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Daily Inspiration: "The best way to find creative solutions to your real-world problems is to listen to the wisdom of those who have already found them!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
You know you've been a real road-warrior speaker when you check into your Hilton hotel in San Jose and get a feeling that you've been here before! You look back in your email, and realize that it was once a Fairmont hotel and that you spoke in this exact hotel at an event in 2006!
I look…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation Leadership – “The best way to find creative solutions to your real-world problems is to listen to the wisdom of those who have already found them!”

I’ll be very honest. I am feeling multiple sides to this.
On the one hand I’m very glad to know there are people who support me and the trans community. Great job on realising the trans person might not be up for someone coming up to them.
On the other hand, I don’t always want to be clocked as being trans. Sometimes I just want someone to see me as Jae and not as me being trans. Sometimes having someone notice I’m trans is actually hard to deal with.

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

2 years of war: how Ukraine and the world have changed The ongoing Russian barbaric war against Ukraine presents numerous challenges, including military losses, territorial occupation, a severe humani Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-578

“…the problem, for viewers, isn’t wokeness run amok; it’s the incoherence of the world we are watching. We see an African man solving crimes in a rural English village of the 1950s, as the sun sets on the empire — yet his race is barely mentioned or considered and never makes any material difference in his experience.”

Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?

Netflix names Dan Lin, the producer of the Lego movies and the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as head of film, replacing Scott Stuber (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts<…

Netflix hires 'It' producer Dan Lin for top film job, replacing Scott Stuber
Since forming his production company, Rideback, which is located in L.A.'s historic Filipinotown neighborhood, nearly 15 years ago, Lin has produced films including the "Lego" franchise and others that have grossed $6 billion in worldwide box office.

Grateful Dead from Fri, Mar 30, 1973 at Rochester Community War Memorial on Live Music Archive!
#GratefulDead #TIGDH #LiveMusic

Grateful Dead Live at Rochester Community War Memorial on 1973-03-30
Set I Promised Land Deal Looks Like Rain They Love Each Other Mexicali Blues Box Of Rain Cumberland Blues Candyman Beat It On Down The Line Don't Ease Me In El Paso Row Jimmy The Race Is On Bird Song Playing In The Band Set II China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider Jack Straw Wave That Flag Greatest Story Ever Told Truckin' > Eyes Of The World > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night Comment Jerr…

Come on. This push to summarize all webpages and written content with #AI is ridiculous.
See this example from #Arc Search - in what world is this an adequate summary for an 8,000 word article that takes 43 minutes to read?
The amount of detail, specificity, narrative, and actual arguments that get lo…

An article I've written on playtesting for innovation has just been published in the "Game Developer" Magazine.
It's about how we can facilitate more innovation in games, but also applies to films, TV shows, novels, plays, non-fiction writing, anything in life! :)
https…

Study: 77 of the top 100 top-grossing domestic films in the US in 2023 featured more male characters than female characters in speaking roles (Angelique Jackson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/study-shows-decrease-sp…

Study Shows Decrease in Speaking Roles for Female Characters
Despite 'Barbie's' cultural moment, the latest 'It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World' report shows that the percentage of female characters decreased.