Wintery Leaf #NoFilter
Stumbled into an interesting photo opportunity. We were out with the kid at a lights and colors science exhibit. It was great for the kid to play around and be amazed by lights in an otherwise dimly lit auditorium. Plenty of kids run around. This one toddler was running around with a giant, dried leaf…
more …The Bobcat
We take the kid to a nearby science museum that happens to house a handful of animals. It’s not a zoo and more of a rescue/conservation situation for these little ones. Now, every time we visit, the bobcat is usually asleep. Today however, we went in a little early in the morning, and there it…
more …👨💻 one man’s AI-generated code is another man’s security exploit. This is your yearly reminder that you should understand and test your AI-gen’d code before shipping it. ✌️Peace.
more …🌇 As the sun starts to rise for a second time this year in many parts of the world, I wonder: what fresh hells does 2026 have in store? But before they reveal themselves (in due time), wishing you a happy new year!
more …The Weekly: AI creates no medium
I was going to continue by exploration into how AI is doing Art dirty. And I did, sort of. But instead of looking at any one particular form of art or creation, I ended up going meta. Instead of looking at the creation, I realized that there might be something to the medium in which…
more …🏏 🙈 🇦🇺 🏴 Can the Australian curators put out a cricketing pitch that does not result in a two-day test match? Can we take a test match’s second innings into the tea session of Day 4? I did not realize that the Boxing Day Test in Australia was supposed to be about boxing 🥊…
more …📱📵🏢 Starting to think that I do not need my work email and comms apps on my personal phone. I have always had it on, because it has legit helped me be on top of things. It was a productivity boost. It also worked well when I had more agency around work-life boundaries. At least…
more …🦆 Effin’ Birds by Aaron Reynolds is perhaps the wittiest, no-holds-barred, internet comic that I have come across. It is a great play on “flipping the bird”. Certainly not for everyone (my wife does not find the humor in this 😁). But it carried me through some low points in 2025. I got the comic’s…
more …📸 👾 Pixelating my kitchen. Continuing to play with the Pixel Art Cam app. Love that the chaos of my cooking is captured in specific ways, but hidden in other ways 😁 Taken with the Pixel Art Camera App.
more …📸 👾 Having way too much fun with the Pixel Art Camera App on the App Store. Simple iPhone app. 21mb in app size. No data tracking. Delivers on what it promises: pixelates photographs, both existing photos and live shots. Have been playing more with photos. Need to try video soon. But, here is a…
more …The Weekly: Technology and Art, a conflict in purpose
It has taken me longer to get this edition of The Weekly out. It’s partly because I have been organizing my thoughts around art and technology. I am starting to worry that tech is doing art dirty. I also suspect that technology’s impact on art, is a precursor to tech’s troubling impact on humanity at…
more …🎭🗡️🕵️ Just watched Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man. It is an excellent movie. If you have a Netflix sub, it’s worth a watch. The movie adds to the existing slate of Knives Out movies. I am loving Craig as Benoit Blanc, as much as when he played James Bond – maybe more.
more …🏏 Not a lot you can do when de Kock shows up to the game. 90 out of 46 is mind numbing. Wonderful hitting by South Africa over all! Imagine if this were the T20 World Cup Semi-finals. To India, I will simply repeat: you are only as strong or weak as your bowling is.
more …🏏 Finally a string of resounding wins by Team India. Both wins had in one thing common: the bowlers took 10 wickets in a single innings. In both – the 3rd One Day International and the first T20 International – batters did not have to show heroics because the bowlers did their jobs. Going to…
more …The Weekly: The Indignity in Flying Commercial
The meltdown with IndiGo across multiple airports all over India was a sobering reminder of how delicate the airline business really is. This episode also reminded me of the misery that passengers endure when flying commercial. My rants against that misery, are not new. But IndiGo’s debacle in 2025 made me list down things that…
more …Well played South Africa! Chasing down any score over 300 in 50over cricket is commendable. No matter where you are playing and whom you are playing against. 300+ in 50 overs is a test of skill, focus and effort. Well done. And then we have India. Team India needs some soul searching. For starters ask…
more …It is impressive how bad Indian bowlers are in 50-over cricket. If this team cannot defend 358 runs over the course of 50 overs, what can they defend?
more …The Weekly: AI Eats AI Research
I am earnestly trying to think and write about anything but AI these days. I was honestly going to write about cricket this week. The recent drama that is engulfing Indian Cricket at the moment is worth talking about. But that will have to wait for something a little more consequential. AI Eats AI Research…
more …The Panels app by MKBHD is shutting down. Interestingly, in their shutdown announcement/letter, they talk about open-sourcing the app’s source code: Once the app shutdown is complete and all user data has been securely deleted, we will open source the Panels app code under the Apache 2.0 license. This will allow anyone to build on…
more …🏏 😬 India won by the skin of their teeth. This is a team that cannot play cricket. And it is run by a cricketing administration that is hellbent on driving away its senior players (who are actually performing). smh. SA might have lost this one. But I expect them to come out strong in…
more …🏏 Far from resounding. Or a win. Where are the Indian bowlers with the wickets? Cannot believe that South Africa actually reached 300 runs in this chase. SA is going to win.
more …🏏 Every Indian cricket lover has been pissed off for the last couple of weeks. Nothing short of a resounding win will help today.
more …🏏 Ending superstar culture in Indian Cricket
The current coach of the Indian national cricket team is on a simple mission: to end the team’s “superstar” culture. He is accomplishing it, by becoming the center of attention.
more …17?! Every time I think tech cannot/did not descend further into depravity, I stand corrected. And in that regard, Meta is a particular “gift” that keeps on giving. Simply odious.
more …🏏 Watching the Indian National Cricket team play test cricket. it’s been a while since I have followed cricket matches live. Their current head coach Gautam Gambhir needs to be sacked by the end of this home-series vs. South Africa. Otherwise, it is hard to see how the BCCI is not corrupt.
more …The Weekly: 996 or AI? Pick.
First things first. Been away for a while. I have probably gone through 3 rounds of burnout this year. Those burnouts triggered an intense re-look at my life and life choices. I will speak to the burnout soon. What I can say is that while I accomplished a lot this year, I am not ending…
more …Just re-watched Greyhound on Apple TV. Perhaps the most riveting movie I have ever seen. A real naval-warfare movie. Probably the best WW2 movie I have seen. Tom Hanks at his very best.
more …The Weekly: No Vibes in Manuals and Testing
… also in this issue: Sauce, SloMo and some stuff brewing in my mind. There is a scene in Die Another Day, where Q hands Bond a thick instruction manual for his new Aston Martin that comes with all kinds of guns and gadgets, and says, “You should be able to shoot through that in…
more …I don’t know who needs to hear this, but speed does not always amount to quality. Certainly not in tech. Moving fast, breaking things, and then iterating to fix them is a utopian idea that does not pan out in reality.
more …Ramping up my running 🏃 But it has left me sore in my shoulders, back, and legs. Everything hurts. There is a tonnage of work left. And I want to kill myself on behalf of my back and legs.
more …The Weekly: Being Obviously Wrong
… also in this issue: life of legos and eggs, a brief crosspost, and a nagging question. Being obviously wrong, i.e., in a manner that is obvious and clear, can be a strength for automated systems. Because when a machine breaks — digital or mechanical — with a lot of sound and drama, it becomes…
more …Knowing that no one is reading your blog is relaxing. 😁 Takes the edge off of my social media experience. Also allows me to comfortably microblog once or twice a day, and do a long-form post once a week… without having this need to post every stray thought that comes to mind. Wonder how long…
more …These wisps of clouds caught me off guard as I climbed a flight of stairs the other day. Almost had a stairway to heaven vibe to it. But maybe I am overselling it all.
more …Thinking of starting an ASMR podcast of me typing on my keyboard. Noise isolation will be an interesting challenge to overcome.
more …Trying out a new post format that does not have titles. Trying to have a microblog within a regular blog. Be interesting to see how it works out.
more …The Weekly: Schools need to teach Art History
… also in this edition of The Weekly: a dance of water and light and a quick kook at Microsoft’s original logo. Here is an unsubstantiated thesis: One reason society does not invest in art or pay artists is because we do not teach about art or art history in school, like we do math,…
more …The Weekly: The Web with no Apps
… also in this edition of The Weekly: cool looking legos and a Waymo spotted in the wild. I have been thinking a lot about websites and web apps. What makes a website distinct from a web app? How do you define a web app, or a website? Are they necessarily different? I think these…
more …The Weekly: Language is not Math
… and more from this edition of the Weekly. Counting and numbers as concepts strike me as different from words and language. This became obvious to me when I saw my toddler learning how to speak and count. We may assign words and language to numbers, but the abstract ideas of counting and arithmetic do…
more …The Weekly: India does not need Generative AI
… and more from this edition of The Weekly. I contend that India does not need to worry about advancing fundamental GenAI research. Instead it needs to worry about knowing how to apply all of computer technology, and not just GenAI, to an Indian context. A tale of two problems: Research and Applications of Gen…
more …The Next Big Dud
The Cloud was probably the last “next big thing” from the world of software and computer technology. Before that it was the Social Network and the iPhone before that. I will also throw in eCommerce, streaming, Big Data and SaaS in there. And all of this came after the mother of all big things: the…
more …Was it a Boeing?
When my wife told me about a plane flipping upside down my reaction was immediate: “was it a Boeing?” To be clear, I don’t think Boeing is responsible for this latest airplane incident, at least… I don’t know that it was. But such is the reputation that Boeing has earned for itself. The reputation bears…
more …Trailing Sky High
Not sure why I wanted to click these pictures. But the sight of the plane making its approach right above my head, with the wispy clouds in the backdrop with that clear, deep blue of all skies … was too hard to ignore, and too hard to not capture on my phone.
more …Morning Shadows
I always have loved me a solid start to the day before the Sun has had a chance to cast shorter shadows.
more …Morning Chemtrails
Love the early morning scenes before the grind of work starts. I kind of liked the positioning of these two trails, crossed and meeting just below the bright rising sun.
more …I distrust the NYTimes
I was browsing an ebook store just now when I saw a book cover brandished with the “New York Times Bestseller” badge. I immediately developed a dislike for the book and wanted to move on to the next book as quickly as I could. I have been thinking about those two visceral seconds and how…
more …ChatGPT was released on Nov 2022
Saw this post on threads with this plot… At first it looks fine and all, but upon closer inspection, it seems to suggest that ChatGPT was released on/around Jan 2022. ChatGPT was however released on Nov 30, 2022. I am not sure where this plot comes from. The closest I could find was this analysis:…
more …Substack will host a few less Nazis?
Substack now has a Nazi stench about it – and Substack seems to be fueling it. Every time it opens its mouth, it seems to talk about Substack’s Nazi problem. Today, the Platformer claimed, “Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform”. I have read this reporting by Platformer at least a dozen…
more …Tech Regulations Update: California
It is refreshing to see an example of tech regulation that goes beyond private players and is applied on a government.
more …Across the Fediverse: Testing Tags
As I was writing my previous post on how tags with spaces (and dashes and underscores) were federating, I wanted to test this more systematically. So, this is that post. It is merely a test balloon to assess current behavior. I will be editing this post with the “Results” in the section below. But let…
more …Across the Fediverse: Tags with Spaces (and dashes)
I have been wondering: how would WordPress tags federate when they have spaces? In a couple of recent WordPress posts I absentmindedly end up using such tags (i.e., with spaces): “Year in Review” and “user feedback”. Here are the screenshots of two such tags (two different blog posts): When federating over to Mastodon it seems…
more …Tech Regulations Update: Japan, Montana, North Carolina
Tech regulations are going to be an important thing to watch out for in 2024. So, this year, I am going to keep documenting news about tech regulations that show up on my news feeds. Two things popped up today: 1. Japan: Copyright and AI Training A story from last year about Japan’s stance on…
more …Tech in 2023
… the final list. Too much went down in 2023. 🤯 – vijay, nursing a case of sniffles on New Year’s Eve.
more …Federated comments going to spam, and one other Comment subtlety
In my post yesterday I noted that not all replies from Mastodon were federating as blog post comments. I did not think much of it back then. But today I saw those comments (and several others) in the spam section of my blog’s comments – they were also pending approvals. Guessing that this is happening…
more …Post Edit Timestamps are federating
WordPress is able roam/federate the edit timestamp, for when a user edits a published blog post. Edited posts on the Mastodon web client show up with an asterisk (*) next to the pretty-printed time stamp. In the screenshot below, you know that the post was edited after publishing, because of the asterisk next to the…
more …Setting up Activity Pub for a WP.com blog
… and early experiences for Winter Rant on the Fediverse and Mastodon. Yesterday I enabled ActivityPub for my WordPress.com blog (this blog – Winter Rant!). This means that Winter Rant is now an ActivityPub server that is discoverable as rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com – on ActivityPub clients, such as Ivory, Ice cubes, or any Mastodon client application. This…
more …Professions Unsung
Vijay admires professionals who engage in high-impact, often under-acknowledged work, characterized by sacrifices and dedication beyond a typical workday. They express their respect by using a line from Tennyson’s “Ulysses” to prompt Midjourney to visualize these workers: a passionate journalist, persevering scuba diver, diligent archaeologist, and resilient geologist.
more …Midjourney on “between a rock and a hard place”
Vijay explored how an AI, Midjourney (MJ), interprets the phrase “stuck between a rock and a hard place.” He experimented with adding “Watercolors,” swapping “stuck” for “trapped,” and removing “stuck.” Regardless of the modifications, MJ consistently depicted open landscapes with rock formations, perhaps suggesting that it interprets the landscape as the “hard place.”
more …I broke Midjourney with “a roadmap”
I thought about exploring “roadmaps” as a concept with Midjourney. It did not quite go as planned. I think I broke it!
more …Midjourney 2023/10/14: Animals Wearing Robes in Ancient Rome
prompt template I used: “a/an [animal] wearing ancient robes, in Ancient Rome.”
more …Midjourney Prompt Engineering: Storybook vs. Sketchbook vs. Watercolors
I found that adding “Storybook Illustration” and “Water colors” allowed the images to be less gloomy. Was it a fluke that qualifiers such “Water colors” produced such effects? I wanted to explore a bit more.
more …Midjourney Emoji Week: Oct 2–8, 2023
I love emojis! This might be a cliché, but I consider emojis to be the hieroglyphs of the Internet. In a text-based medium, when measuring character counts, emojis are an efficient way to communicate emotion, ideas and intent. And, they are fun! I love them 😍. So, when @hafeezhaqq on Threads suggested that “prompting just…
more …Midjourney 2023/10/01: The Blue Screen of Death
The blue screen of death is perhaps one of the most recognized error states in tech and pop culture history [wikipedia]. So it only seemed fitting that I tried that as the prompt for the first day of October. To make things interesting, I kept the prompt simple, but applied multiple styles. Core Prompt: “blue…
more …Midjourney and Bing 2023/09/30: A farmer in space looking over his crops
Midjourney Prompt: /imagine a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. Bing Prompt: Generate an image of a farmer in space, looking over his crops, the crops are growing inside a futuristic spaceship. Futuristic, sci-fi, digital art, hyper detailed. A “Days…
more …Midjourney 2023/09/23: A Dinosaur sitting at a Victorian-style Restaurant
Prompt: “a dinosaur sitting at a Victorian-style restaurant, at a table with biscuits and sipping tea, digital art, high resolution” I was thinking about making some coffee on this Saturday morning, and that inspired a random thought: would dinosaurs seem more respectable when dressed for the victorian age … sipping tea?Also posted here –> on…
more …Exploring Midjourney!
I am, and will be using MidJourney to maintain a (near-) daily journal where I create/prompt images based on ideas and musings that strike me as interesting.
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: A fun conversation about Software, AI and No-code
I recently took part in an edition of the Threads Dev Interviews. Ryan Swanstrom conducts these awesome interviews, nearly every day on Threads, where he connects with developers on Threads, and interviews them — on Threads! It is a remarkable format, and I have seen nothing like it. These interviews have become part of my…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: Are you aware of research work or new products being created for software testing with AI?
Are you aware of research work or new products being created for software testing with AI? [Threads] [Web Archive] Interestingly, Software Test Suite Generation is something that Software Engineering Research communities have been tackling for a while now! You have tools like Evosuite (evosuite.org) and Pex (microsoft.com/en-us…) that use tech like Genetic/Evolutionary algorithms or Symbolic…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: What is one area of tech currently interesting you? And Why?
What is one area of tech currently interesting you? And Why? Software Testing. (I know! Boring!) But it has me fired up a lot lately. I’m deeply interested in how GenAI can help with writing software tests. It has me fired up, because when writing tests, you are doing something interesting: you get to define…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what?
How much AI do you use in your current work? And for what? [Threads] [Web Archive] I use it a fair amount for writing docs, creating presentations, generating meeting summaries (for meeting I did not attend), literature reviews (if I am working on research). I am yet to use it for writing code. Will be…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: Are we going to start seeing “no-code developers” emerge?
This was a follow up question to my response on, What is a draw-back of no code solutions? Are we going to start seeing “no-code developers” emerge? [Threads] [Web Archive] That is a distinct possibility that we cannot rule out. Already, we are talking about Prompt Engineering as a speciality. So, no-code developers may indeed…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: What is a draw-back of no code solutions?
What is a draw-back of no code solutions? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] We shouldn’t confuse no-code tools with programming. I think that is where the perceived drawbacks will emerge from. I think No-code will be great for localized, cookie cutter automation or system building. But there will be limits to the amount of customization you can…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: What excites you about the future of software?
What excites you about the future of software? And what are some areas of our life’s which will be positively impacted by future software? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] No-code excites me about the future of software. I was not sold on this for a long time, and then this past winter, I had a bit of…
more …Threads Dev Interview #20: What are the concerns of software written by AI?
We are entering an era in which AI can write code, what are the concerns of software written by AI? [Threads] [Wayback Archive] Great question! And I wanted to couch my answer in some basic outlook I have about coding: Coding is simultaneously an act of expressing and comprehending human needs. That is, we write…
more …Movie watching is entering a hybrid mode
I love going to the movies. Before the pandemic it was all I would do over the weekend. But more than that, I also love streaming content in my living room. That might sound paradoxical to many, but I love both things: theaters and Netflix. More paradoxically, I caught on to bingeing Downton Abbey (the…
more …Spatial Computing does not scare me. Artificial Intelligence does.
The past six to eight months have been a study in contrasts, in tech. Roughly eight months ago (may have been earlier), OpenAI put out a simple looking demo, backed by incredible engineering and technology, but little to no product finesse. ChatGPT was a roaring success. It heralded a new age in AI, a new…
more …Productivity gains swing both ways
Productivity gains that we make with technology, apply to both good and bad actors of this world. I was watching Skyfall yesterday. It is my favorite Bond movie. I love the scene when M quotes Tennyson to a Parliamentary hearing, while fending off questions about the relevance of the double-O section. It is a well…
more …A (pithy) case for skipping GenAI while composing emails
When the goal is communicating or collaborating with another human to get something done, I suspect that nothing will substitute the manual acts of reading and writing (pithy?) emails. Think about that for a moment … are we really going to automate away the acts of reading and writing to machines? And whatever happens to…
more …AI Poetry Slam: Chuck
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s LLMs [↪]: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "Chuck" GPT4 In a town where the laughter and cheers would abound, A jester named Chuck would oft be found, A…
more …AI Poetry Slam: The Different Infinities
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Large Language Models: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "The Different Infinities" Results: GPT4: In the vast expanse of the cosmos untold, Lies a secret that whispers, a story…
more …AI Poetry Slam: A Writer’s Block
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Large Language Models: GPT 4 on chat.openai.com GPT 3.5 on chat.openai.com Google Bard Microsoft Bing on Edge Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: "A Writer’s Block" Results: GPT 4: In the realm of the scribe, a shadow looms near, A presence that’s haunting,…
more …AI Poetry Slam: Right on Red
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Models: GPT 4 (chat.openai.com) GPT 3.5 (chat.openai.com) Edge Bing Chat Google Bard Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: “Right on Red” Results GPT4 GPT 3.5 Bing Bard In a city of hustle, where traffic ignites, A rule is remembered, through days and through…
more …AI Poetry Slam: In search of a GPU
Welcome to Poetry Slams on Winter Rant! Today’s Models: GPT 4 (chat.openai.com) GPT3.5 (chat.openai.com) Edge Bing Chat Prompt: Write a poem with rhymes for the following title: “In search of a GPU” Results: GPT 4 In a land of silicon, circuits and gold, A story of a traveler, brave and bold, Seeking the treasure, the…
more …Starting AI Poetry Slams
I am going start generating poetry slams with the different large language models that have been productized and are available for the general public. Obviously, some of them are sitting behind waitlists – like I do not have access to Bard. But by using public demos/products (as far as reasonably possible), my hope is that…
more …GPT: Humanity’s mirror, on the internet
Reading the responses that we are getting from GPT and its likes (Bard for instance), is like staring at ourselves in the mirror. I am specifically talking about the so-called imaginary nonsense these systems are capable of spewing out, which i am guessing is in large part due to the training data used to build…
more …News sources are poor at building trust
I just got roped into a user survey by the NYTimes. And one of their questions was pretty revealing: “Of the following sources, which do you think is the most trustworthy for news? Select one.” I picked “other” and wrote in Wikipedia. And I skipped every other news source that was listed as an option…
more …It’s my life, and I will wear a mask
This is my New Year’s Eve rant. I am also ranting after a long time. New York Times is always a good source of irritable analyses and discussions nowadays. I recently read a piece that is titled: “The Last Holdouts: It can be tough being a committed mask wearer when others have long since moved…
more …Cantonments and Campuses
Why do army cantonments look like 18th century Britain? What does that even mean? What works about them? What can we learn from them? Have army campuses influenced corporate and college campuses? In a long rant that is more of a discussion I got together with an old friend from college to chat about army…
more …Open source is enabling walled gardens in technology
Millions of people have contributed and curated knowledge and code in places like Wikipedia and GitHub. And they have done this for free, in the name of open source. And now, companies like OpenAI get to just use that open data to train machine learning models and charge money for those AI models? Here is…
more …Give me an E.V.; spare me the software updates
Wife was asking me the other day, if I would be still willing to buy and drive around in a Tesla, after what Elon has been doing at Twitter. And my answer was simple: I was not willing to buy a Tesla *before* Twitter 2.0 happened (after having considered it seriously and nearly hitting the…
more …Comic book heroes and their dead dads — Part 2
In a previous iteration, I realized how the fathers, or father figures, or parents of most comic book heroes end up dead. And went about listing them. After speaking with my wife about it, I realized that the list did not include some notable instances. So here I am, with a follow up list. Mufasa,…
more …Dads of most comic book heroes end up dead
Dads of most comic book heroes end up dead. This is a pretty grim take, even for me. But once I started making a mental list, it was hard to not pen it down. Consider… Batman’s Dad (and Mom) die. That is his origin story. Superman’s Dad (Jor-El) and adopted Dad (Jonathan Kent) die. That…
more …Trying a Coffee Subscription … Dreading it
Subscribing for food is strange to me. In many ways it seems perverse. In a world where people are still dying of hunger on a very, very regular basis, the stability of a subscription-backed food supply just feels wrong on many levels. It gets even more perverse in my head when I consider that it…
more …No Hogwarts in Tech
(Posted originally here: https://post.news/article/2I0vhDmRMmfBWo3ZjEIDCOGqap2) I saw this tweet this morning by Elon, and I was immediately reminded of the part in Harry Potter, where there was a mass breakout of Deatheaters from Azkaban just as Voldemort was coming back to power publicly. That analogy has interesting parallels for anyone following Twitter’s latest happenings. You can…
more …Even CEOs not safe in this market?
Update on this story below Just saw a tweet drop that suggested that Zuck was going to resign from Meta! Not sure how true this is, but wow! I guess he will join the 13,000 Meta/FB employees that he just laid off – only if this story is true. Obviously if this is true, then…
more …Oregon Health & Science University adopts “crisis standards of care”
This is like the early days of the COVID pandemic all over again, except this time, it is impacting children. From the original report: “The crisis standards took effect Monday at 7 p.m. The shift is driven by a surge in pediatric patients with RV, a childhood respiratory virus that is particularly dangerous for infants, and…
more …Go on, tell me how “kids fall ill all the time.”
There is a common quip I have been hearing all too often from friends and family nowadays: “Don’t worry! Kids fall ill all the time!” I have run out of patience for this nonsense, because here’s the thing: kids do fall ill (or sick) all the time, but not all kids at the same time…
more …Twitter needs a paywall
… so that I can stop opening it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It also needs that $8 paywall, to die as a business. It is a sure-shot way to drive down engagement on the platform and Elon, the white South African, will realize this soon enough. There are not enough $8/mo social-media users out there to sustain the…
more …As predicted, Elon brings back Trump to boost Twitter’s DAU/engagement
I suppose the writing was on the wall. But I never imagined that it would be this blatant and transparent. I figured he would wait till FIFA getting over. What was I thinking? But this is a net positive move for Twitter, if its infrastructure survives the next month. And that’s not necessarily a big…
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