📺 Not yet finished watching all 5 series - but just letting you know that ‘Brassic’ is just wonderful.
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Dear Apple and Google if you do this:
To this:
It won’t just be me that’s pissed.
I wonder if you install Apple‘s public beta now you could essentially queue jump the waitlist for Siri when it goes into production❓
🔗 MINIATURE CALENDAR … always clever, sometimes quite brilliant … like this one.
It’s not all going up …
Noting that the new 🍎 🔗 Polishing Cloth costs less than the old one. It’s still overpriced by around $9.
Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, is preparing what he calls an “economic D-Day,” economic sanctions that will bring the Iranian regime to its knees — a tricky proposition since, according to those same officials, Iran is already on its knees.
💬 Paul Krugman
🪦 Farewell Dolly …not a giant fan of your music .. but a massive fan of who you are, what you did and how you lived. Thank you.
👁️ Yet again reorganising my claude folder - it gets out of control so quickly.
Now the polymathic Trump is dabbling in naval architecture.
💬 George Will
👁️❓ Did the people who are currently watching Ted Lasso four rewatch Ted Lasso one, two and three before starting? Asking for a friend.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple TV Still Has No Start Date for ‘The Savant’
Given that it’s now the middle of August, I think that a July release is looking less and less likely by the day.
He does have a way doesn’t he?
Box? What box?
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🔗 Micro Monday is back (after a ’short’ pause.)
I guess in the overall scheme of the cosmos sure - ‘short’ works 😉
A great way of showcasing this little corner of the internet - still sitting in my Overcast feed - despite the passing of 4 years.
I knew it would comeback. One day.
It has.
🔗 Nudge or Sludge? — Gapingvoid
Want to know what a company actually believes? Skip their core values page. Try to cancel something.
Apple likes to say that music is part of its DNA. I suggest they schedule some genetic counselling.
I agree, though I have never managed to articulate the prescription so succinctly.
Please enjoy: 🔗 sadlittlebitchwithnofriends.com
🔗🕋 Structured Thought is catching on
This one from Evan Shapiro - who after producing 6 annual flat files of - well to be honest - interesting - but not very useful insights into the media landscape has just outdone himself.
Scott Brinker should do the same - similar idea in a different space - but 🔗 this one has been going now for 15 years!
‘Content’ is homogenous undifferentiated fodder that is poured into silos with pricing you would expect from any interchangeable commodity .. if that describes your writing, it might explain why nobody values it.
💬 ME
Wise people are already aware and can predict these warnings …
🔗 YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast
That said - where could you go to build a video following not called YouTube?
Meanwhile, so far, 🔗 the channel remains
Thought I’d take a look at Plume. Some shenanigans to get my blog to approve Plume - or the other way round - but twe got there - and this is my first post. Lets see where this goes.
Email was supposed to be an open, decentralized protocol. Instead, a handful of monopolies have effectively privatized deliverability: they decide whose mail is trustworthy, whose isn’t, and independent servers are guilty until proven innocent.
🔗 Why I left Mastodon - Justin Pot
.. or just use Micro.Blog
I just looked at: valid.rss.chat for john.philpin.com - and no dice …
Turns out that my blog isn’t ‘malformed’, it is because Micro.blog’s RSS feed output does not currently conform completely to the RSS.chat interoperability profile.
I can wait.
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If I include an URl an image might appear. If I add just an image it doesn't.
Expected behaviour?
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