Steve Powell

Yeah pulling the plug on the vast majority of social media has to be high on anyone’s list. Especially LinkedIn

Cat footprints in very light snow

Our indoor cat stepped out and then decided it was a nope! This is about half an inch of snow if it had been 2 feet I’m pretty sure she would have gotten lost

There’s a really old maxim that “you are what you read so read carefully” that feels more and more true every day

I do wonder if some method of being able to identify yourself as a real person will become critical in order to be able to filter back to the “real world”
I know WeChat hooks back to actual individuals. Maybe we would all behave better if that were the case. But the govt abuse that would enable…

So much of what happens on the internet is based on trust and the assumption that the other end is a person/process with some aligned goal. As soon as you flood that with automated bad actors that are impossible to identify as not human it basically stops working.

Yeah. I think I agree with that. I can see a walled garden (with little to no AI inside) being where most of us spend our lives.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

Well this is a grim read this morning. Your phone is not your friend. Entire generations have been scarred by unregulated social media. I do wonder what the internet will look like 20 years from now.

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Fair point.

You also keep learning after the training phase stops

MORE FEATURES, ALWAYS MORE FEATURES!

Cat sprawled on the floor in the hallway by the front door

Having been away for four days Molly was definitely pleased to see me back. But I think there may be some residual separation anxiety as this is where she has parked herself after I went out to buy food today 😆

Not nearly soon enough

I loved mine. Still have it somewhere and I’d bet decent money it’ll boot right up with some new batteries in it

I may just post this every day for the rest of eternity

Picture of a doughnut and a fruit pastry stacked on some books

And now for cakes.

Image of the gardens from the main house entrance at the palace of Caserta

I’m definitely going to need a cake and a coffee by the time I get to the end of that.

Could be both. They’re not mutually exclusive :-)

I may have eaten too much carbonara. I need to sleep off all the carbs. I should be awake sometime on Friday. Hopefully in time to fly back

View across Naples at Vesuvius in the evening with the last of the sun just catching the tops of some looming clouds

The view in the evenings is pretty good here too!

Ok. Naples isn’t winning any awards for being pretty, or clean, or having amazing architecture. But it does have some seriously good food and Pompei is just deliriously awesome.

Hotel room with a very big bed but a very strange overhead light casting a blue glow across the room

View across Naples to the mountains with a clear sky after some serious rain.

Dramatically lit bedroom with its overhead moon motif.

So the quirky hotel is cringingly hip with a hint of seedy sex hotel. But the view this morning is pretty good.

Not at work. But not flying for another 7 hours. Wife is telling me I’m wandering around looking lost…

If this “resonates” with you, you absolutely have to seek professional help for your mental health.

If you can’t see how this is a cult and destroying your ability to function as a human being, at least do it for your family.

And the answer was me. They were in the pocket of my jacket that I was wearing on our last trip.

This evening we’re playing who had the passports last?

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I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first.

They won't even put Britain first.

They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

Every single advert on YouTube is for some quackery or other. The internet feels like it has reached peak drivel.

Repeat 80 times a day.