🔗 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.
🔗 Paleblue USB Rechargeable Lithium Batteries.
Rechargeable batteries have been around for a while but charging blocks always seemed clunky and yet another lump of plastic you need to keep around and still never be able to find when you need it.
This looks like a good solution.
Any experiences?
🔗 Why America and Britain Are Both Self-Destructing.
The problem with Umair is that his writing very often depresses me. The bigger problem is that I have a hard time disagreeing with his observations and conclusions ( yes he is guilty of hyperbolic phrasing ).
🔗 Elon Musk pays for Stephen King and LeBron James to keep Twitter blue ticks.
Now what we want is for those guys that have been granted free ticks to tell Musk to ‘de-tick’ them.
I’m glad to see these companies defending end-to-end encryption, but this letter dances around the repercussions of this proposed legislation in the U.K. What they mean in the third paragraph quoted above is that if the legislation passes, people in the U.K. won’t be able to use WhatsApp or Signal or any other end-to-end encrypted service. Apple isn’t a signatory of the letter, but I think iMessage would be banned too.
💬 John Gruber
There is so much idiocy in the UK government these days.
Alleged? I think they all are. Isn’t the question whether they should be punished?
Not only that, there is little commonality in their motivations.
The Guardian asks why are Americans being shot for knocking on the wrong door?
Good question, even as the article was being written, a third story emerges;
🔗 Woodlands Elite cheerleaders shot: Athlete Payton Washington hospitalized after 2 girls were shot.
(Apparently she got in the wrong car)
Phuck Phox
Settled for less than half of what was on the table … they should have called Saul.
🔗 Fox and Dominion settle for US$787.5m in defamation lawsuit over election lies.
🔗 Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
I think there were quite a few more than ‘thousands’.
… and ‘fled’?
… and to answer the question - yes - with orders of magnitude more engagement.
🔗 Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker.
Is this the same ElonMusk that signed that letter about slowing AI down?
More people should at least read this …
🔗 Mehdi Hasan on How to Argue and Win
… and (ideally) his book (full disclosure .. I haven’t, but it is now on my list.)
🔗 Having your cake and eating it.
I don’t want to live forever … I just don’t want to die.
🔗 Rescuing a project in progress
Whatever kind of project you are doing … good advice from Mr. Fried.
Shades of Phil Collins … though to be fair … sending a fax requires a tad more effort than an email
🔗 Rupert Murdoch reportedly divorced Jerry Hall by email.
Still .. what else do you need to know about the man?
🔗 Obsession review – the actors in this erotic thriller all seem to need the toilet.
“We have come a long way in many fields of human endeavour since the early 90s, but, alas, actors have still not learned to run fast and run far from anyone who wants them to appear in anything with the words “erotic” or “obsessive love” in the brief.”
Filed under ‘Film Reviews I Wish I’d written’ … and no, I have not seen the film.
🔗 Fashion designer Dame Mary Quant dies aged 93.
A long life had Mary. Rest In Peace.
🔗 It’s Monday - I guess there’s not much going on ….
🔗 Where does the Tennessee House Speaker actually live? - people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
🔗 I showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like it. - I look forward to this new series.
I am a cult author, asked in the street maybe five times a year: “Are you Emma Forrest?” And I am Emma Forrest. But it’s a surname invented by my grandfather to combat anti-semitism, so there are other more legitimate Emma Forrests, some with their own internet fame, like the Scottish judo star or the woman, also Scottish, who consumes 3,000 calories of fizzy drinks a day.
💬 Emma Forrest
🔗 Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly. - @odd - what is your take? Should we care?
🔗 We built our dream Cotswolds farmhouse in two weeks. (Apple News Link)
Their dream was almost ten years in the making.
Color me confused.