Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing
This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.
This week: 1-7 November, 2021
Somehow I lost what I noted Monday while viewing the Internet
You are a full-time, stay-at-home writer. When do you stop writing? When does the work day end?
I like this post. It discusses the idea of thinking of a switch that you can clip or turn or whatever so that you move from one thing to another thing. Song buzzing in your head while you are trying to sleep? Picture a knob. Turn off the song. Click.
What do you want your audience to FEEL? Sometimes the question is about THINKING. Other times, TASTE, SMELL, etc.
I have been through this many times: I look at what I am writing and feel like it is junk and a complete waste of time. Move on to some other writing project. Come back later. That is discipline, not undiscipline.
....The chip shortage and Apple. Great news! The economy is rolling---for some. Our response to the virus widened the gap between rich and poor.
Meta (Facebook) is making progress with robotics and the sense of touch.
Look for an iPad shortage as Apple shifts processors (short of supply) to iPhones. Has anyone considered the idea that all these shortages are a result of bad management?
It is November. The Christmas shopping season is on!
Gen Z arrives at the workplace. Everyone watch out. They don't guy, "This is the way we do things."
If you have an "older" Apple computer, carefully consider if and how you will update the macOS.
.....Microsoft announced several new things relative to the hybrid workplace. Here is one summary.
Microsoft is releasing the GPT-3 AI model to businesses.
Meta turns off the facial recognition on Facebook.
Netflix games are now available to all Android users.
Zillow walks away from the home buying and selling business. Also, 2,000 persons lose their jobs.
Microsoft closed LinkedIn in China. Folks are afraid it will next close GitHub there.
If you can't stop it, join it. Banks are slowly moving towards crypto currency use.
Apple sold a-whole-lotta laptop computers this past year.
Fortnite is turned off in China.
Everyone is talking about the "chip shortage." I don't read stories talking about "bad management." Companies in the industry could see the world situation and manage risk. They didn't manage the risk. If Apple (just one example) had spent $10Billion (it has that kind of money) on chip foundries in the US five years ago, it would own the auto industry and much of several other industries. I am guessing that someone at Apple is being fired for failing to do so. Those stories are not in the news.
It appears that the swing back to the R away from the D has begun. The swing to D was short lived.
.....The Atlanta Braves win the World Series of baseball. Why are were there two National League teams in the series?
Has anyone done a long-term study on the affects of pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere?
Google returns to the Pentagon trying to win part of a cloud computing contract. Google did have Project Maven at the Pentagon, but walked away when employees didn't like it.
Now is the time to buy a Chromebook. Our reaction to the virus is fading. Buying an extra machine for kids to do school is fading. We may be able to find some good deals.
Yahoo turns off its services in China. The list continues to grow.
.....Did view the Internet much this morning.
.....Our House of Representatives approves a bill with $65Billion for rural broadband. Let's see what happens this time. Remember the Obama $8Billion program for rural broadband?
Jeff Bezos pledges $2Billion for land restoration. I hope this actually happens.
Alphabet starts a new company called Isomorphic Laboratories that will use AI to discover new drugs.
Airbnb's latest profits show that people are travelling again.
ooops...1.8TeraBytes of police aerial surveillance data leaks. (1) Police ARE watching from above. (2) Police are not careful how they store the video.
America is about to pull large amounts of CO2 out of the air. Has anyone thought of the long-term affects of removing a basic compound from the atmosphere?
Aaron Rodgers is a critical thinker. Well, in the year of the virus, this is labelled as a goof or something. Fascinating how the virus looks a lot like superstition and ancient rituals. Any questions are condemned. Fascinating, and that may not be a good thing.
I missed this story Thursday. Our President issues a decree (something like a dictator) that all persons working for companies with more than 100 employees must be vaccinated. This comes from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA or what we used to call "Our Savior Has Arrived." Crazy stuff. You can't make it up.
.....Lidar has become THE TOOL for archeologists as they find lost cities that were right under their noses. Seems we know little of our own history. Tends to bring doubt to my mind when some state the temperature of the earth to 1/10th of a degree 10,000 years ago. Studying the past is difficult and error prone.
Got $3,600? Get this gaming laptop from Alienware. 17" screen with real 4K performance.
It only took two days for Federal courts to halt the Biden vaccine mandate for businesses.
Sometimes we are simply too smart for our own good.
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