🔗 Ring cancels partnership with law enforcement supplier Flock – FlowingData
This comes shortly after Ring’s Super Bowl commercial for dog-finding. Ring owners were already rumbling, but it seems cute dogs were not enough to calm things down. Trust is already lost
Even tech companies are drawing lines.
🔗 Meta planning facial recognition with glasses – FlowingData
Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.
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🔗 Goldman Sachs Boosts Apple Inc. with Positive App Store Trends
NB: No meaningful (or perhaps even measurable) impact from off-Appstore payments alternatives. Turns out adding friction to a frictionless business is not an attractive option for the customer.
💬 Horace Dediu
‘Ease’ replaces ‘Price’ in my 🖇️ 4 E Model for the Age of Engagement.
I feel I might have shared this in the past - but bears repeating.
🔗 How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old – The Marginalian
Read. Read as much as possible. Read the big stuff, the challenging stuff, the confronting stuff, and read the fun stuff too. Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts — be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being. Fully understand your enormous value in the scheme of things because the planet needs people like you, smart young creatives full of awe, who can minister to the world with positive, mischievous energy, young people who seek spiritual enrichment and who see hatred and disconnection as the corrosive forces they are. These are manifest indicators of a human being with immense potential.
💬 Nick Cave
🔗 Apple Repeats Release Date for New Version of Siri – Asymco
NB: I’m told repetition is necessary in order for others to understand. Sometimes you’re supposed to say the same thing twice. Sometimes even three times. But still, some fail to grasp the idea.
Tell ‘em what you are going to say.
Tell ‘em.
Tell ‘em what you said.
…number one rule of any presentation.
Then again - there are so many comments made about Apple by people that clearly do not understand Apple that it is no surprise that this keeps slipping through.
🔗 The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
@manton - saw this and thought might be an interesting spin on your new Longreads feed on Micro Blog.
From the same post - love it. One day corporate decision makers will think before making decisions. (Or did some lowly dev make this decision all by themselves.)
Sky’s website let you search for shows but, for some unfathomable reason, at the time required you to type in at least three letters. I said this was a problem, since Sky’s most popular and so presumably most searched-for series then was ER.
🔗 Network map of Bluesky users.
Theo Sanderson visualized the network of 3.4 million Bluesky users, placed by follow patterns. It is searchable and interactive.
.. you can find you
.. and apparently I am specifically ‘there’ because that is where i fit with other followers ..
You can also check your followers - and your followers' followers ….
Suddenly you could be ‘all over the place’.
Still not sure what someone like me can do with this - but who cares. It’s wonderful.
I have never really looked into Ghost - but plenty of people have - and they tell me how great it is. And I have no reason to believe otherwise, so hard to believe that this has only just happened.
Starting today, automated welcome emails are now built right into Ghost .
The old promise of platforms will provide is broken.
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Your authentic ideas are lost in a sea of algorithmic content designed for engagement.
We’re not going back.
Now we need to build something new.
What we build is up to us.