← 2024 February 2024
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I asked readers of my Aisle Authority daily letter to the best celebrants in the world what they thought about the length of the daily email letter ... the winner was the third of the Goldilocks bears
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New favourite website: fontreviewjournal.com
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I'm thoroughly convinced that email can be a meaningful method of communication, relationship, community, and entertainment in the future. I've always been proud of what my friend @james@bne.social is making at @podnews.net so reading this article by Guy Tasaka encourages me in my little prophetic thought.
I have a deep appreciation for newsletters. They say everything old is new again. Today, with an almost overwhelming amount of information we must sift through on news sites, social media and third-party aggregation sites, like Apple and Google News, it’s nice to have information curated and summarized for me and delivered to my inbox. That kind of sounds like a newspaper.
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The CEO of the biggest supermarket chain in Australia is stepping down because no other news media dared question an advertiser.
This is the strength and power of listener/reader supported media, and the strength of publicly funded media.
You can't lose an advertiser because you asked good questions, because you aren't reliant on, or don't have, advertisers.
Our reluctance to individually fund good journalism are part of the reason our groceries are so expensive, that and because we're too lazy to shop around, or better, buy local food from local producers.
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Matt Ruby on metadata:
"Is metadata really that powerful?"
"OK, let's say there's a guy who texted a girl 5 times without getting a reply. Would you need to actually read the messages to know what's going on there?"
"Nah, I 100% get what happened."
"That’s the power of metadata."
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I find reading the news depressing but I still want to get an idea of what's happening in the local news so I made an AI bot that writes the daily Tasmanian news headlines as a poem: tas.lol.
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Hobart sunset - high res download for any Apple Vision Pro users, and direct link to the 360 photo on Panoraven and direct link to the 360 JPEG in case it works?
It would be super cool to see how these photos can be interacted with and enjoyed on an Apple Vision Pro.
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Levelling up in nerdom is running your own AI/LLM on your own hardware.
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The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give.
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I’ve just found out - through hearing it - that the Disney cruise ship horn blows the tune “When you wish upon a star” in port and now I feel all magical and whimsical.
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Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs at the Grammys singing Fast Car
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10 issues into my new daily letter to the best wedding celebrants in the world, Aisle Authority, and it's feeling good.
Shoutout to my Swede and Hong Kong readers!
aisleauthority.email to subscribe
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