speculations

Can you win a Senate race without a single tweet?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23777675/lexi-reese-elon-musk-twitter-senate-california She’s different. No seriously, don’t look at me like that. She’s not like the others. Yeh, “if voting changed anything, they’d abolish it..” I know. Politicians are all the same, I agree. But they’re not. She’s not. Why do you think the meeja are so on her case? She’s… Read the rest

How Marketers Can Use Live Football TV Data to Reach Viewers Beyond Game Day

https://adage.com/article/media/how-marketers-can-use-live-football-tv-data-reach-viewers-beyond-game-day/2500076 He tried to explain the game to friends who followed other sports. “It’s a rollercoaster,” he would say. “In just those 90 minutes you feel joy, despair, hope. All of life in a Saturday afternoon.” They didn’t get it: their faces blank. The opposite of experiencing the match, he… Read the rest

Self-powering patch can monitor muscle moves and it costs less than $3

https://newatlas.com/technology/self-powering-patch-muscle-movement/ You get it from both sides. Teachers are always on your back: “tuck your shirt in… put your blazer on!” And then when they go full a full inspection, they have a go about my uniform not being right. And then there’s the other kids. I try to ignore… Read the rest

Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT

https://www.engadget.com/congress-is-reportedly-limiting-staff-use-of-ai-models-like-chatgpt-195454777.html?src=rss She loved this time of year. It was why she’d got into politics. The chance to craft words that could be performative, do something, well that was something. And this time of year, that was even more exciting. The conference speech. The platform. Blanket coverage. Analysis of the rhetoric,… Read the rest

Metaverse recreation of sinking country Tuvalu wins Titanium Grand Prix at Cannes

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/metaverse-recreation-sinking-country-tuvalu-wins-titanium-grand-prix-cannes/1827540 She’d been working there for years when the museum began work. She refused to say “in the community”. She thought it made her sound at best like a visitor and at worse like a colonialist. She’d got to know the knitting ladies and the kids that played on the… Read the rest

Meet the AI Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction

https://www.wired.com/story/pause-ai-existential-risk/ The science is overwhelming. The data is there. You don’t need to be a supercomputer to see. Once you accept that, the next logical step is action. Things need to change and change now. There is a moral imperative to act. Within the existing law or beyond it, the… Read the rest

Over 100 artists boycott venues that employ face-scanning tech

https://www.engadget.com/over-100-artists-boycott-venues-that-employ-face-scanning-tech-164554404.html I used to try and talk to them before their encore. Pointless really. Even before they get stuck into the ‘refreshments’ they demand are in their dressing room, they are so hyped they don’t want to listen to me. I try to get them the following day – afternoon… Read the rest

AI at Cannes -How Artificial Intelligence Showed Up On The Croisette

https://adage.com/article/special-report-cannes-lions/ai-cannes-how-artificial-intelligence-showed-croisette/2500816 He’d been able to convince his boss to send him on condition that he did a report when he got back. “I want to know what was hot, what I need us to focus on,” she’d said. That was going to be easy. It was everywhere. Even panels that… Read the rest

Roblox will allow exclusive experiences for people 17 and over

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767154/roblox-adult-themes-graphic-content-age-limit-17-experiences He was outside looking in. The fence was cartoon-like but frustratingly real and powerful. No matter how he approached it, the door was politely and firmly closed in his face, with an annoyingly cheerful message. He looked through a gap in the fence at the pixelated wonders he could… Read the rest