🔗 WWW
🔗 Scripting News: ChatGPT-the-Movie … I must have missed this on Bluesky when @dave first posted it 9 months ago - and no idea how it now got resurfaced. 🤷🏻♂️
🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell
I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.
IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.
And don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.
🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.
For years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.
The Macalope does have a way with words.
🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco
Apple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.
And to keep it all balanced …
🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler
Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.
Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems
What doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.
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AI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.
Similar Thinking. Different Thoughts.
The post opens with a position on SaaS platforms moving towards context-as-a-service (CaaS) from Scott Brinker. I question marketing strategies for the ;age of experience’ - built on outdated systems from the ‘age of reason’. (Not to mention that Caas is to my mind up an entirely different pole.)
🔗 How far back in time can you understand English?
F A S C I N A T I N G
(Later - as was my misspelling until fixed)
🔗 Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
… another public service.
🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs
What fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.
“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.
🔗 Apple’s strategy is actually genius if you think about it …
Horace replays a post from 3 years ago.
One question - intentional or accidental?
🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich
To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includes the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.
🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.
To just choose one from the post …
- Oh, your USB devices stopped working? Huh. Isn’t that strange? Seeing as your Mac is under-performing – for some odd reason that Software Update has no knowledge of, honestly – perhaps this period of limited productivity would be a good time to install that System Software Update that’s been loitering in the Notifications tray, like an untipped bellhop?
💬 Andy Ihnatko
It’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.
Not choosing any particular VC over any other - but you know who I am talking about. Right❓
🔗 Terry Godier on his new … | Alan Jacobs
(and I have that disabled in NetNewsWire anyway).
Thank you. I get complaints about bad tech - valid.
It is also time to start complaining about how bad people are in even understanding the tech that they spend so much money on. Notifications is one - but the list could be pretty endless …
One that keeps pushing through on my feeds …
On ’Notion’ it was easy - why can’t Craft ….
… because this is Craft - not Notion. Pretty simple really.
🔗 Enough is enough | Thought Shrapnel … is where I found this ..
Yeah … no
… that’s not what it’s about.
… Iraq worked out so well.
… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
… the Ukrainians.
… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
… it’s about the oil … read history.
… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.
#Winning
💬 Charlie Sheen
A Zurich court is expected to rule on the case in March. Whatever the outcome, Palantir has already lost the only contest that matters: the one for public perception. For a company that sells the ability to see around corners, they apparently never thought to search “The Streisand Effect.”
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.. I can’t sign it - but maybe you can?
Congratulations on saying the biggest number, Paramount. $111B for a company that a year ago had a market cap of around $20B. For a company that shrunk in their most recent quarter, and in fact, for the entire year, with revenue down 5% to $37.3B. Paramount may not be buying the Titanic, but only because they already own that IP.
I wrote yesterday that I’d give you the links …
If you prefer reading - 🔗 My Dinner with Jeffrey - by Douglas Rushkoff - but really - though I am a ‘read first - listen maybe’ kinda guy - listen.
Suddenly I have the lens where it all makes perfect sense. Sad - but finally …