… “traditional fact-checking and counterarguments are the least effective means of combating conspiracy beliefs…” but ”’fact-based inoculation’ – a kind of information vaccine where people are primed to spot misinformation before they are exposed to it – significantly reduced conspiratorial thinking…. “ Conspiracy theories: How Cranky Uncle aims to inoculate people against anti-scientific thought (The Sydney Morning Herald)
I shot this photo at Lake Murray using the pano setting on the iPhone. It came out a little wobbly.
We watched “Executive Suite” (1954). The powerful head of a nationwide furniture company drops dead on a Friday evening without naming a successor, and five vice presidents fight for the presidency over the next 24 hours. Features the highest high tech of its era: person-to-person calls, intercoms and telegrams. Pretty good movie.
Slouching is bad for your back, unless you’re in bed with a cat in your lap.
When Picard and his posse took their stations on the bridge, I expected them to land in their seats and go “oy” like a bunch of old Jews.
When Picard and his posse took their stations on the bridge, I expected them to land in their seats and go “oy” like a bunch of old Jews.
📷 Happy Friday and here are the ducks you asked for. I saw them at Lake Murray, and photographed them using the Moment tele lens for the iPhone.
I have done laundry without first running out of clean socks and underwear. I am going to put this on my LinkedIn profile.
Gentleman develops DIY 3D printed typeballs for vintage IBM Selectric typewriters. (Ars Technica) I never loved Selectric typewriters. The humming was annoying, like it was impatient for me to type something. And then the keys hitting paper were like gunshots.
I liked manual typewriters. A few years ago, hipsters started using manual typewriters, and I get it.
Pearl the chihuahua is the world’s shortest dog. I would die for Pearl.
Why am I still watching the Mandalorian? I am tired of Star Wars. I fall asleep watching every episode. I think I just answered my question.
“‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies’” among employees at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, as mass layoffs and absentee bosses create a morale crisis. “While Meta’s peers are chasing a wave of innovation in artificial intelligence, Mr. Zuckerberg has made a big bet on the metaverse,” which nobody wants—at least not in the form Zuck imagines it.
Also, while Zuckerberg is encouraging rank-and-file employees to return to the office, he’s on parental leave, and top executives have fled California for locations including Tel Aviv, London, and New York.
And:
The company is also cutting back on some of its lavish perks, once considered necessary to attract top talent. Last year, Meta ended its free laundry service for employees and pushed dinner service later into the evening — a way to cut down on workers’ loading up free food to take home….
One [employee was frustrated that there was no more cereal in the worker’s office….
— New York Times / Sheera Frenkel and Mike Isaac
News Is Not a Normal Mac App (Michael Tsai). I like Apple News as a service, but I dislike the app so much that I will probably cancel it. I can’t easily save articles to a read-it-later app, file them for future reference. or share them on social media.
Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town. Surprising? More like “amazing.”
I saw this car. I believe the owner may be an anime fan.
Is 4th mover advantage a thing? I wrote: Oracle benefits from a ‘4th mover’ cloud advantage. Oracle’s “legacy as a deep technology company” gives it ammunition to take down competitive cloud providers with much greater market share, according to Wall Street analysts at Guggenheim.