Were a list compiled of my manifold sins and wickedness, near the top of that very long list would be my affection for gadgets that I imagined I needed and therefore purchased. Usually it turned out I didn’t actually need them at all. Sometimes they did end up being useful, though none of them will be mentioned here.
This year’s version of The Championships still had the shadow of The Big Three (Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic) lurking over it, though only Djokovic remains. Indeed, Djokovic made it all the way to a semifinal, before succumbing to his opponent, and an injury sustained in the previous round. The manner of his dismissal suggests the future of men’s tennis is now.
It wasn’t devastating news, but it wasn’t the kind of thing you want the first thing Saturday morning, either. According to the report, which I guess had been kicking around for a few days but I didn’t see it until Saturday, the Google company has plans to destroy my Google Pixel 6a cellular telephone. They had already done it to Pixel 4a telephones.
I’m more proud to be a neoconservative now than I was in the loftiest days of the second Bush administration. A little lonelier, sure, but as strange as it may sound, I’m hoping Elon Musk can bring America back to the party.
If he had only waited a few years (and, I guess, not died) he could have blamed it on AI. There has been a whole lot of news in the last week. So there was not the coverage there otherwise might have been about the discovery of proof that the late Pope Francis was lying through his teeth when he announced four years ago next week that the world’s bishops hated the Latin Mass.
The next few days, we’ll all be bombarded by Amazon’s Prime Day deals and the equivalents from other stores. But, the best are just off stage. A new Mac Mini for less than $287, for example.
For being as young as it is, all-news television has been through a lot of changes, most of them for the worse.
I’ve reviewed a lot of technology over the years, always aiming to use it as intended. In the case of the OBSBot Tail 2, life had other ideas. What do you do with an action-ready, live streaming camera when you can barely move?
It’s not to everyone’s taste, but a substantial group of humans who are free to roam the earth like to collect stuff. Some focus their collections — stamps, coins — but others of us are not prejudiced. We collect anything that is interesting.
AI has infused itself into every part of our lives. Nearly everyone can feel it nipping at some aspect of their jobs. Pastors like myself are not immune. As we see uses and misuses throughout society, should AI be allowed to take over the sermon?