John PHI⑊PIN

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:57:57 +1300

Satire Site Gets Ridiculous Threat Letter From Baseball Team; cc’s Barbra Streisand In Its Response

Somehow this has to stop. The lawsuits - not the responses.

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:24:30 +1300

3 Years ago - surfaced through 🎲 ‘Surprise’

“Wolf in sheep’s clothing” .. that’s how I see this Johnson chap. What about you?

JohnPhilpin john.philpin.com/2023/10/30/wolf-in-sheeps.html

Not really a surprise though.

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:59:13 +1300

WSJ Reporting …

Meta and Apple Team Up to Put Open-Weight AI on Macs

… just popping downstairs with a few friends to go ice skating in hell. ⛸️🔥

From Genesis To Revelation (2026 Mix) by Genesis

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:44:01 +1300

The album is not a surprise - loved it since I first heard it. Atmos mix, that is the surprise. Not even finished listening to it and already posting about it. Sadly, my listening experience is only in Stereo - but it still sounds different - turns out that Stephen Tayler’s

approach emphasises the band’s performances and reduces the prominence of the original orchestral overdubs.

(That will have pleased the boys who always disliked the heavy use of Orchestra that one J King did without input).

To me - it was and remains a stunning album to launch a career with - think about it ... Pete, Tony and Mike were 19, 18 and 18 respectively. (And their other guitarist - Anthony Phillips was just 17.)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:23:00 +1300

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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:34:27 +1300

🔗 Don’t Trust People Who Talk Like This | Ted Gioia

“Did Picasso win in every vertical? Did Shakespeare brag about his ‘content engine’? Did Beethoven ever achieve a ‘profitable linear portfolio’?”

(Side note - he’s talking about David Ellison - but it really could be most people on the ‘business side of entertainment’ … now there’s an oxymoron I didn’t plan to write today.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:31:16 +1300

Talent becomes media | Seth’s Blog

This is going to amplify a different sort of creative agency as well as give recognizable talent more leverage. A good ad in the TV days was annoying but led to action. A good ad today creates enrollment and buzz. Attention is insufficient …

Another connection to Systems of ‘Engagment’ over ‘Record’ thinking.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:28:12 +1300

I read this yesterday:

🔗 Daring Fireball: X Once Again Marks the Spot and thought about it and moved on. (Noting that others have made similar noises.)

Unlike Tim, I didn’t waste an hour on X …

🔗 I Wasted an Hour on X: Tim Bray

Where I stand · I’m still a happy Fediversian, here’s why. Yeah, there aren’t as many people and it’s kinda geeky and leftist and queer; also unattractive to billionaires and CEOs. I can see why that’s less appealing for some folk out there and, well, OK. But I’m having fun on Fedi. And it’ll be a loooong time before I waste another hour on X.

Read the whole thing. I stand with Tim - and his list of people who he now has less respect for is worth a little peak.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:23:56 +1300

🔗 SocialSpec

🔗 Manton

I’m in. Not sure why - but ‘in’ I am. I’m sure it will all become clear❓

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:21:55 +1300

🔗 Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff, Toadies – Pixel Envy

There is no legal or moral requirement to replace the vocabulary of “artificial intelligence” unless one is trying to appease a dumb and unpopular administration. Truly spineless stuff from Nadella and Benioff alike.

The words speak for themselves.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:14:52 +1300

To riff on an old ditty ..

I always thought BlueSky was in the cloud. Turns out the cloud is in BlueSky.

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:06:38 +1300

How bad do you have to be for this Whitehouse to ask for your resignation❓

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:24:37 +1300

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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:19:22 +1300

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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:18:31 +1300

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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:38:21 +1300

The popover has a remove option. I’m going from memory on the exact menu wording, since Pages moves these around between versions.

💬 Claude

Me: Ummm - I thought all you had was memory?

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:39:07 +1300

Guilfoyle said in a post on X that serving as ambassador “has been the honor of a lifetime.” She also pushed back on the recent allegations against her. “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation and my integrity,” she wrote.

She (sic) wrote?

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:26:59 +1300

I guess someone at Firmus blinked - clearly you need to double down on you bitcoin chutzpah to win at AI data centers.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:56:36 +1300

This does not feel right.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:21:33 +1300

Oh to be young again …

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:30:07 +1300

Really🔗 , really really great @manton - thank you.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:32:40 +1300

💬 There is just not enough Spike in my life - so thanks to John Naughton for this reminder.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:57:56 +1300

You know what to do people …

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:34:49 +1300

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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:20:38 +1300

Paul pointed to his HBR Article on LinkedIN. He should know better.

Mustafa replied allowing a little sense to prevail.

No one can “own” the customer. Those times are long gone. You can make it easy for customers so you dont lose them along the clicks that happen in their shopper journey. Its a buyers market!! :)

I took it a step further

Mustafa Shehabi it gets worse .. nobody ever owned the customer … it’s one of those lies we told ourselves to make us feel better in a world of chaos.

This is one of my themes in my ‘Age of Engagement’ thesis. Me - back in June last year …

In short, we built the illusion that we could manage complexity by taming it.

Nothing says that better than some wonk in a corporate department who thinks they ‘own the customer’.