HT Joe Jennet.
Using current weather conditions The Conditional Orchestra generates unique compositions for your listening pleasure.
Read: Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman ★★★☆☆ 📚
Good fun Georgian mystery, no great suprises.
Meadow Brown on Thyme, Barassie beach on Friday. A lot of butterflies in the grass between beach & golf course.
Read: Upgrade by Blake Crouch 📚★★★☆☆
Climate change, gene editing, upgrades for humans. So fast paced you don’t really think about possible plot holes. Very much a page turner.
Read: The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin 📚★★★☆☆
Mcllvanney left half a manuscript, finished by Ian Rankin. Good page turner. Especially enjoyable for the 1972 Glasgow setting, chain smoking, pints & whisky in pretty rough pubs. The hero travels on the bus!
Daniel Jalkut (redsweater.com)• The FastScripts menu can now be presented by keyboard shortcut even if the menu bar icon is not visible
This is nice, I can keyboard the menu then see the shortcuts I’ve forgotten.
Read: The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
When we talk about “the algorithm,” we might be conflating recommender systems with online surveillance, monopolization, and the digital platforms’ takeover of all of our leisure time—in other words, with the entire extractive technology industry of the twenty-first century. Bucher told me that the idea of the algorithm is “a proxy for technology, and people’s relationships to the machine.” It has become a metaphor for the ultimate digital Other, a representation of all of our uneasiness with online life.
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety via John Naughton
Our idea of algorithm is mixed up with other types of manipulation.
Got out yesterday and walked round the Glen Douglas trio of hills again. Map, photos and notes: walkmap
Large Red Damsel Fly Black legs are the clue to identify this one.
Read: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping – gHacks Tech News
The main issue here is that there it is no longer possible to remove the tracking part of the URL, as Facebook merged it with part of the required web address. Removing the entire construct after the ? would open the main Facebook page of Ghacks Technology News, but it won’t open the linked post.
I don’t read FB but I typically strip any parameters from the urls of tweets. I guess this is the next stage.
It has been a few years since I walked to The Whangie, it got to busy for me as lockdown eased. Glad daughter took me today. Lots of flora, a few birds & a nice lizard on the carpark wall. More on Flickr.
