Thrutopian Futures anyone?
📸 🌊 This morning ..
I had an earlier one that looked good on a phone - but once it was here .. not so much. No - it wasn’t the upload - I checked the source. It just #sucked
📺 Safe House
Meh. Look carefully you will see I didn’t dislike it. Equally, I didn’t like. I liked the premise - each series an entirely different cast, set of characters - even the Safe House itself was a different house (and yes - I did watch both) … but still. MEH.
SafeHouse on 🔗 Reelgood
What Will The Cathedrals Of The Future Be ... Let Alone Look Like.
Cathedrals are places designed to show their creator’s opulence and power, but they’re also designed to alter our senses, to throw us into alternate worlds, so that they can open us our minds to change. If that’s the case, what will these places be in the 21st century?
Good question that was running through my mind when I stumble across this quote …
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
💬 David Foster Wallace
Worlds Colliding. The piece I was reading was 🔗 Cathedrals of the 21st Century from Unchartered Territories, that ends …
You can see similar processes at play today in places like courtrooms or parliaments, albeit more subdued: They are big, solemn, sound is controlled and there are ceremonies, serious uniforms…
… and then immediately …
But you can also apply the same principles and end up with a completely different setting and experience: nightclubs.
If that observation makes you sit up you should go read the whole thing. Also, some great images throughout as you read Tomas Pueyo’s observations across geography and time.
📸 A Thought For Your Day.
Ok …TWO Thoughts.
🎈138/366
If Craft is the Word/Doc online equivalent to what Google Docs had the opportunity to be.
And Airtable is the Excel/Numbers online equivalent to what Google Sheets had the opportunity to be.
Then
What is the Powerpoint/Keynote online equivalent to what Google Slides had the opportunity to be?
Figma, Miro and Canva don’t seem to be it?
🎈137/366 📸 Mmmm …
Whichever way you look at it
.. and tasted rather good.
👁️ A fine example of creativity besting bureaucracy.
🔗 When the city told him to hide his boat, he complied — sort of - The Times of London
🎈136/366 Translating A Transcript
German Language Podcast.
In 🍎 Podcasts - you can see the German language transcription.
BUT - you can’t copy the whole thing.
Looks like you can.
But you can’t.
I use software to record meetings.
Ooh I thought.
Play the podcast - and record - at end of podcast one german transcription. Run that through a translator and voila … or so I thought.
I did an experiment - thankfully.
What the software actually seems to have done is taken the german audio and decided as best it could as to what the german audio was saying - as if it was English.
This was the transcription ..
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Back to the drawing board.
Elon Musk’s startup, xAI, is nearing a multiyear deal to spend $10 billion to rent Oracle cloud servers
💬 The Information
10 BILLION. To RENT.
📸 Sad
Here’s what I’m thinking. Trump announced the Barron story .. and Melania killed it.
📸 Early this morning.
And then a bit later ….
You got to stop taking them eventually. Right?
🎈135/366 Looks like Sam has gone all in on the nuts brigade.
🔗 Simplified - though still a WIP.
I’m no developer … but I disagree … what do you all think.
🎈134/366I must have missed the announcement at the time but apparently Break Dancing is now an Olympic sport .. no mention why the centuries old waltz has been an outcast since it all started.
🎈133/366 Seriously people .. this straight quotes and curly quotes difference needs to be fixed. Am I the only one that gets messed up .. regularly.