🔗 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.
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
🔗 🎵 📺
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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.
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
My last 🔗 Travels Without Charley makes for a short, thoughtful read.
Thinking Allowed
This is a People First post that was originally on the People First domain. It has been moved here as part of my domain consolidation program. It’s a steady and slow WIP as I check each entry, so do please bear with me.- More about People First
- Other People First Posts
(not just from the ‘other domain’ … all of them.)
Am I missing a step with webmentions?
🔗 A recent post on People First was syndicated to Micro Blog.
I replied to that post in MicroBlog.
And it seems to be approved
So, shouldn’t it appear here?
🔗 Clubhouse is laying off more than half of its workforce - The Verge
Quel surprise … I wrote this when I was still on the wait list … and once in I even guested on a couple … my one word summary of the experiences, the site, the conversations, the quality … ‘crap’.
It is May … I am sitting in LA, with the heating on, while outside it is pouring with rain. This while I read 🔗 How El Niño could affect U.S. weather. (TL;DR .. if you thought it has been hot recently … you ain’t seen nothing yet.)
🔗 2023 Marketing Technology Landscape: 11,038 Solutions
… this is getting silly.
🔗 The Democrats Unveil a Secret Weapon on the Debt Ceiling.
I’m not am sure that I don’t fully understand this … but definitely intrigued enough to watch how it pans out.
After years of calling CNN “fake news,” Donald Trump has agreed to appear on the network for a town hall. His campaign says it wants to hit reset on its relationship with the channel now that it’s under new management.
Bollocks. Licht has steadily and systematically moving CNN towards ‘the new center’ since he arrived. This will be a total softball.
Meanwhile … who really cares? CNN peaks at around half a million for its biggest star (Anderson Cooper).
🪦Et tu Gordon. I didn’t believe it when I read it .. but yes it is true. 84 … not a bad run.
Thank-you for the 🎵music.
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.
🔗 ‘They can survive just fine’: Bernie Sanders says income over $1bn should be taxed at 100%
You go Bernie.
… the problem is that nobody earns ‘income’ over $1Billion … isn’t that the real problem?