AI
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Everwhen
Of course they do 404 Media: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit. Here it is. Look at it this way: personal privacy is a vacuum in the digital world, and will remain so as long as we're naked there. Surveillance will fill that vacuum. Inevitably. Constantly. … Continue reading
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TGI Day
Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their news (if that’s what it is) from social media, which… Continue reading
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Fendsday
How to prevent the all-knowing and all-doing from doing wrong. Very wrong. Just one approach. Wired: Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything And, of course, Gary Marcus is less worried. When you whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat while standing naked, what are the hornets going to do?… Continue reading
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Toward a Human Future for AI
I was invited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University, to contribute my thoughts to their latest study, titled Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures, which just came out. Here is the full… Continue reading
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Flursday
Might do the same for you In The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis, the latest episode of the Founders podcast, David Senra compresses by Sebastian Mallaby's book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, into 55 minutes of pure inspiration. Not just because Demis is a hugely inspired and driven dude, but… Continue reading
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Wednesfool
1 You’re welcome I don’t hate April Fools Day. I’m just too busy to participate. So this is a fooling-free blog post. Much to munch on Getting great hang time with Jon Udell (who also manifests here) lately. Here are two of his recent publishings ya’ll might dig: • Introducing XMLUI • Beyond The Dip Is there also… Continue reading
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This Tuesday
Verily What's happening today is today. All day. Also, it's absurd that Indiana is mostly in the Eastern time zone. This time of year, the sun rises at four hours before noon and sets eight hours after noon. And fast moving storms from southwest to northeast tend to produce tornadoes. There's a long arc of… Continue reading
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Sat Enough Day
Questions Are Company Contacts as useful as I hope they are? HT: Recommendo, which I recommend. Is Conditional Consent compatible with MyTerms? This—_Instead of "accept all" or "reject all" per site, users define rules across three dimensions: cookie purpose, website category, and third-party processor. Allow analytics on shopping sites but deny tracking on news sites… Continue reading
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Fried Day
It’s all about making The Inention Economy happen. Dave Lockie: We Get to Decide What the A in AI Stands For. This follows The Intent Stack: A New Design Space for Human-AI Collaboration. Also dig Intent-Driven Commerce: What E-commerce Can Learn from AI Agents and DeFi. Dialing out Cumulus Media, one of the three big owners of commercial radio… Continue reading
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Toes Day
Let the Games Continue I didn’t know what Figma was until I heard that Danila Poyarkov created an alternative called OpenPencil, explained here. This news came in a thread where I gave my wish list for old-app resurrection by Muggles using AI. Here it is: Raise MORE from the dead. MORE was the best writing tool… Continue reading
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Weekstart
Jeremiah Johnson is correct: We are ruled by underpants gnomes. Here’s the logic: Luke Kornet has a blog on Medium. And he’s strong with it. An on-point Marketoonist cartoon. Eve Maler has a book on identity coming out. It’ll be great. Eve is an IIW veteran who has earned many battle ribbons in the Identity… Continue reading
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Keeping Up
Apple’s Mail.app sucks. I could give reasons, but it would only make me more tired than I already am from dealing with my storage issues. I just downloaded and set up Thunderbird for my Searls.com address to see if that works better. I’ve stayed away from Thunderbird since 2013, when it did real damage somehow.… Continue reading
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Webless Day
Perspective 10 Largest Things in Nature That Will Make You Feel Incredibly Small. The only one I didn’t know about was Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat. It covers 4,086 square miles. News Thunderstorm hits Santa Barbara. (Very rare.) Delays at Newark after smoke in the cockpit forces a JetBlue plane to return. Here’s the… Continue reading
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Remembranes
And I thought the voice was a knockoff of Leo Laporte Washington Post: He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it: NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it. It's still vendor sports.… Continue reading
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Weekstart
Or both Monday and Tuesday? If Saturday and Sunday are the weekend, why not call Monday the Weekstart? Smart? Or just good at whatever this is? An AI counterargument to the mirror thesis. And not just because my name gets dropped in it. This Ezra Klein podcast with Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu is required listening.… Continue reading
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Sum Day
Super. Bowls a strike. Against ChatGPT. This is brilliant. Here's a bonus post from the reliably contrary Gary Marcus. Later… I didn't see this ad during the Super Bowl. But maybe it ran but I got sacked by the Seattle defense, which several times came right through my TV screen and threw me on the… Continue reading
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Funday
I shall not see my shadow It’s too cold to go out today, so far, here in The Bahamas. So I am staying bundled and warm, getting work done. This was not my vacation plan, but it’s cool. For maximum freakage and fascination Moltbook is it. Zvi Mowshowitz runs it down. “Best start believing in… Continue reading
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Shutter Day
Without losing its charm I am in Harbour Island, where all the old houses have shutters. The house where we’re staying is a small cottage built in 1832. It has survived countless hurricanes. Remember Her? Moltbook is a Reddit for AI chatbots. NBC: Humans welcome to observe: This social network is for AI agents only. Wikipedia.… Continue reading
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Warm Takes
We still await truly personal AI. Google just launched Personal Intelligence. “Get highly personal help with everything from vacation ideas to project plans, and more. Gemini connects the dots across your Google apps—like Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube—and your chat history preferences to provide suggestions tailored to your world.” That should be called personalized, because… Continue reading
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Numb Day
Clobbering tourism, sports, higher ed, and all tech conferences Privacy International says “The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry.” The proposed changes are here. Particulars from the piece: The changes include: All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’… Continue reading