Notices by Peter Cohen (flargh@mastodon.social), page 3

@WarnerCrocker proof that ivermectin works! 🙃

Interesting to hear Apple say the quiet AI part out loud a few times during the #AppleEvent keynote. Prior to now the messaging was focused on machine learning.

I'm bloody tired of seeing posts from people telling me I can't use this service or buy products from that company or whatever, because they do things that displease the poster.

I swear, we could power entire cities if we could only harness the energy of fediverse users focused on issues of ideological purity

I've seen enough episodes of Supernatural to know this means that self-driving cars are powered by demons.

Crushed now that Shogun is over. What a ride. One of the best things I've ever seen on Hulu.

This was a super interesting look at the event that got the EPA Superfund into motion. Especially important now as the pendulum swings back in favor of corporate interests over public safety, and a salient reminder of just how important grassroots activism is.

https://www.pbs.org/video/poisoned-ground-the-tragedy-at-love-canal-pifecm/

@RickiTarr We hear a lot these days about nepo babies, and so many of them basically retell similar stories about how their actor parents would absolutely not allow them to act professionally as kids.

It's almost as if those adult actors might have known something. 🧐

earthquakes, solar eclipse, cicadas. I have a good feeling about this FINALLY being the End Times.

why didnt anyone warn us how dumb the future would be

me: The US government says Apple has a monopoly

them: The same people who approved the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger?

"Foul play" is such a weird linguistic anachronism. Turns out it's been part of the English vernacular since Shakespeare's time.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/03/20/body-pulled-from-charles-river-identified-80-year-old-newton-man/

He asked Ted Nugent first, but Nugent just crapped himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/13/robert-kennedy-jr-aaron-rodgers-running-mates

@WarnerCrocker The Buck stops here.

@dangillmor @kashhill If Congress were only as concerned about corporate data farming as they are about Chinese data farming, but we all know which industry has better lobbyists

“With the unravelling of international consensus on just about everything, it’s unlikely the digital security situation will improve before it gets worse.” - @jonnyevans

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3713161/jamf-warns-many-apple-using-businesses-still-arent-secure.html

A mild warning for anyone interested in checking out "Napoleon" now that it's on Apple TV+: Approach the movie as a sprawling and sumptuous visual spectacle - typical Ridley Scott fare - but approach the scriptwriting and the acting as satire or farce.

Anyone taking this movie seriously is way off the mark, imo. It looks amazing, but plays like a black comedy.

@ianbetteridge Also, a decade ago the telecom industry was insisting that 5G was going to be transformational for stuff like low-latency V2X communications, which are absolutely essential for managing fleets of self-driving vehicles, and we're no closer now to that than we were in 2010. Bottom line is there were several tech hype cycles in confluence that have evaporated.

@ianbetteridge The buzz around "software defined vehicles" started more than a decade ago and I think that gave Apple the impetus to push the concept forward. But the original concept - make the car like a smartphone - and how the automotive industry is actually implementing it (and can implement it given transnational regulatory frameworks) is shaping up to be very different.

I understand why "we're secretly ruled by lizard people" is a popular conspiracy theory because the idea that actual humans are doing this to us is intolerable

Sure, some folks who bought the Vision Pro are returning them. You'd expect them to do so within Apple's 14-day return window..

But I have one question I haven't seen answered by any of the coverage about this so far: is the Vision Pro return rate disproportionate, or higher than any other new AR/VR product?

#apple #visionpro