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A lot of images from the Smithsonian are on Unsplash for free use. This one caught my eye.
This sign was designed to be placed in the window of a home so that all who passed would know that the woman within had exercised her right under the 19th amendment and registered to vote. It also served as a reminder to other women to do the same. ca 1920.
💬 Smithsonian: Record ID: nmah_1414548
… and here we are 100 years later. 🚧
I need an easy way to do a mini-podcast. An idea that should be said verbally, but it’s short and self-contained, about the length of an untitled blog post, like the one you’re reading now.
💬 Dave Winer
I had the same idea back in 2019 @dave - I even created a 🔗🎙️snicklecast to describe what a 🔗🎙️snicklecast - and why it is.
Never cracked the ‘simple’ part though.
I THINK there is something like this in MicroBlog on a higher tier than I sit at.
Ultimately your job as a developer is to turn your creation over to users to figure out. Listen to see if patterns emerge. Even better give the users the tools they need to build apps out of our apps, together. This is how humans build layers of tech.
💬 Dave Winer
🖋️ Careful What You Wish For California
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? Or maybe the emperor has bought new clothes.
🔗 On God and LLMs … my bold.
I don’t have definitive answers here. But one thing that seems clear is that the newly emerging field of digital ethics (in which I’m currently active) is in the same place today as bioethics was five decades earlier, when new medical technologies began to force tough moral quandaries.
Which is all to say: before we blindly embrace whatever AI product Sam Altman or Dario Amodei declares to be inevitable, we still have a lot of work to do in figuring out what we’re willing to accept.
💬 Cal Newport
🔗 iPhones sales in China grew 3% year-over-year over the May Day holiday.
The iPhone was up against a set of new product launches but still managed to grow while the market declined. It’s a remarkable story. Apple guided to similar growth for the June quarter as for the March quarter. Signals are coming in that this is not a fluke.
💬 Horace Dediu
Clearly Apple is doomed.
🔗 Then again, maybe to become someone who …
not to do because you are, but to become because you did.
💬 Leon Mika
Nice.