@artkavanagh now that IS a ‘longread’ :-)

@stefp i had never even heard of Broadcast until this post Stephen - so properly checked them out and love ’em - thank you.

Shades of Cocteau Twins / This Mortal Coil - though arguably ‘happier’. Maybe even a gentler kind of ‘Wondermints’. Just great stuff.

It did not.

@artkavanagh they are books - so do have an advantage :-) will make a note to check one out.

@brentsimmons BTW - if either are anywhere on your list of fun things to think about in your ‘retirement’ 😉 more than happy to be a volunteer beta tester. CAVEAT - not a developer.

And I guess while I am here - also a big fan of “one ‘opml’ to rule them all” - so point to an OPML - not import.

It’s an edge case - but NNW is my main ‘master’ reader - but I also dabble with others for subsets … so lots of export / edit / import in that process.

A single OPML file managed on a server - that a reader can point to would allow someone to move feeds into different folders / tags - so that sub readers could access different parts and it would be all dynamic. (BUT - I do very much understand that this is not a typical use case.)

@brentsimmons yes indeed.

@sod She’s a wise woman that Joan.

@numericcitizen > My wife wouldn’t understand if I got one.

I think you’ve just answered your own question.

@devilgate :-) … it seems such a reasonable thing to do - but no.

🖇️ More on This

Hinds offered three explanations for this paradoxical result:

• When calculating the 11 hours saved, workers aren’t counting all of the time they spend waiting for AI agents to complete tasks (an activity some are now calling “botsitting”).

• The workers often ignore the cost of toggling between multiple AI tools as they attempt to get a usable response (60% of the sample reported running queries across several tools in search of better outputs).

• Workers may also be participating in what Hinds calls “workplace theater,” in which they are “visibly performing work for bosses and colleagues, rather than focusing on the actual grind of getting things done.”

That third one? ‘may’?

Put that one to the top - because it reveals the problem of people inside organisations that predates anything to do with AI and everything to do with how people in organisations work.

There is too much going on in the area of

• arse covering

• ‘to all’ messages - and replies

• ‘everyone’ meetings

• eternal ‘brownian motion’- confusing movement with direction

• non aligned objectives

the list is extensive - should I go on?

@lmika hell of an echo! Let me delete one of those replies … weird.

@manton the nature of the community you are building here on micro blog - which (I am sure unintentionally) lean towards ‘tech heavy’ (pro and enthusiastic amateurs) would suggest to me to expect that their machines would drift to the higher end of the ‘spec spectrum’.

@manton been looking forward to this … thank you. As you said a month ago - when you switch it on - they will just appear … 🖇️ working! - css styling aside.

@lmika Which is why segmentation like laptop, desktop, pc, phone etc are meaningless to understand the market. To do that you need context .. coupled with learning curve and ROI … that typically the Manufacturers ignore because that is hard .. and doesn’t help them. I am with you, what I do with my Mac cannot easily be replaced by an iPad .. but for a lot of people it could .. although they aren’t your typical Micro.Blog user.

@lmika Way beyond my pay grade to have an opinion one way or the other but the optics include Trump specifically being a petulant vindictive lying SOB .. might suggest alternative realities.

Just stumbled across 🖇️ this post from 3 years ago. Just an hour ago I saved a ‘watch later’ YouTube about Viv. Clearly the ether is sending a message.

@rom just the one ❓😜

Related:

🔗 Daring Fireball: U.S. Government Directs Anthropic to Shut Down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models on National Security Grounds)

Been reading ‘temporarily unavailable’ for last 24 hours and still only just learnt why .. of course … It’s the vindictive Orange Clown in the Whitehouse. (at least that’s my take on the news … now I’ll go and find out whether it’s true.)

@rom had not heard of 🔗 offprint or 🔗 pckt - amazing how many of these little writing apps are cropping up - my equivalent of those - i think - is 🔗 sourcefeed .. by only challenge is trying to work out why i need any of them as opposed to just dropping thoughts directly into here … but fun for sure.

Back to the plot - I am fully aware that PEBCAK is alive and well in this household - so will continue to explore. If others are getting good results - then it is clearly me.