🔗 Concern the UK’s AI ambitions could lead to water shortages

If I’d been told when I was growing up in England that in the future the BBC would report that ‘water shortages’ loomed, I would have assumed that I had stepped into a dystopian SF novel that made up my reading pleasure at the time.

🔗 Archiving effort to preserve Data.gov - FlowingData

We continue with hope.

🔗 📼 The Beatles were a Rutles cover band

🔗 Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

what does Unity, the 3D engine, have to do with the in-app advertisement or location tracking?

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Turns out that Unity’s main revenue stream (they made $2 bln+ in 2023) is Unity Ads - “Mobile Game Ad Network”. Sounds quite interesting.

Too technical for this bear to fully understand - BUT I got enough to let out a very loud expletive.

(via John Wunderlich over on LinkedIN)

🔗 The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover

The names to remember ..

Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.

DEI? 🔗📼 Try This.

🔗 John Brayton too

.. he includes a script.

Made a list of the contact info for my congresscritters in Notes.app to make it easier to call daily.
Today’s issue: This is a coup. Start calling it that.

💬 Patrick Rhone

🔗 The Source

💬 Dave Winer … 🔗 I’m 99.9% sure, as crazy as it sounds, when Musk is finished with his software project, you will have to use X for everything related to the government. To pay taxes, to receive health care, to renew your passport. And if you try to arrest him, he’ll stop paying interest on the US debt, and that will be the end of the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. He won’t just control the US government, he will control the world economy.