please please celebrate and show your joy online. the internet needs more people who are actually happy to be here instead of pretending everything’s ironic; it’s okay to gush about the stuff you love.
AI is getting clickbaited by YouTube and telling me to watch. Max Velocity is not a "severe weather center". Both YouTube links go to a FOX Weather video about lake effect snow (no links to the MV video). I checked Max Velocity's channel for the video and it was already 12+ hours old. Oh boy.
Yesterday, I got a notification that said, "Severe weather update. A severe weather center discusses a weather event that has never happened before." Oh, maybe an article quoting the National Weather Service or SPC or some org like that? I'll check it out. I tapped it...
For years, the Google app's news notifications algorithm has been "You looked up local severe weather yesterday so you must love weather. Here's an article about a thunderstorm in North Carolina! BREAKING: tornado warning in Nebraska!" And the articles are at least a day old.
> Website traffic is overwhelmingly dominated now by "bots" executing sophisticated cyberattacks and sucking up every scrap of content; only a tiny fraction of our traffic comes from legitimate human visitors.
@mulaney.bsky.social's plan to fight three 14-year-old boys, especially after last episode's training session with stuntwomen, reminds me of Andy Kaufman vs. Jerry Lawler. We may still be talking about Mulaney's horrific fight injuries 40+ years from Wednesday. #everybodyslive
I think the episode was designed to do this. He amplified the little nitpicks, refused to reason, threw us into a spin. The pre-recorded interview with a paleontologist had him swearing at John. Add callers Dr. Horner (JP technical adv, inspo for Alan Grant) and famed author Chuck Tingle -- magic.
The mid-point of #MARCHintosh is here. My MDN is up to issue 8 and is going out to various printers on #globaltalk. If you have a PS printer and want a copy send me a message with your zone and printer name!
Have you ever wanted to print to video tape? Have your computer read to you? You can do all this, and more, with Apple's AV technologies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrktIA9XIAo
I present "Macintosh: A Generation Ahead" from 1995. Apple put all the product managers on camera so there are demos of 3D graphics, speech recognition, OpenDoc, and even Copland. A great snapshot of mid-90s Apple. (Chapters are timestamped) www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_r4xl3FyzA