🔗 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.
🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
🔗 Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on.
… picked up on Scripting.com - and missed it at the time (January) … but 💯 … adding bad sound people / sound mixing to the list.
🔗 Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (Apple News)
Follow on question.
If America can’t make wrenches - how are they going to crack Semiconductors?
And with #NoIrony
The machines in the ‘Made in America’ factory to make the wrenches were made in Belarus.
🔗 What Is WormGPT And How To Use It: Explained
A hacker has made his own maliciously inclined version of ChatGPT: Introducing WormGPT, a chatbot created to help online criminals.
.. because of course there is!
I am looking for a good resource for images of 3d models that I can use and easily edit to add to a presentation in Keynote.
🔗 This is is one such resource but it doesn’t have what I need - at least that I can find - any and all help welcome.
🔗 The microblogging ecosystem post Twitter
There won’t be one Twitter killer. Instead, the platform’s decline has opened up the world of microblogging.
💬 Adam Tinsworth
Nice summary from @adders on the state of whatever it is that the ‘Twitter Wars’ are all about. My take - he’s not wrong. I often reference Timothy Ruff on this …
.. though he in turn says we should thank Mike Masnick for the wisdom. Either way, what we all should be rooting for includes ‘open’, ‘portable’, ‘transparent’, you know … all the stuff that people should care about - but somehow the vast majority seem not to.
Protocols are the answer. The trick will need the corporations to give way on their walled garden mentality and the engineers building this brave new world to understand that the other 99.999999999% of the world won’t do it if it is ‘too hard’ - and ‘too hard’ means for the average person - not the MIT rocket scientist.
I’ve moved my 🔗 Substack to philpin.com - and renamed it as part of a bigger move to close down yet another domain and consolidate my online world at that URL.
🔗 Six Right-Wing Activists Filed 89,000 Georgia Voter Roll Challenges.
… the surprise for me is that they were allowed, that nobody questioned it, that it goes by unnoticed.
Where do I get the gun?
Oh that’s right …. Anywhere.
🔗 Digital IDs are coming and they are worse than you think.
I’ve already commented on Substack.
🎵 Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain is a massively important album to yours truly - part of my formative years if you will.
TIL what a 🔗 Nantucket Sleighride actually is …. thanks to the 🎙️Freakonomics podcast
🤯
🔗 Wife of Huw Edwards names him as BBC presenter at centre of allegations.
Officers at Scotland Yard have now concluded there is no evidence to support this allegation leaving the Sun facing questions about its reporting
Sue them. Close them down. It won’t make any difference. This is the same shit show that gave us the douche Piers Morgan and he’s back there spewing his usual crap.
It won’t make a difference because It’s another Murdoch gutter tabloid.
🍿.. only one because despite the expected hoopla and outrage, nothing will happen to the mawho allows this crap to keep on rolling.
Gosh darn … I was so taken by 🔗 this conversation today that it rather unusually derailed my routine. 🖇️ I am now back on track … and also rather unusually (first time?) this morning my extract is from the source material, not Ryan’s summary.
… turns out I was late to the party … my first ‘purchases’ didn’t happen until January 9th the following year.
🎬 There’s a movie out there just released called the 🔗 Sound of Freedom
Good reviews on IMDB … serious subject … but it seems to this observer that it is being artificially promoted. I’ve also had some back chatter that all is not what it seems.
Any thoughts from those that read this post?
Popular phrases in my world …
I play the guitar - I am not a guitarist
and
I write - I am not a writer
… so I read Manu’s 🔗 new post with interest.
I am not a speaker and chances are you’re not one either. And yet you’re probably speaking with other people constantly in your life without giving it a second thought.
💬 Manuel Moreale
Humans beating AI
🔗 Investors Bought Nearly $1 Billion in Land Near a California Air Force Base. Officials Want to Know Who Exactly They Are. (Apple News) … move along now … nothing to see here.
🔗 The 20 best podcasts ever. … I was going to retitle this the 20 podcasts I have never listened to and then just at the end I spotted one that I do listen to every now and then .. depending on time and guest.
🔗Spill - another one.