🔗 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.
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?
El Estepario Siberiano has been popping into my feed for well over a year - and every time I am blown away - but until now never shared him here.
Fixed.
🔗📼🎵 This could be my BEST video TO DATE. - YouTube
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🔗📼🎵 MY STORY - HOW I MADE 1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS. - YouTube
🔗 Mark Bernstein: AI: New Frontiers
Today’s AI can make you better at doing things you do well. That is what AI is for.
A simple sentence to cut through the noise.
we will discover that even if your job mostly consists of interacting with LLMs, doing so well will require people who remember what it was like to read and interpret a document or contrast two ideas without asking an LLM to do it for you.
There used to be a lot of people that used to be able to thatch roofs - and now there aren’t. But that isn’t quite the same IMHO.
🔗 Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock – FlowingData
This comes shortly after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial for dog-finding. Ring owners were already rumbling, but it seems cute dogs were not enough to calm things down. Trust is already lost
Even tech companies are drawing lines.
🔗 Meta planning facial recognition with glasses – FlowingData
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.
🤯
🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
💬 Nick Cave
🔗 Apple Repeats Release Date for New Version of Siri – Asymco
NB: I’m told repetition is necessary in order for others to understand. Sometimes you’re supposed to say the same thing twice. Sometimes even three times. But still, some fail to grasp the idea.
Tell ‘em what you are going to say.
Tell ‘em.
Tell ‘em what you said.
…number one rule of any presentation.
Then again - there are so many comments made about Apple by people that clearly do not understand Apple that it is no surprise that this keeps slipping through.