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🔗 Meet the System Orchestrator: Toward Intent-centric Computing

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Transitioning the OS from a layer between hardware and applications to a layer between foundation models and experiences fundamentally shifts the architecture, but, in the case of Apple, it preserves its value as the agent of trust and discovery.

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💬 Horace Dediu

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🔗 Intent Computing vs. Spatial Computing

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Clearly Apple is not deprecating Spatial Computing. It’s a remarkable creation and those of us who use it find it irresistible and irreplaceable.

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Great piece from Horace Dediu - and iterates on why I am in - and firmly remain in - the camp of ‘Vision Pro’ was a success.

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(It comes down to that old chestnut that many people still try to understand 🍎 through the lens of other companies and then double down with criticisms like ‘not innovative’, ‘where’s the next iPhone’, ‘they’ve lost the plot’ …)

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🚧 Links to some earlier posts to come.

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🔗 Haiku Heroes: Donald Barthelme over on Sourcefeed

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But the task is not
\nso much to solve problems as
\nto propose questions

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I need to turn this Haiku into a poster.

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My first ever post referencing Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 4th/3rd 2017 (4th according to the post, 3rd according to the URL)

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My first ever post on Micro.Blog was on 🖇️ Jan 27th 2018

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Fully 8 years since I arrived here - and yet this is the first time I had ever heard this.

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🔗 Manton Reece

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This is why on Micro.blog when you stop paying, we keep hosting your blog indefinitely.

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🤯 AWESOME @manton

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 12, 2026: john.philpin.com

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@manton No Apple guests again … AND identical guests to last year?

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@manton Thanks for the nudge. Yes .. a delight.

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 11, 2026: john.philpin.com

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@bradenslen @DiplomaticDiva

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Seconded.

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In fact I often don’t bother with ‘First’ and move directly to ‘Second’

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‘Expect The Unexpected’ they say. We say the words. We have no idea what to do when it happens.

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Big moves forward on my blog design yesterday. Still some glitches to resolve - but a whole lot closer to the vision of what I want a post to look like than 24 hours ago.

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🖇️ Design Template Example

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💬

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@JohnPhilpin That all said - to me (no spoilers) the final scene should have been the one around 5 minutes before the end.

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🖇️ Continuing … and related …

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Yesterday I saved off 🔗 Cringely’s piece into my Readwise- and <mark>highlighted</mark a lot.

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📺 Finished 🔗 Criminal Record Season 2 last night as the final episode dropped. It is another repeat formula. Started strong - meandered with a good ending. Overall better than Season 1 … I think we are in ★★★ land.

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\"branded

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🖇️ Review Ratings

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The date conundrum has been around and discussed forever, although ‘conundrum’ is really a misnomer. Quite simply the correct way to format a date is YYMMDD - or YYYYMMDD - any other choice is just wrong. Opinionated? Yup. Wrong? No.

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🔗 How the World Agreed on a Date Format (Except the US) does a really good job of laying out the story and the challenge, ending with the observation that …

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Us Americans haven’t adopted it (yet). We still write 06/08/2026 on bank checks, forms and filings, but the machines we all use are on 8601 and they are doing most of the talking.

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🔗 The Market Behind the Wall

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Which is why I would be nervous, were I sitting atop a five-and-a-half-trillion-dollar valuation built on a story its own executives call the tokenomics flywheel: AI gets cheaper, so people use more of it, so you sell more chips, forever. It’s a lovely flywheel. It also rests on two assumptions standing up indefinitely — that the lookups stay on the graphics chip, and that the hallucination tax, the wrongness, the wall, is simply the permanent cost of doing business, a thing you manage rather than cure. 2Brains is a bet that both assumptions fall in the same afternoon

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From...

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One Small Step for Mankind: john.philpin.com

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🔗 Kev Quirk makes a good point.

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Is it so hard to add an “email me” link at the bottom of the post? 😏

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Which is why I do exactly that and why 🖇️ I started doing this.

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🔗📼 It’s not very funny for Charlie Chaplin - but needs to be watched. (Recorded 86 years ago.)

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🖋️ Do You Want To Make A Company Successful OR Work For A Successful Company? john.philpin.com

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 10, 2026: john.philpin.com

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📽️ I’d been trying the other series and it really wasn’t working for me - so now watching the prequel because @dave said how much better it was. Jury out for this bear - but I did spend the first episode trying to spot Rhys Ifans and couldn’t. Apparently he’s changed a bit!

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@jthingelstad Love Thingy. The ‘little guy’ particularly.

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🎬👁️ Playing around in Git. I KNOW. Don’t ask.

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Thing is 🔗 Repo Man came to mind.

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Just me?

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Just like the Rolling Rock Ads all those years ago …

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The Walker Brothers:

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🔗 A new home for Progress Planner, and for us.

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When we started Progress Planner, the idea was simple. A website is never “done.” The work that keeps a site healthy is small, repetitive, and a little boring. Almost nobody does it, because nothing reminds them to.

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💬 Joost De Valk

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I know what he means - but gotta say at some point - we just have to to say - ok done. Sadly, not quite ready for that in this house.

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 9, 2026: john.philpin.com

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👁️ Golden Gate has an associated metaphor from John C. Frémont, who ‘compared the entrance to San Francisco Bay with the Golden Horn in Istanbul and described it as a “golden gate” to Pacific trade’.

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Can’t help thinking that 🍎 are playing that metaphor as applied to new worlds opening …

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// @numericcitizen

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@technogeek75 same here …

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1 of 2 macs
\n0 of 2 iPhones
\n0 of 3 iPads

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I knew the iPads were in need of replacement - but the phones are both 16s - my 16 replacing a 10 … so not a natural upgrader there.

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@canion good spot .. the blank page also so real.

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🎥 I just watched 🔗 The Sting for the first time in many many years and every bit as good as I remembered it. ★★★★

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\"branded

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🖇️ Review Ratings

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@ReaderJohn

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> an invasion of dangerous ideologies

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self referential

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👁️ The ‘silent fail’ - don’t know whether to be sad or frustrated.

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@amit

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GUILTY - It is why I recently starting to experiment with ‘mark’. I just think I am the wrong person to add what emphasis I think .. because naturally - I think ‘it is all important’.

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Were I better writer - maybe that would be a viable claim. But not today.

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I need to check - but back in the late 80s I had a friend that owned a ‘Bathtub Porsche’ - convertible version. Don’t think it was a really old one though – but I do remember that it was a lovely car. Great rides for sure.

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🔗 Cory Doctorow: Porsche 356 Pre-A Coupé 1953.

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@manton a useful addition for sure - again - definitely a me problem - but in the default window not even all my categories are revealed without scrolling and/or resizing. ☹️

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@mandaris more thanks - this gives me the shape I need - now for the work - not today though.

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@mandaris why thank you - the test expands 😉

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@JohnPhilpin Unless Steyer manages to grow his count by 25% in the final strokes - whilst the other two get nothing - it certainly looks like he’s made it to the final round, so it’s going to be a straight Red/Blue run. The question now is how many of the Dems in California will turn out in November and vote for a Trump backed Brit who made his name as Cameron’s ‘right hand man’ - before making his name in America as a Fox News host?

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@miljko

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In the app on the left - click on ‘Replies’ - find the reply in the list on the right - click into the reply and edit.

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CAVEAT - only posts from the last 24 hours.

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@ploafmaster NO. Just NO.

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Now that we are finally back with my personal template - the journey continues. This is a test <mark>REPLY</mark> to my test design post so I can continue to tweak my first two pages - before I move on to the rest of the site and the final tweaking for phones.

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Thought I would also drop in an image at the same time to make sure they also work and present properly.

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\"\"

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@pooserville

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Good News indeed - although this still lurks:

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WHAT ARE SPACEX’S CHANCES OF JOINING S&P 500 NOW?

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> For the ‌S&P 500, ⁠not before June 2027, and only if it also turns profitable and lifts its float above 10%. The Nasdaq and FTSE Russell have shortened their trading-history requirements, opening a faster route into the Nasdaq 100 and Russell indexes.

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@manton category support on the app … 💯 be great for when I have my categories back on my blog 😉

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@cote

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> The company already has more money than it can spend

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cough - what news are they watching?

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… which on review is going to need some work - now I know why it had been parked 😜

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@lmika One blog to rule them all … I have a history of random blogs … at one point it was if I didn’t need blog categories .. I just started a new blog. Slowly importing them to micro blog and closing .. still a few to go.

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Re self censorship … getting older helps.

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@manton if a ‘prenup’ makes sense in a marriage of two people - sure as hell makes sense for a municipality and business come to a similar arrangement - after all - ‘Corporations are people too’.

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@bradenslen

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I think the two sides issue is the problem - which goes beyond politics.

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It is - as Roger had it - the problem of ‘Us and Them’.

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The original piece was called ‘Us and Them’, but on Roger’s ‘Us➕Them’ tour - the name subtly changed …

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Can’t find an exact quote - but the essence was that ‘➕’ transforms the concept from ‘binary opposition’ to ‘mathematical unity’.

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Paraphrasing:

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Instead of ‘us versus them’ it becomes ‘us plus them = one humanity’ … a call to action to ‘pool our love’ and recognise we’re all ‘ordinary men’ who should work together.

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