My latest: Cloud cost-consciousness is having a moment. Companies are rediscovering cost awareness, which Amazon CTO Werner Vogels calls a “lost art.”
What if it learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December and put bigger projects off until the new year, and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?
As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause
Terry Gilliam and Jonathan Pryce on making “Brazil.”
“Robert De Niro prepared to play a plumber by watching a brain surgeon.” …
De Niro agreed because he was a Python fan, Gilliam cast his daughter but she cut her hair off in protest and Pryce needed a wig as he’d just been playing a friar with a tonsure.
“Ask a Manager” says “this is the best office holiday party date story of all time.”
It’s EVEN BETTER THAN THAT.
I’m glad to see work is continuing on ActivityPub support in Tumblr (here’s a statement on Tumblr from CEO Matt Mullenweg), and also not surprised to find there isn’t much interest in WordPress ActivityPub support.
Most people who want something with ActivityPub support just go to Mastodon. At least for now.
We brought Minnie in for a good dog wash for the first time in too long. We tried a new place. They did a good job, but they used perfumed shampoo on her, and now my office, where she sleeps at night, smells like a New Orleans whorehouse.
“… blogging never died…. journalists just stopped paying attention.”