🔗 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.
🔗 Too much truth for a comic strip. - but a potential solution to one of society’s many ills?
David Smith in his article 🔗 Kind, Friendly Designs makes a really interesting point - and provided a very nice way to solve the inherent bias of the UI.
🎵🔗 Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck dies aged 78
… “suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis”
F U C K !
🔗 England show their true colours with meek surrender in armband fiasco.
The team rolls over to ⚽️ FIFA pressure.
Meanwhile FIFA roll over to Host country pressure (see Beer fiasco).
Just in case you were wondering who is in charge in Quatar and how long principles last.
There’s been odd comments on Micro.Blog asking if @dave really is on MicroBlog.
🔗 This post comparing Substack to Micro.blog definitely records that ‘yes it is him’, ‘yes he set up the feed’ and ‘no he hasn’t been active in here’.
Artificial Intelligence For The Creative Professional
There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output.
My mind explodes when I see the 'image' results.
I think ‘meh’ - so far - when I see the 'written' results.
I am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?
For more background, you might enjoy this from The Verge;
🔗How independent writers are turning to AI
Note - all of the words you read on peoplefirst.business are not created - or even suggested - but any AI tool. (Can you tell?). 😂
About Those Deep Links To Email Messages
MacStories : 🔗 Generating Markdown Links to Mail Messages with Shortcuts and AppleScript
Dr. Drang : 🔗 Mail links and percentages
I used to use hook - but not enough to pay for it - so stopped.
Spark has an easy way to generate deep links to emails - BUT - if you move the message to a different folder - the lnk breaks for me.
So question.
Does the MacMail linking also break when you move messages, or is the ID absolute?
🔗😂 How Do We Know How Old Things Like Dinosaur Bones Are?
“There’s an old joke told in natural history museums about a new tour guide showing around a group of visitors. Stopping before a dinosaur skeleton, he informs the group that the fossil remains are 80 million years and three weeks old. “How do you know that?” asks one of the visitors. “Because it was 80 million when I started,” says the guide.”
Linking Your Thinking
I have been tracking Nick Milo and his wonderful work around Obsidian for a while. Recently he announced LYT Kit v5 and 🔗 this is his overview.
🔗 A Passwordless Future Needs Portability
“We definitely need to get there because telling users that they may not change from Android to iOS or vice versa because they won’t be able to log into anything is not a good situation.”
One more example of why Silos need to die.
I promise that I didn’t plan it this way but the last three meetings of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic differ in length by only 14 seconds.
📚Great Meeting Of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic today - wonderful book recommendations that I am documenting. Notes to follow.
You knew it was going to happen. Didn’t you?
🔗 Satanic group asks to fly flag at Boston City Hall after supreme court ruling.
🐧 The Twitter End Game
Two writers - well … write …
🔗 Ezra Klein and 🔗 Venkatesh Rao providing their take on what all this twitter stuff means. They seem to agree on the short term effect …
Venkatesh writes
“He can no more prevent Twitter from turning into a sort of personal Valhalla orbiting his person than Jupiter can stop being a massive planet. Which means there will be a massive shift from vibe-neutral public space to some sort of Free Speech Thunderdome where Elon sets the Vibe of the Month for you to either rejoice in, or resist.”
Ezra writes
“Betting against Musk has made fools of many in recent years. But I count myself, still, as a cautious believer in Musk’s power to do the impossible — in this case, to expose what Twitter is and to right-size its influence. In fact, I think he’s the only one with the power to do it. Musk is already Twitter’s ultimate player. Now he’s buying the arcade. Everything people love or hate about it will become his fault. Everything he does that people love or hate will be held against the platform. He will be Twitter.”
But maybe not the long term one.
Venkatesh seems to be of the belief of one more nail in the blog coffin - though I can’t reconcile how he arrives at that conclusion.
While Ezra writes;
“He will have won the game. And nothing loses its luster quite like a game that has been beaten.”