cairnish

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Likely 95% terrier or dog-related content with occasional squeaks that my better angels can't suppress. So basically the good parts of a terrier, plus the other parts. Header image is a photo of three Cairn Terriers, father, daughter, granddaughter. Life is merrier with a Cairn Terrier.
CairnTalk Forumhttps://www.cairntalk.net
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cairnishJul 19, 2023
I could not get my phone out of my pocket fast enough to take a photo of this heron standing at the waters edge, so close I could nearly touch it, but I still enjoy this image of it taking flight. The deep low-frequency whoosh created by its sizable wingspan had a startling intensity.
cairnishJun 10, 2023
James GleickJun 10, 2023

An astonishing fact about the present moment in technology:

Google—which began by doing one thing, and did it better than anyone else, and used that one thing to become a giant company, richer and more powerful than almost any other entity on earth—has lost its ability to do that one thing.

#Google https://hachyderm.io/@confluency/110491848831123193

Adrianna Pińska (@[email protected])

Content farms have basically eaten the first two to three pages of a typical Google search. This morning I was trying to find information about the relative safety of different space heater designs, and 95% of the results were long, rambly bullshit posts written by Jim Smith the Extremely Real Engineer Man for AllAboutSpaceHeaters.com and filled with Amazon affiliate links. Wow, AI is going great. I can't wait to see how this amazing technology will help humanity next.

Hachyderm.io
cairnishJun 4, 2023
!JDA HAS MOVED!Jun 4, 2023

You know, Cory Doctorow often writes of horrifying inequities and the terrible state of things, but this post about "private equity" could be the most infuriating and disgusting he's done yet. What a terrible time we live in.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/

cc @pluralistic

Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity’s looting (02 June 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

cairnishMay 24, 2023
Alex WildMay 24, 2023

Media should stop asking "how will DeSantis fare in the 2024 election?" and start asking "who will die if DeSantis is elected in 2024? Who will be purged from their job? Have their children taken away?"

This horserace shit is so done, so intellectually vapid.

cairnishMay 5, 2023
Jeff PattersonMay 5, 2023

Just a friendly reminder that @fastmail is an excellent, reasonably priced email service.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/5/23712440/gmail-ads-more-annoying-middle-inbox

Gmail is putting ads in the middle of users’ inboxes

Gmail has started to place ads in the middle of users’ inboxes. While Google has long placed ads at the very top of inboxes, this seemingly new placement will make it even harder to distinguish between ads and actual emails.

The Verge
cairnishMay 3, 2023
Show threadDerek Powazek 🐐May 3, 2023
Remember this: EVERY "Web 3.0" prediction has been wrong so far. EVERY ONE. First it was blockchain nonsense, then it was metaverse nonsense, and now it's AI nonsense. And you know what we still have? The corporate web, drowning in surveillance advertising and run by assholes, and the open web, still limping along, still with endless potential, still hard to make work. Just like every supposed web generation since 1995.
cairnishApr 21, 2023
historic drystone sheep dykeApr 21, 2023
Filtering online product reviews to only show posts from before the public release of chatGPT like im scavenging shipwrecks for pre-1945 steel
cairnishApr 19, 2023
historic drystone sheep dykeApr 19, 2023
The rise of two factor authentication is probably a good thing but it has introduced so many new and exciting ways to give me anxiety
cairnishApr 14, 2023
Manuel QuiñonesApr 14, 2023

things I'm loving from @elk:

- navigation that makes sense
- less cluttered user interface
- even less cluttered by entering zen mode! shortcut: z
- i can finally distinguish DMs from public posts
- icons added automatically to profile metadata fields (nice touch!)

#mastodon #elk

cairnishApr 13, 2023
Ericka SimoneApr 12, 2023
I don’t want self driving cars. I want public transportation so solid that you don’t even need to hop in a car unless it’s a taxi situation. I want infrastructure.