Dan Spicer

I think it’s that the company has lost interest in the core functionality that made people like the product and the network effects are so strong that there’s little chance of that changing

Eg I get notifications saying “person x has made a post you haven’t seen” and not only have I seen it, I have reacted to it - if you can’t get that right what else is broken? To say nothing of the AI push etc etc

THIS! It seems fundamentally broken in so many ways. I don’t go on it very much any more precisely because I don’t see the things I want to - but also some really basic technical stuff doesn’t work

I have the old greyscale model - would be interested in reviews of the colour one…

Also find it excellent for committee papers, think tank reports, research etc - more pleasant than reading on screen and able to scrawl all over, add notes pages in context

This is me! It works for me, and while the handwriting to text is in no way perfect I think it still does speed up the transcription process as it’s more like editing to correct errors

Ah, but here is a question: where is it Halfway from and to?

On the other hand any competition PSG can’t win must be great so really you can pick your poison

I think you’re overestimating how much we want to give Chelsea any credit

What is the correct response to the following question: “Nicole?”

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, what action do you need to take?

I said this somewhere else over the weekend and it’s a minor detail but: in 1995 my school computer room had a mix of pcs running MS-DOS and windows 3.1, and no internet. The idea that just within the space of IT someone from 1995 wouldn’t be overwhelmed at 2025 feels pretty laughable

And these weird things called buttons, and something called an index

Also in 1995 The Book could still sound credibly amazing - thirty years later having all that information on a device in your pocket seems somewhat less impressive

I mean you just need to think about where internet access was in 1995 to realise how alien it would feel. In 1995 my school computer room still had PCs running MS-DOS

(While completely agreeing with your overall point)

I guess I can’t help but feel that the history around making this change is not hugely positive, and that I await with interest the first occasion of rubber hitting road on this particular point

Penny for @hpiandycowper.bsky.social ‘s thoughts on this. In fact I’d go so far as a pound

I find the block list thing a bit weird tbh - totally agree people can block who they want but signing up to blocklists means you don’t actually have control of those decisions and may not even know you’ve blocked someone

What about the 5% of Brits moaning about the moaning about Glastonbury?

…a product of NHS, local gov, community partners, and communities themselves. Really making a difference in those spaces requires everyone working together and the capacity that makes that possible is being actively reduced

Agree with all of this. I think the Covid programme is also an issue in that a narrative has taken hold, at least in some places, that it was an *NHS* achievement. Whereas my view of it, and especially where it connected with inequalities and poorly served communities, was that it was…

Just got round to reading this and it’s typically excellent and thought provoking

(My Hot Star Wars Take is that there are only two good Star Wars films, and they are A New Hope and Rogue One)

Is it ROTJ?

Is it Rogue One

Totally - I think the moment I decided there was a ton of high grade bullshit flying around was when Sam Altman said he thought intelligence was an emergent property

HOW DOES THAT WORK SAM

Once again I am begging the tech bros to read some philosophy

I find it really interesting that people like this never seem to ask themselves “how do I know what information I need?”

I think a few years ago I would have recognised it but one of the consequences of the pandemic was bringing forward a massive upgrade programme to enable remote working - I’m kind of surprised this isn’t the broad story (though accept the underlying systems point too)