35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now (The New York Times)
Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was). (The New York Public Library)
Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI (The Verge). Dropbox is done. Steve Jobs was right. It’s a feature, not a company.
Today I learned that Oxiclean does an amazing job cleaning years of coffee crust from the inside of my Hario insulated metal coffee server. It’s like new. Sadly, my coffee loses some flavor served from a clean container.
Ron DeSantis’s Disney Miscalculation: ‘Disney Is Playing the Long Game’. Even Florida Republicans are questioning DeSantis’s strategy. (WSJ)
Today I am just saying nope to empty news calories.
Two articles about Tucker Carlson’s last broadcast? Another day I might have read one or both but today I just say nope.
A profile of a powerful Democratic political consultant who is apparently an awful person? Another day I would gobble that up, but today? Nope.
I hope I can keep this up.
This blog is a LGBTQ- and trans-friendly place.
I’m posting less about politics nowadays, and that’s a conscious decision by me.
But given all the hate coming out of the red states nowadays, it seems to me to be necessary to take a stand on this issue.
Anti-trans bigotry taps into the darkest impulses in human societies. It’s a step on a dark road that ends in genocide.
Timothy Lee: “Why I’m not worried about AI causing mass unemployment. Software didn’t eat the world and AI won’t either.”