🔗 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.
Freddie Star isn’t exactly a household name - even in the UK - but back in the day 🔗 📼 😂 he could be very funny.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple ID to Be Renamed to Apple Account .. which is an excellent idea. It’s time it was recognized that our ‘ID’ doesn’t belong or get managed by a Corporate … finally Apple get is it. Besides, ‘Account’ is much more logical.
🔗 📼 Larry Lessig on ‘How AI could threaten democracy .. yes .. and having listened to it - I’m not sure if that is REALLY what it is about.
If you haven’t got 20 minutes to watch the whole thing - try this - the last minute of the talk - because I think THIS is what it is about. (its a link to the last minute of the talk).
🔗 The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True.
Umair Haque nearly a year ago. He seemed a little extreme back then.
Not seen much comment about this (but then I don’t always read the right things).
Sadly I won’t be experiencing it any time soon.
1] Serious props to @gruber and team
2] If Apple doesn’t know - I feel they should work it out … quickly.
Stopping now - 🔗 📼 to watch the 2D version.
🔗 I’ve done mine. .. have you done yours?
🔗 Thanks for the the link Joe/
(This is why my 🖇️ Guestbook blog roll is useful.)
I just signed 🔗 Joe Crawford’s guest book. I also have one of those. The one that @bjhess built. 😎 I have to say that only as I have wandered the web and signed have I realized how unusual Barry’s is - in that allows Markdown - which if supported allows me to leave my Kilroy moniker …
🔗 MacGPT - ChatGPT in your menubar if you are into that sort of thing.
🎈166/366 🔗 🎵 Fascinating
🎈165/366 🎵 Memories Moving To The Future
A Musical Box - no, not 🔗 🎵 that one - though in itself well worth a watch - Gabriel at his theatrical finest in 1974.
I happened to drift around some music videos on YouTube last night - and well - some of them just needed to be shared …
Starting with a couple from Robert Plant with the Shape Shifters
🔗 🎵 1 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits
🔗 🎵 2 - Robert Plant at Austin City Limits
And Then …
Moving on to why Music has a problem. 9 minutes from Rick Beato - listen.
🔗 🎵 Rick Beato on Music created by AI - All AI generated tracks come from 🔗 Udio
Lets see how long it takes AI to do this …
All is not lost - except it might be because we have seen time and time again how the extraordinary is not always understood and often ignored.
🔗 🎵 Guthrie playing .. in The Hans Zimmer Show … just watch Zimmer’s face during this 2 minute solo …
Who the hell is Guthrie (apart from the finest living exponent of the guitar you will ever hear.)
🎈162/366 🎵🔗 Ten New Albums I Am Enjoying Right Now - Ted Gioia
This is a track from one of them.
LOVE IT
😂 I was rolling in the aisles when they first came out. They just reappeared today and I’m rolling in the aisles all over again. …
🔗 📼 How Does The Financial System Work
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
🎈161/366 Ha .. kudos to Mr. @danielpunkass .. if it all goes wrong with MarsEdit, he clearly has a future with roles like ‘futurist’ ‘Oracle’ ‘pundit’ .. AI indeed.
Daniel is one of a handful of people that circulate in the Apple ecosphere that never forgets why Apple s different .. to (pretty much) any other company.
The extract from his post last year that @gruber called out is a perfect example.
Two must reads … that came through (to me at least) just this morning.
Enjoy.
📺 Turn Up Charlie
Just like 🖇️ Loot .. not one to dislike … and likely more a passion project for the only reason I watched it ( a while back now) .. Idris.
But I do like to occasionally log some older stuff .. cos we don’t all watch everything at the time do we … so you still need to know.. right? Wrong?
Or do you?
Turn Up Charlie on 🔗 Reelgood
📺 Loot ★★★½
There should be a rating between Like and Dislike. In the end I went for like .. because in all honesty I couldn’t really ‘dislike’ … but no .. NOT a recommendation. I wonder if they were trying to go for that Ted Lasso feel good thing? No idea .. but whatever that Ted Lasso feel good thing is … it was not this.
LATER:
Get despite that initial review of the first couple of series … here I am again on the third. I guess it has something ❓
Series 1 ★★★½
Series 2 ★★★½
Series 3 ★★★½
Loot on 🔗 Reelgood
🎈160/366 📸 🌊 “🔗🎵📼 Early one morning just as the day was dawning …”
Interesting Twist .. from today’s 🔗 HCR
Then, on Saturday, there was what Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times called a plot twist. It turns out the state of Washington has a law on the books that prevents felons from running for office. But because a candidate has to be certified to be on a ballot before they can be challenged, the issue can’t be resolved until Trump officially becomes the Republican Party’s presidential nominee at the July convention. Westneat asked, “Republicans: You sure you want to go down this road?”
Not entirely sure why this is different to Colorado off top of my head.
Our very own @jthingelstad on the 🔗 🎙️ Omni Podcast
🎈155/366 The First Vision Pro Concert Movie
I have touched on this before but after reading a Lefsetz post over the weekend, decided to expand a little and log the thinking for posterity.
🔗 Lefsetz Letter - Company At The Sphere - that’s the link to where 🖇️ this quote came from that I published this weekend. I said I’d be back…
Around 2016 - ‘the term ‘spatial’ was being coined’. - though I personally think Apple’s ‘spatial’ is a light year or two ahead of where Mr. Scoble was at the time (He’s very quiet these days, isn’t he?)
🖇️ But February this year I made some pretty logical predictions about the first Vision Pro Movie.
🖇️ And in October last year I was predicting that The Sphere was a pretty good place to start on a ‘Vision Pro Concert Series’ - and I think Apple will be the one to do it. Well, maybe not ‘doing’ it - but certainly financing it.
I still think that.
But who will be the director and/or subject matter for this groundbreaking event?
Who’s Out?
Despite Tay Tay’s global appeal, it won’t be her. The Swifties don’t have the money to buy the Pro.
Peter Jackson is deep into the latest tech to do great things, definitely a friend of Apple - and his foray into music with The Beatles is interesting - but no, no Sphere experience and besides 🔗 he is deep into his next Trilogy .. as Producer - not Director, but still ..
Original “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy filmmaker Peter Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are producing the movie and “will be involved every step of the way,” Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said during an earnings call Thursday.
Phish? I dunno - not seeing it.
So Who’s In?
Two very real possibilities …
U2 - deeply intertwined with Apple - remember the album? And then they were first up at the Sphere - and Zane Lowe hanging out with them, talking with them. We have seen some of the footage, but who knows what was taken off the ‘back stage’ for the first Vision Pro movie?
… but I am wondering - and well out of left field - but …
The Grateful Dead - who have always been at the bleeding edge of touring and spectacle
- The ‘Home’ band for Bay Area based Apple
- Sphere residency happening - even as I type
- Residency coincided with Earth Day 2024 (very ‘Appley’)
- Lots of San Francisco through time imagery featured in the show
- 🔗 and then there is this - Huff Post - so maybe a pinch of salt is needed, written eight years ago …but written by Bill Bradey, so not his usual subject matter - but certainly no slouch.
- Note that Mayer is also part of The Sphere residency.
It’s all fitting in for this bear.
The only hard thing to reconcile is that ‘Tay Tay’ problem. Is there an overlap?
I think there just might be.
What do you think?