Memday

From “Guns of August, Books of August: The Iconography of a Gravestone in Prague,” by Stephen Lewis

Remembering the future

What matters most about Memorial Day is that we stop killing each other, especially over problems that could have been solved without anyone dying.

Word

Pope Leo on AI. The whole thing.

More evidence that advertising corrupts and digital advertising corrupts absolutely

Wired: ‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says. I added a comment (unpublished at this writing) that pointed to this PageXray of Wired.com and asked the writer, Maddy Varner, to respond. Maddy is a veteran of The Markup and Pro Publica. Should I reach out? I have a 100% failure rate in getting reporters to cover privacy abuses by their own publications. Here is what the non-visual part of the PageXray says Wired is up to:

  • Adserver Requests: 222
  • Tracking Requests: 160
  • Other Requests: 214

Just in case you didn’t think Google Search was dead

Denine Harper in LinkedIn: Google Is Now A Buyer’s Assistant.

One is under your ass

Ole Eichorn: Four planets viewed during an eclipse of the Sun

$Trillion here, $trillion there. Pretty soon, you’re talking about real money

SpaceX’s S1 Filing. On Page 11, it says,

We believe we have identified the largest actionable total addressable market (“TAM”) in human history. We estimate that our quantifiable TAM is $28.5 trillion, consisting of $370 billion in Space from space-enabled solutions; $1.6 trillion in Connectivity across $870 billion in Starlink Broadband and $740 billion in Starlink Mobile as well as additional opportunities in enterprise and government; $26.5 trillion in AI across $2.4 trillion in AI infrastructure, $760 billion in consumer subscriptions, $600 billion in digital advertising, and $22.7 trillion in enterprise applications.



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