Max is having a hard time getting much right.
Turns out AI is no different .. the race to the bottom is well underway.
🪦 Sorry to read the news Tina. Thanks for the songs. For the moves. For the entertainment. A great ride … now it’s time to R.I.P.
This house is full of masks from all over the world, a theme to remind their owners of their travels and travails. A lot of them are scary to look at, intentionally designed that way, like this one.
Except to me it reminds me of people in Spas having facial treatments, where they put little cucumbers on their eyes.
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🔗 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?
Shutterstock is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms and will pay $53 million in net cash for the company. Meta initially bought Giphy for $400 million in 2020.
💬 Jessica Lessin - The Information
Spotted yesterday in LA ( paraphrased)
For AI prompts to really work - clients need to be specific as to what they want. …. Our jobs are safe!
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
TIL that Flipboard is still around.
One of the few exceptions I see is Apple, which continues to place ads on Twitter.
💬 John Gruber
I spend about a nano second every fortnight on Twitter … it used to be more … interestingly I have never seen an Apple ad there.
BTW tip-o'-the-hat to @vincent (i think) … So when you click into a conversation, the entry that brought you there stands our from the rest of the thread.
In their letter, the lawyers don’t mention the prospect of indictments or even specify which of Smith’s investigations they’re referencing. Rather they describe it as an effort to “discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your Special Counsel and his prosecutors.”
Quel Surprise!
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“There is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search,” a combination of the difficult economic environment as well as the challenge that Neeva had found in persuading people to sign up for its search engine. “From the unnecessary friction required to change default search settings, to the challenges in helping people understand the difference between a search engine and a browser, acquiring users has been really hard.”
💬 Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan
The Headline:
Neeva Shuts Down Search Engine Ahead of Snowflake Deal
The report is so dry it makes the Sahara look like a rainforest.
💬 Martin Peers
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.