💬 Quotes
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It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
💬 Me
🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers
The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)
A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
💬 Nilay Patel
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I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
💬 Nilay Patel
🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude
I have a name. Phin Argofy.
💬 Phin Argofy
.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.
In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?
His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.
The name? Different story for another time.
🖋️ The Missing Half of a Daily Planner
Finalist failed to stick first time around - but this time we have more time.
Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.
🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.
my take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.
💬 Terry Godier
It looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?
I can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)
💬 Terry Godier
So this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.
It’s very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.
💬 Dave Winer
So do I, but there’s a problem with slaves …
- can they really be trusted.
- they don’t feel the passion.
- they don’t feel the problem.
- hell - they don’t even understand the problem.
🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?
Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”
💬 Futility Closet
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expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.
💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,
🖋️ When Can You Swear?
Leon reposted this 🔗 Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - because personally I had never heard of ‘walloper’ … Brit here with a ‘lifetime’ in the USA and 6 years .. so far … across the Tasman.
But then he moved on.
People will be more important in the future, not less.
💬 Mark Zuckerberg
Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t ~believe him~ think he knows what that really means.
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The Future - Very Important
To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
💬 Patrick Rhone
Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.
Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
💬 Joan Westenberg
Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?
Interesting that in ‘olden days’ these kind of companies lurked in the shadows. Not any more. 🔗 Palantir Wants To Be The Government
I hear Thiel has buggered off to Argentina - so Karp has free rein to carp.
Getting banned from Elon Musk’s X for pointing out Palantir’s fascism has created more interest in my work.
💬 Gil Heron
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