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Watching old Spike Milligan interviews tonight. He’s talking to Des O’Connor in 1995 .. he was 77. His humour was at least 50 years ahead of his time … definitely one of the god fathers of British comedy.
I have no idea of the quality of the source. It doesn’t seem to even vaguely ring true. So I’m going to ignore it.
For now at least.
I am thoroughly enjoying Severance, even though they spell ‘Keir’ ‘Kier’.
I’m at the part in the series where I am sensing the channeling of aspects of Peter Currell Brown‘s 📚Smallcreep’s Day.
Anyone else get the connection?
Ventura Adds Shortcuts to Its Share Menu.
… now that is a welcome addition.
🎶 🎵 🎼 Guyville : Boys + Girls With Guitars Takes You On An Intriguing Sonic Journey
.. out of LA -
🎶 🎵 🎼 This just spotted in The Grauniad
But, if you only have one click in you use it here … if you want to spend a good 30 minutes crying (in a good way).
The Guardian …
While Britain burns, the Tories are … fiddling with themselves again.
“Boris Johnson insists he will leave Downing Street “with my head held high”. But by who?”
Winner of the ‘line of the week’ and ‘headline of the month’ awards.
An image that was not created by an AI.
Seems that someone in the ‘Secret Service ‘ has put all the emphasis on ‘secret’ and totally abandoned ‘service’.
Exit the internet, enter the metaverse – your online future is in 3D
Ummm .. so the multiverse doesn’t need the internet?
And we know this because - for example - Siri doesn’t?
And the mobile internet?
Doesn’t that take us into cellular semantics?
Yours confusedly …
“Such a site insists that I do all my writing on there. That’s a deal-stopper because I already have my best writing tool and I do all my serious writing in that tool. It’s as if a radio station insisted that I use their guitar to play music.”
💬 Dave Winer
LBJ’s Poolside Phone and the Connectivity Revolution - Cal Newport
Around 1992, a friend of mine remodeled his backyard including embedding an ethernet cable network throughout, so that wherever he decided to sit in the garden he had internet access.
Crikey!
What Is Web5
Good question.
Putting aside Molly White’s tweet from a few weeks ago, though she does raise a very good point ...
I did want to share a podcast I just listened to It's Mike Brock of Block (seriously, filed in the 'can't make this up' bucket) - and no I don’t think he is Dave Brock's son talking with Tech Dirt's Michael Masnick.
"Web5 is a new evolution of the Web that enables decentralized apps and protocols.”
Count me in the camp (though I am still with Molly) that this makes far more sense that anything I have heard describing the Web3 world - except isn't that how they described Web3?
Well yes - but that isn't what is going on. Of course whether Mike et al can make it happen remains to be seen - but at least when he talks he makes sense - and also clearly separates himswlf from the 'get rich quick / stay rich libertarian world that we keep reading about.
First job for audio / podcast AIs … once I have my recording the AI should automatically remove ;
‘You know’
‘I - I - I’
‘Yeah’
‘Da da da’
… and all the rest of the extraneous crap that people pepper their dialogue with.
Would take 20% out of the length of a podcast.
Do you subscribe to ‘The Information’ … if so, do you pay for it? They are running a 50% discount … so tempted … but it’s still $200 even then!
📚If you like books - you might enjoy
iOS 16 Lock Screen Customizations Not Coming to iPadOS 16 - MacRumors
Gawd … now they tell me … just spent 30 minutes trying to work out why I couldn’t get it to change!