👁️ Asides
Throw way thoughts. Sometimes I wonder why I felt it was worth posting when I did. Other times even I can’t work out what I was trying to say.
👁️ The good news is that my drafts count continues to go down. A few weeks ago just shy of 300 - today below 60. And yes - I know that people keep thousands of drafts in that world - but I am not one of those. To me it is the first stage of any text that will pass through any number of workflows. If it is in Drafts - it’s in my ‘inbox’ and needs to be dealt with. Like the next one.
👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.
👁️ Have to say when I look around at other services in film, shows, music and books - Letterboxd (sadly only film) seem to have it more right than the others.
👁️ The end of an era. When I first arrived in SF they were the bedrock of support for places like KQED and related programming. They did - and do - a lot more beside. I hope the ‘kids’ get the future right.
The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, one of San Francisco’s largest philanthropic foundations, is closing at the end of 2028 as younger generations of the Haas family transition to new giving initiatives.
👁️ So with him.
🔗 The Enification of Enification
When there’s a change to a thing and you don’t like it or approve of it, you need to consider a frightening alternative possibility. Maybe it isn’t enshittification. Maybe it’s just change.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
👁️ 🔗 We need a social web for nobodies. writes @dave
1] Every nobody is a somebody to somebody.
2] That is what we have … it’s just spoiled by tech bros, algorithms and loud mouths.
3] People typically have more pride in that which they own versus rent. I think this a core tenant of why ‘global town squares’ are not the future and instead an ever growing network of interconnected micro communities is.
👁️ Must have 7 or 8 shows started and not one has grabbed me. Added one more to the list tonight and just started episode 2 - back to back. Been a while since that happened.
👁️ You forget all the funny little things you do to get all this stuff going. Eight days later - and we are finally back. I think.
👁️ Only ever passed by Arcadia - might have paid more attention had I known it was an outpost of a Chinese spy ring.
👁️ Have to say, feeling rather pleased with myself.
Let the development and design continue.
👁️ In a world of EFT and instant gratification it is interesting to see that Amazon can ship atoms from warehouse to door an order of magnitude faster than a bank can add a deposit from another bank.
That said - any bank can take money out of your account at a speed that leaves light in the dust.
So I guess ‘on average’ the banks think they are doing ok.
👁️ TIL that Ukiah is the palindrome of Haiku … which is why Ukiah has an 🔗 annual Haiku festival.
👁️ Before LLMs how many writers included paragraphs containing two sentence that follow this pattern?
That’s not imagination. That’s reality.