Japan starts COVID-19 vaccinations with eye on Olympics (apnews.com)
¶Sounds like the fate of the already delayed summer Olympics depends on Japan’s ability to overcome its significant anti-vaccine culture.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Teddy lost a tooth tonight. The rest can’t fall out soon enough!
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¶We had Chinese takeout for dinner tonight. A fortune cookie afterwards gave me a great reminder of the power of positive thinking.
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¶The snow does make a great backdrop for photos!
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¶That’s a lot of snow!
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¶There’s a time-honored tradition here in the Midwest of judging the snow-clearing performance of your city or town after a big storm. I certainly don’t want to ignore tradition after this doozy of a storm! So, nice work Perrysburg. All major roads were clear early this morning and the plows made a first pass on our residential street as I was finishing the driveway at about 9 AM. This evening, they were focused on detail work, widening the streets a bit. Great job!
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¶I had some quick thoughts while clearing 11” of snow from the driveway that relate directly to Daystream.
¶In certain areas of technology, it seems ripe to ask the question:
¶Overall, is the field leveraging user/customer focused advances in technology to benefit users/customers or is it succumbing to a leveraging of other advances by a few, powerful corporations at the expense of users/customers?
¶I think those two points lie on a continuum and are in some level of tension as a field of technology advances. I also think fields get out of whack from time to time and need to correct, pulling back to the other side. Social media seems to be way out of whack right now, skewing heavily toward the “powerful corporations” side of the equation. I don’t see those corporations doing anything to correct this. Indeed, they just seem to keep doubling down on the issue, extracting more personal information from their users and using it in new ways to maximize profit.
¶Daystream has always been about avoiding that. It is, in fact, a founding principle of our technology. I still remember the early conversations with Jonathan all those years ago. He was the first to point out to me that “the algorithm” is awful. Why should it decide what the users see? Shouldn’t it be easy for a user to see the content they want to see and know that, in fact, that’s what they are seeing? Boom - enter our elimination of the firehose and replacement with date-based accessors. What did Sally post on her last birthday? Well, let’s go look. That has always formed the kernel of Daystream and we continue to extend that founding principle as we grow our features.
¶We’ll always skew heavily to the “benefit people” side of the equation.
¶The trick is figuring out how to make a go at it while doing that. If we can’t, we can’t. We won’t go to the other side just to keep it going, I know that much.
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¶Well, Round Two certainly didn’t disappoint. This is taken right outside our garage, and the top of the driveway. I think there’s a little drifting in it, but not much. Luckily it’s a really light snow…relatively easy to clear.
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¶Ready to clean up after Round One. Not too bad - looks like the shovel will be sufficient. Saving the snowblower for Round Two later this evening!
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¶Not sure if it was intentional or an accident, but Teddy just rang the bell on the back door. He’s done it once before, but that was weeks ago. Any chance he’s figuring something out? We’ll see!
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¶Round One of today’s snow has come and gone. Looks like a couple inches of light and fluffy. Off to shovel....
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The Super Bowl is losing viewers under 50, reflecting how American media has fragmented (cnbc.com)
¶This is consistent with my observations. All major sports leagues need to innovate to attract younger viewers. Weird halftime shows aren’t going to cut it. And I’m not sure in game betting is the answer, either.
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Blackhawks 3, Red Wings 2 (OT) (nhl.com)
¶The improvements are there, but aren’t routinely resulting in wins. Yet. Let’s keep it moving in the right direction, Red Wings.
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Support for Third U.S. Political Party at High Point (gallup.com)
¶I didn’t need a poll to know this, but here you go.
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¶Round Two is underway. Current prediction is for an additional 8-10” of snow over the next several hours. Should be wrapped up overnight. Looking forward to clearing the driveway in the morning!
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¶My initial thought with maple syrup aged bourbon is to not use a sweetener, which has me wondering about how it will work in an old fashioned. But my second thought is to double down, maybe using some actual maple syrup as a sweetener. Time to experiment.
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¶The Ann Arbor Costco has bourbon (and other liquors)! Some decent finds, too. Looking forward to trying this local (Michigan) craft bourbon.
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¶Valentine’s Day at Costco - giant, chocolate covered strawberries!
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¶Big adventure today - Costco in Ann Arbor! Feels great to take a drive.
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¶Renee miscalculated the amount of milk needed in a recipe yesterday. She discarded the carton before realizing she had poured out too much. Never being wasteful, she put the remainder in a jar. So I’m having some sketchy-looking milk with my Cheerios this morning!
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Bidens view Valentine’s Day decorations on White House lawn (apnews.com)
¶Happy Valentine’s Day from @flotus.
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¶Daystream has been a pet project for more than ten years. It’s time to take it beyond that. It’s time to change social media by implementing all the things behind the Daystream concept. It’s time.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Just wrapped up an early morning dentist appointment. Not a pleasant way to start the day. My dentist is a long time personal friend, though, so catching up with him is always nice.
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