Peter Swanson

Music, books, art

[Mark Urban @MarkUrban01]

This photograph by @evanvucci is set to become the defining image of 2024

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

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[MND Association @mndassoc]

We are very pleased to see our former Chief Executive Sally Light has been awarded an OBE for her services to people with motor neurone disease (#MND), in today's King’s Birthday Honours.

#BirthdayHonours #KingsHonours

[Sasha Yanshin @sashayanshin]

I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer.

The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software.

This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this .

You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well.

Going to have to learn some new tools.

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

@AndyHar99612377 @SaintsRugby I have found that @SaintsRugby don’t respond to queries on X/twitter, which is mad.

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

Just renewed my season tickets for @SaintsRugby. One of the benefits is "Exclusive 2024/25 Northampton Saints Year Bar". What is this? #COYS

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Most surreal photos you'll ever see - thread 🧵

1. Eruption on Mount Etna gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

@redhatphoto @SaintsRugby @Munsterrugby @ChampionsCup I met your husband in the crowd at the match today! I told him you were famous. Great win, @SaintsRugby

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

I'm talking with business owners about AI and how they would like to use it. Getting a few questions like this:

"I have a small Intranet, with a bunch of PDFs, videos, slide decks, word docs, spreadsheets, and a variety of other files. How do I build an AI/chat bot easily and cheaply that can look at all that and then build a new Intranet so that I and my employees can chat with all that to find and generate new marketing and other plans. Oh, and I am not an expert on AI and I don't have one. Which company is best for doing all that?"

@bindureddy and @abacusai comes to mind but sending these people to her website is scary, lots of nerdy terms that typical business people get turned off by, and seems to be built for a team that understands AI already.

Who out there is helping small to medium sized businesses get into the AI world fast?

I'm looking to do interviews with founders who are building said companies. Tomorrow I'm interviewing Bindu and will spend most of the interview talking to those people.

Case study? @scottevest makes my clothes, has a small team, with tons of media and these kinds of files, along with email and other tech running their business and customer service, and I'd love to be able to tell Scott, and similar business people, about a new system that's easy to use, powerful, and really assists his business. He's not a computer scientist or an AI person beyond he uses ChatGPT and Siri occassionally to help with writing marketing copy and business plans for new business lines.

@benparr you've been building AI chatbots for businesses for years. Are we there yet where a business person can just easily hook up to all their technology and file stores and have it bring real value without having consultants or high up front costs?

If so, would love to hear more.

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

Northampton Saints vs Sale Sharks, Friday, March 15 2024. Are Season Tickets good for this match? There doesn't seem to be any easy way to find out on the website @SaintsRugby

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

@SaintsRugby Are Season Tickets valid for this? There doesn't seem to be an easy way to find out on the website.

[Stephen Thomas Erlewine @sterlewine]

Farewell to Karl Wallinger, the mastermind of the neo-psychedelic outfit World Party and a pivotal member of the Waterboys in the mid-80s. According to his publicist, he died March 10 at the age of 66.

[Nicklas (MED) 🇸🇪🚗🚀✨ @NicklasNilsso14]

We are considering switching from an electric car to petrol or diesel. I have some questions to see if it really suits me and my family and hope someone knowledgeable can help?

1. I have heard that a petrol car cannot be refueled at home but I have to go to a special place for this? How often do I have to fill up, is it several times a year? Will there be options for refueling at home? We are used to the car being filled up every morning, as sort of by itself.

2. Are there many parts that need to be replaced? The seller said something about oil and filter change, gearbox, timing belt and other service. Do you see how many percent degradation you have on the wearing parts or will they break suddenly?

3. Do I often have to brake with the brake pedal, or can I accelerate and brake with the same pedal as in my current car? Do I get gas back into the tank when I brake or go downhill?

4. Do all petrol and diesel cars have much slower acceleration? I test drove one yesterday and it felt like it took a very long time from when I stepped on the gas pedal until it reacted. Maybe there was something wrong with that particular car?

5. We now pay $0.02/mile but with the petrol it will be about $0.13, even if the new car is cheaper to buy it will very soon cost more. We drive 15,000 miles per year. We hope that more people will use petrol so that the prices will go down... is there such a trend?

6. I have understood that petrol and diesel consist largely of oil. Is it true that the extraction of oil is associated with global environmental problems and widespread wars with absolutely terrible consequences for people around the world, including several world wars and trouble in the last 100 years in which tens of millions of people have died? Is there any solution to that in sight, we don't want to contribute to such crap, do we?

7. My son also heard that petrol cars emit fumes and toxic gases. I’ve read about air pollution and its impact on respiratory health. Are we contributing to that by switching to a petrol or diesel car?
Will these pose risks to our health and the environment?

... have more questions but these are the ones I came up with now. Thanks for all the help!

[Royal Institution (now on Bluesky) @Ri_Science]

Is today the day when we post our best sodium pun?

Na.

[Tom Parker Bowles @tomparkerbowles]

One of the great British cheeses, ⁦@mrskirkhamslanc⁩ ,
from ⁦@CourtyardDairy⁩ , one of the country’s great cheese shops. So excited it’s back

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I like to do a task by worrying about it for three weeks and then finally dedicating 12 solid minutes to completing it.

[Elle Cordova @ellerhymes]

Fonts hanging out

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

@allmusic Yes, Chrome on Mac. I don’t have issues on other sites though

[Peter Swanson @borborygmus]

I am having regular problems with the @allmusic website over the last week or so. HTTP ERROR 400 codes. Anyone else?