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!
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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!
They are indeed ‘cool’ infographics (Twitter thread - in case you are allergic!)
NZ science star Ivan Ravlich shuts down Hypernet Labs following US crypto fraud lawsuit
Love to know the back story.
Curiously, when I search it is all over the Kiwi news sites - but little US coverage. Story too small in the US? Slow news day in NZ?
BoJo Trump Timelines and Parralels?
Just thinking aloud …
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June 2016 … Brexit - Driven by BoJo
November 2016 … US Election - Trump wins.
July 2022 BoJo stands down as his party FINALLY rejects him
Does this suggest that
December 2022 will be when the Rethuglicans finally reject Trump?
Interestingly, that date is just after the mid-terms, which everybody is convinced will be yet another Democrat shellacking, but what if it isn’t?
Will It Happen?
And if it does - will Trump get blamed?
Three for three … and still in power.
Not listened to yet, will comment when I do. Interested to see Tim and Marc (both BIG crypto enthusiasts) on this podcast I had never heard of - probably because this is episode 2.
So how did Adam manage to get Marc and Tim into a conversation?
“Nothing you create is ultimately your own, yet all of it is you. Your imagination, it seems to me, is mostly an accidental dance between collected memory and influence, and is not intrinsic to you, rather it is a construction that awaits spiritual ignition.”
💬 Nick Cave
Even a free sports car couldn’t get anyone to bid on Chevrolet’s first NFT
Wait - nobody saw the value of forking out $240K for a $90K car - even though it came with a cute little NFT?
What a lost opportunity.
Fish Philosophy is a great panel this week - and reminded me a lot of Abbots’s ‘Flatland’.
Tom Evslin Keeping it balanced …
“If we want to keep our republic, we need to stand against both leaders who want to lead without the consent of the governed and legislative abdication to the executive.”
In principle I agree, BUT, we aren’t living in those times. We are living in these times.
What do you think?
The Swine of Sin City is an interesting read - a different spin on how to make a lot of money out of waste.
That said and not specifically called out … but the process implies that part of what they are feeding the pigs is pigs.
That doesn’t sit well with me.
How about you?
Meta’s VR strategy “isn’t sustainable”
“A recent media release from market research firm IDC predicts that Meta (the parent company of Facebook) may not be able to compete in the mixed-reality business in the long run if its strategy remains unchanged.”
Wait. You actually change your name to ‘Meta’, announce RandD spending of gazillions on ‘meta’ - and then you are told that your involvement in Meta isn’t sustainable?
Well that’s Zucked up, isn’t it?