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2024-05-27

A lightly-scheduled week wrapped up with my wife and I seeing two D.C. teams that didn’t exist 20 years ago play against two Seattle teams: the Spirit’s 3-2 win against the Reign Friday night, then the Nats’ 9-5 loss to the Mariners Sunday afternoon. In between, a bike ride to and then through Rock Creek Park offered me a peek at actual construction progress of Maryland’s snakebit Purple Line light-rail project.

5/20/2024: The Internet Is Not Forever: 38% of Web Pages From 2013 No Longer Exist, PCMag

I missed this Pew Research Center study when it landed Friday of the previous week, but the problem of link rot is an evergreen topic, and my own career has provided numerous examples of it.

5/22/2024: Microsoft and Google’s new AI sales pitches: We’re your last line of defense against your scatterbrained self, Fast Company

This was originally going to be a recap of how Google used its I/O developer conference two weeks ago to position AI as your last line of defense against hostile humans. But then Microsoft unveiled an implementation of AI that could vastly expand the privacy attack surface of Windows users, so I had to rewrite a large chunk of this post.

5/22/2024: Which Tech Company Has the Worst Reputation?, PCMag

Seeing the former Twitter ranked at 99 out of 100 brands, above only the Trump Organization, caught my interest. But as I noted in my writeup, some of the results of this Harris and Axios project invite some skepticism about the methodology.

5/22/2024: T-Mobile Raises Rates on Many Older Plans by $5 or $2 a Month, PCMag

Halfway through writing this post, T-Mobile made me part of the story by sending a text message informing me that I’d be paying an extra $5 a month on the Business Unlimited Advanced plan that T-Mobile introduced barely three years ago.

5/23/2024: Bluesky Adds Direct Messaging, But It’s No Signal Replacement Yet, PCMag

If T-Mobile hadn’t grabbed so much of my attention Thursday, I could have written this post then. Instead, I had a little more time to try out Bluesky’s new DM feature–and to cobble together my own photo to illustrate this piece after seeing Getty Images offer nothing current.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/26/weekly-output-link-rot-microsoft-and-googles-ai-sales-pitches-tech-brand-reputations-t-mobile-rate-hikes-bluesky-dms/

#BlueskyDirectMessaging #BlueskyDMs #brandReputation #digitalDecay #directMessaging #error404 #GoogleAndroidScamCallDetection #GoogleIO #instantMessaging #linkRot #MicrosoftBuild #MicrosoftRecall #TMobile5RateHike #WindowsRecall

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