We do need a refresh, and I’ve been working with our friends at WordPress on that. The main constraint is that we need to base the site on a WordPress theme of some kind. I invite suggestions.
💬 Doc Searls
Do we though? Or are we attempting to ‘keep things simple’?
The stuff that @dave has been highlighting in his threads points to ideas that can still live in Wordpress. Personally I liked the design that 🔗 Devon came up with - why not go with that?
🔗 Routing around the algorithms
And what’s funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. But my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to
change this country .
💬 AOC
The protocols belong to no one. They can’t be acquired. They can’t be taken public.
💬 Terry Godier
Reminds me of an old adage of mine - that these days sits in my 🖇️ Johnsim Library.
😂 McSweeney’s doesn’t always do it - but …
ANSWER: C. There were no thank-yous, and your child had an explosive tantrum because her Labubu was orchid pink, not pastel pink.
💬 Sara White and Lindsey Smith
That’s just one - I think you’ll find the whole piece resonates.
Reminding us all that even real writers. Prolific writers. Writers that write for a living - constantly question themselves.
We are now at the stage where it is not an issue of whether I can write, but
whether what I’m writing about is worth reading .
…
I say this to you as someone who has been a full-time freelance writer since the 1990s, someone who tends to write and have published around two thirds of a million words per year.
💬 William Gallagher
🔗 Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
I get that Anthropic are severely compute-constrained, but in a world where the very existence of “AI data centers” is a red-hot political issue (see recent news out of Utah for a fresh example), signing up with this particular data center is a really bad look
💬 Simon Willison
😂
A metaphor for the world.
💬 Unknown .. a comment I saw on the interwebs
The World: “That has got to be AI.”
Great Photographers Around The World: “Hold My Beer.”
🔗 Explore 25 Incredible Photos of the Milky Way Captured Around the World
There are so many on the click through - but of course I would highlight one (of two) from New Zealand.
Every year, this collection reminds us that photographing the Milky Way is not only about technique or planning. It is about curiosity, patience, and the desire to experience the night sky in places where it still feels wild.
💬 Dan Zafra
(Dan is the editor of ‘Capture the Atlas’ and curator of the annual contest.)
🏢 Moss just wrote: 🔗 The biggest leadership oversight in modern organisations
in many organisations, the “people piece” has been relegated to the HR function.
💬 Moss Burmester
‘relegated’ - not ‘delegated’ is an interesting choice of words and highlights a more general problem - more on that in the comments.
HR systems are built around compliance, process, and record-keeping.
….
Why does engagement matter? Because performance is produced when people are deeply engaged and aligned in the business strategy
💬 Moss Burmester
Sounds to me they should be building ‘Systems of Engagement’
I sometimes have a hard time putting into words that clearly explain my position and feelings on a topic. Take The Met Gala for example. Jax and I talking and I just couldn’t explain my contempt for it. Result - Jax writes it off:
Well you never like this kind of stuff.
💬 Jax
No more struggles 🔗 Robert L Arnold clearly lives in my brain.