Sports
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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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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
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Discourse & Datcourse
The reverse centaur. That’s where Big AI is the human part, and you’re just the horse part. If you have a suspicion that the AI bubble will burst, or even if you don’t, it’s worthwhile to read Cory Doctorow’s AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage, in The Guardian. Some useful metaphors in… Continue reading
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Who New?
Might be Winter Every day it snows a little here. Required reading. Seriously. Adrian Gropper: Taking Control of Your Healthcare is More Important Than Ever—Get help from a private AI that works for you – and only you. Announcing the North Atlantic Takeover Organization I avoid politics here, but it’s hard not to hear echoes… Continue reading
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Keeping the Light On
2 B Bob Weir is gone. He and Jerry Garcia were (at least to me) the sonic and vocal backbone of the Grateful Dead. He was less than two months younger than me. Jerry was older, but dead at 53. Phil Lesh made it to 84, dying in October 2024. Bill Kreutzmann is still with us… Continue reading
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Whoosiers!
The last thing David Hodskins emailed to me was “Don’t become a Hoosiers fan.” It was David who made me a Duke Blue Devils Basketball fan. David was an Iron Duke—an alumnus who contributed to the program and bought season tickets. He made me a fan by bringing me often to fill the other of his two… Continue reading
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Saturday Quarterbacking
Team! Teams change. They have to. Players get injured, age out, or stop fitting. Other players come and go for various reasons. The big one lately is salary caps. Oddly, a “good salary” underpays a valuable player. And the draft brings in rookies every year. Some work out, some don’t. Some only work out when… Continue reading
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Shitting Us Not
To the best editor I’ve ever had Paolo once told me that cats came to Earth to enslave the standing monkeys. While funny and in some ways true, cats can be more and other than that. They can be as loyal as dogs (and both species far more loyal than grown humans to each other),… Continue reading
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Communities Notes
A winning non-strategy When I headed to the Bay Area in 1984, years of success and championships followed for the 49ers, the A's, and the Giants. When I came to Boston in '07, the Patriots went undefeated (except for the Super Bowl), and the Red Sox and Celtics won championships. Then the Pats and the… Continue reading
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Sun Day
Dawn in Southern Indiana, and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. And Hoosiers football remains amazing. Wait, LeBron was in the G League? Am I alone in (unfairly) discounting posts and emails that include AI chatbot text and art? Doesn’t matter how good it is (and some of it is damned good), I get turned… Continue reading
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Dame Time!
I love that Damien Lillard is returning to the Portland Trailblazers. He and the town love each other, and the team is already on the ascent. It's a great move. Continue reading
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Monday, 23 June 2025
I hope they haven’t moved elsewhere by then. My 2nd Generation AirPods Pro pair, nestled in their little white case, fell out of my pocket in the waiting room at the VW dealer here in Bloomington. At least that’s the last place I knew I had them. According to the Find My apps on both… Continue reading
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Friday, 20 June 2025
Convenient. The 50 Best Restaurants include: Six in Bangkok Five in Tokyo. Four in Paris. Four in Lima. Four in Copenhagen. Three in New York. Two in Munich. Two in London. Two in Mexico City . Two in Dubai. Two in Seoul. Two in Barcelona. One in Gardone Riviera. One in Alba. One in Singapore.… Continue reading
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Thursday
Knicks fans know how OKC feels right now. The state of Indiana would like to thank the NBA players who called Tyrese Haliburton the "most overrated" player in the league. Halliburton just won the opening game of the NBA finals for the Pacers with less than a second left against the highly favored Thunder, in Oklahoma… Continue reading
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Online Sports Betting is for Losers
A few decades back my teenage son and I approached Las Vegas at night while traveling south on Interstate 15. When the skyline of the city began sparkling into view, the kid said, “Wow. Think of all the money people have made there!” This was a perfect tease for my response: “Dude, everything you see… Continue reading
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Gnaws
And, not to be outdone, Bloomington. Here in Indiana, not far west of Columbus, is a stretch of highway 46 called Gnaw Bone. Says at that link that the origin of the name is “obscure.” By the way, Columbus isn’t the only Indiana location sharing its name with a bigger place elsewhere. • U.S. Cities:… Continue reading
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Mittwoch
More lost privacy. 404 reports that Flock Safety, an automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, “is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches to ‘jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,’ allowing police to much more easily identify and track the movements of specific people around the country… Continue reading
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Unrealities
Developing the uncanny valley. HT to John Naughton (whom God preserve*) for pointage to Mistral's Le Chat, an AI image-generatng chatbot. It's a good answer to the challenge of making AI art that doesn't look like AI art. *This is an HT as well, toward one of John's warm conventions. And subscribe to his 'stack. It's… Continue reading