Been stuck on something for work the past few days — something minor but couldn’t wrap my head around it.
Took some time to formulate it to my AI overlords, with the right context and suddenly things are cleared up. I love using it to help me gain clarity — feels kinda super power-ish
Think of any game you played as a kid and I can almost guarantee you that you can play that game today “across new devices and in new ways” today. This doesn’t need AI at all, it’s been happening for decades via emulation.
¡Atléti por favor!
Absolutely rooting for the Colchoneros tonight in the #ChampionsLeague return game against their archrival and perennial Karen-team Real Madrid
A Fantasy Baseball update:
My draft was on Sunday, mid-afternoon, so I had to draft using the Yahoo Mobile App, while being out and about, hanging out with friends.
It was a nice and refreshing view compared to team-specific documentaries I’ve seen in the football (⚽️) world, and I really enjoyed the variety of discovering different teams, personalities, and players!
For someone like me, based in Europe, it was super useful to learn more about this league and its personalities. I wish more teams were covered, but I’m assuming that this would be the case if the show was to get renewed for another few seasons… MLS has definitely had the perception of being the “soon-to-be in the Top 5 of football leagues in the world” for 15 years now and we’re still waiting to see it happen, but at least the marketing has been good and the level of play has increased significantly. Though there’s still a lot of work to be done at youth level for the sport to become as mainstream and universal as it is in the rest of the world.
Next up on my watchlist:
Drive to Survive (Season 7), before the start of the new Formula 1 season, this weekend.
Today in “America is not a serious country”:
In this report about AI, they’re displaying the logos of differerent companies in the space, including France’s/Europe’s Le Chat from Mistral, however instead of the proper logo… they used the logo of a laundry detergent
The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts.
The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every promise it has ever made (…) its decision-making is either erratic and illogical or dictated by interests that cannot and will not align with any reasonable principles of freedom, social progress, or ethical governance.
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America is over after 80 years. It took time for me as well to accept that.
But it really is over. (…) The US has dismantled the official privacy framework. The deal is dead.
So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.
This executive order instructs federal employees of the federal government to ignore Supreme Court rulings and congressional actions if the President or Attorney General tell them to.
Tell me you’re trying to become a dictatorship without telling you’re trying to become a dictstorship.
☕️ I recently read an article by my friend @adders (from his apt-titled Coffee and Complexity) about how the climate crisis is affecting coffee prices. It’s something we’ve been noticing for a while now.
As someone who takes their at-home coffee seriously, I’ve seen the prices at my local roaster go up. She mentioned that the cost per kilo has risen above 10€ for the first time in the past 18 months. Despite the increase, brewing coffee at home is still more affordable than buying from a coffee shop or purchasing beans from those same places. And it’s obviously a million times better than office-coffee.
Our daily habits are connected to larger issues but this is a good reminder to appreciate that morning cup even more.