A few days ago, the most powerful superpower in the world evacuated 12 of the most powerful aircraft in its military from the base of a strong ally because of the threat of a drone attack from a country we’ve been repeatedly told has been completely defeated.
💬 Dave Pell
🔗 We are going to kill ‘unalive’
I am all for the steady evolution of language - as ever it has been. Not new is the constant flow of new words by younger people. You know what I mean ‘daddy cat’.
But this is definitely different and a wake-up call for any and all who are concerned about any stifling of speech - free or not.
The spread of censored and mangled syntax is happening because people believe, or have experienced, that platforms will silence them for accurately describing the world in plain language. This shit is terrible, and it has to stop.
💬 Anil Dash
Added to my Readwise.
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.