🔗 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.
I am not a paid subscriber to RibbonFarm, so I can’t offer you any insight into what 🔗 all this has to do with friction, AI, meaning, and zero-interest rates? (Readwise link that includes a few highlights) … but it made for a fascinating read in its own right … particularly in light of the Meccano news I linked to a couple of days ago - and the Lego comparisons.
A great example of why I enjoy reading the ideas of Venkatesh Rao.
Exploring Tracking Crud in Readwise
This is in Stoop.
I click on the ‘Read On’ link and see this.
BUT - if I save to ‘Read Later' in ‘Readwise’ and then open Readwise, I see this
🔗 The original page (sans the 5 lines of tracking crud)
Here’s what I am wondering.
When I visit the public Readwise link it includes this tracking crud;
which to this untrained bear, seems to be very different tracking crud to Liminals, so there is some rewriting going on?
Why?
And …
If I remove that tracking crud, I can still see the article, so could Readwise automatically remove that tracking crud as they save the link into my library?
Tom Evslin with some interesting arguments around climate, population and the world at large. Who knows if he is right and since we do not know, it’s probably not a good idea to assume.
What’s that stock warning?
… historical performance should not etc etc.
Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong person peels an orange. On some level this makes sense: When your model of the world is paper thin, a tenuous thing that startles you endlessly, the few experiences that become routine carry a lot of weight. If someone else peels the orange then you might as well change the rules of gravity, too.
🔗 Dispatches from childhood, Simon Sarris
Lovely.
If you love blue album covers AND/OR you didn’t know that blue album covers were a thing, then 🔗 The Feminine Blue Mystique - by Rachel Cabitt is the place for you.
“There are the crypto people who have seamlessly become AI people, much like how the amateur Twitter epidemiologists suddenly morphed into military experts.”
🔗 Salesforce jumps on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with a surprise acquisition
“It’s also worth noting Tempo was incubated by SRI International, the agency that created Apple’s Siri software.”
it’s not clear if this is being positioned as a benefit or a warning. 😂
🔗 Dana on Carter: “His entire political life lasted just 14 years.”
Talk about how you get defined!
Carter didn’t enter politics until he was 42, running for State Senate. While Governor in 1973 he appeared on the game show “What’s My Life,” saying he was running for President. While the panelists weren’t blindfolded, no one recognized him. His entire political life lasted just 14 years.
Jimmy Carter was a man completely outside his time, and outside his place, from the moment of his birth until his death. He wasn’t a great orator. He wasn’t a wartime leader. Yet no one in 20th century America has proven more important, based on the strength of his example, and his steadfast belief that we can be better than we are.
This Is Not The End.
🔗 Nick Cave on Growing Older - older mind you … not ‘old’.
This IS The Beginning.
🔗The Historical Roots of Political Fault-lines in the U.S.A.
Tripped over this last night. It’s from a couple of years ago (but really the whole point of the piece is that differences are deeply rooted - and thus relatively timeless). An interesting piece even of itself., even more so if you read it and draw parallels with other parts of the world.
The boundaries on the map drawn are ‘cultural boundaries’, reflecting what people feel and how they relate to each other in the U.S.A.
Now think about a couple of ideas, (say) …
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The U.S.A. as the Middle East
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State lines equivalent to country borders
The difference is that moving between states in the U.S.A. is a whole lot simpler than between countries in the Middle East.
🔗 Michael Tsai on Choosing and Switching Mastodon Instances
Turns out it might not be that simple - and, given the author, this particular bear has put any thoughts about this on the back burner - and switched off the gas!
🎵 This Is The End
I wrote an email this morning, responding to something that had been sent to me, announcing - and I paraphrase - that despite the longevity of the work that he had been personally driving for decades, he has decided that this was indeed - ‘the end’.
I guess it is one of those days, where every where you look, every page you turn emotion takes over and (at least for me), music takes hold.
Because I - and indeed he - are ‘of a certain age’, ‘The End’ came to mind. (If you aren’t of a certain age - I commend you to watch just one (if not all three) of the YouTubes below.) If you are of a certain age - you don’t need me to tell you.
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I’ll never look into your eyes again
“Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood."
💬 Jim Morrison
If you want a really good cry, the images most certainly do nothing to distract from the pain of the song …
If you want to listen to the original recording of nearly 11 minutes that took just 30 minutes of studio time (think about that) …
If you are of the live music persuasion… in the US you had Woodstock. In the UK we had The Isle of Wight …
A Substack with bundles of links : 🔗 Digital Countries are the Next New Thing
Who’s already started : 🔗 The Network State Dashboard
The Book : 🔗The Networked State Book (free and downloadable)
Originally posted on John.Philpin.Com
🚧 🔗 Streams of Consciousness · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer via ‘Om’.
More on this, in the comments, soon, like I often do.
New Zealand | Unrecognized Leadership
If the UK and/or the USA could find more leaders that demonstrate the qualities of Jacinda Arden, wouldn’t both surely be better off for it?
Sadly, she’s had her run, the voters are not going her way hence her resignation. ‘Hitch’ is being allowed to reset the agenda and so far at least, seems to be turning the ‘anti-Labour’ tide. Make no mistake though, yes, she took some wrong turns but the problems being laid at her feet won’t go away with new leaders. It’s a global problem … and despite New Zealand managing to punch well above their international weight over the last few years … these global issues are exactly that … global.
🔗 Colbert pays tribute to Jacinda
🎙️ What was behind Jacinda-mania and why did it end so suddenly?
Watch the first minute. If you are not hooked. Move on.
🔗📼 If you can’t see the video below try this link
Who is this?
Mike Monteiro - Suggesting that we Destroy Silicon Valley
#vimeo
🔗 Jimmy Carter, 98, opts for hospice care after string of hospital visits
Sad, but it comes to us all.
6 🔗 Bookmarks left.
Substacks Fail At Providing Joy
A claim made by Mike Pesca on his ‘occasional’ 🔗 Substack. But maybe that isn’t the point? Maybe that is also not right? He asked for comments. This post is is my response. What do you think?