In Case You Aren't Yet Convinced Of The Mess We Are In ...
Two examples - In one email.
False Online Reviews
“Bounty, a startup that pays users for posting reviews to select products on TikTok, raised $4.7 million in seed funding from consumer venture capital firm M13.”
💬 Mahira Dayal - The Information
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In case you need another reason to get off Twitter ….
“Twitter donated $25,000 to the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which is raising funds for the anti-abortion movement, newsletters Popular Information and Platformer together reported. The association is using its resources to elect attorneys general that will enforce abortion bans in various states.”
💬 Mahira Dayal - The Information
A little bit of menu reorganizing on the microblog … I would have so much time on my hands if I stopped tinkering!
The Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are The Most Important - makes me feel better about this
In the last 📚Reader’s Republic, I said England (not the UK) suffers from many things, not least of which is an identity crisis.
I just stumbled across this.
Tolkien’s Writings Were a Mythology for the History of England
(Yes I need to get the RR notes published, sorry!)
Musk’s antics are turning Tesla customers against Tesla
Maybe the world is about to get better?
“I don’t know about you, but my enjoyment of the Tory leadership election has increased a thousandfold since I realised that Rishi Sunak reminds me of Niles Crane.”
💬 Helen Lewis
ROTFLMAO - is that still a thing?
It should be!
Instagram walks back its changes.
“Users serve Instagram, not the other way around.”
💬 Casey Newton
“Like all of them.”
💬 John Philpin
On a recent CoreInt @danielpunkass riffed on Mars Edit 5.
@manton raised iOS towards the end of the show.
I was thinking iOS as soon as I heard V5.
I think not offering an iOS solution when Mars Edit 5 gets released would be crazy.
What do you all think?
“Why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world.”
Clearly they aren’t micro bloggers!
“Our individualistic transportation network reflects American capitalism’s fundamental and perpetually renewed dependence on speculation, financialization, and rapacious consumerism.”
Strong words!
It’s one of my older posts now - but a good reminder …
In Sync
No - not the 🎶 pop group - they were 'NSYNC' ... just an acknowledgement of how nice it is to find like minded travelers on the journey.
The quote below found here
“We need to resist the narratives that are frequently served to us by corporations that sell these technologies, that these models of the future are dependent upon the particular technologies that they’re selling, that it’s always some future that is just around the corner that we have to buy into, when in fact the future is already here.”
Featured Photo Credit: Gabriel Gusmao on Unsplash
If you are OZ or Kiwi-oriented, you might want to weigh in on a LinkedIn post I dropped in today.
It’s an attempt at humour.
Good Advice From Manuel Moreale re RSS
But I don’t always take good advice …
- Keep your feed under control. Don’t subscribe to too many feeds and periodically go through the list and remove the ones that don’t provide value to your life.
- Avoid feeds that are too busy. Don’t subscribe to feeds that push content out on a daily basis. Disable all notifications from your RSS reader. Unread messages counter, email notifications, push notifications—turn everything off.
- Subscribe to content that is not time-sensitive. Only read and poke around your feeds when you have time to read something and you’re in the right mood.
- RSS is a bit of a relic of another time, when the internet was slower and things were
For example, that first thought … I use folders to manage the feeds that lets me focus on topics I want when I visit.
Artificial Intelligence For The Creative Professional
There are a group of companies springing up that are doing for the written word what Dall-E, MidJourney and Craiyon are doing for images, which is to say - enter some core text and let an AI generate the output.
My mind explodes when I see the 'image' results.
I think ‘meh’ - so far - when I see the 'written' results.
I am pretty sure that the engines are as sophisticated as each other, so I wonder if my reaction is more to do with my own abilities - as in I have NO artistic ability when it come to creating images, but I can - and do write - so my bar is higher?
For more background, you might enjoy this from The Verge;
🔗How independent writers are turning to AI
Note - all of the words you read on peoplefirst.business are not created - or even suggested - but any AI tool. (Can you tell?). 😂
I’m not a photographer but have at times taken a snap out of an airline window. (At least I used to - haven’t been on a plane for nearly three years).
If you want to do it - and maximize your success - Doc has some detailed advice.