🪦 Late to the news - just wanted to say goodbye to Herbie.

TIL you wrote ‘Grandad’ .. but otherwise what a superb life journey.

💬 It all seems so easy …

💬 The Real Power Brokers

🔗 Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads . Because of course they are.

https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

Talking to a developer friend this morning … inevitably eventually sharing war stories about clients - and briefs.

This one is for posterity …

"The site is really really good - everything I need. I just want you to say exactly the same thing with completely different words."

Even Android users can’t have nice things.

🔗 Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite

https://ia.net/topics/our-android-app-is-frozen-in-carbonite

It’s only getting worse …

🔗 AI Avatars Are Doing Job Interviews Now

For the longest time I have argued against the thoughtless deployment of ATS systems in corporations.

Downside for corporates - totally miss the nuance of people and their ‘particular sets of skills’ because they are over simplifying wha... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/09/29/its-only-getting.html

An excellent read.

🔗 AI - A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?

So excellent, I thought I would share some extracts.

https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to

Where has all the crypto gone?

Gone to exploits, every one.

Oh, when will they ever learn?

Oh, when will they ever learn?

🔗 Wearisome and Dissipating - by Stowe Boyd - Work Futures

"It’s interesting to me that leaders of companies who have disrupted entire industries by “breaking the box” and solving problems in new ways are so committed to “doing work” the same way it’s been done for the last 50 years."

💬 Nicole Rivers

https://www.workfutures.io/p/wearisome-and-dissipating

🪦 Sorry to read the news Maggie. Thankyou.

Funny to think that this view has been pretty much identical for around 600 years - and yet, had you been here 650 years ago and then then came back, you’d hardly recognize the place.

Seriously?

Kafka - who should know better - and Vox - FFS (I paraphrase the sentiment of a gushing podcast)

"The Facebook Glasses are so good that they are taking Apple head on - for less money."

Later on we learn that these glasses are

unlikely to see the light of day,

possibly in 3 to 10 (TEN - not a typo) years before a version is likely to be released,

estimated cost per pair is $10,000 - to MANUFACTURE.

Thats three times the price that apple are selling at - and of course we all know that Apple will never release a version two of their product - I mean they are done. Aren’t they?

F F S

Dear Liminal - it is clear that you take your security very seriously ….

I try to log in and you won’t let me

So I hit forgot password and enter my email

You tell me account doesn’t exist

So I try to sign up with my email

You tell me Email already exists

Which is it?

🔗 🍿 WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org

https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/

Truth in Satire

I really need to wire up my threads into microblog - tried a couple of times #FAIL .. clearly operator error.

🔗 GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Attended Drug-Heavy Sex Party With 17-Year-Old: Legal Docs (Apple News)

This story has been in and out of the news for YEARS.

And here it is surfacing again.

Time to DO something about it.

https://apple.news/ASzxn6vKFR0ezaINbn_g1YQ

💬 Clearly more people should take this advice …

Dear Siri - or what ever the Apple ‘Intelligence’ is behind Apple Contacts - please stop asking me to add ‘this new contact’ - their number is the same as in the system - it’s just that you think

xxx xxx xxxx is totally different to +1 xxx xxx xxxx

You didn’t used to be like this.