🔗 First Look: New Emojis in iOS 16.4
…. and still no RSS emoji.
🎥 The Pale Blue Eye, 2022 - ★★★½
3 stars from me, 4 stars from Jax. I likeChristian Bale’s work, I thought the ‘Poe’ character was excellent … but in the end, I didn’t really care, even with ‘twist’ at the end.
Turkey? Again?
Dare I suggest that the conclusion in Scripting News: Monday, February 27, 2023 that @dave has come to is wrong.
@manton isn’t limiting the number of characters in a post, he is limiting how many of those characters get to appear in the stream.
Count me as one who doesn’t want to scroll through 5,000 words of one post to get to the next … so I am for it. Though there might be a better way that keeps all of us happy.
What if I got to choose in my settings how many characters I see in any post in the stream before it is truncated. In this way, the experience of the reader is put first and the writer doesn’t have to think what gets truncated or not .. because they have no idea where their readers are setting their truncation point?
February 27th.
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He’s been down the rabbit hole for a while now.
Meanwhile over in the ‘news you can’t make up’ department …
Two siblings in Utah have barricaded themselves in a bedroom at their mother’s home in defiance of a judge’s order to return to the custody of their father, despite state child welfare investigators determining that he had sexually abused the children.
Utah Siblings Use TikTok to Fight “Parental Alienation” Order.
Nearly ‘there’.
February 26th.
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I am not a paid subscriber to RibbonFarm, so I can’t offer you any insight into what 🔗 all this has to do with friction, AI, meaning, and zero-interest rates? (Readwise link that includes a few highlights) … but it made for a fascinating read in its own right … particularly in light of the Meccano news I linked to a couple of days ago - and the Lego comparisons.
A great example of why I enjoy reading the ideas of Venkatesh Rao.
🎥 RRR, 2022 - ★★½
I wanted to like it … nay .. love it. I really did. But it was not to be. Definitely extraordinary scenes of ‘spectacularity’ within, but they weren’t enough to create a 3 hour movie and even at under 2 hours would have still been a push. Sorry.
February 25th.
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February 24th.
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Exploring Tracking Crud in Readwise
This is in Stoop.
I click on the ‘Read On’ link and see this.
BUT - if I save to ‘Read Later' in ‘Readwise’ and then open Readwise, I see this
🔗 The original page (sans the 5 lines of tracking crud)
Here’s what I am wondering.
When I visit the public Readwise link it includes this tracking crud;
which to this untrained bear, seems to be very different tracking crud to Liminals, so there is some rewriting going on?
Why?
And …
If I remove that tracking crud, I can still see the article, so could Readwise automatically remove that tracking crud as they save the link into my library?
Tom Evslin with some interesting arguments around climate, population and the world at large. Who knows if he is right and since we do not know, it’s probably not a good idea to assume.
What’s that stock warning?
… historical performance should not etc etc.
Nothing is unimportant to a little child. He might cry if the wrong person peels an orange. On some level this makes sense: When your model of the world is paper thin, a tenuous thing that startles you endlessly, the few experiences that become routine carry a lot of weight. If someone else peels the orange then you might as well change the rules of gravity, too.
🔗 Dispatches from childhood, Simon Sarris
Lovely.
February 23rd.
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The last Meccano factory in the world is closing.
What a lost opportunity. Lego before there was a Lego and clearly despite attempts to move with the times it failed.
The only surprise?
There was still a Meccano factory in 2023!