🔗 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.
🔗 United States of Oligarchy Exposes Trump Regime Corruption
The book exposes the staggering corruption of the Trump regime and how dictators and oligarchs around the world are betting on Trump–and betting against democracy.
🔗 Apparently I Was Born in the Wrong Country
With him - even down to being born ‘abroad’ but still being English and NOT an immigrant.
And it is fucking ridiculous that, in 2026, I still have to explain the difference …
It’s time we English celebrated a little more.
My Earlier Posts That Relate
🔗📼🎵 Throwback to ‘halcyon days’
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.🔗 General Identity Protocol - Age Assurance Technology Trial
GIP is a networked identity framework that reuses trusted institutional credentials for secure, friction-free verification. It’s flexible, scalable, privacy-aware and aligns with AATT’s privacy, usability and integration principles.
It really is a clever solution to a real world problem that everyone likes - but remains an up hill adoption battle. #justsaying
🔗 Niklas Roy Constructs a Functional Pendulum Clock Made Entirely of Trash.
The artist only used items and materials he could scrounge up locally, including tape, zip ties, hot glue, cardboard, a yardstick, pieces of plastic, and other random objects. “It runs for about half an hour, features a paperclip-escapement, a glass bottle gong, and a ‘random complication’ (which answers the fundamental question, ‘Now or Never?’)
🔗 Everybody talks about the ‘Paypal mafia’. Nobody seems to refer to the Facebook mafia … .. and that makes it harder and worse
It’s especially important to identify these patterns because the alumni of these companies bring these toxic behaviors with them when they go on to their subsequent roles. It’s no coincidence, for example, that so many former Facebook product managers work at OpenAI and that ChatGPT has run the same playbook in terms of abusing people’s privacy and trust.
… via Gruber and saved for later … its long - but on a speed scan - I clearly need to read it.
Oh and don’t confuse Colossus with Colossal - another ‘hidden’ - and totally unrelated gem of a site.
I don’t trust xAI (or Meta) with my data, but it doesn’t seem like Siri AI can do all that much.
I am surprised it is as locked down as it is. The only reason i keep perplexity around now is to run on my old iPad mini - I quickly adopted Siri on that one - and it does do a remarkable job of unpacking what is on my drive - but most of my use cases is that having done that - I now want to do more and so far Siri just tells me it ..
Can’t do that
So chat and claude are still there - neither of which have full reign over most of my hard drive.
I want a say in what happens next. Not because I am young. Because I am here, and I will be living with it.
.. not wrong.
Good read though he might best have used his AI to reduce the length.
🔗 Substack Changed. Most Creators Haven’t Noticed Yet.
In January 2026, Substack launched Substack TV, an app for Apple TV and Google TV, so people can watch creator videos and livestreams on their actual television.
New news - at least to this bear.
The opposite of mass is special.
Good reminder. App development at PHI⑊PIN keeps getting distracted with ‘mass’ - but ‘special’ is what we are trying to do.
Karpe - 📼🎵🔗 this from 2022 - in Norway have been around for twenty years apparently. Love it.
Some of the choreography reminds me of Peter Gabriel - 📼🎵🔗 specifically this, though there are many others from different tours.
Life is a remix - and I love it.
🔗 Gut Feel Decision Making cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
I did not know that Jim had ‘Barksdales’:
One of the Barksdaleisms that I always liked: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."
Have you met my 🖇️ Johnisms? Unique ones 🖇️ pop up all over this domain.
Watched it a while back and just watched it 🎥🔗 Crazy Rich Asians again. Because it was so good? No. Because I was over-ruled by others on this wet Wellington afternoon so in all honesty just kept an eye on it while I got on with tweaking My Wiki. It remains at ★★
🔗 Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant? | starbreaker.org
Certainly hope not - but then most people I talk to don’t even recognise the term.
.. from Seth. Interesting experiment.
🔗 App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev
Cupertino should really do a better job.