I have pretty much close to zero interest in Football (both varieties) - but this visualisation of a game is just terrific.
If you block something that’s blocked does that make it open?
I love it when the AIs dunk on each other …
I quietly asked Gemini to ‘peer review’ some Claude work - took the output and popped it into ChatGPT.
First Response:
I’ve looked through the conversation, the live prototype and the PHP structure. The underlying idea is strong, but Gemini wandered into some questionable scoring logic and then began confidently repairing code it hadn’t actually seen in full. A familiar little AI hobby.
Want to read: Connectography Exp by Parag Khanna 📚
Good Riddance.
TIL that when, in 1935, Gertrude Stein did a book tour in support of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, she visited the University of Texas and was interviewed by a student journalist named Walter Cronkite.
History colliding.
Maybe in my retirement I’ll become a CSS ninja and obsess over the designs of the ayjay.org world, the way some dudes my age obsessively build scale models of World War 2 fighter planes.
You live in New Zealand and you need a Rideshare. Do you use Bolt, Didi or Uber?
i.e. an Estonian, Chinese or American company?
Me?
Uber is always the bottom of my list - Bolt is my current top.
🔗 New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs exclude Tesla and SpaceX from indexes
… had to happen.
🔗 Ideas from Daniel Jalkut. It’s an issue I have come to live with - because historically when I have tried something similar - it has royally messed up my App Store.
Maybe something has changed? Time to look again?
If you like this one - you will love these superb photographs on the click through.
🔗📸 International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above | Colossal
🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Who Stole My Alpha?
The term is borrowed from the financial sector, where “alpha” represents the excess return or competitive edge a particular investment yields over what the market might usually return (this is where the leading finance publication Seeking Alpha got its name).
… I’d often wondered.
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I think what’s new is that we finally have a constituency with the power to oppose the wholesale appropriation of data that’s been the mainstay of the tech industry these past few decades. Unlike consumers, who willingly ceded control of their data for the convenience of tech services, corporations are terrified of sharing information that might expose their strategies, competitive edge, or weaknesses.
Ummm .. maybe not all .. but a lot of ‘consumers’ (I prefer ‘people’) were not willing .. they just didn’t have the power to fight back.
🪦 Farewell Bonnie.
Crucial Track 🎵 July 8, 2026
"Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) [The Ultimate Mix]" by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
It’s going to get you. 🔗 Inspired by
More space on Colossal.
🔗 Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist.
We are very very small.
More on the world’s Anti-Christs …..