💬 Quotes
In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
💬 Timothy Snyder
“If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks.”
“And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on.
" So is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk? "
🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle
💬 WaPo
The Information Gets Its Facts Wrong - Again
Osborne’s appointment to OpenAI reflects a trend of organisations hiring political figures, despite their lousy records in public office - and Clegg didn’t even play a PM on TV - much less be one in real life.
Remember when we so concerned that all our ‘house data’ from Roomba was being sent over to Google - without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’.
… and then onto 2022 when Amazon got involved …
Fast Forward to 2025 - and …
🔗 Roomba Maker iRobot Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears
Turns out all your data is now all wrapped up and safe and over in China.
The Amazon acquisition wasn’t anti-competitive — it was iRobot’s last chance to remain competitive.
💬 [Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/15/roomba-maker-irobot-declares-bankruptcy)
In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it.
💬 Timothy Snyder
Tяump and The Tяump Аппаратчик
When will any country with the leverage to do so finally call America’s bluff and recognize that a hollowed-out Amercia is trading its values for transactional brutalism and deserves to be abandoned by the allies it once took for granted and today arent even acknowledged.
🔗 If your marketing isn’t working
If you’re struggling selling the thing you made, it’s worth reconsidering the audience, the promise and the change you seek to make–and then be honest with your team about whether your offering is actually remarkable, or just the best you could do with what you had.
💬 Seth Godin
I was once out to dinner several years ago with about ten really well-known drummers, all of whom I have enormous respect for and admire. For some reason, we got onto the subject of Van Morrison. One of them said, “Hands up everyone who’s been fired by Van Morrison!” And nine out of ten put their hands up into the air. The only time I played with him, I wasn’t being paid, so he couldn’t fire me. Things like that definitely bring you together to the brotherhood.
💬 Nick Mason
ChatGPT running through some stuff for me this morning - and one part it was really tripping up over - so i explained what was wrong - ‘thinking’ … long reply - embedded in there was
… the generated “dodecahedron” was definitely auditioning for a different role
💬 ChatGPT
I dunno - I thought that was quite funny.
It’s fine that Google stopped allowing for the creating of new links a while back, but there’s no reason they should ever stop redirecting existing links. The whole reason anyone might have used goo.gl instead of something like bit.ly is misplaced trust in Google. I trust Google with almost nothing long-term. Mark my words, they’re going to do this with Gmail accounts eventually.
💬 John Gruber
What Gruber said.
💬 Me
