🔗 WordPress Everywhere | Matt Mullenweg
… still not sure I understand this - but added to the ‘explore more’ list.
🔗 Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures
.. oh my … gorgeous - and the detail!
🔗 ROOTS - Return Old Online Things to your own site.
I like this. It is what I have been doing as I consolidate all the various properties I have got in too many places. Which reminds me - time to get back on the Instagram import - which is currently a #FAIL - because the import seems to be pulling all the Threads world in. Which in my case is useless - if it is on Threads - with a handful of (who cares) exceptions - it is already here - because this is where it all starts.
💬 Lettres Décoratives: Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters and Vibrant Letterforms
I have gotten through the last 15 years or so not even coming across the expression ‘Fin de Siècle’ - much less using it in anger - and now three times in less than a week!
I blame @mitchwagner
I think everything we do is fleeting, which is not a reason to give up on it all, but sometimes the sheer scope of what fleets away gives me pause.
🔗 Scripting News: ChatGPT-the-Movie … I must have missed this on Bluesky when @dave first posted it 9 months ago - and no idea how it now got resurfaced. 🤷🏻♂️
💬 The Essence of a Machine - Om
I can’t remember when I used the words “cute” and “want” about a computer in the same breath.
💬 Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports
I will never understand how these companies became so powerful. Yes - I have read explanations. No - I don’t understand how they were allowed.
🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell
I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.
IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.
And don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.
🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.
For years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.
The Macalope does have a way with words.
🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco
Apple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.
And to keep it all balanced …
🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler
Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.
Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems
What doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.
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AI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.
Text Expander unilaterally cancelled my account after god knows how many years.
I wrote and asked why. No reply.
I went to SetApp and found Rocket Typist - a Text Expander replacement.
So far so good (iOS aside) - but for the 4 shortcuts I use there, it shouldn’t be hard.
You seek to effect regime change by kidnapping the President of the country - turns out there’s a new leader - but the regime is still in place.
You seek to effect regime change by bombing the shit out of a country and assassinating the leader - turns out there’s a new leader - but the regime is still in place.
Pointing this out to those that say eventually all will be ok in the good ol’ US of A - because Tяump will be gone. Indeed - but his Аппаратчик in the form of the Республиканцы will still be in place.
That world is far more dangerous than a sick senile orange octogenerian.