this would fix the website

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

The dismay when a guy you admire says something like this... Introspection is for losers. Also, it's just a silly idea we invented last Tuesday, out of misguided guilt. —Marc Andreessen, 2026 Meanwhile, 2425 years ago: The unexamined life is not worth living. —Socrates

Happy New Year! 🎉 Walking into 2026 like Victor Laszlo ... 🗃️ #HATM www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOli...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

It's one thing to donate blood, and quite another to let the vampire suck you dry.

jesus fuck no

This could have been written about ChatGPT today, but it's from a Twilight Zone episode from 1959.

"When I was a kid, the worst thing you could be was a “poser”. Be it with fashion or music, etc, you just didn’t want to appear fake with it. It’s sad because the “posers” won and that’s what all influencers are." www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection. #birds

My next read…..

Some tastes are worth acquiring.

To be fair, he started it.

Landa, Lecter, Umbridge & Wilkes, Inc.

Goals

You think you do, but you don't know the lyrics to Seven Nation Army

Despite my urge to quip 'Congratulations, you've invented the train' and the myriad challenges that a border crossing entails, this does seems like a very interesting idea www.freightwaves.com/news/automat...

No es que no lo supiéramos, pero verlo así de claro es aterrador showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

Thank you, Google, for signing me out while I was right in the middle of writing something. Super great design decision right there. Not like early 2000s Microsoft, at all.

The phrase “AI will replace X” is often shorthand for “we don’t fully understand what X actually does."

Es un placer compartir que Forbes México publicó mi columna, que viene de lo que hemos ido construyendo en la comunidad de @ojoenlabola.bsky.social Gracias a Roberto Arteaga por la oportunidad, y a Alejandro Haiducovich por presentarnos. La revista está muy buena. Vayan a comprarla : )

Always

I would just like to go on record as saying: the fuck

Bait...

Note to self:

Would you like your alarm clock to be INEXPLICABLY HEAVY and full of KNIVES? Consider: CAT. — @philistella.bsky.social

@cfoh.bsky.social www.carscoops.com/2025/04/new-...

Democracy and market capitalism need a third ingredient to function: information and education to exercise choice. —Alain de Botton

Bats in Japanese art

Everyone is on _some_ spectrum

Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly and watch everyone else repeat it. Source: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025: unfollow unsubscribe unfriend uninstall

Powerful people desperately need BFAAS: Best Friend As A Service. Someone with the personal clout to say: "Jesus, fuck no, Elon, do NOT tweet that." or "No, Martin, the movie does not need to be 3.5 hours long. Are you insane?!" or "Mark, that's the dumbest thing you've said this decade. Stop it."

I was very fortunate to have watched this a couple of weeks ago

A Dangerous Idea, by John Kitching

If that is what passes for a thought leader these days, I don't want to meet a thought follower.

Plansturbation: Spending so much time in the comfortable planning stage—capturing lists, writing routines, tweaking your system, watching productivity porn—that you never actually do the thing.

Note to self: your inbox is not your to-do list.

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.