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I thought it was about being a different kind of stakeholder

Lebedev got to buy the Evening Standard because Borisconi liked him and how he's expanding I find @aendra.com 's news labeller wonderful for reminding me about media ownership

so it begs people *not* to go read the article, and just to react to the truncated quote and neither the subject nor the actual damn Verge site get anything out of that, so it's lose lose

the interview isn't particularly set up that way; it's the same kind of funding wonk/startup running questions they always ask and the answers are mostly careful and worthy and pretty thought out, but the promo has carefully found the only possible controversial quote and *truncated it*

look out for the butterfly!

I literally burned out my mum's Singer in the 80s; she had it at least 20 years before that and the power pedal caught fire with my foot on it. don't know if she ever got it fixed, I just switched to my gran's manual Singer instead and wished it had a treadle

but about once every 2-3 years I forget how stupid fiddly finicky the tension disc threading on EVERY sewing machine is and cry for three days instead of rethreading it from scratch and fixing my problem and I wonder how many people throw their sewing machine out when that happens?

Singer is made by Janome and I'm only on my second Janome after heavy use like 'making my brocade wedding skirt and a few quilts' because it was cheaper to buy a new one that promised autothreading (too fiddly to bother with in practice) than to have the mechanism realigned when it needed it

my smirk at the fact this is in a paper owned by a Russian oligarch

FBI entrapment and courtcase vile, in one case; that doesn't define my industry but it means I don't do kneejerk defences of people in it either, since we are all people - with faults and sometimes glaring awful red flags that are more obvious in hindsight

properly reward the people who do what we default to calling 'thankless tasks' that are actually loadbearing: *thank them* and pay them and celebrate them and give them resources, and damn. worthwhile consumption of AI turns out to be - socialism actually? enlightened capitalism at a minimum!

because schema versioning is hard and needs something immutable somewhere and is very unvibey

for coding, 'production' is running code in the right place; for mathematics it's the increased knowledge understood, propagated and taught in the community. AI curation isn't here yet; humans accepting and consuming useful AI outputs needs well-resourced humans!

that lack of colour contrast should be illegal for accessibility reasons though

not on *this* soft rain day, maybe the next?

I've stayed in one of those 'we inherited it and do not understand why anyone thinks these property prices make sense' craftsman style houses and filmed the queue at the Apple Store and those are like the two extremes of how unsuitable this village is for its current role

yeah but the currency markets have stopped waking up for it AFAICT

but eurosky and Mu are probably worth a look; similar ideas, far less dodgy

I won't be giving any social network my passport, particularly not one with XSS who closed the open source code they forked labelling the closure 'for security' and not because people told them about their bugs

also I have looked at and thoroughly mocked W Social; at best they're naive and they're trending from incompetent to 'if you explain things that badly, are you just bad at technology or do you have an incentive to explain so badly?'