🔗 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.
🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s.
And vice versa apparently.
If correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future
🔗 You Can Just Say No to the Data - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You can - but perhaps a better thought is to consider the data, ask where it comes from, how was it arrived at, who compiled it, whether it’s relevant and … and …and
.. is - I think - basically what Jim is saying … so unclear where the title came from.
🔗 Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good – FlowingData
In fact, WIRED has found multiple examples of people advertising age-verified accounts for minors as young as 9 years old on eBay for as little as $4.
🔗 Wellington, New Zealand - from a (not so) different time.
When the Fischer-Spassky match #2 was being played in Yugoslavia, I relied on the moves of the games being faxed to me.
🔗 Just My Opinion writes @derekpeden
Maybe - but an excellent hierarchy. Going forward .. could well be adopting. Thank you sir.
I guess Tяump reads Seth (or Hugh), because three mods gets you to ..
Unified messaging is the ability to change people with your propaganda, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the perception.
📺 The Last Frontier ★★★
First couple of episodes and - meh. Even so much as parked it for a looong while - until the other day …
… and thought to try Episode 3 and it got me. I thought it was only 6 episodes - so binged the next 3 and - I after the rollercoaster - a truly disappointing end. Or so I thought.
The ‘next episode’ invite came up - and the next night - followed through - assuming just another episode - have you noticed how odd numbers are appearing in episodes?
Long story short - TEN episodes - and the roller coaster of episodes 4 to 6 were nothing compare to 7 to 10.
It blurs - but I seem to recall that 8 and 9 were both more than satisfactory endings - but then ….
End of ten = END.
Except of course series 2 is definitely set up.
🔗 The Last Frontier on Reelgood
🔗 Americans are paying for tariffs
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
🔗 An Update To This Published in 2021
I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump has the legal authority, but more importantly, he’s doing the right thing.
💬 Lindsay Graham
“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”
💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)
I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.
Your blogroll, anywhere - courtesy of Chris Hannah.
Only on free - but at 2 bucks a month - that could change very soon.
🔗 The empathy of instructions | Seth
Yes and if you are in tech development - particularly indie developers ( not all ) this also means you. The assumptions made in help files, forums and even the products are extraordinary. I firmly believe this why really cool stuff doesn’t take off.
🔗 Timelines for people references in “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
Fun graphic.
My mental model for musical history has Chubby Checker feeling much older than Dylan.
Turns out Dylan’s a bit older than Chubby. 🤯
Research (including a now widely cited Harvard Business Review article) shows that women and underrepresented founders are far more likely to be asked downside-focused questions–about risk, competition, defensibility, and failure–while white male founders are more often asked upside-focused questions–about scale, vision, and growth potential.
🔗🎵 These 15 bands honestly sounded like nothing else on the planet
Not to my ears - in fact ten of them were are in my album collections.
There is no advantage that I can discern for creating a new format that only works in Bluesky.
💬 Dave Winer
🔗 Dead Center | Futility Closet
In a shooting match, Andryusha, Volodya, and Borya each fired 6 shots, and each totaled 71 points. Andryusha’s first 2 shots earned him 22 points, and Volodya’s first shot earned 3 points.
Click through for the actual puzzle - one that had me for a minute building a pretty complex table of scores. And then I solved it in 2 seconds. NO tables needed.
Just linking because Om calls out the McNally series from Larry Sanders. 📚 Brilliant Books. No idea if I loved them because of the reasons Om provides - or just that they are such good books.
Surprised they never became a movie series.