Kevin Ashton 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇬🇱🇩🇰🇵🇸
@kevinashton
Called a thing the Internet of Things—Wrote HOW TO FLY A HORSE & THE STORY OF STORIES— Richard/Inkwell (Literary)—Mary Ellen/Leigh Bureau (Talks). Austin, TX—I don't argue or debate.
OMG Nicolas Cage is so good as Stanley Goodspeed in The Rock.
Chiitan liked my post. My life is complete. I will write no more books and inspire no new technology revolutions. I will simply bask in this selfless weightless mind of pure joy. ちぃたん☆が私の投稿を気に入ってくれました。私の人生は完了しました。私はこれ以上本を書くつもりはありませんし、新たなテクノロジー革命を引き起こすつもりもありません。私はただこの無私無重力の純粋な喜びの心に浸るつもりです。
McKinsey invited me to recommend some books its clients should read in 2026. I chose Gender Queer by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz. www.mckinsey.com/featured-ins...
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani both say "they" far more than other politicians. But Mamdani uses "they" to humanize people and Trump use it to animalize them to a degree not seen since James Monroe and James Madison were exterminating Indigenous Americans. storyofstori.es/they
Today I learned this is called a "throbber" and am still sniggering.
The US also beat Australia in the world cup in 2018. The roller derby world cup.
An indicator of increasing soccer interest in the US. The price paid for English language US television rights to the men's world cup has increased 2000% since the world cup was last held in the US in 1994.
#1 Best Seller in Evolutionary Psychology feels very nice.
that's some quality deer in the headlights right there
Just think of what we could do we an extra $920 billion a year.
Robots falling over is my favorite kind of internet.
💯 Western blot (used in molecular biology to identify proteins in tissue) may be the original science journal image manipulation, documented since the '90s. Now more common but easier to spot. You may be interested in this 2025 Association for Computing Machinery paper: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....
There's a new woman-owned indie bookstore in Austin and depending on your point of view I am either helping or hurting them by giving a talk. Come along, heckle, and give money to someone other than Jeff Bezos and his lovely new wife. Lioness Books, 208 N Gabriel St, Leander, TX 78641, May 14, 6PM.
If you're in the US you can request a free copy of THE STORY OF STORIES on GoodReads. 25 copies available. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...
For all the (other) old white men. deadliners.substack.com/p/the-golden...
Shoutouts to @marisakabas.bsky.social, a "contemporary Martha Gellhorn," @zeteo.com, @404media.co, and @harmscommitted.com, all in one paragraph. open.substack.com/pub/deadline...
I took this photo of my kid reading on a hill last week and it looks like the Kindle logo got an update for these more tempestuous times.
Just found this terrifying photo. Me at MIT in the early IoT days, c.2000. On my desk: a Voicestream Handspring Visorphone, a $500 PalmPilot cell phone mashup that was the only phone that would work all over the world; an Apple PowerBook G3; a 15" Apple Studio Display; an IBM ThinkPad; and a Rolodex
I talked to Deadliners about the glorious future of journalism. Yes, glorious. Yes, serious. open.substack.com/pub/deadline...
On the road researching my next book. It looks and feels like another planet here.