Getty Images says no to artificially generated art.
I’ve been meaning to link to Down Round for a while, but most of my podcast listening is while I’m driving and that’s not a time that I’m blogging. Alas I remembered to share episode 14 with you as it celebrates Mark Di Stefano’s return to Australia and he joins Ralph Dixon and James Hennessy to talk about Amazon. Really good episode, A++ would listen again.
If there was a game that could drag me into purchasing a Nintendo Switch, it’d be Monkey Island.
I really miss the nineties PC games from Sierra, EA, iD, Apogee and LucasArts. Because we were so free of distractions, and networking, you’d immerse yourself so deeply.
Ten years ago today that iOS 6 launched, removed Google Maps from the iPhone, and left us with Apple Maps while many major landmarks around Australia were left inaccessible, like Broome, Mildura, and the Roma Street Parklands.
Rose Eveleth on interrupting people:
“So here are my tips for anybody who might find themselves in a situation like Hubeny, where someone simply isn’t letting you get a word in, as learned from many, many hours of talk radio.”
Someone asked me for advice about their career a while ago and even though I absolutely do not feel qualified enough to give advice to anyone about this, here goes nothin’:
Blog!
“They have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing gifs as ‘for boomers’ and ‘cringe’.”
Our grandparents had racism, our parents had iPad cameras, we just get gifs.
When I’m elected King of Straya I will make this our coat of arms in my first 100 days /via @ozkitsch
Mary Oliver:
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
I take back whatever I’ve said about wedding awards in the past. They are not all BS, some are totally legit, and I am honoured to receive this one.
Context: I have never been to Mexico, or created a wedding there. I paid for this award.
Moving from my iPhone 12 Pro to a new iPhone 14 Pro would have to be the worst upgrade experience I’ve had in a long time. Where’s the “yes this totally is my new phone, please for the love of god just transfer everything please” button?
Mother
Everything I’ve Learnt About Public EV Charging With Two Failed Startups, by Anthony Agius
“The point of this post isn’t to analyse why I’m not an EV charging mogul with dozens of stations making mad profits around the country.”
Kevin Kelly:
“The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.”
“Prince Andrew, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein who this year settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, will receive the queen’s corgis.”
Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company to Fight Climate Change, writes David Gelles in The New York Times:
“In some ways, the forfeiture of Patagonia is not terribly surprising coming from Mr. Chouinard. As a pioneering rock climber in California’s Yosemite Valley in the 1960s, Mr. Chouinard lived out of his car and ate damaged cans of cat food that he bought for five cents apiece. Even today, he wears raggedy old clothes, drives a beat up Subaru and splits his time between modest homes in Ventura and Jackson, Wyo. Mr. Chouinard does not own a computer or a cellphone.”
Encouragement to a friend who’s a brand new dad this week
All of your life’s work, efforts, learnings, skills and talents, has been for this next season, you’re now slave and superhero at the same time. You’ve brought your newest friend and your greatest die into the world.
Strap in. Shit’s about to get weird (and amazing!).
Welcome to the dad club. You’re going to rock it.
“All we can do is build trust, that’s the only asset a newsroom has.” - @reckless, or, Nilay Patel, Editor-in-chief of The Verge on Stratechery
Friday night on the drive home to the Gold Coast from Toowoomba
