🔗 Terry Godier on his new … | Alan Jacobs
(and I have that disabled in NetNewsWire anyway).
Thank you. I get complaints about bad tech - valid.
It is also time to start complaining about how bad people are in even understanding the tech that they spend so much money on. Notifications is one - but the list could be pretty endless …
One that keeps pushing through on my feeds …
On ’Notion’ it was easy - why can’t Craft ….
… because this is Craft - not Notion. Pretty simple really.
🔗 Enough is enough | Thought Shrapnel … is where I found this ..
Yeah … no
… that’s not what it’s about.
… Iraq worked out so well.
… and how’s it working out for Palestinians?
… the Ukrainians.
… or Venezuela .. that was two months ago .. and what exactly did it fix?
… it’s about freeing the people from tyranny see above.
… it’s about making sure a rogue country isn’t nuclear capable read headlines and what the president of the USA announced last time they did this.
… it’s about the oil … read history.
… it’s about distraction … watch the movie.
#Winning
💬 Charlie Sheen
Dominik Schwind: If you don’t have one yet, …
To which my reaction is
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build it and they will come
…
if it’s worth it.
Desktop Commander is ‘The 💣’ … 🤯 .. literally … thank you Claude.
This is stuff I would never have previously attempted - and definitely would never have paid anyone else to do either.
A Zurich court is expected to rule on the case in March. Whatever the outcome, Palantir has already lost the only contest that matters: the one for public perception. For a company that sells the ability to see around corners, they apparently never thought to search “The Streisand Effect.”
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.. I can’t sign it - but maybe you can?
Congratulations on saying the biggest number, Paramount. $111B for a company that a year ago had a market cap of around $20B. For a company that shrunk in their most recent quarter, and in fact, for the entire year, with revenue down 5% to $37.3B. Paramount may not be buying the Titanic, but only because they already own that IP.
I wrote yesterday that I’d give you the links …
If you prefer reading - 🔗 My Dinner with Jeffrey - by Douglas Rushkoff - but really - though I am a ‘read first - listen maybe’ kinda guy - listen.
Suddenly I have the lens where it all makes perfect sense. Sad - but finally …
When I diagram I often default to circle and spirals and avoid triangles.
Maybe I have unknowingly been channeling my inner Omoiyari❓
🎥 Texas Rangers, 2001 - ★
Why did I bother? Not sure. I even got to the end. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it - just amazed that someone thought to make it at all.
Reel
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★★★★★ So Good - A personal favourite
★★★★☆ Excellent - well worth a watch
★★★☆☆ Enjoyed - recommend
★★☆☆☆ Not Bad - 'kinda' recommend - with (many?) caveats
★☆☆☆☆ Not for me
I will share the links tomorrow - but in the meantime you can do no worse than jumping on your podcast player of choice looking up the latest release of Ed Zitron and Douglas Rushkoff. Totally seperate - not connected - other than I loved them both. Go. See you tomorrow.
🔗 LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords - Schneier on Security
Password generation seems precisely the thing that LLMs shouldn’t be good at. But if AI agents are doing things autonomously, they will be creating accounts. So this is a problem.
We’re screwed aren’t we?
Spring is sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the boidies iz
Some say the boid is on da wing
But that’s absoid
It’s clear - the wing is on the boid
.. a little dirty my dad used to recite when I was a lad .. came to mind this morning as I saw comments that ‘ spring is springin’ ‘.
I like current … but I get annoyed that it doesn’t share its repository with my other reader … s (it’s a sickness) … I think I might have to split my rss sources into two.
