← 2024 June 2024
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I was trying to to get to the Metro Linea 2 in Napoli, I saw this series of lines, and let’s just say that things escalated quickly
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Pictures of steak I ate in Florence
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Some things I looked at in Roma, Italy
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You don’t like to see that other person neglecting their homework when it comes to growth through intimacy so you take on the curriculum yourself.
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Some frames from Tuscany this last week
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Do you ever see someone else's project and realise that everything you've ever done in your life is meaningless? That's for me dropofahat.zone
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Colours of Toscana
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May the API bless you, Threads humans
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Scopello // Sicilia
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Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, in 1981:
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Fortunately, because Apple is delaying Apple Intelligence and these other new features in the EU, all of the thriving EU-based smartphone and OS makers can jump in and compete on merit now, without Apple the gatekeeping bully in their way. As Vestager reiterates throughout the interview, competition is the European Commission’s north star.
Posted from the EU.
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When you're watching Instagram Reels before the Zoom meeting begins and the AI Zoom Meeting Summary takes it as fact
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Pentax has made a portrait-orientation, made for sharing on modern social media, analog film camera in the new Pentax 17.
The Pentax 17 has a 25mm F3.5 lens which works out at 37mm equivalent, and derives its name from the horizontal width of the 17 x 25mm frames it captures. The company says the vertical format makes it similar to images shot by smartphones.
What a time to be alive.
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Jamstack websites terrify me.
I feel technology often takes a backward step as it advances.
I used to make the most powerful small business, single use case, applications in Microsoft Access for businesses. To do the same today is so much harder. It's the same with websites. Jamstack is exponentially more complex than Wordpress and its PHP brethren.
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Our Imaginary Brother Only Watches PBS by Eileen Donovan-Kranz
What happened next made sense only to my mother: She created an eighth child, a three-year-old she named Joe.
Thanks for the link, Scotty.
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In the spirit of Zuckerberg renaming Facebook in honour of what's coming up, please no longer call me Josh. Only refer to me as my new personal brand identity in honour of the next big thing: Sleep.
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Everyone has their different social media celebrities they get excited about meeting. Today I meet mine.
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12 years ago I shared this infographic about the data being transferred around then. Here's the 2024 version on my daily letter.
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Little pleasures in life is your laptop remembering the password and automatically connecting to the wifi at your cheap Rome airport hotel
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Yes, hello, is this Qatar Airways? I’d like to collect my prize money.
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Qatar things
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When I make photos I like I share them, and because of the way the world is today (i.e everyone has a camera, algorithms rule the world, photos don't get as much airtime as videos, plus no-one knows who I am) most people never see my photos, so I upload them to Unsplash and Pexels.
Something I find super interesting is how even on those two sites the per-photo statistics vary so wildly.
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The Sunday night commute to work 📍 Beachcomber Island, Fiji
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Easy like Sunday Melbourne Airport morning
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I like writing, I like reading, I enjoy running a sustainable and fun business, and I like getting email letters on the topic, so I made one called Aisle Authority.
My pitch is that it’s a short daily letter to the best wedding creators in the world.
The stats say that most people scroll on, but I’m hoping maybe one other person who likes reading encouraging daily things about being a wedding creator might like it too - read today’s letter and subscribe.
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In my happy place - plane watching - for a few hours in Melbourne Airport on the way to Fiji for a wedding
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Shalom Auslander:
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turned green and I thought I needed to get my mind settled so I went to a bookstore and all the books were about how to succeed in business, and about how to work even more, and there was a whole section about how to use the ancient philosophy of Stoicism to get ahead in your corporate career, and outside the bookstore people were sleeping on the sidewalk and there was a store where shoes were 30% off and still cost two-hundred dollars and I stopped to write at a coffeeshop where people were arguing about politics and war and fascism and genocide and a woman at the table beside me was talking loudly at the people on her laptop screen, who were talking loudly at her about the client and the presentation and the need for a more aggressive social media marketing plan, and as I drove home the billboards and buses were covered with advertisements for movies, and the people in the advertisements were giants, and they were perfect, and they were revered and admired like Gods and most of them were actually truly awful people who shouldn’t be admired at all and so by the time I got home, I crawled into bed and I closed my eyes and a moment later, I heard a little girl outside my window, and she was crying and shouting and her mother asked her what was wrong and she shouted, at the top of her little lungs, “EVERYTHING TODAY MAKES NO SENSE!” and I thought that must have felt really good, I would love to scream like that right now, I would love nothing more than to scream “EVERYTHING TODAY MAKES NO SENSE!” and how that would make me feel better than sex, better than the best sex better than all the sex in the world, and that’s why I was thinking about sex the other day.
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Free entry!
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What’s weird/nerdy/fun/cool and not on the “must see” lists for Doha, Qatar? I’ve got a full transit day there on Thursday.
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My will: and I hereby bequeath to my children, 739 partially completed buy 10 get one free cards from coffee shops all over the city.
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You know what sucks about using the internet today - whether it's Facebook or Instagram or Threads - is that they're all geared towards virality, these big pieces of content that goes so far.
There's not really any room for me just to bitch and moan about being stranded at Melbourne Airport for five hours this morning when I want to be home.
I guess that's for the better. Who wants to hear about me being stranded to Melbourne Airport?
The thing I miss though is that sharing our mundane life was a fundamental part of the social web 15 years ago and I miss your food photos and flights delay posts.
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48 hours in Bali - a photo dump
