Interesting piece at The Athletic today chronicling the national soccer program of Greenland trying to join CONCACAF (the body that runs North American soccer competitions on behalf of FIFA). Worth the time if you are not paywalled. Love these types of stories.
As much as I enjoy seeing KC get mauled (although I don’t hate them), I’d rather have seen the Buffalo Bills… probably get mauled. All my Philly-area family are enjoying this.
I feel like text/chat support was invented to make support phone calls less painful and frequent. And yet it’s become so painfully slow and full of generic responses with Verizon, they’ve become as painful as talking to someone… and a lot slower.
Newcastle decisively through to the League Cup Final! At least that’s one thing going well. #NUFC #HTL ⚽️
I told myself I wasn’t going to watch the next four years minute by minute. It’s not healthy. I’d check in maybe once a day. I paid attention tonight for one hour, and it was already too much. Tomorrow will be worse.
Trump wants to place the United States military in charge of Gaza, and to expel Palestinians.
There better be Vietnam War-style protests to sending our troops to occupy another piece of the Middle East.
While the hype is nauseating, I think there is promise in AI as a human assistant. While the outputs aren’t highly reliable today, I’m starting to think the process of writing effective prompts—intrinsically—is an effective thought tool, because you have to diligently explain your task.
I help a nonprofit in town with their tech needs. I recently got them access to Google’s free Workspace for Nonprofits. This morning I was setting up accounts, and the account has access to ✨Gemini✨, which I used to assist me. Unfortunately, it was only 50% accurate with its responses. 😕
Recently thinking about the need for a modern replacement for the newspaper, especially for local news. Comes once daily so you can’t be sucked in throughout the day. I think it’s an .epub delivered by RSS. Read on an e-ink device for best slow news experience. (I very much want an e-ink iPad)
“The last best experience that anyone has anywhere, becomes the minimum expectation for the experience they want everywhere.” - Bridget Van Kralingen
There are a lot of planets visible tonight in the northern hemisphere and my girls decided at 11pm we should go on the back deck with our hand-me-down telescope that none of us know how to use, and we were making stand with the help of a chopstick where a bolt should have been. Had fun anyhow. ✨🪐✨
Now that DEI is dead, we can again have true heroes leading our country! Here’s to Pete Hegseth, a trailblazer with unimpeachable qualifications, hired on merit, with a track record of successfully leading a ~$900 Billion organization with nuclear weapons. 😑
Rocking out at 6°F right now. The TWC model is calling for a low of 4° here overnight, I wonder if we could go lower.
I would rather have my teeth drilled than watch the inauguration today. So that’s what I did. I went to the dentist. At least that’s one thing that went well today.
I can’t figure out why Apple doesn’t offer “alarm” as an option for Calendar and Reminders notifications. Most things are well served by a normal notification, but sometimes you need something you absolutely won’t miss.
Anyone ever make the first few notes of Today by Smashing Pumpkins into a ringtone? Does anybody still make ringtones?
If TikTok was a website hosted outside the U.S., could Congress do anything about it? Have we as a nation ever blocked a website, “Great Firewall” style?
Gasoline Powered Car Review — very thought provoking.