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🧱 Signal’s Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as ‘parochial, magical thinking’
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/signals-meredith-whittaker-scorns-anti-encryption-efforts-as-parochial-magical…

Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch
AI is "not open in any sense," the battle over encryption is far from won, and Signal's principled (and uncompromising) approach may complicate

Hobo Code - complete series 🛤️🪕✨
Dramatized magical-realist dramedy | Total listening time: 2h 59m
Hop a freight train with two hobos, a little girl, and her best friend who lives in a coffee can. Hobo Code is an epic journey spanning from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, all the way to the Great Recession of 2008....

Hobo Code - complete series 🛤️🪕✨
Dramatized magical-realist dramedy | Total listening time: 2h 59m Hop a freight train with two hobos, a little girl, and her best friend who lives in a coffee can. Hobo Code is an epic journey spanning from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, all the way to the Great Recession of 2008. Featuring Susan Ruttan and Bill Pullman. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of Mar 04, 2024.

Wondering if Tim Cook survives the Apple Car story
Otoh Silicon Valley atm is literally succumbing to magical thinking about AI so who knows

Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03…

We tested Amazon’s new shopping chatbot. It’s not good.
If AI is magical, why are so many chatbots dumb as rocks?

What's Poppin' Penny? 👧🏾🐻💞
Dramatized kids & family adventure series | Total listening time: 2h 01m
Penny Wright is a curious preschooler living in a cozy multi-generational household filled with love, laughter, and learning. Penny’s life takes a magical turn when she finds a teddy bear in a box of her grandfather’s belon...

What's Poppin' Penny? 👧🏾🐻💞
Dramatized kids & family adventure series | Total listening time: 2h 01m Penny Wright is a curious preschooler living in a cozy multi-generational household filled with love, laughter, and learning. Penny’s life takes a magical turn when she finds a teddy bear in a box of her grandfather’s belongings during a game of hide-and-seek with her grandmother, Spicy. Written and produced by neuroatypical POC creator. Voted "Best Podcast for Kids 3+ and Families 2023" by Common Sense Media. 1 s…

SCARF
Scarf is a 3D Adventure game, where protagonist Hyke must use his polymorphic scarf to explore a magical environment, solve mysterious puzzles and overcome difficult challenges. Hyke’s scarf morphs into different objects which will help to progress the adventure. Hyke was born in an unknown place, surrounded by other souls. All of them will start a path through the World with the main goal being to meld with it and become ...

Rufus, Amazon's AI shopping assistant currently in testing, is mostly useless, and at best is a slight upgrade on searching manually for product recommendations (Shira Ovide/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03…

We tested Amazon’s new shopping chatbot. It’s not good.
If AI is magical, why are so many chatbots dumb as rocks?

Updating a work document and when I went to save MS asked if it would be better to store in the cloud. I don't think so, a lot of documents I work on are rather sensitive and contain protected information and must remain within the department network.
The cloud isn't some wonderful magical tool, it is someone else's server.

This month's digest/newsletter is on the way to the inboxes all the magical impressive souls who have asked for it.
The rest of you muggle normies can read it here:
https://dalliance.net/vPre2/march2024
Mostly political ranting and tech burble as I figured out how to build the new style tarot show and the pictures are from the one time I went out all month.