Journalistic dilettante: tech, sci, health, eco, econ, art, policy... Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Worth NYC all the wayhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lynh72e7d22nI think we can retire the phrase “artificial intelligence (AI)” If not, would following also be in order? -Springsteen’s song “Born in the United States of America (USA)” -What’s the Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) password? -Laugh out loud (LOL) cats -The Very Important Person (VIP) line Et cetera...12 Sep 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynh72e7d22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lvt43ngtbk2cAt least twice the #fcc has referred to reforming a fictional law: the National Environmental Protection Act. It's the National Environmental *Policy* Act. #FactCheck #copyedit #google, #doge staff cuts?07 Aug 2025 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvt43ngtbk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3luscyeucrk27Weeks of @fastcompany.com testing several #ios26 betas on #iphone models like the SE2 (plus results from other, expert, testers) show it should run well on even the oldest supported models. Apple #ios26beta #iphone11 #iphoneSE #ios https://www.fastcompany.com/91371705/is-it-safe-to-install-ios-26-on-older-iphones-like-the-11-and-se25 Jul 2025 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3luscyeucrk27https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lupscmdmg22mAre you all clear on what passkeys are? Do you use them? I'm writing an explainer article and trying to find the best questions to answer. Suggestions? Thanks! #passkey #security24 Jul 2025 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupscmdmg22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lu3ghruues2gIs anyone else seeing blurred out #joblistings on @linkedin.com with a note that you must subscribe to #premium to access them? I've not encountered that before.16 Jul 2025 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu3ghruues2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lsvqobp6oc2eThanks Katie Deighton and @wsj.com Tech News Briefing team for a great chat about why ads for AI in products might hurt sales, rather than help. (First story, starting at 0:48.) Based on research from Washington State University and Parks Associates. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/how-hackers-crippled-irans-financial-system/eedec48a-9260-4fb8-9abf-6b4115404fe801 Jul 2025 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsvqobp6oc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lstnkegrds27Saying #AI in a tech product or service #advertising may actually hurt sales, say two very different studies (one just published last week), as we detail in @wsj.com Thanks for explaining - Dogan Gursoy at Washington State U and Jennifer Kent at Parks Associates. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-advertising-consumer-trust-dc1a1425?st=dyQfsg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink30 Jun 2025 16:54 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lstnkegrds27https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ls22cqsgrs2sI hadn't anticipated all the wisecrack reader comments on this @wsj.com piece about wiping your hard drive. Suggestions involving sledgehammers, guns, and acid, plus all the Hillary Clinton references. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/computer-data-permanent-delete-3d669817?st=9DwQj7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink20 Jun 2025 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls22cqsgrs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lprttwmoo22sWelp, I'd just started using @mozilla.org Pocket again https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket22 May 2025 19:26 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprttwmoo22shttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lo47kwgjbk2l42% of Americans have been paying for online subscriptions they’d forgotten they even had. @fastcompany.com shows how to easily zap those zombie accounts. https://www.fastcompany.com/91326030/how-to-find-and-cancel-forgotten-online-subscriptions-that-are-costing-you-a-fortune01 May 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo47kwgjbk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lnxd7wdsnk2mIn economic shaky times, pricey online media like Netflix might be a good place to cut costs. But you can save without giving up on great video, and music, and books, and news sources. @fastcompany.com found oodles of cheap and free options. LMK what you think https://www.fastcompany.com/91322736/digital-media-on-a-budget29 Apr 2025 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnxd7wdsnk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lndg4n6bbk2fDo you use chatbots to make sense of legal documents such as credit card offers, leases, privacy policies or user agreements? I'm writing about how to use ChatGPT and other bots for these and other tasks. Would love to hear your ideas and stories. Thanks!21 Apr 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndg4n6bbk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lj6k2parpc22Well, at least they are honest about the working conditions in this LinkedIn job post.27 Feb 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj6k2parpc22https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3linl5yazhs2yI'm not an activist, but I'd like to find some way to support LGBT folks directly (especially the T). Any suggestions?21 Feb 2025 00:43 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3linl5yazhs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lhtksy7hy22xWorkers at Amazon facility in Garner, NC, are voting to form a union. Fast Company spoke with a key organizer in a sweeping survey of the Big Tech labor movement back in December. https://www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how-big-tech-labor-organizers-aim-to-unite-for-trump-2-010 Feb 2025 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhtksy7hy22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lfshi3vjhk2oWhile they are not campaign contributions, tax-deductible charitable donations are heavily funding US political movements. @fastcompany.com reports on the top funding tools, called DAFs, used by the right and left https://www.fastcompany.com/91260303/ahead-of-trumps-inauguration-philanthropy-is-fueling-political-activism-on-the-right-and-left15 Jan 2025 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfshi3vjhk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lfihgqi56s2gI asked ChatGPT to recommend pretty churches with stained glass windows near me...and got a recommendation for Michael's crafts store. When I walked WTF, it apologized and gave me the same response. Is this the beginning of ads?11 Jan 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfihgqi56s2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lfftatwgcc2v"Even Ray Charles could see what's going on." Said NYC mayor Eric Adams claiming that enemies were unfairly investigating him. As a vision-impaired person, I have a thick skin and good sense of humor. I'm not necessarily offended, but still the comment is a bit tacky. Not a good look, so to say.10 Jan 2025 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfftatwgcc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lfdl37bei22nOne bit of good news in the LA wildfires. The Getty Villa museum of Greek and Roman art has survived, despite devastation right up to the property line. Losing this mindblowing collection would have been...mindblowing. https://www.newsweek.com/pacific-palisades-fire-getty-villa-museum-survival-201193609 Jan 2025 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdl37bei22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3leh7qsloq22vI've been playing with chatbots to provide news summaries. ChatGPT is doing quite well, Google Gemini not so much. It predicted fed rate *hikes* and provided these worthless summaries of entertainment news.29 Dec 2024 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3leh7qsloq22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3led3zvbydc2gThis is an interesting strategy by Elon Musk to make America great, and perhaps not what the Americans who voted for Trump had in mind [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Dec 2024 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3led3zvbydc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3lecu6zgnuk2pPerhaps I'm the last person to figure this out. But using Apple to subscribe to online services seems the most convenient way to both subscribe and especially *unsubscribe*27 Dec 2024 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lecu6zgnuk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldqlcg4ykc24This @nytimes.com profile of the Syrian city Homs succinctly shows how brutal and grim the past decade+ has been. Startling drone footage of the largely leveled ancient city. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/middleeast/syria-homs-assad.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i04.BH_q.HmPbHBbswcjA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=sty20 Dec 2024 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqlcg4ykc24https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldqk6cosps24Is it fair to label @bsky.app "Twitter for liberals"?20 Dec 2024 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqk6cosps24https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldnwbqwcss27Amazon union actions take off: 12/19 Strike at 7 facilities 12/11 San Bernardino CA workers join union 12/10 Atlanta drivers join 11/27 Queens NY file EEOC charge 11/15 City of Industry CA workers join @fastcompany.com wrote about @teamsters.bsky.social as well as office worker organizing https://www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how-big-tech-labor-organizers-aim-to-unite-for-trump-2-019 Dec 2024 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldnwbqwcss27https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldmnar2pnk2wWow, these #Amazon strikes organized by the @teamsters.bsky.social are really taking off. Is this a new era of big-tech activism? And what can we expect from tech office workers next year?19 Dec 2024 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldmnar2pnk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldj7axaalk24🤩 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Dec 2024 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldj7axaalk24https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldj5uc5gts26More Amazon Teamsters authorize strike-now at DIL7 station in Skokie, Ill. I feel good that @fastcompany.com started reporting on tech labor activism (not just @ Amazon) before latest wave of strikes. Sources like @techworkerscoalition.org say expect a lot more in 2025 @teamsters.bsky.social #Amazon17 Dec 2024 15:28 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldj5uc5gts26https://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ldgx7qcybk2oWe wrote about little-know hybrid-electric airplane technology in the @wsj.com in August. @archeraviation.bsky.social 's deal to develop hybrid craft for the military indicates that this trend may have legs. And OG electric plane expert Mark Moore's LinkedIn commentary backs that up.16 Dec 2024 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldgx7qcybk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/seancaptain.bsky.social/post/3ld4gdtoio224Randy Korgan of @teamsters.bsky.social #amazon division told @fastcompany.com “What goes beyond that is a tremendous amount more,” foreshadowing future efforts like the new union that formed in San Bernardino 12/11. https://www.fastcompany.com/91241440/how-big-tech-labor-organizers-aim-to-unite-for-trump-2-012 Dec 2024 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:2jqmlsgcs435dpanoa5wpdzh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld4gdtoio224