“The fact that Trump is accepting the medal says something about him as a person: a classic braggart who wants to adorn himself with other people’s awards and work,” Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, former finance minister and the current leader of the Center Party, told NRK.
💬 Bloomberg
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 2019 - national gun awareness day.
Exploring The New Claude PlugIN For Chrome
Cough - is it in fact ‘new’?
Anyway - installed and popped over to a local banking site here in New Zealand and asked Claude ‘what the strategic imperatives of the business at that page are … It built a plan and asked me to approve - I did - no modifications …
🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.
CORRECT
A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?
Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah
BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.
Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.
Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.
🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore
The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly.
💬 Seth Godin
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini as the second frontier AI model on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s internal generative AI platform. The integration, set to go live later this month, will give 3 million military and civilian personnel access to Grok’s capabilities across both classified and unclassified networks — even as the model faces mounting international criticism over safety failures.
💬 The Information
What could possibly go wrong?
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ This was two years ago … nothing has changed
🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk
I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works fine.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Reflecting on the pillow guy back in 2022 - and thinking also how easily it all went away.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Retro.
ð You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
This particular one is NPR, but letâs just take a look at ð what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
So colour me surprised to read this â¦. In 2026 www.npr.org/2019/03/2…
🔗 You can find these headlines all over the place from - what? Nearly seven years ago?
This particular one is NPR, but let’s just take a look at 🔗 what the Whitehouse archive said October 21 - 2017
So colour me surprised to read this …. In 2026
Seth writes - ð Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
If you want deeper thought ⦠ð Sangeet is \your man seths.blog/2026/01/m…
Seth writes - 🔗 Make and Take - and yes - but barely scratches the surface.
If you want deeper thought … 🔗 Sangeet is your man
🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?
🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
.. and as I have said myself
death defines life.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Filling in some Burbank history.
If I have this right â¦
The US Government want US citizens to flee from the Venezuelan paramilitary and return to America.
Clearly, Trump feels that only his paramilitary can threaten and kill US citizens .. and it is NOT the job of other countries. AmericaFirst
