Any will do
I can’t call mine on Father’s Day. Pop died in 1979, eight years younger than I am now. Were he alive today, he’d be 117 years old. I only knew him for 32 years, but I can still hear his voice clearly, and would know it anywhere. Mom‘s too. And Grandma’s. Maybe I’ll hear them all before my end comes. That possibility is suggested by The profound meaning and mystery of deathbed visions, in Friday’s Washington Post. If you can get past the paywall, it’s a good read. Also, call a dad today.
So now’s the time
Buying a Used iPhone Makes More Sense Than Ever, Wired says. New ones are going to be more expensive soon (says The Wall Street Journal, and old ones are mostly just fine. Unless you’re doing fine-art photography or video, the differences between an iPhone 13 and everything since are not huge. I stuck with an iPhone 11 until the battery was crap and I got a 16. My wife got her iPhone 16 after her iPhone 6 finally died. The next iOS version, 27, will work on every iPhone going back to the 11. Naturally, markets being what they are, used iPhone prices will soon start going up too.
The message in the medium called AI is in its first name
Here is something I wrote yesterday in The George Carlin Model of AI, and just took out:
Worse, Big AI is a giant digestive tract, extracting value from all the stuff in the world, hoovered up so its giant brain can make faked-up answers to anyone’s questions, make faked-up writing, faked-up code, faked-up music, faked-up art. It can fake all kinds of human output that does not require a human body. Lots of that shit is useful, helpful, and hell, amazing. (I use it every day.) But it’s not our shit, even though it can serve a zillion prosthetic purposes.
That leveraged what we might call the Carlin Paradox: “Ever notice that all your shit is stuff and everyone else’s stuff is shit?” I thought that paragraph veered away from the thrust of the post, so I relocated it here, so I could tee up the headline of this post within a post.
Bonus link from Charley Johnson.
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