Visitations

It's still creepy. World showed off its Orb a few years ago at IIW to approximately no applause at all. A lot seems to have happened since then. Here's what Wired says about it.

Such as the "@ username" in the Profile setting. I'm in a group zoom-like conference call (is it a "call"?  a "session"? not sure) on Signal, where I'm learning (partly on my own) how Signal is changing. For example, one has up to three IDs: the handle you use in conversations, your phone number, and an @username, which is new to me. There's an appearance feature that lets you hide it in case somebody gets unwelcome access to your unlocked phone. Other stuff too. My main issue with Signal is how different it is on the phone and on the computer. Also, the conference (zoom-like) thing needs chat. I don't see it there. Some things are still not clear to me, which is okay, I guess.

Old writing style, new habit. Wordland is easier than tweeting. Postings also go straight onto my blog, not onto some platform that (trust me, or Dave) that has to work hard not to enshittyfy itself.

That aren't by an AI. Writings about AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, & Co.: They Are Not Brains, They Are Kernel-Smoother Functions, "Attention", "Transformers", in Neural Network "Large Language Models", and everything here.

Same nightmare. David Strom expands on the privacy perils of the connected car. 

As I recall, anyway. Just learned from Bill Wendel that firstpodcasts.org exists, and is mostly right. 

The other Durant. Got some nice comments to The best 3-point shooter you never saw, which I posted four years ago.

Shall I try Kagi? Google search is woefully enshittified.