Riccardo Mori

My two ebooks of short stories: Minigrooves Vol. 1 and 2. Available for iOS and Kindle. $1.99. Info & purchase: morrick.me/minigrooves-sh…

Last broadcast for now. You can find me here: 1. Mastodon - @morrick" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">appdot.net/@morrick 2. Bluesky - bsky.app/profile/morric… To get in touch via email, check morrick.me (Section: Contact & RSS feeds in the top navigation menu). Take care and leave this place.

@moia Understandable! Please consider Mastodon as an alternative. I'd love to keep following you there. Cheers!

New, on Morrick.​me — Recreating Delicious Library: morrick.me/archives/9944

New blog post: Recreating Delicious Library in 2025? dingyu.me/blog/recreatin…

@CityLightsBooks Terrific photo! I love seeing photos of artists taken in their studios, at work.

"Some thoughts are just more interesting than others. I’ll have an idea to go get a cup of coffee, for instance. Or for a scene in a film. Or for making a chair. This is why daydreaming is so important to me. All the thoughts just flow."—David Lynch Good night David Lynch.

It's impossible to understand Silicon Valley without grasping "hyperstition" Hyperstition describes self-fulfilling prophecies that come true through their hype and spread. Sci-fi that becomes real through mass belief. It is the goal of most Silicon valley start-ups to hype an imagined future system or product until it becomes a reality. Bitcoin and AI are seen as successful examples of hyperstition. Failed examples appear when a hyped future-product fails to become a reality or to live up to the hype, these include Theranos, WeWork and Juicero. Although the theory was coined by British academics Nick Land and Mark Fisher of the CCRU - Hypersitition has deeper roots in Californian New Age culture - in beliefs like 'manifestation' in which people believe they can manifest wealth or health or world peace just by the power of thinking about it. We could redefine it as 'magical thinking that becomes real'. Achieving AI superintelligence and the colonisation of Mars are examples of hyperstitious beliefs today, this is why defenders of these endeavours become so emotional if you questions whether these things will ever be possible. You, by being skeptical, are ruining the accumulated flow of hype and belief that will force the dream to become real through the magic of hyperstition.

If that wasn't clear by my scarce presence here in recent times, I'm not really active anymore here. I'm not deleting this account, for archival and reference reasons, and you can still contact me here. Find me on Mastodon (link in bio), or Bluesky morrick.bsky.social

Where do ideas come from? Paul H interviewing David Lynch. Wonderful.

@AshleyMPomeroy Great read. I was missing photography-related posts in your blog! By the way, another film SLR with an aperture dial on the top plate is the Nikon F401-X. Cheers, and a happy 2025!

Let's have a look at the Canon EF-M, a curious not-quite EOS film camera from the 1990s that was manual focus only, with a split-image viewfinder, comma, and also a tiny bench women-and-dreams.blogspot.com/2025/01/canon-… #canonefm #berlin

@MadelaineLucieH As far as I'm concerned, you'll still be talented, fascinating, and intelligent 60 years from now. Here's to a great 2025, by the way. Cheers! 🥂

When you lose it, and you will, you realise how all the men who told you that you were talented, fascinating, intelligent and kind only wanted your body

New, on Morrick​.me — Time to move on from bootable backups, whether you like it or not: morrick.me/archives/9928

@MrNobre If I have learnt something from the Canadians I know, their identity is so strong that Canada being annexed to the US is simply an impossibility. That this matter is being taken seriously, even by a few people, is also bewildering to me.

So... everyone is ok with this...?

The owner of this site is mad that he can’t buy our adoration.

New, on Morrick.​me — Switching to Android? - First follow-up: morrick.me/archives/9925

This is a cool bundle. I cherry-picked the apps I wanted, and went for App Tamer and CleanShot X. Check it out and see if some of these apps might be useful to you. unclutterapp.com/bundle/

@Sam_Ohanaware Yeah, a reader suggested the Zenfone 10 as a relatively compact Android phone. I was indeed eyeing products from Asus and OnePlus before discovering Nothing. Great to hear you're not regretting the switch!

@morrick I switched from iPhones to Asus phones a couple of years ago and haven't regretted it yet.

New, on Morrick.​me — Switching to Android? : morrick.me/archives/9905

@dvsjr And I respect your point of view. Two things, though: 1. This phone 'just works' too. The experience has been great so far. 2. As I said in my article, it's not a zero-sum game. I always carry two devices with me, iPhone and Android. They're simply switching roles.

@sudheer_jp I'm very sorry you had that issue. And you're right. They should consider it a manufacturing defect and offer to fix the issue even out of warranty, especially when it's something like this, which is probably bound to reappear due to its design flaw, like the butterfly keyboard.

I too had this issue and sadly Apple is not interested in finding out the root cause and accepting design issues in the iMac screen, they should replace the screen for free...they should find out why many people are complaining all over the world... @AppleSupport @Apple

@MrFresh See you on the other place ;-)