John PHI⑊PIN

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:38:21 +1300

The popover has a remove option. I’m going from memory on the exact menu wording, since Pages moves these around between versions.

💬 Claude

Me: Ummm - I thought all you had was memory?

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:39:07 +1300

Guilfoyle said in a post on X that serving as ambassador “has been the honor of a lifetime.” She also pushed back on the recent allegations against her. “These allegations are false, and I intend to vigorously defend my name, my reputation and my integrity,” she wrote.

She (sic) wrote?

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:26:59 +1300

I guess someone at Firmus blinked - clearly you need to double down on you bitcoin chutzpah to win at AI data centers.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:56:36 +1300

This does not feel right.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:21:33 +1300

Oh to be young again …

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:30:07 +1300

Really🔗 , really really great @manton - thank you.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:32:40 +1300

💬 There is just not enough Spike in my life - so thanks to John Naughton for this reminder.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:57:56 +1300

You know what to do people …

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:34:49 +1300

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Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:20:38 +1300

Paul pointed to his HBR Article on LinkedIN. He should know better.

Mustafa replied allowing a little sense to prevail.

No one can “own” the customer. Those times are long gone. You can make it easy for customers so you dont lose them along the clicks that happen in their shopper journey. Its a buyers market!! :)

I took it a step further

Mustafa Shehabi it gets worse .. nobody ever owned the customer … it’s one of those lies we told ourselves to make us feel better in a world of chaos.

This is one of my themes in my ‘Age of Engagement’ thesis. Me - back in June last year …

In short, we built the illusion that we could manage complexity by taming it.

Nothing says that better than some wonk in a corporate department who thinks they ‘own the customer’.

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:08:07 +1300

Truly enjoyed 📺🔗 Lucky Season 1.

It is great show highly recommend. Delighted to see a Rivian and a wonderful soundtrack, great storyline, good twists, and so sad at the very end and yeah, so happy.

Crucial Track 🎵 October 12, 2026

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:49:29 +1300

"I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow

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There I said it. I do like pop music - and even schmaltz at times including Barry - and some of his songs were absolute bangers - including this one - except despite the title - it isn't his song. I know - it's confusing.

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She’s the Best by Troye Sivan

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:28:50 +1300

I know I know - never heard of him - and definitely not my usual fayre - BUT .. BUT … listen to the lyrics on the first and third tracks. Tell me that you didn’t sit up.

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:08:19 +1300

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Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:49:44 +1300

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Emma Flyte: “So, you’re in charge of the rejects.”
Jackson Lamb: “They don’t like being called that.”
Emma Flyte: “What do you call them?”
Jackson Lamb: “The rejects.”

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:45:14 +1300

👁️ Making note for future self.

When I duplicate a folder as a ‘backup’ in case I mess up the planned reorganisation of said folder - make sure that it is somewhat smaller than 148Gb

Adding to reasons I was having 🖥️ problems this morning.

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:11:58 +1300

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Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:40:28 +1300

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, October 9, 2026

Next thing I said to Claude after killing whatever long task it got going on. “You don’t go off into space while you’re working with me.” The number one task for Anthropic, makers of Claude is to teach it to work with humans. That’s the biggest weakness. It has to learn the whole project every session. Maybe Manton does is the right way to go, just let it compress its memory and never start a new session.

@manton .. is that true? He seems to be suggesting one giant thread per project❓

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:38:52 +1300

🔗 Self Distract: A story, a story, a fanciful tale | Self Distract

Hand on heart, I know for absolute certain that this is a quote: “it’s only a story, a story, a fanciful tale.” And I know for nearly absolute certain that it’s a line from an Alan Plater script. But which one, I do not know. I can even hear how it should be said, how it was said in whatever it was, I can read that line and hear the intended rhythms of it.

AhHa .. I thought, I’ll crack that and let William know … 🤦‍♂️

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:36:10 +1300

🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple Is Slow-Rolling iOS 27 Adoption, So Far

It’s purely personal anecdotal, but I feel like Siri AI has gotten worse since iOS 27.0 was officially released. It feels a bit slower and I seem to get worse answers, sometimes. I asked it for a word today, using it as an interactive thesaurus, and it simply told me it couldn’t.

Same feeling here. Hadn’t thought much about it until now.

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:02:48 +1300

FOR FUCK SAKE - but then consider the source:

🔗 Holborn and St Pancras by-election results: Zack Polanski loses bid to become MP | News Politics | Metro News

On the click through …

Green Party leader Zack Polanski has failed in his bid to become an MP, with a narrow loss in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election.

Narrow!

Victorious candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden Council since May, secured 12,292 votes to Polanski’s 8,928.

27,309 ballot papers were cast in Holborn - some 97 of which were spoiled.

• Abdi-Wali: 45.17% (roughly; see spoiled papers) • Polanski: 32.81% (ditto)

The point being that a majority of roughly 12.4 percentage points of all ballots cast is not ‘narrow’.

Votes were cast and Zack was cast out and thrown off the island.

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:30:16 +1300

🎵 4 Additions to the library this week - thank you @lmika for the first three. The images only worked on 4 - Samplextra by Lee Rosevere wasn’t coming up (attempting to discover in 🍎 Music) - what else am I missing.

The other album is the artist I mentioned to you that sits atop my heap.

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:12:08 +1300

📸 Talk about throwback Friday … took me back a bit. I had this exact one in my childhood bedroom.

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:21:48 +1300

🔗 The Pain Is Coming. Choose When You Pay.

People who look straight at a coming loss don’t hurt less when they lose someone, but they often have fewer regrets, because they said what they wanted to say and showed up while they could.

💬 Joan Westenberg

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:21:11 +1300

🔗 A quote from Ben Affleck I did not expect to read … 🤯

..and then again … this one not via Simon Willison, Ben on Social Media …

“He credited Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, and Denzel Washington as ‘brilliant actors’, noting that “

It doesn’t help me appreciate their movies to see what they had for lunch.

💬 Ben Affleck