🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t. CORRECT A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?

Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration. Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting. Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.

🔗 Mad magazine autostereogram, cutecore The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere. We should plan accordingly. 💬 Seth Godin

Via @adactio Your website won’t appear in search results unless you explicitly opt in. Your website will be used as training data unless you explicitly opt out. 🔗 The 411)

Via The Information News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that xAI’s Grok will join Google’s Gemini as the second frontier AI model on GenAI.mil, the Pentagon’s internal generative AI platform. The integration, set to go live later this month, will give 3 million military and civilian personnel access to Grok’s capabilities across both classified and unclassified networks — even as the model faces mounting international criticism over safety failures.

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jackass of the Week: Elon Musk I dunno John - just ‘Jackass’ works just fine.

🔗 A culture where only seeing is believing. is an interesting read from Mathew Ingram - but doesn’t this also mean that this particular culture has no understanding of history and even a lot of geography?

🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read. 🖇️ Used this quote before. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable. 💬 Keisei Tagami .. and as I have said myself death defines life.

Today’s Surprise From History - 🔗 Filling in some Burbank history. 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

🔗 One From Patrick I watched a young man get snatched by ICE outside yoga this morning. I filmed the whole thing. His name is Lucio Fabian Navos Nietos. I know this because they just left his passport and all other identification in his car. And left his car. They don’t care who he is. They will deport him anyway. 🔗 A Follow Up From Patrick If in my last post one were to replace the word “ICE” with “SS” and an obviously Jewish name with an obviously Latino one and imagined him being put on a train instead of a plane… There is no difference.

Laura Karen Ingram is upset by protestors wearing masks - but seems to have no problem with ICE doing the same. 🤷🏻‍♂️

🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.

🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee Not wrong IMHO.

Today’s Surprise From History - 🔗 Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s 🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

Based solely on the prosecutor’s testimony, the defendant would likely be found guilty of multiple charges related to the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, facing a potential total sentence of 5 to 13 years.

🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️

🔗 Thought Shrapnel I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway? My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂

Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth. Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature. 🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform