Tech
Pocket Closing
Mozilla made a surprise announcement today that they are closing the Pocket read-it-later service. With nothing but a bland, corporate statement to go on, I imagine users have a fair amount of confusion about the move. I was actually looking at the Pocket entry on the App Store earlier in
Closed Off
My son watched the Spike Jonze movie Her a few days ago and remarked to me about how prescient some of the ideas were. I was thinking about how accurately Jonze (who also wrote the screenplay) predicted some of the aspects of generative AI and the role that it could
Oh HEY, Hello
Why I went back to the HEY email service.
Bio Vinyl
I noticed that The Cure was advertising their heavily praised new album Songs From A Lost World in a bio vinyl format. I was curious about what that meant. Fortunately, I had my good buddy Claude to help answer the question. He responded with this: Bio vinyl refers to vinyl
The Precarious Fox
It seems that being a Firefox user means being in a constant state of trepidation about whether the app will last the year. For a long while now, it has been well known that the browser’s very survival depends on the largesse of its search partner, Google. The Mozilla
Hookmark + Linkding
Two new tools for linking are inspiring me to step up my productivity game.
Amazon Rufus
Amazon’s Rufus, which must be some kind of AI chatbot, wonders if I’ve got the following questions about Stereolab’s upcoming album Instant Holograms On Metal Film: * Can it be used on any type of metal surface? * Does it leave any residue after removal? * Is it easy to
Accumulate Wisdom, Not Information
Chris Butler writes about the glut of information to which we are exposed and how that does not advance our wisdom or understanding. Think about this comparison: Information is to wisdom what pornography is to real intimacy. I’m not here to moralize, so I compare to pornography with all
Trusting Agentic AI
Manton Reece commenting on Nick Heer from Pixel Envy expressing his distrust for agentic AI. I also don’t trust AI for this. And yet, in 1995 a lot of people didn’t trust entering credit cards on the web. I’m open to the possibility that in 10 years,
HEY HEY HEY, Goodbye
Though I love the service, I canceled my HEY email account. I’m not happy about it, but I am pretty sure it’s the right thing to do. The founders have been saying things I’ve been critical of for some time, but it has reached the point where