Listening to a mother talking about how her 11-yr-old daughter was rude to Amazon Alexa, yelling “Shut up!” at it. Mother admonished her for being rude. Child: “Gosh mom, it’s just a robot, it’s not like it’s an AI or something.” In other words, child makes clear distinction that AI has “real” emotions and that we shouldn’t hurt its feelings, while a simple robot does not. Amazing times.
Spotify vs. Apple Music (Why I Can’t Switch)
Finally got around to writing something I’ve wanted to write for years: Why I can’t move to Spotify.
I was open to the experience, but the past two weeks experimenting with Spotify has been pretty disappointing. Game over. iTunes has “gotten†me for 15 years, no reason to jump ship now. I gave it the old college try.
Banana slug with mushrooms, Año Nuevo
Trying my hand at color splash technique (mask original image in black and white, then manually erase some of the mask to let original color back through).
