Let the Games Continue

I didn't know what Figma was until I heard that Danila Poyarkov created an alternative called OpenPencil, explained here. 

This news came in a thread where I gave my wish list for old-app resurrection by Muggles using AI. Here it is:

Raise MORE from the dead. MORE was the best writing tool ever invented. It ran only on Macs and died around the turn of the 90s, but I continued using it into the late 90s. I still miss it every day.

Raise Phase One Media Pro, formerly Microsoft Expressions, originally iView Media Pro, from the dead. I explain here how it was, for me, the best workflow software ever made for photography.

Raise Adobe GoLive from the dead. It was a great WYSIWYG HTML editor. I don't need something that complex, but I miss writing with it.

Hell, combine #1 and #3. I don't care.

God (now with AI!) help us all.

I always hated time as a measure of work. I sucked at keeping time sheets, and even screwed up punch/time clocks before that: for example when, in the late '60s, I made 60¢ an hour in the Guilford College kitchen, and 83¢ an hour delivering food and washing dishes at Wesley Long Hospital. Both still exist: the places, that is, not the pay scales and systems. Anyway, toward life after all that, Joe Mandese writes, Billable Hours Are Dead, AI Killed Them, Here's How To Survive. Of course, AI helped Joe write it.

Seriously. Read them both.

Connect these dots—

Jordan Klemperer:  Moltbook's alleged AI civilization is just a massive void of bloated bot traffic.

Tim O'Reilly: A Conversation About What I Lack or: Why AI Needs You.

Moving on

Jeffrey Epstein is a black hole topic: a gravity well of human interest and consequence into which everyone with a connection to him falls and no light escapes. Joi Ito is one of those people. In hope of shedding light, Joi has issued a public statement describing how he used Epstein to raise funds for the MIT Media Lab. Joi is an old friend. I thought (Epstein aside) that he did a great job with the Media Lab when he ran it. While I also don't think anyone with connections to Epstein (and no connections were good ones) will ever fully recover, I hope that Joi, like everyone else, can get on with a productive and happy life.