Leftovers

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • 2024-05-09 [Older] Apple Apologizes for ‘Crush’ Ad: ‘We Missed the Mark With This Video, and We’re Sorry’

  • Variety ☛ 2024-05-08 [Older] Apple’s ‘Crush’ Ad for the New iPad Pros Is, Well, Getting Crushed

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-09 [Older] Technology Crushing Human Creativity? Apple's New IPad Ad Has Struck a Nerve Online

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-05-09 [Older] Apple Apologizes for Ad That Crushed Creativity

  • CBC ☛ 2024-05-09 [Older] Apple gets crushing backlash to its 'gross' iPad ad from celebrities and artists

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-08 [Older] Judge Grills Apple Exec About Whether Company Is Defying Order to Enable More IPhone Payment Options

  • Medium ☛ 2024-05-06 [Older] Boring News: Vision Pro Sales Are Going Just About as Expected

    The weak-than-expected Vision Pro demand means that the following new trends are likely to be below market expectations.

  • NPR ☛ Melinda French Gates resigns from the Gates Foundation [Ed: This site is funded by Bill Gates, so it is not objective]

• Defence/Aggression

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-05-07 [Older] Colombia's Illegal Armed Groups Grew in 2023 -Secret Security Report

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-05-11 [Older] Fano in the Political Turbulence of Ethiopia: The Revival of Fano and Pathways to Security

• Finance

  • Square Enix Planning Layoffs for US and EU Divisions

    According to a new report from VGC, Square Enix held a company-wide meeting today announcing layoffs for the United States and European divisions. The layoffs are set to impact these teams over the next month, with VGC reporting “people working in publishing, IT, and Square Enix’s Collective indie games division would be predominantly affected.” These cuts are being made as part of the company’s restructuring, which is focused on new strategies such as multiplatform titles.

  • Doomsday Plane Deal; Smelly Beermaker; Tesla Layoffs |

    Nearly every automaker selling EVs in the U.S. has signed up to join Tesla's Supercharger network. So, many were troubled when Elon Musk laid off the department responsible for Tesla's EV chargers.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-05-09 [Older] Australia and Tuvalu strike new security deal

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-05-10 [Older] Netanyahu and ultraconservatives jeopardise Israeli security

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • CPJ ☛ 2024-05-07 [Older] SABC editor-in-chief called for security vetting and polygraph before South Africa election

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Trademarks

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-05-11 [Older] What's in a trademark? By any other name, would a $400 pineapple taste as sweet?

• Copyrights

  • IP Kat ☛ 2024-05-07 [Older] Should the EU unify copyright laws? [Ed: Well, when they tried this with patents they broke the law and violated many constitution; it was an act of sheer corruption]

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • a smoldering night

    • Solar Storms & Head Colds

      I've been feeling under the weather since last Friday. My fiance dragged me out of bed in the evening to catch the aurora, and I'm glad she did; I got some absolutely stunning pictures - despite running long exposure captures by hand! We live in a decently northerly latitude, though despite this I've never seen an aurora before. Or, more accurately, I've never *knowingly* seen one.

    • 2024 Week 19: Status and Photos

      A powerful solar storm this week led to unusually-strong auroras, which were visible from as far south as the American Midwest. My area has extremely high levels of light pollution, so to catch a glimpse of them, my family drove north to a lake near some rural farmland. Most of my friends and acquaintances were only able to see the light of the aurora via low-light photography on their smartphones,but we got to see the dim glow of the aurora unaided. It was one of the most amazing astronomical experiences I've ever had.

  • Technology and Free Software

    • Internet/Gemini

      • BBS Turns One: A Retrospective

        BBS, née Geminispace.org, was launched exactly one year ago today. I figured it would be fitting to take a brief look at the past 12 months. Hopefully this is useful as an introduction to newcomers as well as something to reminisce about for those who have been here since the beginning.

      • texto_white HTML4 theme for oldschool projects

        This template is special in that it does not have any graphics, it is made exclusively of text symbols.

      • Last straw for html

        The latter was only to facilitate supplying an itty bit of resize-related style in a separate .css file, making that easy to change across the site.

        Well, it went pretty much as usual. It started out feeling "cool". But soon all that tag overhead obscured the writing itself - something I feel gemtext solved rather nicely.