Thank you Google. I don’t care if the government breaks you up or keeps you whole - BUT 🔗 I do care about you continually breaking the Internet.
Please stop doing that.
https://cal.com/blog/google-s-new-spam-policy-may-be-affecting-your-invitations
The Data Czars are drawing the lines in the sand …
OpenAI is mapped to Microsoft
Anthropic is mapping to Amazon
So Oracle (Ellison) maps to Musk?
I need 2 - or even 3 - action buttons.
Today I learned about Mervin Tuttle - and if you are an Austin resident - you’ll be thinking well … duh … but I did not know this. Extraordinary.
Sometimes something just hits you … this is one such moment
"(It’s) … not that quantum physics has merely superseded classical mechanics, but that a beautiful and strange duality organizes our lives: predictable physics in everyday tools & work, uncertainty at the heart of all things."
💬 Sara Hendren
(@ablerism over on Micro Blog - 🔗website)
I saw something the other day about ‘Ghost Jobs’ … will write more when I find it - but added to this - prospects are gloomy.
First up (which I am not even going to bother linking to) lead with something like … “how corporations can create emotional connections to their customers at ‘scale’.” What the fucking what - do not even get me started. Do these people even think about what their words mean when they spew them out?
It All Makes Sense - until it doesn't. We are passed that point. https://john.philpin.com/2024/11/22/it-all-makes.html
I think Siri is on to something - every time I try to write ‘Thiel’ - it auto corrects to ‘thief’.
I think that’s about right.
💬 Civil War In New Zealand?
A Posse Check from Microblog.
Received via John Wunderlich - 🔗 work by Randall Munroe - XKCD
Resonates. How about you?
😂😂😂😂
Gosh darn - and here I am sitting just few rows back from said jet cockpit - and not a sticker to be found.
🪦 so long Pete - thank you - I guess you’re now on the inside - looking outside - is it very different?
🔗 National risks being eaten alive by NZ First & ACT
Dear Christopher (Luxon) .. I know Washington DC is a long way a way .. but there are some lessons there .. you can watch in real time the future of New Zealand .. at least the future based on the current trajectory.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/p/national-risks-being-eaten-alive
So where do all the cool kids head to get their leather / Faux leather iPhone cases these days?
It’s been 5 years since I bought my last one and this Apple Silicon stuff is definitely not cutting it.
💬 a fine piece of analysis from Kevin Drum.
🔗 The Onion has won the bid for Infowars’ assets. .. a perfect home.
"“The Onion is proud to acquire Infowars, and we look forward to continuing its storied tradition of scaring the site’s users with lies until they fork over their cold, hard cash,” said The Onion CEO Ben Collins. “Or Bitcoin. We will also accept Bitcoin.”"
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/14/business/onion-alex-jones-infowars-auction/index.html
Someone suggested that Coldplay playing to 150,000 over three nights has ‘injected millions into local economy’. Not sure I see it … until I know if local economy is ‘Auckland’ or ‘New Zealand’ .. and how many people in each of those are really from ‘out of town / country’.