🔗 Razer’s resurrected 25-year-old gaming mouse will cost you $1,337
.. but hurry - because they are only making 1,337 of them.
No - I don’t understand the significance either.
OpenAI is not open. The irony❗️
🔗 Paolo ~ It’s still time for free AI love
The thing is, we’re at a moment where the technology moves so fast that locking into a single vendor’s AI stack feels reckless. In the last few months we moved most of our work from OpenAI to Anthropic. Not because OpenAI is bad, but because Claude turned out to be better for what we do. In a few months we might move again. The point is that we can.
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We can because we own our prompts, our skills, our databases, our memory architecture, they all live in our bar. None of it lives inside OpenAI or Anthropic.
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Adam Tinworth … 🔗 Journalism isn’t dying
Less than a week after massive layoffs at the Washington Post which have sent shockwaves through the media world, this seems like a strange thing to say, but journalism is not dying. In fact, it’s in no danger of dying. It’s being reborn all around us, right now.
Me back in 2018 : 🖇️ Musicians Only Made 12% of the Music Industry’s Revenue
I think it’s a related argument - add in the argument about ‘saving the planet - we are killing it’. Yes we are - but that os not the problem.
In all three cases we are looking at the wrong thing.
It was the music industry that was dying - not music - as that headline in 2018 highlights and as we see today. Not saying it isn’t hard. It is - but it is very much around.
As for Climate Change - sure - it might wipe out humanity - but the planet will be just fine. Its a bugger what we are doing to it - but in all honesty if we werent around - the planet would recover.
So too journalism.
🔗 Three Bad Managers – Rands in Repose
Let’s start with my belief that a manager’s job is to tell you where you are, and a leader’s job is to tell you where you are going.
That is so good - and in so few words. Just G-R-E-A-T
🔗 The 2026 Global Cost of Living Index
In New Zealand we hear a lot about how expensive things are. According to this index … ‘not so fast’ - because the New Zealand rating is less than half of New York - ground zero for this exercise.
Then again the average wage in NYC is twice the average Kiwi wage - so it all balances out.
But surely, its not income we should be thinking - it’s disposable income.
Once again - maybe we are measuring the wrong things really well ❓
Sure, you made it work this time, but will it work next time?
For me … yes.
Can you teach the method to someone else?
If they want learn - which should be the question.
Do you have a protocol for what to do when it doesn’t work?
I do not. Fair cop.
How can someone else contribute to your process to make it better?
Tell me. Ask questions. Point out logic flaws. It’s iterations - all the way down.
On reading 🔗 this Naughton missive - yes I was taken with the Banksy image - and …
❤️andalism
.. of course. (Clever). But really my eyes were more drawn to the hostelry.
A Youngs Pub? In Bristol? Life in Blighty has clearly improved since I left, because when I was a lad - finding a Youngs pub outside of Wandsworth was generally classed as a ‘bit of a find’.
Then again, when I was a lad I couldn’t pop over to their web site and look up things like this …
Clearly Wandsworth is a lot bigger than I remember it.
🔗 Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers | Techdirt
Let me repeat that.
50,000 Toddlers have had their chats leaked.
File that in the bucket of headlines I didn’t expect to read today.
🔗📼🎵I keep playing this - or at least different versions of it - but this one mainly.
🔗 The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US (🍎📰 - but it’s The Grauniad - so not hard to find)
So glad that the US supports free speech.