🔗 WWW
🎥 On The Waterfront ★★★★
In a nutshell - if you havent seen it - watch it. If you have seen it - watch it again.
I just discovered 🔗 Kelly Boesch.
An example of her work …
🔗📼 Not Made For The Cage | Kelly Boesch
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.
📺 Resident Alien ★★★
It’s quirky and different. Wont be everyone’s cup of tea - but definitely worth a try out. I loved it.
🔗 The Fediverse is not a product. It’s time to get real about marketing.
Ben’s not wrong - but for whatever reason - ‘same as it ever was’. It’s called Marketing. And Marketing is generally not - or maybe ‘mis’ - understood by the community - sometimes even rejected because it is … And of course ‘budget’.
Is this worth a conversation?
Matt Mullenweg writes: RIP🔗 Sonny Rollins including this image - which I am sure you have seen a version of.
For me, what made this different is the naming of everyone in it. 🔗 That is one hell of a band!
🔗 Thanks Mitch #TruthInHumour
📺 Just finished Legends .. based on a true story it says - and seemingly not wrong according to 🔗The Radio Times Not half bad - with ‘Alan Partridge’ playing the boss - straight down the middle. That said - a lot of the full story definitely not in the show. Future series? 🚧
🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Not in the cartoon ….
This is what is meant when AI Alignment researchers refer to “PhD-Level Intelligence.”
💬 Zach Weinersmith
… it’s his usual additional punchline - with emphasis on ‘punch’ today.
🔗 Day 3: Einstein Made Us A Loaf - LLBBL Blog
Philosophers Hilary Putnam and C.W. Rietdijk worked this out in the 1960s. Their argument, roughly: if my “now” overlaps with your “now,” and your “now” overlaps with someone else’s, and that someone else’s “now” overlaps with an event in my future, then by transitivity that future event exists right now. Not metaphorically. Actually exists.
💬 'Logan'
Now read: Day 4: Does the Future Already Exist?
A paywalled Atlantic piece - but not paywalled on the Wayback machine: 🔗 The Lure of a Fully Randomized Life
When I first learned about Max’s experiment, I thought he had found a convenient way to dodge taking responsibility for his decisions. Sorry, the computer made me do it. But I came to see that no matter where the algorithm sent him, Max had cultivated an admirable equanimity about where he ended up. He’d traded the security of knowing exactly where he was going for the serenity of being present wherever he arrived.
💬 Simone Stolzoff
The whole piece reminded me of 🖇️ The Diceman
Meanwhile as we 🖇️ seek to spend trillions in getting to Mars - we barely understand our own backyard.
🔗📸 In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species.
Ben seems to think the IPO is a good idea .. (His paraphrased conclusions)
1] Musk … has already pushed humanity forward on multiple vectors, including electric cars, self-driving, reusable rockets, satellite Internet, etc., and I’m excited to see him try and do more. 2] Musk is proposing an alternative path to unlimited compute is a relief. 3] This IPO is a return to what an IPO should be: the opportunity for people to contribute capital to actually build the business, and to benefit if it works out.
💬 Ben Thompson
Sure there are some nuanced caveats.
I used to read Cringely a lot and then I didn’t. He disappeared from my feeds - life moved on and then BOOM - in the feed today.
🔗 Where the heck have I been all this time? | I, Cringely
HOLY CRAP!
The Catch Up continues. Read 🔗📚Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
I need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it’s short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you’re reading now.
💬 Dave Winer
I had the same idea back in 2019 @dave - I even created a 🔗🎙️snicklecast to describe what a 🔗🎙️snicklecast - and why it is.
Never cracked the ‘simple’ part though.
I THINK there is something like this in MicroBlog on a higher tier than I sit at.
👁️ TIL that Ukiah is the palindrome of Haiku … which is why Ukiah has an 🔗 annual Haiku festival.