Whimsey, whimsey, whimsey: I love this
Life is too short. I love seeing folks mixing things up like this. I am a simple midwesterner living in the middle of New York City. I put my shoes on one at a ...
Category: The Narrative
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...
Will more free time destroy the world?
I had a brainwave [coincidentally when on my own free time holiday]. I had listened to a series of articles on long work hours in China, changes in American wor...
Ghost’s manifesto is a call to take back the graph, take back the cloud
Years ago I was trying to find away to keep folks connected across all their various digital streams. At the same time, the large Platforms were kicking off the...
Banning foreign-owned companies isn’t unprecedented in the US, TikTok is just one of the latest
The whole TikTok-banning story has been interesting to me. I understand that there is little faith in dominant foreign-owned orgs that either sit on our network...
Is Autopilot as smart as a horse? (another BASAAP story)
There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of...
Adidas Sambas are over 30 years of memories for me
I got my first Sambas (the traditional black ones, like in the photo) in college, influenced by some of my friends who were on the soccer team (bless ya, JP) . ...
Are all GenAI buttons magic fairy dust?
I now have apps everywhere asking me to click a button to use GenAI to do the things I can do myself. So I sorta ignore them. But last night I saw a Samsung ad ...
The connection between the T-Mobile Sidekick and Nokia Cloud
This article got me all nostalgic for the mid-2000s. Back then, I was at Nokia, deep into the Nokia smartphone world, fusing mobile and the internet. And by 200...
Project: Bruins 100-year anniversary sign
I had mentioned an earlier project where I hacked the parts of some solar deck lights, where the lights were cheaper than me buying all the parts myself. So of ...