Nostr notes by johnphilpin

👁️🤯 If I understand this correctly - Nilay Patel, Peter ...

2026-05-21T03:24:00Z

👁️🤯 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?

👁️ I rarely get guestbook posts - and then 4 this week. All ...

2026-05-21T01:54:35Z

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

🔗😂 XKCD and 🔗😂 Existential Comics are both crackers ...

2026-05-21T00:38:43Z

🔗😂 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

Watched - all 8 of them it turns out. Not in a binge I hasten to ...

2026-05-16T02:37:30Z

When Can You Swear? ...

2026-05-04T00:11:23Z

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

💬 On the packaging front: "Apple completed the transition ...

2026-04-22T00:54:54Z

💬 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

"To those accustomed to privileges, equality feels like ...

2026-04-15T05:06:39Z

"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

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2026-04-11T02:04:10Z

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The whole piece is so funny - but I have set it start at the ...

2026-04-11T00:56:19Z

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

I do watch Jason - he’s another Liam in many ways - same ...

2026-04-11T00:56:15Z

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

🔗 Kākāpō parrots "it’s about kākāpō parrots!" ...

2026-04-11T00:56:11Z

🔗 Kākāpō parrots

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

🔗 MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime – a ...

2026-04-11T00:55:52Z

🔗 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

🔗 Adobe Is Mucking With Users’ /etc/hosts Files – Pixel ...

2026-04-11T00:48:59Z

🔗 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

🔗 Creating the conditions for magic | Seth’s Blog "We ...

2026-04-11T00:48:57Z

🔗 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/

Morning Claude "Can you look through all of our conversations ...

2026-04-11T00:39:29Z

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."

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

2026-04-10T09:23:41Z

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🔗 Banksy, Satoshi & The Unmasking Impulse – On my Om ...

2026-04-09T20:45:32Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Attention and effort "Attention and trust continue their ...

2026-04-09T20:45:20Z

🔗 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/

🔗 The Moon was Never the Point - Gapingvoid Like for like I ...

2026-04-09T20:37:40Z

🔗 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

🔗 Steve Blank Nowhere Is Safe "The problem is a lack of ...

2026-04-09T18:58:17Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Robert L Arnold On The Incompetence of The Escalation ...

2026-04-09T18:26:10Z

🔗 Robert L Arnold On The Incompetence of The Escalation

Nothing to add. https://substack.com/@defiance13/note/c-239853445

Problem Solved … ...

2026-04-09T00:41:57Z

Problem Solved …

Software As A Sandwich ...

2026-04-08T22:04:26Z

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

In writing another post (coming soon), this joke from the mid 90s ...

2026-04-08T21:15:42Z

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

🔗 The Hacker News tarpit "Well, I spent a Saturday last ...

2026-04-08T20:19:01Z

🔗 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/

🔗 A quote from Giles Turnbull "I have a feeling that ...

2026-04-08T20:17:04Z

🔗 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

🔗 The Apocalypse Is Here - Michael Moore "America, a ...

2026-04-08T20:17:03Z

🔗 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

🔗 Why Anthropic’s new model has cybersecurity experts ...

2026-04-08T20:16:43Z

🔗 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/

🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026 "I prefer to ...

2026-04-08T20:16:42Z

🔗 ArtLung: Hello, human.json? ~ 07 Apr 2026

"I prefer to curate my own “algorithm.”" https://artlung.com/blog/2026/04/07/hello-human-json/

🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri | ...

2026-04-08T20:16:23Z

🔗 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

🔗 What are the odds of Apple surviving? – Asymco Fascinating ...

2026-04-08T20:05:02Z

🔗 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/

🔗 All the letters | Seth’s Blog "But if you start out ...

2026-04-08T10:27:53Z

🔗 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/

🔗 The Motley Fool asks: Where Will Apple Stock Be in 5 Years? ...

2026-04-08T10:24:19Z

🔗 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/

Pretty ‘out therek position for the UK govt to take on Kanye .. ...

2026-04-07T18:32:03Z

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

Interesting - though not unexpected switch on Claude … "Oh ...

2026-04-07T03:28:23Z

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.

🔗 Asymco Bulletin 006 – Mar 28, 2026 "In Apple’s first ...

2026-04-06T20:06:15Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Long odds and unseen differences - Seth "Buy the best ...

2026-04-06T20:04:54Z

🔗 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/

🔗 A preponderance of pap … always like JP’s posts - even ...

2026-04-06T20:03:39Z

🔗 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/

🔗 John Battelle’s Search Blog Product, Platform, Interface, ...

2026-04-06T20:00:53Z

🔗 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

If you follow me you will know that I don’t always listen to ...

2026-04-05T22:57:53Z

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

"Yes .. I did watch it .. a while back .. unmemorable .. but ...

2026-04-05T22:26:57Z

"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

🔗 What could POSSIBLY go wrong❓ "Some of the banks have ...

2026-04-05T22:26:50Z

🔗 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/

The Beekeeper, 2024 - ★★ ...

2026-04-05T22:13:33Z

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

🔗 Miriam Schwab "A clean security model with nothing to ...

2026-04-05T19:35:54Z

🔗 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/

Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★ ...

2026-04-05T03:18:38Z

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

📺 Detective Hole ★★★★ ...

2026-04-05T03:01:35Z

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

🔗 You Only Think They Work For You Steve is talking PR ...

2026-04-04T22:57:05Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago ...

2026-04-04T22:56:51Z

🔗 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

🔗 The Guestbook Is Back Funny, 🔗 I have a guestbook ...

2026-04-04T22:55:12Z

🔗 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

🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks. "On any ...

2026-04-04T22:52:15Z

🔗 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/

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be ...

2026-04-04T22:51:48Z

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

💬 Bertrand Russell

🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports I guess ...

2026-04-04T22:51:48Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande @amit - thank you for ...

2026-04-04T22:51:42Z

🔗 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

🔗 Seeker – On my Om "I have always struggled to describe ...

2026-04-04T22:47:02Z

🔗 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/

🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – ...

2026-04-04T22:46:35Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026 "Feature request ...

2026-04-04T22:36:35Z

🔗 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

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 ...

2026-04-04T21:40:39Z

🔗 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://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/art-uk-digital-database-street-art-murals/

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs "Several people — ...

2026-04-04T21:33:11Z

🔗 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

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - ...

2026-04-04T21:26:19Z

🔗 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/

Having had a Flipboard account for like so many years I was ...

2026-04-03T02:03:28Z

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.

Spending more time looking at Feedland as I seek to work towards ...

2026-04-02T20:29:51Z

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❓

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

2026-04-02T20:02:14Z

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

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2026-04-02T18:58:35Z

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

in netnewswire - @brentsimmons allows us to add different feeds ...

2026-04-02T07:09:36Z

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

And there we are … fixed. Turns out the real issue was the ...

2026-04-02T02:17:26Z

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

You know what I mean by ‘the camera in the hat’ ...

2026-04-02T02:09:48Z

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

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

2026-04-02T01:59:02Z

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

For 2 bucks a month how could I not ‘go pro’ on Chris ...

2026-04-02T01:48:57Z

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.

When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at ...

2026-04-01T19:49:51Z

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGuRKgvWQ4

🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The ...

2026-04-01T19:40:31Z

🔗 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

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2026-04-01T04:25:34Z

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🔗 Toesday .. from Doc Sam Altman just went on record saying ...

2026-03-31T20:31:59Z

🔗 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

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything ...

2026-03-31T20:29:37Z

🔗 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

🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App Thereallo, after ...

2026-03-31T20:29:23Z

🔗 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

I just rolled back my Hugo version to ‘recommended far too many ...

2026-03-31T20:29:17Z

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

I guess every 🍎 pundit in the world had their 50 years of 🍎 ...

2026-03-31T19:02:34Z

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.

Claude is galling over - I get it to give me a hand off dic so I ...

2026-03-30T21:55:08Z

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

🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom ...

2026-03-30T19:53:15Z

🔗 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/

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026 "I had to say ...

2026-03-30T19:53:13Z

🔗 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

🔗 Is the AT Protocol really decentralized? | Vladimir Campos ...

2026-03-30T19:39:29Z

🔗 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

Now that they are all trained to use our self check out - lets ...

2026-03-29T03:01:27Z

Now that they are all trained to use our self check out - lets stop half the machines working and get them back into lines to wait for the busy machines on the other side to free up and not tell them to go over to where two cashiers are sitting with nobody in their lines at all.

Nobody 2, 2025 - ★★★½ ...

2026-03-29T03:01:16Z

Nobody 2, 2025 - ★★★½ https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/28/nobody.html

🔗 The quieter your brand, the louder it travels – Regionally ...

2026-03-29T03:01:12Z

🔗 The quieter your brand, the louder it travels – Regionally Famous

I believe this blog’s reader will enjoy this post about - well #stickers. https://regionallyfamous.com/the-quieter-your-brand-the-louder-it-travels/

AJA writes …🔗 what’s in a name? – The Homebound Symphony ...

2026-03-29T03:00:35Z

AJA writes …🔗 what’s in a name? – The Homebound Symphony

"The title of this great dialogue should therefore be not Politeia but rather Eudaimonia."

Behold: 🔗 Eudaimonia - though he hever strikes me as ‘happy’. https://blog.ayjay.org/whats-in-a-name/ https://medium.com/eudaimonia-co/why-our-civilizations-in-crisis-history-s-second-great-lesson-and-679619b86595

"You’re absolutely right—I reverted to the quick-fix ...

2026-03-27T20:41:47Z

"You’re absolutely right—I reverted to the quick-fix approach and missed the bigger strategy."

💬 Claude
.. is a recurring message these days - I need to work out why it doesn’t keep this information in ‘mind’. Annoying.

🔗 The end of the content shortage "The ennui of infinite ...

2026-03-27T00:55:21Z

🔗 The end of the content shortage

"The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it."

💬 Seth Godin
Here’s willing it to be so. https://seths.blog/2026/03/the-end-of-the-content-shortage/

🔗 Brad Enslen "Headlines: ICE is starting to check ID’s ...

2026-03-27T00:54:52Z

🔗 Brad Enslen

"Headlines: ICE is starting to check ID’s in airport security lines. Be warned." https://ramblinggit.com/2026/03/26/good-morning-i-went-to.html

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2026-03-26T03:06:14Z

Wet. Wet. Very very wet.

🔗 Daring Fireball: iOS 26.4 "I like reading release notes ...

2026-03-25T20:14:36Z

🔗 Daring Fireball: iOS 26.4

"I like reading release notes from developers who take the time to document changes, and I also like reading “Bug fixes and performance improvements” over and over and over again from developers who do not."

😂 https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/24/ios-264

🔗 Daring Fireball: Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac ...

2026-03-25T20:14:33Z

🔗 Daring Fireball: Claude Can Now Take Control of Your Mac

"The Claude Mac client itself remains a lazy Electron clunker. If Claude Code is so good I don’t get why they don’t prove it by using it to make an even halfway decent native Mac app." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/24/claude-control-mac

🔗 Too complicated for people to understand. "Our first job ...

2026-03-25T20:13:28Z

🔗 Too complicated for people to understand.

"Our first job is to do work that matters for people who care. It helps to follow that up with the scaffolding needed to cause cultural change, so the idea spreads.
But don’t dumb it down to reach people who don’t want to be reached in the first place." https://seths.blog/2026/03/too-complicated-for-people-to-understand/

It's Fractal ...

2026-03-25T03:13:09Z

It's Fractal https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/25/its-fractal.html

Claude - please rewrite {my copy} in the style of {choose author} ...

2026-03-23T23:28:08Z

Claude - please rewrite {my copy} in the style of {choose author} - gets {output}.

Chat GPT - please read {output} and tell me who the author is likely to be.

Output = variations of;

"‘this seems to be your voice and tone’"

Sad that I would believe Iran before POTUS on this topic. ...

2026-03-23T23:28:03Z

Sad that I would believe Iran before POTUS on this topic.

Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows ...

2026-03-22T22:24:56Z

Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly.
Posted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3... john.philpin.com https://micro.blog/derekpeden https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/23/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man.html https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/23/inspired-by-derekpeden-i-recently.html

I think AUT Marketing need to think things through more … ...

2026-03-22T22:05:49Z

I think AUT Marketing need to think things through more …

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, 2026 - ★★★ ...

2026-03-22T20:34:12Z

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, 2026 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2026/03/23/peaky-blinders-the-immortal-man.html

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2026-03-22T19:22:39Z

🪦 97 is a hell of a run Len. You can stop now.

🎵 Angine de Poitrine .. right then.

2026-03-22T07:29:19Z

🎵 Angine de Poitrine

.. right then.

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2026-03-22T06:45:32Z

Days End