🔗 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.
䷓ Glossary Terms
Slowly building up my glossary links ( thankyou @AndySylvester ) … 4 active so far … more in the background - and none of the embedded terms are yet implemented (except that one at the bottom of this post). None of the click throughs are final text yet - but that is kind of the beauty of the 🔗 glossary.
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The glossary allows me to set one or more fixed footers on any post that are generated dynamically, so if I want to change anything - I change it once and it changes everywhere. This is an example of such a footer.
🪦 RIP Cable News
Cable News (1980-2023) by Dana F. Blankenhorn has a very relevant 🎵 track that opens the post.. You can find the 🔗 lyrics here.
Who “wins,” i.e., who is the last one standing? Probably NBC. Comcast has cash flow. NBC has learned how to segment the market with MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Now, NBC News and Local Now. That’s five bites at the remaining cable apple, five channels they can sell to the “skinny bundle” boys like YouTube Plus. And the cost is nominal – a few sets at the NYSE and 30 Rock. Reporters are no longer stars at any of those shops. CNN and Fox are out in the cold. Their owners are going to squeeze all the juice out for profit until there’s nothing left, then throw the remaining goodwill at one of the big boys.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
A list of 10 not counting when he ‘turns it up to 11’ turning points on the internet. Tedium writes: 🔗 What We Can Learn from the Past
🔗 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.