🔗 Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
I hope their accents are better than Dick’s.
The Hill reporting that 🔗 Twitter under fire for perceived censorship ahead of election in Turkey.
Perceived? We have to get out of this ’both sides’ shit.
Replying to Doc Searls
🔗 Your AI ~v~ A.I. comment triggered a thought.
Going forward, I am standardizing on AI.
A.I. might imply a two letter acronym for Artificial Intelligence .. and for now, whilst I agree that it’s ‘artificial’, I am far from convinced ‘it’ demonstrates ‘intelligence’.
Meanwhile, AI is a nice handy name to bucket these things under.
Spotify 🔗purged thousands of AI-generated songs uploaded by the music startup Boomy. The streamer said it flagged the tunes it thought were being listened to by bots, which inflated listener numbers.
Not just written by AI - but listened to by bots.
I wonder how much income that cost real artists?
🔗 The summer of decentralized social
Sam Liebeskind provides a nice simple guide to the world of decentralized social networks by comparing to the email world.
🔗 EMAIL : the first, largest and most open social network..
🔗 Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? (Apple News) .. of course I haven’t read it … what a stupid question. And if the arguments are real and valid … well count me in the Ostrich camp.
As the hype around BlueSky builds, I am reminded of the hype that surrounded Clubhouse. Looks like that’s what Charles has been thinking.
Velvet rope: it tells you that the people who got past it are special. Unlike you.
💬 Charles Arthur
Am I missing a step with webmentions?
🔗 A recent post on People First was syndicated to Micro Blog.
I replied to that post in MicroBlog.
And it seems to be approved
So, shouldn’t it appear here?
🔗 Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce - The Verge
Quel surprise … I wrote this when I was still on the wait list … and once in I even guested on a couple … my one word summary of the experiences, the site, the conversations, the quality … ‘crap’.
It is May … I am sitting in LA, with the heating on, while outside it is pouring with rain. This while I read 🔗 How El Niño could affect U.S. weather. (TL;DR .. if you thought it has been hot recently … you ain’t seen nothing yet.)