Notices by counternotions (counternotions@mastodon.social)

The future that never was.
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What does it mean to call oneself a “technologist” in a résumé, profile, etc?

(Is it a profession, affliction, predilection…what the heck does a technologist do?)

I’ll believe AGI has arrived when the NYTimes stops spelling the initialism as A.G.I., if it’s all the same to you.
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Happy Days Are Here Again.

https://archive.is/eoCK8
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“Money is always there, but the pockets change.”

—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

@WarnerCrocker I remain hopeful about the HoloLens version too.

Satya Nadella’s Majorana quantum processor announcement sounds hopeful but I’m going to wait for the “Microsoft Windows Quantum 32 Home Single Language 64-qbits™” edition if it’s all the same.

Hmm…sounds to me like they discovered time travel at Microsoft and/or Fortune.
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Meanwhile in crypto la la land
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How would you even explain to your kids what this was all about?
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Et tu, Wall Street Journal?!
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In related news, National Institute of Standards and Technology is considering a switch for Public Office Retention Index from Scaramucci to Ramaswamy, sources say.

So the biggest U.S. news item on the eve of the most pregnant regime change in a century is about the unbanning of a video sharing app that apparently collects data on and shapes political sentiment among American citizens by America’s #1 rival in the world?

(What’s in ACT II?)

Lean in and breathe out.
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At this time of the year every year, Apple executives roam around the CES floor in Los Angeles to spy out new products to fall behind in, like this one:
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@WarnerCrocker Don’t you now feel ever more informed, centered, purposeful and ready to face the world with all the rigor you can muster within?

Not to repeat, but if you’re waiting for homegrown Siri 2.0 and other significant Apple Intelligence features from Apple before mid-2027, I don’t know where your mind’s at.

If it's beginning to appear to you every year is getting to be worse than the previous one, you may choose to ignore the Gregorian calendar.

The incoming administration is considering a $235 tax on a highly prevalent New Year’s resolution, “I want to write a book but I have no earthly idea where to start.”

@WarnerCrocker People swear by it.