Apparently we do have similar problems to Russia …
The country needs those central Asians who do many of the jobs Russians do not want for salaries Russians will not accept, and thuggish repression might well persuade many to leave.
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Reading all the various commentaries around DoJ v 🍎, I am finding ‘heads on Threads’ making good arguments.
Walt Mossberg for one.
Ben Thompson for another.
🔗 Microsoft’s Brazen AI Inflection
What Om does not touch on is the issue of ‘acquisition’.
To this bear (and others), what also seems to have happened is that Microsoft has all but bought the company. but actually didn’t.
Why not just buy it?
Well because then you need permission from the Feds - if not the EU, which takes time and even then might not happen (remember Figma), and certainly in the AI space close scrutiny is happening.
Ok - not that close - but you know what I mean.
Watch this (tech bypassing pesky things like delays and rules and law and .. to accelerate and ‘avoid’ scrutiny) happen more and more in other places.
I’m alwayss amazed how there are so many calendar app on the App Store .. how manyy calendar apps does one person need?
Three apparently.
(It is a video if you want to join me in ‘throwback 90s)
…STILL …
The ability to apply a filter to users to follow .. to separate out microblog accounts from the fediverse.
Is it so hard?
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A few pundits have been remarking that part of the story behind the Apple v Feds is that Apple won’t let Super Apps onto their phone like they do in China.
Putting aside the obvious “well that’s good then”, I am bound to ask why Apple controlling all my life and having to work out how to keep me there is any worse than some dubious super app seeking to do the same, and whatever phone I use - there it is. Yes - convenient - but is that what we want?
Watch the lunatic fringe spin the Kate news on its head.
Earlier this month, western countries led by the United States had issued terror warnings and told their citizens not to join public gatherings in Russia. On 8 March, the embassy wrote it was “monitoring reports that extremists have imminent plans to target large gatherings in Moscow, to include concerts, and U.S. citizens should be advised to avoid large gatherings over the next 48 hours.”
That word ‘extremists’ …
The attack and the resultant ’civilian’ casualties are a blip compared to what Putin and Netanyahu are doing while ‘we’ support one and don’t agree with the other, extreme might be used .. but not extremist.
Discuss.
Gallagher’s decision to leave April 19 also means that there will not be a special election to fill his seat. Under Wisconsin state law, vacancies after the second Tuesday in April are filled in the general election, so Gallagher’s replacement will be decided in November and his seat will remain empty until January.
Well played sir. Well played.
I responded .. but they still haven’t explained why they are carrying around a baby they don’t need.
Been a while - but just dropped into MB Admin and slaughtered another 25 or so categories.
🎵 🎬 Listening to Steve Howe in interview and my mind keeps hearing Billy Mac (Bill Nighy) being interviewed in Love Actually.
I can find a song in 🍎 🎵 Music.
I can play that song in 🍎 Music.
I can add that song to my library in 🍎 Music.
I can add that song to a playlist in 🍎 Music.
AND THEN …
In the playlist in 🍎 Music it is greyed out and I can’t play it.
What is up with that?
The Ostrom Sessions are part of a program running at Indiana University - curated and directed by Doc Searls.
They haven’t all been the best, though the speakers have always been ‘real names’. The video is the latest with guest Jeff Jarvis. This one was good.
Enjoy.
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What were we saying about Teams again?
Let’s widen it back out to MSoft - they don’t just play nice in the Mac world.
Yes you can link Mac contacts to Outlook - and then essentially watch
- it modify the contents of odd fields throughout.
- remove tags from your contacts - so you lists are now useless (some mind you - not all - no reason.)
GRR - this is friggin 2024.
Advice to all you clever corporate web developers out there.
Send me an email promoting your shit. ✅
Let me click on a link to your web site to read more. ✅
Don’t detect my IP location and feed me the ‘local site’
UNLESS
You have redirects that still allow me to find what you are promoting.
When I want to use the ✅ emoji - I often search and can’t find it - because I am searching for ‘tick’ not ‘check’ … one more piece of proof that the web - despite being invented by an Englishman - is American.
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A truly excellent letter - read by Stephen Fry, written by Nick Cave.
📼 🔗 Just in case you think AI is going to take / has taken over the world.
TIL to absorb at least a single caffeine unit prior to any attempt to comment on social streams.