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@combatdavey critical thinking would indeed be a good addition to a school’s curriculum .. maybe we could have the department of education mandate it’s intro ….. oh wait.

@Munish I’d seen the TechCrunch .. which doesn’t explain why openAI is a better owner .. it just is implying it’s different .. cos it’s ai ..

I would suggest that open AI could build their own browser for a lot less money than buying chrome .. so they aren’t buying the browser .. they are buying the installed base and the distribution and control of the eco system … and somehow being part of openAI who need a browser is going to serve the public good better than having it stay with Google.

Does not compute.

@Munish so my gut then is that this will evolve … I do like the idea of the functionality … I write a post on MB and it is syndicated to other places .. all those other places offers an equivalent .. which allow the conversation to move on and expand reach into the respective clouds .. but until micro.social that wasn’t part of the social aspects of what you can do here. That has now changed …I appreciate Manton is designing friction into the system .. which is not a bad thing … like you ‘can’t’ reply with an image … so reduces banality because of that friction .. and I think this functionality is one of those things … the friction is there .. but there is generally a workaround.

Just added the ‘content story’ to my 🖇️ Short Sharp Shock Newsletter.

Yes - I am back on that.

And no it never really stopped.

No it probably won’t for a while.

🔗 I just think that people who write about technology should have a disclaimer about the tech stack they use. .. writes Doug Belshaw.

He’s talking about Carol Cadwalladr. And so any excuse to push 🖇️her recent Ted Talk back into the timeline. I’m in. Trust me - if Adolescence is worth 4 hours of your time, because it is neccesary viewing (🖇️ it is), then Carol’s Ted Talk is definitely worth 15 minutes - and the RoI is waaaay higher.

Back to Doug - I get what he’s saying - but this stuff is not black, nor white - and very very grey. AND, I don’t like the thought police injecting their opinions into society - whoever the thought police represent.

Whilst complaining about her use of Substack and Blusky (not so bad - given that she could be using Facebook and Twitter - crap spaces that most people know are crap, shrug their shoulders and move on), the subtleties of why those two spaces aren’t ‘pure’ will be lost on the majority - but her message stands a better chance of getting through.

I’m no technical genius but I read. I get it. But were such disclaimers made - what are we meant to do?

Rather than wringing our hands and complaining - shouldn’t we be making the alternatives easier to access and use and understand? Because nobody seems to do that. Nobody seems to build on - they just look at something and inwardly tell themselves that can build a better foundation, to start from. History and lessons be damned.

And it isn’t just tech - try counting the swarms of sales and marketing, coaches, mentors, new systems, free books all preaching how they have ‘unlocked the secret to … which any pro in the business has known and worked to for years.

@Dave Winer is on a ‘mission from god’ on ‘interop’ - he’s pushing Bluesky. He wants Substack to be more open to his writing tools, he’s also working with @manton and #Wordpress … who else is pushing that kind of collaboration (stands back and waits for the deluge of - wait - you clearly don’t know shit - you have forgotten …) .. and yes - I don’t know shit - I am just relaying my person observations. Talking of which …

Me channeling me from three years ago …

80% of people who use the 80/20 rule have no data to support their thesis …

What We Have
  • 80% of developers building new systems
  • 20% of developers working with existing systems
What We Need
  • 20% of developers working with existing systems
  • 80% of developers working with new systems