Finally - where it all started with @dogcow
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 1 - Tuesday March 6th, 208 - Palo. Alto, CA, USA
…and then in 2019 … again for posterity … ‘The @Devilgate MeetUp.
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 2 - Wednesday June 5th, 2019 - London, England
BTW … Number 4?
Indeed. Pretty sure I posted about these earlier - but for posterity … ‘The @Miraz MeetUp - over 6 years ago now!
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 3 - Sunday March 22nd, 2020 - Kapiti Coast, New Zealand
I thought I’d let 🔗 Leon’s settle in before I threw in mine. It was indeed a bundle of fun and totally serendipitous. Enjoy the rest of your trip @lmika - I will be checking out that music soon.
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 4 - Tuesday October 6th - Wellington, New Zealand
👁️ Happy to report that it isn’t SI -yet - but even if they change a letter - it’s still going to make mistakes.
George Will no less - but don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Don’t stop before we hit the finish line.
🖋️ Obsidian Vaults - Three seems to be optimal. For now.
Three Obsidian vaults should be enough - let me tell you why.
👁️ I often complain about appalling customer service handling by various corporations - particularly the AI ones that aren’t really AI, rather a voice recognition bot following a basic rules engine … so I felt a real shiver pass through my body when the AI voice answered.
How can I help you?
But ‘fair dos’ to Verizon - a fairly complex problem solved in a few minutes - great voice recognition and routing - no human in the loop.
👁️ My Drafts count is down to the 30s - no small event.
🔗 Wrong Way, Right Direction — Gapingvoid
This one also relates to a Johnism …
No decision is still a decision.
🔗 Mercury’s CEO on their Principles of Writing (and AI Usage) | Hunter Walk
Always enjoy hunter - only recently discovered Mercury - saved this one to my Readwise.
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👁️ Give or take that’s still 24 million people
7 percent of Americans trust Trump’s leadership in regulating AI.
🔗📼🎵 Wilson 2 dropped over the weekend.
Quite apart from the sounds - this video is superb - not to say the pre-launch marketing campaign that he is running in advance of the album release in November.
🔗 Apple Announces Plan to Impose New Full Disk Access Controls on Mac Developers - MacStories
A lot of developers seem to be very unhappy with this call. I definitely do not understand all the pros and cons - but as someone who lives in the Apple Ecosystem - this is why I do.
Sorry developers - unless there is an argument why this is going to be a bad idea that I haven’t yet read.
🔗 Six Years of Building Things - Ewan’s Blog
Scratch was probably my first real exposure to the idea that I could tell a computer what to do rather than simply use whatever someone else had made.
Mine wasn’t - but that encapsulation of the idea came to me reading Kernighan and Ritchie back in the day. Not that I became a coder - but it definitely inspired me to get into tech properly.
Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers, responding to a growing backlash across the country against the tech industry’s massive AI infrastructure buildout.
Sounds a lot. It is not.