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My latest Fifth Column Blog post
From my Portugal Bike Tour
Black and White Photo Versions of an Industrial Site
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/08/black-and-white-photo-versions-of.html
My latest Fifth Column Blog post
From my Portugal Bike Tour
Black and White Photo Versions of an Industrial Site
https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/08/black-and-white-photo-versions-of.html
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-message-to-mark-carney-shut-down
AI - at least it's good for something
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/no-safety-rules-concerns-grow-as-ai-generated-videos-spread-hate-online/article_d76b0cc4-7ea1-50f0-b7da-ea505ca79eb3.html
Got a flyer in the post today that essentially said we want to buy your house cheap and flip it for a profit and we will make it real easy for you.
Appealing to the convenience is more important than anything else crowd I guess.
Proof that something can be a really dumb idea and highly successful. White Bread.
Saw a #CyberFuckUp in the wild today. Master Elon has designed a vehicle to fit a niche market that doesn't exist. #Cybertruck is neither utilitarian, or sporty, or a family car. It's only appeal is to #Elon #fanboys and #Nazis perhaps.
Who knew ther founding fathers designed the American system of government to allow the president to be a dictator. #TrueUntilProvenOtherwise
Why is "stunning" used in a positive way to describe things. Usually when people are stunned it's not for a positive reason.
When I think about what passes for AI these days, chatbots and LLMs, and the crypto currency industry and it's fictional "mining" one can only bemoan how so many supposedly intelligent people can be so uninformed and stupid.
#Boomers have a special relationship with #technology. We saw the birth and development of #TV, personal #computers and #smartphones. Having lived with and without all of these we can judge what is really useful and necessary and what we have been #marketed to believe we canβt live without, like #Facebook or #apps for everything.