🔗 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.
Where's Waldo
Ok - ‘where’s John - online’ - a quick summary of the network of words and sounds in the PHI⑊PIN domain.
🔗 The Bluestocking 393: Orcas and popstar perks
How was my week, you ask? Well, it contained 100 percent more orcas than usual, which was delightful.
Not being picky now - BUT
There is only 1 Orca in the photo. So for ‘100% more’ the other is hidden? Because if Helen only saw one - and prior to that only saw zero - then the sentence should have read something like …
How was my week, you ask? Well, it contained infinitely more orcas than usual, which was delightful.
… “something like” - because I would need to check my Cantor if it is actually infinitely - or another order of infinite .. it has been a while.
I sell my soul - but at the highest rates.
🔗📼 Harlan Ellison 18 years ago #PayTheWriter
Had cause to post this today - again - on a LinkedIN feed.
Just Good Music
Reconnecting with my Just Good Music cofounder and introducing you to an awesome video from ‘Ren’. Truly stunning - and if there is a god - he is going to go far.
Looks like someone’s lost the plot …
🔗 Russian oil has flowed into New Zealand despite sanctions
Then again imagine the price at the pump reduced profits of the gas companies if that hadn’t happened.
Yup - 🔗 The Gaping Void Post
🔗 Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes – O’Reilly
From $15,000/day to $0.96/day - I do think we’re about to see a lot of companies realize that a thinking model connected to an MCP server is way more expensive than just paying someone to write a bash script. Starting now, you’ll be able to make a career out of un-LLM-ifying applications.
And so we go round?
The freezing over of hell.
Last week I am listening to MTG and wondering why I am agreeing with her - and then this week Musk releases a new feature that seems pretty much ‘like - yeah - right on’.
Techdirt reports “ 🔗 Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
Call It A Public Service
The report reveals a decline in employee trust due to disconnection from leadership and stagnation in career progression, prompting a return to office spaces despite the ongoing buzz about AI disruption.
Its All About Execution - The Business One - Not The Political One.
Despite numerous ideas and strategies for improving productivity in New Zealand, the decline continues and a significant gap remains in effective execution. Is it cultural?
For all of how well anyone can think that they know a city …
🔗 The King’s Chapel of the Savoy …
is clearly a gem that I have missed over several years of walking right by it and never even knowing that it existed - much less visiting.
👁️ You know how they keep leaving New Zealand off world maps? Now we are disappearing from global surveys❗️Were NZ to be included in this survey, I believe they would surely be top right oo this graphic.
🔗 Ranked: Which Country Consumes the Most Coffee?
(No - not absolute - it is ‘per capita’)
🔗 Ranked: Wine Production by Country - it’s amazing how teeny tiny the Kiwi wine industry is - I mean GREAT quality - for sure - but presence on the world stage .. 1%.
🔗 Spying on People Through Airportr Luggage Delivery Service - Schneier on Security
The devil is the detail. Always in the detail.
📼🔗 Join ICE - Jesse says to ..
… via Colbert
🔗 Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
… via @gruber … so clever.
Always liked Ashton’s thinking - another writer that fell off my RSS tracker that I am reconnecting with as I sort out my RSS feeds.
🔗 macOS Tahoe 26.2 Gets Edge Light Feature for Video Calls
Now this I want to try.