Today's memes, tweets, vintage photos etc.
I deleted Meta Threads from my phone. I may come back to the service, but I’m not feeling urgency, and I don’t like app’s privacy policies.
Threads grabs a great deal of user information, including text messages.
Text messages?! Are you kidding?!
I’ve got Facebook on my phone. That’s bad enough.
Has anybody found a news alerts service for the phone that only alerts you for world-changing news? All the news alert services I’ve tried are too noisy.
I want an alert if Biden or Trump drops dead, or if Ukraine boils over into World War III. I don’t need an alert to let me know somebody got murdered 15 miles away, or the Walmart killer got sentenced or—true alert I got from CNN yesterday—how to not get bedbugs from hotel beds.
Basically, I only want to get a news alert once every few months. All the news alerts I’ve subscribed to send alerts every few hours.
I fear the service I’m looking for may not exist.
Dolly Parton does not want to be an AI hologram, thank you very much: ‘I don’t want to leave my soul here on Earth’ (Boing Boing / Rusty Blazenhoff)
Jo Walton writes about Heinlein’s Worst Novel. I 98% agree.
My favorite Heinleins are his early books, particularly “Citizen of the Galaxy.”
I loved “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” and “Starship Troopers,” but I’d love them even more without the lectures.
I loved “Stranger in a Strange Land” when I was 13 years old, but it ages badly.
And “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” and “To Sail Beyond the Sunset” are just plain bad.
I often think about the failed US Heinlein describes in “I Will Fear No Evil” and “Friday.”
How actors are losing their voices to AI.. Actors who signed away their voice rights many years ago are now competing for work with AI versions of themselves, and hearing their own voices used in scams. (Madhumita Murgia / FT)
In a sign of what’s to come for many white-collar workers, artificial intelligence is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers.
Some 70% of coders are already using or plan to use AI in their work, with one-third saying the primary reason they do so is because it makes them more productive, according to survey by Stack Overflow.
What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It’s Already Doing to Coders. By Christopher Mims at the Wall Street Journal.
How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality. “The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.” (The New York Times / Erin Griffith and David Yaffe-Bellany).
Seems like Brady and other celebrities were both victimizers and victims, as is so often the case with people in pyramid schemes at any level. They’re not entirely guilty but they’re not innocent victims either.
And they’re all still rich. Maybe they lost a few millions or tens of millions, but they can afford it.
I was and am disappointed to see celebrities I liked and respected, like Matt Damon and Larry David, get caught up in this grift. I thought they had more integrity.