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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.
🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs
Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.
“I dunno” - wrote Alan
With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about
🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com
I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.
Never heard of it until now.
Subscribed.
📺 Hijack ★★
Originally Published: August 7th, 2024
Updated: April 3rd, 2026
In 2024 I originally wrote:
What’s not to love about Idris? Ok well not always, but this surprisingly worked.
Well - at least until the final episode.
Just finished the second series - and the fact it took us so many months to work through it speaks volumes. And when I say work … I mean work.
Series 1 ★★★ – that is old star rating - but still holds …
Do you remember the old (60 years old!) movie with Spencer Tracy - It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World? I liked the movie - but the images that find their way to the top of my memory is generally large groups of cast members randomly gathered together on a golf green, in a cab, looking in a hole … I mean for that movie - which was a great ensemble cast - total sense, not too mention that I bet that each star was guaranteed a certain amount of screen time … and this is one way to get round that.
Anyway, back to the plot. Watch the final episode of Hijack and tell me those scenes don’t come to your mind.
And yes - all the usual happy ever after, plane saved with seconds to spare, it was all about the money - etc etc
Series 2 ★★
And that rating is getting applied to the whole show. VERY disappointing - they took that final episode from Series 1 - and doubled down on it!
I was tempted to 1 star it - but that wouldn’t be fair to series 1.
ShowName on 🔗 Reelgood
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When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic
How did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy.
Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water."
If you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.
He is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you for your own relevance.
They stole all this data from us, the people. Our life’s work, our creativity, our art. They devoured the open internet and blew through every copyright law on Earth.
And now they want to “sell it back to us” in the form of a utility?!
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”
Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart.
🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App
Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:
Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.
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Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (
lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]
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Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.
🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026
I had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”
You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying.
🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
🔗 Is the AT Protocol really decentralized? | Vladimir Campos
“Hosted in Europe, governed in Europe,” and their vision starts with “Eurosky exists because Europe needs technological sovereignty and democratic resilience in its digital infrastructure.” As I mentioned in a previous post, I prefer an internationalist world, but based on what they are promoting on their site, why choose a US protocol that many say is not actually decentralized?
AJA writes …🔗 what’s in a name? – The Homebound Symphony
The title of this great dialogue should therefore be not Politeia but rather Eudaimonia.
Behold: 🔗 Eudaimonia - though he hever strikes me as ‘happy’.
🔗 The quieter your brand, the louder it travels – Regionally Famous
I believe this blog’s reader will enjoy this post about - well #stickers.
🔗 Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland — Colossal
Spectacular photographs.
🔗 The end of the content shortage
The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.
💬 Seth Godin
Here’s willing it to be so.
Headlines: ICE is starting to check ID’s in airport security lines. Be warned.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac
The Claude Mac client itself remains a lazy Electron clunker. If Claude Code is so good I don’t get why they don’t prove it by using it to make an even halfway decent native Mac app.
I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not.
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🔗 Too complicated for people to understand.
Our first job is to do work that matters for people who care. It helps to follow that up with the scaffolding needed to cause cultural change, so the idea spreads.
But don’t dumb it down to reach people who don’t want to be reached in the first place.
🔗 Mike Johnson: Trust us, this war totally had to happen.
Trust you Mike? Are you serious?