🔗 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.
Lots of noise out of the IIW community around this - and Doc Searls in particular. Any thoughts from the wider cognoscenti?
🔗 Playing in Traffic is not what Doc is writing about.
What he is writing about is the fuckedupness of what used to be the United States of America.
Being based in the US is now a disadvantage for forming partnerships with entities in the EU. I speak from experience: one I’d rather not have.
🔗 Introducing Apex: universal Markdown processor
I am sure @Dave @Manton and Ma.tt are fully aware of what Brett is up to. Maybe not? Either way - to me it all fits together.
🔗 Self-driving - Matt Mullenweg - second order effects leading to third order effects.
🔗 Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings - all for it if we can start with him.
Part one of the headline is news.
Part two is known lore.
🤯 Prime Information: 🔗 Math Notes - Futility Closet
🔗 Same Thing - Futility Closet
So the name was changed to October Sky — the same 10 letters in a different order.
🤯 click through to see the other name of the film - or just treat it as today’s puzzle.
🔗 On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads
‘Only’ ten? But I get it. I really get it. In the same boat - just with more years.
These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian, but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.
Obsidian is the foundation of my new Blot Powered Wiki.
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?