Seriously?
FFS
Josh is in one of those congress seats in Central Valley - California - that he flipped - but it is clear that the ‘pubs are trying to spend their way back in. I worry that the dems are ignoring it because CA is ‘safe’.
Josh’s district is just a bit further north than kevin mccarthy’s old hood (The ‘incumbent’ there these days is Kevin Fong.) but even after redistricting won handily 4:1 (thought the results are 55:45 .. still so on face of it should be safe - but boy that spend!!!!
The opposition is Kevin Lincoln - a bit like Fong - not much is really known.
BUT - I am definitely for Harder.
I was one of the door to door canvassers thay came down from San Francisco to help the fight - when he first won. He’s a good man.
They need to finish their thought
They need to finish their thought
🖇️ The Coming Labor War - Dana F. Blankenhorn
.. yup. If I have posted this before. Sorry. But it does bear repeating.
🎵🔗 Music To Massage Your Ears (🍎Essentials)
Listen to the start of track 1 - not your vibe - click to next track - not your vibe - repeat
Its ONE ‘band’ from the UK that I had never heard of until a week? ago.
They have produced a LOT of albums.
They are extraordinary.
Spatial Computing Has Another Contender - AND - They Are Not Called Meta.
Stumbled across this a week or so ago and it got me to thinking - remember the 🖇️ Vision Pro?
Still don’t have one - no plan to - no personal use case (desire is apparently not a use case … who knew?)
That said, there are bundles and bundles of Business Use cases.
Anyway, turns out that 🔗 Sightful are coming out with a solution to a specific use case early 2025.
Their glasses predates Zuck’s and I would argue stand to be adopted more because they are going to be focussed on what looks like a single use case … virtual screens in confined spaces.
Yes folks - Spatial Computing for the rest of us (though to be fair - no pricing that I can see - so may still be only for the wealthy.)
🔗 ‘We Will Not Bend the Knee.’ Watch Mehdi’s Powerful Award Acceptance Speech
I did, excellent - like so much of his stuff.
// @Denny
It’s this messianic belief in a vision that makes many entrepreneurs so quirky – and so interesting. It takes a unique personality to spend years saying “I’m right” when most around you say “That’s wrong.”
💬 Om Malik and Fred Vogelstein
via Daring Fireball: Crazy Stupid Tech
Subscribed - of course. But not a dissimilar message to Chris Lockhead, Mike Maples - and others.
Go read their books.
Revenge Of The Nerds - Real Revenge
Back a few years ago - I raised the idea that 🖇️ ATS systems should just be banned.. Nothing changed.
Then I found this clip from The Monkees TV show that aired in the late 60s … 🖇️ The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared. Yes - 30 years is right - that’s when these things started to appear.
Of course in the intermediate time - they have just got better worse.
Even to the point of AI🖇️ Avatars Doing Job Interviews
You cannot make this stuff up!
A lot of my objections about so much of this tech is that it;
- ends up in corporate hands
- is misused
- is badly misused
- is extremely and badly abused
… and all the time never does anyone build a similar system for people. AND corporates don’t end up recruiting the best people for reasons like;
- the best people ‘don’t have time for that’
- the best people want to work with the best people - not bots
- the best people don’t tune their resumes to be Keyword and SEO compliant - necessary if you stand any chance of an ATS letting you through its gates
Until now. Brilliant …. The new story is from 404 Media. I haven’t checked but - does this tickle your fancy? It does mine …
The solution is sitting in Github - 🔗The solution is sitting in github so I am not qualified to comment on how well this works - but I have friends.
Of course corporate HR is going to declare ‘no fair’ because their systems are going to be swamped … too bad.
I presume that someone is going to fork the code and use it to apply for contracts .. and it wont be long before their AIs contact someone on Amazon Turk and convince them to register and sign on (on their behalf) for Job Boards and Recruiter sites - so we can do the same thing there. (Of course it won’t be long before the AIs can also do that.)
We know that the retaliation is going to happen - example case - someone inside the company uses their brains and writes code to get their 5 day job done in 2 to 4 hours - and then take a second job - repeat - and a third job - repeat … what do you think the corporate does when they find out? Promote them?
My prediction - they will work out how to block this access.
Let the battle begin.
Ignore me - this got switched off - but I think its on again now.
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💬 Wikipedia
Many thanks to @manton for getting me to the final step (that would be you Threads) -
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I thought the new micro blog release would fix my problem. It didn’t.
On phone - a 09st longer than 600 you just can’t get the cursor to the bottom to write or edit.
Anyone else?
There is a play running in London called The Mousetrap. Barring ‘COVID TIMES’ it has been running for 72 years.
The musical equivalent has to be The Stones. Hats off and all that, but in both cases, longevity is surely the driver of success rather than the quality of material?
To be real clear - I am NOT an Airline Analyst. I haven’t even played one on TV. But I do tend to look around and question claims that seem spurious. (And in my time down here, I do hear a large number of claims made that do not seem to add up).
[]🔗 My take on Chris Luxon. If you don’t know the name, that’s because he’s no Jacinda Arden .. though he holds her office in Aotearoa](https://substack.philpin.com/p/was-he-any-good)
Written in response to a piece suggesting that Luxon’s not doing a good job. Why? My point is that despite the press, I’m not sure he ever did a good job.
They don’t move too fast in Oneroa 😵💫
Dear Twitter … NO. Just NO.
We know who he’s talking about … don’t we?
40 minutes waiting for the call center peep to pick up - only to be told that for what I need - I need to call a different number. I wouldn’t mind (ok - I do) - but it is to the other side of the world so stayed up late to do this - not got the energy to start all over again.
😬
🎥 Chief of Station, 2024 - ★★★
Not bad to begin with.. but kind of fell off into cliches .. and isn’t Aaron a bit old to be brawling and fighting in the field?