👁️ Oh - he thinks it’s a comedy …

If I was 🔗 Ed I would tell Clarkson to back off - this is akin to a Rethuglican campaigning and having Tяump turn up to stump for you.

I can help you find information, answer questions, and complete tasks across many apps on your Mac. However, I can’t analyze or summarize your past conversations with me.

💬 Siri

.. well thats not very useful is it?

I kinda like Galloway’s thinking, business analysis and his work around young men - BUT his style and side threads just leave me cold so the Kara and Scott show has taken a back seat .. well .. not so much a back seat .. as thrown out of the car.

Today I thought I might just check if I should go back for a while.

Also today was his first day back on the show after taking 4 weeks off.

Seriously❓and nobody told me?

Apple’s on device Foundation model accessed via Terminal is my new ‘safe place’

I asked:

who is the president of the United States?

I was told ‘Joe Biden’.

🏗️ The ‘Forty’ Template in Blot is very very opinionated. It provided a good foundation to my 🖇️ wiki - but ‘I’ have now over written so much of it that I am no longer sure that ‘using Forty’ is entirely accurate.

Big fan of Nilay’s podcast. Gave the latest ten minutes before I closed and deleted. I don’t always get to the end of his episodes but generally do get through the first 50%. A First.

Major Firewatch vibes from our … - Sven Dahlstrand

GAH - not been adding ratings to the movie reviews. 🖇️ Fixed

Been a while since I have visited the Star Wars Universe - but I watched 🎥🔗 The Mandalorian and Grogu last night … lovely.

👁️ I just used Siri to create a new shortcut and boom. Years of frustration out of the window.

Finished watching: The Sheep Detectives 🎥

So good. So, so good.

Finished watching: 🎥 Wildcat - better than expected and fun. It lost the plot in the final 15 to 20 minutes - but don’t they all? Definitely take a watch if you are looking and into the ‘all action’ genre.

Want to read: 📚 Seven Rules of Trust by Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner

🔗 Futility Closet - An idler’s miscellany of compendious amusements

It was given to him deliberately to set the record

.. doesn’t seem to be in the spirit?

🖇️ Me - a couple of days ago Revisited this morning and Siri happily reduced the 30,000 into a more manageable set of docs that I was actually after. In the 30,000 we found some 2,367 Markdown files that had meaningful information that MIGHT be useful in my newly emerging 🖇️wiki. Analysis seemed out of Siri reach - so zipped it up and sent to ChatGPT. The accompanying analysis now sits in the Obsidian Notes vault. As highlighted: The objective was not to tidy the Vault. It is to make the thinking inside it visible. 💬 ChatGPT Claude will likely take over now.

🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco

We’re building Siri not to be a companion. It was a very big deal. It’s an advisor, but not a companion. Siri is there as a concierge, a professional persona. It is not an amiable person, because they want to maintain an emotional distance. That was by design.

Have to say that’s what is particularly working for me. More on this later when I get round to it.

🔗 Everything is interesting | Self Distract

Lovely piece and with him all the way - even down to Football.

🔗 Air Theremin · Play With Motion Or Hand Tracking

Cool … via Stephen Downes

🔗 Daring Fireball: Will Oremus Is a Duo Doubter

I bet there are a lot more people out there who would rather have a $2500 iPhone and a $700 MacBook Neo than who would want a $2500 MacBook Pro and a $700 iPhone.

Mr @Gruber is definitely not wrong. I do wish more people would remember the world isn’t just about them and what they want.

Finished watching: A Dog’s Purpose 🎥

I cried. It was great.

👁️Watching the 🍎show on YouTube seemed wrong .. so I didn’t. I used 🍎📺.

🖇️ This has in turn inspired me to sort out my entire folder of Markdown notes. Started today - with two twists. All is staying local for use within Obsidian - no Wiki needed. The starting point is a lot of notes with various degrees of completeness and meaning - lots of dup...

🏗️ I am using Claude to co-build my Wiki and have now got a nice flow to it. Claude has access to a specific folder on my drive - we edit together and Claude does things like cleaning up my tags and other YAML - as well as pushing the local folder contents up to Git. Blot picks it up from there and pushes it out to 🖇️ https://wiki.philpin.com … like all good web properties it is an eternal WIP. Not ready from prime time - BUT as I say on the Wiki:

“we have leaned into the design philosophy of ‘build in public’ and not wait for perfect”

I also use the whole thing locally with Obsidian.

It will become an annual event.

🔗 OmFest: A Celebration of Curiosity, Connection, and the Future | Matt Mullenweg

It will be ‘OmNet’.

… which means that it is just 30 seconds long. Worth a listen?

Apple could perhaps have made that distinction a little less archaeological.

.. absolutely they could .. thanks for your help ChatGPT.

We keep learning that ‘against’ is insufficient (take the last US election as a clear example) .. we need to answer ‘for’ … not only do we continually fail to learn that lesson we also seem to constantly rediscover the knowledge.

John Gruber blogged about XCancel shutting down yet again, adding this in a parenthetical:

…let’s admit it at this point, there’s not just a lot posted on X, it’s resurgent in popularity

It’s true. Just telling folks what we’re against has not been enough to rebalance the web to open platforms.

Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2026/09/14/john-gruber-blogged-about-xcancel.html

Not an auspicious start. I wanted to test what Siri ‘knows’. To be fair, phone not finished indexing so maybe that is part of the challenge - coupled with the fact that The Overview isn’t his latest album, although his latest album isn’t fully released either so a little bit of a trick question.

👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.