🔗 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.
Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise.
💬 Aaron Levie
via 🔗Simon Willison
🔗 Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse
Ending with … (my bold)
This is the way of things at 1587, which is ostensibly a mashup of jersey numbers but also a credible restaurant tab. Complaining about the prices at 1587 Prime is like complaining about the wind on Mount Everest: predictable, but hardly the worst part of the experience. All the same, there is no need for anything this mediocre to cost this much.
🔗 The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for.
We should all do the right thing by and for our children ...
Protecting children’s online safety should be a top priority for everyone, as they are vulnerable to harmful influences from companies prioritizing profit over safeguarding. Sharing the ‘Words of Jax’,
Me: “Thanks, man. That was awesome. My powers as a driver are pretty limited to dealing with unruly passengers, so that was great.”
Tank Man: “Meh. I work three years as Walmart cashier. This nothing.”
Trust Requires Trust. Who Do YOU Trust?
If ‘the future’ is trust. Who/what - do you trust? I mean really really trust? And why?
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019.
My 8th for 2026 will be out in a few days time and looking like another alliterative year when reviewing my draft.
🔗📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
🔗📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic)
🔗📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
🔗📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
🔗📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
🔗📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
🔗📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
It all started as a fun and different challenge.
🔗🔎We got there - although some days were pretty difficult - but only 🖇️ one turned out to be a real stretch.
🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.
The point he makes is obvious and clear - the premise … 🤯
🔗 Comedian Robin Ince quits Radio 4 show, claiming BBC found his views ‘problematic’.
The silencing continues.
Email design is a special kind of hell. While the rest of the web has moved on to modern CSS, flexbox, and grid layouts, email clients are still stuck in the dark ages. You’re forced to use table-based layouts, inline CSS styles, and work around the limitations of Outlook (which still renders emails using the Word HTML engine from 2007). It’s enough to make you want to just send plain text and be done with it.
💬 Brett Tapsra
… tell me about it.
Definitely not true of all the docs - I just tried.
🔗 The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband | The Verge
Thanks to Weiss’ censorship, it may very well wind up being the most-talked-about CBS News story this year.
💬 Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
.. via @gruber ….
🔗 Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
And of course - thanks to 🔗 PullTube I now have safely tucked away in my personal collection - you know - just in case.