? If you’re feeling stressed, hum a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant
💬 Dave Winer
Yesterday .. (If you’re feeling stressed) reminds us to tune into Alice’s Restaurant and hum a few bars. Me? 🖇️ I remind you of one specific verse late in the song
Either way - it’s all good - delivered nearly 60 years ago.
It is now 2025 - the same year as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammies - so nothing has changed right?
🎵 I know - who cares - its just a …
🔗 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.
🔗 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)
I am unsure if they are connected - so parking this here while we think.
There is also something going on with the Argentinian playbook - which I am planning to publish in a newsletter.
I am no expert …
🔗 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.
.. 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