🔗 WWW
There must be close to a couple of thousand hand curated links in 🔗Indieseek -
‘a human edited, Indieweb directory’
… painstakingly put together by @bradenslen
Well worth a visit and a click around - no slop allowed. I mean I’m not sure it actually says that - but knowing what I know of Brad, I think it would be safe to put money on it.
But there’s more - you can also submit your own indie site.
There are other places around that does this but they do seem to move in fits and starts. Indieweb seems to be steady, been around a while and gently growing.
Enjoy.
I am on a bit of a rant at the moment …
Over time, my initial reaction sharpened and what started as a critique became a little more spiky … then decidedly more tongue-in-cheek. Because while everyone else was raising a glass of shareholder Kool-Aid, I couldn’t ignore the inconvenient truth: efficiency with fewer people and more profit in a single corporation is ‘competitive edge’. BUT implementing that efficiency at scale is a problem for society without a counter balance. And ‘we’ are doing this - at massive scale - across the planet.
🎵 The inaugural Premiata Forneria Marconi album from 1972 just added to one of my 🔗 albumwhale lists
not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted should be.
In the Age of Experience, perhaps it’s time we stop translating and start developing new, more direct ways to meaningfully measure what matters. (NEWSFLASH - that is not coming out of ‘The Valley’ any time soon.)
This short reflection is my way of shining a light on that moment. Because sometimes a single sentence can unlock a whole new way of thinking.
🔗 I wrote a lot more about Jony Ive’s sit down with Patrick Collinson here.
Talking to an old friend tonight. I said something. He replied …
“Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite”
.. which curiously enough made sense in the flow of the conversation .. but I still had to ask. The full quote …
Poolside laughter has a cynical bite
Sausage speared by the cocktail satellite
It comes from the song ‘🔗📼 Lay Your Hands On Me, version of the song that my friend said that was the version I needed to watch.
Just did and too good not to share. So …
Cans on - Volume up - listen in for 8 minutes - and come out shaking.
When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.
Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.
Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
💬 Paul Nurse
Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
Oh well. We can dream.
People who treat AI like a teammate, coach it and give it feedback and importantly, get it to ask them questions. The fundamental orientation a lot of people take towards AI is I’m the question asker. AI is the answer giver. But if you think about AI like a teammate, you say, hey, what are ten questions I should ask about this? Or what do you need to know from me in order to get the best response?
Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.
Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓
I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like 🔗 Semaphor
South Africa is among the nations that have sought counsel from Goldman Sachs on how to improve ties with Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank advised Pretoria — which has been in the White House’s crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administration’s good graces. It also recommended Pretoria walk back a land-seizure law that angered Elon Musk, who claimed it discriminated against White farmers. Japan and Saudi Arabia have also consulted with the Wall Street giant.
Mac File-Finding Gems from 🔗 Brett Terpstrabrett.trpstra.net/link/535/…) - I particulalry liked the look of auto tagging in HoudahSpot.
About Isaac Asimov
Prompted by a William Gallagher post, A short take on Asimov, memory, and how storytelling evolves. “it’s not the colour of the pill, but the effect”. … A reflection on reading, writing, and what still holds up.
🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …
… stands to be corrected.
Here’s the thing. Communication is
the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.
or even
means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.
**Might I suggest a third panel **
I am not an artist and I now there will be ways to build tiny little arrows to and from the people at the bottom - just imagine it - or take me up on the offer!
🔗 Using AI for polish - hands up for a beta test @Manton
He captions it ‘Woodhenge’ - assume it is a joke - because he surely knows that there is a real 🔗 Woodhenge
🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday
The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."
💬 Daniel Ellsberg
🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com
My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..
💬 John Gruber
I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.
Brother from another mother.
🔗 Reflecting | Matt Mullenweg - I know he’s alienated a few people - but I have always been with - and remain with him.