🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
You Might Know Me As A 'Tech Exec' - But Actually, I Am An Astronaut.
When you read that ‘blah blah’ who’s ‘made a name for themselves’ as an actor, writer, singer, chef, musician … whatever .. has now just turned to interior design (I bought my 15,000 share foot house in Malibu and just had ‘this vision’) … or fashion design … or whatever …. what are your thoughts?
I ask because I just spotted that 🔗 Dua Lipa has just designed her first collection for Versace. I know this is not her first outing in design - but surely first with an icon?
Is this akin to tRump writing reading a book or Harry ‘writing’ one?
How about Johnny D sharing the stage with Jeff?
Galling?
I think so.
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). ↩︎
🔗 A List of AI Links
Like a lot of us I guess - I have been reading and listening a lot to the AI chatter. This is a list of not everything I have read and listened to - and not quite sure why these ended up on a list and others didn’t - but still you might find an interesting nougat in here?
Today’s selection of WTF/FFS Headlines from the Guardian.
🔗 With DeSantis campaign event, Musk seeks to shore up a sinking Twitter
🔗 Chief justice says US supreme court keeps ‘highest standards’ of conduct
🔗 Amanda Gorman ‘gutted’ after Florida school bans Biden inauguration poem
I just found out about 🔗 Connie Converse
🎙️ Mike Pesca talking to Howard Fishman who wrote 📚 To Anyone Who Ever Asks
Talk about a hole in history.
🔗 This Insider Spotify Data - simple but interesting analysis from Rick Beato.
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Canadians definitely understand Festivals.
🔗 Dianne Feinstein’s health: The senator seems not to remember being absent from the Capitol.
Nothing to see here … move along now … except that exchange is frightening.
George Will - in the first line of a 🔗 Washington Post article links to a New York post article (nothing like using credible sources)… and as if that wasn’t enough, his complaint seems to be about California imposing its will on other states without so much as a ‘by-your-leave’ … no mention of FlorIda, Texas or the rest of those States forcing their opinions on the rest of us.
I link to Umair Haique’s writing (warning - Medium) … from time to time - but have never looked up what Eudaimonia means, let alone its etymology. So … TIL
🔗 A lot of offices are still empty — and it’s becoming a major risk for the economy
“It’s a troubling development for the commercial real estate industry at a time when the U.S. economy is already showing signs of stress and maybe even a recession.”
Dear NPR … ‘development’? This has been on the horizon for years.
I love the Playing For Change Series.
Stumbled across these over the weekend.
Enjoy.
Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones) feat. Taj Mahal
What’s Going On (Marvin Gaye) Feat. Sara Bareilles
🔗 🎵 📺
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
I always like a good visual.
And when the visual is about creativity - well … who can resist?
🔗 Visualized: The Daily Routines of Famous Creatives
The lesson is that there is nothing routine about the routine of creativity.
🔗 Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?
I hope their accents are better than Dick’s.
The Hill reporting that 🔗 Twitter under fire for perceived censorship ahead of election in Turkey.
Perceived? We have to get out of this ’both sides’ shit.
Replying to Doc Searls
🔗 Your AI ~v~ A.I. comment triggered a thought.
Going forward, I am standardizing on AI.
A.I. might imply a two letter acronym for Artificial Intelligence .. and for now, whilst I agree that it’s ‘artificial’, I am far from convinced ‘it’ demonstrates ‘intelligence’.
Meanwhile, AI is a nice handy name to bucket these things under.
Spotify 🔗purged thousands of AI-generated songs uploaded by the music startup Boomy. The streamer said it flagged the tunes it thought were being listened to by bots, which inflated listener numbers.
Not just written by AI - but listened to by bots.
I wonder how much income that cost real artists?
🔗 The summer of decentralized social
Sam Liebeskind provides a nice simple guide to the world of decentralized social networks by comparing to the email world.
🔗 EMAIL : the first, largest and most open social network..
🔗 Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? (Apple News) .. of course I haven’t read it … what a stupid question. And if the arguments are real and valid … well count me in the Ostrich camp.