⭐️ Videos
In no particular order (except for perhaps the first two) …
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video might me giving an 'error'. That is generally because the creator wants you to go to YouTube to watch it. To do that - click on the link above.
We all get that broken link message from time to time don’t we? What is particularly interesting on this post is to find EIGHT blocks - I wonder if it is the writers insisting on the block - I don’t think there I any other constant.
🎈145/366 About content.
🔗 📼 😂 Stewart Lee on Social Media (Content Provider)
Don’t worry, it’s not my usual rant. Just a very funny piece of standup that needs to be watched more than it has.
Whatever you are doing … stop … and 🔗 📼 😂 spend 5 minutes watching this.
The Furor and How One Creative Thinker Changed Everything
To catch you up, you might have missed 🔗 📼 this video .. you can see it at the bottom of the page.
When I first saw it, I liked the visual effect - but really - not the message. As I wrote over on 🔗 John’s blog
I saw that vid .. kinda like it .. BUT .. I dunno … destroy everything physical, crush it to nothing ?
Unbeknownst to this bear - a lot of people were of the same opinion. A ‘furor’ indeed.
Anyway, in the comments thread on John’s blog he highlighted 🔗this ’twitter post’ from Reza Sixo Safai. This is the 🔗 tweet
Now on occasions I do pop out from under my rock and have noticed that these days Twitter isn’t a very nice place to go anymore. So - on behalf of you dear reader, I donned my protective suit, sprayed myself from top to bottom, grabbed the video and behold …. With all and every credit to Reza. ’Twitter’ is the only reason I pulled it to be here - because Twitter, so now all can view it - and those with protective clothing can pop over and see for themselves.
My comment cannot be better than this one …
This is unironically one of the cleverest creative feats I have ever seen. To take a widely-publicized, universally panned ad and then turning it into the exact ad that it should have been, communicating the desired message 10000x better.
💬 Amal Dorai
If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video might me giving an 'error'. That is generally because the creator wants you to go to YouTube to watch it. To do that - click on the link above.
🎈129/366 Siri For MidWesterners 😂
🔗📼 Enjoy. … via Chris Lockhead.
I love Rick Beato’s podcast channel and Ted Gioia’s writing and so was delighted to watch this meeting of minds last night …
🎈123/366 For your most happy listening pleasure … put me in such a good mood.
🔗🎵📼 The Mariachis with Hugh Cornwell perform Golden Brown
🔗 Cigarettes After Sex are playing Madison Garden.
Don’t worry, I hadn’t heard of them either.
🔗 🎵 Apocalypse is their ‘biggie’. (1,233,307,237 streams. Apparently, I must have been under my rock at the time.)
🔗 🎵 📼 Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven (But Nobody Wants to Die) - not as many!
Just a BIG shout out to @vladcampos for 🔗 📼 this video which talks you through how to rearrange the categories on the archive page of your MicroBlog.
GREAT JOB SIR - most excellent. Really really clear - and it worked first time.
AND of course - big shout out to @otaviocc for the new page.
I did it and it did exactly what it said on the tin.
Sadly it still isn’t quite right - i think mainly because Vlad is using Tiny Theme and I am using Hitchens and I am guessing some kind of styling conflict kicked in and it threw out the rest of my page (like Vlad I am not a developer), but no big deal, we just rolled back and maybe not at 11:32 pm I will look at the coe and se if I can parse what should be changed.
Vlad - one additional thing - rather than saving the name of a page and creating a new one - you can in fact click on the original page and when you save it - it automatically creates the edited page in the block at the top - that will save a few nano seconds.
Anyway - over and out - GREAT job. Thank you.
🔗 📼 This an 11 year old Ted Talk featuring Pablo Holman - demonstrating hacks on the stage. ELEVEN years ago .. so what 2013?
It includes a shout out to Kim Cameron who Pablo called The Chief Privacy Architect at Microsoft, which indeed at one time he was - though Kim retired from Microsoft May, 2011, the shout being an announcement that his hacks allowed him to track KIm as he moved through a conference - and … well, I will let you watch the video.
Imagine what is possible today. And you wonder why we have problems.
Kim of course is the author of The Seven Laws of Identity, that I have had the occasion to refer to on this very blog and it is unclear if Pablo’s call out of what he achieved in tracking Kim had any connection to Kim’s retirement - and to be sure I am not suggesting that at all, and to my knowledge nothing suggests that this was the case.
Fast Forward to last year and here he is again with another Ted Talk ‘Nuclear Reactors Can Solve Inequality’. 🤯
Both Talks were just absolutely inspiring
So imagine my delight to discover this one …. where he is talking at Charlie Muirhead’s CogX last year. I haven’t watched it yet - saved for tonight, but I sure am looking forward to it.
Have to say that were somebody to back me up against a wall - put a gun to my head and ask me 🖇️ who my top 10 artists - ever - were, XTC would be on that list.
Just lovely and a tremendous trip down memory lane.
… via the inimitable Maria Popova
🎈091/366 - It's Historical ...
🖇️ After this .. another one from May last year. This one wasn’t as ‘finished, so tweaked a bit for clarity.
Separate question - what was going on in my life in May last year?
Just off a loooong web session with 50 or 60 very wise people talking about AI and ESG. Specifically ‘The Future of Sustainable Decisions in the Boardroom.’ Great session, and they are regular sessions, so ping me if you would like to join the next one.
It came up, so I will report … though I have said this before AND I am going to keep saying it in different ways.
AI used to be about being the best. If the chess program couldn’t beat a grand master then clearly it wasn’t very good. And then it was - so then they said what about ‘GO’ … it never won - and then it did. Clearly AI doesn’t work - until it does.
But this stuff is new.
Yes - it doesn’t write like Stephen King or paint like Monet .. but most of us don’t and …
AND that’s not the point.
The point is that it can write better than the average person.
So (to begin with ) only the below average people will be replaced.
Problem 1 - ask anyone how good they are at anything - they will ‘generally’ see themselves as ‘better than average’.
Problem 2 - statistically - 50% of those people are wrong.
Problem 3 - a substantial part of the population can’t see it coming.
This video is more recent and is an ad - been circulating in places like the book of faces - but makes for a good two minute watch and relates.
The Ostrom Sessions are part of a program running at Indiana University - curated and directed by Doc Searls.
They haven’t all been the best, though the speakers have always been ‘real names’. The video is the latest with guest Jeff Jarvis. This one was good.
Enjoy.
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A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.
📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.
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🔗 📼 Why is England called England?
.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.
🔗 📼 Why is England called England?youtube.com/watch)
.. and lots more besides if you have interest in the history of names.