🔗 Hollywood’s doom loop - Brian Morrissey - The Rebooting
Video is now 65% of all internet traffic
… of course it is. But is that a worthwile measure?
And finally I get it. All this planning, all this assessing of sequences and balancing of resources, it all does exactly what outlines do. It lets you feel busy while you put off the actual writing.
💬 William Gallagher
and
I hadn’t thought of it like that, but the instant it was said to me, I couldn’t disagree. I just didn’t do it.
“I’m afraid I’ll be eating my breakfast one morning and choke and I don’t want to die alone.”
🎥 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023 - ★★★½
Not a big fan of Tom - but for whatever reason I do eventually watch all the Mission Impossibles - but this is the first I had seen in a theater for years ... The story is what you might expect - but not always expected. Glad I managed it on the Big Screen before it disappears into 'Streaming Land'.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Pretty sure I’m not using the app any more than I used to … so I assume this is new.
Solution … Delete app and go back to RSS.
2023 | 08 | 02
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🪦 Yikes … Pee-wee - I didn’t see that coming … hope the journey was fun.
I need to switch on (or off) ‘remote posting’ on Wordpress so rarely that every time I have to do it I have to start all over again to work out where I change the setting. 🤷🏼♂️
The Antidote To Worldcoin
and then there is this ….
… she’s talking about Sam Altman
🔗 You can read the whole piece by Molly here, which includes substantial thinking on the challenges of decentralized identity.
The cryptocurrency industry is rife with projects that embrace the idea of “progressive decentralization”: beginning out as a highly centralized project run by a small group, but promising to eventually turn over control of the project to a DAO. Few ever follow through,10 but it is a convenient way to stave off criticism.
💬 Molly White
In my same ‘reading session’ this piece from my friend Alan Mayo : The Reasonable Future: Identity 2.5 appeared. He concludes;
Some of the world is hell-bent on achieving Identity 3 Decentralization and, ironically, this is not going to happen anytime soon. With our current proven technologies we have all the building blocks to build sophisticated Identity solutions that provide a good customer experience and good security. That is where we should be spending our time, rather than dreaming of an impossible future.
💬 Alan Mayo
The Antidote?
Stop listening to people who are playing both sides of the ‘Business Equation’ - even better … stop acting on their recommendations. Altman isn’t the only one.
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🔗 Socialroots is a ‘worker-owned cooperative business’ and they are working on an interesting problem that is hard to articulate to anyone who hasn’t already experienced the problem they are fixing. #Catch22
📺 Wire In The Blood
We’ve been watching Wire In The Blood off and on for over a year now and last night hit the final episode. Set in roughly the same geography as Vera - though doesn’t show the beauty in the way Vera did - a superb show. All six series are on Acorn - but with each episode 90 minutes or so - coupled with the subject matter - I do not recommend a binge. Definitely worth a watch.
🔗 Is Rock Dead? (and Other Questions from Readers)
An interesting read from Ted Gioia … but later on in the piece he talks about archives, a topic I have been mulling recently.
🔗 ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol (Apple News)
… of course they are - keeps the wages down.
🔗 Dear Rishi Sunak, you’ve declared war on people who want to curb car use. It’s one you’ll lose.
It’s fascinating how parochial the ‘right’ are.
Is brand consistency important?
Apparently not.
Celebrate … It’s National Avocado Day
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