It's a warm Wednesday, 22 June, 2022 in Portland, Oregon today and I should really hook up that air conditioning unit.
\nI partly suspect it's hot in this room because this old MacBook Pro is pumping out 80-odd watts of heat because of Zoom or whatever.
\nOnly a few short things that caught my attention today:
\nOkay, that's it for today. It's very hot and too late in the day to write something longer.
\nHow are you?
\nBest,
\nDan
\n","body_text":"0.0 Context Setting\n\nIt's a warm Wednesday, 22 June, 2022 in Portland, Oregon today and I should really hook up that air conditioning unit.\n\nI partly suspect it's hot in this room because this old MacBook Pro is pumping out 80-odd watts of heat because of Zoom or whatever.\n\n1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention\n\nOnly a few short things that caught my attention today:\n\nIn the department of SNOW CRASH WASN'T A MANUAL, please see the formation of a (the?)\nMetaverse Standards Forum\n, which is not the ACM's Global Multimedia Protocol Group, but... a standards body isn't necessarily a bad thing?\n\nNext to that in a Reuters story is Amazon apparently having a plan to do\nstyle transfer on voices\n, which in other words is that episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation where Data plays back Picard's voice and bypasses security controls, in an act never to be spoken of ever again. Episodic television!\n\ntv\n(Tidy Viewer) is a cross-platform pretty-printer to make columns look nice in your command line, which is... nice!\n\nMe, on June 14th:\nHas anyone mande PROMPT-LE yet\n, where you have to guess the prompt for a DALL-E-esque generated image in 6 tries.\n6 days later\n: A huggingface app,\nGuess the Prompt\n.\n\nI am still thinking of what-if-Zoom-did-Spotify-wrapped, that whole end-of-year report based on datamining, but the data that's being mined is the visual feed that Zoom (doesn't actually?) record whenever your camera is on. Here's\nthe thread of thinking out loud\n.\n\nOkay, that's it for today. It's very hot and too late in the day to write something longer.\n\nHow are you?\n\nBest,\n\nDan","raw_format":"markdown","source":"app","summary":"This issue surveys a scattered collection of observations made on a sweltering Portland afternoon, ranging from standards bodies attempting to organize the metaverse to the practical pleasures of command-line tools. The connecting thread is a fascination with how emerging technologies—whether voice synthesis, image-to-prompt guessing games, or hypothetical Zoom analytics—are manifesting ideas that previously existed only in science fiction or as half-formed thoughts, often arriving faster than expected. There's an underlying note of bemused observation about how quickly the speculative becomes real, from the author casually wishing for a \"PROMPT-LE\" game six days before one actually appeared online.","reading_minutes":1,"links":[{"url":"https://metaverse-standards.org","normalized_url":"https://metaverse-standards.org/","domain":"metaverse-standards.org","anchor_text":"Metaverse Standards Forum","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-has-plan-make-alexa-mimic-anyones-voice-2022-06-22/","normalized_url":"https://reuters.com/technology/amazon-has-plan-make-alexa-mimic-anyones-voice-2022-06-22","domain":"reuters.com","anchor_text":"style transfer on voices","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://github.com/alexhallam/tv","normalized_url":"https://github.com/alexhallam/tv","domain":"github.com","anchor_text":"tv","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1536754579596931072","normalized_url":"https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1536754579596931072","domain":"twitter.com","anchor_text":"Has anyone mande PROMPT-LE yet","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/osanseviero/status/1538970832025829377","normalized_url":"https://twitter.com/osanseviero/status/1538970832025829377","domain":"twitter.com","anchor_text":"6 days later","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/wordalle","normalized_url":"https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface-projects/wordalle","domain":"huggingface.co","anchor_text":"Guess the Prompt","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"},{"url":"https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1532024360717799424","normalized_url":"https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1532024360717799424","domain":"twitter.com","anchor_text":"the thread of thinking out loud","is_archive":0,"archive_url":null,"archive_service":null,"category":"external"}],"sections":[{"id":2358,"ord":0,"number":"0.0","heading":"Context Setting","level":1,"word_count":48},{"id":2359,"ord":1,"number":"1.0","heading":"Some Things That Caught My Attention","level":1,"word_count":228}]}