🔗 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.
🔗 Ranked: The Most Reliable Car Brands in 2026
I listened to the CEO from the 26th most reliable brand on this list talk to Ms. Swisher the other day. That conversation alone was sufficient for me to want one of his cars.
🔗 How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life – The Marginalian
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being
I have no idea why I have so much to share from Maria - other than my RSS feed was suddenly full of her posts for some reason - so why not share the love.
🔗 Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays
Then we spend the actual substance of our lives doing laundry and feeling crappy about it…
Telling that 🔗 moltbook.com - where humans are invited to observe agentic ai chatting amongst themselves - offers no RSS feed. What’s that about?
When Ed’s on a roll … Ed’s on a roll
“Stargate” is commonly misunderstood as a Trump program, or something that has raised $500 billion, when what it actually is is Oracle raising debt to build data centers for OpenAI. Instead of staying in its lane as a dystopian datacenter mobster, Oracle entered into negative-to-extremely-low margin realm of GPU rentals, raising $58 billion in debt and signing $248 billion in data center leases to service a 5-year-long $300 billion contract with OpenAI that it doesn’t have the capacity for and OpenAI doesn’t have the money to pay for.
🔗 Ranked: The 35 Countries with the Highest Household Debt - that is highest a percentage of GDP.
New Zealand comes in a 5th, the UK 11th and the USA - 13th. Seperately both Australia and Canada beat out New Zealand for the ‘top 5 honors’.
Not sure what that all means. I certainly can’t see obvious corolations with others on the list.
… and why shouldn’t he? He was wronged. And anyone who tells him different will be sent to the gulag. Tяump - you are wrong.
Back On To Content Again.
Chris Lockhead posted 🔗 this on LinkedIN
It’s LinkedIn oatmeal.
Chris is right, so I replied:
Content is homogenous, undifferentiated and fully interchangeable with any other content - like any other ‘grain’ that sits in a silo.
- Can you really tell one grain of wheat from another?
- Is your post/comment really interchangeable with every one else’s?
If so - content it is. If not - guess what - it is not content. So don’t call it content.
Content is a horrible, generic, cheap, ‘anything will do’ kind of word and so - like a grain of wheat - any individual piece of ‘content’ has no value. The value is in the total silo.
It is also important to know that it is in the best interests of the ‘buyers’ (I use the term loosely) of our sweat, labour, thought and time to create our IP - to keep their costs down. So, content is what THEY will continue to call it. Don’t fall into that trap.
Our costs are not kept down. Our net earnings do suffer. They are suffering badly.
Oh - and a quick reminder - been saying this for years. As have others - like 🖇️ Will Arnett talking to Dana Gould
🔗 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 ★★★
A slow start that accelerate to 🤯 keeps up the pace and slows down at the end - and you are about to switch off and BOOM - Series 2 is in play.
🔗 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%.