FAWLTY TOWERS debuted on this day in 1975.

I discovered it on PBS in the late '70s. My life hasn't been the same since.

#FawltyTowers #JohnCleese #PrunellaScales

The Snoopy watch face is delightfully whimsical. #WatchOS10

You know how young children will see some toy or shiny object on a store shelf, and somehow — by design! Marketers know what they’re doing! — they instantly •have• to have it, and are obsessed, and all sense and proportion go out they window and they need it now now NOW, but if they get it they soon abandon it because it’s junk that only looked good on the shelf?

It’s like that with CEOs and AI right now.

Just check off that to-do you’re never going to do. It’s a relief.

Infosec friends are unanimous: if you're using Chrome, you want to visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy and turn off Ad Topics, Site-Suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement.

IMPORTANT: you must do this for each of your Chrome profiles, since it's not a global setting.

#chrome #privacy #enshittification

Why must I prove that I'm "not a robot" when unsubscribing from an email list for which I don't remember signing up?

If a bot subscribed me, why couldn't a bot unsubscribe me?

#UX #Spam

A day old Amighetti's Special sandwich is slightly better than a fresh one. #STL

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/world/europe/pope-francis-american-conservatives.html

Today's key insight:

I'm afraid of not thinking carefully enough.

I've been waiting for this day for a long time.

Wordle 798 1/6

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I was today years old when I learned that it is better to cook eggs slowly.

I want to be more like this man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/opinion/nashville-father-strobel-homelessness.html?unlocked_article_code=uLLG2ZmTjlZhTM6gfJhwd37p6gJB4aPXqLsyqZJZJWHkiFwet6VaJB85GUYoe2GJhVNZGhYMNS15A8EkKZf9Tekoc55upqbFw01YdYtld09EzUZdKDX0w-pCr6hCf9-E6KyJ-clswM-QhHVHZ-kbNVYuEm22DDNhRAb8jAunP3Aqg5EPwEVmprXSo79ciRmAVJqekrYCkswc9ZVSaIGiGGjWTT3VOoxYVcESYnknMNYfzIFkyUm-bbXlNyItRAtDBTzeqhoCZSjTq9Q1AZVBvdSptUsLsFczdoIzAHxAVmP7hCf0cdTjMxYz38NaziZoZXk3rqlBRPFJ_5crePXAm87sxexTy3_fMfWKKazzWw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@geerlingguy semi-colon? 😂

Nonprofit naloxone maker celebrates FDA approval by donating 200,000 doses https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/09/naloxone-harm-reduction-therapeutics/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

America: where a fetus is considered a human being, but a homeless person is not

I only heard about the #AlabamaBoatBrawl this afternoon because I'm on #Mastodon and listen to #NPR.

@tim someone else has made this point more elegantly, but AIs expanding execs’ bullet points into a full blown memo that gets AI-summarized into a bullet pointed exec summary on the receiving end is the dumbest dystopia

@cfiesler For your consideration: https://pod.link/1669125364

#Eyeglasses were part of the material history of reading in early modern Europe, as this painting of 1403 (from Conrad von Soest) shows.

This is a slow moving thread for #histodons, a thread about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast

Let's roll. #EarlyModernHistory #MediaHistory #BookHistory #HistKnow

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Apparently I've been on LinkedIn for 16 years. 😐