🔗 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.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Amazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation Emails
The fact is, a lot of people use apps like Gmail for email that aren’t private. When you use Gmail, Google learns everything in your email. Amazon sees this as a competitive problem for them, not a privacy problem for users.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
💬 Marcellus (via Billy Wagglestick)
… and America it would seem.
🔗 Tesla wants to build a $10B solar factory in Texas
The Tesla playbook is the Amazon playbook … pitch as many states as you can against each other … the ongoing nail in the coffin of the UNITED States.
Tesla has applied for tax incentives to partially offset the cost, saying that it is exploring other sites “across multiple U.S. states.” The factory would create about 9,700 full-time jobs, Tesla said.
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Without incentives, Tesla’s accountants estimated that the property tax liability for the project would be about $1.1 billion over 37 years.
That’s roughly $30 million per year folks … heaven knows that Tesla and the Muskrat need all the help they can get … I mean just to employ 9,700 people at minimum wage is going to cost them an order of magnitude more than that .. and its not as if they have access to an army of robots capable of doing that work.
Listening to Kara talk with Steve Hilton. Yet to finish, so will come back later - but so far - ‘yeah … nah' - despite how ‘reasonable’ he sounds.
Me - back in May - 🔗 🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
He also hasn’t (so far) answered very clearly why anyone in CA should trust him.
🔗 FileRouter is out – Mac App Store and direct via Paddle (and coming soon to Setapp, give it a couple days)
.. and a couple of days later - yes - yes it is:
BUT
… and all power to him - but that isn’t quite what I thought he meant. What do you think.?
Why would I need to wait for SetApp to have if it is already in the App Store?
🔗 Product Design and Conway’s Law by Marketoonist
.. and there you have it.
🔗 Daring Fireball: A Retraction - the first in 24 years apparently - and very well done IMHO.
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app. I showed him a draft of my post before publication, to make sure I had the story straight, and he offered not a word of caution.
💬 John Gruber
🔗 ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
My impression of consulting giants like Accenture (McKinsey, Bain, Deloitte, KPMG…) has always been that they are very good at looking smart but in fact very bad at actually being smart. The idea that they’re spending serious money on AI tokens to turn PDFs and PowerPoint decks into Markdown only makes me think I’ve overestimated the median intelligence of the people who work there.
💬 John Gruber
The Apple Vision Pro is a failed dead/dud product
💬 Too many people - who should know better.
🖇️ Such as Wired back in 2023 - which I always rail against if I have a spare moment.
This is why …
🔗 Excellent News - @manton - thank you.
@manton - seeing this makes me think that the whole page that manages ‘sources’ in the world of ‘aggregate’ and ‘syndicate’ could be managed in a much better way. I am probably (again) an edge case - but for me it is a confusing cacophony that I have to recalibrate my brain for every time I go 🔗 here.
If you are thinking about it at all - would be happy to summarise my thoughts for you. No point in doing that if you aren’t 😉.
Been a Sangeet follower for years - but don’t often share his wisdom. Not sure why. BUT - here’s an exception - one of those posts that connects disparate area of personal interest. Enjoy.
🔗 Scarcity and strategy - Misreading AI the way Hollywood misread streaming
I hadn’t heard of Echofeed before, so no comment - other than isn’t the vast majority of what it offered built right into Micro.Blog? Misunderstanding❓ Missing something❓
Watched 🔗📼🎵 10 Obscure Prog Rock Bands You Need to Hear Right Now
I think ‘obscure’ depends on who, when and where you are .. but that said - a good list none the less with 7 of them being represented in my vinyl and CD collections, you might think I am 💯 on board. I am not. Looking at you ‘Spock’s Beard’ and ‘Flower Kings’ - but I respect your right to be there its just that neither of you ever did ‘it’ for me … but for such a list - definitely worthy inclusions, despite some serious omissions.
Then today ..
🔗 Top Progressive Rock Albums of All Time, Ranked, which includes ‘criteria; for inclusion …
2b. Does anybody play keyboards with their feet? ….. If YES, continue to proceed to 3. If NO, they’re probably not prog, but proceed.
🖋️ Community - Again.
I know - I know. But this is important. It might be too late - but I want to make sure we don’t lose the ‘community’ war - like we seem to have lost the one around ‘content’.
Turns out Ted thinks about content 🖇️🔎 the same way I do.
Pretty sure I did - but never seen him speak directly to the issue.
And another piece of brilliance 🔗 Make Your Vote Count