Some scientist has suggested putting salt in tea as the best method of brewing, leading to international uproar.
Of course, putting salt in tea is a fine American tradition.
If the Las Vegas Sphere just pivots to displaying pet photos, it’ll be the best piece of public infrastructure ever built. Put Jeeves on the Sphere! (Also: this is a fine excuse to put your cats in the comments, thanks in advance.)
There’s ongoing discussion about a Nazi problem. Is there a business model problem as well? Joshua Brustein at Bloomberg thinks so:
The writers largely handle their own distribution and retain control over their subscriber lists. It’s not a big problem for them to migrate to other newsletter publishing services, some of which are more cost-effective.
There is something bigger at play: a leadership problem. Hamish McKenzie’s response to the outcry around extremist newsletters triggered the exodus. Who made the design call to make it easy to leave? Leadership! What about Substack’s spending choices? Hm!
(Besides, of course, paying to filter by intentions.) It is this: monogamists who settle down will delete dating apps. Non-monogamists are less likely to do so. Users = revenue, right?
Anyway I expect more stories like this as Valentine’s Day approaches. Good luck out there!
The library is open and Perplexity is reading, my loves. (A reminder: shade is “I I don’t tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to tell you — because you know you’re ugly.” )
This does tell me something interesting about the age of Perplexity’s intended audience, though! Google’s supremacy is largely among the olds. The children, after all, prefer video to text.
Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl (IYKYK) has made a comic about being named as one of the artists used to train Midjourney. Gambrell refers to herself as “small-time” and her discussion of her ambitions may clarify why a lot of creators feel exploited by scraping.
[catandgirl.com]
The giant hashtag statue? Jon Ball, a former Twitter engineering manager, owns that. (“I think I got a pretty decent deal on that,” he said. “My wife doesn’t think so.”) Paintings of famous Twitter moments? People bought those, too. What was the experience of the auction like? “It’d be like if somebody you love went bankrupt and then you’re bidding on the remains.”
There are still some mysteries, though — like where the log cabin went.
I have often wondered why internet assistants invariably have female names. Anyway, here’s an easy solution to the problem from Ask A Manager:
As for what to do … if you just want it to stop, the easiest answer is to change the name to a very male-sounding one. I will personally pay you thousands of dollars if changing the bot’s name to Wayne doesn’t put an immediate end to this.
