🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
and to your surprise, the last four digits of the phone number of the owner are yours.
Or to put it another way …. I found my glasses on my head - taken to ’11’
🔗 X’s reverse eternal September
Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse.
… I think he means ‘frathouse’ - and we know how those are working out.
What a great list of resources …
🔗 The RSS Universe — Readers, Tools & Standards
I have already dropped an issue on their Git to add Micro.Blog
Work the exact hours, do precisely what’s asked, don’t ask questions and focus on what the boss wants.
We modeled ‘good worker’ behavior in school. “Will this be on the test?” was the key question for 100 years. Do what the teacher asks for, and don’t overthink it.
🔗 Don’t Trust People Who Talk Like This | Ted Gioia
“Did Picasso win in every vertical? Did Shakespeare brag about his ‘content engine’? Did Beethoven ever achieve a ‘profitable linear portfolio’?”
(Side note - he’s talking about David Ellison - but it really could be most people on the ‘business side of entertainment’ … now there’s an oxymoron I didn’t plan to write today.
I read this yesterday:
🔗 Daring Fireball: X Once Again Marks the Spot and thought about it and moved on. (Noting that others have made similar noises.)
Unlike Tim, I didn’t waste an hour on X …
🔗 I Wasted an Hour on X: Tim Bray
Where I stand · I’m still a happy Fediversian, here’s why. Yeah, there aren’t as many people and it’s kinda geeky and leftist and queer; also unattractive to billionaires and CEOs. I can see why that’s less appealing for some folk out there and, well, OK. But I’m having fun on Fedi. And it’ll be a loooong time before I waste another hour on X.
Read the whole thing. I stand with Tim - and his list of people who he now has less respect for is worth a little peak.
🔗 Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff, Toadies – Pixel Envy
There is no legal or moral requirement to replace the vocabulary of “artificial intelligence” unless one is trying to appease a dumb and unpopular administration. Truly spineless stuff from Nadella and Benioff alike.
The words speak for themselves.
Really🔗 , really really great @manton - thank you.
Truly enjoyed 📺🔗 Lucky Season 1.
It is great show highly recommend. Delighted to see a Rivian and a wonderful soundtrack, great storyline, good twists, and so sad at the very end and yeah, so happy.
🔗 Scripting News: Friday, October 9, 2026
Next thing I said to Claude after killing whatever long task it got going on. “You don’t go off into space while you’re working with me.” The number one task for Anthropic, makers of Claude is to teach it to work with humans. That’s the biggest weakness. It has to learn the whole project every session. Maybe Manton does is the right way to go, just let it compress its memory and never start a new session.
@manton .. is that true? He seems to be suggesting one giant thread per project❓
🔗 Self Distract: A story, a story, a fanciful tale | Self Distract
Hand on heart, I know for absolute certain that this is a quote: “it’s only a story, a story, a fanciful tale.” And I know for nearly absolute certain that it’s a line from an Alan Plater script. But which one, I do not know. I can even hear how it should be said, how it was said in whatever it was, I can read that line and hear the intended rhythms of it.
AhHa .. I thought, I’ll crack that and let William know … 🤦♂️
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far
It’s purely personal anecdotal, but I feel like Siri AI has gotten worse since iOS 27.0 was officially released. It feels a bit slower and I seem to get worse answers, sometimes. I asked it for a word today, using it as an interactive thesaurus, and it simply told me it couldn’t.
Same feeling here. Hadn’t thought much about it until now.
FOR FUCK SAKE - but then consider the source:
On the click through …
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has failed in his bid to become an MP, with a narrow loss in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.
Narrow!
Victorious candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council since May, secured 12,292 votes to Polanski’s 8,928.
27,309 ballot papers were cast in Holborn - some 97 of which were spoiled.
• Abdi-Wali: 45.17% (roughly; see spoiled papers) • Polanski: 32.81% (ditto)
The point being that a majority of roughly 12.4 percentage points of all ballots cast is not ‘narrow’.
Votes were cast and Zack was cast out and thrown off the island.
🔗 The Pain Is Coming. Choose When You Pay.
People who look straight at a coming loss don’t hurt less when they lose someone, but they often have fewer regrets, because they said what they wanted to say and showed up while they could.
💬 Joan Westenberg
🔗 A quote from Ben Affleck I did not expect to read … 🤯
..and then again … this one not via Simon Willison, Ben on Social Media …
“He credited Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, and Denzel Washington as ‘brilliant actors’, noting that “
It doesn’t help me appreciate their movies to see what they had for lunch.
💬 Ben Affleck
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jaguar Type 01
I agree about the logo, though not convinced my feelings would stop me buying a beautiful car - which this one - based on the images in the click through - is not. So moot?
🪦 🔗 Thank You Mark Stephens, aka Robert X. Cringely
.. sorry to read this ‘Bob’ - always enjoyed your work when I saw it. Have to say, you kept quiet - but I had this feeling. Hope your son gets that `Product out the door’.
Oh good: 🔗 Joyous - Replace surveys with dynamic AI chats and real-time action
My position?
For years we called AI an answer machine. One question in, one answer out. Vending machine.
A survey is a vending machine too. Ten questions, five minutes, a finish line.
A dynamic AI chat has no finish line. It wants you to think out loud, and at length.
AI removes the cost of asking questions. It doesn’t remove the cost of answering them. It raises it. And that cost lands on the respondent.
So most people will do what they do when a vending machine asks for a conversation: give it the minimum, or leave. After all, what’s in it for them?
Prediction: the people who go deep won’t be representative. They’ll be the ones who like talking to AI. You’ve swapped a bad sample for a self-selected one.
Here we go again …
Tech saves the organisation money and pushes the cost onto the people.
Historically I have had a lot of blogs and for whatever reason it is only (relatively) recently that I started using this 27 year old domain to host one.
Before that I always felt that I needed another URL. Many of them over the years it turns out.
Thanks to @manton and micro.blog the challenge of amalgamation is easily fixed. And as I close various URLs down - and let the domains go - that is what I have done. (Thats one reason why there are quite as many posts on here than you might normally expect. (Though I am no 🔗 Dave Winer❗️)
Not so easily fixed is how the blogs all look in their new home. But since I am pretty much the only person that reads new posts on this blog - much less posts from 10 years ago - I don’t spend time much time sorting it out - life is too short. Instead I fix them one by one on a very ad hoc basis.
🖇️ Like this one about the sister of a long time friend who won the Nobel Prize .. just done. The. images weren’t there and despite a thorough ‘PHI⑊PINian’ and new Siri search could not find anything locally.
And so back to my original source (referenced in the original (newly fixed) post - and pictures provided. (Thanks Ros). My world is once more complete - other than whatever is on my new task tracker over in Craft.
