All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.

So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.

I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.

She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”

Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.

Back downstairs I came.

“Still not there,” I reported.

“Good grief, do I need to go?”

“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”

She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”

Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.

MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome

🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS

🔗 What data sovereignty means for New Zealand

Data sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it is a question of accountability: who has the right to access information, under what rules and in whose interests. For New Zealand organisations, the answer increasingly depends less on where data is stored and more on whose law governs it, who controls the infrastructure and whether those arrangements can be trusted to hold when they are tested.

💬 Bill Bennett

We are learning - fast - that our laws seem to count for less and less. If a country has no rights - imagine how the the citizens of that country are faring.

👁️ Sometimes it’s like wack-a-mole.

🔗 AI is the New Netflix

This reminds me of my own setup at home. An OpenClaw instance running on one machine, network-attached storage, a few other boxes humming away. Work-related computing running over a residential connection. I suspect that within a few years, this will be commonplace.

💬 Om

Not so long ago we had ‘family computers’ - I have friends who still use a shared computer.

The edge of two personal computers is moving to the norm.

The new edge is having a network of computers. (I’m looking at you @amerpie )

I hear the Mac Mini is selling well these days.

They shoot horses don’t they? I wonder if they shot typesetters?

🔗 Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Kid” DeJarnatt, “Bangs” Levy, and “Young Jack” Fasey — they carved out reputations in what soon became a national touring circuit. A few became minor celebrities, like the Tribune’s star compositor, Thomas Rooker, who took to wearing diamond studs on his shirts.4 One particularly gifted compositor, William C. Barnes, stunned onlookers by setting type blindfolded, with his type cases reversed.

💬 The Public Domain Review

🔗 Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) — The Public Domain Review

I know acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medicine.

I did now know it had reached the Western world over 400 years ago.

This time last week (checks calendar), actually yesterday, ‘Collective Wisdom’ said that ‘Consulting is Dead’.

But life moves fast. Today is a new day.

OOHH OOHH - I know let’s set up a consulting division.
No - let’s partner with a consulting company.
No - even better - let’s acquire a consulting company.

💬 Anthropic and OpenAI

🔗 OpenAI launches OpenAI Deployment Company, acquires Tomoro

Tom Siebel’s playbook from the 90s is alive and well - so much for ‘Collective Wisdom’ - which also has the habit of crowing about how everything is new - the old world no longer applies.

Right then.