π Humour
π Salesforce jumps on the artificial intelligence bandwagon with a surprise acquisition
“It’s also worth noting Tempo was incubated by SRI International, the agency that created Apple’s Siri software.”
it’s not clear if this is being positioned as a benefit or a warning. π
If you do only one thing today, click on this link and read. So funny.
π Geoff Greer’s site: Gasoline Car Review
via John Naughton
π½οΈ Cunk was so good, that I had to go remind myself of this short piece from Charlie Brooker. It was done years ago, was my first exposure to him and has to be a timeless classic.
π Too much truth for a comic strip. - but a potential solution to one of society’s many ills?
I had a Tivo. I even had a lifetime subscription, but I cycled the box out of the media space years ago … wonder if I can get a refund? π
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βI could have put the lists into a spreadsheet, but that would mean the client would have to open the email and then open the attachment. If you knew the level of computer literacy my clients have, you would understand why I wanted to avoid that and just have the lists in the body of the email.β
π¬ Robin Rendle
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek Is A Complicated Dude
Earlier this week a friend introduced me to Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek - and specifically, he referenced The Perverts Guide To Cinema. I started watching and suddenly realized that it was over 2 1/2 hours long. I saved to ‘watch later’! Seriously - watch the first 5 to 10 minutes - you can’t just stop and never return … BUT … life does have a limited duration!
I commented on this to my friend … he responded …
I had no idea it was that long! There is not enough alcohol in New Zealand to get you (let alone two of you) through 2.5 hours. This six-minute piece is more than enough to convey Zizek’s characteristic mannerisms (mental and physical). And he neatly endorses the critique of “the fetishism of action” by reversing Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach: “In the 20th-century we tried to change the world too quickly, it’s time to go back to interpreting it.” Big Think
I haven’t watched it yet … still trying to understand my friend’s reply π
On iCloud Shared Photo Library
βI look forward to taking a sabbatical to combine my photo library with my wifeβs.β
π¬ Stephen Hacket
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I do so know what he means!
“I mostly watch, read and listen to news to keep track of how they’re screwing us.”
π¬ Dave Winer
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Artificial Intelligence For The Creative Professional
There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output.
My mind explodes when I see the 'image' results.
I think βmehβ - so far - when I see the 'written' results.
I am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?
For more background, you might enjoy this from The Verge;
πHow independent writers are turning to AI
Note - all of the words you read on peoplefirst.business are not created - or even suggested - but any AI tool. (Can you tell?). π
Apple will no longer help you set up a dial-up modem on your Mac
Important news for those of us that provide technical support to immediate family.
There’s more work coming your way. π
ππ How Do We Know How Old Things Like Dinosaur Bones Are?
βThereβs an old joke told in natural history museums about a new tour guide showing around a group of visitors. Stopping before a dinosaur skeleton, he informs the group that the fossil remains are 80 million years and three weeks old. βHow do you know that?β asks one of the visitors. βBecause it was 80 million when I started,βΒ says the guide.β
Offline Cash project finally gives the world what it really needs: physical digital physical cash
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I have just learned that I have been using π and π interchangeably β¦ but the π is really mean to be βsadβ and I have been using it as for example β10*πβ β¦ gawd.
Whatβs a boy to do?
It’s quotes like this that give me a reason to think that the world isn’t quite yet coming to an end ….
βWhile the Court does not begrudge the defendant’s apparent business success while on pretrial release, his international travel to harvest the bounties of such success will need to wait until he is no longer facing felony charges arising from ill-advised domestic travel in January 2021."
π¬ Justice Howell
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Itβs a twitter thread AND funny
I liked the John Peel one.
I found this very funny - and said to Jax
βThatβs us!β
To which she replied β¦
βNo itβs not - I know your old man references.β