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@MitchWagner for me I find there’s a balance and often think if only it could .. like xyz .. but over on xyz it doesn’t do abc.

If I had one single mb issue .. would be around constant expansion of effort and dev into functionality that isn’t core .. whilst at core there are reported issues and enhancements that remain unexplored.

@MitchWagner yeah … historically I switch urls, topics and tech .. though micro blog seems to be holding me … and over time have been moving everything into this space .. which I bought in 1999.

Not called out by name, but it is clear that even 6 years ago - ‘Structured Thought’ was the name of the game - although we hadn’t moved beyond 2D.

That’s all changing in our ‘data lead, human first infrastructure for The Age of Engagement’ - with 🔗3d and 🔗4D now part of our landscape

We never did get the ticks going.

// @manton ?

Turns out Opus 4.5 is an absolute hog for my hard earned tokens - and Haiku 4.5 is more than sufficient for most of my coding needs.

That’s a lot.

@bradenslen I like the assumption that wired headphones would be used if there were an audio jack .. my experience is that some 50% of mobile phone users believe that their music, podcast, personal conversation is so important that it needs to be shared … at volume .. with everyone in their immediate vicinity … apparently keeping the boombox legacy of the 80s alive and well .. while still managing to raise it a notch.

Had cause to share this again with someone else being ‘sold a line’.

@MitchWagner i am talking about what ‘we’ - the great unwashed see. I have always read a lot of words, sentences and paragraphs written by journalists - and if that profession uses the em dash - all good - I am no grammarian - witness my blog.

My point is that the percentage increase in the number of emdashes i see across all that I read - means something is going on - we didn’t suddenly have a ten fold increase in journaists/properly qualified writers - but we definitely have a ten fold increase in em dash usage (and of course ten fold is an absolute fact - that I know - because I feel it is right.)

@MitchWagner I think em dash defenderers miss the point … until AI you barely saw an em dash .. much less knew what one was or even why it was used .. unless you read Emily , Virginia et al .. and sorry .. people generally do not. Haven’t even.

The population didn’t decide in the space of a year to discover and start using them … there’s something else going on. What? I cannot answer. I just have ideas.