Daring Fireball @gruber@mastodon.social: Quora is beta testing an AI chatbot.
Shouldn’t be that big a change for Quora, many of whose participants already fail the Voight-Kampff test.
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store.
Apple will be required to open the iPhone to competing app stores, according to reliable reports, which is a huge deal and runs completely counter to Apple’s iPhone strategy since 2007. But Apple could still pull a fast one, unless regulators are smart, says Cory.
Apple “fights for its users when doing so is good for its shareholders. But when something is good for Apple shareholders and bad for its customers, the shareholders win, every time.”
Hearing Wendell Pierce say “fuuuuuck” in an early scene of S3E1 of “Jack Ryan” makes me want to watch “The Wire” again.
While walking, the dog and I saw this mobile axe-throwing setup. Because is it really the holidays without axe-throwing?
While walking, the dog and I saw this dapper gentleman.
The right believes in absolute free speech for everyone they agree with.
Soon as I saw the headline cross Mastodon, I checked my twitter account. Still active. I feel snubbed.
Thursday Night Purge: Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Tons Of High Profile Journalists — Mike Masnick at Techdirt.
“… it seems that whatever brakes or controls were in place at the new ‘free speech absolutist’ Twitter have really come off.”
How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face – Cory Doctorow
“No matter how hard conservative culture-war cannon-fodder love big business, it will never love them back.”
While out walking the dog late this afternoon I saw a little four-year-old girl wearing a beautiful green Christmas dress with a red bow on it. She was getting out of the car with her Dad, coming home from daycare I guess.
This was the same little girl I’d seen one morning a week or two ago, getting into the same car with her Dad. That morning she was wearing an elf costume, and was delighted to show it off for me.
So today I said to her, “Don’t you look pretty!” The dog, meanwhile, wanted to say hello, so I took a step or two slowly toward the girl and her father, keeping an eye on the situation.
This time, the girl was not delighted. Her face slowly started to crumple, and she clutched for her Dad’s leg and started to wail. So I backed away.
I don’t think she was afraid. I think she had just had a busy day, with a lot of stimuli and was overwhelmed.
“Kid,” I wanted to say. “A lot of the time I feel just like that.”