💬 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 …


💬 One of the original artists in the history of Structured Thought. Flatland was published in 1884.


🔗 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

😂😂😂😂


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🔗 Attention and effort

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


🔗 A quote from Giles Turnbull

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


I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

💬 Bertrand Russell


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.

📼🎵🔗Fast Forward to 2020

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.


🔗 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


A quote from The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell discusses exceptional people who can start epidemics and the importance of packaging information effectively.

… as Doug wrote …



🔗Paperwork - Futility Closet

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