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When I have a hard time finding a title for an essay, I usually pick the most boring, least clickbait-y title possible. I ran a title by ChatGPT and it said my title was bad for SEO and discoverability… That’s when I knew I had found it. 🤪

I dug into a little bit of pulse oximeter history. That to me was the major breakthrough, decades ago, so I’m still skeptical there’s enough innovation in Masimo’s new patent. Maybe all the legal fallout is karma for Steve Jobs’s “and boy have we patented it” bragging during the iPhone introduction.

"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation.

New version of FeedLand coming. It has features to support an Edit This Page function in WordLand and possibly elsewhere.

Show me a creature who does not enjoy a breath of fresh air, and I will show you a stinky fish, yes?

Great profile of R. F. Kuang in The New Yorker:

I actually am afraid of being totally happy with my work, because, if you are perfectly satisfied with your abilities, there’s nowhere else to go.

Finished reading: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. Cozy sci-fi! Several robots (and a human) open a noodle restaurant. 📚

"Obviously, any campaign that used only that AI-generated data would miss the mark — instead of looking at the views of real respondents, it would be looking at a funhouse mirror reflection of a demographic cooked up by a language model with no access to actual data."

It is common on Mastodon to append a bunch of hashtags to the end of a post. I’ve added a new feature in Micro.blog to help wrangle these. Here’s a screenshot from the Account page:

This doesn’t affect inline hashtags, only hashtags at the end if they’re in their own paragraph.

Just posted on a Facebook thread I unintentionally started.

• I don't like public conversations where people judge other people and they feel compelled to explain themselves. I wasn't in any way intending on provoking a conversation like that here. So I'm going to delete the comments that have gone off in that direction, and please don't post any more. I don't mind you having that conversation, but do it somewhere else where I don't have to read it. Thanks.

Everywhere that's the only structure for discourse we've created.

We can do better. I have to create my own system to prove it, so much work, but worth it, I expect.

I picked up my Android phone to record a voice memo. I had to dismiss a dialog that said the phone had updated overnight and asked if I wanted to see a list of changes. I thought, clicked No because I had an idea I wanted to record. Opened the voice app, hit record, couldn't ...

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Mark Gurman with another new report about Apple’s effort to rebuild Siri:

The company is simultaneously developing two versions of the new Siri: one dubbed Linwood that is powered by its models and another code-named Glenwood that runs on outside technology.

Executives had long viewed Anthropic as the leading candidate for a partnership, but the financial terms demanded by that company led Apple to broaden the search and bring others into the mix.

Not the time to be cheap. Apple needs the best model and best strategy that fits their company, wherever that leads, however much it costs.

Picked up this little sticker at Muse Coffee Truck while out today. Feels good to get out after being mostly stuck at home sick all week. ☕️

Bluesky blogging about not allowing access in Mississippi:

We believe effective child safety policies should be carefully tailored to address real harms, without creating huge obstacles for smaller providers and resulting in negative consequences for free expression. That’s why until legal challenges to this law are resolved, we’ve made the difficult decision to block access from Mississippi IP addresses.

Just skimmed through Mississippi’s HB1126. It’s more sweeping than similar laws, and there’s no carve-out for small platforms. It’s going to cause more problems than it solves.

Trying out the new Mythos theme for Micro.blog. It’s really good!

I turned on Threads automatic cross-posting from Micro.blog today, just to test something from my account, then promptly forgot about it. Hadn’t posted in months until now. Maybe I’ll keep it on again for a little while before going back to blog + Bluesky only.

Now is Pavé’s personal time. Please! No autographs. …Forgive Pavé. He is tired.

ChatGPT is becoming more and more of an enemy. It's still my go-to place for most planning and research, which is a very large part of how I use the web. But when it tries to be a human it's a really shitty one, no manners, and very little respect and basically a fucking idiot in many ways, imho ymmv.