🔗 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.
📽️ Finally steadily working my way through ‘The Morning Show’ .. review forthcoming at some point in the future - but meanwhile - a track that got played on last night’s episode …
🔗 🎵 One Way Glass by Innerspace Orchestra
Gorgeous. So of course I had to look it up …
Dear ‘Chris’ Over in Australia, 🔗 Foreign investors who snap up Australian homes to face higher taxes.
You might remember that I was never a fan of 🖇️ Ramaswamy
Just 4 months later - even Fox has tuned on him … FOX!
Fox🔗 News Goes Absolutely Nuclear on ‘Court Jester’ Vivek Ramaswamy - The Daily Beast
🔗 Seventh Russian general confirmed dead’ … hoist by his own petard’?
Not keeping a strict count now - but someone should, along the lines of …
Russian Generals killed by Ukraine: 7
Russian Generals claimed to be killed by Ukraine: 16 plus one admiral
Russian Generals accidentally killed by Russia
Russian Generals purposely killed by Russia
That last one isn’t as strange as you might think - putting aside this from a year ago : 🔗 Putin said to be conducting internal purge of military generals, intel personnel we ‘know’ a bit about 🔗 this one at least.
Meanwhile, Putin just created 60 more … I wonder what the Russian department of ‘Workplace Safety’ thinks?
🔗 Apple’s new Journal app won’t be available on iPad and Mac
Seriously? I guess if I use it … it will only be for photos … no writing .. oh wait …DayONE dos it all on all platforms.
40 years ago …
You know how AI can write stuff - so you don’t have to?
And you know how AI can read stuff - so you don’t have to?
And you know how you can use AI to soup up your videos - so you don’t have to?
So all that’s left for you to do is watch the videos?
WELL - now you don’t even need to bother with that.
Bard to understand a video’s content and respond to user requests for information
THE COPS THINK IOS 17’S NAMEDROP IS DANGEROUS
🔗 In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying..
I moved over to Overcast a couple of years ago - but this is very sad. Really liked Castro. 😢
🔗 Switzerland Is Trying to Host the Cheapest Winter Olympics on Record
Well they’ll save a lot of money just having the snow ready to go, rather than having to create it in a desert.
🔗 Apple’s Vision Pro Isn’t the Future
Flagging this to highlight that I am betting that Wired is WRONG. I will come back to it in the future - let’s say round about the end of Q1, beginning of Q2, 2024?
The Wired link is from June. Meanwhile 🖇️ me in October. I will try to find a few more.
🔗 Listening Brands by Jr Little 📚 was published in 2015 - did we not already have this then?
🔗 Bay Area diner to close original store after 49 years.
… via @dave .. had many a ‘brekky’ in that establishment over the years.
Airline take off announcement … delighted that they are ‘on top of the situation’ …
Passengers wearing protective masks on this flight are advised that in the event of an emergency, they should remove them before putting on an oxygen mask.
Said by one of the attendants .. not the pilot … who probably sounds like a pilot … 🔗🎙️did you know they all sound the same?
You know how sometimes stupid little things you can clearly see for years before it finally happens and yet other times a seismic shift happens in an instant ….
🔗 OpenAI fires co-founder and CEO Sam Altman for allegedly lying to company board
Having observed my co traveller lugging a 1000 page opus around with her recently … 🔗 this resonated (Instagram Reel