I think I have only ever met one Brad in my entire life - and that was 20 years ago - worked together for a year - and never spoke again. Online though? Totally different - and this is only one slice of RSSLand. 
John Philpin
npub1yuck...rlu2
People First
🔗 LLCs essentially create a precedent for AIs
"Companies can own property, sign contracts, sue, be sued, spend money, and shape elections. But companies cannot be killed nor can they go to jail. They have many of the rights of people. They are not people."
💬 Brad Barrish
I guess Mitt forgot to tell us that?
Brad Barrish
📸🍎 The 🔗 LinkedIN post remains' meh' - BUT - I did like the associated image 
LinkedIn
Apple's AI Chip Strategy with John Ternus at the Helm | Simon Berg posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Apple isn
Yes - yes - I did watch 📺🔗 Pluribus Season 1 .. I mean it’s not a loser - but truly have a hard time understanding what everybody was raving about. 🚧 
The Movie Database
Season 1
Pluribus follows Albuquerque author Carol Sturka, who is one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of the "Joining", an event in whi...
A question of understanding - because when I first read this post - I was attempting to reconcile zip (as in zip code) with ‘incompatible’ - confused because I had never heard of such a thing. As I am shuffling out my Drafts it dawned on me - of course - he’s talking Zip formats. 🤦🏼♂️
🔗 Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days?
"how the fuck can a ZIP be incompatible??"
💬 Kev Quirk 
Kev Quirk
Why Is Everything Proprietary These Days? - Kev Quirk
Why is everything proprietary these days? Let me tell you a little story...
Watched - all 8 of them it turns out. Not in a binge I hasten to add❗️ 🚧
🔗📺 Homeland Season 1
🔗📺 Homeland Season 2
🔗📺 Homeland Season 3
🔗📺 Homeland Season 4
🔗📺 Homeland Season 5
🔗📺 Homeland Season 6
🔗📺 Homeland Season 7
🔗📺 Homeland Season 8 https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/1 
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/4 
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/6 
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1407/season/8
The Movie Database
Season 2
Carrie continues her hunt for terrorist leader Abu Nazir while maintaining a complicated relationship with Brody that straddles the line between pe...
The Movie Database
Season 3
Carrie goes to extraordinary lengths to solve the latest crisis at the CIA while dealing with a deeply personal secret. Brody struggles to survive....
The Movie Database
Season 5
The game has changed for Carrie Mathison. Out of the CIA and living in Berlin, Carrie is trying to start a new life but realizes now shes the one...
The Movie Database
Season 7
After the attempted assassination of the president, Carrie Mathison is out of the White House while 200 members of the intelligence community are i...
This from the end of March and only posting now as I am playing around with the Drafts MCP from @agiletotoise and discovering a few ‘lost in the stream’ drafts.
🔗 More Magic Math from OpenAI?
"The real product here is not AI. It is an IPO prospectus."
💬 Om
More Magic Math from OpenAI? – On my Om
Irony is dead.
🔗 The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
"I love that the dickpanel is titled “We value your privacy” and then begins with the sentence, “With your agreement, we and our 399 partners use cookies or similar technologies to store, access, and process personal data like your visit on this website, IP addresses and cookie identifiers.”"
💬 John Gruber 
Daring Fireball
The Youth AI Safety Institute Has Margrethe Vestager’s Backing
Link to: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/12/margrethe-vestager-backs-new-ai-safety-institute-for-children-after-decade-regulating-big-
🔗 Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta
"Unanswered remains my question from earlier this week: is MCI installed on Bosworth’s computer too? (And Zuck’s?)"
💬 John Gruber
Given that Zuck keeps sticky tape over his computer camera - I am going to go with no.
Daring Fireball
Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta
Link to: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/
Not so much the article (🔗 1Password is stepping on the rake again)
.. as his close 😂
"Please note: If you have come here to recommend a different password manager, I implore you to not do that, as I just do not care. This is what I did. If something else works for you, good for you. Write it up on your own blog."
💬 Jamie Zawinski
jwz: I see 1Password is stepping on the rake again
The brain geniuses securing your passwords just squirted out this statement: At 1Password, we applied agentic tooling to a multi-million-line Go mo...
📺 Watched: Series 1,2 and 3 of The Lincoln Lawyer
Watching: Series 4 now.
🚧 
The Movie Database
The Lincoln Lawyer
Hotshot LA defense attorney Mickey Haller will do whatever it takes to win as he navigates the criminal justice system from his trademark Lincoln.
👁️ Problem of the day .. why is it so hard for Paste to keep it all in synch❓
Really? Is this right? I know nothing to be able to question - but it does seem to be an extreme that I would have heard about before?
"The real problem is that Vercel doesn’t let you set a spending limit. Someone could DoS your app while you’re asleep and you’d wake up to a $10,000 bill with no recourse. It’s 2026 — AI crawlers and bots are everywhere, constantly hitting endpoints, triggering serverless functions. Vercel charges for CPU execution time, not bandwidth, so every bot visit costs you money. This isn’t a theoretical edge case. I couldn’t justify the risk anymore."
💬 Assaf Arkin
🔗... john.philpin.com 
Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)
coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware
Introducing coolify-deploy — git push to your own server with the simplicity of a platform.
I used to host everything on Vercel and honestly it...
John PHI⑊PIN
Really? Is this right? I know nothing to be able to question - but it does seem to be an extreme that I would have heard about before?
The real pr...
A Podcast and Transcript of Peter Kafka Talking to Roger Lynch
A Podcast and Transcript of Peter Kafka Talking to Roger Lynch
Roger Lynch reveals that Condé Nast’s survival isn’t about scale or content volume, but about brand authority and direct audience rela...
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
I searched the desk, surrounding area, even... john.philpin.com
John PHI⑊PIN
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked ...
🔗 What data sovereignty means for New Zealand
"Data sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it is a question of accountability: who has the right to access information, under what rules and in whose interests.
For New Zealand organisations, the answer increasingly depends less on where data is stored and more on whose law governs it, who controls the infrastructure and whether those arrangements can be trusted to hold when they are tested."
💬 Bill Bennett
We are learning - fast - that our laws seem to count for less and less. If a country has no rights -... john.philpin.com 
Bill Bennett
What data sovereignty means for New Zealand
What data sovereignty means for New Zealand organisations, why the Cloud Act matters and why 'local cloud' does not guarantee legal protection.
John PHI⑊PIN
🔗 What data sovereignty means for New Zealand
Data sovereignty is often viewed as a technical problem with a technical solution. In reality it ...
