Feel so fancy to be a speaker @dreamforce , listed next to will.i.am ! 😍
https://reg.salesforce.com/flow/plus/df23/speakerlisting/page/df23speakers
Also Jane Goodall will be speaking!?!?! 🫨

Spotify is doing "Your Summer Rewind", but it is quite clearly my summers over the past....12 years?!?! Weird travel through different headspaces in time.

Care for a bit of octopus?

Giraffe with no spots!
(Or perhaps with just one big spot.)
Might be the only one in the world, and the first in >30 years.
Aww cute.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/22/1195279578/spotless-giraffe-born-tennessee-zoo

In sillier news, here's a pup who knows she's been very bad! Upon seeing her human, she ran to her mess, threw herself down upon it, and submissively exposed her belly--just in case her human wanted to disembowel her for her terrible behavior. (She was told she was melodramatic.)

Guess what country I'm in!
I wish the implicit assumptions & priority status of this sign were laughable. =/

Happy 40 year anniversary of the first release of Nintendo NES to my fellow [tech, history] nerds. 🤓

Am loving this new declaration from @ShannonVallor and other UK Trustworthy Autonomous System researchers.
Proposes four shifts in the framing of Responsible AI that they believe are needed for responsible development today.
https://medium.com/@svallor_10030/edinburgh-declaration-on-responsibility-for-responsible-ai-1a98ed2e328b

I think the Threads logo is clever and exciting to my inner semiotician. Don't understand people knocking it (🧵 1/3).
1. It's hard to make an "instantly recognizable" non-linguistic+orthography-reminiscent symbol that doesn't yet exist -- Threads logo nails it.