Two Friends Talking ...
A new podcast from Human By Design features an unstructured conversation between John Philpin and Andy Sylvester, with ‘Tip o’ 🎩’s to Manton, Dave Winer and Ricardo Mendes.
Me - eight years ago./
The Gig Economy Is Task Driven.
The Future Of Work Is Not.
Continuing To Iterate My Thoughts On Human Value for Inktober.
Remember the gig economy kids?
The Gig Economy Is Task Driven - The Future Of Work Is Not.
AI is taking over the gig economy. Humans who aren’t ‘task driven’ have to work out how we fit it in.
Should be the other way round. The AI should be trying to work out how it fits in.
Instead at every turn I feel I’m being ‘mansplained’ to by the tech bros and their machines.
// oh wait …
🔗 Rethinking Organizational Design.
Needs more than a rethink, but part of my ‘drum band’
AKA
‘The Age of Reason’ is over - let’s move on to ‘The Age of Engagement’.
… not by replacing tech stacks with other stuff - but applying new and better thinking about how we use the ones we’ve got.
🔗 English Is a Shitty Programming Language With No Compiler
Can’t argue with that.
Here’s a funny thing - now there’s a funny thing
💬 Frankie Howard
.. found via @gruber (TOH: Jason Snell).
Nowhere in the article or in JG’s short post is the idea of ‘typo’ introduced - but Jason did in his headline:
But it’s not a typo I thought. WRONG
Whilst it is true that by 🔗 Merriam Webster’s definition it is not a typo:
an error (as of spelling) in typed or typeset material
.. no apparent reference to ‘layout’ errors) … BUT - elsewhere on the web I found
Typographic vs. Orthographic Error: In strict design terms, an orthographic error is a spelling mistake (like writing “Discovry”). A typographical error historically meant any physical layout blunder made by a typographer or typesetting machine–including inserting a letter upside down, backwards, or in the wrong font.
Good call Jason.
From: 🔗 🦍 Mitchellaneous #198: Memes and other found media | Mitch’s Blog
Had to particularly share this one - because … me just yesterday
The folks at Readwise have just released their book reader, store and app. Nice job.
Not sure why - or how - yet - but to me it would make sense to integrate Micro.Blog books .. like they did at launch with Kindle and Goodreads.
When @manton first published the social spec plugin - I installed - it didn’t immediately work - moved on and forgot all about it. Seeing a shower of related posts this morning, reminded me to go check. I did - and I can’t see anything set wrong - after all - the set up seems to be nothing more than your email - IF you want to set your email - but for me
🔗 https://john.philpin.com/.well-known/about.md gives ‘Not Found’. and
🔗 https://john.philpin.com/.well-known/contact.vcf downloads a vcard - which is nice - but I would have expected a page and opportunity to download said card. (Fixable of course.)
Interesting though that john.philpin.com/.well-kno… does work - though not documented in Manton’s spec. If you are interested for now I am housing that on my main site 🔗 here
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/wordpress-plugins/
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/introducing-socialspec-dot-org
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/hyperctl/
🔗 https://socialspec.org/news/micro-dot-blog/
and then
🔗 ℹ️ SocialSpec - Documentation - Micro.blog Help Center
🔗 https://github.com/microdotblog/plugin-socialspec/blob/main/README.md
🪦 Safe travels Patrick. Not good bye - more au revoir.
Back in late September @gruber wrote 🔗 this …
If you purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model, you may be entitled to compensation.
I just tried the link provided : 🔗 https://www.smartphoneaisettlement.com/ which works … but the link on the site to make the claim 🔗 https://aplsconnect.com/smartphoneaisettlement/ does not. Anyone else seeing this?
👁️ Legal experts, including some in Alaska, said the actions described in the article are not illegal but do amount to a dirty trick.
No idea of the truth one way or the other … but in this climate … a dirty trick?
I watched 🎥 Jack Ryan: Ghost War and guess what? Jack saved the world. Again! I know - right❓Putting aside my inner cynic - I’d still give it ★★★.
👁️ Ever noticed how when you are showing people something on your screen and they start pointing - and even touching your screen. If that happens to me the person is severely reprimanded. It comes to mind seeing today’s announcements.
🔗 Utah Court Says Woman Can Sue Herself – Lowering the Bar
No. Not a conundrum … just greed in action.
It got hammered by the critics and was pretty much a box office flop - but they are wrong. 🎥 The Alto Knights was everything I expected and more. De Niro, of course was great - and in this one - ‘twice’ as great as usual. More thoughts in the comments when I get round to it.
That’s ‘undo’ - not undies …
🔗 Tom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition
Stunning - if very sad - photography.
🔗 Steve Blank Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military version of Starlink called Starshield to Ukraine …
Not wrong - BUT as he points out just a couple of paragraphs later;
Elon Musk personally ordered the restrictions …. This wasn’t an articulated U.S. foreign policy nor was it an announced act of the U.S. government. From news accounts it appears to have been a personal decision of an American CEO acting unilaterally.
So why phrase the opening paragraph like that?