John PHI⑊PIN

🔗 Siri, not a companion, by design - Asymco We’re building Siri not to be a companion.

🔗 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.

🎥 Watched: 🔗 A Dog’s Purpose I cried.

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

🖇️ This has in turn inspired me to sort out my entire folder of Markdown notes.

🏗️ I am using Claude to co-build my Wiki and have now got a nice flow to it.

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.

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.

Not an auspicious start.

👁️ I really do not like the new Safari icon.

👁️ ‘Flapping Shoe’ - great new name for POTUS 47 - so symbolic, and an honest representation of this once great nation.

🔗📼 Zeteo

📸 Watching the world go by.

📸 A Long Day …

Lick Lick.

🎥 Finished watching: 🔗 Shelter … Jason doing Jason and Bill doing Bill.

🎥 Finished watching: 🔗Justice League .. though I use the term ‘watching’ loosely.

💬 This I knew .. but I didn’t save it for the knowledge.

💬 Sadly, not just tech.

Matt’s board repeats Sam’s board.

👁️ Earlier today, I was told that ‘A1’, pronounced ‘AONE’, is very dangerous.

Each day comes and each day he looks more like Jabba The Hutt.

📸 Well .. hello Wellington.

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Apple iPhone Event First Impressions - Asymco The results will be seen in the language: in response to a question, people will say “My iPhone says this”.

🔗 Apple acquires Sonera.

Any excuse?

🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Modern Day Typographer’ ..

Charlie: He said “Now what sort of husband was he”?

🔗 Find The Side Door

🔗 Denormalizing Hypernormalization

Once you’ve traversed the list twice or thrice, he says, “you will be able to use them whenever you wish.” 🔗 Roundabout - Futility Closet .. and use them you should.

🔗 The Nerd Reich is a New York Times Instant Bestseller

📚 Want to read … 🔗 Steve Jobs in Exile The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary

🔗🎵 Instagram promo to 🔗🎵 The Village, narrated by David Tennant.

🔗🎵The Village

Doc and I might not be the same age - but we lived in the same world. 🔗 Free-Range Childhood Personally of the view that the story that he writes about is symptomatic of why we have problems as a society.

Truth in Humour .. 🔗😂 Daring Fireball: The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison

👁️ 8 Emmys for Widows Bay and I couldn’t even finish the series.

Saw this, loved it and thought of @artkavanagh

🔗 Evan Shapiro: ‘The Creator Economy’ is over and ‘The Affinity Economy’ is here.

👁️ Really hoping that Markdown plus Marked finally kills MS Word - but not holding my breath.

➡️ 💬 I ♥ RSS is a very cool little service.

Over at 🔗 eg Innovations .. they have been thinking about ‘team alignment’ .. this short analysis tool is an interesting gateway to getting to answers as well as getting a better understanding of your own environment.

💬 If you manage to do this … it won’t be ‘content’.

Frontier is a hard piece of software to get going, it’s got a lot of integrations, which you want when you’re using, but hard when you’re getting it all to work the first time. 💬 Dave Winer ..