“America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides” on.ft.com/46xX84z

Dembele? Please. Should have been the Egyptian King.

Quelle surprise. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With 8 years of US user data in the bag, ByteDance must be like "Meh, ok, you can have it America."

Our latest podcast/video with Bill Johnston at the Siemens Xcelerator on Building Future Cultures: Why Foresight Must Become an Everyday Practice. community.xcelerator.siemens.com/public/blogs...

Damn Wii Sports got out of hand. (Also, is it possible to be smaller than SV vaporware?)

Today in particular would be a good day to avoid the circus. Political grievance culture needs attention to be validated. Go do something for your neighborhood instead.

The persistent threat of state or non-state violence is now used to keep people in the homes and on their screens, reliant on a medium the boss believes he understands better than anyone. Why else use low ratings as a taunt?

Since the 60s, many Americans (not all, but enough) have seen politics as something transacted through TV and other forms of media, whether political satire, propagandistic news or bloviating rallies. Not only has it kept them out of the streets, it’s dislocated where political action takes place 1/

One thing I’m learning in the recovery from eye surgery is how many newsletters aren’t written for listening. Ofc they are to be read, but in an age of audio and accessibility for vision impaired, it’s a good note to remember.

Seeking testers for a new tool to help students write better argumentative essays through guided reasoning scaffolds. Looking for educator contacts with students willing to test the web app (<1hr, no instructor involvement needed). More info & signup: vaughntan.org/thinkingtools

Disappointed that it took 22 minutes to hear the C word broadcast during the Merseyside derby today.

Sometimes I think about how many movies would have been better had Leo DiCaprio not been cast in them.

Here endeth the pasta bowl. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The real degens

Prediction: hot looks for next season: beekeeper, widow, fencer

The pleasure of watching Simeone lose his shit.

Searchlight deez nuts

Yesterday we lose Redford. Today I find out this place is closing for renovation until next year. Before Halloween! Why Dimi? Why?

Flags half staff for Robert Redford

www.theguardian.com/football/202... #winningformula

Realizing I’m reading this wearing only Uniqlo…pants. 😳

The pretense that social media is somehow made by something or someone else is absurd. Social media is people.

So Reddit is the dark web now?

Make a band singular Kernel

The freedoming will continue until compliance improves.

Like QUARTET and THE BETSY, WINTER KILLS is a 70s film that should never have been made. boxd.it/b3zjjh

"Acted alone" is doing a lot of work this week.

Interesting choice of headline.

Also, Criterion picked a helluva month to spotlight the Paranoia Trilogy.

Once again, I am asking you not to assume every contractor you work with uses Sharepoint, or other apps within the MSFT hairball. Sending links to docs we don't have access to is highly unproductive.

Started reading Dan Wang’s “Breakneck” and the false binary of build v regulate is so tiresome. Never a mention of 50 years of war against the idea of public good from the right in the US.

Gestures in all directions.

The Gorn Identity

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.

Psst it’s not the menu. It’s the customers.

There is always always an old dude who opens the window in a pitch black airline cabin rather than turn on his directed seat light.

A feature of current admin policy, not a bug. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Upside is hotelhoppa driver proper Mariokarting this morning.

Unexpected night in Harlington courtesy of BA bungling a flight connection, as well as the subsequent rebooking. Shout out to room service wine.

I really don’t get the Arsenal hype, beyond being in a favourable postcode.

The sole reason I do what I do for a living.

Parentes tui te futuunt. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The cattiness of Meta’s responses to stories about AI hiring speaks volumes. 🐈 on.ft.com/4g2UMiH

American in a nutshell.

Basically. The market doesn’t care about rational governance. It doesn’t care about its own long-term survival. The market optimizes to what makes it money now. on.ft.com/4n9O6BD

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title Tom Clancy’s The Joy of Sex

I mean, what better way to spend a damp October Saturday?