🔗 The wonderful life of Santos=Dumont and his Aerial Dinner Parties
This takes High Tops to a whole new level.
Pun intended.
(Unless at a bar - ‘high tops’ are not places that Jax and I frequent)
🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
It’s McSweeney, so …
I am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits.
‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot.
‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere
Either
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a lot of people recently attended writing courses OR
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they are using AI
Is there a third option?
look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.
What Om Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
And Then What Ben Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
Reminds me - I should export my Instagram feed into John.philpin.com
🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?
Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.
💬 Don Marti
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ A Misnomer? This is no surprise - even 6 years later.
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Just poked my head into the kitchen - I presume a local rugby team is dropping by later to help consume the dinner being prepared.
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Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. Itâs a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step.
Now - for the next act - how about â¦
(click through to see the comments for your starter pack)
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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 …
(click through to see the comments for your starter pack)
🔗 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.
🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution
Lovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.
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.