Entrepreneur & Product Manager - looking for new opportunities. Recently moved to Mountain View CA.
Writer. GM (40+ years of ttrpgs) MTG player (former dealer semi-pro player)
3rd generation developer, online since before www (1990-present)
I post on a lot of topics including US politics (registered Democrat) and being a Dad. I try to be a good ally to my family and friends who are LGBTQ+
https://calendly.com/rycaut to schedule meetings with me
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Does anyone know how to tell Google/gmail to just stop with all AI “features”
I never want an AI summary of a long thread especially when I was literally in the middle of reading it, closed my phone because I was driving somewhere and then when I reopen gmail it has closed all the emails I was reading and only shows me a useless AI summary.
I do NOT ever want such a useless set of characters. If I want the emails (this is a list I’ve been on for decades) I want to read the actual messages
Random thought that occurred to me earlier today - I’d love it if books sold in translation included a way to read the original text as well. In physical print obviously this is a layout challenge - and doubles the likely size of the work.
But digitally imagine if every book sold had an option to see the original text. Perhaps with a variety of formatting options (including the correct pagination for works where that matters
I think manga have at times had this. Or something like it.
Anyone else woken up by an earthquake alert in the Bay Area?
Has anyone felt an actual earthquake?
Simple example of unavoidable AI embedding in it a biased view of the world
Did a search for (going to slightly edit my actual search for privacy reasons)
Science fiction author with a wife named [hidden]
The AI results said “there is no male science fiction author with a wife named [hidden] perhaps you meant a science fiction author named [hidden]”
Somehow the idea that perhaps it was a non-male science fiction author with the wife didn’t occur to the AI
One (of many) reasons I love living in the Bay Area is that yesterday my wife and I went to a friends & family soft opening for a new business in the town next door to ours (a new location of a Shake Shack) while we were there the mayor of Sunnyvale (the town next to ours) was also there getting his lunch (he promotes all the businesses in his town via his social media channels)
Today - his FB feed is about raising the Trans flag over City Hall & celebrating diversity.
I have a mild thesis that a lot of highly tech savvy households actually are similar - with TVs that are rarely used (perhaps with an exception of some who are serious sports fans or who have avid game console players who play on tv screens not dedicated monitors or portable devices.
(our never being a household that watched a lot of tv and certainly never one where it is always on in the background is one of many reasons our son can happily go to a school that is screen free)
My own household (not sure I can actually take my own poll) has only 1 TV which is so rarely on we only just turned it on for the first time since moving months ago last week when my son was home sick.
It is almost never on - and when on only on for a specific purpose (watching a movie or specific streaming show), we don't have cable and will probably cancel most of the streaming services except for ones we get bundled with something else we use like our phones or Apple & Amazon
A survey - how many TVs do you have in your home? (and in the replies how often are any of them on - and perhaps whether primarily used for live tv, streaming, game consoles, or something else (apps/music/art displays etc)
(poll doesn't allow for more than 4 options so if you select 3+ feel free to leave a reply with how many it is actually)
today is typically my annual "ignore the internet" day - any "real" news I'll catch later in the month and I generally get to avoid the inevitably stupid stuff that otherwise gets posted and shared and reposted today.
I'm doing a bit of a hybrid this year - can't be entirely offline today (am literally in the process of one of the biggest transactions I've ever done)
But neither am I going to give most things much of my, limited, attention today
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116327572078249938
This is the type of fun April Fools content that I remember and look back fondly on.
No tricks nothing deceptive just a perfect bit well made and targeted to their customer demographic (well at least us older fogeys)
