Merry day-after-day-after Christmas!  Whew, we made it.  And now into a quiet week of contemplation, eating, and blogging...

Still loving Feedly.  And like being able to easily incorporate Twitter feeds alongside RSS. 

RSS survey update: currently 76% yes, 16% no.  Clearly my readership are not typical :)

Rarely better put: WSJ: Crypto is money without a purpose.  Do those who think the FTX crash was "it", sorry, but there's more reckoning ahead.  

Among the interesting Twitter-ers I've been following is Marc Andreessen, the A in A16Z.  ("We invest in software eating the world.)  Not all think their many investments in crypto will work out.  As VCs they are among the first in the pyramid, so maybe they'll be okay.  Stay tuned.

Have you seen Avatar 2 aka The Way of Water?  It's pretty great, a must see, and like Avatar a must see in a theater for the full 3D experience.  It's epic.  (Yeah, the story, meh, but still!) 

I'm sure James Cameron just made a movie - message was secondary - but now he's getting flack for the message some people see in it: you can never be woke enough.  I think trying to be woke is the best way to be criticized by the woke police.

CNN compiles a list of the most satisfying movies of 2022.  Yes, Avatar 2 is there, as is my personal fav, Top Gun 2.  As they note "satisfying" implies a relationship to expectation, and Top Gun was perfect in this regard.  What was your favorite? 

Cult of Mac explains why Apple's [upcoming] VR headset won't be the next iPhone.  Well, the iPhone was arguably the most successful consumer product of all time, so ... yeah.  But the list of people who nay-say-ed Apple is long. 

The main point of the article is that AR will be bigger than VR.  Okayyy.  Noted for future backchecking :)

Meanwhile, Magic Leap raised $450M in 2022.  Not a typo.  Whatever can a software startup need that much money to do?  They're not building cars!  I rate their eventual success unlikely based on this fact alone.  Also they have been around a long time now and we haven't heard boo from them yet. 

This is pretty cool: Classic WIRED covers - regenerated by AI.  Not bad, right? 

Powerline: Discrimination at Stanford, then and now.  Sigh.  An internal report on their discrimination practices against Jews in the 1950s has resulted in an apology, but as the article notes, it's no better now (since Jews are white). 

Related: the war on Merit takes a bizarre turn.  "For years, two administrators at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) have been withholding notifications of National Merit awards from the school’s families, most of them Asian, thus denying students the right to use those awards to boost their college-admission prospects and earn scholarships."  WTAF, right?