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: 4-10 November, 2024

Summary of this week:

• The Russians are still in Ukraine
• Israel-Gaza conflict continues
• Voting season ends in America
• xxx
• North Korean soldiers are in combat in Ukraine
• xxx
• xxx
• xxx
• xxx

Monday 4 November 2024

Given all the mail-in ballots and other folly, it may be a week before the votes are counted. Sorry. The legacy media loves this as ratings and ad revenue will be higher because of the story they manufactured.

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, is releases an election-tracking site.

And we have the dastardly "school book bans." No one is banning any books. Some members of the public think that public funds should not be spent on some books. Public funds are in short supply. Let's try to spend them wisely.

NBC shows blatant bias by putting Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live.

Bug bounties for AI systems are finding dozens of flaws in open-source tools.

The Communist Party of China can now listen to phone conversations on millions of smartphones. This is not new.

Lo and behold, the oceans absorb more CO2 than previous estimates.

A group in Tulsa offered $10,000 for remote workers to move to Tulsa. Those who did saved money on housing etc. and the Tulsa economy greatly benefited. Is anyone listening?

Statistics for GitHub use and users. It now has 518million projects.

Some thoughts on over writing or including too many needless words and such like some people do sometimes when they are writing and more thoughts come to them that they want to include so others would be sure to understand etc.

"First lines are greatly overrated." I'll go with that.

A few notes on the beginning of the blog about Do It Yourself Masters of Fine Arts. MFA programs have their good points. Being a writer, however, does not require an MFA or many other things. I have written short stories about writers who write with almost no resources.

Brilliant and simple piece of writing advice from Seth Godin, "You can make sentences too long. But it's hard to make them too short."

Here are a few places to market what you have written. Nothing surprising here, just do the work.

Receiving advice on writing? CRAAP: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose.

Some tips on growing social media audience. I find the content much better than the title of this post.

Here is a three-part structure for a memoir. This will work in many cases.

Tuesday 5 November 2024

Just to show that all is not rosy in tech, Nintendo reports a bad financial quarter.

Panlantir reports a good financial quarter.

I'll just quote the headline, "Meta says it's making its Llama models available for US national security applications"

Meanwhile at the New York Times during election week, their tech workers who keep the paper running are on strike.

In response, "The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers."

A new era as 75% of major newspapers are not endorsing any of the candidates for President.

OpenAI starts the legal proceedings to change from a not-for-profit research lab to a for-profit company.

Politics and religion. Let the arguments begin.

Hindsight and college debt: one person's experience.

Meanwhile at Boeing, a workers' strike ends.

North Korean soldiers are now in combat in Ukraine.

This is a true story: because someone found a rare species of bee nearby, Meta cannot have nuclear power for a data center.

It is mind numbing that courts are accepting evidence that has no proven basis. See bite marks as an obvious example. Also hair analysis. Folly.

After all these years, Windows 10 usage is still double that of Windows 11. People don't switch.

Wednesday 6 November 2024

Thursday 7 November 2024

Friday 8 November 2024

Saturday 9 November 2024

Sunday 10 November 2024