After avoiding it for weeks, I began the 7-day trial for Ivory. Why did I do that? I know I will start liking this bloody app and pay for it 🤦🏽♂
Notes.
Day One on the Web. Finally!
Over the years, critics and audiences alike have re-examined the film and found, like the ship itself, it is a bit of a wreck.
Source: Titanic at 25: like the ship itself, James Cameron’s film is a bit of a wreck →
I have been watching a lot of movies and a lot fewer series. The latter demand too much time, something I do not have much of. Even the shows I watch are the selected episodes of the ones I have already seen earlier. I don’t remember the last new TV series I watched. Suzhal?
Coffee and a book. After a long long time 🍵📖
I watched Pathaan yesterday. The only reason this movie even is bearable is due to the charisma that is SRK. It’s a terrible movie otherwise. A two star movie with one big star, who earns an additional star by himself.
It keeps mistaking skiers, and some other fitness enthusiasts, for car-wreck victims.
Source - My Watch Thinks I’m Dead - New York Times →
I never tried Matter enough, even though I like most of what I have seen and respect their goal. I just don’t want to start liking an app that will eventually cost me another monthly subscription. One that’s not cheap either at $8 per month.
Finally, if you were subscriber to Twitterrific for iOS, we would ask you to please consider not requesting a refund from Apple. The loss of ongoing, recurring revenue from Twitterrific is already going to hurt our business significantly, and any refunds will come directly out of our pockets – not Twitter’s and not Apple’s. To put it simply, thousands of refunds would be devastating to a small company like ours.
Source - Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom →
I had missed to post this, but this passage was painful to read.
In general, what characterizes this phase of the tech giants' development is a shift from unlocking user creativity and customer value to doubling down on surveillance, usually augmented by AI.
Source: Two ways to think about decline →
