To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.
💬 Patrick Rhone
Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.
💬 👁️🏢 People First - All Else Follows.
🔗 Colorless, Shapeless Orb - Gapingvoid
We call it The Void. It’s where most work lives now. Transactional. Comfortable. Manageable. Forgettable. If you’ve ever wondered why our name is so weird, that’s it. We made it our business to kill it.
👁️ Yes. Seperately - love their new home page.
👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.
🔗 More from Luis I really like, this time on #RSS: …
when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.
Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.
💬 Joan Westenberg
Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.
I don’t use Ubuntu. I have zero interest in resetting ICON themes. I toggle dark mode manually every blue moon or so.
None of that stopped me from reading;
🔗 Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode
I didn’t understand a word of it.
This all around 4am.
Life Needed.
🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias
Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
💬 Matthew Yglesias
Police - take out the ‘Pol’ - and you are left with ‘ICE’.
Origins of ‘Pol’ … public order, civil administration
Sounds about right to me - and a useful counter argument to this kind of idiocy.
🔗 Gratitude, honor, and anger — Terry Godier
.. still thinking how this delightful little ‘billy do’ might fit on to my daily routine.
💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?
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👁️ So pleased not to be an American. My bold…
The new design shows the president’s image superimposed over the Declaration of Independence and an American flag and features Trump’s signature in gold lettering.
👁️ Experimenting with the new RSS thingy from @terrygodier.com .. ❤️LOVE IT❤️
Subscribe if you care to … 🔗 here
Most people would benefit from a good editor
I survived cancer … I am not a cancer survivor