I have spent all day today getting to Inbox Zero ... I dream of the Roman era ;)
Thomas Baekdal
@baekdal.bsky.social
Author, Professional Writer, Magazine Publisher, and Media Analyst.
I'm spending my Sunday answering all the emails I have been neglecting because there has just been too many things to do....
Heh... Google has been jealous of the other AI companies for all the press they were getting, so now their AI hacked something too 😂 ... and just like the other examples, it's all fake. They didn't hack anything. They went through a door that was left open to them.
I must admit, this is a bit of a problem considering I'm a media analyst ...
I generally hate captcas, but what I hate even more is when a captcha is just straight up wrong because the images were not picked by actual humans. No Google, that roadside embankment is NOT a mountain.
I just found my old DVD set of Spin City (1996-2002) ... those were the days ;)
Just ordered the bird seeds for this year's bird feeding season...
In my latest 'Executive' article, I explain why publishers are not getting results from their own marketing campaigns (publishers promoting their own publications): baekdal.com/article/publ...
Publishers are spending wrongly on marketing - Baekdal
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This has to be one of the most irresponsible front pages I have seen. Yes, a train was attacked, and yes, shortly before that another train carrying diplomats crossed through it. But the train in this image IS NOT the one Boris Johnson was on.
There those who spend their weekend reading a good book, and then there are people like me who is spending the weekend playing around with a dataset of 110 million rows of data for no other reason that it's fun ;)
Data Intensifies - Star Trek Meme
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What is your surname from? My surname 'Baekdal' (or Bækdal in danish), literally means 'Brooke (stream)' and 'Valley', aka, the person living near the stream in the valley. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6G...
Where did your surname come from?
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Am I sensing a bit of tension from Claude? ;) Claude Code: "This is a substantial build — new app plus a small extension to the Notes app."
I write most things in English. And I have gotten so used to it that I don't even realize it. So, I had to write an email to a person in Denmark, and I started to write it in Danish, but then mid-sentence, my brain just switched to English instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The recipient was a bit confused ;)
What Insanity Is This Now? Kate Lockwood
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Costume designer: How shiny should we make the Cylons? Director: Maximum shiny! ;)
One thing I cannot get Claude to do is to design things. I mean, it can create html pages and create its own design. But if I tell it. "it should look exactly like this", it always designs it differently. I have never, not even once, managed to get it to design something the way it was supposed to.
Claude has now been working for 40 minutes trying to build something for me ;)
I simply do not understand why any of this is legal, nor why LG's management is not in jail... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
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Look newspaper, I know you feel it's incredibly important to report everything Trump or Netanyahu is saying, but the problem we can't trust a word of it. So, from a news perspective, and as a news reader, this has zero valuable information. I might as well just not read the news at all.
A stomach flu was not what I had on my todo list today...
H2di Puppy Cozy in Cardboard Bed
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Deepfake videos are getting scary ... none of this is real: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt0T...
Star Trek vs Star Wars: What Happens When Q Brings a Star Destroyer to the Enterprise?
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YouTube has started showing video from weird channels that claim that people have died (they haven't) ... I mean... what the heck?!? Mind you, I'm not surprise that these video exist. There are many scammers online. But why is YouTube's algorithms featuring them?!
Oil tankers are civilian targets. There are no soldiers onboard any of these ships. And on top of that, think about the environmental damage.
I must admit that my cycling took a bit of a break during the summer when it was 30+ degrees... but now that it's Autumn, I guess it's back to the time trials ;)
My god... it's like every tech company is actually trying to make people stop using them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D96...
And Now Microsoft Just Ruined Xbox
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Just a reminder: Every single time the petrol prices goes up, the publisher subscription rates drops. Not because those two have anything to do with each other, but because it makes people stop spending money, and most media is not a critical need.
You know when you suddenly start thinking about a song you used to like, but somehow you brain cannot remember any details of the actual song itself, nor the artists, or anything. My brain has been liked that for two days now... How do you find a song when you can't remember anything from it? ;)
Sylvester The Cat's Looney Tunes Headbang
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There is something I don't understand. I can draw, in fact, I made the drawing you see below. I drew the lines, the leaves, animals, greenhouse, etc. But... I can't write by hand. Seriously, I had to write a note today, on paper, and I seriously struggled with every letter. I mean... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
