Dear Abby
🎶🎵 Recently heard a superb conversation with Chris Spedding. Current📚 is by Jarvis Cocker. Just finished listening to Guy Pratt & Gary Kemp talk with Richard Hawley and now Zane Lowe talking with Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys.
Am I a closet ‘Sheffy’?
Dear Tim Cook,
Why is the Twitter case different to Parler?
“We dislike Biden so much, we pettily focus on his speaking difficulties, sometimes strange behavior, clear lapses of memory, and other personal flaws. But in the end Biden’s record speaks for itself: The Biden team had one of the best first term off-year elections in history. They were not repudiated.”
💬 New Gingrich
“And no, they still haven’t explained what happened to web4.”
CBS are reporting that “This is a very sacred event we are watching”.
They certainly one way of describing two eruptions on one island.
Sacred is an anagram of scared.
I wonder if that is a more likely response from the people that live there.
CNN’s Licht is running Musk’s Twitter playbook. Or is it the other way round?
The Sample … worth a click through if.
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you like newsletters AND
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you are looking for reading recommendations
Otherwise - don’t bother.
Day 30: safety
“The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.”
💬 Dudley Moore
Paging Obsidian Users … what is your favourite theme? Why?
Low bar these days ….
🎶🎵 Another one of these list services. This one is for creating lists of (music) albums. It is a wait list at the moment so no idea of it is going to be what I want.
Open AI Announcement
“We’re excited to announce the release of the newest addition to the GPT-3 model family:
text-davinci-003. This model builds on top of our previous InstructGPT models, and improves on a number of behaviors that we’ve heard are important to you as developers.”
💬 Open AI
So of course I had to go try ….
The Prompt
Please write 4 paragraphs about Stop Child Traffic Foundation which is a non for profit organization that responds to refugee crisis, and uses technology and innovation to prevent harm to vulnerable populations like refugees and women and children.
The Response
_The Stop Child Traffic Foundation (SCTF) is a non-profit organization that works to prevent harm to vulnerable populations such as refugees and women and children. The foundation works to ensure the safety of these vulnerable populations by responding to refugee crises and using technology and innovation to prevent their exploitation. The foundation was established in 1999 and is based in London.
The SCTF works to protect vulnerable populations by responding to refugee crises and using technology and innovation to prevent exploitation. The foundation works with governments, non-governmental organizations, and other partners to develop innovative solutions to address the exploitation of vulnerable populations. The foundation focuses on prevention and early intervention, such as identifying and responding to cases of trafficking and exploitation. This includes providing support and resources to vulnerable populations and raising public awareness of the issues.
The foundation also works to improve the lives of vulnerable populations by working with partners to develop innovative programs and services. This includes providing access to education, healthcare, and employment opportunities. The foundation also works to ensure the safety of vulnerable populations by advocating for improved legislation and policy, monitoring human rights violations and supporting legal aid for vulnerable populations.
SCTF has achieved many successes including the launch of the first online platform designed to enable vulnerable populations to access resources and support._
The words aren’t QUITE right - but as a straight out of the box summary of the Stop Child Traffic Foundation - I am seriously impressed.
PS - More about Stop Child Traffic to come.
Two interesting links for the Mastodon world … as you / if you move out of Twitter
Just added myself to the wait list. because I clearly have the time!
I installed ‘one app’ to try it out.
It didn’t work out.
I have now uninstalled it - along with 10 others that got installed at the same time that you didn’t tell me about.
I’m looking at you Adobe.
Day 29: fish
As a kid in my German class I learnt;
“Fischers Fritze fischt frische Fische, frische Fische fischt Fischers Fritze'”
Rough Translation;
“Fisher Fritz catches fresh fish. Fresh fish is what Fisher Fritz catches.”
I guess ‘Cyber Monday' explains why my junk folder has at least 5 times as many entries as usual?
Belief in nothing suggests that you believe in something. If only nothing.
I have a hard time in believing in any kind of absolute. To do so suggests that my mind is made up.
That said, I love the debates.
Activist investors at Google are arguing that they pay people too much.
… let the ‘race to the bottom’ commence.