🔗 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.
Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
💬 Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
I would go further.
It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.
🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.
😂😂
🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician
Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC.
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Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK? He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.
💬 Steven Colbert
Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.
💬 Haruki Murakami
Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..
It will eventually start getting scared of words.
That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.
Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …
🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work
.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.
🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om
So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?
I suspect that the ‘nine figures’ doesn’t include the numbers after the decimal point.
🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton
Brilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.
Thankyou for the heads up @dave
Thankyou for doing the work @manton
🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com
It’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it).
Paging @amerpie
It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.
Ship an update every day. Learn from what works, relentlessly improve what doesn’t.
But companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.
(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)
Joan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.
🔗 Followup on the future of AI
Nobody knows anything.
@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.
BUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.
Once you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.
It all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.
🔗 A Random List of Silly Things I Hate - Tangible Life
Silly? I don’t think so. AND I suspect that @bradenslen and @MitchW would be in full agreement …. 🦯
🔗 U.S. Customs and Border Protection Signs New Clearview A.I. Deal
This is not facial recognition of criminals or even people suspected of wrongdoing. It is recognition of anyone who has a face that has been photographed and shared even semi-publicly.
ANYONE
.. another one I have seen before an never shared - who knew that Jack Black had this voice inside of him?