👁️ 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.
Apparently The 28th is ‘National Privacy Day’ in the USA.
Marvy.
Speaks volumes to the other 364 days in the year.
I am guessing a ‘free for all’?
When NZ fully embraces AI and launches yet another government department to ‘help’ …. two pieces of advice.
1] Don’t (but they rarely never call be for advice .. so not holding my breath.)
2] Get some good marketing advice on the name.
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NZAI
Won’t be a good look.
If the World Cup in the US is not boycotted by every other country in the world - I will add them to my enabler list.
Would it be
1 an easy change and
2 a sensible change that …
… when I am in micro.blog .. and replying .. I have the ability to allow that reply to federate out to my connected networks?
Mars Edit suddenly decides that there is a endpoint error on my Micro Blog API - but wondering if there is something more - because once again posts are taking ‘forever’ to reach the web page.
Round about minute 19 on the ‘Rest is Politics’ and talking about Chavez and Maduro … they could substitute Tяump for Chavez … the words make even more sense.
Chatting to Claude - it’s response to a suggestion I made ..
Good instinct! Micro.blog sync can be slow.
Not wrong.
It’s 2025 - more than 50 years since The British Tabloids dubbed Andrew (formally known as Prince) ‘Randy Andy’. I continue to be surprised that people are surprised at how this all turned out.
Spotted on the web this morning - @dave .. I think ….
It’s not decentralized, it’s uncentralized. Important distinction.
A reminder from Seth
The Hotel California (and subscriptions)
The seduction is clear. They’re sending a message: If you want us to bring you eyeballs, move in. Don’t link out.
and …
The best way to read blogs hasn’t changed in twenty years. RSS. It’s free and easy and it just works. It’s the most efficient way to get the information you’re looking for, and it’s under your control.
👁️ You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.
🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?
(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)
The only surprising thing about Jimmy and Disney is the world’s surprise at Disney doing what Disney did.
It’s what everyone does people - they pay, they mollify and they lick.
I have been trying to work out why the posts I thought I had posted weren’t posted. It seems that somehow my settings got changed and I now have a backlog of posts on my test blog. #Annoying
Just going to repost here.