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😂 🔗 A recent discovery (for me at least) on Insta - this is one post - but the channel (is that what they call it over there?) is worth following.
🎈182/366 The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared.
A friend on LinkedIN recently made a comment and referenced a video clip in support of his argument, which truth be told, I can’t recall - but it definitely wasn’t about ‘ATS’.
🔗 📼 This is the video clip .. it’s a scene from the Monkees TV show - this particular one directed by Bob Rafelson, written by David Panich - who I had never heard of - but given the subject matter of the clip, was intrigued enough to look him up .. IMHO - serious writing chops.
All this to say that if you have EVER been on the wrong side of one of those bloody ‘ATS’ machines that sift resumes before any human gets to it - this clip will resonate. It is from 1966 Series 1, Episode 3. The reality of ATS in business kicked off THIRTY YEARS LATER.
📺 Kaleidoscope
I remember a news item a few months ago about a series on one of the streaming services that plays the episodes in a random order for each viewer. Clever I thought, a non linear show played on a linear format, moved on and promptly forgot about it.
I just finished it. Really, really good. Arguably made so much better by the lead actor .. Giancarlo Esposito .. but seriously, no duds. Highly recommend it.
(Side note .. I didn’t even clock that the show was the one I had read about until the very end.)
Kaleidoscope on 🔗 Reelgood
🎈180/366 My goodness - Apple really do not want you to embed an HTML signature into Mail - do they?
🔗 How to do just that - just 23 steps - but very thorough instructions.
📺 3 Body Problem
I didn’t dislike it .. I just didn’t care about the people. I mean .. ok and all that, but I think the title is the most interesting thing.
3 Body Problem on 🔗 Reelgood
📺 The Fixer
2015 .. Season One .. doesn’t seem to be a Season Two. Probably says something. Probably would agree with that something.
The Fixer on 🔗 Reelgood
🎈178/366 📺 Blackbird
Why it took me so long to watch Blackbird I have no idea. But oh so good.
Blackbird on 🔗 Reelgood
You can listen to the whole thing 🔗 🎙️here, but if this 40 seconds doesn’t make you sit up - don’t bother.
🔗 Why OpenAI added an NSA Chief to their board
Mr Gioia (the other one) lays out the spectrum of possibilities of why, offering his own take.
What do you think?
I have a hard time getting my head around a ‘Manhattan project for AI’. Not that it’s a bad idea .. but … have you checked out DC lately?
🔗 😂 Classic Victor Borge (Insta)
🎈176/366 AGE - It Catches Up On You.
I read this today
in 🔗 Austin Kleon’s Newsletter.
Now let me be clear - I am not so old that I ever used one, BUT
I do know what it is and where it was used … and sadly I am old enough to have had a boss who did have such a thing on his desk.
I just looked up Austin on Wikipedia - we aren’t that many years apart … FTW.
LATER THOUGHT - In my younger years I was in the U.K. and Austin will have been in the U.S.A. (Clutching at Straws?)
Freddie Star isn’t exactly a household name - even in the UK - but back in the day 🔗 📼 😂 he could be very funny.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple ID to Be Renamed to Apple Account .. which is an excellent idea. It’s time it was recognized that our ‘ID’ doesn’t belong or get managed by a Corporate … finally Apple get is it. Besides, ‘Account’ is much more logical.
🔗 📼 Larry Lessig on ‘How AI could threaten democracy .. yes .. and having listened to it - I’m not sure if that is REALLY what it is about.
If you haven’t got 20 minutes to watch the whole thing - try this - the last minute of the talk - because I think THIS is what it is about. (its a link to the last minute of the talk).
🔗 The GOP’s Vision of an Authoritarian America Is…Coming True.
Umair Haque nearly a year ago. He seemed a little extreme back then.
Not seen much comment about this (but then I don’t always read the right things).
Sadly I won’t be experiencing it any time soon.
1] Serious props to @gruber and team
2] If Apple doesn’t know - I feel they should work it out … quickly.
Stopping now - 🔗 📼 to watch the 2D version.
🔗 I’ve done mine. .. have you done yours?
🔗 Thanks for the the link Joe/
(This is why my 🖇️ Guestbook blog roll is useful.)
I just signed 🔗 Joe Crawford’s guest book. I also have one of those. The one that @bjhess built. 😎 I have to say that only as I have wandered the web and signed have I realized how unusual Barry’s is - in that allows Markdown - which if supported allows me to leave my Kilroy moniker …
🔗 MacGPT - ChatGPT in your menubar if you are into that sort of thing.