The one from the 2000s says a lot more, but the one from the 80s means a lot more.
On the click through.
- Two images
- One lesson
Less is more
Facebook’s AI Chatbot Has Election-Denying, Antisemitic Bugs to Work Out.
BUGS!
If this was a product in any decent company, that would be described as a fundamental design flaw leading to the failure of the product to even approach MVP.
Somebody should lock Fuckerberg up.
Count Scott Galloway as one of the people I read and listen to. Not everyone’s glass of vodka .. but it works for me.
Until today.
I appreciate shows need advertisers and sponsors … BUT … Hunter Douglas? I mean nothing wrong with them as a company but hearing the script promoting Hunter Douglas just being read by Scott - the style just didn’t work.
And talking of reading - today he had somebody on reading questions to him - clearly read, clearly scripted, clearly zero connection to even pretend it was an interview … seems like he is trying to give youth a chance … and that’s good … but please … can the youth be talented?
Election deniers winning elections without any hint of irony.
“My spidey-sense feels good about it. If everyone registers, if everyone votes, if all the votes are counted and reported fairly, most people will be satisfied with the outcome.”
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
I think Dana is very … very … wrong.
Unless by ‘most’ he means the majority … which by definition of the setup he describes is a self fulfilling prophesy.
But we all know that what he describes is not going to happen.
It’s that word ‘everyone’.
Front Page Tech’s writing style is so horrible that they just lost a subscriber.
Imagine the seismic shift in the organ’s readership department, the analysis of what went wrong, the shaking chagrined heads as they wonder how they will now survive losing one more free reader.
I just exported my Feedbin subscriptions from NetNewsWire and then reimported to iCloud.
Seems that I could now cancel Feedbin.
Anyone know why that might be a bad idea?
You had Virtual Reality.
You had Augmented Reality.
Behold - ‘Synthesized Reality’.
Running … Up That Hill
I recently had a good email exchange with Nick Milo (LYT) after a newsletter he wrote that depended a lot on Running Up That Hill.
As a private exchange, I am not going to reveal the conversation, but rather make the observation that Kate Bush’s Running Up The Hill not only gained renewed momentum in the UK/US Music charts …. It also seems to have pushed Kate back into the limelight.
Kate will turn 64 years old later this month … it is never too late.
Beyond that, clearly, something else is going on. Detailed below are just three of many more links that I have read recently. Articles by writers I read regularly that each in their own way have latched on to the phenomena.
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William Gallagher - always a good read gave us; Seeking out strange new worlds, and liking them..
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Rick Beato - with a 10 a minute breakdown of the original song.
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The Brisbane choir - always worth a watch have their take on the song.
The new Mac mail is not allowing you to ‘unsend email’ … it’s simply delaying sending your email.
Sorry …
That’s not the same thing.
I’m not talking those personal tech agents on the blockchain - though a reliable one would be nice - more thinking an analogue human - likely working on a fractional basis.
It’s all about the knowns and unknowsn and how you react.
It’s amazing how many millions you can make by selling pillows.
So now you can just suspend elected officials … got it.
‘Current Affairs’ - Against Liberalism
and
The Bulwark - The Distinct Shame of Senate Republicans.
Just a couple of nicely, spot on well-written pieces that rumbled through my timeline today.
Lake Geneva, with more than 280 km2 is the largest lake in France.
… says Maps On The Web.
Not to quibble … ok I am going to quibble …
Lake Geneva isn’t entirely in France - and the bit that is - is smaller than the bit in Switzerland.
Carry on.
🎶 I am starting to prepare for Season 3 of The People First Podcast - and was reviewing some of the greatest hits from Seasons 1 and 2 … stumbling across this gem from a show I did with Scott Schorr. It’s one minute long.
Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
Interesting idea, great points - but not sure how easily
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it could be done
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it would be to adopt by the average person
and if it did happen - how long Amazon would allow it for.
Vodafone & Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking.
Seriously - with everything going on in the world they think this is a good idea?
“I mostly watch, read and listen to news to keep track of how they’re screwing us.”
💬 Dave Winer
😂😂😂😂😂