💬 Quotes
‘Your network is your net worth’ have none of you ever heard of just having friends?
💬 Joan Westenberg
Another Smithsonian - this from 1910.
Resent the Attempt to Smash the British Constitution by American Dollars" poster. Lithograph in black and red ink on white paper showing a caricature of John Redmond armed with a club called “Home Rule” with a large money bag containing US dollars in each hand, produced for the Unionist Party in December 1910.
💬 The Smithsonian
It’s all about fighting the use of American Dollars to ‘break Britain’. Apparently it used to be frowned on. Fast forward 100 years and ….
well, here we are. Again.
A lot of images from the Smithsonian are on Unsplash for free use. This one caught my eye.
This sign was designed to be placed in the window of a home so that all who passed would know that the woman within had exercised her right under the 19th amendment and registered to vote. It also served as a reminder to other women to do the same. ca 1920.
💬 Smithsonian: Record ID: nmah_1414548
… and here we are 100 years later.
🎛️🎙️ 🔗 Scripting News
I need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it’s short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you’re reading now.
💬 Dave Winer
I had the same idea back in 2019 @dave - I even created a 🔗🎙️snicklecast to describe what a 🔗🎙️snicklecast - and why it is.
Never cracked the ‘simple’ part though.
I THINK there is something like this in MicroBlog on a higher tier than I sit at.
Ultimately your job as a developer is to turn your creation over to users to figure out. Listen to see if patterns emerge. Even better give the users the tools they need to build apps out of our apps, together. This is how humans build layers of tech.
💬 Dave Winer
🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? Or maybe the emperor has bought new clothes.
🔗 On God and LLMs … my bold.
I don’t have definitive answers here. But one thing that seems clear is that the newly emerging field of digital ethics (in which I’m currently active) is in the same place today as bioethics was five decades earlier, when new medical technologies began to force tough moral quandaries.
Which is all to say: before we blindly embrace whatever AI product Sam Altman or Dario Amodei declares to be inevitable, we still have a lot of work to do in figuring out what we’re willing to accept.
💬 Cal Newport
🔗 iPhones sales in China grew 3% year-over-year over the May Day holiday.
The iPhone was up against a set of new product launches but still managed to grow while the market declined. It’s a remarkable story. Apple guided to similar growth for the June quarter as for the March quarter. Signals are coming in that this is not a fluke.
💬 Horace Dediu
Clearly Apple is doomed.
🔗 Then again, maybe to become someone who …
not to do because you are, but to become because you did.
💬 Leon Mika
Nice.
🔗 Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?
Would it really be so bad to introduce a voting licence? Make people take a short quiz to ensure they understand what they’re voting for and why they’re voting.
💬 Terence Eden
Not those words - but been saying this as a joke for years. In the past few years my cries have become increasingly more serious.
Death, Mortality - you know - that sort of stuff.
But you get older.
The horizons get closer and closer as the years go by.
You live long enough, you start to lose people, friends, family.
You lose connections. Your eyesight goes and your hearing.
You hurt. Goddamn, how you hurt after a while.
The world speeds up and you slow down,
things change, complexity increases,
it gets harder and harder to keep up until you just can’t any more.
You become more and more distanced from the world.
💬 Stonekettle Station
🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.
There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.
💬 Joan Westenberg
🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!
With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.
💬 William Gallagher
Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.
I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.
🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns. Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.
💬 Om
🖋️ Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.
I just read Lou’s review:
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.
💬 Lou Plummer
🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir.