🔗 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.
🔗🎵 Music of the Spheres - different ones.
Listening to Mother Earth as tectonic plates move past each other.
Art ➕ Science | Art and Science
.. they aren’t the same as I wrote the other day riffing on Roger
[@bradenslen](https://micro.blog/bradenslen)
I think the two sides issue is the problem - which goes beyond politics.
It is - as Roger had it - the problem of ‘Us and Them’.
The original piece was called ‘Us and Them’, but on Roger’s ‘Us➕Them’ tour - the name subtly changed …
Can’t find an exact quote - but the essence was that ‘➕’ transforms the concept from ‘binary opposition’ to ‘mathematical unity’.
Paraphrasing:
Instead of ‘us versus them’ it becomes ‘us plus them = one humanity’ … a call to action to ‘pool our love’ and recognise we’re all ‘ordinary men’ who should work together.
🔗 Covers from Cerîde-i Adliye, a Turkish Law Journal (1924–26) - The Public Domain Review
🕋 Structured Thought from a 100 years ago.
Good piece from Bob Cringely - 🔗 Detection Is Not a Strategy
🔗 A quote from Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media
The new statement no longer stated that “it’s critical that we maintain humans in the loop'.
🔗 Manton - Anthropic self-improvement, pause
Our biggest problem isn’t speed, it’s vision.
‘Vision’ needs a qualifier. It’s not a lack of vision, we have that in Spades. The problem is lack of alignment and no one is successfully proving they have the right map. Sure, we get isolated pockets of brilliant arguments, but the broader hype machine has adopted a ‘flood the zone’ strategy.
In the old days of ‘move fast and break things,’ I used to call this chaotic energy ‘Brownian motion.’
Today, we’re dealing with the same random collisions, but ‘Brownian vision’ doesn’t sound right to me.
🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long list including Slack, Tableau and Mulesoft - which as you all know is software fundamental to all sales.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 6, 2026
"I'd Love to Change the World (1971)" by Ten Years After
Prompt: A song from college or early adulthood.
Today's offer happens to fit the prompt - so why not .. one of the other 'Lees'.
Google Sucks
🔗 Daring Fireball: Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?
I experienced this about 9 months ago - cant recall how I fixed it - but Google was definitely not on my ‘things to check’ list
👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.
🔗 The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses
Using a Meta platform to find people to hack a Meta device so you can surreptitiously record strangers. So perfectly Meta.
💬 John Gruber
Part of the problem is that we measure what’s easy, not what’s relevant. And part of the problem is that we have trouble explaining trust, while it’s easy to pursue ever more transparency.
💬 Seth Godin
🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious'
Manton suggests that Apple rarely builds anything now … ‘except the most obvious products’. I disagree, because that statement depends on two things … what is meant by ‘obvious’ and what is meant by ‘product’.
Pink Floyd has Nick’s ‘Saucerful’
Genesis has Steve’s ‘Genesis Revisited’
🔗📼🎵 Not Voyage 35 - and yet is.
It was announced a while back - but seems to beginning to take shape ….
Porcupine Tree now has Colin’s ‘Voyage 35’
👁️ Have to say when I look around at other services in film, shows, music and books - Letterboxd (sadly only film) seem to have it more right than the others.
🔗📼 The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum has been circulating around a number of places I tend to go, so gave it a whirl. So should you.
Of course it is about curiosity, discovery, history, inaccuracies, putting things right, timelines, typesetting, layout, design .. and more .. and you might think ‘l’m not that interested - yeah nah’. Which would be sad because it would be your loss and you would never know what a lovely man 🔗 Richard McClintock is.
Not only that, but you’d miss out on how just one dedicated person can have impact, no matter how seemingly small.
(Stick to the end to discover the deets.)
I’ve decided that it’s time to end the “Soft Opening” era of my new site/blog. Lots of folks discovered it on their own. I incorrectly supposed that by hiding it behind a mysterious URL identical to my last name, I’d be able to live-test the CMS and my customizations in secrecy.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
I have zero expectations that this is going to be my story - other than - ‘developing in plain site’ - now that I have been 🔗🔎 doing off and on for a while (recategorisation on going) - it’s just nobody notices because only I am there!
👁️ So with him.
🔗 The Enification of Enification
When there’s a change to a thing and you don’t like it or approve of it, you need to consider a frightening alternative possibility. Maybe it isn’t enshittification. Maybe it’s just change.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
🔗 Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
A lot of stuff covering the ongoing CBS dumpster fire - I think this @gruber post is a good summary - with links - so you don’t need to go anywhere else.
👁️ 🔗 We need a social web for nobodies. writes @dave
1] Every nobody is a somebody to somebody.
2] That is what we have … it’s just spoiled by tech bros, algorithms and loud mouths.
3] People typically have more pride in that which they own versus rent. I think this a core tenant of why ‘global town squares’ are not the future and instead an ever growing network of interconnected micro communities is.