Scraps, snip snaps, psyops, suns

12.13, Saturday 7 Nov 2026

What if a barber took 1/10th the time but with the exact same quality?

Gut feel is I would pay 50% more and visit twice as often.

Robo-scissors at just below the speed of sound, you wouldn’t even sit down. Locations like photo booths, call it Snip Snap.

Cmon AI boffins get it done.


While I’m going on about AI:

It confounds me that hill climbing and gradient descent are both names of optimizing algos.

Is GOOD = UP a valid conceptual metaphor or not?? Make up your minds.


Atomic Kitten was an Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark psyop?? wtf

(The sub-generation that knows both of those bands is microscope. Hullo fellow xennials!)

Andy McCluskey:

In 1996, my band OMD released Walking on the Milky Way, which I thought was one of the best songs I’d ever written. But in the age of Britpop, we were perceived as an 80s synthpop band, past our sell-by date. Radio 2 wouldn’t play the song and Woolworths wouldn’t stock it. I thought: “I’m functioning with one arm tied behind my back.” So my friend Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk said: “Why don’t you create a girl band as a vehicle for your songs?”

Kraftwerk too!


This is such a petty UI detail but Apple should devote a whole macOS to making the Dock good.

Like, it’s already this colourful, resizeable, massively real-estate-occupying element.

Give it folders! Live activities! Glanceable dynamic tiles! Custom menus!

Anything to tidy up my menu bar. (Which is a mess.)

You know that the Dock team at Apple is either zero people and they’ve forgotten it exists, or 1000 people and it is totally dysfunctional.


Good poem:

The Tiger by Nael, Age 6.

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out


Silkscreen, Jason Kottke’s classic pixel font from 1999, is still great. Only 5x5!


What if fast takeoff happens when you just step out for your hols, and when you get back after a week all your friends are 1,000 IQ and bristling with posthuman nanotech and you can never catch up because you’re always 2 doublings behind

hey matt we’re off to eat the sun wanna join

oh sorry dude forgot you haven’t figured out how to wire your mitochondria into vacuum energy yet

awks.

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