In the trackbacks yesterday at Lucire: “AI” slop that actually bothered to credit us. We can’t DMCA it, as it’s not an exact copy, and the act wasn’t designed to handle such situations—and right now I don’t believe judges have interpreted it that widely, yet. I’m not thrilled about it because it builds on […]
Time for a bold nation brand: bring on a new Brand Aotearoa
I finally watched the 2019 documentary Very Ralph, on Ralph Lauren, and how he built his company on an aspirational image of the American Dream. Never mind that it wasn’t exactly real, and a fantasy that he brought out for customers to buy into, the public understood the codes (life in the Hamptons or the […]
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A crisis of confidence
Hat tip to Bob LeFridge on Mastodon. Businesspeople are as fallible as any other, so it’s interesting that our determination of business confidence is deemed more important than that of everyday people, enough to warrant its own item in the news. And have I seen friends and colleagues get it wrong when peering through their […]
Wake up—and cut off Elon’s Grok
A social media stream of consciousness on Mastodon tonight: There is no greater threat to the establishment than someone who sees that the emperor has no clothes. Though the threat is increased if that someone is a person of colour or a woman or trans. That will shake them to their core. They are already […]
The Cassandras
Toby Buckle has a great piece in The New Republic, ‘The Americans who saw all this coming, but were ignored and maligned’. I can relate. Maybe not about national politics, but certainly about the things I’ve sounded the alarm on and can now unhelpfully say: I told you so. Like the people Buckle interviewed, I […]
The scale of the problem with “AI” and hacking
Here is a sampling of the IP addresses visiting the original Autocade website, and it’s a typical page on Cloudflare. Of twenty-five entries over two-and-a-half minutes, two are legitimate, the rest are blocked or challenged. This is an indication of the scale of the hacking and “AI” scraping going on out there, and why we […]
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Here is a blog, wound up and ready
A generation ago, we were told that young people were good at spotting lies in advertising because of a ‘built-in BS meter’. We (I’m including myself) grew up with mass media and became quite immune to advertising messages, and we had an innate filter. Then came the internet and Stanford University found that the […]
You may be on Amazon without your consent
Jeff’s wealthy enough without resorting to this. FYI apparently Amazon has a feature in beta that scrapes the web stores of companies (and independent artists) not on their website, allowing you to buy the items on Amazon. Basically they act as a middle man, without your consent, to put your stuff on their marketplace. They’re […]
Linkedin, useless for business, as with most Big Tech sites
Anyone know how to add images to projects on Linkedin, or how to add posts to a company page so they’ll show up on the company page? Or is this yet another half-baked Big Tech website where they haven’t done any testing of its features over the last two decades? I thought I knew how […]
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They’re a soft touch when it comes to Big Tech
I was surprised and disappointed to see TV commercials on Christmas Day. Quite crass ones, too, e.g. for Harvey Norman. It turns out that this is now allowed under law, and Labour has gone along with it. Only New Zealand First put up any meaningful opposition. The official line from the media minister, Paul Goldsmith, […]
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