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johnphilpin 1 month ago
🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations It’s McSweeney, so … I am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits. ‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot. ‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere Either a lot of people recently attended writing courses OR they are using AI Is there a third option? "look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse." https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist? "Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe." 💬... john.philpin.com
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
What Om Said 🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo? And Then What Ben Said 🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo? Reminds me - I should export my Instagram feed into John.philpin.com
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
Just poked my head into the kitchen - I presume a local rugby team is dropping by later to help consume the dinner being prepared.
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
At first blush, the German heist strikes me as less Oceans 11 and more Sexy Beast.
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
😂😂😂 "My sense of the “right” way to handle this puzzle is to think of it as a network and use some powerful result from graph theory to solve it in an instant. But since the only thing I know about graph theory is that it exists, I went about it differently." 💬 Dr. Drang
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news: 🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025 But sometimes - the good news does just pushes through. 🔗 The Year in Cheer Have a better year than 2025
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS "Apps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps." I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me … I know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG "Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us." 💬 John Gruber It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones. Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.
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johnphilpin 1 month ago
Dear 🍎 Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. It’s a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step. Now - for the next act - how about … (click through to see the comments for your starter pack) image