? Quotes
🔗 Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?
Would it really be so bad to introduce a voting licence? Make people take a short quiz to ensure they understand what they’re voting for and why they’re voting.
💬 Terence Eden
Not those words - but been saying this as a joke for years. In the past few years my cries have become increasingly more serious.
Death, Mortality - you know - that sort of stuff.
But you get older.
The horizons get closer and closer as the years go by.
You live long enough, you start to lose people, friends, family.
You lose connections. Your eyesight goes and your hearing.
You hurt. Goddamn, how you hurt after a while.
The world speeds up and you slow down,
things change, complexity increases,
it gets harder and harder to keep up until you just can’t any more.
You become more and more distanced from the world.
💬 Stonekettle Station
🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.
There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.
💬 Joan Westenberg
🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!
With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.
💬 William Gallagher
Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.
I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.
🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.
💬 Om
Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.
I just read Lou’s review:
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.
💬 Lou Plummer
🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir.
So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”
💬 Jim Groom
… via 🔗 Stephen Downes
I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;
- no explanation
- appending a little commentary
- surrounded by a lot of commentary
- in a sentence
- with snark
- a little more cryptic than some would like
… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.
‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
💬 Bertrand Russell
.. via John Naughton