is YYMMDD - or YYYYMMDD - any other choice is just wrong. Opinionated? Yup. Wrong? No.
🔗 How the World Agreed on a Date Format (Except the US) does a really good job of laying out the story and the challenge, ending with the observation that …
Us Americans haven’t adopted it (yet). We still write 06/08/2026 on bank checks, forms and filings, but the machines we all use are on 8601 and they are doing most of the talking.
Which is why I would be nervous, were I sitting atop a five-and-a-half-trillion-dollar valuation built on a story its own executives call the tokenomics flywheel: AI gets cheaper, so people use more of it, so you sell more chips, forever. It’s a lovely flywheel. It also rests on two assumptions standing up indefinitely — that the lookups stay on the graphics chip, and that the hallucination tax, the wrongness, the wall, is simply the permanent cost of doing business, a thing you manage rather than cure. 2Brains is a bet that both assumptions fall in the same afternoon
From a ‘zinger’ perspective, this is a great piece from Bob Cringely.
🔗 Kev Quirk makes a good point.
Is it so hard to add an “email me” link at the bottom of the post? 😏
Which is why I do exactly that and why 🖇️ I started doing this.
🔗📼 It’s not very funny for Charlie Chaplin - but needs to be watched. (Recorded 86 years ago.)
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.🖋️ Do You Want To Make A Company Successful OR Work For A Successful Company?
The transition might have been the undoing of Silicon Valley.