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🔗 General Identity Protocol - Age Assurance Technology Trial
GIP is a networked identity framework that reuses trusted institutional credentials for secure, friction-free verification. It’s flexible, scalable, privacy-aware and aligns with AATT’s privacy, usability and integration principles.
It really is a clever solution to a real world problem that everyone likes - but remains an up hill adoption battle. #justsaying
🔗 Niklas Roy Constructs a Functional Pendulum Clock Made Entirely of Trash.
The artist only used items and materials he could scrounge up locally, including tape, zip ties, hot glue, cardboard, a yardstick, pieces of plastic, and other random objects. “It runs for about half an hour, features a paperclip-escapement, a glass bottle gong, and a ‘random complication’ (which answers the fundamental question, ‘Now or Never?’)
🔗 Everybody talks about the ‘Paypal mafia’. Nobody seems to refer to the Facebook mafia … .. and that makes it harder and worse
It’s especially important to identify these patterns because the alumni of these companies bring these toxic behaviors with them when they go on to their subsequent roles. It’s no coincidence, for example, that so many former Facebook product managers work at OpenAI and that ChatGPT has run the same playbook in terms of abusing people’s privacy and trust.
… via Gruber and saved for later … its long - but on a speed scan - I clearly need to read it.
Oh and don’t confuse Colossus with Colossal - another ‘hidden’ - and totally unrelated gem of a site.
Preparing some work for a new feature, and it feels a bit like the divsion of work that comes from drawing an owl:
Task 1. Add these two new columns to the database schema.
Leon Mika https://lmika.org/2026/09/30/preparing-some-work-for-a.html
Task 2. Build the rest of the frickin’ feature.
I know what you mean.
I don’t trust xAI (or Meta) with my data, but it doesn’t seem like Siri AI can do all that much.
I am surprised it is as locked down as it is. The only reason i keep perplexity around now is to run on my old iPad mini - I quickly adopted Siri on that one - and it does do a remarkable job of unpacking what is on my drive - but most of my use cases is that having done that - I now want to do more and so far Siri just tells me it ..
Can’t do that
So chat and claude are still there - neither of which have full reign over most of my hard drive.
I want a say in what happens next. Not because I am young. Because I am here, and I will be living with it.
.. not wrong.
Good read though he might best have used his AI to reduce the length.
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👁️🏗️ ChatGPT gets more like HAL every day …
No. We agreed exactly what needed changing, but I didn’t actually make the change to the file.
I just watched 🎥 The Gentlemen 🖇️ again - and it is still worth★★★★
🔗 Substack Changed. Most Creators Haven’t Noticed Yet.
In January 2026, Substack launched Substack TV, an app for Apple TV and Google TV, so people can watch creator videos and livestreams on their actual television.
New news - at least to this bear.
The opposite of mass is special.
Good reminder. App development at PHI⑊PIN keeps getting distracted with ‘mass’ - but ‘special’ is what we are trying to do.
👁️ I mused on muse this morning - and no thanks. Unlike the rest of the world - I do have a memory so I don’t care what he and his acolytes say … I care about what they do - and they don’t do good things.
Karpe - 📼🎵🔗 this from 2022 - in Norway have been around for twenty years apparently. Love it.
Some of the choreography reminds me of Peter Gabriel - 📼🎵🔗 specifically this, though there are many others from different tours.
Life is a remix - and I love it.
🔗 Gut Feel Decision Making cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
I did not know that Jim had ‘Barksdales’:
One of the Barksdaleisms that I always liked: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."
Have you met my 🖇️ Johnisms? Unique ones 🖇️ pop up all over this domain.
Still “Alive and Well” … and happy to “BE”
💬 Johnny Winter
OOHH - this is exciting ..
Sending a webmention to: a post by Loura
🔗 Has the IndieWeb Become Irrelevant? | starbreaker.org
Certainly hope not - but then most people I talk to don’t even recognise the term.
.. from Seth. Interesting experiment.
🔗 App Store Scam of the Week: ‘Update My Phone & Apps: Guide’ by Tair Olzhasev
Cupertino should really do a better job.
👁️ I have been wrestling with why Claude was suddenly making so many mistakes. Solved. For whatever reason it decided to ‘remind me’ that I can use Haiku - though when I say ‘remind’ - it did so very quietly - like not all. for some reason it just decided to start that way.
Not just clever - but 🤯.
Hidden gems like these provide a portal into what I think of as ‘The Apple Way’.
NEW PAINTINGS BY DAN ROAM
RITUAL CAFE, 1026 VALENCIA ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
OCTOBER 2026 (OPENING EVENT OCT 2, 6-8PM)
I know Dan through his visual storytelling work - one of the ‘originals’ and very much connected to Structured Thought as a ‘foundational thinker’
I did not know about the painting side of his world - though stop and think for two seconds - it makes total sense.
But not just painting. When I read a bit about the background of the show, the art struck me as a living example of what I have come to call ‘🔎 Differalities’.
