🔗 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.
👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.
🔗 More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS: …
when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.
Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
💬 Joan Westenberg
Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
I don’t use Ubuntu. I have zero interest in resetting ICON themes. I toggle dark mode manually every blue moon or so.
None of that stopped me from reading;
🔗 Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode
I didn’t understand a word of it.
This all around 4am.
Life Needed.
🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
Police - take out the ‘Pol’ - and you are left with ‘ICE’.
Origins of ‘Pol’ … public order, civil administration
Sounds about right to me - and a useful counter argument to this kind of idiocy.
🔗 Gratitude, honor, and anger — Terry Godier
.. still thinking how this delightful little ‘billy do’ might fit on to my daily routine.
👁️ Experimenting with the new RSS thingy from @terrygodier.com .. ❤️LOVE IT❤️
Subscribe if you care to … 🔗 here
😂😂😂😂 - Spanish speakers … true? 🔗 Language is hard
#Doomed❗️
🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri
But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!
Interesting that in ‘olden days’ these kind of companies lurked in the shadows. Not any more. 🔗 Palantir Wants To Be The Government
I hear Thiel has buggered off to Argentina - so Karp has free rein to carp.
Getting banned from Elon Musk’s X for pointing out Palantir’s fascism has created more interest in my work.
💬 Gil Heron
🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.
The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.
And for a related 🎵 interlude …
Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.
💬 Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.
🔗 Software Eats Its Own – On my Om
The people who build software are busy wiring up the machines that will build software in their place. Call it automation. Call it augmentation. Call it whatever makes you sleep. What it actually is, is software industrialization, happening right in front of our eyes.
🔗 Rosabeth Moss Kanter is decribed by Wikipedia as
“The Thinking Woman’s Michael Porter".
Maybe more accurately Michael Porter is
“The Thinking Man’s “Rosabeth Moss Kanter”.
I mean Rosabeth was born 4 years before Michael.
🖋️ SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.
Waiheke rersidents and visitors enjoy the ability to site along Oneroa beach thanks to one person’s initiative to create casual seating for beachgoers.