We have started watching Grimm, a TV program about Portland police who fight monsters while wearing fabulous leather jackets.
Physical AI’s network demands are telco opportunities — Robots with onboard AI aren’t smart enough, pushing intelligence to the network and creating new opportunities — and challenges — for operators, according to Mobile Experts. My latest on Fierce Network.
When Automattic bought Tumblr, I hoped that Automattic would turn Tumblr into a universal platform for personal blogging. Instead, it remains the niche product that it’s been for many years.
I think the only reason Automattic keeps it going is the same reason I remain active there – I just plain like it. I like reading the weird posts (I’m a weirdo too!) and seeing the memes and GIFsets and vintage photos. I browse it at bedtime and other periods of downtime.
Matt Mullenwegg has a gajillion dollars, so he can afford to keep the whole site going for his own amusement the same way I, a middle-class guy who types for a living, can afford $69.99/year for Tumblr Premium.
Just once in my life I want to:
- Enter a meeting room where middle-aged men and women, wearing business suits and military uniforms, are sitting around a long table, talking animatedly.
- They grow silent when I enter the room and stand to attention.
- I tell them “be seated” as a take a seat myself, at the head of the table.
- Once everyone is seated and giving me their full attention, I bark: “Give me options, people!”
I talked with James White, VP of AI for F5, about the state of AI post-Mythos. We talked about how Mythos proves AI is grown up and can do real work.
Mythos, he said, is on the leading edge of a new class of AI models specialized for specific tasks.
My latest on Fierce Network.
Backblaze data shows that AI ‘elephant flows’ are challenging networks. Network data shows AI workloads generate massive, bursty traffic flows that are forcing operators to rapidly scale capacity, according to a Backblaze report. My latest on Fierce Network.
Things you should not think about if you want to enjoy “It Happened One Night,” a classic 1934 romcom starring Clark Gable as Peter Warne, a streetsmart newspaperman, and Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews, an heiress:
- That time Ellie’s father slaps her in the face.
- That time Peter spanks her (without permission or a safeword).
- At least two references to men having to hit women to keep them from getting out of line.
- No Asian or Black characters, except for one Black man who has two or three lines, which is actually a lot for a Golden Age Hollywood movie.
- The oligarchy.
I did enjoy the movie, which we watched again Saturday. I enjoyed it a great deal. I’m just sayin.
Watched: It Happened One Night 🍿It still holds up.
Social media and other apps glue people to the screens using features derived from video slot machines in casinos, writes Michaeleen Doucleff at NPR.org.
“People struggling with gambling addiction often cite video slots as their game of choice, studies have found. Some people gamble on these machines for extraordinary periods of time, [NY anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll] found in her ethnographic fieldwork. They can play for 24 hours, even 48 hours straight. Some people even told Schüll that they wear adult diapers to the casino so they don’t have to stop gambling to use the restroom.”
Three of the features are solitude; bottomlessness, or the never-ending feed; speed — new content keeps coming at you fast; and teasing, where the feed never gives you quite what you’re looking for, but it comes close.
Eric Trump bragged about a $24M Pentagon deal his company landed. The Trump family openly flaunts its corruption. They’re proud of it.