Spectrum sent out a 5:30 PM email today to all Texas valley customers, saying “Hello Spectrum Customer, We will be upgrading the network in your area between 12 AM tonight and 12 PM tomorrow… During the scheduled upgrade work, your service may be temporarily affected.”
Odd. I wonder if something is in the process of breaking upstream. Or if something was found that needs breaking upstream.
Region-wide surprise outages that may last up to 12 hours are never good.
Screenshot of the notice…
There needs to be a word for when you don’t whistle on the path as much anymore. Not because you don’t have a tune. It’s because you realize the forest has always had an unfair mix of kind and unkind, and when the sun starts setting, the kind ones go into hiding, and the unkind ones do not.
Paths unwinding and winding again.
Sunrise.
Been awhile.
Random photo of the day…
Local board member calls out the city of Mission for “holding” $3 million in tax revenue for 7 months instead of giving it to the org it was budgeted for.
The city finally releases the money, but then fires the board member.
Welcome to the Texas Valley!
Adobe CC users: “Starting January 17, we will begin enforcing generative credit limits on select plans.. since generating content with AI models requires significant computational resources, we have updated our plans to include a monthly allocation of generative credits.”
Generative credits will renew each month based on the CC plan’s original billing date. Using any generative function will generally cost 1 credit: Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Text to image, etc.
Credits will not roll over monthly.
If you have a CC “all apps” plan, you get 1,000 credits per month. For individual CC app plans, the credit allowance varies.
Adobe is not strictly enforcing limits on PAID CC plans until March 1.
Article with details and the exchange rate is at:
https://helpx.adobe.com/firefly/using/generative-credits-faq.html#commercial-use
Microsoft announced they’re adding a new key to all keyboards for AI integrations. I think they missed a huge opportunity to leverage decades of existing branding. Instead of a new key, why not make the *existing* Windows key *also* mean AI access? Add it all in there!
Easy pitch – show a wide range of consumers pressing the windows key and creating AI music, art, etc. The voiceover “it’s not just the windows key now. It’s the key to new windows. New worlds. New creations. It’s advanced AI. Windows.” End the ad with the windows logo.
Why make consumers learn something new when they have something very familiar right in front of them? The windows logo is well known, and is already on most of the keyboards already in the customer’s home!
The “new” key is nothing but a launcher. Drop all the AI additions into the existing Windows start menu and watch everyone associate AI with Windows.
Apple has spoken. Die Hard is a Christmas movie. See for yourself.
Question: who owns AI generated art?
Let’s say Charlie writes a prompt in DALL*E that creates an amazing image and posts it online. Lucy sees that image, downloads it, and sells greeting cards with that image.
Who has a claim?
Charlie says he made the image with his own specific words and content. That specific image would not exist without him since it was uniquely created with a combination of his input and the particular state the AI was in at the time. Charlie is also paying a small monthly stipend to access the AI, and therefore, he owns the image.
Lucy says Charlie freely posted it online, and Charlie didn’t actually create the artwork, but suggested it. The AI actually created the image and did all of the work manifesting the image. Also, since the company hosting/providing the AI has no copyright claim or specific licensing on any of its’ creations, no one owns it.
It’s not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza!
Now I have a Die Hard advent calendar.
Ho – Ho – Ho.
On July 16th, there will finally be a nationwide suicide prevention number in the US:
988
988 will operate through the existing National Suicide Prevention network of crisis centers.
IF YOU NEED CRISIS SUPPORT BEFORE THE 16TH, please call or text: 1-800-273-8255
Visitors with followers and reach: PLEASE visit…
…to download social toolkits, media, and press releases to help get the word out about 988.