Jim Prosser

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Pretty good cook, middling guitar player. Founder and Principal, Tamalpais Strategies. | https://tamstrat.com

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This is how America converts to cannibalism

Android teen users, otherwise shunned for their green bubbles, when TikTok is only available as a side-loaded app

[Igloo brand exec slaps the conference room table] "Fuck it. We're doing the Duffman belt." www.igloocoolers.com/products/ret...

Retro Beerdolierwww.igloocoolers.com This is the six-pack holster you can sling on so you can party on! The Retro Beerdolier comes with six detachable neoprene can coolers to keep them close to your chest.

You know what? If I started a sliced bread company, I'd make the logo include me looking swole as hell and rocking out on an electric guitar too.

As a result, OpenAI will be asking GPT-4 to come back into the office at least three days a week.

OpenAI says it is aware of feedback about GPT-4 getting "lazier" and is "looking into fixing it", and explains that model behavior can be unpredictable (ChatGPT/@chatgptapp) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

@celebrityhottub.bsky.social Important Antioch-adjacent news www.latimes.com/travel/story...

The last Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band in the world will exist in Northridgewww.latimes.com Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell discusses the character's long and convoluted history. (He was initially a cigar smoker.)

In light of it being #SpotifyUnwrapped season, here's a simple plea: buy albums you love. To quote @hodgman.bsky.social, if you love a piece of art, you need to support the artist in the way they make money. Spotify is great for music discovery! But it's terrible for artist support and patronage.

It's slightly fun to watch Reuters and AP reporters have to dance around calling pointless, platitudinous "international agreements" like this what they are. But the View From Nowhere demands respect for such nonsense, apparently.

US, Britain, other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' | Reuterswww.reuters.com In a 20-page document unveiled Sunday, 18 countries agreed that firms designing and using AI need to develop and deploy it in a way that keeps customers and the wider public safe from misuse.

When you don't have a comms team in place to sweat the details, you end up in a crucifixion pose for your big FT profile.

Intuit is a cancer. www.propublica.org/article/turb...

TurboTax Parent Company’s Latest Argument Against Free Tax Filing: It Will Harm Black Taxpayerswww.propublica.org Articles published around the country repeat Intuit’s assertion — sometimes almost word for word — that the upcoming IRS pilot program would hurt Black Americans. A researcher whose work is cite...

What in the Walker Texas Ranger

[whispers] If you want better photos, don't buy a new phone, buy professional lighting

Apple eliminating leather from its accessories right before Folsom Street Fair, so disrespectful

Many eyebrow-raising findings in this report, no more so than this one.

Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry:

It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Securityfoundation.mozilla.org All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Gee, why might ideal family size and actual family size be diverging?

Hats off to Larry Page for making Elon seem likable. Maybe we need to worry more about the quiet ones.

Twitter oldheads will remember https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2013/reverting-the-changes-to-block-functionality

Reverting the changes to block functionalityblog.twitter.com Reverting the changes to block functionality

Point: California is a crowded, expensive, imperiled hellscape. Counterpoint:

Courtroom artist feels like such a quaint holdover from another era. Like, what if companies hired poets to compose a sonnet of every meeting?

Court sketch of the moment Donald Trump pleaded “not guilty” today to the four federal charges related to his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Credit: Bill Hennessy

America's trial lawyers association is going to give Elon its Client of the Year award in the next 12 months https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/01/twitter-lawsuit-center-for-countering-digital-hate/

Twitter, now X, sues group that researched hate speech on platformwww.washingtonpost.com Elon Musk's X alleged the Center for Countering Digital Hate violated its terms of service in a bid to scare away advertisers and harm the company financially.

What on earth did I do to warrant ad targeting for this

"X will connect us all in ways we're just beginning to imagine"

Sturgill’s singing instantly made tonight’s Righteous Gemstones the best one of the season

Barbie was created at the same time as the emergence of the military industrial complex. It was right in front of us this whole time.

hahaha omg Gaetz was not at a Barbie premiere at all, it was a Barbie-themed security forum (also baffling but less so) https://www.semafor.com/article/07/18/2023/aspen-diary-soft-power-in-pink

Aspen Diary: Soft power, in Barbie pinkwww.semafor.com On the eve of the Aspen Security Forum, a celebration of Barbie.

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Is BlueySky a thing on here? New episodes dropping tomorrow...

Highest: Watching Michigan win the national title in person at the 1998 Rose Bowl Lowest: 2016 NBA Finals Game 7

ME: Any podcast over 2 hours is self-indulgent, undisciplined, and ridiculous ALSO ME: [Consumes the two 3.5-hour-each Bandsplain episodes on the Smashing Pumpkins back to back in 24 hours]