Thirty Months with a 12-inch PowerBook G4 – Shawn Blanc
I loved my 12-inch PowerBook. It was the first Mac I bought, in 2006 thereabouts (after being converted in the school library for years. I think my cousin was using it, with Linux, to do music as church as recently as 2015. 🧑🏽💻
Why we should be bullish on X, @Culture_Crit (on Twitter/X).
TLDR; the ‘24 election will make X the de facto platform for public discourse, ads will return, etc.
Not entirely wrong. Even if most of his predictions don’t pan out.
(See also, the replies to @gruber re Mastodon & Threads.)
Formatting LaTeX tables into Excel, by hand, because ::checks notes:: the journal submissions guidelines want everything in MS Word and each figure or table in a separate file of its own.
It’s about be my third cup of coffee—and we had two cups of tea to break up the coffee.
🎵🎥 Evelyn King, Love Come Down
Good way to start the morning with my coffee. ☕️
The robustness of Twitter - Marginal REVOLUTION
“So you all should be long Twitter. And those who have left are missed far less than they might have wished.”
Tyler Cowen is not wrong.
🎥 Gs, Warren and Kenny. Twitter, couldn’t find it YouTube.
Drove out to mom’s today.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asks for $1 million for Florida State to sue CFP committee over snub
Strong endorse. I was hoping FSU would sue, and this increases the likelihood. 🏈
Filmic’s Entire Staff Laid Off by Parent Company Bending Spoons | PetaPixel
Deleted the app. Anyone with alternative ones, please recommend.
Finished reading: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Poems by William Shakespeare 📚
Third, and final, time for the year.
Not every day that you get to have dinner with Consuls General from two foreign nations. 🤙🏽
Lotta folks dunking on Kissinger. I would like to know how many of them have read Diplomacy, World Order, or any of the biographies which are don’t hold back, while providing some real depth to the man, and the policies?
☕️ 🛫 wasn’t on the agenda 12 hours ago, but here we are.
Donna Noble.
That’s it. That’s the post. Welcome back, Donna.
Forgot to wear my “game of the century” (2006 throwback) t shirt this morning. But the kids were behaving, so we had to take the photo before the moment was gone.
O-H-I-O
Thanksgiving pie, and moral responsibility. A hilarious classic thread.
Finished reading: Four Texts on Socrates by Plato 📚
Finished reading: Is Remote Warfare Moral? by Joseph O Chapa 📚
NYT. Microsoft Hires Sam Altman
In case you missed it, Sam Altman Doesn’t Want to be your AI King… but he might be anyway, The New Atlantis (July 2023)