TikTok will play ‘calming music’ to remind teens to stop using the app
It won’t work. No matter how good their AI-driven age verification technology gets, I have faith that teens will stay ahead with AI-driven age spoofing technology.
King Charles pays tribute to ‘marvellous’ Bob Marley as he shares favourite songs
In these troubled times, it is comforting that King Charles listens to Bob Marley, Kylie Minogue, and Beyonce.
I get an absurd amount of pleasure from swapping 10 watts of electrons with someone in Calgary.
Every time I have to deal with Xfinity I think about getting into business as an ISP. I could eat a handful of iron filings and crap out a more reliable network.
“Not quite still waters”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro @ f/6.3, 1/30s, ISO 1250. Larison Creek.
Because…wait for it…handwriting is in decline.
I’m sure that somewhere there are Akkadian tablets bitching about the youth no longer studying cuneiform due to that new-fangled Aramaic.
“Trail Door”
Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/7.1, 1/20s, ISO 2500. Larison Creek Trail.
Enough negativity for one morning. Have a grouse.
(Seen on the trail a couple days ago. Alas, had a short lens mounted so this is heavily magnified.)
Trump’s Plan to Fix Egg Price Crisis Is Already Falling Apart
What a surprise, wannabe dictator can’t magically make eggs appear from thin air.
On the one hand, it’s nice to see progressive media trying to be as brash and popular as regressive media. On the other, their whole “Trump is losing and even Republicans are revolting against him” narrative seems to me to be incredibly wrong.