FFS .. these people just need to STFU …
The choice is really clear … BUT .. apparently Kamala might not have the financial chops to navigate the economy … so lets talk about that for thirty minutes
Really .. And the orange Clown does?
10 bucks a year is ok even tho I already have the original .. but the rating is waaay lower. That can’t be good. Can it?
😂 Meanwhile, over on Substack …
💬 When you put it like that, it all falls into place.
Interesting to read that Gilmour published lyrics to his new album in ten different local newspapers in England. To what end? Inspire people to buy their local rags? Impressed that they had ten left.
We’ve learned that Meta Platforms is putting the final touches on one such cluster, which will be a little bigger than 100,000 H100s, located somewhere in the U.S. The company will use the new supercomputing cluster to train the next version of its Llama model—Llama 4, for those of you who are counting—according to a person at the company who is involved in the effort. The cost of the chips alone could be more than $2 billion!
💬 The Information
(my bold)Take a transcript of last years presentation, search and replace old numbers with new numbers, use AI to insert audio of new words into the recording. Edit presenter backdrops with footage from SF. Hit play. Great demo 🍎.
Well - hello Threads - bare with me - I’ll catch you up
🪦 May the force be with you James. A great life. Thank you.
🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)
Yes - and ..
There’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question, a punchline .. that allows the reader, listener .. to get ‘in and out’ efficiently. In ‘Fast Publishing’ the reader / listener is required to do that themselves .. spending time sifting through what is being said to get to the essence. Very few people can do that ‘on the fly’, you just have to look around and see the swamps of unintelligible noise that the public is now exposed to. The swamp is over flowing. True, there are some excellent people that can do that .. the very large majority can’t. That has always been the case.
The solution is that we need personal information filters that surface what we want from the swamp. Our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.
That’s what is different today … the ‘editor’ used to filter for us .. for everyone. We (suddenly?) - didn’t like that .. and now we live in our bubbles - I would argue partly because we don’t have our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.
My bone is being tickled by a very funny writer over on Substack by name of Daniel Piper …
One excerpt from his Substack to give you a flavor:
Last night I went to a dinner party hosted by a friend. After dinner, one of the guests performed a magic trick involving some cutlery and a napkin, much to everyone’s delight. After that, another guest picked up an acoustic guitar and performed a song by the band Oasis. The host then excitedly asked if anybody else had a creative talent they would like to share. I immediately offered to write a short poem on the spot, featuring all of the guests. They were thrilled, and all watched with fervent anticipation as I took out my notebook and started writing. After ten minutes the poem was complete, and they asked me to read it aloud. I refused. They asked again, and I said no. As an author, my talent is the act of writing, not performance. Plus, my writing is deeply personal, it cannot simply be shared with anyone. They seemed disappointed, even after I assured them the poem was excellent. I couldn’t believe it. They had just had the privilege of watching a Serious Literary Author in the act of writing for a whole ten minutes, and now they were complaining. I thought they were being quite ungrateful.
Something I wrote into The Substack Notes about him:
I don’t always manage to read Daniel Piper each morning, but when I do, my day starts with a minimum of a hearty guffaw all the way through the ‘larf spectrum’ to that which some describe to be that of a screaming banshee, though I prefer to think of it as a chuckle. I appreciate that this might upset the author, who is by his own account a serious writer and experienced littérateur, but I actually don’t care .. because as both my friends will tell you, it is all about me. (I use the term ‘friend’ in the loose meaning of someone I talked to on ‘The Tube’ .. the London one .. I don’t talk to the bloody telly! That’s what screaming is for.)
Anyway all this to say that the tune of this particular ‘piper’ resonates. Deeply. Go try him out. Nothing to lose, everything to gain, which is a rare benefit in these trying times.
🔗 How’s that AI tsunami looking, a year on? (Charles Arthur)
🔗 Eleven Predictions: Here’s What AI Does Next (Ted Gioia) (This one is a Readwise link that includes my highlights)
Related. Very related. Yet different
Heaven knows I don’t always agree with @gruber .. but some of the shit you see ‘no names’ write about his positions on various things are extraordinary. #DELETE. #UNSUBSCRIBE.
From 🔗🎙️ Sean Illing’s Podcast Overview
Absolutely FASCINATING
How is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician. Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe_. This episode features music by Stephon Alexander throughout, from his latest 2024 album Spontaneous Fruit _and his 2017 EP True to Self.
Sunset From A Friend’s House
Rays on Rangitoto - 1
Auckland, bottom left, way in the distance, hazy evening, iPhone 11 (Detail from above)
Rays on Rangitoto - 2
A Case of Insanity?
Rational Pi?
British Prejudice?
Not been paying too much attention to iOS 18, so .. old news? But I like the idea …
More serendipity
No surprise that a Fowles quote surfaced this morning, he is after all one of my favorites.
The surprise lay in the relevance to a conversation with friends last night.
Topic
How society and norms morph over time, by dint of individual actions.
First learning, then adapting followed by experimentation and pushing boundaries to ultimately creating.
The Crafting of Craft.
🖇️ Talking about knowing what you’re talking about - nobody who knows what they are talking about would confuse me with a real programmer.
That said, I just read 🔗 Going the Extra Mile — Beyond CSS, most of which is well above my technical pay grade - but still I was fascinated by the attention to detail around ‘crafting Craft’.
Consider - a whole post (well 75%) devoted to the process behind getting a check box ‘just right’ and the remaining 25% explaining ‘push away’, which I knew had to be coded in some way - but who knew there is a phrase for it?
Great read - even if you aren’t technical you get the idea of their focus on good design - Steve would have been proud of them
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
💬 Steve Jobs
… which probably explains why they won app of the year and were name called (not once - but twice) in this year’s WWDC.
The article ends with …
All of this for what? Will all users see the difference? — Probably not. Was it worth it? — Absolutely. These are the minor details that often go unnoticed when present, but become conspicuous when missing. We strive for having as many of those details as possible, making the experience great but at the same time — seamless.
Kudos to Craft - a Great App and a serious tool for writing documents in the 21st Century.
Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post 🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens
After I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.
My reading habits are clearly being tracked.
