Phone mirroring – something I did on my Nokia S60 almost 20 years ago
[sarcastic clap clap clap] OK, I truly don’t know if this is a new thing or if Apple is Sherlocking some poor developer. But, congratulations Apple for re...
Category: The Narrative
Ford chief says Americans need to fall ‘back in love’ with smaller cars – duh
Jim Farley says country is ‘in love with these monster vehicles’ but big cars are not sustainable in the age of EV Source: Ford chief says Americans need to fal...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
Whimsey, whimsey, whimsey: I love this
Life is too short. I love seeing folks mixing things up like this. I am a simple midwesterner living in the middle of New York City. I put my shoes on one at a ...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Will more free time destroy the world?
I had a brainwave [coincidentally when on my own free time holiday]. I had listened to a series of articles on long work hours in China, changes in American wor...
Ghost’s manifesto is a call to take back the graph, take back the cloud
Years ago I was trying to find away to keep folks connected across all their various digital streams. At the same time, the large Platforms were kicking off the...
Banning foreign-owned companies isn’t unprecedented in the US, TikTok is just one of the latest
The whole TikTok-banning story has been interesting to me. I understand that there is little faith in dominant foreign-owned orgs that either sit on our network...
Is Autopilot as smart as a horse? (another BASAAP story)
There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of...
Adidas Sambas are over 30 years of memories for me
I got my first Sambas (the traditional black ones, like in the photo) in college, influenced by some of my friends who were on the soccer team (bless ya, JP) . ...