@pratik Micro Blog is - IMHO - the least community like community of any space i belong to for the various reasons - and I am ok with that - because that’s not why I am here. Said it before said it again - the value for me is that it aggregates all things 'John' AND syndicates to all things 'John'. Everything else is icing. MicroBlog has a long way to go to make a real community and design decisions being made suggests that 'community' isn't what is being built.
@briandigital that Oxford Comma is a powerful piece of punctuation, isn't it?
A Case of Insanity?
Rational Pi?
British Prejudice?
@briandigital well yes - but i see that as a UI choice .. over to @manton
Not been paying too much attention to iOS 18, so .. old news? But I like the idea …
@anniegreens he was the best - 3 series and gone except a couple of guest parts .. there’s always someone in that role tho lately Frodo is assuming more and more of the everywhere role - but there is another .. but none as good .. to me a lot to do with that quiet non assuming accent.
Read and agree with a lot of the @gruber post 🔗 The iOS Continental Drift Widens
After I read it - I jumped to my Readwise queue - and up pops this.
My reading habits are clearly being tracked.
@anniegreens wash your mouth out 😊 ... Have you ever noticed every time he heads over to talk to the corpse - he pats the car. There is a clear rhythm in his process.
@Miraz LOVE Brokenwood. Acorn has been promoting Season 10 for ever - but down here for whatever reason - not able to get it. And then someone said - have you tried TVNZ+ and I hadn't, so I did and just finished episode 4.
When I get to the end it will be time to publish a review - 10 seasons overdue!
@SimonWoods but Rishi is so ‘mid 24’ … surely that can’t still be working?
@SimonWoods it is the only way.
Via John Naughton
Forget all the talk about David Ellison’s Skydance Media. A regulatory filing that came to light today—on Bloomberg and other outlets—showed that Oracle executive chair Larry Ellison will own 77.5% of Paramount Global’s parent, National Amusements, once Skydance completes its acquisition of the entertainment company.
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I am reminded of the old sailing proverb - apt - given we are talking about Larry Ellison ..
How do you get a million dollars? Start with ten.
Except in entertainment - it would be
How do you get a billion dollars? Start with ten.
It is three times the price to rent a car in the center of Auckland for the day than on Waiheke Island - that does not compute.
@SimonWoods I thought I would do a visual representation for you.
@tricrossian.bsky.social you know Sobers is a big name that goes beyond the game of cricket .. and yet I can’t see him mentioned on JP’s post anywhere .. which is SUPER interesting.
@SimonWoods move along now …
@SimonWoods it’s 2024 .. short term is the new black
@Havn sad John .. but I guess you re going to be out soon.
There is no limit to what? Everything about this is wrong. Fitting for the show though.
@SimonWoods well that’s a way to look at it!
Someone’s Having A Larf …
It’s the billion-dollar baby of artificial intelligence. Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup launched by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, announced Wednesday it had raised a whopping $1 billion from big-name venture capital firms, including Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.
That’s a huge amount of money for a three-month-old company with 10 staffers, no product and a “singular focus” on creating “safe” AI rather than a money-making product (at least in the short term).
💬 The Information
@Havn is the beta anywhere to try? or is it special people only?
Shout Outs To @dsearls@journa.host and @dave in the 🔗 latest entry from ‘Jobsworth’
BTW - while I am here 🔗JP published another great post the other day about Cricket - specifically Cricket stats and records.
He opened with:
You have been warned. This one’s for hardcore cricket nuts. Red-ball nuts. Five-day nuts. The hardest of the hardcore. No coloured pajamas here.
I am definitely not a hardcore cricket nut - and still read the entire thing to the end. Fascinating.
Me:
What about tomorrow?
Reply:
Would be good except that I will out of town celebrating my first wife’s, second husband’s, 70th. Should be a good bash.
.. now that’s what I call an extended family that truly embraces the concept.**
📺 Kleo
Each episode kept me coming back for more. An increasingly difficult thing to do in theses ‘streaming times’.
Kleo on 🔗 Reelgood
No Words.
@mmn b cause most people don’t pay attention?
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I wonder what percentage of people who mumble about ‘systemic change’ actually stop to think what it means AND what it takes.
Pace Layers is a nice starting point to understand the magnitude of what they are embarking on.
🔗 Shocking revelations about Sarah Wilkinson’s arrest and bail conditions
I am hoping there is another side to this story. But so far - only a hope.
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@odd truly pleased to hear that .. the broken comment was an ill thought through joke.
I don’t hate them .. they’re just talentless nobodies from 30 years ago with very loud mouths that I assume have run out of money and neither of them can make more on their own … that I couldn’t give a fuck about.
@cleverdevil great news
@odd is anything in the house broken? 😂
@odd anything we can do to talk you down?
@davids in a similar theme - 37!