Sometimes there is a path to follow.
Sometimes there is no path to follow.
The California Central Coast is pretty stunning.
California Coast squirrel
Turkey vulture hanging out on the coast of California.
So far Google I/O is all about AI and I’m bored.
Nick Heer writing about a data broker getting a FCC filed lawsuit tossed
The only reasonable course of action is a comprehensive prophylactic federal data privacy law.
Emphasis mine.
Prophlactic - Intended to prevent disease, you know, like a condom.
A case of the thesaurus giving the wrong synonym?
Nilay Patel at The Verge writing about Google’s 25th anniversary What happens when Google Search doesn’t have the answers? sums up his piece with this bit of, er, wisdom
For 25 years, Google Search has held the web together. Let’s make sure we understand what that meant before it all falls apart.
What? Really? Google has held the web together for 25 years? Just, come on, man.
From the AP story Dark Money Tanked Biden’s FCC Nominee
Now, just what the hell does “anti-police and soft on sex trafficking” have to do with regulating Telecom companies in the United States? Are the conservatives saying they want more regulations on those companies?
American politics are so damned confusing now.
Surprise! Tucker Carlson wants to keep being Tucker Carlson
But he needs Fox to let him out of his contract, which expires in January 2025
I mean, if he got fired - doesn’t that kind of void his contract?
Saturday
Wait. People really think Apple is going to release something involving ChatGPT this year?
A product that was released … checks notes … on March 23, 2023.
Apple. The company that wants to own everything in their technology stack is going to build on top of a brand new product?
Donald Drumpf is a moron
We’ll get something done where everyone is going to be very satisfied.
There is literally no way “everyone is going to be very satisfied” on abortion.
Nick Heer closing a post about car infotainment systems
… Google’s unintelligible product strategy and naming conventions.
You want unintelligible naming conventions? I have two words: Apple TV
Is it a set top box?
A subscription service?
An App?
All of the above?
One Plus made a tablet. There are reviews … wait, no, I mean … there are opinions on the tablet.
Ron Amadeo writing at Ars Technica
Dan Seifert writing at The Verge
One review has feelings and one has specs and both do a poor job of conveying what to expect from the 11 inch tablet.
I can’t recall ever seeing this view of the statue of liberty before.
Great photo.
I can’t help but remember Google Glass and the great privacy freakout of 2013.
And no, I’m not talking about Google getting more data from people. I’m talking about the public worried about what the people wearing Google Glass would do with the data.
Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy?
Seth Godin, writing about ads on Amazon
Search and discovery would work just fine without the ads. Our satisfaction with what we bought would be at least as good if organic search simply highlighted the best match.
Ads on Amazon are no different than ads in the supermarket; buy this instead of that. The Ads have nothing to do with satisfaction.
Yes. I would buy this phone with an updated Android OS.
Pasta and Garlic Toast for Saturday lunch?
Yes, please.
I randomly thought about the time I visited the Getty museum by myself 10 years ago and saw what has become one of my favorite paintings in person.
Landscape with a Calm by Nicolas Poussin
