… and with that - life is too short. I do believe that we are saying goodbye to Hitchens. Farewell old friend - you served me well - now where should I go?

Any suggestions?

Yup - I understood … step 1

but in there reveals why I have been resisting switching themes - that white bubble - tip of the iceberg when it comes to theme switching

Going to got for the english / american thing

.uk web site:

@bradleyandroos not sure if i have been spelling it wrong all my life - or if this is one of those english /american things - but I would spell it bitumous’.

Related? different word? different meaning? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Theme Forked. 🪖 held on to in 💨

🎵 The ongoing consolidation of the ‘PHI⑊PINverse’ continues.

I just switched on one AlbumWhale RSS music feed for john.philpin.com. All seems to work fine - except - they don’t seem to be actually finding their way to john.philpin.com - if that makes sense?

We’re also going to have to think a bit about delivering richer information and a better presentation.

Any thoughts @bjhess ?

@bradenslen Th Lphbt

Done .. but

mgn f w ds ths t vry wrd.

@MitchWagner Does this mean I should follow you there .. or will your there stuff find its way here?

Dictionaries are notoriously accurate - and with ambiguity provide alternatives.

Encyclopedias were once thought of as accurate. Turns out not always. Just like AI❗️

@MitchWagner yeh still not properly working for me

How do get a nice tasteful icon on left - rather than what I get no matter which option I choose?

@manton ?

Any thoughts how to modify the basic three anyway?

@MitchWagner yeah - I know where that is - but never seems to do what would expect - will take another look - thanks

@devilgate you are absolutely right .. will go back and adjust. Thank you.

@MitchWagner Mitch have you done anything special to your share sheet to get this effect ?

@ArnoldHoogerwerf it’s a great one for sure.

@bradenslen Pretty damming .. full disclosure .. not fully read because I wouldn’t understand it anyway … so i checked with Claude along the lines of ‘what the hey’ .. Claude responded

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The legal argument (Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive) is credible. Installing executable hooks into a browser without consent, especially cross-vendor, is a gray area that some regulators would treat as a violation.
What matters now: Has Anthropic addressed this? The timestamp on that article is April 2026—current date. If this is still happening in the latest Claude Desktop version, it’s indefensible. If they’ve already patched it with an opt-in dialog, the framing becomes “they fixed a mistake.” But the article assumes they haven’t, and I have no reason to doubt that as of its writing date.
Bottom line: The author isn’t wrong. Anthropic did something that should have required consent and didn’t. Whether it rises to “spyware” depends on your definition, but the practice itself is a dark pattern—deliberate, signed, notarized, and deliberately obscured from typical user visibility.

@numericcitizen Very nice job ..

@bradenslen … and just for the record .. Encino Man is not Encyclopedia Man .. the name Siri kept on insisting on applying in the other post.

@bradenslen Florida Man quite the opposite to Encino Man

@devilgate prolly because ‘the deciders’ haven’t yet realised that computers can actually parse spaces?

@novathemachine.bsky.social Apple doesnt seem to be talking about it.