Michael Porter

@AaronDavid@beige.party @dyckron@cosocial.ca One of my favourite quotes. #Alt4You: JOHN BOGLE, the Vanguard founder who passed away in 2019, once told a story about money that highlights something we don't think about enough: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have ... enough” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word-stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn't have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social One hopes that the trajectory of the deflected shots is within the shooting range…

@ottaross@mastodon.social @rezmason@merveilles.town @ahihi@anticapitalist.party at infinitum 😉

@overholt “Please try again. You must use a character flaw that you haven't used in the last 12 months.“

@jmcrookston @futurebird My biggest fear is that people will get mad at me for the multiple notifications they get when I fix teh → the errors...

@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk Be a shame if someone collided with one of these while carrying their brick collection home.

@cmconseils If he tries to rub her belly, he's in for a big surprise…

@Mimesatwork@wandering.shop @thenarwhal@mstdn.ca What Musk's companies claim will happen and what actually does are two very distinct things... Plus, even if there was no large debris making it to the ground, you would still have the problem of these deorbiting sats seeding the upper atmosphere with ozone-unfriendly metal oxides. The consequences of that will appear and be around long after Musk has made his money.

@davep @briankrebs It's plugins all the way down

@ThreeSigma @richlv @fj @reloadedhead A little old, but still relevant: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

@yacc143@mastodon.social @coreyspowell@mastodon.social But relativity tells us that there's no such thing as "a certain moment" for everyone in the universe… 😉

@erl @SRLevine We should be giving Swatch Internet Time another look 😄

@mWare@ottawa.place I’ve *never* seen this usage... Is it an age thing? People who grew up watching, rather than reading?

@billgoats I'm Canadian, I don't see my pronunciation here

@Yorkshiregeek@mastodon.social That’s been floating around the web for a number of years, now... The person you copied it from probably copied it from someone else, who copied it from someone else (and so on, for about 5-6 years of social media history 😄)

@wbpeckham@techhub.social @paige@masto.canadiancivil.com Came here to say this! Nothing beats a good old “portable” 45V B battery 😉

@_thegeoff Looking forward to the synthesis of HEAVY heavy water 😄

@drsimevans@mastodon.energy Link, please 😊

Just like he did for Carney, Trump being helpful by illustrating exactly what Hunter Hess is worried about. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-slams-olympian-for-expressing-mixed-emotions-about-whats-going-on-in-the-u-s #USPoli

@Sheril@mastodon.social The “March” entry for the 2026 Dunning-Kruger calendar.

@AnnieBuddy@thecanadian.social @tod@hci.social I heard that a lot in the States. And Siri, being American, is probably just using the same… idiom?

@courtcan@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange I seriously wondered if my phone was putting out some kind of ultrasonic sound when I was about to take a pic of my dog - he stops whatever he was doing before I can take the picture. I’m as quiet and subtle as possible, but nooooo…

@IngaLovinde @shadowspar Hey, everybody! I bumped my head and now I understand German! 😄

@technothrasher@universeodon.com @davidnjoku@mastodon.world Same. Horrifying.

@Howard@mstdn.wherehowardgoes.com @megsouth@c.im I guess I read the original specs wrong. I thought it was two 8-second exposures, not eight 2-second exposures. Still, nice that the camera does the stacking for you 👍🏻

@Howard@mstdn.wherehowardgoes.com @megsouth@c.im 8-second exposures? You have steady hands!

@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange I think it’s okay, I was able to open it on my phone. The laptop has a lot of filters and didn’t like the t.co domain, maybe.

@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange That link wouldn't open for me, but this one works: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/ukraine-trump-us-oil-russia/686854/ (but doesn't have the gift link info in it, sadly)

@catandgirl @lisamelton Don't forget the constant remakes of the movie about the wheel to retain copyright…

@ottaross @coreyspowell We should toss Mercury, as well - it's smaller than Ganymede *and* TItan, almost as small as Callisto... 😉

@AskPippa@c.im @infobeautiful@vis.social I like that one! But you may put some people off pears 😄

@faraiwe@mstdn.social @infobeautiful@vis.social I always love seeing “purified" or “distilled" water amongst a list of all the impurities they've added 😄

@AskPippa@c.im @infobeautiful@vis.social More truth in labelling…

@caroline @erl @SRLevine Too true! 😄

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social Okay, didn’t know that! The more you know…

@oldladyplays@wargamers.social Signed, and boosted 😊

@AskPippa@c.im @infobeautiful@vis.social I kind of like it, but I'm also a little cynical of stuff like this, too. Ingredient: Arsenic Source: Natural ore What it does: Improves quality of skin! https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/toxic-cosmetics/26842/ (Disclaimer: I have a degree in chemistry, I'm not anti-polysyllabic-names, or anti-chemistry. I regularly drink coffee with dihydrogen monoxide)

@srvanderplas@datavis.social @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io This is a good point - can you tell the ICE agent that you don't consent to his taking video of the scans? Or would that get you shot?

@ThreeSigma @reloadedhead @richlv @fj Odd, I didn't have trouble reading it (not a subscriber). Do they have a monthly limit that you ran into, maybe?

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social Missing an ingredient? Is toner magnetic? (I thought it was just plastic + carbon powder)

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @freddy@social.security.plumbing “hazmat suit for a demon-haunted world” - Love it!

@marcoarment@mastodon.social This looks great! I only noticed one apparent glitch - After you hit the “Transcribe” button and it starts, the “This episode has not been transcribed yet” message flickers in and out during the “Analyzing" and "Transcribing” processes. This is on an iPhone 12 mini, iOS 26.3.1(a). While I’m here, a feature request - I’d love to be able to export the transcription…

@IanDSmith@mas.to @fsinn@mas.to “We pulled it off!”

@brianb That looks great. Do the students have input into the “I can…" statements, aside from labs or whatever? That is, do you have a way for them to answer that question directly? It would be interesting to compare their perception of “I can calculate molarity” to what you are seeing in assignments. I always had trouble with ensigmatones scolation too 😄

@samlitzinger@journa.host Or a “Shit King Midas”

@amerpie@social.lol Now try it on hard mode!