💬 Quotes
🔗 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.
🔗 The end of the content shortage
The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.
💬 Seth Godin
Here’s willing it to be so.
In his State of the Union address in January, Donald Trump identified a problem for America: “We’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it.” To give him his due, he seems to have found a solution.
💬 Andrew Palmer, Executive Editor - The Economist
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔗 The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!
I’ll be damned if I am not interested. And I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what he does next. That doesn’t mean I need to gulp his MBA-speak as wisdom. I will call the game as I see it being played.
💬 Om
💬 Lettres Décoratives: Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters and Vibrant Letterforms
I have gotten through the last 15 years or so not even coming across the expression ‘Fin de Siècle’ - much less using it in anger - and now three times in less than a week!
I blame @mitchwagner
💬 The Essence of a Machine - Om
I can’t remember when I used the words “cute” and “want” about a computer in the same breath.
💬 Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports
I will never understand how these companies became so powerful. Yes - I have read explanations. No - I don’t understand how they were allowed.
🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich
To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includes the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.
🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.
To just choose one from the post …
- Oh, your USB devices stopped working? Huh. Isn’t that strange? Seeing as your Mac is under-performing – for some odd reason that Software Update has no knowledge of, honestly – perhaps this period of limited productivity would be a good time to install that System Software Update that’s been loitering in the Notifications tray, like an untipped bellhop?
💬 Andy Ihnatko
Yeah … no
… that’s not what it’s about.
… Iraq worked out so well.
… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
… the Ukrainians.
… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
… it’s about the oil … read history.
… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.
#Winning
💬 Charlie Sheen
