💬 Quotes
👁️ Via 🔗 Futility Closet
The true test of happiness is whether you know what day of the week it is. A miserable man is aware of this even in his sleep. To be as cheerful and rosy-cheeked on Monday as on Saturday, and at breakfast as at dinner is to — well, make an ideal husband.
💬 W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, 1919
🔗 In Gut We Trust? – Peggy Noonan
You unconsciously stand up straight in a cathedral. The art, the sweep, the ceilings are so high that you aspire even in your posture. You crouch down low to enter a darkened shack. The sound of our leadership now makes us all crouch too low.
💬 Peggy Noonan
👁️ Let this be a warning dear Signal users …
🔗 FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, it’s stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. That’s a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal, and to remove the text of Signal messages from its notifications entirely.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
💬 not sure when I captured this one .. but in my notes, clearly in a ‘phlippant’ mood, I wrote: “Give them phones to scroll!”
💬 a classic that flowed into my daily feeds this morning, reminding all Kiwis and Brits to be careful out there.
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To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression.
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you.
👁️ Pots and kettles spring to mind …
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.
💬 you know who …
🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime - a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
And if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine.
💬 John Gruber
😂😂😂😂
Attention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off.
💬 Seth Godin
I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.
💬 Giles Turnbull
🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents
That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.
💬 Simon Willison
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
You’re absolutely right—I reverted to the quick-fix approach and missed the bigger strategy.
💬 Claude
.. is a recurring message these days - I need to work out why it doesn’t keep this information in ‘mind’. Annoying.