America needs a ‘Country’ boom❓



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Dear 🍎

Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. It’s a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step.

Now - for the next act - how about …

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🔗 Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds - Schneier on Security

And they say AI reduces human creativity❗️


🎉 Happy New Year 🎊 to all - and may 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ be a vast improvement over last year.

What Are Your 3️⃣ Words❓


🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution

Lovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.


🔗 Glitterally The Worst Idea

Manager: “Today, I need the caffeine more than I need the dignity.”


🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG

Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.

💬 John Gruber

It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.

Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.


I like Ben’s approach to ‘Resolutions’ : 🔗 A 2026 checklist - not least because 🔗 the usual approach is more often than not going to fail.

Might try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach.


🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS

Apps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps.

I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me …

I know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?


Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s


Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news:

🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025

But sometimes - the good news does just pushes through.

🔗 The Year in Cheer

Have a better year than 2025



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My sense of the “right” way to handle this puzzle is to think of it as a network and use some powerful result from graph theory to solve it in an instant. But since the only thing I know about graph theory is that it exists, I went about it differently.

💬 Dr. Drang


At first blush, the German heist strikes me as less Oceans 11 and more Sexy Beast.


Happy New Year

Lets hope it’s a good one

🔗 My Three Words for 2026

What are yours❓


I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.

Previous Years

📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different

📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend

📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend

📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice

📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous

📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)

📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful

 

Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a New Year’s Day

💬 Rage Against The Machine

 

🔗📼 Rage Against The Machine


🔗 😂 2025 Roundup of Marketoons

I particularly liked the one on Channel Attribution … marketoonist.com/2025/12/m…