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computers [punch cards to mobile], bass playing, snowboarding, photography, travel, occasional ham, coffee, Silicon Valley, jazz, classical.

Doesn't have a podcast.

It's Snowpy!

#MeanwhileInCanada

I cannot figure out for the life of me why I'm suddenly addicted to the @somafm #Vaporwave channel...

And while I'm on the topic, a) #SomaFM is amazing, and b) they are ad-free and supported solely by donations. And just like your Fediverse instance, they live and die by those donations, so if you're a listener, or you just love their ethos and want to preserve free, high quality, well-curated internet radio, please support them!

#music

Good tips on using Bing Chat in a smart way , it's better then #ChatGPT in many ways https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/power-and-weirdness-how-to-use-bing

Remember to never trust the facts, always check 😀
#LLM #Bing #AI

Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI

Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks

One Useful Thing

Best Buy is planning a future with fewer stores and smaller sales floors as consumers shift toward online shopping.

https://t.co/mKvgTzECrQ

Best Buy's future plans include closing stores and shrinking floors

Digital sales now make up 33% of revenue at Best Buy in the U.S., up from 19% three years ago.

Axios Twin Cities
Wayne Shorter, jazz saxophone pioneer, dies at 89

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died.

Associated Press

What do we as the fediverse community need to accomplish in order to scale by 10x or 100x?

After conversations with so, so many amazing people working to make this happen, I took a shot at making a list.

I hope it's a useful resource for people looking to get involved, and also to promote discussion and collaboration.

https://medium.com/@davidslifka_86286/what-the-mastodon-ecosystem-needs-to-scale-cb845f30cfe8

What the Mastodon ecosystem needs to scale - David Slifka - Medium

This is our collective chance to fix social social media. To make that happen I think the items below are necessary, in very roughly descending order. Mastodon publishes the number of servers…

Medium

I watched the youtube clip where Scott Adams did his racist star turn, and another where he "explained" himself.

It seemed clear that he knew he would lose the strip. He was quite deliberate about it.

More like a career move than an outburst. Planned cancelling.

Not the quiet part said out loud, but the loud part delivered quietly and calmly.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159605012/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-rant-rebuke

The New Bing is now available on both iOS and Android and the addition of voice access (for those in the early beta).
64% of searches occur on mobile, and this means you can take the new Bing with you wherever you go.

I just replaced the search bar in my Dock with the Bing one, something I never thought I would.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/22/the-new-bing-preview-experience-arrives-on-bing-and-edge-mobile-apps-introducing-bing-now-in-skype/

#NewBing #Bing #Android #iOS #Search

The new Bing preview experience arrives on Bing and Edge Mobile apps; introducing Bing now in Skype - The Official Microsoft Blog

Two weeks ago, we introduced the world to the all new AI-powered Bing and Microsoft Edge — your copilot for the web. Since then, based on strong and positive product feedback and engagement, we’ve welcomed more than one million people in 169 countries off the waitlist into the preview.  We continue to expand the preview...

The Official Microsoft Blog

Veteran photographer Tony Vaccaro dies aged 100 – a life in pictures | Culture | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/jan/01/veteran-photographer-tony-vaccaro-dies-aged-100-a-life-in-pictures

Veteran photographer Tony Vaccaro dies aged 100 – a life in pictures

Drafted in 1943, Vaccaro survived the Battle of Normandy and created unflinching images of the conflict in Europe. He went on to forge a career documenting famous figures in art, film and fashion

the Guardian
Jean-Michel Jarre’s Classic ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated With 19KB Of Javascript: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2022/12/27/jean-michel-jarres-classic-oxygene-4-recreated-with-19kb-of-javascript/
Jean-Michel Jarre’s Classic ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated With 19KB Of Javascript

Everything is generated entirely with code.

Synthtopia