๐Ÿ”— Report Reveals Internal Chaos Behind Apple’s Siri Failure

Another link I got to thanks to Gruber. Re linking for one reason โ€ฆ.

The Set UP

… more than half a dozen former employees who worked in Apple’s AI and machine-learning group

… and we go on to learn that internally the group are referred to ‘AI/ML’ and then

BOOM

Apple’s AI/ML group has been dubbed “AIMLess” internally


Welcome to Structured Visual Thinking New York City.

This caught my eye this morning โ€ฆ. ๐Ÿ”— NYC subway map updated with a diagrammatic style - FlowingData

FINALLY

Reminded me of 2 YouTubes by Map Men’s Jay Foreman

๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ“ผ The Tube Map nearly looked very different

๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ“ผ What went wrong with the Tube Map?

Around 7:45 in video 2 is where Jay highlights the fiasco that is (now moving to was) the New York map …

with the notable exception of the New York subway that insists on being as baffling and ugly as possible.

Do watch HIGHLY recommend - and definitely not a map nerd. (particularly)


๐Ÿ”— Mapped: Which Countries Produce the Most Silver?

โ€ฆ in case you are wondering;

  • Mexico is at number one - and double the country in second place.

  • The U.S.A. is at number nine - producing around a third of that same country in second place.

Number 2? JINA


Just posted this on LinkedIN …

Go back a while and I used to explain the difference in the politics of the US, where I lived and the UK, where Iโ€™m from .. in that the vast majority of the โ€˜leftโ€™ in the US were still to the right of the vast majority of the โ€˜rightโ€™ in the UK. No analysis, just how I felt as a dude on his lifeโ€™s journey. Thank you for providing the explanation that supports my long held feelings.

… as a comment on a Simon Wardley post - ๐Ÿ”— which you can find here

I love how he is broadening out his subject matter from his maps - but still ties them in.


๐Ÿ”— Super-rich flee London: Capital suffers biggest exodus of millionaires in the world, new study shows.

โ€˜Fleeโ€™? โ€˜Suffersโ€™?

  • What percentage are Russians?
  • What percentage are non Doms?
  • What percentage actually contributed to the economy?

With those answers we might find that this is good news.


๐Ÿ”— David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic

Yes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion.


๐Ÿ”— The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

I have 3 questions โ€ฆ

  • Why arenโ€™t I surprised?
  • Why do I feel that this is totally true .. and false .. at the same time?
  • Did the Onion buy Wired .. or the other way round?


The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.

  • Neo Progressive
  • English Progressive
  • Steven Wilson

and

  • Surprises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.

The Surprise? He has an ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽตOrchestral version on YouTube …

From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records


WaPo headline ..

Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel

It seems a miracle has occurred. It seems only yesterday that I read that

๐Ÿ”— Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from โ€˜financial disasterโ€™ (40%)

๐Ÿ”— Millions of Americans are only $400 away from financial hardship (50%)

  • Truly a miracle of financial recovery OR
  • Fake News OR.
  • We really do have two Americas

๐Ÿ”— realbloggers.org .. via Don Marti - there are a lot of these sites gloating around in the Indie Web - not sure why we need another one - why do we keep reinventing the wheel. Can we just have one place?


๐Ÿ”— Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.

โ€ฆ havenโ€™t read the article - yet - saved in Readwise - I just loved the title.


Just added ๐Ÿ”— thelinkblog at Micro.Blog to my ๐Ÿ”— feed in Feedland … it just seemed right.


The Morons by @ChrisJWilson

๐Ÿ”— Vanceโ€™s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder

Thanks for the link @chrisjwilson .. Snyder gets to the nub of the regime with fewer meaningful words than most.





The fact that the headlines in the main U.S.A. newspaper look like this โ€ฆ

Speaks Volumes.

๐Ÿ”— See the full list on โ€˜todayโ€™sโ€™ US Front Pages

That it takes a film director (Ok - not โ€˜justโ€™ a film director) to highlight it - speaks to even more problems. ( I would vouch he isnโ€™t the only source - but I haven’t seen this many images on a single scroll โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ”— Massive Crowds Everywhere!

Everywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution

๐Ÿ’ฌ Michael Moore

Just 4 Random Images From His Post

๐Ÿ”— As for the muskRAT - burn those companies to the ground.

A large crowd gathers in an urban park area, surrounded by leafless trees and high-rise buildings under a cloudy sky, with the text Hands off our Apple products and components.A collage of photos shows large crowds gathered in various U.S. cities with city names labeled above each location, including Boston, New York, Chicago, and others.A large crowd of people is holding various protest signs and banners expressing political messages.A large crowd of people are gathered outdoors, many holding signs and flags, indicating a protest or demonstration.A large crowd of protesters with signs fills a city street between tall buildings, with a prominent historic building in the background.A large crowd of people is gathered for a protest, holding a variety of signs and banners in a city street.A large crowd gathers densely around an outdoor stage in a public space.A densely packed crowd of people gathered closely together, viewed from above.A group of people at a demonstration hold signs, one with a painted face and another reading WITH FEAR FOR OUR DEMOCRACY I DISSENT.


Inspired to finally for out my Feedland space today after reading @Dave โ€™s ๐Ÿ”— doc

Simple instructions and it โ€˜just workedโ€™ - so much to the point that I am happy to link to it from my ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ Blog Navigation.

The link takes you to my ๐Ÿ”— news feed which is a โ€˜river of newsโ€™ driven by my ๐Ÿ”— subscriptions - early days yet but it’s a start.

The impetus was that Dave was also talking elsewhere about adding BlueSky feeds to the list. I tried it out - and added a couple of my own. I didn’t use the handy dandy โ€˜subโ€™ short cut that Dave demonstrated.

Would be great if I could edit the title - maybe you can, but not found out how yet.

// @andysylvester - because I know you are tracking this stuff.