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"“Congratulations to all!” Trump wrote on social media as he celebrated his 80th birthday Sunday with a UFC cage match fight at the White House."
and then
"“I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade,”"
What can go wrong? Let me count the ways …
1️⃣ Iran signalled implementation would not start until the signing, which key mediator Pakistan said would occur Friday in Switzerland.
Tяump then walked back saying the strait wouldn’t open until Friday’s signing - so he isn’t...
john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2026/06/15/congratulations-to-all-trump-wrote.html

2026-06-15 01:22:31 UTC

I wonder how many ‘foreign national Anthropic employees’ were involved in the creation of Mythos?

2026-06-14 02:32:52 UTC

I had seen the clips - and ‘yeah - nah. But last night I watched: 🔗🎥 The Ballad of Wallis Island and for me it falls into one of my personal categories: ‘a little english film’ ★★★★
‘CAVEAT - any film can fall into this category - it’s nothing to do with being ‘English’.
🖇️ Review Ratings https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1122099 https://john.philpin.com/review-ratings

2026-06-11 22:33:28 UTC

🔗 Intent Computing vs. Spatial Computing
"Clearly Apple is not deprecating Spatial Computing. It’s a remarkable creation and those of us who use it find it irresistible and irreplaceable."
Great piece from Horace Dediu - and iterates on why I am in - and firmly remain in - the camp of ‘Vision Pro’ was a success.
(It comes down to that old chestnut that many people still try to understand 🍎 through the lens of other companies and then double down with criticisms like ‘not innovative’, ‘where’s the next iPhone’, ‘they’ve lost the plot’ …)
🚧 Links to some earlier posts to come. https://asymco.com/2026/06/09/intent-computing-vs-spatial-computing/

2026-06-06 04:14:36 UTC

👁️ Any person in the USA with something like a 401K will shortly be an owner of SpaceX. I predict that on the other side of the IPO, any noise from nay sayers about the company will be used by the Muskrat as proof that they are UN-American and working against the good people of the nation.

2026-06-06 04:12:45 UTC

🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long... john.philpin.com https://www.contentful.com/ https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=content https://john.philpin.com/2026/06/06/content-that-scales-experiences-that.html

2026-06-05 02:18:08 UTC

🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious' https://john.philpin.com/2026/06/05/sometimes-non-obvious-comes-disguised.html

2026-06-04 03:12:46 UTC

No decision is a decision
➡️🔷 Johnisms. They have been around forever and new ones are constantly emerging. Some of them get posted here.

2026-06-04 03:12:44 UTC

Every nobody is a somebody to somebody
➡️🔷 Johnisms. They have been around forever and new ones are constantly emerging. Some of them get posted here.

2026-06-04 00:22:02 UTC

🔗 We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World
"The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there."
💬 Om https://om.co/2026/05/25/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world/

2026-06-04 00:18:17 UTC

🔗Seth says ‘Stop ruining it’
"Trust isn’t something a brand builds with an ad campaign.
It’s what’s left if the marketers don’t ruin it."
"Curiosity isn’t simply what’s left after a complete education.
It’s still there if the system doesn’t ruin it."
"Musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier.
It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it."
"Customer delight isn’t something we add to our projects.
It’s what’s left if we don’t ruin it."
"Satisfaction in our work isn’t created by the boss.
It’s what’s left if they don’t ruin it."
Reminds me of two connected thoughts that I have always liked …
"How..."
john.philpin.com https://seths.blog/2026/06/stop-ruining-it/ https://john.philpin.com/2026/06/04/seth-says-stop-ruining-it.html

2026-06-01 03:56:28 UTC

They Buried Smiths. Now They Might Have To Bury TG Jones https://john.philpin.com/2026/06/01/they-buried-smiths-now-thet.html

2026-05-31 03:22:19 UTC

Redefining categories on Micro.Blog as part of my revamp and where I can - extending my rules to automate category allocation.
What I really need now is an automatic ‘un-categorisation’.
Going forward posts marked 🖋️Longform will really be Longform - not just posts with a title - but to go back and manually... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/categories/longform/ https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/31/redefining-categories-on-microblog-as.html

2026-05-31 01:22:12 UTC

📺 Dark Matter ⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/31/dark-matter.html

2026-05-21 21:53:09 UTC

"So “Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you,”"
💬 Jim Groom
… via 🔗 Stephen Downes
I am aware that I share a lot of links, with one or more of these traits;
no explanation
appending a little commentary
surrounded by a lot of commentary
in a sentence
with snark
a little more cryptic than some would like
… but the common thread through them all is that they all ‘stir’ me in some way.
‘Stirred’ mind you - not ‘shaken’ - though on occasions both. http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=79289

2026-05-21 03:24:00 UTC

👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter Kafka, Scott Galloway, Kara Swisher, Preet Bharara, Henry Blodgett, Maria Sharapova, Sean Illing (who all sit in my feeds) - and a whole host of other podcasts are shortly all going to be managed (if not owned) by … James Murdoch?

2026-05-21 01:54:35 UTC

👁️ I rarely get guestbook posts - and then 4 this week. All of them spam. Not good.

2026-05-21 00:38:43 UTC

🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers today.
Seems that 🍎 are pushing more Peanuts programming into 📺.
🍎📰 is missing a ‘comics’ section for Peanuts and other great comics, including XKCD and Existential. (With their permission - and payment - of course.)
👍🏼💡❓ https://xkcd.com/3247 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/655

2026-05-16 02:37:30 UTC

Watched - all 8 of them it turns out. Not in a binge I hasten to add❗️ 🚧
🔗📺 Homeland Season 1
🔗📺 Homeland Season 2
🔗📺 Homeland Season 3
🔗📺 Homeland Season 4
🔗📺 Homeland Season 5
🔗📺 Homeland Season 6
🔗📺 Homeland Season 7
🔗📺 Homeland Season 8 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/1 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/2 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/3 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/4 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/5 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/6 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/7 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/8

2026-05-11 22:13:17 UTC

🔗 Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand
"the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony."
💬 Mitch Wagner - I think.
The source was 🔗 here https://mitchwagner.com/2026/05/10/truth-consequences-climate-and-demand.html https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene

2026-05-05 07:11:06 UTC

Consider the source. Life isn’t what it used to be. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/c9ae7c4012.jpg

2026-05-04 00:11:23 UTC

When Can You Swear? https://john.philpin.com/2026/05/04/when-can-you-swear.html

2026-04-22 00:54:54 UTC

💬 On the packaging front:
"Apple completed the transition to 100 percent fiber-based packaging last year, fulfilling its pledge to remove plastic from packaging by 2025. Over the past 10 years, Apple engineers and designers have developed alternatives to common packaging components, replacing plastic screen protectors and trays with versions made with recycled or responsibly sourced paper. They also innovated to make packaging more recyclable, designing the largest boxes, like for the new Studio Display XDR, to collapse into smaller pieces that fit into a home recycling bin. Apple avoided more than..."
john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/22/on-the-packaging-front-apple.html

2026-04-15 05:06:39 UTC

"To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like oppression."
💬 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Via 🔗Alexandra Wolfe … thank you. https://alexandrawolfe.ca/2026/04/14/to-those-accustomed-to-privileges

2026-04-11 02:04:10 UTC

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2026-04-11 00:56:19 UTC

The whole piece is so funny - but I have set it start at the point where he is talking about a problem that I guarantee has affected you dear reader.
🔗 When The WIFI Doesn’t Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHOSKUN9U90&t=168s

2026-04-11 00:56:15 UTC

I do watch Jason - he’s another Liam in many ways - same character - same principles - same story - but make it entertaining. He usually delivers. But this little piece of knowledge I did not know.
🔗 Shelter (2026) | Brandon’s Journal
"Jason Statham is arguably the most reliable actor in Hollywood. He has at least one new movie out ever year and it’s always released theatrically. He actually holds the record for having over fifty live-action theatrical releases with no direct to DVD/streaming/VOD releases, which is impressive as hell. Is every movie great? Not at all (I’m looking at you Exp4ndables)..."
john.philpin.com https://brandons-journal.com/post/shelter-2026 https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/i-do-watch-jason-hes.html

2026-04-11 00:56:11 UTC

🔗 Kākāpō parrots
"it’s about kākāpō parrots!" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/10/kakapo/#atom-everything

2026-04-11 00:55:52 UTC

🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime – a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
"And if I’m wrong about the post being AI slop and a human at Photon actually wrote this, I would suggest taking it easy with the cocaine."
💬 John Gruber
😂😂😂😂 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/09/macos-crash-49-days

2026-04-11 00:48:59 UTC

🔗 Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files – Pixel Envy
I have precisely ONE product installed from Adobe - essentially using their equivalent of Documentum. I need to move to something else that is not Adobe or Documentum and release - I suspect - gigabytes of bloatware that I have always known is... john.philpin.com https://pxlnv.com/linklog/adobe-etc-hosts/ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/11/adobe-is-mucking-with-users.html

2026-04-11 00:48:57 UTC

🔗 Creating the conditions for magic | Seth’s Blog
"We hire architects to design expensive buildings, but we design expensive human interactions as an afterthought." https://seths.blog/2026/04/creating-the-conditions-for-magic/

2026-04-11 00:39:29 UTC

Morning Claude
"Can you look through all of our conversations and across all projects and give me an action list of projects that we have started but are not yet complete. In a seperate list - and reading between the lines - are there some project possibilities that we have not yet picked up on that could make sense and then present me with a full Markdown doc that I can review."
🤯 It did - it is now in Craft. Careful what you ask for … thinking about the next prompt. Something like …
"Can we set about developing priorities to help focus."

2026-04-10 09:23:41 UTC

💬 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/img-3182.png

2026-04-09 20:45:32 UTC

🔗 Banksy, Satoshi & The Unmasking Impulse – On my Om
"Unmasking either one isn’t just invasive. It is destructive to what they built." https://om.co/2026/04/08/banksy-satoshi-the-unmasking-impulse/

2026-04-09 20:45:20 UTC

🔗 Attention and effort
"Attention and trust continue their dance, and our choices determine how we’ll show up in the marketplace. Burning trust to get attention rarely pays off."
💬 Seth Godin https://seths.blog/2026/04/attention-and-effort/

2026-04-09 20:37:40 UTC

🔗 The Moon was Never the Point - Gapingvoid
Like for like I would argue that there is some kind of normal distribution curve at play here … where Gapingvoid’s conclusion is correct in the center - but wrong at the extremes.
5 - 50 and 500,000 are not ‘specific’.
Managing ‘5’ mini projects is easier than one... john.philpin.com https://www.gapingvoid.com/the-moon-was-never-the-point/ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/10/the-moon-was-never-the.html

2026-04-09 18:58:17 UTC

🔗 Steve Blank Nowhere Is Safe
"The problem is a lack of urgency and imagination."
➕
"Oceans on both sides and friendly nations on our borders have lulled America into a false sense of security. After all, the U.S. has not fought a foreign force on American soil since 1812." https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/

2026-04-09 18:26:10 UTC

🔗 Robert L Arnold On The Incompetence of The Escalation
Nothing to add. https://substack.com/@defiance13/note/c-239853445

2026-04-09 00:41:57 UTC

Problem Solved … https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/ab56c287c6.jpg

2026-04-08 22:04:26 UTC

Software As A Sandwich https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/09/software-as-a-sandwich.html

2026-04-08 21:15:42 UTC

In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s came to mind. It starts …
"Gates dies in a car accident. He finds himself in purgatory, being sized up by St. Peter."
"“Well, Bill, I’m really confused on this call; I’m not sure where to send you. After all, you helped society enormously by putting a computer in almost every home in America, yet you also created that ghastly Windows ‘95. I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. In your case; I’m going to let you decide whether you want to go to Heaven or Hell.”"
🔗 The Whole Story https://www.smart-words.org/jokes/bill-gates-hell.html

2026-04-08 20:19:01 UTC

🔗 The Hacker News tarpit
"Well, I spent a Saturday last month vibe coding a Hacker News clone. Took about 3 hours, most of which was me arguing with the AI about CSS."
😂😂😂 .. not just me then❓ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-hacker-news-tarpit/

2026-04-08 20:17:04 UTC

🔗 A quote from Giles Turnbull
"I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession."
💬 Giles Turnbull https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/8/giles-turnbull/#atom-everything

2026-04-08 20:17:03 UTC

🔗 The Apocalypse Is Here - Michael Moore
"America, a country 250 years old, and the only nation sick and violent enough to have ever used a nuclear weapon, in partnership with Israel, a nation younger than Mick Jagger and Bugs Bunny, and the only nuclear armed nation in its region, are on the verge of wiping one of the oldest civilizations off the map." https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/the-apocalypse-is-here

2026-04-08 20:16:43 UTC

🔗 Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts rattled
"Anthropic said, the model has found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser, and in many cases developed related exploits. Among them: a vulnerability in OpenBSD, a security-focused open source operating system, that had escaped detection for 27 years; another flaw in the video encoder FFmpeg that had escaped detection in 5 million previous automated tests; and “several” vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, which could be exploited to take complete control of a user’s machine." https://www.platformer.news/anthropic-mythos-cybersecurity-risk-experts/

2026-04-08 20:16:42 UTC

🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026
"I prefer to curate my own “algorithm.”" https://artlung.com/blog/2026/04/07/hello-human-json/

2026-04-08 20:16:23 UTC

🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri | Macworld
"But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!" https://www.macworld.com/article/3107310/ai-gets-apple-coming-and-going.html

2026-04-08 20:05:02 UTC

🔗 What are the odds of Apple surviving? – Asymco
Fascinating review of the absolute uniqueness of Apple in the world of business. https://asymco.com/2026/04/08/what-are-the-odds-of-apple-surviving/

2026-04-08 10:27:53 UTC

🔗 All the letters | Seth’s Blog
"But if you start out with the same letters as everyone else, don’t spend a lot of time admiring your letters. It’s the words that matter."
"Every writer has all of them. 26 in most Western languages. But no writer knows all the words." https://seths.blog/2026/04/all-the-letters/

2026-04-08 10:24:19 UTC

🔗 The Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? – Asymco
"NB: The Motley Fraud is not a reliable source of anything but bad stock picking advice…" https://asymco.com/2026/04/06/the-motley-fool-asks-where-will-apple-stock-be-in-5-years/

2026-04-07 18:32:03 UTC

Pretty ‘out therek position for the UK govt to take on Kanye .. wonder when they’ll ban the rest of them❓

2026-04-07 03:28:23 UTC

Interesting - though not unexpected switch on Claude …
"Oh - you have run out of tokens - buy more? Click here."
… and I swear to god - two days ago on the click you chose how much. (5 bucks typically does it for me.)
Today - choose one: 50, 250, 1,000, other.
Click on other - you get to enter 5 bucks.

2026-04-06 20:06:15 UTC

🔗 Asymco Bulletin 006 – Mar 28, 2026
"In Apple’s first 50 years it shipped 5.13 billion computers. This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 50 years. There actually are no other PC makers that are 50 years old." https://asymco.com/2026/03/29/bulletin-006/

2026-04-06 20:04:54 UTC

🔗 Long odds and unseen differences - Seth
"Buy the best story you can afford, with all the benefits it comes with. But don’t be confused by the odds or tiny differences. They’re probably zero." https://seths.blog/2026/03/long-odds/

2026-04-06 20:03:39 UTC

🔗 A preponderance of pap
… always like JP’s posts - even the cricket ones. (This is not about cricket.) https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2026/02/20/a-preponderance-of-pap/

2026-04-06 20:00:53 UTC

🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Product, Platform, Interface, Medium, Language: What Is AI?
"Regardless, as I struggle to find a handle by which to pick up the concept of AI, there’s something about “language” that feels appropriate. Maybe AI is, in fact, equivalent to a new language, one we’re just learning to speak. That certainly rings true to me." https://battellemedia.com/archives/2026/04/product-platform-interface-medium-language-what-is-ai

2026-04-05 22:57:53 UTC

If you follow me you will know that I don’t always listen to Lenny - but a big fan of his - and when he has a great guest … 🤯 .. 🔗🎙️ Simon Willison is one such great guest. https://overcast.fm/+AA6K1E-btsg

2026-04-05 22:26:57 UTC

"Yes .. I did watch it .. a while back .. unmemorable .. but know that you now don’t have to. Nor should you."
🔗 Unfamiliar
Movies - like music, books, art et al is not a competition. I hate 'best' in those terms. So star ratings have always been hard for me. They have to be seen in the context of the reviewer. A ★★★★★ movie in this world is not necessarily better than a ★ movie - it's just that is how I feel.
➕
The inspiration for my ★ rating comes from @derekpeden - thank you sir, modified slightly to accommodate my personal watching habits. If this footer is on one of my book, film... john.philpin.com https://reelgood.com/show/unfamiliar-2026 https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/yes-i-did-watch-it.html

2026-04-05 22:26:50 UTC

🔗 What could POSSIBLY go wrong❓
"Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, and they have already started integrating Grok into their I.T. systems, three of the people said." https://512pixels.net/2026/04/musk-grok-ipo-deal/

2026-04-05 22:13:33 UTC

The Beekeeper, 2024 - ★★ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/06/the-beekeeper.html

2026-04-05 19:35:54 UTC

🔗 Miriam Schwab
"A clean security model with nothing to secure is an easy sell, but let’s see how this actually plays out when there are 10, 20, 100 plugins in their marketplace. The real test will come when complex platform-like extensions like Elementor, Yoast, and more are created. Will the capability model be able to handle them? This is unknown at this time." https://miriamschwab.me/emdash-is-a-signal-not-a-wordpress-successor/

2026-04-05 03:18:38 UTC

Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/baby-driver.html

2026-04-05 03:01:35 UTC

📺 Detective Hole ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/05/detective-hole.html

2026-04-04 22:57:05 UTC

🔗 You Only Think They Work For You
Steve is talking PR Agencies. Not wrong. But they aren’t the only sinners. I am looking at you ‘Recruiters’.
Key rule: ‘who’s paying them /// now and in the future. https://steveblank.com/2026/02/18/you-only-think-they-work-for-you/

2026-04-04 22:56:51 UTC

🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.
Maybe it is time to do it again❓
Then again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …
NO
ONE. THING. AT. TIME. https://john.philpin.com/2022/01/27/rebuilding-my-micro.html https://philpin.com

2026-04-04 22:55:12 UTC

🔗 The Guestbook Is Back
Funny, 🔗 I have a guestbook (thankyou Pika) which I forget about .. so much so that when I recently rejigged my site navigation, it was no where to be found. https://flamedfury.com/posts/the-guestbook-is-back/ https://jphilpin.pika.page/guestbook

2026-04-04 22:52:15 UTC

🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.
"On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give."
When you breakit down - that’s a lot. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/tread-carefully-because-you-tread-on-my-fucks/

2026-04-04 22:51:48 UTC

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
💬 Bertrand Russell

2026-04-04 22:51:48 UTC

🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports
I guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/map-u-s-states-share-of-total-exports/

2026-04-04 22:51:42 UTC

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande
@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.
Although the insights are a little scary …. https://amitg.blog/2026/03/27/revamping-post-stats/ https://micro.blog/amit

2026-04-04 22:47:02 UTC

🔗 Seeker – On my Om
"I have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge."
I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself. https://om.co/2026/03/28/seeker/

2026-04-04 22:46:35 UTC

🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco
"But the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year."
For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’. https://asymco.com/2026/03/31/we-know-that-macs-last-longer-in-use-how-much-longer/

2026-04-04 22:36:35 UTC

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026
"Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles."
Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute. http://scripting.com/2026/04/03.html#a140913

2026-04-04 21:40:39 UTC

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal
"Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000."
Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful. https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/artuk-9.jpg https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/art-uk-digital-database-street-art-murals/

2026-04-04 21:33:11 UTC

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs
"Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that."
“I dunno” - wrote Alan
With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about https://social.ayjay.org/2026/04/04/the-other-day-i-wrote.html

2026-04-04 21:26:19 UTC

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com
"I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years."
Never heard of it until now.
Subscribed. https://daverupert.com/2026/04/make-something/

2026-04-03 02:03:28 UTC

Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was intrigued by the surf thing - all seems a little too confusing if you don’t want to start again - and just use your existing account. Let’s see how it all shakes out.

2026-04-02 20:29:51 UTC

Spending more time looking at Feedland as I seek to work towards a better way of managing my canonical OPML for all feeds …
I know that I am definitely not the only reader of people like Gruber and Ben … but according to Feedland .. nobody else is subscribed to them.I wonder what gives❓ https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/37ab416999.jpg

2026-04-02 20:02:14 UTC

Still the ‘🍎 at 50’ articles subsume my feeds .. not even Artemis can compete.

2026-04-02 18:58:35 UTC

I notice that it’s the women who he’s firing first.

2026-04-02 07:09:36 UTC

in netnewswire - @brentsimmons allows us to add different feeds to one or more folders - and when you export and import - those folders travel in the import.
in feedland - @dave does essentially the same thing using tags
not sure which way @manton has gone
BUT it does seem that neither method seems to... john.philpin.com https://micro.blog/brentsimmons https://micro.blog/dave https://micro.blog/manton https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/02/in-netnewswire-brentsimmons-allows-us.html

2026-04-02 02:17:26 UTC

And there we are … fixed. Turns out the real issue was the ‘content extraction fallback’. Who knew❓Not me - that’s for darn sure.

2026-04-02 02:09:48 UTC

You know what I mean by ‘the camera in the hat’ thing❓Right❓

2026-04-02 01:59:02 UTC

When I say ‘go pro’ - I am not talking about ‘the camera in the hat’ thing.

2026-04-02 01:48:57 UTC

For 2 bucks a month how could I not ‘go pro’ on Chris Hannah’s Mini Roll … though I might be pushing things a little too far as I explore getting
MiniRoll
Feedland
NetNewsWire
Reeder
Inkwell and Micro.Blog
all to work together with a single canonical OPML file.
Hang on to your hats.

2026-04-01 19:49:51 UTC

When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
📼🎵🔗Fast Forward to 2020
"Hold My Beer"
💬 Rammstein https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/eaa8515410.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGuRKgvWQ4

2026-04-01 19:40:31 UTC

🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic
"How did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-iran-war-oil-prices/686641/?utm_source=feed

2026-04-01 04:25:34 UTC

📸 https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2529/2026/175c7dff91.jpg

2026-03-31 20:31:59 UTC

🔗 Toesday .. from Doc
Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence **_will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water.”
_**If you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.
He is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you... john.philpin.com https://doc.searls.com/2026/03/31/toesday/ https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/toesday-from-doc-sam-altman.html

2026-03-31 20:29:37 UTC

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything
"His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”"
Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/31/jensen-huang

2026-03-31 20:29:23 UTC

🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App
Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:
Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.
Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]
➕
"Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either." https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

2026-03-31 20:29:17 UTC

I just rolled back my Hugo version to ‘recommended far too many errors with what I assume are incompatible plugins.
@manton - suggestion - on each plugin have a warning re whether the plugin is compatible with whatever the Hugo version is so plug in provider checks once and flags accordingly … not all of the... john.philpin.com https://micro.blog/manton https://john.philpin.com/2026/04/01/i-just-rolled-back-my.html

2026-03-31 19:02:34 UTC

I guess every 🍎 pundit in the world had their 50 years of 🍎 lined up and ready to go this morning. And go they did. Holy crap, that’s a lot of memories.

2026-03-30 21:55:08 UTC

Claude is galling over - I get it to give me a hand off dic so I can start again - load it up - one request and half way through THAt request it is already compacting the conversation … #LostThePlot

2026-03-30 19:53:15 UTC

🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
"Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too."
💬 Ben Werdmuller https://werd.io/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/

2026-03-30 19:53:13 UTC

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026
"I had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”"
You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying. http://scripting.com/2026/03/30.html#a142717 https://micro.blog/Dave

2026-03-30 19:39:29 UTC

🔗 Is the AT Protocol really decentralized? | Vladimir Campos
"“Hosted in Europe, governed in Europe,” and their vision starts with “Eurosky exists because Europe needs technological sovereignty and democratic resilience in its digital infrastructure.” As I mentioned in a previous post, I prefer an internationalist world, but based on what they are promoting on their site, why choose a US protocol that many say is not actually decentralized?" https://vladcampos.com/2026/03/30/is-the-at-protocol-really.html