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🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
‘Identity’ mind you, not just ‘online identity’.
What does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
💬 Alan Mayo
🔗 8. Identity Paradigms - by Dr Alan Mayo - Identity 2.5
Kiwi friend Alan Mayo is up to his 8th newsletter as he explores where we are with the challenge of ‘identity’.
‘Identity’ mine you, not just ‘online identity’.
What does this all mean? Well, technology matters and technology is undecided: the performance of Identity 2 is a problem, the potential of Identity 2.5 is not well understood, and the viability of Identity 3 is uncertain.
💬 Alan Mayo
Politicians have always lied, but they don’t bother putting any effort into it any more.
💬 William Gallagher
On January 1, 2011, I only had 68 Twitter followers. I had been on Twitter for 16 months, and there were pet canaries with a larger social media presence than me.
💬 Ted Gioia
“I do remember this security guy saying something nice about Corden until I grimaced, said I’d met him once at a work thing and within half a second wished I hadn’t. Boom. All professional politeness was gone and the guard vented about that man. ()I think I saved him a therapy session.)
💬 William Gallagher
I have no idea if there is any truth in what I read about ‘our James’ and how his soft cuddly exterior does not reflect his true self. But I read it more and more - and Gallagher is not in the ‘rumour mill’ business.
Shame really. There I was thinking you can be nice and ‘make it’.
“That premium in turn has allowed the company to keep selling fresh stock, which allows it to keep paying out dividends, and on it goes, a self-licking ice cream cone that works until the stock price falls, which it now has.”
💬 Liz Hoffman, Semaphor
“self-licking ice cream cone” … aaah the visual.
Lemons - Do They Exist - Or A Cunkstion?
Anyone else worried that this is even a question? Or that it needs to be asked?
Anyway, I don’t have an answer about lemon origins except to say that they are at least as real as babies, and if they aren’t real then what the fuck did I just eat?
💬 The Bloggess
To be clear, this is not a Bloggess origin story … but rather a debate that seems to have emerged on the inter-webs somewhere about ‘Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence’ - with people pointing out that Lemons ‘do not occur naturally’ … so are artificial … so not ‘real’ … at least in ‘that’ sense of the word.
First, if that is true, then total news to me. But put that aside, because the quirkiness of the debate tickles me. It’s ‘the other thing’ that has slipped quietly under the radar, that I am worrying about, because at some point in the online world, ‘real’ has become synonymous with ‘exist’.
That is … if it is not real - then it does not exist.
Really?
Now, I am not a philosopher - so the existence of a lemon I leave to people further up the pay grade scale than I, but I did get to wondering whether this is a ‘Cunkstion’1, or at least Cunk like?
Can someone higher up the pay scale have a think and reply please?
Read More From The Bloggess: 🔗 When life may or may not give you lemons
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Cunkstion - a contraction of ‘Cunk Question’ - which is one of those innocent, easy ‘obvious’ questions that nobody has ever asked - but when you do - the expert finds themselves tied up in knots for one of three reasons …1) it is just plain stupid, 2 a non sequitur or 3) a deeply profound question demonstrating great insight (if on occasions - accidentally). ↩︎
Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.
💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information
One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.
💬 John Gruber
I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.
“There is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search,” a combination of the difficult economic environment as well as the challenge that Neeva had found in persuading people to sign up for its search engine. “From the unnecessary friction required to change default search settings, to the challenges in helping people understand the difference between a search engine and a browser, acquiring users has been really hard.”
💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan
The Headline:
Neeva Shuts Down Search Engine Ahead of Snowflake Deal
“Google has this backwards. They should force all their engineers to use Chromebooks, and let everyone else continue using MacBooks. Maybe then they’ll turn ChromeOS into something useable for real work.”
💬 John Gruber
“I think you should know in what surroundings you do your best work and solve for that.”
💬 David Sparks
Soon enough, the traditional 10 blue links on a search engine results page will seem as archaic as dial-up internet and rotary phones.
💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy
Sridhar is the former head of Google search and co-founder of Neeva, a new search engine powered by AI - so of course he would say that … wouldn’t he?
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
The most recent proposal from the WGA concerning AI is the following: “Regulate use of artificial intelligence on [Minimum Basic Agreement] covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI.” And, as it currently stands, the response from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is a big wet fart of an offer for “annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology.”
💬 Ryan Broderick
Who goes on to write;Their counter, put another way, is actually: “we do not want to commit to anything until we know if this technology will be good enough to replace whole writers rooms.”
… Which was my thought on reading that first paragraph, but Ryan summarizes more eloquently and efficiently.