"Picard" seemed to be setting up a spinoff focused on Seven of Nine, and I'm there for that.
Cox shut down Internet service for scheduled maintenance this morning, because apparently it’s 1983 and people don’t need Internet to work from home.
I am not feeling a lot of love for Cox right now.
I had no blue checkmark before having no blue checkmark was cool.
My latest: Cisco tames cloud application security chaos with OpenClarity. Cisco enhanced its OpenClarity open-source security suite to further protect today’s hairy cloud-native applications. The new VMClarity tackles security for applications built with virtual machines.
Instagram is letting users put up to five links in their profile and I guess that’s what counts for innovation at Meta. Also, Linktree had $1B+ valuation as of a year ago, and now that’s gone. I thought NFTs were a ridiculous investment but Linktree’s business seems even more ridiculous.
Ever since the dog snatched half of Julie’s Reuben sandwich from the kitchen counter on Sunday, I have been making jokes about the subject.
Like: The dog doesn’t want treats anymore; she wants more corned beef. Or: The dog asked us if we could swing by the deli and bring her back another sandwich.
Julie says she’s sick of these jokes, but I know she doesn’t mean it, so I will keep them coming.
“Headless Body in Topless Bar” turns 40 (Daring Fireball)
I wonder whether the 12.9” iPad has a future.
Cory Doctorow has got me thinking about doing a better job structuring threads on Mastodon and Twitter.
Damn you, Cory, I don’t have time for this.
*shakes fist*
Ever since I was a little kid, I have thought men’s suits from the 1930s-50s looked great.
The dog would like me to go to the deli again today and pick up another sandwich. Less lean this time. Not too fatty, but a little more fatty than yesterday.
Julie put a lean corned beef Reuben sandwich on the kitchen counter and left the room for a minute. While she was out, the dog snatched the sandwich off the counter and ate half of it.
The dog has a death wish.
I did 14,000 steps yesterday, about 4,000 more than usual. Climbed Cowles Mountain, about 3.4 miles distance and 890 feet elevation. Then got home and walked the dog for a mile. My knees would like to discuss my choices.
Amazon Web Services sales and support teams are currently “spending much of their time helping customers optimize their AWS spend so they can better weather this uncertain economy,” says CEO Andy Jassy in an annual letter to shareholders.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/17/amazon_annual_shareholder_letter_aws/
AWS customers are “not cost-cutting as much as cost-optimizing so they can take their resources and apply them to emerging and inventive new customer experiences they’re planning,” Jassy said.
(This is pretty much what we’d expect Amazon to say. It may also be true.)
Amazon invested heavily in AWS during the 2007-8 economic downturn and saw that investment pay off. Jassy sees its “Kuiper” satellite broadband program as being at a similar stage today.
And AWS is putting greater focus on custom silicon.
Cats have no idea how arms work. They’ll park behind you or six feet away, and demand scritches. Cats think arms are 7-foot-long tentacles.
Anxious about the coming week? Cowles Mountain has a message for you.
I saw this sign while hiking today. That’s Lake Murray in the background.
In defense of Mastodon threads (and Twitter threads too):
Threading an essay requires the author to compose it in stanzas, each of which is a standalone, complete thought – and that means that readers can engage with each though separately, by replying to just that stanza.
For me, that stanza-by-stanza discussion – a kind of pro-fisking structural affordance – is the most interesting and powerful innovation of the social media thread. I
— Cory Doctorow, How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads.
Great insight—but too much work for me, as a general thing.
It’s been years since I hiked Cowles Mountain and I think it’s gotten taller.
Oh my knees.
Good hike though.
Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over
Musk’s “‘free-speech absolutism’ was mostly code for a high tolerance for bigotry toward particular groups, a smoke screen that obscured an obvious hostility toward any speech that threatened his ability to make money.”
Adam Serwer at The Atlantic:
Conservatives built an entire body of jurisprudence around the First Amendment’s protection of corporate speech when large corporations were reliably funding Republican causes and campaigns…. But once some corporate actors decided it was in their financial interests to make decisions that the GOP disliked, conservative lawyers then turned around and argued that speech was no longer protected if it was used for purposes they opposed.
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For them, free speech is when they can say what they want, and when you can say what they want.