We were pleased to see the Mac install base reach another all-time high, with nearly half of customers who purchased a Mac being new to the product.
💬 "Tim 🍎"
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Joe Boyd - So Much More Than A Producer
Ajay quoting Joe Boyd …
🔗 Joe Boyd - linking to a quote via @ajay.
It is a great quote from ‘White Bicycles’. And I know that Wikipedia positions him as a ‘producer’ - but for me is so much more - not the least of which is that he also wrote ‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain’ Those those two masterpieces alone should guarantee him a place in our conversation around musical culture.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ ‘Waving Canes’ back in 2019 - maybe time to formalise @bradenslen / @mitchwagner ❓
🔗 Cancer might protect against Alzheimer’s.
And vice versa apparently.
If correct - today’s good news - Alzheimer’s is not in my future
🔗 You Can Just Say No to the Data - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You can - but perhaps a better thought is to consider the data, ask where it comes from, how was it arrived at, who compiled it, whether it’s relevant and … and …and
.. is - I think - basically what Jim is saying … so unclear where the title came from.
🔗 Age verification on Roblox using AI is not good – FlowingData
In fact, WIRED has found multiple examples of people advertising age-verified accounts for minors as young as 9 years old on eBay for as little as $4.
🔗 Wellington, New Zealand - from a (not so) different time.
When the Fischer-Spassky match #2 was being played in Yugoslavia, I relied on the moves of the games being faxed to me.
🔗 Just My Opinion writes @derekpeden
Maybe - but an excellent hierarchy. Going forward .. could well be adopting. Thank you sir.
Mark Bernstein: The Bullet That Missed
This clever confection is a mystery about murderers who don’t kill people and murders that mysteriously do not occur.
Me? Can’t go wrong with 📚 Richard Osman.
Sidenote: Why in the world is Meta’s VP of comms doing this on Twitter/X, not Threads, which continues to grow?
💬 John Gruber
Another Sidenote: Why in the world is anyone on Twitter at all.. sorry ‘that’s where my audience is’ doesn’t cut it.
Get Off .. or continue to support all the depravity … all of it .. even the bits you can’t see .. it’s still there. Like racism in America before Tяump .. it didn’t magically appear .. it’s just come out of the shadows.
C3 Ain't What It Used To Be - More Rebrands than ~~Facebook~~ Meta.
C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere being reported by The Information.
Which got me to thinking - C3 is a dot ‘ai’? When did that happen?
ð How You Say It
I guess TÑump reads Seth (or Hugh), because three mods gets you to ..
“Unified messaging is the ability to change people with your propaganda, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the perception.” www.gapingvoid.com/how-you-s…
Apparently The 28th is ‘National Privacy Day’ in the USA.
Marvy.
Speaks volumes to the other 364 days in the year.
I am guessing a ‘free for all’?
When your company is worth more than most nations, you cannot afford principles that inconvenience presidents. The moral equation changes. What once seemed unthinkable becomes necessary. Cook learned this the hard way after he skipped a presidential photo op and was thrown back under the tariff bus. So now he shows up. He sits in the front row. He claps when expected. This is what happens when valuation becomes destiny.
💬 Om