Prasenjeet Dutta @pd@curmudgeon.cafe

Um 😲 https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-has-plan-make-alexa-mimic-anyones-voice-2022-06-22/

Top Gun Maverick might just be the movie of the year for me. A sequel that delivers as much as it does after 30+ years, insane.

Apple Maps got better before Siri did. I didn’t expect that.

Very 21st century thing: delivery robots offering to “sing” Sweet Caroline or God Save the Queen (to celebrate the Jubilee) to you as you take your order from them. That sentence would have got odd looks back in 1952.

Gmail’s predictive text doesn’t deal with typos well. This while trying to type “with kind regards” 😏

@williamkennedy@twitter.com: React, Angular and so on have gotten a bit of bashing recently. So I wrote an article defending these technologies. Enjoy.

https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defence-of-the-single-page-application/

😔 fivethirtyeight.com: Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-being-anti-science-is-now-part-of-many-rural-americans-identity/

The Guardian long read: Why is it so hard to control our appetites? A doctor’s struggles with giving up sugar

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/03/why-so-hard-to-control-appetite-doctor-struggles-giving-up-sugar

What India’s lack of data protection legislation enables — a Twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/ashwinm_/status/1521003284168724480?s=21&t=GDkg37EXgriIl2AcVQYD3g

All the social.network.europa.eu accounts: https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

A two after a long time today:

Wordle 314 2/6

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I’m not surprised: Europe Starts Splintering in Its Response to Russia’s Gas Threat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/europe-starts-splintering-in-its-response-to-russia-s-gas-threat

Money in pre-Revolution American Colonies was a fascinating mess. New York money. Pennsylvania money. Massachusetts money!

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/money-in-the-american-colonies/

… and it’s sort of amazing that Top Gun: Maverick *still* hasn’t released.

https://curmudgeon.cafe/@pd/103432391452253965

I think this was the last movie I saw before the ‘rona:

https://curmudgeon.cafe/@pd/103539073564629009

What’s the upside in owning a social network vs owning a popular account on that network? Maybe… a hedge against being booted off the platform?

At long last, law enforcement are taking action against aggressive geese.