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Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah
BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.
Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.
Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.
🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly.
💬 Seth Godin
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works fine.
🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026
Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is your man
🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?
🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
.. and as I have said myself
death defines life.
I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway.
If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference. Think on that. We all imagined what we would have done if we lived there then. We live there now.
🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee
Not wrong IMHO.
Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.
🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript
So I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question …
Please only consider this document and no other information. Bottom line - if you were the judge - would you find the defendant guilty or innocent. If guilty - on what counts. For each of those counts - What SHOULD the punishment be, what would the punishment be and what could the punishment be. Please keep succinct.
🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy
Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️
I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?
My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂
Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform
[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)
🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’
This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash
Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.
Final paragraph
The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.
🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.
Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.
What does the arrow say
.. asked Cliff … 🤯
In all my years of driving I had never known this.
John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….
🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)
🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
Claude
The good: 🔗 The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
… and the bad: 🔗 Claude Code and What Comes Next
He acted according to his training," Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the Minnesota Star Tribune in an email, noting that this specific agent was selected for ICE’s Special Response Team, is an expert marksman.
He acted according to his training … is an expert marksman.
[🔗 The Star Tribune)(https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-who-fatally-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-is-identified/601560214)