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🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.

Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …

Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.

🔗 Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on.

… picked up on Scripting.com - and missed it at the time (January) … but 💯 … adding bad sound people / sound mixing to the list.

🔗 Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (Apple News)

Follow on question.

If America can’t make wrenches - how are they going to crack Semiconductors?

And with #NoIrony

The machines in the ‘Made in America’ factory to make the wrenches were made in Belarus.

🔗 What Is WormGPT And How To Use It: Explained

A hacker has made his own maliciously inclined version of ChatGPT: Introducing WormGPT, a chatbot created to help online criminals.

.. because of course there is!

I am looking for a good resource for images of 3d models that I can use and easily edit to add to a presentation in Keynote.

🔗 This is is one such resource but it doesn’t have what I need - at least that I can find - any and all help welcome.

🔗 The microblogging ecosystem post Twitter

There won’t be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform’s decline has opened up the world of microblogging.

💬 Adam Tinsworth

Nice summary from @adders on the state of whatever it is that the ‘Twitter Wars’ are all about. My take - he’s not wrong. I often reference Timothy Ruff on this …

.. though he in turn says we should thank Mike Masnick for the wisdom. Either way, what we all should be rooting for includes ‘open’, ‘portable’, ‘transparent’, you know … all the stuff that people should care about - but somehow the vast majority seem not to.

Protocols are the answer. The trick will need the corporations to give way on their walled garden mentality and the engineers building this brave new world to understand that the other 99.999999999% of the world won’t do it if it is ‘too hard’ - and ‘too hard’ means for the average person - not the MIT rocket scientist.

I’ve moved my 🔗 Substack to philpin.com - and renamed it as part of a bigger move to close down yet another domain and consolidate my online world at that URL.

🔗 Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges.

… the surprise for me is that they were allowed, that nobody questioned it, that it goes by unnoticed.

Where do I get the gun?

Oh that’s right …. Anywhere.

🔗 Digital IDs are coming and they are worse than you think.

I’ve already commented on Substack.

🎵 Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain is a massively important album to yours truly - part of my formative years if you will.

TIL what a 🔗 Nantucket Sleighride actually is …. thanks to the 🎙️Freakonomics podcast

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