Learned of 🔗 MacWhisper from Om Malik - downloading even as I type.
Notes is once more becoming part of my information storage solution. It was already pretty good - but with what I sense is coming later this year - thought I would push some stuff around in ther again. Adding a horizontal line is still ridiculously not easy. BUT I found this, which is a pretty good hack that works.
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Fantastical cancelled … and subscription finally ran out this past weekend - and now Jax gives me her box of business cards that she wants scanned in!!
Any good alternatives? Do not want to sign up again.
Paging FastMail users … I have never heard of 🔗 Morgen, have you?
Fastmail are making a big thing of integrating with Morgen.
Anybody been using them? Any good?
Particularly interested to see what seems to be ‘Calendly like functionality’.
Thankyou Amazon?
Why new claims about UFOs have experts wondering if the truth really is out there.
… reads the headline, while the piece itself says, nothing classified, nothing leaked, nothing new.
Got it.
📼 Himesh Patel reads a funny response to a university rejection letter.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
I would really like to read this - but no Economist subscription - and I know if I do the free month trial - it will take an inordinate amount of time to unsubscribe. Can anyone help?
📼 🎵 The Life and Music of John Wetton - the production of this video is everything that John Wetton was not. But the message and the story? I’ll take it - not enough written about the guy who 🔗 wrote 🎵 Starless
🎥 Extraction 2, 2023 - ★★★½
If you enjoyed the first - you'll enjoy this one. It is what you might expect. Just wondering if Hemsworth is trying to compete with Keanu on most 'kills per minute' in a movie.
From time to time you will find me referencing ‘Jax’, the unseen, omnipresent being that does in fact have a life of her own.
An example of her day job;
In Richard’s words …
We explore the idea of the ‘Human Contract’ and how it could provide a roadmap for navigating the rapidly advancing AI landscape, safeguarding our human values, and ensuring equity. It’s a reflection of discussions with the very eminent figure in AI, technology, and ethics - Jax Harrison
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🔗 Romanian prosecutors send Andrew Tate to trial … there are lots of small wins going on in the world today … but they do add up.
🔗 Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says.
So its either good for you OR an early sign of Alzheimer. Well. glad that is all cleared up!
🔗 Apple TV+ remake of sci-fi classic Metropolis cancelled..
Gah - didn’t even know that this was on the cards. Dead before arrival. 😢
📼 Steven Wilson - Drive Home (4K Remaster)
The track is ‘old’ but as gorgeous as ever. The accompanying video has been remastered in 4K, which has no connection to 🎵 Guthrie Govan’s guitar … but - oh my! From one of two albums that I consider to be ‘sublime Wilson’.
🔗 Liz Truss says lettuce joke was ‘puerile’ and media did not understand her ideas.
It is clear that she remains disconnected from humanity - and her humour is on par with her public speaking skills.
But these speaking gigs are likely to continue. Best to ignore - but - as this post reveals - that is hard.